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$1^ e.g. Anno quarto Goiielmi & Mari^. A. D. 169a, the Peacc^ of fuch Peffon or Perfons being fo killed, which Certificate the faid Judge or Juftices, upon fufficient Proof before them made, are immediately required to give without Fee or Reward) (liall receive the Sum of forty Pounds from the Sheriff or Sheriffs of the County where the faid Fa6t was done and com»- mittcd, and upon Failure of Payment thereof by the faid Sheriff or Sheriff's, double the faid Sum of forty Pounds to be recovered againft him or them with treble Cofl:s of Suit, in Manner and Form as afore- said. ^Sheriffs fliall IV. And it is hereby further enaftedj That aH Sheriffs, Their Executors^ or Adminiflrators, up6n beailnweuit producing fuch refpeiSlive Certificates, and the Receipt; for the Money by them paid in purfuance of thb' ^ixaaT ^'^' ^^ '^'"' ^® allowed, and are hereby impowered to dedud, upon their accounting with their Majeflies, their Heirs, and Succefiors, all Monies .(other than the double Sum and Sums of Moneys and Cofts of Suit) which they fhaH difburfe aa aforefaid, without any Fee or Reward whatfoever. ^l"'^ faffi ^ • Provided aKvays, That if, upon the Account of any Sheriff or Sheriffs, there fliall not be Monies cient'^to"be're- fufficient ih the Hands of fuch Sheriff' or Sheriffs to reimburfe him or them fuch Monies paid by him or paid bytheTrea- them by virtue of this AiSl, that then the Sheriff or Sheriffs, hiving fo paid the faid Monies, fliall have Ary. See aifo the fame repaid by the Lord Treafurer or Commiffioncrs of their Majefties Treafury for the Time being, gCeo. I. G. 15. out of the Revenue of the Crown, upon Certificate from the Clerk of the Pipe to that Effeft. Kijliwayman's ^^- ■^"'^ '"^ '^ hereby further enailed, that all ^nd every Ferfon or Perfons who fliall fo take, apprehend, Ho°ri"e, &c. given profecute, or cortvift fuch Robber or Robbers as aforefaid, as a further Reward, fliall have and enjoy to 10 the Appre- his and their proper Ufe and Behoof the Horfcj Furniture, and Arms, Money, or other Goods of the bender. .fajd Robber or Robbers that fliall be taken with him or them ; any their Majeflies Right or Title, Bodiek Politick or Corporate, or -the Right or Title thereunto of the Lord of any Manor, Liberty, or Franchife, or of him of them lending or letdng the fame to hire -to any fuch Robber or Robbers, in any wife notwfth- ftanding. Provided always, That this Claufe, or any Thing therein contained, fliall not be conftrued to -extend to take away the-R:ght of any Perfon or Perfons to fuch Horfes, Furniture and Arms, Money, or other Goods, from whom the fame were befote felonioufly taken. Perfon boncern- VIE And be it further enafled, That if any Perfon or Perfons, being out of Prifon fliall, from and af- t^ot"-""^- ter the faid five and twentieth Day of ilfflrrA, commit any Robbery, and afterwards 'diicover two or more iiontd. " ^"' Perfon or Perfons, who already hath or hereafter fhall commit any Robbery, fo as two or more of the Per- fon or Perfons difcovered fhall be convidted of fuch Robbery, any fuch Difcoverer Ihall himfelf have, aivi: •is hereby intitled to, the gracious Pardon of their Majefties, their Heirs and Succeffors, for all Robberiesi- which he or they fliall have committed at aay Time or Times before fuch Difcovery made; which Pardon .ihall be likewife a good.Barto any Appeal "brought for any fuch Robbery. C A P. IX. ,jftn Aft For revivlr}g.two forrrier A€i:s of Parliament, for the fepairing tlie HtgTiwa,ys in the ■Counr.^ 'O^ Hirtford. -t5t:2M. c. 1. * TT/HEREAS there was an ASt of Paf-liamerit made'in'the fifteenth Y-ear-of the Reign of our l<tte ' W Sovereign Lord King Charles the Second, intituled, Jn ASi for repairing the Highivnys within the

  • ■ Counties 0/ Heidord, Cambridge, <7«(^ Pluntingdon, to be in Force for tiie-Space of eleven' Years from

' the Commencement thereof : And whereas there was afterwards one' other Aft' of Parliament made in t5&i7Car.2. ' the fixt«ehth and feventeenth Years of the Reign of the faid late King Charles the Second, intituled. An ' J^ for Continuance of a former A£i, for repairing the Highivays zvithin the County of Hertford, both which

  • faid A<Sts -are feme Yeairs paft expired^ and the Highways within the faid County of Hertford^ intended
  • by the faid A£i:s tot)e ref aired^ are fttice (by great Burthens and Carriages ufed to pafs through the fame)
  • become dangerous and impaflible:' To the End therefore that the faid Highways within the County of

kued'by rGe'o. Hertford (being the great Roads to the North Parts of this Kingdom) may be fufHciently repaired and amended by the Provifions mentioned in the faid AkSIis, the fame being not to be done by the ordinary Couffe of the Ltiws and Statutes of this Realm, may it pleafe your Majelfies that it may be enabled : Toll at Wad^s IL And be it enafteil by the King's and Queen's moft excellent Majefties, by and with the Advice and MjII revived for .'Confent of thfe Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this prefent Parliament aflembled, J 5 Y-cars. That the Toll mentioned ki the faid Afts to be taken at JVades Mill for the County of Hertford he revived, -fet up, and taken *gain, in-the manner by the fjtid A<£ts mentioned, to continue tor the Space of fifteen ■ Years from the paffing of this Aft, andthat the Monies thereby arifing b; employed for the Repair of tlie : 'fiUd Highways within the faid Gsunty of Hertford^, according to the Tenor of the faid Afts. T 11 he t* ^^^' i^rovided always, That if the faid Highv/ays before the Expiration of the faid Term of fifteen c^i'e.* Years be in good and fufficient Repair, and an Adjudication thereof be made at the AfTize or General Quar- : .ter-Sefnons to be holden for the faid County (as is provided by the faid Statutes of the fixteenth and-fevtn- ' j6 & 17 Car. 2,-.'teenth Years of King Charles the Second) the Toll fhal-1 from thenceforth ceale and determine, as in the ' c. 10. faid Aft i> direfted and appointed. •iofflcrrs and IV. Afi^l it is hereby further enafted anS declared by the Authority aforefaid^, that the feveral Officers and ri (toUefting, as ?n PerffiH-'; impovvered in and by the faid Afts to the Purpofes therein mentioned, fo far as may any ways -co«' ■Iprnier Adls. ^^^^ ^^ relate to the faid County of Hertford, fhall from henceforth have the like Powers and Authorities ■' by virtue of this prefent Aft, as they and every of them had by virtue of the faid fortner Afts ; and that , all Claufcs, ProvJilonS) Penalties, j^Grfeitures, and Exceptiojis vvhatfoever therdn mentioned coneerrrfrtg ' the C. lOi ^Further conti- "ifcued by ( 1. c. ao.