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Justices in quartersessions to insert in rolls all such fines, &c. as have not been levied or accounted for by the sheriff, &c. or have not been discharged.
Sheriff, &c. to keep writs and rolls in his possession, which shall continue in force and be authority to act upon.
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[1.] It shall be lawful for the justices assembled at any general or quarter sessions of the peace, and they are hereby authorized and required, at the following or any subsequent general or quarter sessions held after the return of the writ and roll issued from any preceding general or quarter sessions, at the opening of the court, to insert or cause to be inserted in any following roll all such fines, issues, amerciaments, forfeited recognizances, sum or sums of money to be paid in lieu or satisfaction of them or any of them, which have not been duly levied or recovered or properly accounted for by the sheriff, bailiff, or other officer, or have not been discharged on appeal before the general or quarter sessions, or by sign manual, warrant, or authority of the Treasury, and so to continue such process from sessions to sessions, till it shall be duly ascertained, to the satisfaction of the Treasury, that the party in default has not any goods or chattels, . . . in the county, division, riding, city, town, or place, on which a levy can be made, nor in any other county, division, riding, city, town, or place in Great Britain, and that he is not to be found, or that his body cannot be lodged in any of his Majesty’s gaols: Provided always, that the said sheriff, bailiff, or other officer, to whom the writ of distringas and capias or fieri facias or other writ deemed necessary by the justices at any such general or quarter sessions to meet the exigency of the case shall be sent by order of the said court, shall keep and detain in his possession the writ or writs so directed to him and the roll or rolls attached to such writ or writs, delivering to the said court of general or quarter sessions a copy of such roll or rolls on the first day of the sitting of the said court, and, also a copy of any former roll or rolls where the fines, issues, amerciaments, forfeited recognizances, sum or sums of money paid or to be paid in lieu or satisfaction of them, or any of them, shall not have been delivered; and such original writ and roll or writs and rolls shall continue in force and effect, and shall be sufficient authority, without any further writ or roll; . . . the officer or officers entrusted with the execution of the process in any county, division, riding, city, town, or place, being first duly and diligently examined on oath by the court, at the delivery of the roll on the first day of each general or quarter sessions, and in case such examination should not then take place, then on the subsequent day; and every such examination shall be duly recorded by the clerk of the peace or town clerk or other proper officer, in order that such sheriff, bailiff, or other officer may be chargeable with all sums not satisfactorily accounted for on the final passing of his accounts.
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