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Bacon
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Copy of the List of Taxables in his County, under his own
Hand, yearly, into the Secretary's Office, by the Twentieth
Day of September, on Pain of One Thousand Pounds of
Tobacco for every Neglect; to be forfeited as aforesaid, to the
Uses aforesaid, to be recovered as aforesaid.
VI. And the better to enable the Sheriffs of the several
Counties to return Copies of the List of Taxables in each
County as aforesaid; Be it Enacted, by the Authority, Advice
and Consent aforesaid, That the several Constables of the
several and respective Hundreds, in the several Counties, are
hereby required to send a Copy of their Lists of Taxables to
the Sheriff of their County, at or before the First Day of
August, after the taking of such List.
VII. And whereas, it is found by Experience, that there
are many single Persons, (who are Free-men,) within this
Province, who have not any settled Place of Residence, but
make their Abode at such Places where they are emploed,
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 lawful for any Constable of any
Hundred, in any of the Counties within this Province, upon
finding any such single Person or Free-man in their respective
Hundreds, who cannot procure some House-keeper 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 Free-men before
the next Justice of the Peace for such County, who is hereby
impowered and required to commit such Person, or Free-man,
into the Sheriff's Custody, until he shall procure some House-
keeper to return him as a Taxable, and be answerable for his
Levy.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act,
Reverdy Ghiselin
Thomas Bacon.
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Chap. XIV
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An Act for the Application of such Intestate's Estates as
leave no legal Representatives ; and for inforcing Proceed-
ings against temerary Administrators.
Whereas it frequently happens that Persons who are pos-
sest of considerable Personal Estates die Intestate, leaving no
known Relations, or Representatives, legally entitled to the
Residue thereof, in which Cases, 'tis observed, some Creditor,
or pretended Creditor of such Deceased, most commonly ob-
tains the Administration of his Goods and Chattels, and there-
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