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in order to the Conviction or Disability of any Person offending
against this Act.
LXXX. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid,
That the said Commissioners shall, on the First Monday after the
End of Thirty Days from the Time of their having delivered to the
said respective Collectors Duplicates of the said Assessment, meet at
their respective County Court-Houses, to hear and determine the
Complaints of such Persons as may think themselves grieved by
being over-rated, and shall sit from Day to Day for the Space of
Ten Days next following, as often as shall be necessary, within the
said Time, for the hearing and determining all Appeals that may be
made to them. And the said Commissioners are hereby directed
to give public and timely Notice of the Day of such their Meeting
to hear and determine such Appeals, by setting up Advertisements
in the most public Places in their respective Counties: And if the
said Commissioners shall not meet or give public Notice as afore-
said, the Commissioner or Commissioners failing therein, shall sever-
ally forfeit and pay the Sum of Twenty Pounds, to be recovered
and applied as herein after directed. And if any Person or Persons,
certified, assessed or rated, for or in respect of any Matter or Thing,
for which, by this Act, he, she or they, is or may be rated or charged,
do apprehend themselves grieved with such assessing or rating, and
do thereof complain to the said Commissioners, the said Commis-
sioners, or any Two of them, shall and may at the Time of their
sitting to hear Appeals as aforesaid, particularly examine any Person
or Persons upon his or their Oath (other that the Party complaining)
touching the Value of his or their Real or Personal Estate, and other
the Matters aforesaid; and upon due Examination or Knowledge
thereof, abate, increase or inlarge the said Assessment : and a Copy
of the same, so abated, increased or inlarged, shall forthwith deliver
or cause to be delivered to the Collector of their respective Counties,
to be collected, levied and paid, as herein directed.
LXXXI. And be it further Enacted, That the Clerks of the several
County Courts within this Province, shall, and they are hereby re-
quired, without Fee or Reward, to make out and deliver to the Com-
missioners of their respective Counties, on or before the Day to be
appointed for making the Election of Assessors, fair and exact
Copies of the last Lists of Taxables, returned by the Constables of
the several Hundreds within their said Counties, on Pain of forfeit-
ing Fifty Pounds Current Money, to be recovered and applied as
hereafter directed.
LXXXII. And be it further Enacted, That his Lordship's Agent
or Receiver-General, for the Time being, shall, and he is hereby
required to make out and deliver to the Commissioners of the several
Counties respectively, by this Act appointed, on or before the Day
to be appointed for the Election of Assessors, a fair Account, as
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