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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Anno Regni Gulielmi &amp; Mariae, REGIS &amp; REGINAE, Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae &amp; Hiberniae, QUINTO.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<HEAD> <HI>An</HI> ACT <HI>for granting to King</HI> William <HI>and Queen</HI> Mary <HI>the Rate of One Penny</HI> per <HI>Pound upon the clear Value of all the Real and Per&s;onal E&s;tates, and Six Shillings</HI> per <HI>Head upon &s;uch as are not otherwi&s;e rated by this Act. To be imployed by the Governour of this Prov<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">nce of</HI> Penn&s;ilvania <HI>and Territories thereof, for the Time being, towards the Support of this Government.</HI></HEAD>
<P>SInce it hath plea&s;ed the King and Queen to take the Government of this Province and Counties into Their own hands, and &s;upply the ab&s;ence of our Proprietor, by &s;o worthy a Per&s;on, who gave us &s;uch great A&s;&s;urances of his good de&s;ires to pre&s;erve and confirm us in our Rights and Liberties: We the Repre&s;ent&agrave;tives met in general A&s;&s;embly, with humble Submi&s;&s;ion to the King and Queens Plea&s;ure therein, and with all dutiful Acknowledgments of their Care and tender Regard to the rea&s;onable Laws and Con&s;titu|tions, as well as Protections of this Government, do humbly pre|&s;ent the &s;aid King and Queen with the free Gift of the Rates and A&s;&s;e&s;ments herein after-mentioned, which we de&s;ire they would plea&s;e to accept of, as a Te&s;timony of our dutiful Affections towards them; and we do likewi&s;e de&s;ire that the King and Queen would be plea&s;ed to give and allow one half thereof to <HI>Benjamin Fletcher,</HI> Captain General and Governour in Chief in and over this Province and Country, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> that it may be &s;o enacted.</P>
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<P> Be it therefore Enacted by the Governour, Council, and Repre|&s;entatives convened in General A&s;&s;embly, and by the Authority of the &s;ame, That all and every Per&s;on and Per&s;ons within this Govern|ment, having any Per&s;onal E&s;tates, either in their Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, or in the Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions of others, in tru&s;t for them, over and be&s;ide the Hou&s;e|hold Goods and Implements they u&s;e, and &s;uch Sums of Money as they really owe or ought to pay, shall yield and pay to the u&s;e afore|&s;aid, after the rate of One Penny <HI>per</HI> Pound. And to the end that this Tax may be laid with as much Equality and Indifferency as may be, upon all Lands within this Government, and that a due regard may be had to the many Tracts of uncultivated and unprofitable Lands, which produce rather a Charge than Profit to the Owners there<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">f, Be it Enacted by the Authority afore&s;aid, That all Lands, and other Real, as al&s;o the Per&s;onal E&s;tates shall be, and are hereby charged f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r one Year only, and no longer, with One Penny for ever, Pound clear Value.</P>
<P>And be it further Enacted by the Authority afore&s;aid, That all Free-men within this Province and Territories, who have been out of their Servitude by the Space of &s;ix Months, and shall n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t be other|wi&s;e Rated by this Act, nor worth one hundred Pound, shall pay unto the U&s;e afore&s;aid the Sum of Six Shillings <HI>per</HI> Head. Pr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">vided always, That our chief Proprietary and his late Deputies in Govern|ment shall not be a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed or otherwi&s;e chargeable by virtue of this Act. Provided al&s;o, That no Per&s;on or Per&s;ons shall be taxed by this Act who have a great charge of Children, and become indigent in the World, and are &s;o far in debt that the clear Value of their Real and Per&s;onal E&s;tate doth not amount to thirty Pounds.</P>
<P>And be it further Enacted by the Authority afore&s;aid, That for the better a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing, ordering, levying and collecting the &s;everal Sums of Money, &s;o to be paid as afore&s;aid, and for the more effectual put|ting this Act in Execution, It shall and may be lawful for all or any two or more of the Members of this A&s;&s;embly, within the Re&s;pective Counties for which they &s;erve, to call to their a&s;&s;i&s;tance three of the Ju&s;tices, or other &s;ub&s;tantial Free-holders of the re&s;pective Counties, and within two Months after the publication hereof, to meet t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">gether at &s;uch place or places within each County, as they shall re&s;pectively agree upon, in order to a&s;&s;e&s;s the Rates mentioned in this Act, and al&s;o to appoint Receivers or Collectors to receive or gather the &s;ame. And after &s;uch Meeting had, the &s;aid a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors shall by Warrant from &s;ome Ju&s;tice of the Peace of the proper Country, cau&s;e the Con&s;tables within the &s;aid County, to bring in Cirtificates in Writing of the Names of every per&s;on re&s;iding within the Limits of th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e places; with which they shall be charged; and of the Sub&s;tances and Values
<PB REF="3"> of every of them, who are to be rated by this Act; which &s;aid Con|&s;tables &s;hall be paid or allowed by the Collectors three Pence <HI>per</HI> Pound for their trouble therein. And the &s;aid a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors are hereby injoyned, to a&s;&s;ertain and inform them&s;elves, by all lawfull means they can, of the true Valuation of the clear E&s;tates, both real and per&s;onal, within tho&s;e Counties and Limits, with which they &s;hall be charged re&s;pectively. And being &s;o thereof a&s;certained, they are to a&s;&s;e&s;s them&s;elves, and others for and in re&s;pect of the &s;aid E&s;tates, according to Rates afore-mentioned, having due regard to the ability of the people, and to the unprofitable Land they hold, and thereupon to appoint &s;uch and &s;o many Collectors or Receivers thereof as they the &s;aid a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors &s;hall think fit, within their re&s;pec|tive Limits; for which &s;ervice the &s;aid a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors &s;hall receive or be allowed &s;ix pence <HI>per</HI> Pound out of the &s;aid a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ment.</P>
<P>And be it further Enacted by the Authority afore&s;aid, That the Rates, A&s;&s;e&s;ments and Taxations afore&s;aid, &s;hall be made and a&s;cer|tained with what Expedition may be, &s;o that the m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">iety or half part thereof may be levyed, collected and paid in to the Receivers re&s;pectively on or before the tenth day of the ninth Month next, and the other half thereof on or before the tenth day of the &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd Month, in the Year 1694. at &s;uch places as the &s;aid a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors &s;hall appoint. Which &s;aid a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ments, with the Names and &s;everal Values of their Re&s;pective E&s;tates, together al&s;o with the real Sums levyed by this Act, &s;hall be returned and fairly certified by the &s;aid Collectors to the next General A&s;&s;embly, after the &s;ame is a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed, as afore&s;aid.</P>
<P>And be it further Enacted by the Authority afore&s;aid, That if any of the &s;aid a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors &s;hall neglect or refu&s;e to make &s;uch a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ments, as by this Act is required, or in ca&s;e the Collectors, &s;o as af<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">re&s;aid cho&s;en, &s;hall deny, neglect or refu&s;e to collect any &s;um or &s;ums of Money, in form afore-mentioned a&s;&s;e&s;t, and be convicted thereof, &s;hall be fined at the di&s;cretion of the Ju&s;tices of the re&s;pective County Courts.</P>
<P>And be it further Enacted by the Authority afore&s;aid, That if any Per&s;on or Per&s;ons what&s;oever within this Government, who &s;hall be a&s;&s;e&s;t or rated any &s;um or &s;ums of Money, by virtue of this Act, to be levyed, &s;hall deny, refu&s;e or delay to pay the &s;ame, that then it &s;hall and may be lawful for any &s;uch Collector, by virtue of a Warrant under the Hand and Seal of any Ju&s;tice of the Peace for the County where &s;uch Offender &s;hall re&s;ide, who by virtue of this act are req~uired &amp; authorized to grant &s;uch Warrants to levy the &s;ame by di&s;tre&s;s and &s;ale of &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons Goods and Chattels, returning the Over-plus, if any be, to the Owners, after the &s;um a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed or di&s;trained for, with all Charges, are deducted.</P>
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<P> And be it further Enacted by the Authority afore&s;aid, That the Moneys or Effects gathered and received by the &s;aid Collectors within their re&s;pective Limits, by virtue of this Act, &s;hall from time to time be duely paid to &s;uch Trea&s;urer or Trea&s;urers as &s;hall be appointed by the Governor to receive the &s;ame, who&s;e Receipts &s;hall be a &s;ufficient Di&s;charge unto &s;uch Collectors, which &s;aid Collectors for gathering the &s;aid particular Sums, shall retain in their hands re&s;pectively, for every Twenty Shillings by them paid in, as afore&s;aid, the &s;um of One Shilling, as a Reward for their pains and &s;ervice.</P>
<P>Provided always, That if any per&s;on or per&s;ons certified, a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed or rated, for or in re&s;pect of any E&s;tate, for which by this Act he or they is or may be rated, do find him or them&s;elves agrieved with &s;uch rating, and do within ten days after complain to any three of the A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors, that &s;igned or allowed his or their Rate, who &s;hall within ten dayes after &s;uch Complaint particularly examine the per&s;on complaining, or any other per&s;on, touching the value of the Com|plainants real and per&s;onal E&s;tate, and there-upon the &s;aid a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors shall abate, defaulk, or increa&s;e the &s;aid a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ments, according as Complainants shall appear to be worth, either by the parties own atte&s;t or proof of others.</P>
<P>And be it further Enacted by the Authority afore&s;aid, That if any per&s;on be &s;ued for any thing done in pur&s;uance of this Act, &s;uch per&s;on &s;o &s;ued may plead the general I&s;&s;ue, and give this Act a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ecial Matter in Evidence; and if the Plantiff or Pro&s;ecutor <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"> be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;t, the Defendant shall recover treble Damages.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> Th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> none shall be hereby <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span">ed by virtue of this Act, for any neglect or mi&s;carriage in the Execution thereof, but within one year after &s;uch Offence.</P>
<P>Provided al&s;o, and be it further Enacted by the authority afore|&s;aid, That the &s;everal Collectors &s;hall gather and receive the re&s;pec|tive &s;ums a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed, as afore&s;aid, in currant Money of this Province, or for want thereof in good Merchantable Country Produce at the currant Market price.</P>
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