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Section LIV Commissioners appointed to execute Act, to examine upon Oath and receive the Assessments made in pursuance of Act Sess. I. c. 20. and if they find any Person assessed at a lower Rate than directed by the said Act, to cause such Deficiency to be raised.

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Provided alwayes and bee it Enacted That the Commissioners appointed to putt this Act in Execution shall and are hereby impowered and required within their respective Counties Divisions Cityes and Places to Examine upon Oath and X1Receive the severall Assessments of each Parish and Place made in pursuance of the late Act Entituled An Act for a Grant to Their Majestyes of Twelve pence in the Pound for One Yeare for the necessary Defence of Their Realms And where they shall finde any Person or Place Assessed at a lower Rate or lesser Summe then was directed by the said Act to cause the Summe so ommitted to be raised and paid to Their Majestyes in such manner and by such wayes and Meanes and under such Paines and Penalties as are herein before Provided and Directed for the Assessing and Levying the Summes chargeable by this present Act.

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Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: reveiwe O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]