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Three or more valuators appointed at vestry,
to estimate and make return thereof by 1st August yearly, to ministers, with affidavit,
and if no vestry or valuation, 3 or more inhabitants nominated at sessions to value,
which returned with affidavit to minister by 1st September yearly.
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XXXV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said several ministers, church-wardens, and parishioners (not excluded to vote as aforesaid) of the said respective parishes at the said vestries to be called at the time or times aforesaid, or at some such adjournment thereof as aforesaid, shall nominate and appoint three or more discreet judicious persons, inhabitants of such parish to be valuators, to value and estimate the yearly value of the several lands, dwelling houses, out-houses, offices, cellars, stables, and yards within the said city, or suburbs thereof, together with such new houses, out-houses, and premisses, as shall be from time to time hereafter built, erected, or established within the said city of Waterford, or the suburbs thereof, which valuation the said valuators so appointed as aforesaid, or the major part of them, shall on or before the first day of August in every year, return in writing, under their hands, setting forth the several houses, out-houses, and premisses, as aforesaid, as separately, and distinctly, and conveniently as may be, and the names of the several occupiers thereof, and the true yearly value of the same, to the ministers of the said respective parishes, and shall at the foot of such return, make an affidavit, or if of the people called Quakers, a folemn affirmation in writing before such minister; which said minister is hereby impowered and required to administer, that the same is a just, fair, full, and impartial valuation, to the best of their skill and judgment; and in case that no such vestry shall assemble, or having assembled, shall omit to name and appoint such valuators, or if the valuators so appointed shall refuse, neglect, or omit to make such valuation, return, and affidavit as aforesaid, before the first day of August in each year, that in every such case the justices of the peace for said city at their sessions, or at an adjournment thereof, shall nominate and appoint three or more skilful inhabitants of such parishes to value and estimate such houses, out-houses, and premisses in such parish as aforesaid, and to make and return such valuation as aforesaid; which valuation, the persons so to be appointed, or the major part of them, by the justices aforesaid, shall make and return with such affidavit as aforesaid, at the foot thereof, to the ministers of the respective parishes aforesaid, at or before the first day of September in every year.
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