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i^t^ or diffria, to be made, one part hereof than be
keptTy the said Commiltioners ol flu proper county, and
tbr otheipart (hall be transmitted to trie Collector of each
dittr^f, with a warrant under the hands ano seals of two of
the (.nd Comm'flioneis, authorizing and requiring the
[aid Collector, after the day of appeal (hall be passed ten
days, to levy the sums rated on ail persons who Shall not
upon demand, after the laid appeal, forthwith Satisfy the
fame, and to acquaint them of the day of appeal, which
Ihall be appointed by the Commissioners within
after the said assessments are made, but where any of
the Collectors cannot meet with the party of whom de
mand is to be made as aforefaid, he or they shall leave
n. tice in writing withfome of the family, at the place of
the party's last abode, of such demand, Signifying allo
the day of appeal; at which day every of the ColleCtoiS
shall return their several duplicates.
orcT. 20. And be it further enabled by the authority afore
faid, That if any AffUdi legally chosen, or any perlon
appointed by the said Commissioners to be an Allenoi,
or an Assistant or Collector, shall not, within two days
after notice in writing of such election or appointment,
make known his intention to the Commissioners of the
county to serve or decline the office to which such perlon
hath been or shall be 1b chosen or appointed, the laid
Commissioners, or any two of them, may confider such
persons as hiving refuted to serve in such office, and may
proceed to fine such person, and appoint anothei in his
Head, as if such perlon had actually refufed to serve in
such office. , , . ,
Sect. 21 And be it further enabled by the authority ajore
faid, I hat the fine on any person refuting to serve as an
Assessor 0/ Assistant Shad be any sum not exceeding
•pounds ; and the fine on any person refuting to serve as
Collector of any diftriCt shall be any sum not exceed,ng
pounds. And in case any Aflefior, or Assistant
or Collector, after taking upon him his office, shall ne
glect to perform hisduty therein, any such delinquent fliall
be fined in any sum not exceeding pounds; and
if any person chosen to be an Assessor, or an Assistant or
Collector, or if any other person fliall detain any warrant,
duplicate or other writing, necessary to the assessing or
levying the said tax, beyond the time when such person
shall have declined, or be deemed to have declined, any
such office, or after demand thereof made by any of the
said Commissioners, or by any person authorifed by them
to demand the fame, every such delinquent fliall be fined,
for such offence, in any sum not exceeding
pounds, nor tinder pounds, the said fines to be
ascertained add set by the Commissioners of the county,
and levied as other fines are or ought to be levied by vir
tue of the said act.
Sect. 22. And be it further enabled by the authority afore
faid, That if any perlon or persons find him or themselves
aggrieved witli any 01 the laid affeflments, lie or they
ma appeal to the Commissioners of the proper county.
Sect, 23. Antbe it further enabled by the authority afore
fail, Th ^ ihe fahl (. m ndhoners are hereby required to
m et on the said day of appeal, where the said Assessors
shall attend; whereup n the' laid Comm.dinners shall take
due notice there f, and ifriCHy examine the persons ap
pealing upon their oath or affirmation, or otherwise, con
cerning the cause of the'r appeal; and upon such exami
nation, or proof of others, they are hereby empowered
to diminish or add to the person's rate or assessment, as to
them shall seem just and reasonable, with power to call
before them such persons, and take notice of such estates
as they find are omitted in the said assessment, in order to
reftify it; and if the persons so omitted refufe or negleft
to appear and give an account of their taxable estate,
they shall pay double the sum they ffiould or ought to
have been rated at by this ad. And the said Commis
sioners shall cause their clerks to draw fair duplicates of
the affeffinents of the said refpedive dilbias, so rectified
as aforefaid, and deliver them to the (Collectors of the se
veral townships, wards or diftri&s where they belong,
within ten days after the appeal. y
Sect. 24. And be it further enabled by the authority afore
faid, That if any person or perlons, so rated or afleffed
by virtue of this a&, (hall refufe or neglect to pay the
sum or sums so assessed by the space of after
demand made as aforefaid, it shall be lawful for the said
Collectors respectively, by virtue of the aforefaid warrant,
to call to their assistance, if occasion be, any Constable or
other person, and in case of refinance to break open, in
the day time, any house, trunk, box, chest, closet, cup
board or other things, where any such offender's goods
and chattels or effects are supposed to be, and make di
stress and sale thereof, rendering the overplus, if any be,
to the owner, after reasonable charges deducted ; but if
no distress can be found by the Collector, and the party
refufes or neglects to shew them goods or chattels of his
own forthwith to fatisfy the money then due, with rea
sonable charges, then the Collector shall take the body of
every such person, and bring him to the county goal, and
deliver him to the Sheriff or keeper of the said goal, who
shall detain him in close custody, without bail or main
prize, until payment be made.
StCT. 25. Provided always, That when effects cannot
be found sufficient to answer the whole sum in arrear,
with charges as aforefaid, then distress shall be made fcr
so much as the effects extend to, and the party imprdoned
only for the r fidue thereof, with incident charges; all
which charges of distress, assistance and bringing to pri
son, shall be adjusted and fettled by anv two or more of
the Commissioners, when such occasion shall happen.
Sect. 26. And be it further enabled by the authority afore
faid, That the Collector of every district, ward or town
ship, (hall pay unto the county Treasurer the whole of the
tax charged in his duplicate, within after the
day of appeal, unless he has been obliged to make distress
for any part thereof, in which case, and no other, he shall,
as to the tax assessed on the parties diftrained on, have
days more, after which the Commissioners of
Qie county shall fine such deficient Collector at the rate of
in the pound upon all sums charged in his
duplicate, which such Collector shall not have paid to the
said Treasurer, for every ten days he shall fail to make
payment thereof as aforefaid ; such fine to be recovered
in manner aforefaid.„
Sect., 27. Provided the said Commissioners give the
&id Collector ten days notice of such complaint being
Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by DAVID C. CLAYPOOLE, in Markedtreel
lodged by the Treasurer, that the said Collector may have
an opportunity of making it appear that the said com
plaint is not well founded.
)ECT. 28. And moreover, it fliall be lawful for the (aid
Commissioners of the proper county, or any two of them,
and they are hereby required to meet and iflue out their
warrants, under their hands and seals, to toe Sheriff or
Coroner ot the proper county, requiring him to take the
body, and seize and Secure the estate, real and personal,
belonging to fuel) delinquent, or whicli (hall /come into
the hands or pofleffion ot his heirs, executors or admini
strators. wherever the fame can be difeovered or found in
this State, aud make return of his proceedings therein,
at such time and place as the Commissioners fliall appoint.
Sect. 29. And be it further enabled by the authority afore
faid That the laid Commissioners, who fliall cause the laid
"lands and estates to be seized and secured as aforefaid,
shall 'e and aie hereby empowered to appoint a time for a
^n^ral meeting of the Commissioners of such County,
and there to cause public notice to be given where such
meeting shall be appointed, ten days at least before such
g-rteral meeting; and the Commissioners then present at
filch meeting, or the major part of them, in case the mo
ney detained by such delinquent be not then paid or fatis
fied, fndl and are hereby empowered and required to iflue
so th their warrants or precepts to the Sheriff or Coroner
of the proper county, empowering and requiring him to
fell and difoofe of all such estates as shall be, for the cause
aforefaid, seized and secured, or such part thereof as will
be Sufficient to fatisfy deficiencies aforefaid, and all char
ges, and to bring the money arising by such sale to the
Commissioners who granted such warrants, in order to fa
tisfy and pay in to the refpe&ive County Treasurers, for
the time being, the sum or funis that shall be so unpaid or
detained in the hands of the said Collectors or other per
sons their heirs, executors or administrators respectively,
with damages for what fliall be so unpaid, returning the
overplus, if any be, to the owner, after all necessary
chiroes deducted ; and when any sale of land, tenements
or hereditaments shall be made by such Sheriff or Coroner
refpe&ivelv, pursuant to this aft, the title and convey
ance thereof fliall be by deed, signed, sealed and delivered
bv the Sheriff or Coroner, to such person or persons as
fliall purchase the fame, in fee simple or otherwise, which
lall be most abf>lute and available in law against the said
delinquents, and their heirs and assigns, and all claiming
under them.
Sect. 30. And be it further enabled by the authority afore
faid That if the owner or owners of land and other real
property, by this a& made fubjeft to taxation, or some
person or persons for him or them, do not appear, or shall
neglect or refufe to pay the rates assessed thereon by the
space of after the days °' the
anneal, then and in every such case the said land or other
real property, together "with the rates assessed thereon,
shall be advertised i, the township or county in which such
lands do lie, or in the place where such owner or owners
do dwell ; and the Commissioners of the refpeftive coun
ties shall, and they are hereby required to give public no
tice thereof in some of the Englilh and German papers,
for at least three months, that the sale will be made of
such part of the said lands as will be fufficient to difeharge
the taxes due for the fame, and all charges accruing by
reason of the refusal or non payment thereof. And if the
owner or owners of such lands or other real estate, or some
person or persons in their behalf, do not appear to dis
charge and pay the said taxes, with all the charges as a
forefaid, then the said Commissioners of the refpeftive
counties are authorized and hereby empowered to fell the
said lands or other real estates, or so much thereof as afore
faid by public vendee, to such person or persons as will
appear and give molt for the fame, returning the over- ,
plus, if any be, to the owner or owners of such lands, or
their legal representatives as aforefaid, after ah necessary
charges deduced. And when any sale of such land or
other real estate (hall be as aforefaid made by the Sheriff
or Coroner refpeaively, put fuant to this atf, the title and
conveyance thereof shall be by deed, signed, sealed and
delivered by the Sheriff or Coroner, to such person or
persons as purchase the fame, in fee simple or otherwise,
which shall be most absolute and available in law against
the said delinquents, and their heirs and assigns, and ail
claiming under them.
Sect 31 And be it further enats^ the authority afore
faid, That in case any Collector, Sheriff or Coroner, after
distress and sale by him or them made, shall have any
overplus money remaining in his or any of their hands,
such Collector, Sheriff or Coroner, firft tendering the fame
before one witness to the owner of the goods difti ained
aad fold, shall, upon the refufal of such owner to receive
such money, pav the fame to the Treasurer of the county,
who shall deduct therefrom one per centum, and give no
tice thereof within twenty days to the Commissioners of
all sums so paid ; and the owner thereof shall have the re
mainder difeounted out of any future tax; and the receipt
of the said Treasurer shall exonerate the Collector, Sheriff
or Coroner. ~ , , • r
Sect. 32. And be it further enabled by the authority afore
faid, That the Collegers shall make out fair and true ac
counts in writing, of every seizure by them made, with
the charges to be fettled by the Commissioners, who fliall
make the Collectors such reasonable allowance for their
trouble as to them shall seem right; and the said Com
miflioners shall have full power and authority in all cases
to call upon Collectors, who have or in future may have
any overplus money in their hands, and to proceed against
them in such cases as the law directs in case of delinquent
Collectors.
Sect. 33. And be it further enabled by the authority afore
faid, That everv county Treasurer of this State shall pay
over all sums of money by him received, by virtue of
this aCt, to the Treasurer of this Commonwealth, within
the time herein after limitted ; that is to fay, the Treasurer
of the county of Philadelphia within three days after he
(hall receive the fame; the Treasurer of the county of
Bucks within four days after he fliall receive the fame;
the Treasurer of the county of Chester within four days
after he shall receive the fame; the Treafuer of the
county of Lancaster within fix days after he fliall receive
the fame; the Treasurer of the county of York within
seven days after he shall receive the fame; and the Trea
surer of the county of Cumberland shall be allowed eight
davs; and the Treasurer of the county of Berks fix da„g
and the Treasurer of the county of Northampton fevea
days; and the Treasurer of the county of Bedford twelve
days; and the Treasurer of the counties of Westmore-.
land and Washington twenty days; and the Treasurer of
the county ot Northumberland twelve days, for the like
purpose.
Sect. 34. And be it further enabled by the authority afore
faid, That the Commissioners of the several counties of
this State shall cause their Clerks to make out a fair trans
cript of the assessment of every tax laid upon the county
by virtue of this aft, and, having signed the fame, shall
cause such transcript to be delivered to the Treasurer of
the Commonweath, within after the days of
the appeal. ,
Sect. 35. And be it further enabled by the authority afore
fid, That the Commissioners of the city and several
counties fliall each of them have and receive
and each of the township, ward and dißrift Affeffor#.
shall have and receive per day, for each day
they shall bona fide be employed in the performance of tlit
duties required of them by this ad ; and that the Collec
tors feverallv employed in and for the due execution of
this a&, shall be allowed in the pound for
every pound by them so colleaed, and no more.
Sect. 36. And be it further enabled by the authority afore
faid, That all sums of money to be assessed and levied by
this aft shall be paid and difeharged in gold or silver
money, at the rate of Three Pounds for one Half-Johanner
of Portugal, weighing nine penny-weight, and Seven
Shillings and Six-pence for one Spanish milled Dollar,
weighing seventeen penny-weight and fix grains, and so
in proportion for all other gold or silver rtioney, and in
no other money whatsoever.
Sect. 37. And whereas it is absolutely necessary that
this ad be put in force and executed with all convenient
Speed, Therefore be it enabled b, the authority aforefaid.
That if any of the said Commissioners fliall refufe or ne
gleft to perform his or their duty in the premises, he or
they so offending shall be fined by the Supreme Executive
Council of this State, in any sum not exceeding
Pounds for every offence, which by virtue of their war
rant, directed to the Sheriff or Coroner of the county
where such offender or his estate is at the time of issuing
such warrant, fliall be levied by the seizure of land, di
stress and sale of goods, or imprisonment of body, as the
case shall require.
Sect. 38. And be it further enabled by the authority afore
faid, That the County Treasurers refpe&ively, for their
trouble in receiving and paying all such monies as dial!
come into their hands refpe&ively, by virtue of this aft,
shall be allowed for evety Hundred Pounds;
and the Treasurer of the State shall be allowed for hi,
trouble, in receiving and paying all such monies as shall
come into his hands by virtue of this a&, the sum of
for every Hundred Pounds and
no more.
Sect. 39. And be it further enabled by the authority afore
faid, That the Commissioners of each refpe&ive county
ihall, at the next meeting of Assembly after the said taxes
are fettled and adjusted, cause to be bid before this House,
true and fair duplicates of all the returns of property and
rates laid in each refpe&ive county, township, ward or
diftria, under the penalty of Pounds.
Sect. 40. And be it further enabled by the authority afore
faid, That the said Commissioners be and they are hereby
empowered to employ Suitable Clerks, for tranfafting the
business required of such Clerks by this a&, who are to be
paid for their Services out of the taxes to be railed by vir
tue of this a&.
• • All debts due to the above estate are forbid being
paid te any person bu, the said John Lee, who only it
lawfully impowered to receive the fame.
To be Sold by Public Vendue,
On MONDAY next, being the 7th d&v o f January,
at the late dwelling Houle of Mr. JOHN WRIGHT,
deceased, commonly known by the name of Mr.
Anthony Morris's place, situated on Second-street,
in the diftr & of Southwaik,
HOUSHOLD FURNITURE, &c. &c. Consisting of
QNE likely Negroe Wench about twenty
'years old, fit for town or country work, 2 working
Mares, two likely Coltn, and one likely Poney, one
good Milch Cow, and one Cow and Calf, two broad
wheel Carts and one Market-Cart) P Ought; Harrows,
Gm and otl er Hrwff", Grind-ftonet, and Sundry
ot'er farming Utenfi l * ;B ds and Bedings, one eight
day Clock with a Case, Looking-Glaffis, Chairs,
Tables, and a great Variety of other Houfhold and
K tchen Furniture, no numerous to mention in an ad
verufemeit; al 0, rwo lirge Sticks of Rye, one Stack
ot Oats, and a Q ^ntuy of Ha% a large Quantity of
Ca^baye, Turners and Potatoes, &c. The Vendue to
begin precisely at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, and con
tinue till all is fold.
All the Negroes, Stock, and
N B. The condßrians to be made known on the day
of sale, by JOHN LEE, A&ing Executor.
WW>W(W§M)u&teoste*o
Notice is hereby given, to all
those indebted bs B fl, Bend, Note of Hand, or other
rife, howsoever, to the Estate of J?bn Wright, late of
M yamerfing u wnfhip, in the co^niv of Philadelphia,
deceafrd, they ere requ~Eed to make Speedy payment ;
anddl those who have any Demands against said Estate
are desired to bring or fend in their Accounts, properly
proved, in order that they may Ie paid as soon as the
Eff &< of the deceased cm bi obtained, by the subscri
ber, for the difeharge thereof.
Mourt-Pleafant, New Jersey, Cetembtr 31, 1781.
JOHN LEE, Aaing Executor.