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Manner as they might or ought to be charged by Virtue of this Act,
in Case the same were the Property of any Person or Persons resid-
ing within this Province; and all and every the Assessors, directed to
be chosen or appointed by this Act, shall, and they are hereby required
to inform themselves, by all lawful Ways and Means, of the Names
and Sir-Names of all and every the Factors, Attorneys, Agents,
Store-Keepers or Managers of all and every the said Person or Per-
sons residing without this Province as aforesaid, dwelling or residing
in the District or Division with which they are charged; and shall
proceed to assess all and every such Factor, Attorney, Agent, Store-
Keeper or Manager, for such ready Money, Goods, Wares, Mer-
chandizes, and other personal Estate (Debts excepted) Messuages,
Lands, Tenements, and other the Premisses, as shall be committed
to his Care and Management, in the same Manner and Proportion,
and in all Respects act and do therein, as if the said ready Money,
Goods, Wares, Merchandizes, and other Personal Estate, Messuages,
Lands, Tenements, and other the Premisses, were the Property of
such Factor, Attorney, Agent, Store-Keeper or Manager; and the
several and respective Collectors by this Act appointed, shall, and
they hereby are impowered, to demand, levy and collect, in the Man-
ner herein after directed, of and from every such Factor, Attorney,
Agent, Store-Keeper or Manager, all such Rates and Sums of Money
as shall be assessed thereon.
LXII. And whereas all the Messuages, Manors, Lands, Tene-
ments, Hereditaments, and Premisses, intended by this Act to be
charged with the Pound-Rate as aforesaid, are subject and liable
to the Payment of a Quit-Rent to the Right Honourable the Lord
Proprietary of this Province; and whereas the Manors or Lands laid
out for or reserved, and which are leased out by the Lord Proprietary,
and intended by this Act to be charged with the Pound-Rate, are
subject and liable to the Payment of a Rent or Rents thereupon
reserved, by Reason whereof the respective Tenants and Occupiers of
the said Manors or Lands, 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 the Pound-Rate; It is therefore Enacted
and Declared by the Authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be
lawful to and for the Proprietors and Owners of such Messuages,
Manors, Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, and Premisses, subject
and liable to the Payment of a Quit-Rent as aforesaid, being charged
with a Pound-Rate as aforesaid, to abate and deduct, and to retain
and keep, in his, her or their own Hands, out of every such Quit-
Rent, so much of the said Pound-Rate as shall be taxed or assessed
upon the said Messuages, Manors, Lands, Tenements, Heredita-
ments, and Premisses, as a like Rate for every such Quit-Rent respec-
tively shall, by a just Proportion, amount unto; That is to say, Out
of every Twenty Shillings of the said Quit-Rent, the Sum of One
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