Chap. 0007 AN ACT TO IMPOWER THE EAST PRECINCT IN SALEM, WHERE THE REV. MR. JAMES DIM NOW OFFICIATES, TO RAISE MONEY FOR DEFREYING MINISTERIAL AND OTHER NECESSARY CHARGES OF SAID PRECINCT.
Whereas it is found inconvenient to raise money for defreying ministerial and other charges in the east precinct in Salem, by an assessment or tax on polls and estates in said precinct, -
Be it therefore enacted by the Governor, Council and House of Ref>-resentatives,
[Sect. 1.] That the freeholders and other inhabitants [in] [of] the said east precinct in Salem, legally qnalified to vote in precinct affairs, be, and they are hereby,authorized and impowered, at any meeting of said precinct duly called and warned for that purpose, annually, iu March, during the continuance of this act, to grant a tax or assessment not exceeding fifty pounds, on such of the pews and other seats iu said meeting-house as they shall judge reasonable ; and such inhabitants are hereby impowered, from time to time, to determine in what proportion the owners or occupants of such pews or seats shall pay towards the sum that may be granted as aforesaid, and the time and manner of payment; and the" said parish, at any such meeting as aforesaid, may appoint a collector or collectors toVolleet the sum so agreed to be raised, who shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of their trust, and shall pay and deliver the money which he or theyshall
collect, to the treasurer of said precinct, to be applied from time to time, as said precinct shall order, for defreying the ministerial and other charges of said preeinet; and in case any proprietor or occupant of any such pew or seat shall neglect to pay the sum assessed thereon, for two years, having due notice thereof from the collector for the time being, then and in that case it shall and may be lawful, and the committee of said precinct for the time being are hereby impowered, to sell the said pew or seat of such delinquent for the most it will fetch, at public sale, to be adverti[zj [s]ed at least fifteen days before said sale, and, after paying the tax then due on said pew or seat, with the charge of said sale, the remainder, if any, shall be returned to the owner. ~-
[Sect. 2.]   This act to be in force for three years from the first day of August next.   [Passed and published July 15. 6