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Administrators, and against all other Perfons whomfoever; and the faid Verdicts, Judgments, and Determinations, and all other Proceedings of the said Justices and Juries fo to be made, given, and pronounced as aforefaid, fhall be fairly written on Parchment, and figned by the Clerk of the Peace for the Time being of the City, Borough, or County wherein the Premifes fhall respectively lie or be; and in case it shall so happen that the Sum or Sums If the Sum of Money so to be affeffed and awarded in confe- affeffed shall quence of fuch Refufal to treat and agree as afore- not exceed said, as the Value of fuch Houses, Buildings, Lands, offered, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or as fuch proportional Value as aforefaid, and as the Recompence and Satisfaction to be made for the Injury or Damage fuftained as before mentioned respectively, fhall not exceed the Sum or Sums of Money which the faid Commiffioners or Trustees, or other Perfons as aforefaid, or any Person or Perfons authorized by them, fhall have previously offered to pay as and for fuch Value, Recompence, and Satisfaction; then and in every such Case all the reasonable the Cofts of Cofts, Charges, and Expences of causing and fuch Affeffcuring fuch Value and Recompence to be affeffed ment, &c. to and awarded as aforefaid, and also affeffing and fuch Body awarding the fame, shall be borne and paid by Politic, &c. the Body or Bodies Politic, Corporate, or Collegiate, or other Perfon or Perfons fo feifed or poffeffed of or interested in fuch Houses, Buildings, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, and fo refufing to treat and agree as before mentioned respectively; and the faid Commiffioners or Trustees, or other and the ComPerfons as aforefaid, are hereby authorized and miffioners, empowered to deduct and retain the faid Cofts, retain the Charges, and Expences out of the Sum or Sums fame out of of Money so to be affeffed or awarded as aforefaid, the Sum fo or out of any Part thereof: Provided always, that affefsed. in all Cafes where any Perfon or Perfons fhall by reafon of Abfence have been prevented from treating about fuch Recompence or Satisfaction as aforefaid,

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fuch Cofts and Charges fhall be borne and paid by the faid Commiffioners or Trustees, or other Perfons as aforefaid, in Manner aforefaid.

LXXXIII. And be it further enacted, That the faid Juftices fhall have Power from Time to Time to impofe any reasonable Fine, not exceeding the Sum of Twenty Pounds, on fuch Sheriff or Bailiff, or his Deputy or Deputies, Bailiffs or Agents refpectively, making Default in the Premises, and on any of the Perfons who fhall be fummoned and returned on any fuch Jury or Juries, and fhall not appear, without fufficient Excufe, or appearing fhall refufe to be sworn on the said Jury or Juries, or being fo fworn fhall not give his or their Verdict; and alfo on any Perfon or Perfons who shall be fummoned to give Evidence touching any of the Matters aforefaid, and shall not attend, or attending fhall refuse to be fworn or to affirm, or who shall refuse to give his, her, or their Evidence, and on 'any Perfon or Perfons who fhall in any other Manner wilfully neglect his, her, or their Duty in the Premises, contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this A&t; and from Time to Time to levy fuch Fine or Fines, by Order of the faid Juftices, by Diftrefs and Sale of the Offender's Goods and Chattels, together with the reasonable Charges of every fuch Distress and Sale, returning the Overplus (if any) to the Owner or Owners; and that a Copy of the Order of the faid Juftices, figned by the Clerk of the Peace for the Time being of the City, Borough, or County wherein the Premifes fhall lie or be, as the Cafe fhall require, fhall refpectively be fufficient Authority to the Perfon or Perfons therein to be appointed, and to every other Perfon acting or aiding and aflifting therein, to make fuch Diftrefs and Sale; and all fuch Fines fhall be paid to the Treasurer or Treasurers of the Commiffioners or Trustees, or other Persons as aforefaid having the Control of the Pavements in the parochial or other District wherein fuch Premises fhall lie or be, or to fuch other Per

fon or Perfons as they may respectively from Time to Time appoint.

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LXXXIV. And be it further enacted, That if Application of Compenany Money shall be agreed or awarded to be paid fation where for any Lands, Buildings, Tenements, or Heredita- exceeding ments, or for any other Matter, Right, or Interest, zool. of what Nature or Kind foever, purchased, taken, or ufed by virtue of the Powers of this Act for the Purpose thereof, which fhall belong to any Corporation, Feme Covert, Infant, Lunatic, or Person or Perfons under any other Difability or Incapacity, fuch Money fhall, in cafe the. fame fhall amount to the Sum of Two hundred Pounds, with all convenient Speed be paid into the Bank of England, in the Name and with the Privity of the Accountant General of the High Court of Chancery, to be placed to his Account there ex parte the faid Commiffioners or Trustees, or other Persons having the Control of the Pavements of the Streets or public Places in the parochial or other Districts within the Jurifdiction of this Act, wherein fuch Lands, Buildings, Tenements, or Hereditaments fhall be or lie as aforefaid, together with the Name or Names of fuch Perfon or Perfons as the faid Commiffioners or Trustees or other Perfons as aforefaid, by Writing figned by them, fhall direct and appoint, to the Intent that fuch Money shall be applied, under the Direction and with the Approbation of the said Court, to be fignified by an Order made upon a Petition to be preferred in a fummary Way by the Perfon or Persons who would have been entitled to the Rents and Profits of the faid Lands, Buildings, Tenements, or Hereditaments, in the Purchase of Land Tax, or Discharge of any Debt or Debts, or fuch other Incumbrance or Part thereof as the faid Court shall authorize to be paid affecting the fame Lands, Buildings, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or affecting other Lands, Buildings, Tenements, or Hereditaments standing fettled therewith to the fame or the like Uses, Intents, or Purposes; or where fuch Money

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Money shall not be fo applied, then the fame fhall, be laid out and invested, under the like Direction and Approbation of the faid Court, in the Purchase of other Meffuages, Lands, Buildings, Tenements, or Hereditaments, which fhall be conveyed and fettled to, for, and upon fuch and the like Ufes, Trufts, Intents, and Purposes, and in the fame Manner, as the Meffuages, Lands, Buildings, Tenements, and Hereditaments which shall be fo purchased, taken, or used as aforefaid, stood fettled or limited, or fuch of them as at the Time of making fuch Conveyance and Settlement shall be exifting undetermined and capable of taking Effect; and in the meantime and until fuch Purchase shall be made, the faid Money fhall, by Order of the Court of Chancery, upon Application thereto, be invefted by the faid Accountant General, in his Name, in the Purchase of Three Pounds per Centum Confolidated or Three Pounds per Centum Reduced Bank Annuities; and in the meantime and until the faid Bank Annuities fhall be ordered by the faid Court to be fold for the Purposes aforefaid, the Dividends and annual Produce of the faid Confolidated or Reduced Bank Annuities fhall from Time to Time be paid, by Order of the faid Court, to the Perfon or Perfons who would for the Time being have been entitled to the Rents and Profits of the faid Lands, Buildings, Tenements, and Hereditaments fo hereby directed to be purchased, in cafe fuch Purchase or Settlement were made.

LXXXV. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That if any Money fo agreed or awarded to be paid for any Lands, Buildings, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or for any other Matter, Right, or Interest, of what Nature or Kind foever, purchased, taken, or used for the Purposes aforefaid, and belonging to any Corporation, or to any Person or Perfons under Disability or Incapacity as aforefaid, shall be less than the Sum of Two hundred Pounds, and fhall exceed the Sum of Twenty Pounds, then

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and in all fuch Cafes the fame fhall, at the Option of the Perfon or Perfons for the Time being entitled to the Rents and Profits of the Hereditaments fo purchased, taken, or used, or of his, her, or their Guardian or Guardians, Committee or Committees, in case of Infancy or Lunacy, to be fignified in Writing under their respective Hands, be paid into the Bank in the Name and with the Privity of the faid Accountant General of the High Court of Chancery, and be placed to his Account as aforefaid, in order to be applied in Manner herein-before directed; or otherwise the same shall be paid, at the like Option, to Two Trustees, to be nominated by the Perfon or Perfons making fuch Option, and approved of by the faid Commiffioners or Trustees or other Perfons as aforefaid (fuch Nomination and Approbation to be fignified in Writing under the Hands of the nominating and approving Parties), in order that fuch Principal Money, and the Dividends arifing thereon, may be applied in any Manner herein-before directed, fo far as the Cafe be applicable, without obtaining or being required to obtain the Direction or Approbation of the Court of Chancery.

LXXXVI. Provided alfo, and be it further Application enacted, That where fuch Money fo agreed or where the awarded to be paid as next before mentioned fhall Money is lefst be less than Twenty Pounds, then and in all fuch than 20l. Cafes the fame fhall be applied to the Ufe of the Perfon or Perfons who would for the Time being have been entitled to the Rents and Profits of the Hereditaments and Premises fo purchased, taken, or used for the Purposes of this Act, in fuch Manner as the faid Commiffioners or Trustees, or other Perfons as aforefaid, fhall think fit; or in cafe of Infancy or Lunacy, then to his, her, or their Guardian or Guardians, Committee or Committees, to and for the Ufe and Benefit of fuch Perfon or Perfons fo entitled refpectively..

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