Commissioners, at such Meeting, to set down in Writing Proportions to be paid by every Division, with regard to One Moiety of the Assessment, 4 W. & M. c. 1. and divide themselves; Proviso.
And be it further enacted and declared, That the severall Commissioners aforesaid, shall meet together at the most usuall and common Place of Meeting within each of the said Counties, Rideings, Cities, Boroughs, Townes and Places respectively, for which they are hereby appointed Commissioners, on or before the Third Day of May, One thousand seaven hundred And shall meet afterwards in like manner as often as it shall be necessary for the putting this Act in Execution And the said Commissioners, or soe many of them as shall be present at such Generall Meeting or Meetings or the major Part of them, are hereby authorized and required to putt this present Act in Execution; And shall ascertaine and sett downe in Writing the severall Proportions which ought to be charged upon every Hundred, Lath, Wapentake, Rape Ward or other Division respectively, for and towards the raiseing and makeing up the whole Summe by this Act charged upon the whole County, City, or other Place, for which they are hereby appointed Commissioners; haveing regard in proportioning the same, to sett downe and ascertaine one Moiety or Halfe Part of the entire Summes which were assessed on the same Hundreds or Divisions respectively, by vertue of the Act of Parliament made and passed in the Fourth Yeare of the Reigne of His Majesty and of our late Gracious Sovereigne Queene Mary, of blessed Memory, intituled, An Act for granting to Their Majesties an Aid of Four Shillings in the Pound for One Yeare, for carrying on a vigorous Warr against France; And shall alsoe if they see cause subdivide and distribute themselves, and the other Commissioners, not then present, into lesser Numbers, soe as Two or more of the said Commissioners may be appointed for the Service of each Hundred, Lath, Wapentake, Rape Ward, or other Division, and as may best conduce to the carrying on of His Majesties Service hereby required; Neverthelesse not thereby to restraine the said Commissioners or any of them, from acting as Commissioners in any other Part of the County or Place for which they are appointed.