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Constables in 14 days after assizes shall return on oath to treasurer exact account of waste or untenauted,
penalty 51.
sued summarily,
accounted for as part of publick money.
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VIII. And in order that the said treasurer may know, what dwelling houses, outhouses, offices, cellars, stables, linneys, and yards, may then be waste or untenanted, be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the several constables of the said city of Cork and the suburbs thereof shall in fourteen days from the last day of each assizes return to the said treasurer in writing upon oath (which oath the said treasurer is hereby empowered to administer) an exact account of such dwelling houses, out houses, offices, cellars, stables, linneys, and yards, in their respective parishes, quarters, or districts, as shall be then waste, or untenanted, under a penalty of five pounds for neglecting to make such return as aforesaid; the said penalty to be sued for by the treasurer in a summary way before the mayor, or any of the aldermen of the ward of the city, according to the summary jurisdiction established by act of Parliament in the said city: and when recovered, the said penalty to be accounted for as part of the publick money by the said treasurer in aid of the publick money presented to be raised by the grand juries at the assizes to be held for the county of the said city.
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