|
|
Assessors to fix general Notices on Church Doors requiring Persons to deliver Lills.
|
CX. And be it further enacted, That the Assessors to be appointed to execute this Act shall, within the Time and in the Manner directed by the Precept of the additional Commissioners under this Act, cause general Notices to be affixed on the Door of the Church or Chapel, and Market House or Cross (if any) of the City, Town, Parish, or Place for which such Assessors act; and if such City, Town, Parish, or Place, shall not have a Church or Chapel or Market House or Cross, then on the nearest Church or Chapel to such City, Town, Parish, or Place, requiring all Persons, who are by this Act required to make out and deliver any List, Declaration, or Statement, to make out and deliver to the respective Commissioners or to their Clerk, at their respective Offices to be described in such Notice, all such Lists, Declarations, and Statements accordingly, within such Time, as shall be limited by such Precept, and which shall not in any Case be later than Twenty-one Days from the Date of such Precept; and such general Notices shall when the same shall be made as aforesaid, be deemed sufficient Notice to all Persons resident in such City, Town, Parish, or Place, and the affixing the same in Manner aforesaid shall be deemed good Service of such Notice; and the said respective Assessors shall cause the said Notices to be from Time to Time replaced (if necessary) for the Space of Ten Days before the Time required for the Delivery of such Lists, Declarations, and Statements as aforesaid; and every Person wilfully tearing, defacing, or obliterating any such Notice so affixed, during the said Space of Ten Days, shall forfeit for every such Offence any Sum not exceeding Twenty Pounds, to be recovered as any Penalty may be recovered under the said recited Acts respectively.
|
