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Rent of watch-houses, &c. charged at vestry on inhabitants by poundage, as valued hereinafter.
recovered by church-wardens as parish rates.
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XXXII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the rent of such watch-houses, and the expences of such fire, candles, watch-cloaks, lanthorns, staves, and pikes, or other necessary articles aforesaid, and all the expences, costs, and charges that shall attend the appointment and continuing a proper watch in each of the said parishes, shall by the said minister, church-wardens, and parishioners of the said several and respective parishes in the said city, and the liberties thereof, at the respective vestries to be held for said parishes as aforesaid, be charged upon and be paid by the respective inhabitants of each of the said parishes, in the said city and liberties thereof, by a proportionable poundage according to the rate at which the several lands, dwelling-houses, out-houses, offices, cellars, stables, and yards in each of the said parishes are to be valued pursuant to this act, as herein after mentioned, and the church-wardens of the said several parishes shall receive and recover from the inhabitants of said parishes, the money so to be appointed by the said vestries in the same manner, and by such remedies, distress or distresses, as parish rates appointed by the vestries of the said respective parishes to be raised and paid, are allowed by law to be recovered.
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