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Art. 8. Every letter so described as aforesaid
and in the usual manner put into the Post
(to wit either into the General or the Penury Post
according to the limits) shall be primâ facie
be presumed to have been duly received: and that
as well by the proper Post Master as by the proper Minister
and Overseer of the Poor as aforesaid.
Art. 9 Such presumption shall moreover be
conclusive: unless any person by whom such letter
ought to have been received shall at or before
the time when in the ordinary course of law
proof of such delivery have the laws ought to have been be made, have made proof
of the contrary by Oath of Non-receipt, whereto may be according conceived formed according to the
to the form marked [ ] ofthe nature of the case.
Art. 10. Such Oath of non-receipt may be taken as
at the hearing or in the way of affidavit, made before any Justice of the
Peace and transmitted forwarded read at the time of such hearing as
aforesaid: provided that if such affidavit should
not be satisfactory to the Court, the said Court may
at the instance of the party interested either frame
a full and proper another affidavit proper and sufficient for the
purpose to be taken by the deponent according to the nature of the case, or appoint
a further time for taking the his examination of the deponent
vivâ voce: postponing a judgment accordingly
or
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