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levied, collected, answered and paid, in such Manner, by such Ways
and Means, and according to such Rules and Directions, and under
such Penalties and Forfeitures as are in this Act expressed or ap-
pointed, for and concerning the abovementioned Rates and Sums.
Provided nevertheless, That if any such Papist or reputed Papist,
within Forty Days next after the First Meeting of the said Com-
missioners, in the respective Counties where he or they ought to be
taxed or assessed, according to the Intent of this present Act, shall
take the said Oaths, and sign the Oath of Abjuration and the Test,
before any One or more of the said Commissioners (which Oaths
the said Commissioners, or either of them, are impowered to ad-
minister) in that Case he or they shall not be liable to be doubly
assessed as aforesaid.
LXXV. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid,
That every Person being of the Age of Eighteen Years and upwards,
and being in this Province at the Time of the Execution of this
Act, who shall not before that Time have taken the Oaths directed
and appointed to be taken to the Government, and signed the Oath of
Abjuration and the Test now by Law established, and upon Summons
by Warrant under the Hands and Seals of any Two or more of the
said Commissioners, shall refuse to take the said Oaths, and sign the
Oath of Abjuration and the Test as aforesaid, at the Time appointed
in the said Warrant, or shall neglect to appear at such Time before
the Commissioners, in order to take the said Oaths (which the said
Commissioners, or any One or more of them, are hereby impowered
and required to administer) shall yield and pay double the Sums and
Rates, which, by Force and Virtue of any Clause in this Act before-
mentioned and contained, he or she should or ought to pay, or be
charged with, in Manner as is before in this present Act appointed,
touching Papists or reputed Papists.
LXXVI. And be it further Enacted, That any Two or more of
the said Commissioners, appointed by this Act, in the respective
Counties in this Province, upon Information, or upon any Cause of
Suspicion in that Behalf, shall and are hereby required and impowered
to cause every Person suspected (or against whom such Information
shall be given) to be summoned to appear to take the said Oaths, and
sign the Oath of Abjuration and the Test, as aforesaid. Provided
nevertheless, That whereas certain Persons, Dissenters from the
Church of England, commonly called Quakers, and also others,
German Protestant Dissenters, known to be such in this Province,
do scruple the taking of any Oaths; it shall be sufficient for any such
Persons to make and subscribe the like Declaration of Fidelity to his
Majesty as was contained in any Act made in the Parliament, held
in the First Year of the Reign of their late Majesties King William
and Queen Mary, entituled, An Act for exempting their Majesties
Protestant Subjects, Dissenters from the Church of England, from
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