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and every their Clerks, Agents, Substitutes, Deputies, and other
inferior Ministers whatsoever (hired Clerks who do not act by Com-
mission, in respect of the Wages they receive for their Hire, only
excepted, and such Military Officers who shall be in Pay in his
Majesty's Army, or in the Pay of this Province, in respect of such
Offices only excepted) shall yield and pay unto the respective Col-
lectors aforesaid, the Sum of One Shilling for every Twenty Shill-
ings, or the Value thereof in any Species or Commodities whatever,
which he or they do receive in One Year, by Virtue of any Salaries,
Gratuities, Rewards, Fees, Profits, Perquisites, and Advantages
whatsoever, to him or them accruing, for or by Reason or Occasion
of such their several Offices, Benefices, or Employments; and that
all and every Person or Persons within this Province, having any
Annuity, Pension, Stipend, or other yearly Payment, payable or
secured to be paid by any Person or Persons whatsoever in this
Province (not being or issuing out of any Lands, Tenements, and
Hereditaments, or chargeable upon the same, touching which other
Directions are given by this Act) shall yield and pay unto the
respective Collectors aforesaid, the Sum of One Shilling for every
Twenty Shillings, or the Value thereof in any Species or Com-
modities whatever, which he, she, or they, do receive in One Year,
by Virtue of every such Annuity, Pension, Stipend, or yearly Pay-
ment respectively; the said several Rates and Sums of Money, to be
assessed, imposed, levied and collected, in such Manner as here-
after is mentioned. And that all and every Person or Persons prac-
tising Law or Physic within this Province, and all and every Factor
within this Province, trading or using Commerce within the same,
shall yield and pay unto the respective Collectors aforesaid, the Sum
of One Shilling in the Pound, according to the true yearly Value
of what he or they do receive in One Year, by Virtue of any Re-
wards, Fees, Profits, Commissions, or Advantages whatsoever, to
him or them accruing, for or by Reason or Occasion of such their
several Professions or Factorage for One Year; That is to say, For
every One Hundred Pounds, or the Value thereof of such Rewards.
Fees, Profits, Commissions, or Advantages whatsoever, to him or
them accruing, for or by Reason or Occasion of such their several
Professions or Factorage, the Sum of Five Shillings, and so after
that Rate for every greater or lesser Sum, or the Value thereof, to
be assessed, levied, and collected, in such Manner as hereafter is
mentioned.
LVI. And whereas great Part of the Lands in this Province are
uncultivated, by Reason whereof the same is of no present annual
Value to the Owners and Proprietors thereof, tho' the Fee-Simple
of the same would sell for very considerable Sums of Money, and are
therefore intended by this Act to be charged with a Pound-Rate, in
the same Manner that cultivated and improved Lands are; Be it
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