Section XXX Where Persons charged in respect of finding Horse or Horsemen, and Assessment not paid, and no Goods;

Assessment levied by Distress.; Tenant of Land may pay and deduct out of Rent.

Provided always That all persons charged or chargeable by this Act in respect of their finding or contributeing or being liable to find or contribute to the finding any Horse and Horseman with Armes as aforesaid shall bee assessed with the same in the Counties and places respectively where they doe or ought soe to find or contribute as aforesaid And if the su[m]ms assessed or charged in such Counties or Places respectively shall not bee paid within the respective times in this Act before limitted for payment thereof and noe Goods or Chattells of the person soe assessed sufficient to pay the said su[m]ms shall bee found in the place where such Assessment shall bee made it shall bee lawfull in case the Tenant or Tenants of the Lands in respect of which such Assessment shall bee made shall not within Tenne days after demand thereof pay the said su[m]ms to levy the same by Distresse and Sale of the Goods of such Tennant or Tennants in manner aforesaid And every Tennant paying the su[m]m soe assessed or upon whom the same shall bee levied as aforesaid shall and may deduct soe much out of the Rent payable for the Premisses Which said su[m] soe deducted and retained shall bee allowed on payment of the residue of the Rent as fully as if the whole Rent had been actually paid to such person to whome the same was due.