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 A.D. 1692. Anno quarto Gulielmi 8c Mari^. any Abatement in refpecTI: to Reparations, Taxes, Parifli Duties or any other Charges- whatfoever, which faid Sum of four and twenty Shillings for the yearly Profit of every hundred Pounds Value of all perfonal Eftates, as aforefaid, and four Shillings for every twenty Shillings by the Year of the faid true yearly Value of all other the Premiflcs fhall be affeffcd, levied and collefted in manner hereafter mentioned, and fhall be paid into the Receipt of their Majefties Exchequer by four quarterly Payments ; the hrft Payment thereof to be made upon the five and twentieth Day of March which (hall be in the Year of our Lord one thoufand fix hundred ninety-three. { V. And whereas many of the Manors,. Mefl'uages, Lands, Tenements, Tythes, He- reditaments and Premilles intended by this Acl to be charged with the Pound-rate,^ as aforefaid, ftand incumbred with or are fubjeft and liable to the Payment of feveral Rent- charges or Annuities iffuing out of the fame, or to the Payment of divers fee-farm Rents, Rents-fervice or other Rents thereupon referved or charged, by reafon whereof the true Owners and Proprietors of fuch Manors,. Meffuages, Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments and PremifTes do not in Truth receive to their own Ufe the true yearly Value of the fame, for which neverthelefs they are by this A6t charged to pay the full Pound-rate of four Shil- lings for every twenty Shillings of the true yearly Value : I may be lawful to and for the Landlords, Owners and Proprietors of fuch Manors, Meffu- ages, Land'-, Tenements,. Hereditaments and Premiffes as are charged with the Pound- rate, as aforefaid, to abate and dedu6l and to retain and keep in his or their Hands four Shil- lings in the Pound for every fee-farm Rent or other annual Rent or Payment charged upon or iffuing out of the Premiffes, or any Part thereof or thereupon referved ; and ail and eve- ry Perfon and Perfons, who are or (hall be any way intitled to fuch Rents and annual Pay- ments, are hereby required to allow fuch Deductions and Payments, upon the Receipt of the Refidue of fuch Monies as fhall be due and payable to them for fuch Rents- or annual. C. I, 485, To be paid at fmr quarterly Pay- iricntb. The ftrft I'aymcnt the 25th of March 1693. Where Land^, &c. are fubjefl to Rents, Charges, Annuities, or 0- ther Rents. The Landlords and Owners dtduft 4.S. in the Pound tbi luch Ilenti, which fliair be allowed by the P"r- fons intitled to fuch Rents ufoif Payment of the Refidue. j Payments referved or charged as aforefaid. VIL And be it further enafted by the Authority aforefaid,. That for the better affeflihg,,.
 * VL It is therefore declared and enabled by the Authority aforefaid. That it fliall and
 * ordering, levying and collefting of the feveral Sums of Money fo' as aforefaid limited and

appointed to be paid, and for the more effe£tual putting of this prefent Aft in Execution^, all and every the Perfons hereafter named fhall be Commiflioners of and for the feveral and refpeftive Counties, Cities^ Boroughs, Towns and Places hereafter mentioned.. l^Here follow the Names of the Commijfioners.]. Vin. Which faid Commiflioners fo, as aforefaid, iiommatsd and appointed,, fhall in' the refpeftive Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Divifions, Towns and Places for which they are appointed Commifiioners refpe£i:ively, meet together at the moft ufual and common Place ! of Meeting withia each of the faid Counties, Cities,. Boroughs, Towns,- Divifions and '. Places refpeftively, upon the fifteenth Day of February, which fhall be in the Year of our Lord one thoufand fix hundred ninety and two, and the faid Commiflioners, or fo ma- ny of them as fhall be prefent at the firfl General Meeting, or the major Part of them, may by their Confents and Agreements divide, as well themfelves, as other the Commif- fions not then prefent, for the Execution of this Act, into Hundreds, Lathes,- Wapen-- takes, Rapes,. Wards, Towns, and other Places within their Limits, privileged or not privileged in fuch Manner and Form as to them fhall feem expedient (neverthelefs not. thereby to reftrain the faid Commiflioners from afliing as Commiflioners in any other Part of the County or Place for which they are nominated) and fhall diredt their feveral or joint Precept or Precepts to fuch Inhabitants, High-conftables, Petty-conftables,. Bailiffs and
 * other like Officers, and Minifters, and fuch Number of them as they in their Difcretion

fliall think moft convenient, requiring them to appear before the faid Commiflioners at iich Place and Time (not exceeding ten Days) as they fhall appoint. And at fuch their Appearances, the faid Commiflioners fhall openly read or caufe to be read' unto them the Rates and Affeffments in this AGt mentioned, and alfo openly declare the Effe<£t of their Charge to them, and how and in what'Manner they ought and flionld make their Certificates, and how they ought to proceed in the Execution of this Aft, according to the Rates afore- Ciid. And if any High-conftables, Petty-conftables, Bailiffs,, Inhabitants, or other Offi- cers or Minifters, to whom any Precept fhall be direfted, fhall abfent themfelves without lawful Excufe to be made out by the Oaths of two credible Witneffes (which Oaths the Commiflioners or any two cf them are hereby empowered to adminifter) or if any Perfon appearing (hall refufe to ferve, then every, fuch Perfon fo making default, or refufing to ferve, fhall for every Time of fuch Default or Refufal, forfeit and lofe unto their Ma- jefties fuch Sums as the Commiflioners, or fo many as (hall be prefent, or the major Part of them being prefent, fhall think fit, not exceeding the Sum. of five Pounds, nor lefs than forty Shillings. And at and after fuch General Meeting had, and Charge given,- as afotefaid, the faid Commiflioners fhall take Care that Warrants be iffued forth and direfted to two at the leaft of the moft able and fuificient Inhabitants of each Parifh, Town-fhip or of Commiflioners to meet upon the 15th of February,. and then to divide riiemfelves for-' the Executlonof. the Aft; , Such Divifion not to reftrain Com^- miflioners from afikmgt many -other' Part of the County. Direct Precepts to fuch Inliabi. tants,,&c, as they Jhall'think con-- venient, requiring them to appear at 3 Place and Time not exceeding ten- Days. Then to read the Rates, and* charge them with the Executioni of the-AS. Perfons to whom P*ecepts direffedi- abfenting. without Eicufe, to forfeit.- a Sum not exceeding 5!. nor W$ then 40.S. At" or after fuch- gcnsnj JWeefmfr, Commiflioners to direct Warrants- to two of the moff fuificient Inha- bitants of each Pariih, &c. re^yi-. ring them to be Ai&ffor;,
 * ?lace witbia the refpedtive Diviftons, thereby appointing and requiring them to be Affeffors