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it enacted, That the warrant of the sheriff or other officer upon any writ of execution against the inhabitants of any such liberty, franchise, city, town or place, and every order of justices for payment to the party damnified therein, or to the peace officer or inhabitants thereof, by virtue of this Act, shall be directed to the treasurer of the county riding or division in which such liberty, franchise, city, town, or place shall be situate, who is hereby required to pay the same; and the Justices of the Peace of such county riding or division, at their next General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace, or any adjournment thereof, shall direct such sum or sums of money as shall have been so paid or ordered to be paid by the treasurer to be raised on such liberty, franchise, city, town or place, over and above the general rate to be paid by the same in common with the rest of the county riding or division, under the Acts relating to county rates, and such sum or sums shall be raised in the manner directed by those Acts, and shall be forthwith paid over to the treasurer.

XV. And as to the mode of payment and reimbursement under this Act in counties of cities and towns, and in such liberties, franchises, cities, towns, and places as do not contribute to the payment of the general county rate, be it enacted, That all sums of money payable either by virtue of any warrant of the sheriff or other officer, or of any order or orders arising out of any action or summary claim against the inhabibitants of any county of a city or town, or of any such liberty, franchise, city, town, or place, shall be paid out of the rate (if any) in the nature of a county rate, or out of any fund applicable to similar purposes, where there is such a rate or fund therein, by the treasurer or other officer having the collection or disbursement of such rate or fund; and where there is no such rate or fund in such county, liberty, franchise, city, town, or place, the same shall be paid out of the rate or fund for the relief of the poor of the particular parish, township, district, or precinct therein, where the offence was committed, by the overseers or other officers having the collection or disbursement of such last-mentioned rate or fund; and in every such case the warrant and orders shall be directed and delivered to such treasurer overseers or other officers respectively, instead of the treasurer of the county riding or division, as the case may require.

XVI. Provided always, and be it enacted, That nothing herein contained shall extend to Scotland or Ireland.

SCHEDULE.

FORM of NOTICE to the High Constable of a Hundred or other like District, or to the Peace Officer of a County of a City or Town, or of a Liberty, Franchise, City, Town, or Place. To the High Constable [or to

One of the High Constables] a Peace Officer of, &c.]

of, &c. [or to HEREBY give you notice, That I intend to claim compensation from the inhabitants of [here specify the hundred or other like district, or county of a city, &c., or liberty, franchise, &c, as the case may be], on account of the damage which I have sustained by means of [here state the offence, the time and place where it was committed, and the nature and amount of the damage]; and I hereby require you, within seven days after your receipt of this notice, to exhibit the same to some two Justices of the Peace of the county [riding or division] of residing in

or acting for the said hundred, &c. [or if in a liberty, franchise, &c. where the justices of the county riding or division have no jurisdiction, then say, to some two Justices of the Peace of, numing the liberty, franchise, &c.] [or if in a county of a city, &c. then say, to some two Justices of the Peace of, naming the county of the city, &c.], in order that they may appoint a time and place for holding a Special Petty Session to hear and determine my claim for compensation by virtue of an Act passed in the seventh and eighth years of the reign of King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for consolidating and amending the Laws in England relative to Remedies against the Hundred; and you are required to give me notice of the day

No. I.

hour and place appointed for holding such Petty Session within three days after the justices shall have appointed the same. Given under my 7 & 8 G. IV. hand this in the year of our Lord

I

day of

(Signed)

A. B.

FORM of NOTICE to be placed on the Church or Chapel Door or
other conspicuous Part of the Parish Township or Place (as the case
may be).

HEREBY give notice, That I shall apply for compensation to the
Justices of the Peace at a Special Petty Sessions to be holden at

on the
day of
next,
at the hour of
in the forenoon, on account of the damage
which I have sustained by means of [here state the offence, the time and
place where it was committed, and the nature and amount of the damage, in the
same manner as in the preceding form]. Given under my hand this
in the year of our Lord
A. B.

day of

(Signed)

c. 31.

PART IV.

CLASS XXIII.

King's Debts.

[No. I.] 9 Henry III. (Magna Charta) c. 8.-How Sureties shall be charged to the King.

[Inserted ante, Part III. Class II.]

[ No. II. ] 51 Henry III. st. 4.-What Distress shall be
taken for the King's Debts, and how it shall be used.
[Inserted Part II. Class XII. No. 1.]

[No. III.] Statutum De Scaccario, 51 Henry III. stat. 5.-When the King's Fermors, Sheriffs, and Bailiffs, shall make their Accompts and Payments. Who shall be Escheators in several Shires.

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THE King commandeth, that all manner of bailiffs, sheriffs, and other officers, as well the justices of Chester, and other bailiffs of ⚫ these counties, as other that be receivers of issues, of wards of es'cheats, of their bailiwicks, shall be answerable in the Exchequer, and there shall make account to the treasurer and barons of the same ' place. And that all sheriffs, fermors, bailiffs of franchises, and other, who ought to come to the profer in the Exchequer, the Monday after the 'feast of St. Michael, and the Monday after the Utas of Easter, to pay their ferms, rents, and issues belonging to the King, and tshall bring at 'the foresaid terms, the foresaid ferms, rents, and issues due, wholly into the Exchequer, as before is mentioned. And if they make default, their bodies shall remain without departing from thence, until they have paid or made agreement; and he that will not come at the terms aforesaid, shall be amerced after the custom of the Exchequer ; and the sheriffs and bailiffs at the same terms shall bring and pay such money as they have received of the summons of the Exchequer, and other the King's debts, and shall be prepared and ready to make full accompt of the things aforesaid.

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stat. 5.

31 Henry III. When the King's bailiffs and officers shall account. [ * The words in italics not in the original.] [+ For "shall bring at the aforesaidterms, &c." read

"shall come at the aforesaid terms,and shall

there bring in full the aforesaid ferms,

chises accompt.

rents and issues, and pay them into the Exchequer."] II. -And that all bailiffs of franchises, which ought to levy the King's Bailiffs of fran'debts, and be answerable to the sheriffs thereof, shall come and ac'compt sufficiently, according to the extreats of the summons of the Exchequer; and such as do not, their bodies shall remain in ward of the sheriffs; and for default in them, the sheriffs shall cause the debts to be levied by their own bailiffs, where they have power, as they have used to do in time passed. And if the bailiffs do not come in at the day that the sheriff shall give them knowledge, the sheriff shall enter ' into the same franchises, and levy the debts with his own band.

III. Concerning justices of Chester, and bailiffs thereof, the King The justices willeth, that they, or one of them, shall come at the profer of St. Mi- and bailiffs of chael every year, when they ought to give account unto the King; and Chester's acat the profer of the utas of Easter they shall come likewise, and bring compt. in that which they owe to the King for that term; and the justices of

VOL. IV.

No. III.

51 Hen. III.

stat. 5.

Sheriffs shall

keep the King's

wards and escheats.

Three survey

ors.

Wards and es

cheats let to

ferm.

Sheriffs es

cheators in other shires.

Collectors of the custom of woolls.

The accompt

of the keeper of the King's wardrobe. The King's

debt shall first be heard.

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'Chester, shall have day to accompt from year to year in quindena
Pasche; and the bailiffs thereof the morrow of Easter utas. And that
all sheriffs of England, except the sheriffs of Westmoreland, Lancaster,
'Worcester, Rutland, and Cornwall, shall from henceforth keep all
'such wards, and escheats, that are not in other fees, as belong to
the King, which be within their shires; and of the issues thereof they
'shall be answerable in the Exchequer at the terms aforesaid; (1) and at
' their turns that they make in their shires, they shall find office of other
things, which the King's escheators have not used to find of that which*
belongeth unto the King, once or twice in the year, to as little grievance
of the people as they can. And the sheriff's shall seize the escheats that
'fall to remain unto the King in fee, and shall certify the King of them
'without delay.

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IV. And the King shall assign three able persons that shall go through' out the realm, to survey and find the wards and escheats aforesaid, from year to year, when they shall think requisite. And the sheriffs by their counsel shall approve, and let to ferm, or otherwise, such wards and escheats, as they shall think most for the King's advantage.

'V. Touching the five shires beforenamed, the King will, that the sheriff of Cumberland shall execute the office of escheator in the shires of 'Westmoreland, and Lancaster; and the sheriff of Nottingham, in Rutland; and the sheriff of Gloucester, in Worcester; and the sheriff of 'Devonshire, in Cornwall; and shall safely keep the King his wards and 'escheats in the same shires, and shall be answerable in the Exchequer 'for the issues of them, as well as for their own shires. And the three able persons aforesaid shall survey and extend such wards and escheats, as well there as in other places, and those shall be approved by their 'counsel. And when the sheriffs do accompt for their counties, they 'shall accompt for such wards and escheats. And in like manner shall the justices of Chester do, and their bailiffs also, every one for his baili'wick. And the said three able persons shall keep the King's demeans, ' and shall approve them as they shall think best for the King's advanlage, and shall be answerable in the Exchequer for the issues: And they shall have power to let forth small manors and demeans to folk of the same places, or to other, according to their discretion, and shall let them to ferm from year to year, as they shall think most to the King's profit: And the fermers shall be chargeable for their ferms unto the principal approvers, and they unto the Exchequer, the Morrow 'next after the Ascension, from year to year.

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VI. And the principal collectors of the custom of woolls, at the two terms before mentioned, shall pay all such money as they have re'ceived of the said custom, and shall make accompt from year to year clearly of all parcels received in any of the ports, or other places of the realm, so that they shall answer for every ship where it was charged, ' and how much wooll it carried, and for every other charge in the ship, 'whereof custom is due, and for the whole receipt.

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VII. And the warden of the King's wardrobe shall make accompt yearly in the Exchequer in the Feast of St. Margaret; and the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer shall be charged by oath, that they shall 'not attend to hear the pleas or matters of other men, while they have to do with the King's business, if it be not a matter that concerneth the King's own debt. And when a sheriff or bailiff hath begun his accompt, none other shall be received to accompt, until he that was first appointed hath clearly accompted, and his money received. And that the constable, marshal, chamberlain, and other that are of fee in the Exchequer, from henceforth shall present unto the King such as they have put in their places to do their offices, which must be of good fame, and sufficient, for whose Acts themselves will answer.

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(1) The meaning of this sentence seems to be as follows:-And at their turns which they make in their shires, they shall be answerable for their office, and for other things which the

escheators used to do, and which belong to the escheat, once, &c, N. B. What follows in the next sentence but one clears up this passage.— Note to Runnington's Edition of the Statutes.

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