Whereas it hath been represented to the Legislature that a judgment of fourteen pounds damages hath been obtained by the executors of John Lawrence, deceased, against Joshua Purdy, as one of the late Church Wardens of the late Parish of Rye, in the County of Westchester, for monies in arrear to their late testator for keeping and supporting a pauper committed to his care by the said Joshua Purdy, together with the Costs of suit, and that other monies are in arrears from the late parish of Rye to other persons ; Therefore ;

Be it Exacted by the People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, That it shall and may be lawful for the Supervisors of the said County of Westchester, or the major part of

' II. Bradford's Lawa, 211 ; I. Liv. * Sniitli, 146.

them, and they are hereby required at their next annual meeting to examine into, and ascertain the amount of the monies so recovered as aforesaid, as also the costs of defending the said suit, and to ascertain also the amount of other monies so due from the late Parish of Rye as aforesaid, and to cause the said monies, and also such other sum or sums of money as they shall find to be so due, together with one shilling in the pound for collections, and three pence in the pound for the fees of the County Treasurer for receiving and i)aying the same, to be levied on and raised from the Towns which constitute the said late Parish of Rye, in the same manner as the contingent charges of the said County are usually raised ; which monies when so raised, shall be paid by the Collectors respectively, to the Treasurer of the said County on or before the first Tuesday of February in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, who shall pay the same after deducting his fees, to the persons to whom the monies are due: and if any Collector shall refuse or neglect to perform the duty required of him by this act, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty pounds to the Treasurer of the said County to be recovered with costs in any Court having cognizance thereof by an Action of debt in the name of the Treasurer of the said County for the time being, and to be disposed of for the use of the same County in such manner, and for such purposes as the Supervisors of the said County, or the Major part of them shall think proper and direct.'^