Section XXIX Three Commissioners for Middlessex and Westminster may appoint Assessors;

who are to ascertain and rate the Value of Offices, and to return the same to the Commissioners, &c. and to deliver their Surveys subscribed to the Commissioners, &c. before the Second, General Meeting.; Commissioners at such Meeting to cast up the Revenue of the County, &c. and proportion Charge.

And whereas the County of Midlesex and Citty of Westminster are raised in the monethly Assesments by reason of the new buildings lately erected and that Offices are made chargeable towards the payment of such Assesments To the end that and equall rate may be made and imposed upon the severall Divisions Parishes and Hamletts within the said County and Citty Bee it enacted by this present Parlyament and the authority thereof That the said Co[m]missioners appointed for the said County and Citty of Westminster or any three of them shall if they shall thinke it fitt, cause two or three of the honest and able Inhabitants in the severall and respective Parishes Towneshipps and Places within the said County and Citty to be named and appointed Assessors, who (or any two of them) are to ascertaine and rate the yearely value and proffitt of all Offices belonging to the Courts at Westminster and other Offices chargeable by this Act towards the payment of the said summe sett upon the said County and Citty and all Towneshipps Parishes and Places for which they are appointed Assessors and to returne the same to the said Commissioners or to such person or persons as shall be appointed to receive the same which said Assessors are to deliver in their severall Surveyes perfected and subscribed by them unto the said Commissioners or unto such person or persons as shall be appointed by them or any three of them to receive the same two or three dayes at the least before the second generall meeting of the said Commissioners to the end that the said Commissioners may deliver in all the severall Surveyes to be made throughout the said County at the X1said second generall meeting at which said generall meeting the said Commissioners or the major part of them then present shall upon view and perusall of the said severall Surveyes cast up the true Revenue and yearely Proffitts of the whole County Citty and Offices aforesaid to the end that an equall pound rate may be apportioned upon every Office chargeable by this Act Division Hundred Towneshipp and Parrish according to the proportion and summe of money charged upon the said County and City by vertue of this present Act which the said Commissioners or the major part of them then and there assembled are by vertue of this Act authorized and appointed to proportion and make accordingly.