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also other German Protestant Dissenters, known to be such in this
Province, do scruple the taking of any Oaths; it shall be sufficient
for any such Persons to make and subscribe the like Declaration of
Fidelity to his Majesty, as was contained in an Act made in the
Parliament held in the First Year of the Reign of their late Majesties
King William and Queen Mary, entituled, An Act for exempting
their Majesty's Protestant Subjects, Dissenters from the Church of
England, from the Penalties of certain Laws; (which Declaration
any One or more of the Commissioners appointed for the executing
of this Act, are hereby impowered and required to take and receive)
and every such Person so doing, shall not be liable to, or chargeable
with, any of the double Rates aforesaid.
LXXXII. And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid,
That in all Cases where any Assessor or Assessors, who by this Act
are required to make double Assessments upon Papists, or reputed
Papists, or other Persons, for not taking the Oaths aforesaid, shall
neglect to do his or their Duty therein, the respective Commissioners
of the County where such double Assessments ought to have been
made, or any Two or more of them, shall take Care, and they are
hereby authorised and required, to cause such Papists, or other Per-
sons, to be doubly charged, according to the true Intent and Mean-
ing of this Act. Provided always, and be it Enacted, That where
the Owners of any Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, are liable

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to be doubly charged as Papists, or reputed Papists, or Persons
suspected by reason of their not having taken the Oaths as aforesaid,
according to the true Intent of this Act, in every such Case such
Owners only shall be charged with, and pay the said double Rates;

and the respective Tenants of such Lands, Tenements and Heredita-
ments are hereby discharged of and from the same; and Covenant
for Payment of Taxes, or other Agreement to the contrary not-
withstanding.
LXXXIII. And be it further Enacted, by the Authority afore-
said, That where any Person or Persons, chargeable with any Rates
or Assessments by this Act imposed, shall be under the Age of
Twenty-one Years, then and in such Case, the Parents, Guardians or
Tutors of such Infants, shall be and are hereby made liable to, and
chargeable with the Payments, which such Infant ought to have
made. And if such Parents, Guardians or Tutors, shall neglect or
refuse to pay as aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful to proceed
against them in like Manner as against other Person or Persons
making Default of Payment. And all Parents, Guardians or Tutors,
making Payment as aforesaid, shall be allowed all and every the
Sums so paid for such Infants, upon his and their Account.
LXXXIV. Provided always, and be it Enacted, That no Stay
of Prosecution, upon and Command, Warrant, Motion, Order or
Direction, by non vult ulterius prosequi, shall be had, made, ad-