At the General Assembly of the governor and Company of the English colony of Rhode-Island, and Providence-Plantations, in New-England, in America; begun and holden by adjournment at Providence in said colony, on the third Monday of November, one thousand seven hundred and fifty six, and in the thirtieth year of the reign of His Most Sacred Majesty George the Second, by the grace of God, King of Great-Britain, and so forth. : Whereas the General Assembly at their session holden at Newport, on the fourth Monday of August last, made and passed, An act for assessing and levying a rate or tax of four thousand pounds ... be it therefore enacted by this General Assembly, and by the authority thereof, it is enacted, that the said rates, shall be, and hereby are proportion'd unto the several towns as followeth ..