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Poundage on fines, &c. reduced, if levied by sheriff, shall be deducted thereout on repayment to the party relieved.
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27. Provided also, that in case any such fines and recognizances, which shall be so reduced or mitigated by His Majesty's commissioners of reducements, shall have been actually levied by any sheriff, and not paid by him into the Exchequer, that then and in every such case no allowance shall be made for poundage on the debit of any such sheriff for any such reduced fines or recognizances, but that the poundage or allowance, provided as aforesaid, on such fines and recognizances respectively shall be paid to such sheriff by the person in whose favour or for whose benefit the order of reducement shall be made, which shall be so expressed in such order, and every such sheriff may accordingly deduct the said poundage upon repaying the sums so levied.
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