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of the Rates and Sums of Money by this Act imposed; and shall
also then and there make an Entry in a Book, to be kept by them
for that Purpose, of the Time and Place appointed for the said
Election; and shall, as soon as conveniently may be after the said
Appointment, give Notice to the Inhabitants of their respective
Counties of the Time and Place appointed for the said Election, by
causing Notes thereof to be set up at the said Court-House, and at all
Churches, Chappels, and other Public Places, in the said County,
in which Notes shall be expressed of what Hundred or Hundreds
each District or Division does consist. And the said Commissioners,
or the major Part of them, are hereby authorized and required, at
the Time appointed for the said Election, to meet at the Court-House
of their respective Counties, and then and there take the Votes of
such of the Freemen of their said respective Counties, who have
within the said County a Freehold of Fifty Acres of Land, or have
a visible Estate of Forty Pounds Sterling at the least, as shall be
then present, for Two Freeholders and Inhabitants of each respective
District or Division (not being a Member or Members of either
House of Assembly of this Province, or Person or Persons practising
Law or Physic): And such Persons who shall be chosen for each
District or Division, by the Majority of Votes, shall be and are
hereby declared to be Assessors of the Rates and Sums of Money
by this Act imposed, whether such Persons be present or absent.
And that after such Election, the said Commissioners shall enter
in the Books, to be kept by them as aforesaid, the Names of the
Persons chosen Assessors for each District or Division within their
respective Counties.
LXVII. And it is hereby further Enacted, That the said Commis-
sioners, or any Two of them, shall be Judges of the said Election,
and shall have the like Power and Authority to carry on the same,
as the respective Sheriffs of this Province have by Law, to carry
on an Election of Delegates to serve in the General Assembly thereof,
and are hereby authorized to administer any Oath or Oaths, Affirma-
tion or Affirmations, that may lawfuly be required of any Elector
of a Delegate to serve in the General Assembly of this Province,
before they admit such Person or Persons to vote for an Assessor or
Assessors.
LXVIII. And it is hereby further Enacted, That the said Com-
missioners shall immediately after the Election of the said Assessors,
appoint and prefix a certain Day and Place for the said Assessors
to appear before them, not exceeding Ten Days after their said
Election, of which Day Notice shall be given by the said Commis-
sioners to each Assessor within Five Days after such Election; and
at such their Appearance, the said Commissioners, or any Two of
them, shall openly read or cause to be read, the several Rates and
Assessments in this Act mentioned, and openly declare to them how
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