Section XI Infants making Default, Parents, &c. to pay, and on Default may be proceeded against.

Parents, &c. allowed such Payments in their Accounts. Tenants to pay for Landlords and may deduct out of; their Rents, and Landlords to allow such Deductions.; Tenant hereby acquitted for such Payments.

And bee it further Enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That where any Person or Persons chargeable with any Rates or Assessments by this Act Imposed shall be under the Age of One and twenty years in every such Case the Parents Guardians or Tutors of such Infants respectively upon default of payment by such Infants shall be and are hereby made lyable to and chargeable with the Payments which such Infants ought to have made And if such Parents X1 Guardians or Tutors shall neglect or refuse to pay as aforesaid if shall and may be lawfull to proceede against them in like manner as against any other Person or Persons makeing default of payment as herein before appointed And all Parents Guardians or Tutors makeing payment as aforesaid shall be allowed all and every the Summes soe paid for such Infants upon his and their Accompts And the severall and respective Tennants of all and every the Mannours Messuages Lands Tenements Hereditaments and Premisses which by vertue of this Act shall be chargeable with any Pound Rate as aforesaid are hereby X2authorized and required to pay such Summe or Summes of Money as shall be Rated upon such Mannours Messuages Lands Tenements Hereditaments and Premisses and to deduct out of their Rents soe much of the said Rates as in respect of the said Rents payable for such Mannours Messuages Lands Tenements Hereditaments or Premisses the Landlord should and ought to beare And all Landlords both mediate and immediate (according to their respective Interests) are hereby required to allow such Deductions and Payments upon Receipt of the residue of the Rents And every Tennant paying the said Assessments of the Pound Rate shall bee and is hereby Acquitted and Discharged for soe much Money as the said Assesment shall amount unto as if the same had beene actually paid unto such Person or Persons unto whome his Rent should have beene due & payable.