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55. for every cart drawn by one horse, and both 

 let for hire : That all householders, cottagers, 

 labourers, and tradesmen, of every denomination, 

 whether masters or journeymen, living toge- 

 ther or separately, in one house, shall, in lieu of 

 personal services, be assessed in the conversion 

 of such a number of days labour, not exceeding 

 six, as the trustees shall judge proportioned to 

 the circumstances of each individual : That the 

 masters, and employers of all journeymen, shall, 

 in the first instance, be liable in, and obliged to 

 pay, the conversion leviable from their journey- 

 men ; for the recovery of which, they shall be 

 entitled to the same diligence as is competent to 

 the trustees for levying the conversion of the 

 statute-labour imposed by this act : That all 

 servants hired bona fide by the year, for speci- 

 fic wages, and all householders renting houses, 

 xvhich, with the yard and other premises, do 

 not exceed the yearly rent of 2os., are exempt- 

 ed from the statute-labour, or payment of con- 

 version-money, altogether : And that the trus- 

 tees shall have it in their power, by a writing 

 under the hands of any three of them, to re- 

 lieve from payment of the conversion, such per- 

 sons as, from indigence or other causes, they 

 fhall judge to be proper objects of exemption. 



It is likewise enacted, That in order to ren- 

 der the making up of the lists of plough-gates 

 more easy and expeditious, each heritor shall 

 annually, on or before the first day of January, 

 deliver to the clerk of the district, a written spe- 

 cification of the mode by which he inclines to 

 have his plough-gates rated for the ensuing 

 and of the number of plough-gates, and 



