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A45984 An act for the more easy, and speedy securing, and recovery of small debts Ireland. 1697 (1697) Wing I317; ESTC R39289 9,074 19

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AN ACT For the more EASY AND Speedy Securing AND RECOVERY OF SMALL DEBTS DVBLIN Printed by Andrew Crook Printer to the King 's Most Excellent Majesty on Cork-Hill near Copper-Alley MDCXCVII An ACT for the more Easie and Speedy Securing and Recovery of Small Debts CHAP. LX. VVHEREAS nothing would conduce more to the Advancement of Trade Commerce and Industry in this Kingdom then that an Easie and Summary way for the Recovery and Securing of Small Debts might be found whereby an Vniversal Credit might be Established among the Trading people of this Realm without the necessity of Tedious and Costly Sutes of Law May it therefore please your Majesty that it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the King 's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by Authority of the same That in every County and every County of a City and County of a Town in this Kingdom of Ireland some person before the First Day of February in this present year of Our Lord One thousand Six hundred Ninety seaven be appointed by His Majesty or by the Lord Lieutenant Lord Deputy Lord Iustice or Lords Iustices or other Chief Governour or Governours of this Kingdom for the time being to be Register in each County or County of a City or County of a Town which said person so Appointed shall be a Resident or Inhabitant for the most part in such County respectively wherein he shall be as herein-after Employed and shall enter into Recognizance of Five hundred pounds Sterling before some one of the Iudges of either Bench or Barons of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer or before the Iustices of the Peace at the next Quarter Sessions to be holden for the said County for the due Execution of his Office Which said Recognizance shall be Filed of Record in His Majesty's Court of Exchequer in this Kingdom some time before the last Day of the Ensuing Term after such Recognizance shall be acknowledged And that every such Register of any such County as aforesaid shall and may by the Authority of this Act have Power to Appoint One or more Deputy or Deputies to Officiate under him in such County respectively And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every such Register and Deputy or Deputies before he or they shall take upon him or them respectively the Execution of the said Office shall take the following Oath before some One or more of the Iustices of the Peace of the said County or County of a City or County of a Town or before the Chief Magistrate of such Town or Corporation or his Deputy where such Register shall keép his Office viz. I A. B. do Swear that I will according to the best of my Skill and Cunning duly and faithfully execute the Office of Register or Deputy Register in this County according to an Act of Parliament Intituled An Act for the more Easy and Speédy Securing and Recovery of Small Debts and that I will not Directly nor Indirectly demand take or receive any manner of Fee Reward or Gratuity by reason or Colour of my Office other then such Fees as are allowed by the said Act. So help me God And shall then likewise take the Oaths and Subscribe the Declaration mentioned and contained in an Act of Parliament made in England in the Third Year of the Reign of His present Majesty and the late Queén Mary Intituled An Act for the Abrogating the Oath of Supremacy in Ireland and Appointing other Oaths Which said Oath of Office and other Oaths and Declaration the said Iustice or Iustices of the Peace or other Chief Magistrate of such Town or Corporation or his Deputy are hereby Authorized Impowered and Required to Administer And further that every such Register Deputy or Deputies aforesaid upon the Pain Penalty and Forfeiture of his or their respective Office or Offices shall take the aforesaid Oath of Office and the aforesaid Oaths and Subscribe the Declaration at the next Quarter-Sessions or the next Assizes to be holden for the said County or County of a City or County of a Town which shall first happen in Open Court betweén the Hours of Nine and Twelve in the Morning which said Oaths respectively and Declaration the said Iudges of Assize or Iustices of the Peace at their respective Sessions are hereby Authorized Impowered and Required to Administer And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the said First day of February next every person and persons having any Bond or Bill under Hand and Seal for any Summ or Summs of Money not exceéding Ten pounds principal Money which said Bond or Bill being acknowledged before any person who is a Iustice of the Peace in this Kingdom or before the Chief Magistrate of any Town Corporate and such Iustice of the Peace or Chief Magistrate or his Deputy Certifying such Acknowledgment which acknowledgment every Iustice of the Peace of this Kingdom and every Chief Magistrate of any Town Corporate or his Deputy are by the Authority of this Act Impowered and Required to take and Certificate under their respective Hands and Seals to make and deliver to the party and parties interested in such Bond or Bonds Bill or Bills which Certificate and Bond or Bill being brought to the Register or his Deputy of such County County of a City or County of a Town wherein such person is a Iustice of the Peace or Chief Magistrate of a Town Corporate or his Deputy such Register or his Deputy or Deputies or one of them shall in a Book to be Kept for that purpose make an Entry of the said Bond or Bill and Acknowledgment at large as also the Receipts and Transfers thereon endorsed if any be and from and after such Entry the person or persons who perfected the same his and their Goods and Chattles personal shall be thereby bound and Liable to the said Debt and Interest from the day of Payment in like manner as if the same had beén a Iudgment at Law And to the end there may be no Mistakes or Controversies for or concerning the said Bonds or Bills in relation to the Wording thereof Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all such Bonds or Bills as shall be Registered in pursuance of this Act shall be Printed and Stamped with His Majesty's Arms and be in the Form following That is to say KNOW all men by these presents that _____ of _____ in the County of _____ do Acknowledge my self to stand justly Indebted unto _____ of _____ in the County of _____ in the Full and Just Summ of _____ pounds Sterling to be paid to the said _____ His Executors Administrators or Assigns at or before the _____ day of _____ to the which payment I Bind my self my Heirs Executors and Administrators and in default of Payment thereof I do consent that Execution shall Issue against my