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The commissioners are empowered to five the sheriff, &c. who become defaulters in the premisses, &c.
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XVIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawfull to and for the said commissioners, or the sucessors of them, or any five or more of them, from time to time, to impose any reasonable fine, not exceeding the sum of, ten pounds, on any sheriff or sheriffs, or their deputy or deputies, bailiffs or agents respectively, who shall make any default in the premisses, and on any person or persons who shall be summoned and returned on any such jury or juries, or shall be added to the original pannel or pannels thereof, who shall not appear, and also on any witness or witnesses who shall not attend, or shall attend, and refuse to be sworn, or who being sworn, shall refuse to give evidence; and on any person summoned and returned, or impannelled as aforesaid, on such jury or juries who shall refuse to be sworn on any such jury or juries, or being sworn thereon, shall not give his or their verdict, or shall in any other manner wilfully neglect his or their duty in or touching the premisses contrary to the true intent and meaning of this act, and from time to time to levy such fine or fines by order of the said commissioners, or the successors of them, or any five or more of them as aforesaid, as the case may require, by distress and sale of the offender’s goods, together with the reasonable charges of every such distress and sale, returning the overplus (if any) to the owners, and all the fines which shall be so recovered and received shall be applied towards the purposes of this act.
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