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Law or Physick, a Provincial or County Magistrate, Clergyman,
Sheriff, Coroner, Clerk of the Provincial or County Courts, Ordi-
nary-Keeper, Mariner or Inspector) to be Assessors of all the Rates
and Taxes by this Act imposed; and after such Nomination and
Appointment, the said Commissioners shall enter in a Book, to be
kept by them for that Purpose, the Names of the Persons nominated
and appointed Assessors, and for what District or Division, within
their respective Counties.
LXIX. And be it further Enacted, That the said Commissioners
shall immediately after the Nomination and Appointment of the said
Assessors, appoint and prefix a certain Place and Day, not exceeding
Ten Days after the said Nomination and Appointment, of which
Place and Day, Notice shall be given by the said Commissioners to
each Assessor within Five Days after such Nomination and Appoint-
ment, for the said Assessors to appear before them, and at such their
Appearance, the said Commissioners, or any Two of them, shall
openly read, or cause to be read, the several Rates and Assessments
in this Act mentioned, and openly declare to them how and in what
Manner they ought to make their said Assessments, and in what
Form their Certificates are to be returned, and how they ought to
proceed in the Execution of this Act, according to the true Meaning
of the same: And after such Charge given as aforesaid, the said
Commissioners shall also appoint and prefix a certain Place and Day,
not less than Eight Weeks, nor more than Nine next after such
Charge given, for the said Assessors to appear before them, and
bring in Certificates of their Assessments in Writing; which said
Assessors are hereby strictly enjoined and required with all Care
and Diligence to assess all and every Person and Persons dwelling
and residing in the said District or Division with which they are
respectively charged, and who are liable to Assessment by this Act,
in respect of his, her, or their ready Money, Stock in Trade, or
other personal Estate herein before enumerated, Benefices, Public

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Offices or Employments, Annuities, Pensions, Stipends, or other
yearly Payments, Wages or Factorages as aforesaid, according to the
Directions of this Act; and also to assess all and every Person or
Persons within their District or Division as aforesaid, having or
holding any Messuages, Manors, Lands or Tenements, Mines of
Lead, Copper, Iron, or other Mines, Furnaces, Forges, and other
Iron-Works, Mills, or yearly Profits, Hereditaments, and all Rents,
Annuities or Profits, issuing out of Lands (and herein directed
to be assessed) with a Pound-rate of One Shilling for every Twenty
Shillings of the yearly Value thereof, to be settled and ascertained as
aforesaid, and so after that Rate for every greater or less yearly
Value, which said Assessments shall be, by the said Assessors, par-
ticularly entered, with the Names and Sirnames of the Persons and
the Sums on them so assessed, in the fair Certificates of their