|
|
For enforcing Payment of Rates or Assessments.
|
XXII. And be it further enacted, That if the said Tax, Rate, or Assessment, or any Part thereof, payable by any Body or Person, shall be in arrear and unpaid more than a reasonable Time after the same shall have been demanded by or on the Part of the Commissioners under this Act, it shall and may be lawful for such Commissioners in every such Case to apply to the Court of Chancery or Exchequer in Ireland, by Petition in a summary Way, for Relief in that Behalf; and such Court shall and may, on the Hearing of such Petition, and upon the Production of a Certificate under the Corporate Seal of such Commissioners, of such Tax being in arrear and unpaid as aforesaid, in a summary Way, with or without Reference to any Master or other Officer of said Court, order Process of Sequestration (after hearing such Matters, if any, as may be alleged in answer to such Application, by Affidavit or otherwise, upon a Day to be fixed for that Purpose,) to issue out of said Court, directed to Sequestrators to be named by or on behalf of such Commissioners, authorizing and requiring such Sequestrators forthwith to enter into the Possession of and take and receive the Rents, Issues, and Profits of all and every the Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments of or belonging to any such Body or Person in his or their Ecclesiastical Capacity or Character, and all and every the Tithes, Moduses, Compositions for Tithes, Salaries, Stipends, Fees, and all other Ecclesiastical Emoluments and Profits whatsoever of or belonging to the same respectively, or such Part or Parts thereof as to the said Court shall seem fully sufficient for the Purpose, and to pay over the same to such Commissioners, until they shall have been fully paid and satisfied the said yearly Tax and every Part thereof which shall be then, or which shall at any Time pending such Sequestration, remain or become due and payable, together with lawful Interest for the same from the Time when every such Sum or Sums ought respectively to have been paid, and all Costs and Charges and Expences whatsoever attending such Petition and Sequestration as aforesaid; and it shall and may be lawful for the said Court to proceed against all Persons disobeying or opposing such Process, or in any Manner hindering or preventing the due Execution thereof, and to act in all Matters connected with and consequent upon such Sequestration in the same Manner as in other Cases in which Sequestrations are or shall be issued out of said Court pursuant to the Orders of said Court.
|
