or Occupier of any House or other Hereditament which shall be Sums assessed by the Churchwardens, &c. so demanded as aforesaid, unless Notice of Appeal shall have been Notice of Ap- of Mayor and Aldermen as aforesaid, then and in every such Case Proceedings if XVI. And be it further enacted, That when and so often as any If the Monies Quarterly Payment of any Annual Maintenance or Sum by this to be assessed Act authorized to be raised and paid, or so much thereof as shall by the last exceed what any Impropriator before mentioned is by this Act means shall be enjoined respectively to allow, shall happen to be in Arrear and X x 3 unpaid mentioned unpaid for Thirty Days after Quarter Day, the same shall be raised as the First Assessment. Exempting being Collectors under this Act. Powers of 22 & 23 C.2. c.15. and of this Act, vested in Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen, or unpaid to the said respective Incumbent entitled to the same, or his respective Agent or Collector, or Receiver for the Space of Thirty Days next after any of the Quarterly Days hereinbefore appointed for the Payment thereof, then and in every such Case, from time to time, every such Quarterly Payment so in Arrear and unpaid shall and may be raised or levied and paid by the Ways and Means, and according to the Assessment, and in the Manner first hereinbefore authorized and directed in that Behalf. XVII. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to compel or oblige any Person or Persons, being of the People called Quakers, to collect any of the Monies to be raised under or by virtue of this Act, but such Person or Persons is and are hereby excused and exempted from collecting the same. XVIII. And be it further enacted, That all and singular the Powers and Authorities in and by the said recited Act of the Twenty second and Twenty third Years of King Charles the Second, given to and vested in the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of the City of London, shall be and the same are hereby from henceforth given to and vested in the said Lord Mayor and Two Barons of Court of Aldermen for the time being, for and in respect of all the Exchequer, and singular the Matters and Things in this Act contained, or by this Act enacted, so far as the Case is or shall be applicable; and that in case the said Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen shall refuse or neglect to execute any of the respective Powers to them by this Act granted, or to perform all and every such Things relating either to the assenting or levying of the respective Sums aforesaid, as they are by this Act authorized and required to perform, either expressly or by Reference, that then it shall be lawful for any Two or more of the Barons of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer, by Warrant or Warrants under their Hands and Seals, to do and perform what the said Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen, according to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act, might or ought to have done, and by such Warrant either to empower any Person or Persons to make the respective Assessments as aforesaid, or to authorize the respective Officers or Persons appointed to collect such Assessments, to levy the same by Distress and Sale of the Goods of any Person or Persons that shall refuse or neglect to pay the same, in Manner and Form aforesaid. XIX. Provided always, That no Court or Judge Ecclesiastical or Temporal, shall hold Plea of or for any the Sum or Sums of Money due or owing or to be paid by virtue of this Act, or any Part thereof, other than the Persons hereby authorized to have Cognizance thereof; nor shall it be lawful for any Parson, Vicar, Curate or Incumbent, to convent or sue any Person or Persons assessed as aforesaid, and refusing or neglecting to pay the same, in any Court or Courts, or before any Judge or Judges, other than what are authorized and appointed by this Act for the hearing and determining the same in Manner aforesaid. No Ecclesiastical Court, &c. to hold Plea of or for any Mo. nies payable under this Act. Public Act. XX. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall be deemed, adjudged and taken to be a Public Act, and shall be judicially taken Notice of as such, by all Judges, Justices and other Persons whomsoever, without specially pleading the same. Mutiny Act (Army) (Marines) Exemption (Military 123, 124 Miscarriage (Maliciously procuring) 58 Rebellion (Suppression of) 27 Revenue, see Loans. Revenue Officers (Disqualification) *25 Queen Anne's Bounty 20 Receipts (Duty on) 107 117 126 64 Excise. "} Sailors (Begging) 61 Newfoundland Fish, see Fish. Salmon, see Fishery. Salt (Quebec) 29 Saumarez Sir James (Annuity to) 37 Schoolmasters 54 Nottingham (Justices) 45 Seamen, see Militia, Navigation, Prize-money, Sailors. Seed Corn; see Indemnity 149 Ship burning, &c. 35. 65 66 Parliament, see Elections, Revenue Passengers to Foreign Parts Pensions (Annual Duty) Permits (For Ware- housed Goods) Ships, see Convoy, East India Com- Shooting, &c. maliciously 30 Silk Manufacturers Foreign Silver Bullion, see Bullion. 56 Small Notes, see Promissory Notes. 58 29 133 29. 157 } Snuff Annual Duty 4 · 129. § 3, 4 Societies, see Friendly Societies. 1 |