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recovery of the Rates by a Summary

Warrant

of Distress to be issued out of the Court of Summay jurisdiction. without previous notice to the alleged Defaulber

and obtainable by the Colonial Greasures

"ex parte " upon an affidavit of the now

payment of the Rates after notice.

It is evident from the Official

Correspondence

on the

time

of

the

passing of

until recently

that this clause

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subject

that at the

the Ordinance and

impression prevailed

gave a right of Distress

rent at Common Law and that

was

although the name of the Defaulter on

noh ascertained the warrant of Distreas

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might be directed against the "Tenement "

and that the

goods

and chattels therein