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Value of every Annuity, Pension, Stipend, or other yearly Sum,
payable or secured to be paid as aforesaid, to every of them, within
this Province, at the Time of taking the said Assessment, and the Sum
of Money assessed thereon; and also the yearly Value of all and
every the Messuages, Manors, Lands, and Tenements, Mines of
Copper, Lead, and Iron and other Mines, Furnaces, Forges and
other Iron-Works, Tolls and Hereditaments, of what Nature or
Kind they be, situate, lying and being, in the said District or Division,
with which they are charged as aforesaid, and every of them, as the
same are valued at, to be settled after the Rate of Two Shillings for
every Twenty Shillings that the Fee-Simple of the said Messuages,
Manors, Lands, Tenements, and other the Premises, would, in the
Estimation or Judgment of the Assessors, sell for in ready Money,
at the Time of taking the said Assessment, and the Sum of Money
thereon assessed; and also the Value of what all and every Person
or Persons, dwelling and residing in the said District or Division
with which they are charged, practising Law or Physic, or acting
as hired Clerks without Commissions, or trading, merchandizing, or
using Commerce as aforesaid, within this Province, and every of
them, do make and receive as aforesaid in one Year, at the Time
of taking the said Assessment, and the Sum of Money thereon
assessed.
LIX. And be it further Enacted, That every single Man, whose
Personal Estate is not valued at the Sum of One Hundred Pounds,
shall be assessed the Sum of Ten Shillings in Bills of Credit, in Lieu
of all Assessments to be made on his said Personal Estate, in Virtue
of this Act. Provided always, and it is hereby Enacted, That the
said Assessors shall not assess any Person receiving a charitable
Bounty or Allowance in the Public or County Levy in this Prov-
ince; but shall nevertheless return, in their Certificates of Assess-
ments, the Names of all such Persons.
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 51
April 8
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LX. And be it further Enacted, That if any Assessor, nominated
or appointed by Virtue of this Act, shall make Default at the Time
appointed for his Appearance, or on his Appearance shall refuse
to serve, not having a lawful Excuse, to be proved by the Oath of one
credible Witness, or shall neglect to return Certificates of his said
Assessment to the Commissioners as aforesaid, at the Time and
Place prefixed, shall for every such Neglect, Refusal, or Default,
forfeit the Sum of Twenty Pounds Current Money, to be recovered
and applied as herein after directed; and the said Commissioners, or
any two of them, are hereby authorized and impowered, by Warrant
under their Hands and Seals, to appoint one or more Assessor or
Assessors, in the Room of the Assessor or Assessors so refusing
or making Default; and every Assessor, so nominated and appointed,
shall be liable to the same Penalty, for every Neglect, Refusal or
Default, as aforesaid, to be recovered and applied as aforesaid.
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