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therefore Enacted and Declared by the Authority aforesaid, That
all and every the Messuages, Manors, Lands, and Tenements, and
also all Mines of Lead, Copper, Iron, and other Mines, Furnaces,
Forges, and other Iron-Works, Tolls, Annuities, and other yearly
Profits, and all Hereditaments, of what Nature or Kind soever they
be, situate, lying and being within this Province, shall be and are
hereby charged, for One Year only, with the Sum of One Shilling
for every Twenty Shillings of the yearly Value, and so after that
Rate for every greater or lesser Value; and that such yearly Value
shall be settled and ascertained by the Assessors hereafter mentioned,
after the Rate of One Shilling for every Twenty Shillings that the
Fee-Simple of the said Messuages, Manors, Lands, Tenements, and
other the Premisses, would sell for in ready Money; That is to say,
For every One Hundred Pounds that the same would sell for in
ready Money, the Sum of Five Shillings, and so after that Rate for
every greater or lesser Sum; and that all and every such Person or
Persons, having or holding any Messuages, Manors, Lands, Tene-
ments, Hereditaments, or any other the said Premisses, shall yield
any pay to the respective Collectors appointed by this Act, the Sum
of One Shilling for every Twenty Shillings of the yearly Value of
the said Messuages, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, and other
the Premisses, to be settled and ascertained as aforesaid; which said
Sum of One Shilling for every Twenty Shillings of the yearly Value,
to be settled and ascertained as aforesaid, shall be assessed, levied, and
collected, in such Manner as is hereafter mentioned. Provided
always, and it is hereby declared, That nothing herein contained
shall be construed to extend to those unhappy People, who have been,
or hereafter shall be, obliged to desert their Settlements through
Danger from the French, or their Indian Allies, so far as the same
relates to the Rates and Assessments on the Messuages, Lands,
Tenements, or Hereditaments, which have been, or hereafter shall
be, deserted, but that they shall be exempted and discharged from the
Payment of any Rates or Assessments on such Lands, Tenements,
or Hereditaments.
LVII. And whereas many of the Messuages, Manors, Lands,
Tenements, Hereditaments, and Premisses in this Province, intended
by this Act to be charged with the Pound-Rate as aforesaid, stand
incumbered with, and are subject and liable to the Payment of several
Rents, Annuities, or other annual Payments, issuing out of the same,
or to the Payment of Rents thereupon reserved or charged, by
Reason whereof the Owners, Occupiers and Proprietors of such
Messuages, Manors, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, do not
in Truth receive to their own Use the true yearly Value of the same,
for which, nevertheless, they are by this Act chargeable with a
Pound-Rate; It is therefore Enacted and Declared by the Authority
aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Owners,
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