Section XI Tenant paying to be acquitted to Amount of Payment.

Commissioners may settle Difference between Landlord and Tenant as to Rate.; Persons over-rated may complain (within Six Days after Demand) to Commissioners; In case Proportions of Rate not fully assessed, or Persons not of Ability, or upon Empty House; or if Assessments not paid to Receiver General or Deputy; Commissioners, Assessors, &c. are to re-assess.; Such new Assessment to be made, &c. as the former Assessment.

And it is enacted and declared That every tennant paying the said Assesment shall be acquitted and discharged for soe much Money as the said Assesments shall amount unto as if the same had beene actually paid unto such person or persons unto whome his rents should have beene due and payable And if any difference shall arise betweene Landlord and Tennant or any other concerning the said rates the said severall Commissioners or any two or more of them in their severall Divisions shall and have hereby power to setle the same as they shall thinke fitt And if any person or persons shall finde him or themselves aggreived in that the Assessors have overrated him or them and shall within six dayes after demand made of the summe of money assessed on him or them complaine to two or more Commissioners whereof one of the Co[m]missers who signed or allowed his or their Assesment to be one, the said Commissioners or any two or more of them shall have and have hereby power within twelve dayes after the demand of the Assesment as aforesaid to relieve such person or persons and to charge the same on such other person or persons as they shall see cause, and in case the proportions sett by this Act upon all and every the respective Countyes Cittyes Townes and Places shall not be fully assessed levyed and paid according to the true meaning thereof or that X1 any of the said Assesments shall be rated and imposed upon any person not being of ability to pay the same, or upon any empty or void house or land where the same cannot be collected or levyed, or that through any wilfulnes, negligence or mistake or accident the said Assesment charged upon each County, Citty Towne or Place by vertue of this Act happens not to be paid to the Receiver-generall his deputy or deputyes'of the respective Countyes as in this Act is directed That then X2in all and every such cases the severall and respective Commissioners Assessors and Collectors aforesaid and every of them respectively are hereby authorized and required to assesse or reassesse or cause to be assessed or reassessed leavyed and paid all and every such summe and summes of money upon the respective Countyes Cittyes Townes and Places or upon any the Divisions Hundreds and Parishes therein as to the said Commissioners or such number of them as by this Act are authorized to cause the first Assesment hereby required to be made shall seeme most agreeable to equity and justice, the said new Assesment to be made collected and paid in such manner and by such meanes as in this Act for this Assesment is declared and directed.