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Extract from the VOTES. Friday, April 5,
1776, A. M. [Continued from page 210.]
RESOLUTIONS directing the mode of levying TAXES
on NON-ASSOCIATORS.
1. CT-1 HE Assessors of the several townships, boroughs,
wards and diftrids within this province, who
have not performed the said service, are re
quired on or before the twenty-fifth day of May
next ensuing, to make in writing and deliver an exaCt lift of
the names and surnames of every male white persons capable
of bearing arms, between the ages of sixteen and fifty years
(Ministers of the Gospel of all denominations, schoolmasters
in actual employ, and servants purchased bona fide and for a
valuable consideration, only excepted) residing in such town
ship, borough, ward or diftriCt, to the Commissioners of the
county chosen by virtue of the ad for raising of county rates
and levies.
2. If any Assessor shall neglect or refufe to perform the
duty aforefaid, the Commissioners of the refpeCtive counties,
or any two or more of them, are hereby required and enjoined
to fine him in any sum not exceeding ten pounds, unless such
Assessor's refufal proceeds from confciencious motives; and
such fine shall be levied and recovered in the fame manner
as is directed by the laws of this province for levying and
recovering fines imposed on Assessors refufing or neglecting
to perform the duties therein required of them, to be paid
into the hands of the refpeCtive county Treasurers, to be by
them delivered to the fame person, and applied to the fame
use, as the other monies directed to be levied by the resolves
of this House, in their present fitting.
3. The Commissioners of the reipedive counties, or any
two of them, are hereby required and enjoined to appoint
some proper person to make out the lift aforefaid in the place
of the Afleffor so refuting or neglecting, which perlon so
appointed shall make out and return such lilt to the Cornmif
fioners on or before the firft day of May next ensuing.
4. Every Assessor, 01 person appointed inhis place as afore
faid, shall, before he begins to make out the lifts aforefaid,
take an oath or affirmation, which any magistrate of the county
is hereby required and enjoined to aaminifter without fee or
reward : " That he will go to the place or places of abode
“ of all and every person and persons residing within his
" township, borough, ward or diftriCt, and make a faithful
“ and diligent inquiry of, and endeavour by all other law
" ful ways and means in his power, to procure a true and ex
" aCt account and lilt of the names and surnames of all male
™ white persons capable of bearing arms, who are between
" the ages of sixteen and fifty years, residing within his town
" ship, borough, ward or diftriCt, and will make a return of
“ fucn account or lift (if an Assessor) to the Commissioners of
“ the county respectively in which he resides, on or before
" the twenty-fifth day of May next ensuing, or, if a person
'' appointed in the place of an Afleffor, on or before the firft
" day of June next ensuing."
5. Every Assessor, or other person appointed and acting in
the place of an Assessor as aforefaid, shall receive for his trou-
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ble in making out and returning such lifts, the sum of four
Shillings for every day he shall be employed in that service.
6. If any dispute shall arise concerning the age of any Non
affociator,the fame shall be determined before the Commissioners
of the county, or any two of them, by oath or affirmation of
the person whose age is in question, which oath or affirmation
the said Commissioners, or any of them, is hereby required
to administer, or by any other proper evidence.
7. The Captains of every company are required and en
joined, on or before the fifteenth day of June next ensuing, to
deliver under his hand to the Colonel of the battalion to
which he belongs, a copy of the Articles of Association signed
by the Associators of his company, therein mentioning the
county and the township, borough, ward or diftriCt, in which
each of the said Associators resides, which the Colonel shall
carefully keep, and therefrom shall immediately make out
and return on or before the twenty-fifth day of the fame
month, a fair duplicate to the Commissioners aforefaid of the
refpeCtive counties in which the said Associators refpe&ively
reside.
9. If any apprentice is willing to associate, and his master
or mistress will not permit him so to do, or detains him from
the parade, on any of the days of exercise herein appointed,
fuch'mafter or mistress shall be liable to the payment of
three shillings and sixpence, for each time he or she shall de
tain his or her said apprentice ; and, if any apprentice of
suitable age shall neglect or refufe to appear, on any of the
said days of exercise, not being detained by his said master or
mistress, such apprentice, if of estate, shall, by his guardians,
pay such penalty.
10. If any Commissioner shall negleCt or refufe to perform
any of the duties required of him, by these resolutions, such
Commissioner shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten pounds,
for every such offence, unless such refufal proceeds from con
fciencious motives ; such fine to be recovered, levied and ap
plied in the fame manner, by the fame persons, and for the
fame uses as the fines arising from the delinquency of the As
sessors ; and, in such case, the prothonotaries of the several
counties of this province respectively, or their immediate de
puties, are hereby enjoined, by and with the concurrence of
any two magistrates of said county, to appoint some suitable
and proper person, in the place and dead of such Commissi
oner so refufing or neglecting as aforefaid, which person so
appointed shall have the fame power and authority, ano per
form the several duties hereby required of the said Commiffi-
8. The said Commissioners, or any two of them, are required
on or before the firft day of July next ensuing to meet toge
ther, and cause their clerks to make out fair lifts of the names
and surnames of all persons mentioned in the duplicates re
turned to them as aforefaid, with their places of abode, who
appear by the duplicates returned by the Colonels not to have
signed the Articles of Association ; and thereupon the said
Commissioners are required to charge every such person not
associating, over and above the rates and assessments set upon
him by virtue of the laws of this province, the sum of three
pounds ten Killings, on the lifts made out by their order as
aforefaid.
[Num. 199.