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Inability of the other, are required and hereby impowered to nomi-
nate both the said Persons to determine what shall be an adequate
or reasonable Rent or Allowance by the Month for such Dwelling-
House; and in Case the Two Persons, so as above nominated and
appointed, shall differ or disagree on what shall be a reasonable
Allowance or Rent for such House, then the two Persons, so nomi-
nated and appointed as aforesaid, are hereby required and impow-
ered to nominate one other good and sufficient Person, being a
Freeholder and Inhabitant of the said Town, or residing near thereto,
who shall act as Umpire, and determine wriaf shall be a reasonable
Rent or Allowance per Month for such House; and the Commis-
sioners aforesaid respectively are hereby authorized and impowered
to enter into, occupy and use the said House, for the Purpose afore-
said, and to pay and allow to the said Owner or Possessor the Rent
or Allowance so as above determined and fixed on, for the Use and
Occupation of the said House per the Month, and pro Rato for any
Part of a Month they shall think it necessary to use and occupy the
said House for the Purposes aforesaid.
XLVI. And be it Enacted, That if the Commissioners aforesaid,
or any one of them, in Case of Sickness or other Inability in the
other, shall judge it necessary to have any Repairs made to the
Houses, by them taken up as aforesaid, for the convenient Lodging
the said Regular Forces, then he or they shall require the Owners
or Possessors of the said Houses to make the said Repairs; and in
Case the said Owners or Possessors be Minors, or Non-Residents as
aforesaid, or shall refuse to make the said Repairs, then the said
Commissioners, or any of them, in Case of Sickness or other Inability
in the other, is or are hereby authorized and directed immediately
to employ Workmen to make the said Repairs, by him or them
thought necessary, so that the Value of such Repairs shall not exceed
Two Months Rent or Allowance for the Use and Occupation of the
said Houses; and in Case the said Commissioners and the Owners
or Possessors of such Houses, shall differ and disagree in the Value
of the Repairs, so as aforesaid made by the said Commissioners, or
one of them, in Case of Inability as aforesaid, that then the said
Value shall be settled and determined in the same Manner as the Rent
for such Houses is herein before directed to be determined in Case
of Disagreement between the Owners or Possessors and the Com-
missioners; the Amount of the Value of which said Repairs, the said
Commissioners, or either of them, in Case of Inability as aforesaid in
the other, shall deduct and retain out of the Rent of the Houses,
which they shall so have repaired.
XLVII. And be it Enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any
the Commissioners for the respective Towns aforesaid, to quarter
or provide for any of the Wives, Children, or Maid Servants, of any
Officer or Soldier, at the Expence of this Province.
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