Section III Commissioners under Stat. 7 & 8 W.III. c. 5. to be Commissioners for executing this Act.

Commissioners to meet in the several Counties, &c. at or before the 7th May 1696; and may subdivide themselves; Commissioners to direct Precepts to Inhabitants, &c. requiring them to appear there and to read the Rates, and charge them how to make Certificates, &c.; and to prefix Day to bring in Certificates of Dwelling Houses and Number of Windows; and Names of Persons, &c.; Penalty; Commissioners to appoint Collectors, for whom Parish to be answerable; Assessors to take Oath as directed by 1 W. & M. Sess. 1. c.8; Commissioners empowered to administer the Oath.

And bee itt further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for the better Execution of this Act and for the ordering levying and paying of the severall Summes of Money hereby granted the Persons named to bee Commissioners for putting in Execution an Act of this present Session of Parliament intituled An Act for granting to His Majesty an Aid of Foure Shillings in the Pound for One Yeare for carrying on the Warr against France shall bee Commissioners for putting in Execution this present Act and the Powers therein contained in all and every the respective Counties Rideings Cities Boroughs Cinque Ports Townes and Places for the First Yeare of the said Terme of Seven Yeares for which the Duties hereby imposed are granted which said Commissioners in order to the speedy Execution of this Act shall in theire respective Counties Cities Boroughs Townes and Places for which they are appointed Commissioners respectively meete together att the most usuall or common Place of Meeting within such of the said Counties Cities Boroughs Townes and Places respectively att or before the Seventh Day of May One thousand six hundred ninety six And the said Commissioners or soe many of them as shall bee present att the first generall Meeting or the major part of them may by their Consents and Agreements divide as well themselves as other the Commissioners not then present for the Execution of this Act in Hundreds Lathes Wapentakes Rapes Wards Townes and other Places within their Limitts priviledged or not priviledged in such manner as to them shall seeme. meet and shall direct their severall or joint Precept or Precepts to such Inhabitants and such Number of them as they in their Discretion shall thinke most convenient to be Presenters and Assessors requireing them to appeare before the said Commissioners att such time and place as they shall appoint not exceeding Ten Dayes and att such theire appearances the said Commissioners or soe many of them as shall meete shall openly read or cause to bee read unto them the severall Rates and Duties in this Act mentioned and openly declare the Effect of their Charge unto them and how and in what manner they ought and should make their Certificates and Assessments according to the severall Rates aforesaid and shall then and there prefix another day to the said Persons to appeare before the said Co[m]missioners and bring in their Certificates in Writeing under their Hands of every Dwelling House inhabited charged by this Act within the Lymitts of those Places for which they are to act and of the number of Windows in each House unlesse the number of Windows in any House shall exceed Twenty and in such Case itt shall not bee necessary to mention in such Certificate what number of Windows any House hath above Twenty together with the Names and Sirnames of the severall Occupiers or Inhabitants of each respective House and of the severall Summes of Money they ought to pay by vertue of this Act without Concealment Love Favour Dread or Malice upon paine of Forfeiture of any Summe not exceeding Five Pounds to bee levyed as by this Act is appointed And shall also then returne the Names of Two or more able and sufficient Persons within the Bounds or Lymitts of those Parishes or Places where they shall bee Assessors respectively to bee Collectors of the severall Rates and Dutyes granted to His Majesty by this Act which shall grow due and payable within the First Yeare of the said Terme of Seven Years for whose paying unto the Receiver Generall to bee appointed by His Majesty His Deputy or Deputies in manner following such Moneys as they shall bee charged withall the Parish or Place by whom they are soe imployed shall bee answerable And every Assessor soe as aforesaid appointed or to bee appointed shall (before hee take upon him the Execution of the said Imployment) take the Oathes mentioned and required to bee taken by an Act made in the Parliament held the First Yeare of the Reigne of King William and Queene Mary entituled (An Act for the abrogating the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, and appointing other Oathes) which Oathes any two or more of the Commissioners in the County City or Place where the said Assessment is to bee made have hereby Power and are hereby required to administer.