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Premisses, within this Province, who hold the same by Parole Lease
only, or as Tenants at Will, or by Lease in Writing for any Term
under Seven Years, shall not be chargeable with any Pound-Rate for,
the same, but that the respective Lessors of such Messuages, Manors,
Lands, Tenements, and other the Premisses, shall be chargeable with
the said Pound-Rate; and that the same shall be assessed, levied and
collected from the respective Lessors, in the same Manner as it would
have been if no such Lease or Demise had been made.
L. And be it further Enacted, That all and every Person or
Persons within this Province, being indebted at the Time he, she,
or they, shall be assessed as aforesaid, by Judgment, Mortgage,
Bond, Bill, Note, Agreement, Book-Debt, or by any other Ways or
Means, in any Sum or Sums of Money or Tobacco, or any Com-
modity whatever, and their Heirs, Executors, and Administrators,
shall, for the better enabling him, her, or them, to pay and bear the
Rates and Assessments herein before respectively imposed upon
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 51
April 8
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him, her, or them, be allowed, by Virtue of this Act, after the Rate
of Ten Shillings for every One Hundred Pounds of all such Sum or
Sums of Money, or the Value thereof in Tobacco, or any Com-
modity whatever, which he, she, or they, shall be so indebted at the
Time he, she, or they, respectively shall be assessed, by his, her, or
their respective Creditor or Creditors, out of the said Debts, so as
aforesaid by him, her, or them, owing as aforesaid, and may and
are hereby enabled to deduct, retain and discount the same; any
Agreement, Bond, Condition, Provision, or other Obligation, to the
contrary in any wise notwithstanding. And all and every Person
or Persons, who are or shall be any Ways entitled to such Money,
Tobacco, or Commodities, are hereby required to allow such Deduc-
tions, upon the Receipt of the Residue of such Money, Tobacco,
or Commodities, as shall be due and payable to them as aforesaid :
And if such Creditor shall at any Time accept or receive from such
Debtor, Part of such his Debt or Claim, he shall and is hereby
obliged, at the Time of such Receipt, to make and allow to such his
Debtor, a proportionable Deduction thereon. And the said Debtors
and their Heirs, Executors and Administrators, are hereby saved
harmless from any further Payment of the said Money, Tobacco,
or other Commodities, so as aforesaid to be deducted, as fully and
amply as if the same had been paid to such Creditor, or other Person,
to whom the same would otherwise have been due and payable.
LL And be it further Enacted, That if any Creditor or Creditors,
or his or their Executors or Administrators, who are or shall be
entitled to such Money, Tobacco, or other Commodity whatever, or
their respective Agents, Receivers, or Attornies, shall refuse, neglect
or delay, to allow and discharge the said Money, Tobacco, or other
Commodity, so as aforesaid to be deducted in the proper Account
in which the same ought to be allowed and deducted, that then and
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