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 A.D.i 763. Anno quarto Georgii III. C. 2. 103 liable to be taxed or rated in any manner whatfoever, by reafon of their faid Offices or Employments, or any Salary arifing thereby ; this Act, or any other Law or Statute, to the contrary notwithftanding. CXX. And be it further enafted by the Authority aforefaid, That where the Commiffioners appointed Cnmmi/fioners to execute this prefent Act in any County, Divifion, Hundred, Riding, City, Town or Place, or any five mi Y- before 2.9 or more of them, fhall have good Reafon to fufpeft that the AfTefTors appointed for any Parifh or Place, ? spi: " '' 6 *j. purfuant to any Aft or Acts of Parliament for granting an Aid or Aids to the Crown by a Land Tax or f e (r Jr5) w ho have Land Taxes, have, in Fraud of any Parifh or Place for which they are Affeflbrs, fince the fixth Day of not charged their May one thoufand fever) hundred and feventeen, been omitted to be charged or affeffed for any of their Eftates fince 6 own Eftates, which ought to have been charged or affeffed to fuch Land Tax or Land Taxes, it fhall be Ma - V I 7 I 7i lawful for fuch Commiffioners for fuch County, Divilion, Hundred, City, Riding, Town or Place reflec- tively, or any five or more of them, and they are hereby authorized and required at fuch convenient Time or Times before the twenty-ninth Day of September-, which fhall be in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and fixty-four, to fummon and call before them the AfPffors for the Time being, fince the' faid fixth Day of May one thoufand feven hundred and feventeen, for fuch Parifhes and Places reflectively, and to examine fuch A {Tenors, or any of them, or any other Ferfon or Perfons, upon Oath (which Oath and "amine or Oaths the faid Commiffioners are hereby impowered and required to administer) for Difcovery or Proof ln .tm upon Oath, of any fuch Fraud or Omiffion, fince the faid fixth Day of May one thoufand feven hundred and feven- teen ; and as the faid Commiffioners,' or the major Part of them prefent, fhall find the Cafe to be, they fhaH'compute the Wrong which any fuch Parifh or Place hath fuftained by reafon or occafion of any fuch Fraud or Omiffion, and fhall award Satisfaction to be made accordingly to fuch Parifhes or Places refpec- and award Satif- tively, by the refpeftive AfTeilors, whofe Eftates have been fo omitted to be charged or affefTed as aforefaid ; f '" lon > and the fail Commiffioners fhall, by Warrant or Warrants under their Hands and Seals, caufe the Sum or to be levied and Sums fo awarded to be levied upon the Perfons, or the Executors or Adminiftrators of the Perfons refpec- paid to the CoU tively, who have been fo omitted to be charged or affeffed as aforefaid, and upon their Goods and Chattels lea ° rs - refpeftively ; all which Sums fo to be levied fhall be paid into the Hands of the Collectors of the Land Tax, to be appointed purfuant to this Act for fuch refpeftive Parifhes and Places ; to the end the faid Parifhes and Places refpectively may have the Benefit thereof, and may be eafed accordingly in their Pro- portion to this prefent Aid, or to the next Aid or Aids which fhall be granted to his Majefty, his Heirs and Succeffors, by a Land Tax : Provided neverthelefs, That the ghiota of the Aid granted to his Majefty fhall not be leffened for any fuch Parifh or Place. CXXI. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid., That fuch Commiffioners as are by this Commiffioners, Aft required to tranfmit, or caufe to be tranfmitted, the above-mentioned Schedules or Duplicates in the &c - 1° diftmgujfli King's Remembrancer's Office of the Exchequer, or any three or more of them, fhall and they are hergbj£ e ™ f 5 e Sljm " n a( i. e required, in every fuch Schedule or Duplicate, to diftinguifh and fet down, or caufe to be dift inguifhed and feiTed for double fet down, the grofs Sum which fliall be afTefTed, charged or payable in every Hundred or Divifion refpec- Taxes, to be t-ively, by virtue of this Aft, for double Taxes, that fo it may be known how much the double Taxes <"»rmi«ed m arifingby this Aft do or will amount to in every Hundred and Divifioi, where any fuch fhall be. t!e " xc equer ' CXXfl. Provided always, and be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That the Sum appointed Afleflments on by this Act to be raifed by the Town of Cambridge, fhall be raifed and levied by rating all Manors, Mef- Jj ie Town ° f fuages, Lands and Tenements, Woods, Underwoods, Coppices, Fifhings, Locks, Wears and Sluices upon „;^" n 6 jja the River Cam, alias Grant, Tythes, Tolls, Markets, Fairs, Booths, Stalls and Standings in fuch Fairs norS; & c. and on and Markets, and the Rents and Profits of the fame, and all other Herediaments, of what Nature or Kind Fifhings, &c. on foever they be, fituate, lying and being, happening or arifing, in the faid Town, or within the Bounds, the Rivet Cam. Limits and Precincts thereof; and alfo all Eftates in Goods, Wares, Merchandizes, and other Chattels and Perfonal Eftates whatfoever belonging to the faid Town, or any the Members of he fame, except only fuch Perfonal Efhte as in this Ait before is excepted. ' CXXIII. And whereas Fairs are ufualfy held for fome fhort Time in the Year only, by means whereof ' it may be impofiible to levy the Proportions to be affeffed by virtue of this Aft, on the Fairs to be held ' done in other Cafes;' Be it further enafted by the Authority aforefaid, That the Collectors to be ap- On whom, and pointed by virtue of this Aft for levying and collecting the faid Rates and Taxes, fhall demand the intire when, yearly Af- Sum which fhall be affeffed for the whole Year on fuch Fairs, and the Booths, Stalls and Standings in the foments on fame, from the Parties themfelves, who fliall fet to Sale any Goods or Merchandizes in the faid Fairs', c ^"^' t0 be Booths, Stalls or Standings, orotherwife occupy the fame, if they can be found, or elfe upon the Pre- miffes charged with fuch Affeffments, at any Time within feven Days after the firft Proclaiming of fuch Fair or Fairs ; and in default of Payment thereof, fhall levy the Sum affeffed, by Diftrefs and Sale of all Diftrefs on De. the Goods and Chattels that fhall be found in the faid Booths, Stalls or Standings, in fuch manner as is [ auit, ot f a3 ! m f n . t » . . .. r> i > j ■ _u /"■ r how to be levied, herein directed to be done in other Cafes. CXXIV. And it is hereby enafted and declared, That the faid Collectors fhall have all fuch Powers Tenants of of making fuch Diftrefs as is hereby given to Colieftors in other Cafes ; and the feveral and refpeftive Booths > & c - t0 Tenants of all fuch Boo:hs, Stalls and Standings, which fhall be rated by virtue of this Aft, are hereby [^ deduft them required and authorized to pay fuch Sum or Sums of Money as fhall be rated thereon, and to deduct the ut of their fame out of the Rent payable for fuch Booths to their refpective Landlords. Rents, &c. CXXV. And be it further enafted by the Authority aforefaid, That the Sum of forty- feven thoufand 47.954 !• is. ad, nine hundred fifty-four Pounds one Shilling and two Pence, by this Aft granted, fhall be raifed and levied t0 be rafed ln in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, by an eight Months Cefs of five thoufand nine hundred ninety- g Months ^"j four Pounds five Shillings and one Penny three Farthings, of lawful Money of Great Britain,, for every jg94 L s ,_, d . Month ; 3 '(j. pet Menfem*
 * within the faid Town, or Limits thereof, by fuch quarterly Payments as by this Aft is directed to be