Section VII How Execution for Informer may be had, and Proceedings thereon by Quarter Sessions.

27 Eliz. c. 13.

And bee itt further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Execution for the Informer shall and may bee had against Two or more of the said Inhabitants And that after Execution had by Force of this Act it shall and may be lawfull (upon Complaint made by the Party or Parties so charged) to and for the Justices of the Peace of the same County or Place where any such Execution shall be had att their General Quarter Sessions to be held for the said County or Place to assesse and tax rateably and proportionably according to their Discretions all and every the Townes Parishes Villages and Hamletts in the said Hundred Port or Place exempt in the same Manner and Forme as any Hundred ought to bee charged in case of Robbery co[m]mitted for the Persons against whom Execuc[i]on shall bee had for the Person so robbed pursuant to an Act made in the Seaven and twentieth Yeare of Queen Elizabeth intituled An Act for the following of the Hue and Cry And that the Justices of the Peace of the said County or Place where such Fact shall be committed shall and are hereby impowered and required att their General Quarter Sessions to be held for the said County or Place to levy the Penalties hereby charged upon the said Inhabitants by an equal Assessment upon the said Inhabitants and reimburse such Person or Persons Inhabitants within the X1said Hundred Port or Place exempt adjacent to the Kingdom of Scotland or the Sea Coast from whence the said Wooll or other the said Co[m]modities shall be transported in the same manner as if there had been a Judgment att Law against the said Hundred Port or Place exempt.