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

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

minister) in that Case, he or they shall not be liable to be doubly
assessed as aforesaid.
LXX. And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid,
That every Person, being of the Age of Eighteen Years and upwards,
and being in this Province at the Time of the Execution of this
Act, who shall not before that Time have taken the Oaths men-
tioned and required to be taken by the said last mentioned Act, and
upon Summons by Warrant under the Hands and Seals of any Two
or more of the said Commissioners, shall refuse to take the said
Oaths, at the Time appointed in the said Warrant, or shall neglect
to appear at such Time before the said Commissioners, in order to
take the said Oaths (which the said Commissioners, or any one of
them, are hereby impowered and required to administer) 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 they should or ought to pay, or be charged with, in Manner
as is before in this present Act appointed, touching Papists, or
reputed Papists.
LXXI. And be it further Enacted, That any Two or more of
the Commissioners, appointed by this Act, in the respective Counties
in this Province, upon Information, or upon any Cause of Suspicion
in that Behalf, shall and are hereby required and impowered to cause
every Person suspected (or against whom such Information shall
be given) to be summoned to appear to take the said Oaths as afore-
said. Provided nevertheless, That whereas certain Persons, Dis-
senters from the Church of England, commonly called Quakers, and
also others, German Protestant Dissenters, known to be such in this
Province, do scruple the taking of any Oaths; it shall be sufficient
for any such Persons to make and subscribe the like Declaration of
Fidelity to his Majesty as was contained in an Act made in the Par-
liament, held in the First Year of the Reign of their late Majesties

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King William and Queen Mary, entituled, "An Act for exempting
their Majesties Protestant Subjects, Dissenters from the Church of
England, from the Penalties of certain Laws;" (which Declaration
any One or more of the Commissioners, appointed for the executing
this Act, are hereby impowered and required to administer); and
every such Person so doing, shall not be liable to, or chargeable with,
any of the double Rates aforesaid.

LXXII. And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid,
That in all Cases where any Assessor or Assessors, who, by this
Act, are required to make double Assessments upon Papists, or
reputed Papists, or other Persons, for not taking the Oaths afore-
said, shall neglect to do his or their Duty therein, the respective
Commissioners of the County where such double Assessments ought
to have been made, or any Two or more of them, shall take Care,
and they are hereby authorized and required to cause such Papists