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Fine on sheriff, &c. making default.
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40. It shall and may be lawful to and for the said commissioners from time to time to impose any reasonable fine not exceeding twenty pounds on any sheriff or sheriffs, or their deputy or deputies, bailiffs, or agents respectively, who shall make default in the premises, and on any person or persons who shall be summoned and returned on any jury or juries who shall not appear, and also on any witness or witnesses who shall not attend, or shall refuse to be sworn or to give evidence to the said commissioners, or to any jury so impannelled before them, and on any person or persons summoned and returned on any such jury or juries who shall refuse to be sworn on any such jury or juries, or to give his, her, or their verdict, or shall in any other manner wilfully avoid or neglect his or their duty in or touching the premises; and from time to time to levy such fine or fines by order of the said commissioners, as the case may require, by distress and sale of the offender’s goods, together with the reasonable charges of every such distress and sale, returning the overplus (if any) to the owner; and all such fines which shall be so recovered and received shall be applied to the purposes of such presentment.
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