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Section XIV Treasurers to pay to Sheriffs residing 50 Miles or upwards from London 2d. in the Pound, and within that Distance 1d. Allowance to Treasurers of 1d. in the Pound.

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And Bee it further enacted by the authoritie aforesaid that the severall Treasurers in this Act named shall allow and pay unto the respective Sheriffs of the severall Countyes residing fifty miles distant from the Citty of London or upwards two pence in the pound, and to such respective Sheriffes as shall reside within that distance from the said Citty of London one penny in the pound for all such summes of money as the said Sheriffes shall pay in respectively unto the Treasurers in this Act named, and the said Treasurers in this Act named are hereby further authorized to have and take unto themselves one penny in the pound out of the moneys soe paid in unto them by vertue of this Act to be distributed unto such person or persons as shall be imployed by them in receiving and issueing of the money in and by this Act granted in such manner and proportions as they shall thinke fitt.