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Satisfaction for every such injury,
on petition next assizes, setting forth the injury, value, by what number and religion, names, and descriptions of offenders,
examined in court before grand jury, on party's oath and other evidence, if proved, presented on the county, barony, towns, or parishes, in or near which offence committed, in proportion,
raised as other publick money, extended to other injuries 19 & 20 G. 3. c. 19. s. 6.
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VIII. And in order to prevent for the future the several outrages and offences herein before mentioned be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that satisfaction and amends may be made in manner herein after mentioned to all and every person and persons, his, her, or their executors or administrators, for all and every injury and damage which shall be done or committed against his, her, or their person or persons, habitations, possession, property, goods, or chattles, by any offender or offenders against this act; and that every person or persons, his, her, or their executors or administrators, who shall sustain any such injury, loss, or damage by any of the offences herein before mentioned, may sue for and recover satisfaction and amends for the injury, loss, or damage, incurred or suffered as aforesaid, at the next assizes to be held for the county where such offence was committed, by exhibiting to the judge or judges of assize, his, her, or their petition, praying such satisfaction and amends for the injury, loss, or damage sustained as aforesaid, and therein setting forth particularly the injury and damage done to his, her, or their person, habitation, property, goods or chattles, and the particular value thereof, by what number of persons he, she, or they believe such injury or damage was done or committed, and of what religion he, she, or they believe such offender or offenders, or any of them, was or were, with the names and descriptions of such of said offenders, as he, she, or they shall know, and such particular descriptions of such others of them as he, she, or they can give; and the matter shall thereupon be examined by such judge or judges of assize in open court in the presence of the grand jury, impannelled and sworn at said assizes, on the oath of the party assaulted or injured as aforesaid, and such other evidence as can be produced touching the said offences, according to the nature thereof; and if on consideration of the matter such judge or judges of assize shall be of opinion, that the person or persons preferring such petition hath or have fully proved the several matters aforesaid, and the value of the injury or damage sustained as aforesaid, so as to intitle him, her, or them to satisfaction and amends, the said grand jury shall thereupon, and they are hereby required, pursuant to the direction of such judge or judges of assize as aforesaid, to present such sum or sums of money, as the person or persons so assaulted or injured in his, her, or their person, habitation, possession, property, goods, or chattles, ought in their opinion to have and receive for the loss, injury, or damage by him, her, or them sustained as aforesaid, to be raised either on the county, barony, town or towns, parish or parishes, in or near which such offence shall have been committed, and in such proportions as they shall think fit; which sum so presented as aforesaid shall be applotted, levied, and raised by such ways and means, and in such manner and form, as other publick money presented at the assizes shall be applotted, levied, and raised within such county pursuant to the laws now in force.
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