|
|
Printed
Pamphlet.
Md.Hist.Soc.
|
LXIX. And be it further Enacted, That every single Man, whose
Personal Estate is not valued at One Hundred Pounds, shall be
assessed the Sum of Five Shillings in Bills of Credit, in Lieu of all
Assessments to be made on his said Personal Estate in Virtue of this
Act. Provided always, and it is hereby Enacted, That the said
Assessors shall not assess any Man that has Two or more Children,
whose Real and Personal Estate, at the Time of taking the said
Assessment, shall not be worth Fifty Pounds, or any Man having
less than Two Children, whose Real and Personal Estate at the Time
of taking the said Assessment, shall not be worth Forty Pounds, or
any single Man, who, at the Time of their Assessment, is under the
Age of Twenty-one Years, or hath not been out of his Servitude or
Apprenticeship Six Months, whose Real and Personal Estate shall
not be worth Twenty Pounds at the Time of taking the said Assess-
ment, or any Person receiving a charitable Bounty or Allowance in
the Public or any County Levy in this Province.
LXX. And be it further Enacted, That if any Assessor, elected
or appointed by Virtue of this Act, shall make Default at the Time
appointed for his Appearance, or on his Appearance shall refuse to
serve, not having a lawful Excuse, to be proved by the Oath of One
credible Witness, or shall neglect to return Certificates of his said
Assessment to the Commissioners aforesaid, at the Time and Place
prefixed, shall, for every such Neglect, Refusal or Default, forfeit
the Sum of Twenty Pounds Current Money, to be recovered and ap-
plied as herein after directed. And the said Commissioners, or any
Two of them, are hereby authorized and impowered, by Warrant un-
der their Hands and Seals, to appoint One or more Assessor or Assess-
ors, in the Room of the Assessor or Assessors so refusing or making
Default. And if any Assessor or Assessors, so as aforesaid elected or
appointed, shall happen to die before he or they shall have fully com-
pleated his or their Assessment, the said Commissioners, or any
Two of them, are hereby authorized and impowered, by Warrant
under their Hands and Seals, to appoint One or more Assessor or
Assessors, in the Room of the said Assessor or Assessors so dying.
And every Assesor, so as aforesaid elected or appointed, shall, before
he takes upon him the Execution of the said Employment, take an
Oath, or if a Quaker his solemn Affirmation, to the Effect thereof,
to be administered in these Words following: You shall swear well
and truly to execute the Duty of an Assessor, and to cause the Rates
and Duties imposed by an Act, entituled, An Act for Granting a
Supply of Twenty Thousand Pounds for his Majesty's Service, and
the more immediate Defence and Security of the Frontier In-
habitants of this Province; and Emitting Ten Thousand Pounds
thereof in Bills of Credit; and Raising a Fund for Sinking and
Replacing the Whole, by an equal Assessment on all Estates, Real
and Personal, and Lucrative Offices and Employments, to be duly
|
|
