No. 31.

RETURN of the Constable to be made upon the Warrant of Distress when there are no Effects.

I, A. B. Constable of the [Parish, &c.] of

in the

Do hereby certify and make oath, That by

County of

virtue of this Warrant I have made diligent search for the goods of the

County, and to the Keeper of the Common Gaol

[or, House of Correction] at

in the said County.

WHEREAS A. B. of

in the said County,

day of

convicted

Yeoman, was on the before me, C. D. Esquire, one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the said County, upon the oath of E. F. a credible witness, For that he the said A. B. [here set forth the offence] contrary to the Statute made in the second year of the reign of King WILLIAM the Fourth, "To consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Highways in "that part of Great Britain called England," by reason whereof the said A. B. hath forfeited the sum of And whereas on

in the year aforesaid, I did issue to levy the said

my warrant to the [constable] of sum of by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of him the said A. B. and to distribute the same according to the directions of the said Statute: And whereas it duly appears to me upon the oath of the said [constable], that the said [constable] hath used his best endeavours to levy the said sum on the goods and chattels of the said A. B. as aforesaid, but that no sufficient distress can be had whereon to levy the same: These are, therefore, to command you the said [constable] of aforesaid, to apprehend the said A. B. and him safely convey to the Common Gaol [or, House of Correction] in the said County, and there deliver him to the Keeper

at

Keeper thereof, together with this Precept. And I do hereby also command you, the said Keeper, to receive and keep in your custody the said A. B. for the space of Three months, unless the said sum shall be sooner paid, pursuant to the said Conviction and Warrant, and for so doing this shall be your sufficient warrant.

Given under my hand the

day of

in the year of our Lord

C. D.

No. 33.

NOTICE of Appeal to the Quarter Sessions.

A. B. take Notice, That I intend to Appeal to the next General Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the [County, &c.] of against an order [conviction, or other proceeding, as the case may be, particularly specifying the purport of such order, &c. and assigning the grievance and cause of complaint].

Dated the

day of

C. D.

A

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BIL L

To regulate the Payment of the Duties on

Hops.

[Note.-The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted in the Committee.]

W

HEREAS by the Laws now in force for collecting the Preamble. Duties of Excise on Hops, all Planters and Owners of Hops are required, within Six Months after every Parcel of Hops shall or ought to have been cured, bagged, casked or weighed, to clear off the Duties of Excise charged on such Hops:

AND whereas it is expedient to make the said Duties on Hops payable at two certain periods of the year, instead of requiring the whole to be cleared off within Six Months;

BE it therefore Enacted, by The KING's most Excellent 10 MAJESTY, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords

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Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, THAT all Duties of Excise on Hops which shall have been charged since the First day of August One thousand eight hundred and Thirty-one, and all Duties of Excise on Hops which shall hereafter be charged, shall be paid and payable by the several Persons respectively on whom the same shall have been or shall be charged by the Officers of Excise, in manner following, (that is to say) OneMoiety of so much of the said Duties as shall have been or shall be charged on any Planter or 20 Owner of any Hops, shall be paid on the First day of March next after the said Duties shall have been or shall be charged; and the other Moiety of such Duties on the First day of October following, in each year respectively; and every Person on whom any Duties on Hops shall have been or shall be charged, who shall fail to pay the

299.

Duties on Hops to be paid on the

1st of March

and 1st of October in

each year..

Not to interfere with

c. 53. s. 25,

&c.

the same at the respective times aforesaid, shall for each default forfeit Double the Sum by him due and payable.

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Provided always, and be it further Enacted, That nothing herein 7 & 8 Geo. 4. contained shall extend or be deemed to extend to diminish or in any way interfere with the powers and authorities given by an Act passed in the seventh and eighth years of the reign of his late Majesty, intituled, "An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to "the Collection and Management of the Revenue of Excise through"out Great Britain and Ireland," to the Commissioners of Excise, to order the charging, demanding and recovering of any Duties of 10 Excise at such times and in such manner as the said Commissioners shall see fit to direct.

Act may be

And be it further Enacted, That this Act may be amended, altered in the altered, or repealed, by any Act to be passed in this present Session

present Ses