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Shilling, and so after that Rate for every greater or lesser Sum;
and his said Lordship's Agent or Receiver-General, and all and
every Person or Persons, who are or shall be any Ways impowered
to receive the said Quit-Rent for the Use of the said Lord Proprietary,
are hereby required to allow such Deduction and Payments, according
to such Rates, upon the Receipt of the Residue of such Monies, as
shall be due and payable to them for such Quit-Rent.
LXIII. And it is hereby further Enacted, That it shall and may be
lawful for all and every the respective Tenants, who hold by Lease
or Demise, any Part or Parcel of his said Lordship's Manors or
Lands, within this Province, 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 Rent reserved, so much of the
said Pound-Rate as shall be taxed upon the said Lands, to him or
them respectively demised, as a like Rate for every such Rent re-
spectively shall, by a just Proportion, amount unto; That is to say,
Out of every Twenty Shillings of the said Rent, the Sum of One
Shilling and so after that Rate for every greater or lesser Sum; and
his said Lordship's Receiver-General, and all and every other Person
or Persons, who are or shall be any Ways impowered to receive the
said reserved Rent, for the Use of the said Lord Proprietary, are
hereby required to allow all such Deductions and Payments accord-
ing to such Rates, upon the Receipt of the Residue of such Monies,
as shall be due and payable to them for such reserved Rent.
LXIV. And be it further Enacted, That if his Lordship's Agent
or Receiver-General, or any Person or Persons, who are or shall be
impowered to receive or collect the said Quit-Rents or other annual
Rents reserved on such leased or demised Lands, shall distrain for,
molest or vex, any Proprietor, Owner or Tenant of such Lands or
Tenements as aforesaid, for any Sum or Sums of Money, which, by
the true Intent and Meaning of this Act, ought to be retained, de-
ducted 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 Agent or Receiver-General, or 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, with
full Costs.
LXV. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid,
That for the better assessing, ordering, levying and collecting of the
several Sums of Money, so as aforesaid limited and appointed to be
paid; and for the more effectual putting this Act in Execution, the
following Persons, in and for the several and respective Counties
hereafter named, shall be Commissioners for putting this present
Act in Execution; That is to say,
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