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in default of return, treasurer fined not above the sum applotted and committed.
Constables not making returns to the mayor fined at assizes, not above 10 l. and committed;
not collecting, or paying to treasurer, fined by judges discretion, not above the sum appointed to receive, and committed.
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VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any of the said constables shall neglect, omit, or refuse to make the aforesaid returns to the mayor of the said city, or to collect the sums so presented and applotted, or to pay in the same to the treasurer of the said city, within the time herein before appointed for that purpose, it shall and may be lawful to and for the respective judges of assize to fine the said constables so neglecting, omitting, or refusing to make the said return, in any sum not exceeding ten pounds, and to commit such offenders in execution for the same; and for omitting, neglecting, or refusing to collect the sums so presented and applotted, or to pay in the same to the treasurer, in such sum or sums of money as to the said judges shall seem proper, not exceeding the sums, that such constables shall by the warrants of the said treasurer be appointed respectively to receive, and to commit the said several offenders in execution for the same.
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