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L. H. J.
Liber No. 51
April 8
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for every such Offence, every such Person as aforesaid, shall suffer
and be liable to the same Pains and Penalties, as in Case of excessive
Usury, to be recovered in the same Manner, and to be applied as
herein after directed.
LII. And whereas considerable Quantities of ready Money,
Plate, Goods, Wares, Merchandizes, and other personal Estate
(Debts, Household Goods, Implements and Tools of Husbandry,
and Tools of manual Occupation, excepted) Messuages, Manors,
Lands, and Tenements, Mines of Lead, Copper, Iron, and other
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p. 335
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Mines, Furnaces, Forges, and other Iron-Works, Tolls, Annuities,
and other yearly Profits and Hereditaments, within this Province,
do and may belong to Persons residing without the same, either
as their sole Property or in Company with others; and as it is
equitable, that, towards the Defence and Security thereof, the same
should be rated and assessed equally with the Property of Persons
residing within this Province; Be it therefore Enacted, by the
Authority aforesaid, That all such ready Money, Plate, Goods, Wares,
Merchandizes, and other personal Estate (except as before excepted)
Messuages, Manors, Lands, and Tenements, and other the Premisses
aforesaid, shall be charged with a Pound-Rate as herein before
directed, in the same Manner as they might or ought to be charged
by Virtue of this Act, in Case the same were the Property of any
Person or Persons residing within this Province; And all and every
the Assessors, directed to be nominated and appointed by this Act,
shall, and they are hereby required to inform themselves by all
lawful Ways and Means of the Names and Sir-Names of all and
every the Factors, Attornies, Agents, Store-Keepers, or Managers
of all and every the said Person or Persons residing without this
Province, having or holding any ready Money, Plate, Goods, Wares,
Merchandizes, or other personal Estate (except as before excepted)
Messuages, Manors, Lands, or Tenements, Mines of Lead, Copper,
Iron, and other Mines, Furnaces, Forges, and other Iron-Works,
Tolls, Annuities, or other yearly Profits or Hereditaments, being or
lying within the District or Division with which they are charged,
and shall proceed to assess all and every such Factor, Attorney,
Agent, Store-Keeper, or Manager, for such ready Money, Plate,
Goods, Wares, Merchandizes, and other personal Estate (except as
before excepted) Messuages, Manors, Lands, Tenements, and other
the Premisses, as shall be committed to his Care and Management,
in the same Manner and Proportion, and in all Respects act and
do therein, as if the said ready Money, Plate, Goods, Wares,
Merchandizes, and other personal Estate (except as before ex-
cepted) Messuages, Manors, Lands, Tenements, and other the Prem-
isses, were the Property of such Factor, Attorney, Agents, Store-
Keeper, or Manager; and the several and respective Collectors by
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