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LIST OF THE INHABITANTS OF MELBOURNE, 1695. 3 
For burial For birth 
Rank and quality. and of eldest For birth of Bachelors or 
marriage. son. younger child. widowers. 
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The Act was to be put in force by the Commissioners named in 
the Subsidy Act, passed in the same session. They were to meet 
in their respective counties on or before the 30th April, 1695, 
when they were to address precepts to two inhabitants of each 
parish, whom they considered fit persons to act as assessors, to 
appear before them within ten days. They were then to fix a day 
on which these assessors were to bring in certificates, in writing, 
of the names, surnames, estates, degrees, titles, and qualifications 
of all persons dwelling within their respective parishes. The 
certificates to be divided in several columns, showing the qualities 
and names of all persons chargeable under the Act, and the sums 
they are liable to pay upon burials, births, and marriages, and for 
being unmarried. The assessors were also to return the names of 
two collectors, for whose honesty and ability the parishes employ- 
ing them were to be responsible. 
These certificates were to be returned to the Commissioners 
before 13th May, 1695, and a duplicate assessment was to 
be delivered to the Receiver-General of the Revenue. The 
collectors were, at the end of each year, to deliver a certified copy 
of the assessment to two local Justices of the Peace, who were, 
after due examination, to sign it as allowed, and to hand it to the 
persons whom they chose to appoint collectors for the ensuing 
year. These collectors were bound, under a penalty of £5, to 
