Persons neglecting, &c. to pay Rate; or if Pound Rate not paid; Collectors to distrain; and to keep the Distress Four Days at Owner's Charge; then to be appraised and sold, and Overplus restored; Breaking open Houses, Chests, &c. in the Day-time; calling to Assistance Constables, &c.
And for the carefull writeing and transcribeing the said Warrants Certificates Estreats and Duplicates in due time it is further enacted That the Co[m]missioners Clerks who shall respectively performe the same shall by Warrant under Two or more of the Co[m]missioners hands have and receive from the respective Receivers Generall one Penny in the Pound of all such moneyes as he or they shall have received by vertue of such Warrants and Estreates who are hereby appointed and allowed to pay the same accordingly And if any person shall neglect or refuse to pay the severall Rates and Assessments wherewith he is charged by this Act for or in respect of his Personall Estate Offices or Imployments and which he ought to pay Or if the Pound Rate or any Payment thereof soe as aforesaid charged upon any Mannors Messuages Lands Tenements Hereditaments and Premisses shall be neglected or refused to be paid then upon demand made by the Officer or Collector of the place according to the precepte or Estreate to him delivered by the said Comissioners it shall and may be lawfull to and for such Officer or Collector and he and they is and are hereby required for nonpayment thereof to distreyne the person or persons soe refuseing or neglecting to pay by his or theire Goods or Chattells or to distraine upon the Messuages Lands Tenements and Premisses soe charged and the Goods and Chattells then and there found and the Distresse soe taken to keepe by the space of Four dayes att the Costs and Charges of the Owner thereof And if the said Owner doe not pay the su[m]me of money due by this Act within the said Four dayes then the said Distresse to be appraised by Two or Three of the Inhabitants where the said Distresse is taken and to be sold by the said Officer or Collector for the payment of the said money and the overplus comeing by the said Sale if any be over and above the charges of takeing and keepeing the Distresse to be imediately restored to the Owner thereof. And moreover it shall be lawfull to breake open in the Day time any House and upon Warrant under the Hands and Seales of any Two or more of the said Co[m]missioners any Chest Trunke or Box or other things where such Goods are calling to theire assistance the Constables Tytheing men or Headboroughs within the Countyes Townes or Places where any refusall neglect or resistance shall be made which said Officers are hereby required to be aideing and assisting in the Premisses:-