Act VIII. [To add representatives to the Board of County Justices, except for judicial purposes.]
Whereas the justices of the county courts ... have accustommarily sett ... a rate or assessment upon the people of their counties ... and whereas it hath been suspected ... that under colour thereof many sums have bin raised ... for the interest of particular persons. ... Bee it enacted ... that some of the discreetest and ableest of the inhabitants of each county, equal in number to the number of justices ... be yearly chosen ... [by parishes] by majoritie of votes of householders, ffreeholders, and ffreemen ... which said representatives, together with the justices ... are to meet at the usual place ... and are hereby authorized and impowered to have equal votes with them, the said justices, in laying county assessments and of [in] making wholesome by-lawes for the good of their counties.
IX, X, XI. [Forms of procedure in collecting levies and administering estates.]
XII. [Abolition of exemptions from taxation.]
For the greater ease of the country ... Bee it enacted that the 55th act of the printed laws [code of 1662], soe far as it relates to the honorable councill of state and ministers, bee ... repealed, and that for the future the persons of the councill and all others of their families be liable to pay levies ... and that the person of every minister bee exempted, ... but all other tithable persons in his familie shall be liable to pay levies....
XIII. [Permitting wolf-bounties.]
XIV. [Regarding trespass by "unrulie horses" "within another person's enclosure.">[
XV. [Forbids exportation of corn until next session of the assembly.]
XVI. [For temperance reform.]