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And Delivers the following Message viz:

By the Upper House of Assembly
May the 29^th 1719.
Gent.

On reading the Supplementary bill to the Act for Appoint-
ment of Constables and what relates to their office and Ascer-
taining what persons are Taxables this house Proposes the
following Amendments to be made viz. And the better to
Enable the Sherriffs of the Severall Countys to return Copys

L. H. J.

of the Lists of Taxables in Each County as aforesaid the Sev-
erall Constables of the Severall and respective hundreds in the
Severall Countys are hereby required to send a Copy of their
Lists of taxables to the Sherriff of their County at or before
the first day of August after the takeing of such List.
And whereas it is found by Experience that there are many
single Persons who are freemen within this Province who
have not any setled place of Residence but make their abode at
such places where they are Employed and such Employers
refuse to give them in as taxables they not being Constant
residents in their families, by which means they frequently
Escape paying any tax at all,
Be it Enacted by the Authority advice and consent aforesaid
That it shall and may be Lawfull for any Constable of any
hundred in any of the Counties within this Province upon
finding any Such Single person or freeman in their respective
hundred, who cannot procure some housekeeper within such
hundred to give him in as a Taxable nor make appear that he is
a resident or taken as a taxable in some Other hundred or
County to carry such person or freeman before the next
Justice of the Peace for such County who is hereby Irnpowered
and required to Comitt such person or freeman into the Sher-
riffs Custody untill he shall procure some housekeeper to
return him as a Taxable and be Answerable for his Levy with

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which if your house concurrs the bill will Pass.
Signed p Order John Beard Cl: Up: House.

Esq^r Lowe from the Upper House delivers M^r Speaker
the Supplementary bill to the Act relating to Jurors Thus
Endorst viz:

By the Upper House of Assembly
May the 29^th 1719

Read the first and second times by Especial order and will
pass.
Signed p Order John Beard Cl: Up: House.

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