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Commissioners for general Purposes may call upon the Party to verify their Answers on Examination upon Oath.
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CXL. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners for general Purposes, in every such Case, as aforesaid, whenever the said Commissioners shall think the same necessary, to require such Person or Persons upon whom any Assessment bath been made by the additional Commissioners, with which the said Commissioners for general purpose are dissatisfied, or from whom such Schedules or Answers in Writing as aforesaid have been received, to verify the same, and upon Appearance of such Person or Persons to permit him or them to after or amend the same, and thereupon to administer to such Person or Persons the Oath or Affirmation herein-after mentioned, and also to require any Person or Persons who shall have been examined viv[html] voce before them, to verify his, her, or their Examination on such Oath or Affirmation; which Oaths or Affirmations any One or more of the said Commissioners is and are hereby empowered to administer and which Oaths or Affirmations respectively shall be, that the Contents of the said Statements or Schedules are true to the best of his Knowledge and Belief, and contain a full and true Account of the Balance of all the Profits and Gains of the Deponent or Deponents chargeable by this Act, to the best of his or her Knowledge and Belief, and of all and every Deduction made from his or her Profits or Gains in adjusting such Balance; or that the Contents of all such Answers in Writing, as shall have been returned to the said Commissioners by him or them, as the same are then stated, or that the Contents of his or her Examination, as the same have been reduced into Writing, are true; and every such Oath or Affirmation shall be subscribed by the Party taking the same.
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