Choice presidents upon all Acts of Parliament relating to the office and duty of a justice of peace. With necessary notes and instructions thereupon taken out of the said Acts of Parliament, and other particular cases in law adjudg'd therein. As also a more useful method of making up Court-Rolls than hath been hitherto known or published in print. By Rich. Kilburne, Esq; late one of His Majestie's Justices of the Peace for the county of Kent, and principal of Staple-Inn.

Bridges.

A Warrant to a Hundred for As∣sessing a proportionable Rate of a Tax (appointed by the Body of the County) towards repair of the Coun∣ty Bridges.

To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. and to C. D. E. F. &c. Inhabitants of the said Hundred in the County aforesaid and to every of them.

Kent. ss. WHereas several common Bridges of the said Coun∣ty were much out of repair, The charges of Reparations whereof was estimated to amount to 750 li. which were ordered to be repaired by the Body of the County aforesaid, The pro∣portionable part whereof to be born by the Hundred aforesaid do amount unto 20 li. These are therefore (by virtue of His Majestie's Com∣mission of Oyer and Terminer) to us and others (on that behalf) directed (under the great Seal of England) To command you (the said Constable and Borsholders) sorthwith equally to assess and tax the said Hundred by a pound rate upon all Lands, Tenements, Goods and Chattels (both real and personal) within the Limits, Circuits and Bounds of the Hundred aforesaid (as hath usually been done within the said Hundred (for publick Taxes,) And that you do collect and gather the same so that you may have the same ready in the hands of you

the aforesaid Constables within one and twen∣ty days next after your receit of this Precept (to be paid and disposed of) for and towards the purpose aforesaid as we some or one of us shall (for that purpose) direct; And in case of refusal or neglect of any person or persons to pay his, her or their proportion or proportions of the said money (so by you assessed and taxed) within one week next after demand thereof, that then you some or one of you do cause the said per∣son or persons (so refusing or neglecting) to come before us some or one of us to be bound over (according to an Order by the said Commissioners in that behalf made) to appear at the next general Assizes or Quarter-Sessions for this Western Division of the said County which shall next happen after such refusal or neglect to answer the same: and you are hereby further required to make known unto us some or one of us (with all convenient speed next after the end of the aforesaid one and twenty days) what you have done in execution of this Precept. Given under our hands and seals the second day of May, 1681.

A Warrant to make a Tax for County Bridges repaired.

To the Constable of the Hundred of A. and to B. C. &c. Inhabitants of the said Hundred, and to every of them.

Kent. ss. WHereas the usual Bridges* 1.1 of, &c. within the said County were lately in great decay and unre∣paired, and by an Order made at C. &c. the said Decays and Irreparations were ordered to be mended at the Charges of the said County, and have lately been amended accordingly, the proportionable part of which said Charge thought fit to be imposed upon this Division doth amount unto, &c. of lawfull money of England, and the proportionable part of the same thought fit to be imposed upon the said Hundred doth amount unto, &c. of like mo∣ney: These are therefore (in His Majestie's name) to command you the said Constable and Inhabitants, that you, or any three of you at the least, (whereof you the said Constable to be one) do forthwith (after publick no∣tice before given, as is usual in other Taxa∣tions) make a Taxation of all and every the Inhabitants of the said Hundred as in such cases.

A Warrant to collect a Tax for re∣pairing County Bridges.

To A. B. and C. D. Inhabitants of the Hun∣dred of E. in the said County, and to every of them.

Kent ss. THese are (in His Majestie's* 1.2 name) to command you, That you do forthwith collect and gather the several summs of money (specified in the Taxation herewithall delivered unto you) of the several persons therein mentioned to be taxed upon them for the purpose in the said Taxation spe∣cified, and that you do pay the same unto R. T. (whom we have appointed general Receiver of the moneys raised for the purpose aforesaid within this Division of the several Hundreds) on or before the second day of May, (deduc∣ting out of the same onely 5 s.) as by us al∣lowed unto you for and towards your pains in collecting and paying in of the same, and in case of refusal or neglect of payment of any of the said parties so taxed of the moneys tax∣ed upon them as aforesaid (after demand made thereof by you or either of you) that then you do certify unto us, or some or one of us, the names of the said persons so refusing or neglec∣ting,* 1.3 with all convenient speed, to the end that such farther proceeding may be had thereupon as to Justice doth appertain. Given under our hands and seals at, &c.

A Warrant for not paying the same.

To the Constable and Borsholders of the Hundred of A. in the said County, and to every of them.

Kent ss. FOrasmuch as complaint hath been made unto us by R. T. &c. (by us appointed collectors and gatherers of the moneys imposed upon the said Hundred for and towards the reparations of the several Bridges of D. in the said County) that the se∣veral persons (whose names are here under written) have refused to pay unto them the several summs of money adjoyned to their se∣veral names (being taxed upon them for the purpose aforesaid) although the same have been duly demanded of them: These are therefore (in His Majestie's name) to command you, that you, some or one of you, do cause the said several persons to come before us, or one of us, or some other Justice of the Peace of the said County to answer the premisses, and far∣ther to doe and receive as to Justice doth ap∣pertain, unless they shall forthwith pay the said moneys unto you, some or one of you, which if they shall so doe, that then you (so recei∣ving the same) do forthwith pay the said mo∣neys so received unto the said R. T. &c. or one of them, to the end that the same may be by* 1.4 them paid over to the general Receiver of the moneys raised for the purpose aforesaid by us formerly appointed. Hereof fail not at your perils. Given under our hands and seals at, &c.

A. B. C. D. E. F. &c.

Notes

• * 1.1

  In allusion to the Sta∣tute of 22 Hen. 8. cap. 5. I conceive it fit to have 4. Iu∣stices, whereof 1 of the Quor.
• * 1.2

  In allusion to the Sta∣tute of 22 H. 8. cap. 5. I conceive it fit to have 4 Iu∣stices whereof one of the Quo∣rum.
• * 1.3

  When mo∣neys recei∣ved as much as you can get.
• * 1.4

  As afore∣said.