512 Assembly Proceedings, Feb. 23-May 22, 1756.

Liber H. S.
No. I

vincial Records shall be as good Evidence in Law, to maintain an
Action of Debt for the Breach of the Condition thereof, to all Intents
and Purposes, as if the said Bond or Bonds were actually produced
and proved in Court. And in Case the Sufficiency of such Securities
shall at any Time afterward be disapproved by the Justices of the

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Provincial Court, in Court fitting, the said Receivers or Collectors
shall be obliged to enter into new Bond in Manner and Form afore-
said, with such Sureties as the said Provincial Court shall approve;
and all and every of which said Bonds shall be put in Suit by the
Order of the Commissioners of the Loan-Office, for the Time being,
as often as any Breach shall be made thereof.
And be it further Enacted, That no Manors or Lands, laid out

[Manor
Lands not
exempted.]

for, or which are or shall be hereafter leased out by the Right Hon-
ourable the Lord Proprietary of this Province, shall be exempted
from the said Tax, but that they and every of them shall be liable
to the Payment of the said Tax, and all and every of the respective
Tenants who shall hold by Lease, or Demise, any Part or Parcel of
the said Manors, or leased Lands, shall and are hereby authorized
and obliged to pay, by even and equal Portions, on Michaelmas and
Lady-Day aforesaid, the Sum of Twelve Pence, to the Receiver or
Collector of the respective County where such Manors or leased
Lands lay, for every Hundred Acres, and so in Proportion, for
any greater or less Quantity of Land that shall be leased or demised
to the said Tenants; and in Default of Payment of the said Tax on
the Days aforesaid, the said Receiver or Collector is hereby impow-
ered and required to make and levy the same, in Manner herein
before directed, for Recovery of the Land-Tax before imposed; and
all and every such Tenants shall, and may, by Authority of this Act,
retain out of the annual Rent reserved on such Lease or Demise, such
Sums of Money, so paid by such Tenants, as such Tax shall amount
to, and his Lordship's Agent, or Receiver-General, or all and every
Person or Persons who are, or shall be, any Way impowered to
receive or collect the said Rents, or annual Payments, reserved on
such leased or demised Lands, for the Use of the Lord Proprietary,
are hereby required to allow the said Tax, so paid by each respective
Tenant, to be deducted out of such Sum or Sums of Money, as shall
be due and payable by each respective Tenant, for such Rents, or
annual Payments, reserved or chargeable by such Lease or Demise.

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[Receivers
to apply to
the Agent
for Account
of the
Manors.]

And be it further Enacted, That the several Receivers or Col-
lectors of the Land-Tax aforesaid, impowered by this Act to collect
the Tax aforesaid, shall, and they, and every of them, are hereby
required and directed to apply to his Lordship's Agent, or Receiver-
General, for the Time being, for an Account of the whole Quantity
of Acres of all Manors laid out, and Lands leased out for his Lord-
ship's own private Use, and what Parts thereof are leased out, and to
whom. And the said Receivers or Collectors shall, and they are