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Commissioners and others to take the Oaths in Schedule (F.)
Clerk and Clerk Assistant to act under Commissioners.
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XXXVI. And be it further enacted, That every Person appointed or to be appointed a Commissioner or additional Commissioner, or an Assessor, Collector, Inspector, or Surveyor in the Execution of this Act, and every Person to be appointed a Clerk or Clerk’s Assistant to the said respective Commissioners, before he shall begin to act therein, so far as the same relates to the Duties contained in Schedule (D.) or to such other Duties as are directed to be charged under the same Provisions and Regulations, shall take the Oath and Oaths, or, being of the People called Quakers, the solemn Affirmation or Affirmations prescribed by this Act, and contained in the Schedule marked (F.) hereunto annexed, applicable to such Officers respectively, which Oath and Oaths, or Affirmation or Affirmations, any One of the Persons appointed a Commissioner either for general Purposes as aforesaid, or an additional Commissioner, is hereby authorized to administer (except that every such Oath or Affirmation so to be administered to any Commissioner for general Purposes as aforesaid, or to an additional Commissioner, shall be administered by a Commissioner for such general Purposes, and not otherwise) and which Oath or Affirmation so taken, shall be subscribed by the Party taking the same; and if any Person shall act as a Commissioner in relation to the Duties in Schedule (D.) except in administering the Oath or Oaths, or Affirmation or Affirmations herein mentioned, or as a Clerk or Clerk’s Assistant, or an Assessor, Collector, Inspector, or Surveyor, before he shall have taken the Oath or Oaths, or Affirmation or Affirmations, herein required to be taken by such Officers respectively, he shall for every such Offence forfeit and pay the Sum of One hundred Pounds, to be recovered as any Penalty may be recovered by the said recited Acts respectively: Provided that the Appointment of a Clerk, and any Assistant or Assistants to such Clerk, whenever the same shall be necessary, shall be vested in the Commissioners for general Purposes, and such Clerks and Assisstants shall act as such, as well in all Matters and Things to be done by, under, and before the respective Commissioners for general Purposes, as by, under, and before the respective additional Commissioners in the respective Districts: Provided that no more than One Clerk Assistant shall be appointed for any District, without the Approbation of the Commissioners for the Affairs of Taxes, on a Statement made to them by the Commissioners for general Purposes, stating the Necessity thereof in Consideration of the Extent of Population of the District.
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