Crown Lands (Forfeited Estates) Act 1698

LXXIX. Collector neglecting to pay or detaining Monies,

Proceedings by Commissioners; Commissioners so proceeding, to appoint a General Meeting; Notice thereof; Collectors not paying; Proceedings by Commissioners.

And it is further enacted and declared, That if any Collector that shall be by vertue of this Act appointed for the Receipt of any Summe or Summs of Money thereby to be assessed, neglect or refuse to pay any Summe or Summs of Money which shall by them be received, as aforesaid, and to pay the same, as in this Act is directed, and shall detaine in his or their Hands, any Money received by them, or any of them, and not pay the same, as by this Act is directed, the Commissioners of each County, Rideing, City or Towne respectively, or any Two or more of them, in their respective Divisions, are hereby authorized and impowered to imprison the Person, and to seize and secure the Estate both Reall and Personall of such Collector to him belonging, or which shall descend or come into the Hands or Possession of his Heires, Executors or Administrators where ever the same can be discovered and found; And the said Commissioners who shall soe seize and secure the Estate of any Collector or Collectors shall be, and are hereby impowered to appoint a time for the Generall Meeting of the Commissioners for such County, Rideing, City, Towne and Place, and there to cause publick Notice to be given of the Place where such Meeting shall be appointed Fifteene Daies at least before such Generall Meeting; And the Commissioners present at such Generall Meeting, or the major Part of them, in case the Moneys detained by any Collector or Collectors be not paid and satisfied as it ought to be, according to the Directions of this Act, shall and are hereby impowered and required to sell and dispose of all such Estates, which shall be for the Cause aforesaid seized and secured, or any Part of them, and to satisfie and pay into the Hands of the Receiver Generall, or his Deputy, for such County, Rideing and Place, the Summe which shall be detained in the Hands of such Collector or Collectors, their Heires, Executors and Administrators respectively.