Bedford Level Act 1667

IX.

Sergeant at Mace, by virtue of Precept under Corporation Seal, may remove; Occupants not paying Taxes, and deliver Possession to the said Samuel Sandys the younger and Edwin Sandys.

And to the end the said Samuell Sandys and Edwin Sandys may have the Effect and Benefitt hereby intended them and that the Occupiers and Possessors of the said Shares and Lotts vested in them the said Samuell Sandys and Edwyn Sandys as aforesaid may not by their continueing in Possession and Neglect of payeing the Taxes hereafter to be imposed on the said Shares and Lotts or any Part of them cause the same to be forfeited and sold for Non payment of the respective Taxes that shall become due for the same. Bee it therefore hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in case any Occupier [X1 or] Possessor of any the said Shares or Lotts in the said Deed of Trust mencc[i]oed as aforesaid or of any Part of them pretending to clayme under the said Shares or Lotts to them the said Sedwyn Sandys and Edwyn Sandys or there Assignes and shall not the said Shares or Lotts to them the said Samuell Sandys and Edwyn Sandys or their Assignes and shall not duely pay the Taxes hereafter to be imposed on the same before our Lady day one thousand six hundred seaventy one, That then the Serjant at Mace for the tyme being attending the said Corporac[i]on: is hereby authorized and impowred by Precept under the Seale of the, Corporac[i]on of the said Great Levell (who are hereby required to graunt and issue out the same) in the Nature of a Writt of Habere facias possessionem at the Common Lawe to deliver unto and put them the said Samuell Sandys and Edwyn Sandys their Heires or Assignes in the quiet and peaceable Possession of such Shares and Lott[um] or any Part of them, and all and every such Occupier or Occupiers Possessor or Possessors thereof, of and from the same to eject expell and amove They the said Samuell Sandys and Edwyn Sandys upon reasonable Notice first payeing or tendering such Taxes as shall become due for the same from the Tyme of the passing this Act one Moneth before the next Day of Sale for Non payment of such Taxes hereafter to be imposed, which said Samuell Sandys and Edwyn Sandys and their Heires are thereupon hereby actually vested in the same;

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