Section XXV If Action for executing Act, General Issue may be pleaded.

Treble Costs; Receivers General and Head Collectors to give Receipts gratis; Sub-Collectors to deliver a Schedule to Head Collectors of Defaulters, where there is no.; Distress; which Schedule is to be delivered to Receivers General, and returned by him into Exchequer.

And bee it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Action Plaint Suit or Information shall be commenced or prosecuted against any Person or Persons for what hee or they shall doe in pursuance or in execution of this Act such Person or Persons (soe sued in any Court whatsoever) shall and may plead the General Issue (Not Guilty) and upon X1any Issue joyned may give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence; and the if Plantiffe or Prosecutor shall become nonsuit or forbear further Prosecution or suffer a Discontinuance or if a Verdict passe against him the Defendants shall recover their Treble Costs for which they shall have the like Remedy as in any Case where Costs by the Law are given to Defends And the said Receivers General shall give Acquittances (gratis) to the said Head Collectors for all Moneys of them received And the said Head Collectors shall alsoe give Acquittances (gratis) to the Subcollectors for all such Moneys as shall bee paid them in pursuance of this Act And the said Subcollectors shall make and deliver to the said Head Collectors a perfect Schedule fairly written in Parchment under their Hands and Seales signed and allowed by any Two or more of the respective Com[m]issioners containing the Names Sirnames and Places of Abode of every. Person within their respective Collections that shall make default of Payment of any of the Su[m]ms that shall bee rated or assessed on such Person by virtue of this Act where noe sufficient Distresse is to bee found nor other Satisfaction made and not otherwise and the Su[m]m and Su[m]ms charged on every such Person the same Schedule to bee delivered by the Head Collectors to the Receivers General of the County City or Place respectively to bee by him returned into His Majesties Court of Exchequer Whereupon every Person soe making Default of Payment may bee charged by Processe of the said Court according to the course of the Court of Exchequer in such Cases.