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Collectors shall make returns to grand jury of one hundred highest cess-payers in each district, or of whole number if less than 100.
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69. Every high constable or other collector of money levied by grand jury presentment shall, on the day when the grand jury shall be first impannelled at each presenting term, deliver to the secretary of the grand jury a return of the names and places of residence of the one hundred persons, being males of full age, if so many there be, and if not, then of the whole number of persons resident or in actual occupation of lands, houses, or tenements in each district in said county, who, not being in holy orders, nor any minister of religion, and not being justices of the peace, shall have been charged with and shall have paid for land or houses actually occupied by them the highest sum or sums for grand jury rates or cess for and in respect of any lands or houses in such district under the last previous applotment, and in such list he shall set forth the sum so paid by each such cess-payer respectively, and shall classify them according to the amount paid by each, and the secretary shall immediately lay such return before the grand jury.
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