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warrant or warrants under tlie liaucl and seal or hands and 

 seals of any such justice or justices, or magistrate or ma- 

 gistrates, (which he and they is and are hereby authorized 

 and empowered to grant,) be levied and recovered, together 

 with the costs of conviction and recovery, to be ascertained 

 as aforesaid, by distress and sale of the goods and effects of 

 such oflFender or offenders, wherever such goods and effects 

 can be found, rendering the overplus of the money arising by 

 such sale, if any, after deducting the reasonable charges of 

 taking, keeping, and selling such goods and effects, to the 

 party or parties whose goods and effects shall be so distrained, 

 and one half of such penalty shall be paid to the informer, 

 and the other half to the said commissioners and overseers ap- 

 pointed by or in virtue of this act, or to such person or persons 

 as shall by them be in that behalf authorized to receive the 

 same, and shall go and be applied and disposed of for and 

 towards the same purposes as the said assessments herein- 

 before authorized to be levied are applicable ; and the over- 

 plus of the money levied remaining (if any there be), after 

 any penalty or penalties, and aU costs, charges, and expences 

 attending the levying and recovering thereof, are deducted 

 (which costs and charges shall always be taxed, settled, and 

 ascertained by and before the justice or justices, magistrate 

 or magistrates, by or before whom any such offender shall 

 be convicted), shall on demand be returned to the owner or 

 owners of the goods and effects so distrained ; and it shall 

 and may be lawful to and for such justice or justices, or ma- 

 gistrate or magistrates, to order the offender or offenders so 

 convicted to be detained in safe custody until return can be 

 conveniently made to such warrant or warrants of distress, 

 unless the said offender or offenders shall give sufficient 

 secui'ity to the satisfaction of such justice or justices, or ma- 

 gistrate or magistrates, for his or their appearance before the 

 said justice or justices, or magistrate or magistrates, on such 

 day or days as shaU be appointed for the return of such 

 warrant or warrants of distress, such day or days not being 

 more than seven days from the time of taking any such se- 



