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A.D. 1824]
THE STATUTES OF WALES
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and calculated in the same Manner by the proper Officer, as the Fees and King's Silver now usually payable on Fines and Recoveries levied and suffered in the said Court of Common Pleas, and shall not exceed the same.

26. And whereas Fines can now be levied in the said Courts of Great Sessions within the Dominion of Wales Twice only in the Year, and it is expedient to give to His Majesty's Subjects possessing Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments within Wales, the Power of levying such Fines Four Times in the Year, in like Manner as the Subjects of the Realm of England can now levy the same; be it therefore further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act it shall and may be lawful for the Cursitor of each and every Court of Great Sessions in Wales, to issue any Writ or Writs of Covenants, for the Purpose of levying any Fine or Fines within the Jurisdiction of such Courts respectively, such Writs to be issued and be tested, and bear Date Fourteen Days at least before the First Day of Hilary Term, or Fourteen Days at least before the First Day of Trinity Term in each and every year; and the several Cursitors, and each and every of them, are hereby required so to do as often as applied to for that Purpose, on Payment of the usual Fee or Fees now demandable on any Writ of Covenant; and that all and every Writ or Writs so tested or bearing Date as aforesaid be made returnable on the said First Day of Hilary Term, and the said First Day of Trinity Term respectively, in each and every such Year; and that upon an Acknowledgment of such Fine or Fines by the proper Parties to the same, taken before a Judge of such Court respectively, or by virtue of any Dedimus Potestatem, which the said Cursitor or Cursitors is and are hereby also required to grant, as often as the same be necessary, and on the Allocatur of a Judge of the Court of Great Sessions within whose Jurisdiction the Fine may be so levied, in like Manner in which such Allocatur is given when a Fine is acknowledged on any Dedimus Potestatem, or otherwise during the Sitting of such Courts of Great Sessions, and on a Certificate made on the Back of any such Writ or Writs of Covenant by the proper Officer of such Court, of the actual Payment of King's Silver payable upon every such Fine or Fines, and which Certificate such proper Officer is hereby required to make upon Payment of such King's Silver, at the Costs and Charges of any Person or Persons paying the same, such Fine or Fines shall have full Force and Effect, and be deemed to be fully completed from the said First