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And It Is Hereby Further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid,
That it shall and may be lawful, to and for the Vestry or Vestries,
and they are hereby impowered and directed to proceed to the Choice
and Election of some other Person or Persons to be Vestryman or
Vestrymen, in the Place or Stead of such Person or Persons so chosen
Vestryman or Vestrymen, and refusing or neglecting as aforesaid ;
and the former Choice of such Person or Persons as Vestryman or
Vestrymen refusing or neglecting, shall be Void and of no Effect.
And Whereas, by the aforesaid recited Act, no Method of Prose-
cution is directed for the Recovery of the Fines and Penalties by the
said Act imposed on a Vestryman or Vestrymen, Churchwarden or
Churchwardens, Register or Registers, and every Person refusing
or neglecting to register any Birth, Marriage, or Burial.
Be It Therefore Hereby Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That
the Fines and Penalties in the aforesaid recited Act mentioned to be
imposed on a Vestryman or Vestrymen, Register or Registers, or any
other Person refusing or neglecting to register any Birth, Marriage,-
or Burial, shall and may be recovered before any One Justice of the
Peace for the said County where such Offence shall be committed; and
one Moiety thereof applied towards defraying the Charge of the
Parish where the Offence shall be committed, and the other Moiety to
him, her, or them that shall inform of the same.
And It Is Hereby Further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid,
That the Fine or Fines, by this Act imposed on the Vestryman so
refusing or neglecting as aforesaid, and on the Register as aforesaid,
and by the aforesaid recited Act on the Churchwardens, shall and
may be sued for, and recovered in his Lordship the Lord Proprietary's
Name, by Information, in the Court of the County where such Offence
shall be committed, wherein no Essoin, Protection, or Wager of
Law shall be allowed. The same Fine or Fines to be for the Use of
the Parish in which the said Offence or Offences shall be committed ;
and every and each acting Vestryman or Register is herebv required
to make Information to the next County Court, after such Neglect
or Refusal of the Vestryman or Vestrymen elected as aforesaid, or
Neglect or Refusal of the said Register as aforesaid, in Order for the
Recovery of the Fine or Fines imposed by this Act. And the Jus-
tices of the said County Court so informed, shall and may, and are
hereby directed and authorized to order a Prosecution in the Manner
aforesaid, to be had against such Vestryman or Vestrymen, Register
or Registers, Churchwarden or Churchwardens, refusing or neglect-
ing as aforesaid.
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