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mitted, or allowed, by any Court whatsoever, in any Suit or Pro-
ceeding, by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information, or othcrwioc,

for Recovery of all or any of the Pains, Penalties or Forfeitures,
upon any Person by this Act inflicted, or therein mentioned, or for
or in order to the Conviction or Disability of any Person offending
against this Act.
LXXXV. And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid,
That the said Commissioners, shall on the First Monday after the
Tenth Day of March yearly, meet at their respective County Court-
Houses, to hear and determine the Complaints of such Persons as
may think themselves grieved, by being over-rated, and shall sit
from Day to Day for the Space of Ten Days next following, or as
often as shall be necessary, within the said Time, for hearing and
determining all Appeals that may be made to them. And the said
Commissioners are hereby directed to give publick and timely Notice
of the Day of such their Meeting to hear and determine such
Appeals, by setting up Advertisements at the Court-House, and at
each Church and Chapel within their respective Counties, Ten Days
at the least, before such their Time of Meeting. And if the said
Commissioners shall not meet or give public Notice as aforesaid, the
Commissioner or Commissioners failing therein, shall severally for-

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feit and pay the Sum of Twenty Pounds Current Money, to be re-
covered and applied as herein after directed. And if any Person or
Persons, certified, assessed or rated, for or in respect of any Matter
or Thing, for which, by this Act, he, she or they, is or may be rated
or charged, do apprehend themselves grieved with such assessing or
rating, and do thereof complain to the said Commissoiners, the said
Commissioners, or any Two of them, shall and may at the Time
of their sitting to hear Appeals as aforesaid, particularly examine
any Person or Persons (other than the Party complaining) upon his
or their Oath, touching the Value of such Complainants real or
personal Estate, and other the Matters aforesaid, except in the Case
of ready Money, in which Case the Party's own Oath shall be ad-
mitted; and upon due Examination or Knowledge thereof, abate,
increase or enlarge the said Assessment, and a Copy of the same, so
abated, increased, or enlarged, shall forthwith deliver, or cause to be
delivered, to the Collector of their respective Counties, to be collected,
levied and paid, as herein directed.
LXXXVI. And be it further Enacted, That the Clerks of the
several County-Courts within this Province, shall, and they are hereby
required, without Fee or Reward, to make out and deliver to the
Commissioners of their respective Counties, on or before the Fourth
Day of October next, Copies of the last Lists of Taxables, returned
by the Constables of the several Hundreds, within their said Coun-
ties, on Pain of forfeiting Fifty Pounds Current Money, to be re-
covered and applied as herein after directed; which said Lists the

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