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missioners or Trustees as aforesaid, the Sum of Ten Pounds Current
Money, and the said Commissioners are hereby required to deliver
to the Assessors of the Districts where the said Manors or reserved
Lands lie, the said Accounts for their Direction in Assessing the
Parts of the said Manors or reserved Lands, in the Hands of the
said Tenants, and the said unleased Parts of the same: And the
said Assessors shall assess the said Tenant, for their respective Quan-
tities of Land to them leased, with the Pound-rate aforesaid, and
shall assess the said Agent with the said Pound-rate, for the Residue
of the said Manors and reserved Lands, and all such Sums of Money
as the said Agent shall be obliged to pay by virtue of this Act, for
the said Pound-rate, he shall retain in, his Hands, out of any Monies
he shall or may have in his Hands, belonging to the said Lord Pro-
prietary. Provided always, That the said Tenants of the said Manors
or reserved Lands, shall not be allowed to retain the said Pound-rate
so assessed on their respective Lands, out of the Rent reserved to the
said Lord Proprietary on their respective Leases.
LXI. And be it further Enacted, That all and every Person or
Persons within this Province, being indebted at the Time he, she or
they shall be assessed as aforesaid, by Judgment, Mortgage, Bond,
Bill, Note, Agreement, Book Debt, or by any other Ways or Means, in
any Sum or Sums of Money, or Tobacco, or any Commodity what-
ever (Debts due for Rent and Debts due to any Person or Persons
residing in Great-Britain excepted) their Heirs, Executors and Ad-
ministrators, shall, for the better enabling him, her, or them, to pay
and bear the Rates and Assessments herein before respectively im-
posed upon him, her, or them, be allowed by Virtue of this Act,
after the Rate of Five Shillings for every One Hundred Pounds
of all such Sum or Sums of Money, or the Value thereof In Tobacco,
or any Commodity whatever, which he, or they, shall be so indebted
at the Time he, she or they respectively shall be assessed, by his,
her, or their respective Creditor or Creditors, out of the said Debts,
so as aforesaid by him, her or them owing as aforesaid, and may,
and are hereby enabled to deduct, retain and discount the same; any
Agreement, Bond, Condition, Provision, or other Obligation, to the
contrary in any wise notwithstanding: And all and every Person
or Persons, who are, or shall be any wise entitled to such Money,
Tobacco or Commodities, are hereby required to allow such Deduc-
tions, upon the Receipt of the Residue of such Money, Tobacco or
Commodities as shall be due and payable to them as aforesaid. And
if such Creditor, shall at any Time, accept or receive from such
Debtor, Part of such his Debt or Claim, he shall and is hereby obliged,
at the Time of such Receipt, to make and allow to such his Debtor, a
proportionable Deduction thereon, and the said Debtors, and their
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