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[SECT. 7.]
That there be and hereby is granted unto his most excellent majesty, a tax of seventy-five pounds, to be levied on polls, and estates both real and personal, within this province, according to such rules and in such proportions on the several towns and districts within the same, as shall be agreed upon and ordered by this court at their session in May, one thousand seven hundred and forty-nine, to be paid into the publick treasury on or before the last of December then next ensuing; and the tax aforesaid is hereby declared to be payable in bills of the new form and tenor, or of the middle form and tenor, according to their respective denominations, or in bills of the old
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And be it further enacted,
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