Conviction.

to wit. Be it remembered, That on the

in the year convicted before

day of

-, A. B. was, upon the complaint of C.D. of the justices of the peace for the said county of- [or for of or in the said county of, as the case shall be], in pursuance of an act passed in the 42nd year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, for [as the case may be].

Given under our hands and seals the day and year above written.

See also "MANUFACTURERS."

COUNTY RATE

To be made by justices at their general or quarter sessions; the high constable to collect the rate from the churchwardens and overseers, and if not paid within thirty days after demand, in writing, either delivered to them, left at their houses, or affixed to the church door, the rate may be levied by distress and sale of the goods of such churchwardens or overseers, by warrant of two or more justices residing near the parish or place. 12 Geo. II. c. 29, s. 2. and the receipt of the high constable to be a sufficient discharge: where there is no poors' rate, the sum assessed to be rated and levied by petty constable or other peace officer, in the same manner as poors' rates are rated and levied.

s. 3.

The high constable at or before next sessions, after he has received the money, to pay the same to the county treasurer, and deliver, [if required], an ac

count on oath to the justices at their quarter sessions; if he neglects or refuses to demand and levy the rate, or to account, he may be committed by the justices at the sessions for such contumacy until he obeys; and he may also be committed for neglecting or refusing to pay over to the treasurer the balance in his hands. s. 8.

Churchwardens and overseers may appeal against the rate to the next general or quarter sessions.

The general application of county rates is stated in the high constable's warrant.

By 55 Geo. III. c. 51, to amend the act of 12 Geo. II. c. 29, it is enacted, Justices at general or quarter sessions may require parish officers to make returns of the annual value of rateable property. s. 2. to be verified on oath; and justices of division are required to receive such returns. s.3. and officers making default, to forfeit not exceeding £20. to be levied by distress and sale. s. 4.

If default is made in making the returns required by the precept of the general or quarter sessions, the justices of division may issue precepts for that purpose, and a penalty not exceeding £20. is incurred by the officers neglecting to obey such precept. s. 5.

Parishes may be assessed by the general or quarter sessions, though no return made, or if not made in due time. s. 6.

Justices at general or quarter sessions, or justices of divisions in places where there are no poors'

rate levied, or overseers appointed, may appoint an overseer or overseers for the special purposes of this act. s. 8. and may call for parliamentary or parochial assessments to aid them in the execution of the act. s. 9.

Parish officers are authorized to enter on any lands to ascertain their value. s. 10.

Justices of division to certify to the justices at the general or quarter sessions the value of the property so ascertained. s. 11.

Justices authorized to issue warrants to levy the county rate in the usual manner. s. 12. and in places where the poors' rate does not apply separately, justices may order county rate to be levied as in cases where there is no poors' rate. s. 13.

Parishes aggrieved by the rate may appeal to the justices at the general or quarter sessions. s. 14. the expense of which to be paid by the parish appealing. s. 15.

Justices in general or quarter sessions may compensate persons employed in the execution of this act out of the money assessed. s. 16.

High constables to give security to the justices of the peace of the county for the due collecting and payment of the rate, and in default, justices may authorize parish officers to collect the same. s. 19.

All penalties if not immediately paid, to be levied by distress and sale, by warrant of one justice, or in default offender to be committed to the common gaol for not exceeding three calendar months, unless penalty sooner paid. s. 22.

Justice's Precept to High Constable to collect County Rate.

To the High Constable of the Hundred of, in the said county.

to wit. These are, in His Majesty's name, to command you within eight days after receipt hereof, to demand, collect and receive of and from the churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the several parishes and places hereunder-named, (being within your said hundred,) the several and respective sums of money hereunder set down and expressed opposite to and against the names of such parishes and places; the said several sums being respectively charged and assessed thereon in and by a rate or order made at the last general quarter sessions of the peace, held at in and for the said county, for and towards one general rate or assessment made for raising such sum and sums of money within the division of the said county, as may be sufficient to answer the ends and purposes mentioned and contained in an act of parliament made in the 12th year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, intituled "An Act for the more easy assessing, collecting and levying of County Rates;" and that upon the receipt of the said several sums of money, you pay the same at or before the next general quarter sessions of the peace, to be held at in and for the said county, into the hands of G. B. M. Esq. the treasurer appointed to receive the same. And if any of the churchwardens and overseers of the said several parishes and places shall refuse or neglect to pay the same within thirty days next after you shall have demanded the same, in writing given to the said churchwardens or overseers of the poor or any of them, or left at their or any of their dwelling-house or houses, or affixed on any of the church doors of such parish or places to which such churchwardens or overseers shall belong, that then you inform us or some other of His Majesty's justices of the peace for the said county, thereof, that such further proceedings may be had and taken as the law directs. And therefore fail not at your peril. Given under our hands and seals at in the said county, the day of in the year of our Lord 1817.

High Constable's Warrant to levy the Rate.

To the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the parish of in the said county.

to wit. By virtue of an order of His Majesty's justices of the peace in and for the said county in their general quarter sessions assembled, you are hereby required in thirty days time from your receipt of this precept, or otherwise, having had due notice thereof, to pay to me, out of the money by you collected or to be collected for the relief of the poor of your parish, the sum of £— being the proportion of your said parish for and towards the general county rate, for repairing of bridges, repairing of the gaol, and for the relief of prisoners there, and for the relief of the prisoners in the King's Bench and Marshalsea prisons; for repairing and furnishing the house of correction, with the salary of the keeper thereof, the treasurer's salary, the coroner's fees, the charges concerning vagrants, soldiers' carriages, convicting and transporting felons, and other county charges. Herein fail not at your peril. in the said county, the

Given under my hand at day of, 1817.

J. C. High Constable.

DEER. See "GAME."

DISSENTERS.

By the act of toleration, 13 and 14 Car. II. c. 4, and by 19 Geo. III. c. 44, no dissenting minister shall be liable to the penalties of former acts, who shall, at the sessions where he lives, take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, and subscribe the declaration against popery, and also the following declaration, viz.

"I, A. B. do solemnly declare, in the presence of Almighty God, that I am a Christian and a Protestant, and as such, that I believe that the Scrip

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