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on all Estates, Real and Personal, and Lucrative Offices and Em-
ployments; and shall well and truly pay to the Commissioners or
Trustees for Emitting the Bills of Credit, established by Act of As-
sembly, the several Sums of Money, which he shall receive and be
answerable for in Virtue of the same Act, at such Times as by the
said Act is directed, according to the true Intent and Meaning thereof,
then the above Obligation to be void, else to be and remain in full
Force and Virtue. And the said Two Justices of the Peace, or Pro-
vincial Magistrate, shall immediately cause the said Bond to be proved
before him or them by the Witnesses thereto, and shall forthwith
indorse the Probate on the Back thereof, and transmit the said Bond
to the Clerk of the Provincial Court, who shall immediately record
the same Bond and Indorsement aforesaid in the Provincial Land-
Records; and after Entry thereof upon Record, the original Bond
shall be lodged with the Register of the Chancery Court, to be by
him safely kept in the Chancery-Office; and an attested Copy of the
said Bond and Probate from the said Provincial Records, shall be as
good Evidence in Law to maintain an Action of Debt, for the Breach
of the Condition thereof, to all Intents and Purposes, as if the said
Bond or Bonds were actually produced and proved in Court.
LXXXIV. And be it further Enacted, That the said respective
Collectors shall pay to the Commissioners or Trustees, for Emitting
Bills of Credit, established by Act of Assembly, one Half of the
total Amount of the Sums charged on the said Certificates of Assess-
ment by the last Day of July next, and the other Half (the Deductions
and Allowances hereafter mentioned being first made) by the Twenty-
fifth Day of December, Seventeen Hundred and Fifty-eight. And
each Collector shall appear at his respective County Court-House
on the First Monday of November, Seventeen Hundred and Fifty-
eight, and then and there lay before the respective Commissioners, a
fair, clear and regular Account of his Collection of the Rates, Duties
and Assessments, imposed by this Act; and the said Commissioners
shall appear at the same Time and Place, under the Penalty of Fifty
Pounds Current Money each Commissioner not appearing : And they
or any Two of them, shall immediately proceed with the Collector to
settle and adjust his said Account; and shall, upon such Settlement,
allow to the said Collector a Commission of Two per Cent, on the
whole Sum by him collected, or for which they shall judge him to
be answerable, and shall not allow him for any Insolvencies or De-
ductions of any Part of the said Sums mentioned in the said Certifi-
cates of Assessment, except in Cases where it shall be made appear
to them he shall have used all lawful Ways and Means for the levying
and collecting the same; a Certificate under their Hands and Seals
of the Ballance of which Account, so settled and adjusted, the said
Commissioners shall, by the First Day of December, which shall be
in the Year of our Lord Seventeen Hundred and Fifty-eight, inclose
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