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and after such Nomination and Appointment, the said Commis-
sioners shall enter in a Book, to be kept by them for that Purpose,
the Names of the Persons nominated and appointed Assessors, and
for what District or Division, within their respective Counties.
LVIII. And be it further Enacted, That the said Commissioners
shall immediately after the Nomination and Appointment of the said
Assessors, appoint and prefix a certain Day and Place, not exceeding
Ten Days after the said Nomination and Appointment, of which
Day Notice shall be given by the said Commissioners to each As-
sessor within Five Days after such Nomination and Appointment,
for the said Assessors to appear before them, and at such their
Appearance, the said Commissioners, or any Two of them, shall
openly read or cause to be read, the several Rates and Assessments
in this Act mentioned, and openly declare to them how and in what
Manner they ought to make their said Assessments, and in what
Form their Certificates are to be returned, and how they ought to
proceed in the Execution of this Act, according to the true Meaning
of the same; And after such Charge given as aforesaid, the said
Commissioners shall also appoint and prefix a certain Day and
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 51
April 8
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Place, not less than Seven Weeks, or more than Two Months next
after such Charge given, for the said Assessors to appear before
them, and bring in their Assessments in Writing; and the said
Assessors are hereby required and enjoined to inform themselves,
by all lawful Ways and Means, of the Names and Sir-Names of
every Person dwelling or residing in the District or Division with
which they are respectively charged, and of the ready Money, Plate,
Goods, Chattels, and Personal Estate (Debts, Houshold Goods,
Implements, and Tools of Husbandry, and Tools of manual Occu-
pation, excepted) of every of them, and of the Names and Sir-Names
of every Person dwelling in the said District or Division, practising
the Law or Physic, Trading, Merchandizing, or using Commerce,
as Factor or Agent for any Person or Persons, or acting as hired
Clerks without Commission, and of what they respectively make
in One Year by their said Practice or Factorage, Trade, Merchan-
dize, Commerce, or Wages, and of the Public Offices, Benefices and
Employments, and of the Annuities and Pensions of them and every
of them, and of the yearly Value of all Messuages, Manors, Lands
and Tenements, Mines of Tin, Lead, Iron and other Mines, Furnaces,
Forges and other Iron-Works, Tolls, or other Hereditaments, of
what Nature or Kind soever, situate, lying or being within the
said District or Division, with which they are charged, to be settled
and ascertained as herein before directed; and being so thereof
ascertained, they are to assess all and every the said Persons, dwelling
and residing in the said District or Division with which they are
charged, for every One Hundred Pounds of such ready Money, and
for every One Hundred Pounds Worth of such Plate, Goods, Wares,
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