March 1643
[4 March 1642/3.]
Whereas it is Ordained, in the Ordinance for the Weekly
Assessment, That, if any Person or Persons shall find him or
themselves aggrieved, that he or they is or are over-rated, such
Person or Persons, at any Time before Distress taken of his or
their Goods, may complain to the respective Committees, who
have executed this Ordinance within the Division or Limits
where any such Person or Persons over-rated shall be assessed;
which said respective Committees, or any Two of them, shall
have Power, upon Examination, to relieve such Person or Persons,
as they shall see Cause; Yet the true Intent and Meaning of the
said Ordinance is, and it is further Ordered, by the Lords and
Commons, That, if any Person or Persons so finding themselves
aggrieved be such as have not formerly contributed upon the
Propositions, or not porportionably to others of their Estates, nor
have been rated or paid upon the Ordinance of Assessment,
intituled, "An Ordinance for the Assessing and rating of such as
have not contributed at all, or not contributed according to the
Proportion of their Estates," then the said Parties, if they be
not assessed above a proportionable Part of such Sum or Sums
as other Men of their Ability have paid upon the Propositions,
or have been assessed and have paid upon the said Ordinance,
if not exceeding the Twentieth Part, the said Ratess to stand,
and not to be altered: Provided nevertheless, that no Person be
assessed above the Sum of Ten Pounds the Week.