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Hearth Money Act 1663

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X.Proviso for High Bailiff of Westminster collecting the Duty;

subject to the same Penalties as Sheriffs.; Sheriff of Middlesex discharged as to Westminster.; Constables, &c. to deliver Duplicates of Accounts, &c. to Bailiff.

Provided alwayes and be it enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That the High Bayliffe of Westminster for the time being or his or their Deputye or Deputyes may within the Citty and Liberties of Westminster from and after the Eight and twentyeth day of September next collect and levy the said Duty and putt in execution all the Powers of the said former Act and this present Act as amply as any Sheriffes who by the said former Act are made Collectors may doe within their respective Limitts and Jurisdictions appointed to them by the said Act And the said Bayliffe for the time being shall be subject to the same Penalties and Dutyes as the said Sheriffes are and shall receive the same reward, and the Sheriffe of Midlesex for the time being is discharged from putting in execution the Trust aforesaid in the said Citty and Liberty of Westminster from the said Eight and twentyeth day of September saveing onely for the collecting of such arreares as then shall happen to be, And the Constables and Headboroughes and other Officers within the said Citty and Liberty of Westminster shall deliver unto the said Bayliffe Duplicates of all Accounts of Hearthes and Stoves and doe all other things in such manner as by the said Act they ought to have done unto the said [X1Sheriffe,] Any thing in the said or this Act to the contrary notwithstanding,

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