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or other Persons, to be doubly charged, according to the true Intent
and Meaning of this Act. Provided always, and be it Enacted, That
where the Owners of any Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments,
are liable to be doubly charged as Papists, or reputed Papists, or
Persons suspected by Reason of their not having taken the Oaths
as aforesaid, according to the true Intent of this Act, in every such
Case such Owners only shall be charged with and pay the said
double Rates; and the respective Tenants of such Lands, Tenements
and Hereditaments, are hereby discharged of and from the same;
any Covenant for Payment of Taxes, or other Agreement to the
contrary, notwithstanding.
LXXIII. And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid,
That where any Person or Persons, chargeable with any Rates or
Assessments by this Act imposed, shall be under the Age of Twenty-
one Years, then and in such Case, the Parents, Guardians or Tutors
of such Infants, shall be and are hereby made liable to and chargeable
with, the Payments which such Infant ought to have made. And if
such Parents, Guardians or Tutors, shall neglect or refuse to pay
as aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful to proceed against them
in like Manner as against other Person or Persons making Default
of Payment. And all Parents, Guardians or Tutors, making Pay-
ment as aforesaid, shall be allowed all and every the Sums so paid
for such Infants upon his and their Account.
LXXIV. Provided always, and be it Enacted, That no Stay of
Prosecution, upon any Command, Warrant, Motion, Order, or Direc-

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tion, by non vult ulterius prosequi, shall be had, made, admitted, or
allowed, by any Court whatsoever, in any Suit or Proceeding, by
Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information, or otherwise, for
Recovery of all or any of the Pains, Penalties or Forfeitures, upon
any Person by this Act inflicted, or therein mentioned, or for or in
order to the Conviction or Disability of any Person offending
against this Act.

LXXV. And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid,
That the said Commissioners shall, on the First Monday after the
End of Thirty Days from the Time of their having delivered to
the respective Collectors herein after appointed, Duplicates of the
said Assessment, meet at their respective County Court-Houses, to
hear and determine the Complaints of such Persons as may think
themselves grieved by being over-rated, and shall sit from Day to
Day for the Space of Ten Days next following, as often as shall be
necessary within the said Time, for hearing and determining all
Appeals that may be made to them. And the said Commissioners
are hereby directed to give public and timely Notice of the Day of
such their Meeting to hear and determine such Appeals, by setting
up Advertisements in the most public Places in their respective
Counties; And if the said Commissioners shall not meet or give

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