Town And County Government in the English Colonies of North America
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■•The first levy is described in Hening, I. , 143. The law of 1646 is in Hening, Vol. I. , p. 329. See also lb. , 342 and 354 ; Beverley, edition of 1722, pp. 218-219; Present State, p. 53. See for law of 1660, Hening, II. , 19. 60 Town and County Government in the [482 number of precincts. To each precinct a justice M-as detailed to whom, on the first day of June in each year, every " head of a family " was to bring in a list of all the persons in his family (including servants and slaves) ove...r the age of six- teen — white women alone excepted — each and every person so reported was a " tithable. " In order to lay the parish levy, ^ the vestry of each parish met in December of each year, and made a computation of the parish debts. The sum thus ascertained was divided by the number of " tithables " in the parish, and the quotient was what each tithable had to pay to the parish. The head of a family paid the amount due from the members of his family, Avhich included his servants and slaves, to the collector, who liquidated the parish debts.
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