Relief of the Poor Act 1696

III. Justices in Sessions, on Appeal to them concerning the Settlement of any poor Person, to award Costs.

Person ordered to pay Costs, living out of Jurisdiction, Justice of the County, &c. where such Person inhabits, may cause the Money to be levied; If no Distress, Imprisonment in County Gaol.

And for the more effectual preventing of vexatious Removals and frivolous Appeals Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Justices of the Peace of any County or Riding in their General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace upon any Appeal before them there to be had for and concerning the Settlement of any poor Person or upon any proof before them there to be made of notice of any such Appeal to have been given by the proper Officer to the Churchwardens or Overseers of the Poor of any Parish or Place (though they did not afterwards prosecute such Appeal) shall att the same Quarter Sessions award and order to the Party for whom and in whose behalfe such Appeal shall be determined or to whome such Notice did appeare to have been given as aforesaid such Costs and Charges in the Law as by the said Justices in their discretion shall be thought most reasonable and just to be paid by the Churchwardens Overseers of the Poor or any other Person against whome such Appeal shall be determined or by the p[er]son that did give such Notice as aforesaid and if the Person ordered to pay such Costs shall happen to live in any County Riding City or Towne Corporate or elsewhere out of the Jurisdiction of the said Court Itt shall and may be lawfull for any Justice of the Peace of the County Riding City Liberty or Towne Corporate wherein such Person shall inhabitt and every such Justice is hereby required upon request to him for that purpose to be made and a true Copy of the Order for the Payment of such Costs produced and proved by some credible Witnesse upon Oath by Warrant under his Hand and Seale to cause the Money mentioned in that Order to be levied by Distresse and Sale of the Goods of the Person that is ordered and ought to pay the same and if no such Distresse can or may be had to co[m]mitt such Person to the co[m]mon Gaol of that County or Liberty there to remaine by the space of Twenty Days.