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the Penalties of certain Laws; which Declaration any One or more
of the Commissioners, appointed for the executing this Act, are
hereby impowered and required to administer; and every such Person
so doing, shall not be liable to, or chargeable with, any of the double
Rates aforesaid.
LXXVII. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid.
That in all Cases where any Assessor or Assessors, who, by this Act,
are required to make double Assessments upon Papists or reputed
Papists, or other Persons for not taking the Oaths aforesaid, and
signing the Oath of Abjuration and the Test as aforesaid, shall
neglect to do his or their Duty therein, the respective Commissioners
of the County where such double Assessments ought to have been
made, or any Two or more of them, shall take Care, and they are
hereby authorized and required to cause such Papists or other Per-
sons, to be doubly charged, according to the true Intent and Meaning
of this Act. Provided always, and be it Enacted, That where the
Owners of any Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, are liable
to be doubly charged as Papists or reputed Papists, by Reason of their
not having taken the Oaths, and signing the Oath of Abjuration and
the Test as aforesaid, according to the true Intent of this Act, in
every such Case such Owners only shall be charged with and pay the
said double Rates; and the respective Tenants of such Lands, Tene-
ments and Hereditaments, are hereby discharged of and from the
same; and Covenant for Payment of Taxes, or other Agreement
to the contrary, notwithstanding.
LXXVIII. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid,
That where any Person or Persons, chargeable with any Rates or
Assessments by this Act imposed, shall be under the Age of Twenty-
one Years, then and in such Case, the Parents, Guardians or Tutors
of such Infants respectively, upon Default of Payment by such
Infants, shall be and are hereby made liable to, and chargeable with,
the Payments which such Infant ought to have made. And if such
Parents, Guardians or Tutors, shall neglect or refuse to pay as afore-
said, it shall and may be lawful to proceed against them in like Man-
ner as against other Person or Persons making Default of Pay-
ment. And all Parents, Guardians or Tutors, making Payment as
aforesaid, shall be allowed all and every the Sums so paid for such
Infants upon his and their Account.
LXXIX. Provided always, and be it Enacted, That no Stay of
Prosecution, upon any Command, Warrant, Motion, Order, or Direc-
tion, by non vult ulterius prosequi, shall be had, made, admitted,
received or allowed, by any Court whatsoever, in any Suit or Proceed-
ing, by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information, or otherwise,
for the Recovery of all or any the Pains, Penalties or Forfeitures,
upon any Person by this Act inflicted, or therein mentioned, or for or
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