BE  IT  ENACTED  by  the  Authority  aforesaid  that  it  shall  and
may  be  lawful  to  and  for  the  said  Mayor,  Recorder,  Aldermen
and  Commonalty  In  common  Coancil  convened  and  they  are
hereby  required  on  or  before  the  first  Day  of  April  next  ensuing
to  issue  their  Warrant  under  the  Seal  of  the  Corporation  directed
to  the  Assessors  of  the  said  City  requiring  them  or  the  Major
part  of  them  for  the  Time  being  to  assess  levy  and  cause  to  be
collected  of  and  from  the  Estates  real  and  personal  of  all  the
Freeholders  Inhabitants  residents  and  Bojoumers  within  the
Limits  and  Bounds  of  the  said  City  the  Bum  mentioned  in  sach
Warrant  and  the  Collector  is  here  by  directed  and  required  to
pay  the  same  into  the  Hands  of  the  Chamberlain  of  the  said  City
retaining  In  his  own  Hands  for  the  Troable  of  collecting  the
same  three  pence  in  the  ponnd  provided  always  that  the  Sam
so  to  be  raised  does  not  exceed  the  Sum  of  thirty  pounds,  and
the  said  Mayor,  Recorder  Aldermen  and  Commonalty  In  common
Council  convened  shall  and  may  employ  such  and  so  many  per-
sons as  they  shall  judge  proper  to  keep  the  said  Highways  and
Bridges  in  Repair  and  out  of  the  Money  to  be  raised  by  this  Act
to  jtay  soch  person  or  pemons  so  by  them  employed  and  the
Overplus  if  any  there  be  to  be  laid  out  in  any  other  necessary
Servieep  for  the  said  City

AND  BE  IT  FURTHER  ENACTED  by  the  Authority  afore-
said that  the  said  Sum  or  Sums  of  Money  to  be  raised  by  Vlrtae
of  this  Act  shall  be  assessed  levyed  and  collected  in  the  same
Manner  as  the  other  contingent  and  necessary  Charges  of  the
said  City  are.  AND  WHEREAS  by  part  of  the  first  Clause  of
the  said  Act  Cornelias  Van  Schaack  Tobyas  Van  BeureOj  Barcnt


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