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Constables of said divisions shall by treasurer’s warrant collect sums applotted,
and pay to treasurer before assizes next after presentment.
who shall every assizes make up accounts on oath, and lay them with treasurer’s affidavit at foot thereof, before grand Jury 1st day of assizes,
entered in county-book with their observations:
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V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the several constables of the said several divisions of the said city, and county of the said city, shall within their respective limits collect by warrant under the hand and seal of the said treasurer, (which warrant the said treasurer is hereby impowered to grant) the several sums so presented and applotted as aforesaid, and shall pay in the said several sums to the said treasurer before the assizes next ensuing the said assizes, at which the same shall be so presented; and that the said treasurer shall at every assizes make up his accounts upon oath of all his receipts and payments of the said publick moneys so received by him, and shall return and lay the said accounts fairly written, with the affidavit of the said treasurer at the foot thereof, taken before the judge of assize without see, verifying the truth of such accounts, on the first day of every assizes before the grand jury of the said city, to be viewed, allowed, or disapproved of by the said grand jury; and that the said grand jury shall cause the same to be entered in the book of the county of the said city, with such observations as they shall think fit: and in default of such return that it shall and may be lawful for the respective judges of assize to fine such treasurer in any sum, not exceeding the sum so presented and applotted as aforesaid, and to commit such treasurer in execution for the same.
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