Section VII Commissioners to agree what Number shall act in each Division.

Commissioners to cause the Proportions to be equally assessed; Precepts to be directed to inhabitants, &c. requiring them to appear at a Place and Time, not exceeding Ten Days, then to read; the Rates, and charge them how to make Certificates; Such Persons absenting without Excuse, or refusing to serve,; Penalty; Commissioners to direct Warrants for Assessors; Assessors to assess the full Sum and bring in Certificate of Assessment; and to return Collectors; for whom Parish, &c. answerable; Assessor, before he acts, to take the Oaths of 1 W. & M. Sess. 1, c.8; Assessors to deliver One Copy of Assessment to Commissioners,; who are to sign and seal Two Duplicates; one to be delivered to Collector, the other to Receiver General; A like Duplicate transmitted to Remembrancer's Office,; all Appeals being first determined.

And for the more effectual Performance thereof Be it enacted & declared That the Commissioners att such General Meeting or the major Part of them shall also agree & sett downe in Writing who & what Number of the said Co[m]missioners shall act in each of the said Divisions or Hundreds & shall deliver true Copies of such Writings to the Receiver General to be appointed by His Majestie to the end there may be no failure in any Part of the due Execution of the Service by this Act required. And the Co[m]missioners within the several Hundreds Lathes Wapentakes Rapes Wards or other Divisions or any Two or more of them are hereby authorized & required to cause the several Proportions charged on the respective Hundreds Lathes. Wapentakes Rapes Wards or other Divisions and on every Parish & Place therein for or towards the Aid hereby granted to be equally assessed & taxed and for that End & Purpose to direct their several or joynt Precept or Precepts to such Inhabitants High Constables Petty Constables Bayliffs or other Officers or Ministers X1or such Number: of them as they in their Discretions shall think most convenient to be Presenters and Assessors requiring them to appeare before the said Co[m]missioners att such Place & Time not exceeding Ten Days as they shall appoint And att such their Appearances the said Commissioners or such of them that shall be then present shall openly declare the Effect of their Charge to them and how and in what manner they should & ought to make their Assessments & how they ought to proceed in the Execution of this Act according to the true Meaning of the same And if any such Constable Petty Constable Bayliffe Officer Minister or other Inhritants to whom any Precept shall be directed shall absent themselves without lawfull Excuse to be made out by the Oaths of Two Credible Witnesses which Oaths the said Commissioners or any Two of them are hereby impowered to administer or if any Person appearing shall refuse to serve then every such Person so making Default or refusing to serve shall for every such Default or Refusal forfeit & lose unto His Majestie such Su[m]ms as the Co[m]missioners or so many as shall be present or the major part of them being present shall think fitt not exceeding the Su[m]m of Five Pounds And after such Charge given as aforesaid the said Co[m]missioners shall take Care that Warren^ts be issued forth & directed to Two att least of the most able & sufficient Inhabitants of each Parish Township or Place within the respective Divisions thereby appointing and requiring them to be Assessors of all & every the Rates & Su[m]ms of Money by this Act imposed And shall therein also appoint and prefix a certaine Day and Place for the said Assessors to appeare before them and to bring in their Assessments in Writing which said Assessors are hereby strictly enjoyned and required with all Care and Diligence to assesse the full Su[m]m given them in Charge respectively upon all Ready Money Debts Personal Estates Offices and Imployments according to this Act and by an equal Pound Rate upon all Mannors Lands Tenements Rents Hereditaments and other the Premises within the Limitts Circuits and Bounds of the respective Parishes & Places for which they shall be so appointed Assessors as aforesaid And shall bring with them att the Time & Place so as aforesaid prefixed for their Appearance a Certificate in Writing of the said Assessment And shall then also returne the Names of Two or more able & sufficient Persons living within the Limitts & Boóunds of those Parishes Towneshipps Constablewicks or Places where they shall be chargeble respectively to be Collectors of the Moneys to be paid to His Majesty by X2this Act for whose paying in to the Receiver General or his Deputy in manner hereafter menc[i]oned such Moneys as they shall be charged withall the Parish or Place wherein they are so imployed shall be answerable And every Assessor appointed or to be appointed by virtue of this Act shall before hee take upon him the Execution of the said Imployment take the Oaths mentioned and required to be taken by an Act made in the Parliament held in the first Yeare of the Reigne of King William & Queen Mary intituled An Act for the abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy & Allegiance and appointing other Oaths which Oaths any Two or more of the X3s?d Co[m]missioners in the County City or Place where the said Assessment is to be made have hereby Power and are required to administer And for the compleating of the whole Su[m]m charged as aforesaid and to the end the aforesaid Su[m]ms charged upon the several and respective Counties Ridings Cities Boroughs Townes and Places may be duely collected and true Accounts thereof made the said Assessors are hereby required to deliver one Copy of their respective Assessments fairely written & subscribed by them unto the said Commissioners within the time to be prefixed as aforesaid And the said Co[m]missioners or any Two or more of them are hereby ordered & required to signe & seale Two Duplicates of the said Assessments & the One of them to deliver or cause to be delivered to Two or more honest & responsible Persons to be Collector or Collectors which the said Co[m]missioners are hereby authorized to nominate & appoint for each Parish or Place with Warrant to the said Collector or Collectors to collect the same Assessment payable as aforesaid so as the said several Su[m]ms may be paid in to the said Receivers General att the respective-times hereby limitted And the said Co[m]missioners are hereby required to deliver or X4cause to be delivered a Schedule or Duplicate in Parchment under their Hands and Seales fairely written containing the whole Su[m]m assessed upon each Parish or Place unto the Receiver General of each County Riding City Borough Towne or Place respectively or his Deputy And shall transmitt or cause to be transmitted a like Schedule or Duplicate into the Kings Remembrancers Office of the Exchequer And this the said Co[m]missioners shall cause to be done upon or before the Foure & twentieth Day of June One thousand six hundred ninety & eight or within Twenty Days after (all Appeals to them made being first determined.