Section III Resisting Execution of Act, Penalty £5.; Distress.; If no Distress, Imprisonment.
And it is hereby further enacted that in case any person or persons shall resist or make forceable Opposition against any person or persons in the due and through execution of this Act that every such person or persons for every such Offence shall forfeit the summe of five pounds to be divided and recovered in manner aforesaid. And in case any person or persons shall not pay the summes of money by them to be paid by vertue of this Act that in every such case Distresse shall be made and Sale thereof returning the Overplus to the Owners and in case noe Distresse be to be found that then every such party shall be committed to the common Goale in the County where such Offence shall be committed there to remaine for the space of two monethes without baile or maineprize.