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Section X ; Penalties, &c. to be levied by Distress.

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

To be sold; Overplus returned to Owner.; If no Distress, &c. Imprisonment.

And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Fines Rents forfeitures and penalties as shall growe due and payable to the said Commissioners by this Act shall be levied by distresse upon the goods and Chattells of the Offender or Offenders by warrant under the Hands and Seals of the Commissioners or any five or more of them which shall be appointed by His Majesty which shall bee sold within Fourteen dayes and the overplus returned to the owner and in default of distresse or X1non payment the person or persons so offending or neglecting to pay shall lie in prison without Bail or Mainprize till he or they have paid such Rent Fine Forfeiture and Penalty as was due from him or them.

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Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: not O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]