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[SECT. 13.]

That when any person, during the term aforesaid, shall be chosen to represent any town within this province, in the general court or assembly, such person so chosen shall take the oath aforesaid, and return shall be made by the selectmen upon the back of the precept, that the person so chosen has taken the oath required in the act made and passed in the twenty-second year of his majesty King George the second, intitled, “An act for drawing in the bills of credit of the several denominations which have at any time been issued by this government, and are still outstanding, and for ascertaining the rate of coin'd silver in this province for the future;” and if any person so chosen shall refuse or neglect to take the oath aforesaid, such refusal or neglect shall

be deem'd a refusal to serve as a representative, and the town shall proceed to the choice of another person in his room.

And be it further enacted,