Section LXIV Commissioners for Middlessex may appoint Assessors to rate Offices,

who are to deliver Surveys to Commissioners; to the end that an equal Pound Rate may be apportioned.

And whereas the County of Midlesex and City 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 Assessments to the end that an equall Rate may be made and imposed upon the sever all Divisions Parishes and Hambletts within the said County and City Bee it enacted by this present Parlyament and the Authoritie thereof That the said Commissioners appointed for the said County and City of Westminster or any Three of them shall (if they shall thinke 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 City to be named and appointed Assessors who (or any two of them) are to ascertaine and rate the yearely value and proffitts 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 City and all Towneships Parishes and Places for which they are appointed Assessors and to returne the same to the said Commissioners or to such persons as shall be appointed to receive the same which said Assessors are to deliver in their severall Surveys perfected and subscribed by them unto the said Commissioners or unto such person or persons as shall be appointed by them or any three or more of them to receive the same two or three dayes at least before the second Generall Meeting of the said Commissioners to the end that the said Commissioners may deliver in all the severall Surveys to be made throughout the said County at the said second Generall Meeting at which said Generall Meeting the said Commissioners or the major part of them X1then present shall upon view and perusall of the said severall Surveyes cast up the true Revenue and yearely Proffitts of the whole County City 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 Parish 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.