Pursuant to the Gen" Assembly you are in in his Mas^* name her by impowered & Required with all convenient speed & dispatch to collect & gather all such publicke Taxes & Rates as are at present or shall be deliuered you by the Assessors of Brookhauen all which sums of mony you are to collect according to ye form & effect of every persons respective Assesment and if aney person or persons sliall refuse neglect or delay to pay thare respectiue proportions as they shall legaly: be assesed that then & in such case you are to leuye the same by distress uppon the goods & Chattels of those persons so refusing neglecting or delaying by exposing them to publick sayle & returning the ouerpluch if aney thar be after the reasonable charge deducted to the proper owner and for so doing this shall be your sufficaent authority giuen under our hands & scales in Brookhaven this 7 day of March in the fifth year of his mas^y Rainge

pr Henry Smith Jus

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Sept. ye 101719

Thees may Certifi whom it may Concearn that some time- in August past was a year y* I agreed with Coll Smith Nathaniel Vol. hi. 25

386 PAPERS RELATING TO SUFFOLK COUNTY.

Roe John Wood Richard Woodhull for to Repair ye house M^ phillips lilies in for 1 5 teen pounds od shillings to be paid when ye Rate was gathered which thay haue paid & I haue Receiued it Thomas Saint which I am Rady to atest to