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THE STATUTES OF WALES
[A.D. 1649

to be a Committee for the putting in execution all and every the Ordinances of Sequestrations of Delinquents and Papists estates, according to the true intent and meaning of this Act and of the said several Ordinances; which said Committee, or any three or more of them are hereby authorized and required to Sequester or cause to be Sequestered the estates Real and Personal of all and every person and persons (being Delinquents or Papists) within the said several Counties and Island, whose estates by the true meaning of this Act ought to be sequestred and unto whom the benefit of this Act is not extended; And the said estates so sequestered to dispose of as by the several Ordinances or Orders of Parliament in that behalf is required; observing in the execution of the premises such further Orders and Directions as they shall from time to time receive from the Committee of Goldsmith's Hall. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that the said Commissioners or any five of them shall have and hereby have full power and authority to hear and examine Complaints as well touching the inequality of Assessments of former and future Taxes levied or to be levied in the said respective Counties, or any of them for the Service of the Parliament as also touching allowance to be made by Landlords to their Tenants in respect of Taxes and to order such relief therein as shall be agreeable to Equity and Justice, and to the true intent and meaning of the several Ordinances of Parliament in that behalf made: And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Commissioners or any five of them in the said respective Counties shall have power and are hereby authorized to collect and receive of the persons that are to have benefit by this Act so much money as shall defray the necessary charge of prosecuting this service: Provided that the same exceed not the sum of One hundred pounds in each County: And that no one Commissioner be allowed for his charges in attending the said Service above the rate of five shillings per diem for every day that he shall be actually employed in the said service: And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all former Suspensions of Sequestrations made by Sir Thomas Middleton by virtue of an Ordinance of Parliament authorising him so to do, or made by any other person or persons imployed in the service of the Parliament in the said Counties not authorized thereunto by any Act, Ordinance or Order of Parliament be from henceforth void and of none effect. And be it further Declared and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid,