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said Money as shall be and remain in their respective Hands so
unexpended in the Purposes aforesaid.
LII. And be it Enacted, That the said Commissioners shall, and
they are hereby authorized and required, upon the Departure of the
said Forces from their Winter-Quarters in any of the Towns afore-
said, to take into their Possession all the Utensils that they or any
of them, may have provided for the Use of the said Forces by the
Direction of this Act, and to deposite them in the Magazines of their
respective Counties, for the Use of the Public.
LIII. And be it further Enacted, That the Commissioners for
Quartering the Soldiers, by this Act nominated and appointed for
each respective Town aforementioned, shall, for their Care and
Trouble in faithfully executing their Trust, retain to themselves
a Commission of Two and an Half per Cent, on all Monies which
they shall receive and expend, according to the Directions of this
Act, and no more.
LIV. And be it further Enacted, That the said Commissioners
shall, at every Session of Assembly to be held for this Province,
next after their Receipts of any Sums of Money for the Purposes
aforesaid, on the Fourth Day thereof, render and deliver to such
Assembly, full, clear and regular Accounts on Oath, or Affirmation
if a Quaker, of all Monies by them received in Virtue of this Act,
and of the Application and Disposition of the same.
LV. And for the repaying and replacing the said Sums of Two
Thousand Pounds, and Five Thousand Nine Hundred and Eighty-
four Pounds Fourteen Shillings, in the Loan-Office, and for drawing
into the said Office the Sum of Twelve Thousand and Fifteen
Pounds Six Shillings, and sinking the Whole; Be it Enacted, by the
Authority, Advice, and Consent aforesaid, That all and every Person
or Persons within this Province respectively, having any Estate in
ready Money, or having any Estate in Goods, Wares, Merchandizes,
or other Chattels, or Personal Estate whatsoever (Debts excepted)
within this Province, belonging to or in Trust for them, shall yield
and pay to the respective Collectors appointed by this Act, the Sum
of One Shilling in the Pound, according to the true yearly Value
thereof for One Year; That is to say, For every One Hundred
Pounds of such ready Money, and for every One Hundred Pounds
Worth of such Goods, Wares, Merchandizes, or other Chattels, or
Personal Estate as aforesaid, as the same would sell for in ready
Money, the Sum of Five Shillings, and so after that Rate for every
greater or lesser Sum or Quantity, to be assessed, levied, and col-
lected, in Manner hereafter mentioned; and that all and every Person
or Persons, and all and every Commissioner and Commissioners
within this Province, having, using or exercising any Public Office,
Benefice, or Employment of Profit, within this Province, and all
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