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

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

the Twenty-fifth Day of December thereafter. And each Collector
shall appear at his respective County Court-House on the First
day (Monday) of November, in the Year last aforesaid, and then

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and there lay before the respective Commissioners, a fair, clear and
regular Account of his Collection of the Rates, Duties and Assess-
ments, imposed by this Act; and the said Commissioners shall appear
at the same Time and Place, under the Penalty of Fifty Pounds
Current Money each Commissioner not appearing; And they or any
Two of them, or One, in case the other Two should die, refuse, or
be otherwise rendered incapable to discharge the Duties enjoined
by this Act, shall immediately proceed with the Collector to settle
and adjust his said Account; and shall, upon such Settlement, allow
to the said Collector a Commission of Two Pounds per Cent, on
the Whole by him collected, or for which he or they shall judge him
to be answerable, and shall not allow him for any Insolvencies or
Deductions of any Part of the said Sums mentioned in the said
Certificates of Assessment, except in Cases where it shall be made
appear to them or him, he shall have used all lawful Ways and
Means for the levying and collecting the same; a Certificate under
his or their Hands and Seals of the Ballance of which Account, so
settled and adjusted, the said Commissioner or Commissioners shall,
by the First Day of December, in the Year last aforesaid, inclose
and indorse for his Lordship's Service (which the said Commissioner
or Commissioners are hereby impowered to do) and deliver to the
Sheriffs of their respective Counties, to be by them forwarded as
Public Letters are by Law directed to be forwarded to the Com-
missioners or Trustees aforesaid. And upon Failure of either the
Payments, above directed to be made by the respective Collectors,
the aforesaid Commissioners or Trustees shall, and they are hereby
strictly enjoined and required immediately to put in Suit the Bond
of the respective Collector so failing in either of his Payments.

LXXIX. And be it further Enacted, That all the Certificates of
Assessment, which shall by the said Assessors be delivered to the
said Commissioners, and all the Books of Proceedings of the said
Commissioners, and the Accounts by them settled with the several
Collectors aforesaid, shall, within Two Months after such Settle-
ment, be by the said Commissioners delivered to the Clerk of their
respective Counties, under the Penalty of Fifty Pounds Current
Money, to be by the said Clerk lodged in his Office, and carefully
kept for the Inspection of the Inhabitants of such County, for and

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during the Term of Six Months from the Day of the Receipt
thereof into his said Office; and the said Clerks shall, within Five
Days after the Expiration of the said Six Months, under the Penalty
of Twenty Pounds Current Money, inclose and deliver the said
Certificates, Books, Proceedings, and Accounts, to the Sheriff of
such respective County, safely inclosed and indorsed for his Lord-