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Power of Distress for Rates.
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XII. And be it enacted, That if the respective Person or Persons, Body or Bodies, who are hereby made liable as aforesaid to the Rates assessed or to be assessed by virtue of this Act or the said recited Act, shall neglect or refuse to pay to the Collector of the said Commissioners any Sum or Sums of Money which hath been rated or assessed or which shall be rated or assessed on him, her, or them, or such Body or Bodies, by virtue of this Act, or which they shall be otherwise liable to pay, that then and in any such Case it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Collectors or any of them, or other proper Officer duly authorized, by Warrant under the Hand and Seal of the Commissioners, to enter into and upon any Part of the Premises (except the said Cathedral Church and the said Castle of Dublin) which shall be so in arrear or hereby made liable to Distress, and to distrain the Goods and Chattels which shall be found thereon or therein, and if the same shall not be replevied or Money paid within Eight Days after such Distress made, together with the Costs attending the same, to be ascertained by the Commissioners, to sell the same, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to answer the said Rates or other Demand, and all Costs attending such Distress and Sale, returning the Overplus (if any) to the Owner or Proprietor of such Goods and Chattels; or the said Commissioners may recover the same by One or more Action or Actions, Bill or Bills, to be brought against such Person or Persons, or against the Treasurer, Secretary, or Clerk belonging to such Body or Bodies, in the Name of the Secretary of the said Commissioners, in any of Her Majesty’s Superior Courts in Dublin, or by Civil Bill, in the Name of the said Secretary, in the Court of proper Jurisdiction.
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