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Occupiers and Proprietors of such Messuages, Manors, Lands, Tene-
ments, Hereditaments, and other the Premisses, within this Province,
being charged with a Pound-Rate as aforesaid, to abate, deduct, and
to retain and keep in his, her or their Hands, out of every such
Rent or other annual Payment, so much of the said Pound-Rate as
shall be taxed or assessed upon the said Messuages, Manors, Lands,
Tenements, Hereditaments, and Premisses, as a like Pound-Rate
for every such Rent or other annual Payment respectively, shall, by a
just Proportion, amount unto; That is to say, Out of every Twenty
Shillings of such Rent, Annuity, or other annual Payment, the Sum
of One Shilling, and so after that Rate for a greater or lesser
Sum; and all and every Person or Persons, who are or shall be any
Ways entitled to such Rents or annual Payments, their respective
Agents, Receivers, and Deputies, are hereby required to allow such
Deduction and Payments, according to such Rates, or the full Value
thereof, upon the Receipt of the Residue of such Monies or other
Species, in which such Rent as aforesaid, may be reserved or charged,
as shall be due and payable to them for such Rents or annual Pay-
ments reserved or charged as aforesaid.
LVIII. And be it further Enacted, That if the Person or Persons,
who are or shall be entitled to such Rents or other annual Payment,
their respective Agents, Receivers, or Deputies, shall distrain for,
molest or vex, any Proprietor, Owner or Tenant of such Lands or
Tenements aforesaid, for any Sum or Sums of Money, or other
Species, in which Rent may be reserved or charged, which, by the
true Intent and Meaning of this Act, ought to be retained, deducted
and 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 Person as aforesaid, shall forfeit the Sum of Twenty Pounds
Current Money to the Party grieved, to be recovered by Action of
Debt, or on the Case. Provided always, and it is hereby Enacted and
Declared, That the Tenants or Occupiers of any Messuages, Manors,
Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, and other Premisses, within this
Province, who hold the same by Parole Lease only, or as Tenants at
Will, or by Lease in Writing for any Term under Seven Years, shall
not be chargeable with any Pound-Rate for the same, but that the re-
spective Lessors of such Messuages, Manors, Lands, Tenements, and
other Premisses, shall be chargeable with the said Pound-Rate; and
that the same shall be assessed, levied and collected from the respec-
tive Lessors, in the same Manner as it would have been if no such
Lease or Demise had been made.
LIX. And be it further Enacted, That all and every Person or
Persons within this Province, being indebted at the Time he, she, or
they, shall be assessed as aforesaid, by Judgment, Mortgage, Bond,
Bill, Note, Agreement, Book-Debt, or by any other Ways or Means,
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