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Finance committee shall issue warrant to collector for levying the sums to be raised.
Warrant to remain in force for two years;
Houses of less than 5l. annual value not liable.
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99. The finance committee, having duly ascertained the proportion of the county charges to be raised upon each barony, parish or denomination according to such valuation, shall issue their warrant, under the hand and seal of the chairman of the committee, and countersigned by the secretary of the grand jury, to the several collectors, for levying and collecting the sums to be raised off each parish, which warrant shall set forth the amount to be raised off such barony, parish or denomination by virtue of the presentments by the grand jury, with any uncollected arrears of the last warrant, and shall remain in force and effect for the term of two years next after the date thereof, notwithstanding the death, resignation, or removal of the person to whom it was addressed; and shall authorize any collector for the time being to execute the same, unless the sums required by such warrant to be levied shall have been received, or unless the grand jury shall have re-presented the same; . . . [1]
: Provided always, that no house . . . shall be liable to county cess, the yearly value of which shall not be at the least five pounds.
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