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indorsed, For his Lordship's Service, to be forwarded as publick
Letters are, and under the like Penalty.
LXXIX. And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid,
That every Papist, or reputed Papist, in this Province, being of the
Age of Eighteen Years and upwards, who shall not have taken the
Oaths mentioned and required to be taken by an Act made in Eng-
land, in the First Year of the Reign of King William and Queen
Mary, entituled, An Act for abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and
Allegiance, and appointing other Oaths, shall yield and pay double
the Sums and Rates, which, by Force and Virtue of any Clause in
this Act before mentioned and contained, he or she should or ought
to pay, or be charged with, to be assessed, levied, collected, answered
and paid, in such Manner, my such Ways and Means, and according
to such Rules and Directions, and under such Penalties and For-
feitures, as are in this Act expressed or appointed, for and concerning
the above mentioned Rates and Sums. Provided nevertheless, that
if any such Papist, or reputed Papist, within Forty Days next after
the first Meeting of the said Commissioners, in the respective Coun-
ties where he or they ought to be taxed or assessed, according to
the Intent of this present Act, shall take the said Oaths before any
one or more of the said Commissioners (which Oaths the said Com-
missioners, or either of them, are impowered to administer) in that
Case, he or they shall not be liable to be doubly assessed as aforesaid.
LXXX. And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid,
That every Person, being of the Age of Eighteen Years and upwards,
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and being in this Province at the Time of the Execution of this
Act, who shall not before that Time have taken the Oaths men-
tioned and required to be taken by the said last mentioned Act, and
upon Summons by Warrant under the Hands and Seals of any Two
or more of the said Commissioners, shall refuse to take the said Oaths
at the Time appointed in the said Warrant, or shall neglect to appear
at such Time before the Commissioners, in order to take the said
Oaths (which the .said Commissioners, or any One of them, are
hereby impowered and required to administer) shall yield and pay
double the Sums and Rates, which, by Force and Virtue of any
Clause in this Act before mentioned and contained, he or they should
or ought to pay, or be charged with, in Manner as is before in this
present Act appointed, touching Papists, or reputed Papists.
LXXXI. And be it further Enacted, That any Two or more of
the Commissioners, appointed by this Act, in the respective Counties
in this Province, upon Information, or upon any Cause of Suspicion
in that Behalf, shall, and are hereby required and impowered to
cause every Person suspected (or against whom such Information
shall be given) to be summoned to appear to take the said Oaths as
aforesaid. Provided nevertheless, That whereas certain Persons, Dis-
senters from the Church of England, commonly called Quakers, and
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