Assembly Proceedings, September 1642. 197

raise it as they shall see need & charge it vpon the hundred
defective, w^ch shall charge it vpon the ffreemen of the hundred
in the same manner & after the same proportion as the other
charge was assessed & contributed to by the hundred.
And the ffreemen of every severall County or hundred, shall
assemble at certaine time & place after the end of this Assembly
to be before appointed in every hundred by the Lieuten^t Gen-
erall. And the persons then and there assembled (or the maior
part of them) shall have power to assesse vpon all inhabitants
of the hundred, what charge & proportion of men, vessells,
armes, ammunition, provisions, tobacco or other necessaries to
the service, each inhabitant of the hundred shall contribute or
beare toward the finding of the Souldiers & other necessaries
leviable vpon that hundred. And if any so assessed shall
refuse to contribute or beare the thing or somme assessed
vpon him or her it shalbe levied vpon the refuser by distresse
& sale of any his or her goods or chattells.
And every housekeeper shalbe liable for all persons soiorn-
ing or abiding within his or her family. And if such persons
be freemen the housekeeper charged in their behalfe, may putt
it to the accompt of such freemen, & recover it by action of
debt. And if such persons be apprentices hired of or belong-
ing to some other person, the housekeeper so charged in their
behalfe, may putt it to the accompt of the master or dame
whose the apprentice is. And where it is vncertaine to what
family or hundred any one doth belong, he shalbe charged to
that family, wherein he had his last abiding at or afore the
time of the assessm^t
Provided that where any parties are aggreived with any
assessm^t made by verture of this Act, the Lieutenant Generall
and Counsell, if it be in the County of S^t Maries, and the
Comander & Commissioners of Kent if it be in that County,
shall have power to rectifie the greivance, according to sequity
& the true intent of this Act.
And if any thing be remaining in stock after the Expedition
finished, it shalbe returned to the Counties proportionably, and
from the Counties to every hundred, and from the hundred to
particular persons, proportionably to their charge.
And all perquisites and benefitts arising, growing, or acquired
from enemies prosequuted by this Expedition, by any treaty,
present, or composition for peace or Satisfaction for iniuries
done, shalbe to the vse & accompt of the Province; and vpon
demand (in the Provinciall Court.) of any freemen (in the name
& behalfe of [the Pro]vince) of any partie or parties possessed
of such perquisites or benefitts [such partie] or parties so
possessed shalbe liable to accompt & restitution and the per-
quis[ites] so acquired shalbe distributed proportionably to the

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