292 Assembly Proceedings, March 22-April 11, 1760.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 51
April 8

And if any Assessor or Assessors, so as aforesaid nominated and
appointed, shall happen to die, before he or they shall have fully
compleated his or their Assessment, the said Commissioners, or any
two of them, are hereby authorized and impowered, by Warrant
under their Hands and Seals, to nominate and appoint one or more
Assessor or Assessors, in the Room of the said Assessor or As-
sessors so dying. And every Assessor, so as aforesaid nominated
and appointed, shall, before he takes upon him the Execution of the
said Employment, take an Oath, or if a Quaker his solemn Affirma-
tion to the Effect thereof, to be administered in these Words follow-
ing: "You shall swear well and truly to execute the Duty of an
Assessor, and to cause the Rates and Duties imposed by an Act,
entituled, An Act for granting a Supply of Sixty Thousand Pounds
for his Majesty's Service, and for defraying the Expences hereto-
fore incurred for the Defence and Security of the Frontier In-
habitants of this Province, and for other Purposes therein men-
tioned, to be duly and impartially assessed, according to the best of
your Skill and Knowledge, and therein you shall spare no Person for
Favour or Affection, nor any Person grieve for Hatred or Ill-will :"
Which Oath any One of the Commissioners, in the County where
the said Assessment is to be made, hath hereby Power to administer.

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LXI. And be it further Enacted, That the Receiver of the Quit-
Rents for each County, shall make out and deliver by the Second
Day of October next, to the Commissioners of their respective
Counties, true and fair Accounts from their last Debt Books, of the
Names and Quantities of Acres of every Tract or Parcel of Land
within his said County, and to whom the same, to the best of his
Information, belongs or ought to be charged, making a separate
Account for each Hundred in his said County, as nearly as he can
judge, on Pain of forfeiting Fifty Pounds Current Money; and the
said Commissioners are hereby directed and required, under the like
Penalty, to deliver true and fair Copies of the respective Accounts,
so by them received, to the Assessors of each respective District or
Division, within their respective Counties, at the Time of their
Qualification.
LXII. And be it further Enacted, That the Collectors herein
appointed shall pay to the Receivers, for delivering such Accounts
as aforesaid, upon their producing Receipts from the respective
Commissioners for the same, at any Time after the first Day
appointed for Payment of the Rates herein imposed, the Sum of
Forty Shillings, and no more; which said Sum shall be by the said
Commissioners allowed to the said Collectors on Settlement of their
respective Accounts, upon their producing to them their Receipts
aforesaid.

LXIII. And be it further Enacted, That every Person or Persons
that shall have any ready Money or Plate, either in his, her, or their