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

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

public Notice as aforesaid, the Commissioner or Commissioners
failing therein, shall severally forfeit and pay the Sum of Twenty
Pounds Current Money, to be recovered and applied as herein after
directed. And if any Person or Persons, certified, assessed or rated,
for or in respect of any Matter or Thing, for which, by this Act,
he, she or they, is or may be rated or charged, do apprehend them-
selves grieved with such assessing or rating, and do thereof com-
plain to the said Commissioners, the said Commissioners, or any
Two of them, shall and may at the Time of their sitting to hear
Appeals as aforesaid, particularly examine any Person or Persons
(other than the Party complaining) upon his or their Oath, touching
the Value of such Complainants Real or Personal Estate, and other
the Matters aforesaid, except in the Case of ready Money, in which
Case the Party's own Oath shall be admitted; and upon due Ex-
amination or Knowledge thereof, abate, increase or enlarge the said
Assessment; and a Copy of the same, so abated, increased or
enlarged, shall forthwith deliver or cause to be delivered to the
Collector of their respective Counties, to be collected, levied and
paid, as herein directed.

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LXXVI. And be it further Enacted, That the Clerks of the several
County Courts within this Province, shall, and they are hereby
required, without Fee or Reward, to make out and deliver to the
Commissioners of their respective Counties, on or before the second
Day of October next, fair and exact Copies of the last Lists of
Taxables, returned by the Constables of the several Hundreds within
their said Counties, on Pain of forfeiting Fifty Pounds Current
Money, to be recovered and applied as herein after directed; which
said Lists the said Commissioners shall deliver to the respective
Assessors at the Time of their Qualification, under the like Penalty
for each Neglect or Omission thereof.

LXXVII. And be it further Enacted, That the said Commission-
ers, or any Two of them, are hereby required to deliver to the
Sheriffs of their respective Counties, who are hereby nominated
and appointed Collectors of the Rates, Duties and Assessments afore-
said, a fair Copy of the Certificates of Assessment, which shall be
by the said Assessors delivered to them as aforesaid, within Twenty
Days after the said Delivery, under the Penalty of Fifty Pounds
Current Money for each Commissioner. And the said Collectors,
shall, within Thirty Days after such Delivery, make Demand of the
several Sums charged in the said Certificate of Assessment, by
delivering an exact Copy thereof, under his Hand, to each Person
or Persons therein charged, so far as it concerns him, her or them,
or leaving the same at his, her or their Habitation, or last Place of
Abode; and shall proceed forthwith, after such Demand, to levy,
receive and collect the same, by Two equal Payments, in the same
Manner, and by the same Powers and Authorities the Public and