Section III £2,000 yearly upon Personal Estates.

And for and towards the raiseing such a perpetual Fond and so to be applied as aforesaid Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That from and after the said Foure and twentieth day of June One thousand six hundred ninety foure the said Mayor Commonalty and Citizens shall and may and they are hereby required yearely to raise the su[m]m of Two thousand pounds by an equal proportionable assessment upon the personal Estates of the several Inhabitants within the said City and the liberties thereof to be yearely assessed collected received and paid or in default of payment distrained for in such manner as the said Mayor Commonalty and Citizens in their Common Council assembled or otherwise shall from time to time annually direct and appoint.