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the Commissioners, or any Two of them, or before any Two Justices
of the Peace for the County where such Person dwelleth or resideth,
at any Time within Six Months next ensuing after such Tax made,
every Person that shall so escape from the Taxation and Payment
shall be charged, upon Proof thereof, at the double Value of so
much as he should or ought to have been Taxed at by this Act.
LXVIII. And be it further Enacted, That if any Person or Per-
sons shall have or hold any Messuages, Manors, Lands, Tenements,
or other Premisses, by this Act chargeable with a Pound-Rate, either
in his own Right, or as Agent, Factor, or Manager, for another, in
any other County than where he, she or they do reside, the Com-
missioners of the County where such Messuages, Manors, Lands,
Tenements, or other the Premisses, as aforesaid, shall lie or be,
shall, and they are hereby required to transmit an Account thereof,
and the Sum of Money thereon assessed, to the Collector of the
County, where the Owner, Possessor or Occupier, or Factor, Agent
or Manager, doth or do reside (and a Duplicate of the same to the
Commissioners of the said County) which Collector is hereby im-
powered to levy and collect the said Sum of Money, of and from
every such Owner, Possessor or Occupier, or Agent, Factor or
Manager, and account for and pay the same, in the same Manner,
as such Collector might or ought to do in Virtue of this Act, in Case
the said Messuages, Manors, Lands, Tenements, and other the
Premisses, were actually lying and being in the County for which
he is Collector.
LXIX. And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid,
That every Papist, or reputed Papist, in this Province, being of the
Age of Eighteen Years and upwards, who shall not have taken the
Oaths mentioned and required to be taken by an Act made in Eng-
land, in the first Year of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary,
entituled, An Act for abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Al-
legiance, and appointing other Oaths, shall yield and pay Double the
Sums and Rates, which, by Force and Virtue of any Clause in this
Act beforementioned and contained, he or she should or ought to
pay, or be charged with, to be assessed, levied, collected, answered
and paid, in such Manner, by such Ways and Means, and according
to such Rules and Directions, and under such Penalties and For-
feitures, as are in this Act expressed or appointed, for and con-
cerning the abovementioned Rates and Sums. Provided neverthe-
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 51
April 8
p. 248
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