Acts. 513

hereby directed, after having received from all and every the Tenants
of the said Manors, and leased Lands, their several and respective
Parts of the said Tax, to make out and lay before the said Agent,
or Receiver-General, a full and exact Account of all such Sums of
Money, and by whom, paid, as he shall have received from the said
Tenants, in Virtue of this Act arising due on the said Lands, charg-
ing in the said Account, the whole Amount of the said Tax arising
due on the whole Quantity of Acres, of all such Manors, and leased
Lands; and if it appears on the said Account, that the whole Amount
of the said Tax, as aforesaid, has not been collected and raised from

the several Tenants of the said Manors and leased Lands, that then

his Lordship's Agent, or Receiver-General, for the Time being shall,
and he is hereby required to pay out of any Money which he shall
or may have in his Hands of the Lord Proprietary's, unto the said
several Receivers, or Collectors, such further Sums of Money as
shall appear, by the said Account, to remain unpaid on the said
Manors and leased Lands, and all Monies which the said Receiver or
Collector shall so receive on Account of the said Tax, on the Lord
Proprietary his Manors, he shall account for, in the same Manner
as before directed for Monies received on Account of the Tax on
other Lands.
And be it further Enacted, That if his Lordship's Agent, or

Liber H. S.

No. 1

Receiver-General, or any Person or Persons, who are or shall be any
Way impowered to receive or collect the said Rents or annual Pay-
ments, reserved on such leased or demised Lands, shall distrain for,
molest, or vex, any such Tenant so paying as aforesaid, for any Sum
or Sums of Money, which by the true Intent and Meaning of this
Act, ought to be allowed, or shall refuse, neglect, or delay, to allow
and discharge the same in the proper Accounts, wherein the same
ought to be allowed or discharged, that then, and for every such
Offence, every such Agent or Receiver-General, or Person, as afore-
said, shall forfeit the Sum of Ten Pounds Current Money to the
Party grieved; to be recovered by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or
Information, wherein no Essoin, Protection, or Wager of Law, or
more than one Imparlance, shall be allowed.
And forasmuch as divers Persons do take out Warrants, and

[Distraint
for Rents on
leased
Lands, how
remedied.]

survey great Quantities of vacant Lands, within this Province, and
enter into and occupy the same, and yet nevertheless delay to take
out Patents thereon; and it is thought reasonable that such Persons
should, on this Occasion, pay their proportionable Part of the Tax
herein imposed on real Estates :
Be it therefore hereby Enacted, That each and every Deputy-

[Vacant
Lands.]

p. 244

Surveyors of the several and respective Counties in this Province,
shall make out twice in each Year, to wit, on the twenty-fifth Day of
June and on the twenty-fifth Day of December, two distinct Lists of
all Surveys of vacant Lands which they shall make in their respec-

[Deputy-
Surveyors
to make out
Lists twice
in a Year.]