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the Sheriff or other Collector on or before the tenth day of
June in every year and the Sheriff or Collector shall be allow=
=ed Six Per Cent for his Trouble in Collecting and Paying
the same and is hereby declared to have full power and
authority at any Time after the first day of February
in every Year upon Neglect or refusal of Payment of
the said Tax or any part thereof by any Person Chargeable
therewith to distrain the Goods and Chattels of the Person
so refusing or Neglecting And if the owner thereof shall not
Pay what is due within five Days after such Distress is
made, Such Sheriff or Collector shall and May sell by Auc=
tion the Goods so distrained or so much thereof as shall be
Sufficient to Satisfy the said Tax, the sum of two Shillings
and eight Pence Proclamation Money for making such
distress and charges on the sale thereof returning the over-plus
(if any) to the owner but shall give Notice of the Sale by Set=
=ing up an advertisement in Writing at the Church door
in the Parish or at the most Public Place of Worship, where
there is no Church, and by Publishing the same among
the People immediately after divine Service on the next Sun=
=day after the expiration of the said five Days; which sale
shall not be within less than three Days nor more than Ten
Days after notice so given; And shall be good & effectual in
Law against all Persons Whatsoever, Provided always
That no Sheriff or other Officer shall at any Time make or
take unreasonable distress or Seize the Slave or Slaves of
any Person for Parish Taxes if other Sufficient distress
shall be shown to Such Sheriff or Collector by the Person on
whom such distress is made, upon Penalty of being liable
to the action of the Party grieved wherein he shall recover full
Costs although the Damages recovered shall be under forty Shillings.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid,
That the Vestry of every Parish shall have full Power from Time
to Time to Call every Justice of the Peace & other Person and Persons
Whatsoever

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