
Wee Your Majesties most dutiful and loyal Subjects the Co[m]mons in Parliament assembled considering the
great & necessary Charge of the present Warr against France and being desirous to raise proportionable
Aids and Supplies for the carrying on the same and the Defence of Your Majesties Realmes do most humbly
present to Your Majesty (as an Aid or Free Guift) the several Taxes Rates Duties and Su[m]ms of Money herein after
specified beseeching Your Majesty that it may be enacted and be it enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty
by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Co[m]mons in this present Parliament
assembled and by the Authority of the same That all and every Person and Persons of what Estate Degree Age
Sex or Condition soever they or any of them be or shall be att the time of the Execution of this Act within
this Kingdome of England Dominion of Wales and Towne of Berwick upon Tweed shall pay unto His Majesty
His Heires or Successors within the space or time of One Yeare to be reckoned from the Five and twentieth
Day of January One thousand six hundred ninety six the full Su[m]m of Foure Shillings and Foure Pence by
Monthly Payments as is herein after mentioned (that is to say) on the Two and twentieth Day of February One
thousand six hundred ninety six Foure Pence and from thenceforth att the end of every Eight and twenty Days
or Foure Weeks the like Su[m]m of Foure Pence until the said Su[m]m of Foure Shillings and Foure Pence shall be
fully satisfied except such Persons as shall receive Alms of the Parish where they dwell and also except such
as are hereafter excepted.
II. 
and over and above the said Duty, 2s. 6d. in the Pound on Wages above £8 and not exceeding £16 per Ann; and 4s. 4d. in the Pound on Wages above £16 per Ann.
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That over and above the said Duty of Four of Pence per
Month every Person being a Domestick Servant Covenant Servant (other then Day Labourers). Journeyman or other
Servant hired entertained or constantly employed who att the time of the Execution of this Act shall receive or
is to receive Wages Yearely or otherwise amounting to Foure Pounds per Annum or more not exceeding Eight
Pounds per Annum for his her or their Service shall pay unto His Majesty His Heires or Successors within the
Space or Terme of One Yeare to be reckoned as aforesaid the full Su[m]m of Thirteen Pence for every Twenty.
Shillings to be computed upon the whole Wages received or to be received by such Person or p[er]sons respectively
by Monthly Payments (that is to say) so much as One Penny p Pound upon all the said Wages shall amount
unto upon the said Two and Twentieth Day of February and from thenceforth the like Su[m]m att the end of every
Eight and twenty Days or Foure Weeks as aforesaid until the said whole Su[m]m of Thirteene Pence per Pound
shall be fully satisfied and paid off within the Yeare as aforesaid And that over and above the said Duty of Foure
Pence per Month every Servant (other then Day Labourers) hired entertained or imployed as aforesaid who att
the time of the Execution of this Act shall receive or is to receive Wages by Yearely or other Payments
amounting to more then Eight Pounds per Annum and not exceeding Sixteen Pounds per Annum for his her or
their Service shall pay unto His Majesty His Heires or Successors within the said Terme of One Yeare the full
Su[m]m of Two Shillings & Two Pence for every Twenty Shillings to be computed upon the whole Wages as
aforesaid by Monthly Payments (that is to say) so much as Two Pence per Pound upon all the said Wages shall
amount unto upon the said Two and twentieth Day of February and from thenceforth the like Su[m]m att the end
of every Eight and twenty Days or Foure Weeks as aforesaid until the said whole Su[m]m of Two Shillings and
Two Pence per Pound shall be fully satisfied and paid And all and every Servant (other than Day Labourers)
hired entertained or imployed as aforesaid who att the time of the Execution of this Act shall receive or is to
receive Wages by Yearely or other Payments amounting to more than Sixteen Pounds per Annum shall (over and
above the said General Duty of Foure Pence per Month) pay unto His Majesty His Heires or Successors within
the said Terme of One Yeare the full Su[m]m of Foure Shillings and Four Pence for every Twenty Shillings to be
computed upon the whole Wages as aforesaid by Monthly Payments (that is to say) so much as Foure Pence per
Pound upon all the said Wages shall amount unto upon the said Two and Twentieth Day of February and from
thenceforth the like Su[m]m att the end of every Eight and Twenty Days or Foure Weeks as aforesaid until the
said whole Su[m]m of Foure Shillings and Foure Pence per Pound shall be fully satisfied and paid.
III. 
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every p[er]son or Persons Guilds Fraternities
Bodies Politick or Corporate having or claiming to have any Pension Annuity Stipend or other yearely Payment
either out of the Receipt of His Majesties Exchequer or out of any Branch of His Majesties Revenues or payable
or secured to be paid by any Person or Persons whatsoever (not being Rents issueing out of any Lands Tenements
or Hereditaments or charged upon the same and not being Annuities or yearely Payments which by any Act or
Acts of Parliament made or to be made are or shall be specially exempted from the Payment of Taxes or Aids)
shall yeild and pay unto His Majesty His Heires and Successors within the Space or Time of One Yeare to be
reckoned as aforesaid the full Su[m]m of Foure Shillings & Foure Pence for every Twenty Shillings by the Yeare
of such Pension Annuity Stipend or Yearely Payment by Monthly Payments (that is to say) so much as Foure
Pence per Pound upon such Pension Anu[m]ity Stipend or other Yearely Payments shall amount unto on the said
Two and twentieth Day of February and from thenceforth the like Su[m]m att the end of every Eight and Twenty
Days or Foure Weeks as aforesaid until the said whole Su[m]m of Foure Shillings and Foure Pence per Pound by
such equal Monthly Payments shall be fully satisfied and paid.
IV. 
(Exception); over and above the said Duty of 4d. per Month, to pay 4s. 4d. in the Pound.
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every p[er]son or Persons whatsoever who att
the time of the Execution of this Act shall have receive or enjoy or are to have receive or enjoy any Salary Fee
or Wages (such Wages as are before charged by this Act onely excepted) or any Perquisitts Allowances Poundage
Gratuities Rewards Emoluments Income or Proffits whatsoever or of any kind soever as great Officers of State
Co[m]missioners Judges Masters in Chancery Cursitors Philizers Clerks in Chancery or the Exchequer and other
Courts of Law or Equity or other Clerks as Secondaries Agents Receivers Accomptants Stewards Bayliffs
Reeves or other Officers or Ministers or by reason of any Co[m]mission Office Imployment or Place of Trust
whether the same be great or small Ecclesiasticall Civil or Military or doe or doe not belong to any Court of
Law or Equity or have any Relac[i]on to His Majesties Revenues or be of any other Kind whatsoever from and
under His Majesty His Heires or Successors or by or under Her Majesty Katherine the Queen Dowager of England
or by or under Their Royal Highnesses Prince George Hereditary of Denmark and the Princesse Ann of Denmark
or any of them or by or under the Lord or Lords of any Manor or Manors or by or under any other Authority
or Persons whatsoever and all and every their Clerks Deputies Assistants and Substitutes whatsoever (such Military
Officers who are or shall be in Muster by the Muster-Master General of the Army Navy or Ordnance in respect
of such Officers onely excepted) shall yeild and pay unto His Majesty His Heires or Successors (over and above
the Duty of Foure Pence per Month charged upon all Persons as is first above mentioned) within the Space or
Time of One Yeare to be reckoned as aforesaid the full Su[m]m of Foure Shillings and Foure Pence for every Twenty
Shillings by the Yeare of such Salary Fee Wages Perquisitts Allowances Poundage Gratuities Rewards Emoluments
Income or Profitts howsoever or wheresoever the same or any of the be or shall be payable or perceptible or
the Value accruing or to accrue for or by reason or occasion thereof the same to be paid by Monthly Payments
(that is to say) so much as Foure Pence per Pound upon such Salary Fee Wages Perquisites and other the
Premisses last mentioned shall amount unto upon the said Two and twentieth Day of February and from thenceforth
the like Su[m]m att the end of every Eight and twenty Days or Foure Weeks as aforesaid until the said whole Su[m]m
of Foure Shillings & Foure Pence for every Twenty Shillings by such equal Monthly Payments shall be fully
satisfied and paid.
V. 
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Sergeants att Law Barristers Attorneys
Sollicitors and all Publick Notaries & Scriveners or Persons practising as such and every Chancellour Com[i]missary
Official and Register and every Advocate Proctor Apparitor and Persons practising as such all Broakers to Merchants
and all Factors and other Persons acting by Co[m]missions from Merchants or others and all and every Person or
Persons practising the Art of Physick or Chirurgerie and all Apothecaries and all and every Person and Persons
exerciseing any other Professions whatsoever not charged with the Duty of Foure Pence per Pound per Month by
the Clause last aforegoing shall yeild and pay unto His Majesty His Heires and Successors (over and above the
Personal Duty of Foure Pence per Month first above mentioned) within the space or time of One Yeare to be
reckoned as aforesaid the full Su[m]m of Foure Shillings and Foure Pence for every Twenty Shillings by the Yeare
which hee she or they shall or may receive perceive or take for or by reason of such his her or their Practices
or Professions within the time aforesaid by Monthly Payments (that is to say) so much as Foure Pence per
Pound upon the Yearely Income or Profitts of their and every of their said Practices or Professions last mentioned
shall amount unto upon the said Two and twentieth Day of February and from thenceforth the like Su[m]m att
the end of every Eight and Twenty Days or Foure Weeks as aforesaid until the said whole Su[m]m of Foure Shillings
and Foure Pence for every Twenty Shillings of the said Yearely Income or Profitts by such equal Monthly
Payments shall be fully satisfied and paid.
VI. 
(Exception); over and above the said Personal Duties, to pay £1. 5s. for every £100, by Monthly Payments; and so in Proportion.
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every p[er]son and Persons Bodies Politick &
Corporate Guilds and Fraternities within this Kingdome of England Dominion of Wales and Towne of Berwick
upon Tweed att the time of the Execuc[i]on of this Act having any Estate in Ready Money or having any Debts
whatsoever owing to them att Interest within this Realme or without or belonging to or in trust for them whether
the same be owing upon Mortgages Judgments Statutes Merchant or of the Staple Recognizances Bonds Bills
Obligatory or other Specialties or upon any Notes or Bills or any other Securities for Money att Interest (such
Loans or Debts as are or shall be owing from His Majesty to any Person or Persons whatsoever and all Arrears
of Rent excepted) shall (over and above the Rates and Duties before by this Act charged upon such Persons)
yield and pay unto His Majesty His Heires and Successors within One Yeare to be reckoned as aforesaid att the
Rate of Five and Twenty Shillings for every Hundred Pounds in Ready Money or upon Debts owing as aforesaid
by Monthly Payments (that is to say) so much as One Farthing for every Pound or the Rate of Two Shillings
and a Penny for every Hundred Pounds shall amount unto upon the Five and twentieth Day of February One
thousand six hundred ninety six and from thenceforth upon the Five and Twentieth Day in every Kalendary Month
then next and successively ensueing the like Su[m]m until the said whole Su[m]m of Twenty five Shillings per Centum
or p[ro]portionably for a greater or lesser Su[m]m in Ready Money or upon Debts oweing as aforesaid by such equal
Monthly Payments shall be fully satisfied and paid out of which Payments a Deduction shall be onely made for
Debts really and bona fide owing from such Person or Persons att Interest.
VII. 
over and above the said Personal Duties, to pay £2 10s. for every £100 Stock in Trade, by Monthly Payments; and so in Proportion.
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every p[er]son and Persons Bodies Politick and
Corporate Guilds and Fraternities within this Kingdome of England Dominion of Wales or Towne of Berwick
upon Tweed using or exerciseing any Trade Mystery Occupation or Businesse of Merchandizing Shopkeeping or
other buying or selling by Wholesale or by Retail who att the time of the Execution of this Act shall have or
possesse to his her or their owne Use or for the Use and Account of any other Person or p[er]sons any Goods
Wares Merchandizes Co[m]modities Manufactures or Vendible Stock whatsoever within this Realme of England or the
Dominion of Wales or Towne of Berwick upon Tweed shall (over and above all other Rates and Duties before
charged by this Act upon such Person or Persons) yeild and pay to His Majesty His Heires and Successors for
the same within one Yeare to be reckoned as aforesaid att the Rate of Fifty Shillings for every Hundred Pounds
of the full true and real Value of such Goods Wares Merchandizes Co[m]modities Manufactures or Vendible Stock
whatsoever (as fully and effectually, as if the same were in this Act particularly enumerated & expressed) and
proportionably for a greater or lesser Value by Monthly Payments (that is to say) so much as One Halfe Penny
for every Pound or the Rate of Foure Shillings & Two Pence for every Hundred Pound in Value shall amount
unto upon the said Five and twentieth Day of February and from thenceforth the like Su[m]m upon the Five and
twentieth Day of every Kalendary Month then next and successively ensuing until the said whole Su[m]m of Fifty
Shillings per Centum or proportionably for a greater or lesser Value by such equal Monthly Payments shall be
fully satisfied and paid.
VIII. 
over and above the said Personal Duties, to pay 12s. for every £100, by Monthly Payments; and so in Proportion; How the said Duties assessed.
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Person or Persons having in his her
or their Tenure Possession or Occupation any Lands Arrable Meadow or Pasture Tenements Woods or Hereditaments
whereupon att the time of the Execution of this Act there shall be any Horses Mares Geldings Colts Bulls Oxen
Cows Calves Sheep Lambs Swine or other Cattle great or small whether the same do belong to such Persons
respectively or are taken by way of Agistment or to keep for others or any other Quick Stock upon Land shall
(over and above all other Rates and Duties before charged by this Act upon such Person or p[er]sons) yield and
pay to His Majesty His Heires and Successors for the same within One Yeare to be reckoned as aforesaid att the
Rate of Twelve Shillings for every Hundred Pounds of the true and real Value thereof by Monthly Payments
(that is to say) so much as Twelve Pence for every Hundred Pound or proportionably for a greater or lesser
Value shall amount unto upon the said Five and twentieth Day of February and from thenceforth the like Su[m]m
upon the Five and twentieth Day of every Kalendary Month then next & successively ensuing until the said whole
Su[m]m of Twelve Shillings for every Hundred Pounds or proportionably for a greater or lesser Value by such equal
Monthly Payments shall be fully satisfied and paid All which, said Rates Duties and Payments shall be assessed
raised levied collected and paid in such Manner and under such Rules Authorities and Directions as are herein after
menc[i]oned.
IX. 
Provided always and it is hereby enacted That the Wives and all such Children under the Age of Sixteen
Yeares of all Persons who are by this Act charged with the first mentioned Rate or Duty of Foure Pence per
Month and are not chargeable with any other of the Rates or Duties herein imposed shall be and such Wives and
Children are hereby exempted and freed of and from the Payment of the said first mentioned Duty of Foure Pence
per Month. Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
X. 
How assessed; By monthly Payments.
And to the end a further Aid and Supply for His Majesties Occasions may be raised by a Charge upon all
Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with as much Equality and Indifference as is possible by a Pound Rate of
Three Shillings for every Twenty Shillings of the true Yearely Value for One Yeare and no longer and to the
Intent the Injustice and Partiality which hath been manifestly practised in former Taxations upon Land may be
avoided and remedied in the Assessments upon Lands Tenements & Hereditaments intended to be made by virtue
of this Act Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Manors Messuages Lands and
Tenements as alsoe all Quarries Mines of Coal Tin or Lead Copper Mundick Iron or other Mines Iron works
Salt-Springs and Salt-Works all Allom Mines or Works all Parks Chases Warrens Woods Underwoods Coppices
and all Fishings Tythes & Tolls whatsoever and also all Anūities Rents-Charge and other Rents and yearely Profitts
issuing or payable of or for any Estate Terme or Interest whatsoever out of any Lands Tenements and Hereditaments
and all Hereditaments of what Nature and Kind soever they be scituate lyeing and being happening renewing or
ariseing within the Kingdome of England Dominion of Wales or Towne of Berwick upon Tweed or within any the
Counties Cities Boroughs Townes Divisions Ridings Hundreds Lathes Wapentakes Parishes and Places thereof as
well within Ancient Demesne and other Liberties and priveledged Places as without shall be and are hereby charged
for One Yeare onely and no longer with the Su[m]m of Three Shillings for every Twenty Shillings of the true and
full yearely value and so in proportion for any greater or lesser Value And all and every Person and Persons
Bodies Politick & Corporate Guilds Mysteries Fraternities and Brotherhoods whether Corporate or not Corporate
having or holding any Manors Messuages Lands Tenements Hereditaments or other the Premisses shall yield and
pay unto His Majesty the Su[m]m of Three Shillings for every Twenty Shillings by the Yeare which the said Ma[n]nors
	Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and other the Premisses are now worth to be leased if the same
were truely and bona fide leased or demised att a Rack Rent and according to the full true yearely Value thereof
without any respect had to the present Rents reserved for the same if such Rents have been reserved upon such
Leases or Estates made for which any Fine or Income hath been paid or secured or have been lessened or abated
upon Consideration of Money laid out or to be laid out in Improvements and without any respect had to any
other Rates or Taxes thereupon imposed or making any Abatement in respect of Reparations Taxes Scots Parish
Duties or any other Charges whatsoever Which said Su[m]m of Three Shillings for every Twenty Shillings by the
Yeare of the said true yearely Value of all the Premisses aforesaid shall be assessessed levied and collected in manner
hereafter mentioned and shall be paid and payable by all and every the said Person or Persons Bodies Politick or
Corporate Guilds Mysteries Fraternities or Brotherhoods having or holding any such Manors Messuages Lands
Tenements Hereditaments and other the Premisses by Twelve equal Monthly Payments the First Payment thereof
to be made on the said Five and twentieth Day of February which shall be in the Yeare of our Lord One thousand
six hundred ninety six and every other Monthly Payment to be made on the Five and twentieth Day of every
subsequent Kalendary Month successively until the whole shall be satisfied.
XI. 
Landlords, &c. of such Manors, &c. to retain the Rate, and Incumbrancers are to allow it.
And wereas many of the Manors Messuages Lands Tenements Tythes Hereditaments and Premisses intended by
this Act to be charged with the Pound Rates as aforesaid stand incumbred with or are subject or liable to the
Payment of several Rent-Charges or Anūities issueing out of the same or to the Payment of diverse Fee-Farme
Rents Rents-Service or other Rents thereupon reserved or charged by reason whereof the true Owners and
Proprietors of such Manors Messuages Lands Tenements Hereditaments and Premisses doe not in truth receive to
their owne Use the true yearely Value of the same for which neverthelesse they are by this Act charged to pay
the full Pound Rate of Three Shillings for every Twenty Shillings of the true yearely Value Itt is therefore
declared and enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawfull to and for the Landlords Owners
and Proprietors of such Manors Messuages Lands Tenements Hereditaments and Premisses as are charged with the
Pound Rate as aforesaid to abate and deduct and to retaine and keep in his or their Hands Three Shillings in
the Pound and so in Proportion for any greater or lesser Su[m]m for every Fee-Farme Rent or other Annual Rent
or Payment charged upon or issueing out of the Premisses or any part thereof or thereupon reserved And all and
every Person or Persons who are or shall be any way intituled to such Rents and Annual Paym[ent]s. are hereby
required to allow such Deductions and Payments upon the Receipt of the Residue of such Moneys as shall be
due and payable to them for such Rents or Annual Paym[ent]s reserved or charged as aforesaid.
XII. 
The said Commissioners to meet upon or before the 20th Feb. 1696 to put this Act in Execution; and divide themselves.
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for the better charging Assessing ordering levying
and collecting of the several Taxes Rates Duties Impositions and Payments by this Act imposed or chargeable as
well upon Persons Wages Profitts of Offices and Professions Ready Money Debts Stock in Trade and Stock upon
Land as alsoe upon Lands Tenements and Hereditaments or any other Matters & Things by this Act intended
to be charged and for the more effectual putting in Execuc[i]on of this present Act in all the parts thereof Itt shall
and may be lawfull to and for His Majesty under the Greate Seale of England to nominate constitute and appoint
such and so many Person and Persons as His Majesty shall think fitt to intrust to be His Majesties Comissioners
for putting in Execution this present Act & the Powers therein contained within all and every the several Counties
Cities Ridings Boroughs Towns and Places within the said Kingdome of England Dominion of Wales and Towne
of Berwick upon Tweed which said Co[m]missioners in the several Counties Ridings Cities Boroughs Townes and
Places whereunto they shall be generally or specially appointed and in the Execution of such Powers and Directions
wherewith they or any of them shall be generally or particularly intrusted or charged by such Co[m]missions in
pursuance of this Act shall have full Power and Authority by virtue of this Act to begin proceed and finish in
all Matters and Things as fully and effectually as if they were particularly named in the Body of this present Act
And the said Co[m]missioners in order thereunto shall in the respective Counties Ridings Cities Boroughs Towns
and Places for which they shall be appointed Co[m]missioners respectively meet together att the most usual and Co[m]mon
Place of Meeting within each of the said Counties Citites Boroughs Towns and Places respectively upon or before
the Twentieth Day of February which shall be in the Yeare of Our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety six
And the said Co[m]missioners or so many of them as shall be present att the said first General Meeting or the
Major part of them are hereby authorized  to putt this present Act in Execution according to the best of their
Judgements and Discretions and shall then (if they shall see Cause) subdivide and distribute as well themselves
as other Co[m]missioners then not present for the Execution of this Act in lesser Numbers so as Three or more of
the said Co[m]missioners may be appointed for the Service of each Hundred or other Division and so as may best
conduce to the carrying on of His Majesties Service hereby required.
XIII. 
And for the more effectual performance thereof be it further enacted and declared by the Authority aforesaid
That the Co[m]missioners att their First General Meeting (or the major part of them then present) shall agree and
sett downe in Writing who and what Number of the said Co[m]missioners shall act in each of the said Divisions
or Hundreds Neverthelesse not thereby to restrain the said Co[m]missioners from acting as Co[m]missioners in any other
County Division or Place for which they shall be nominated and deliver a true Coppy of such Writing to the
Receiver General to the end that there be no Failure in any part of the  Execution of the Service by this Act
required.
XIV. 
Constables, &c. absenting themselves; or appearing and refusing to serve, Penalty; Commissioners to issue Warrant for appointing Assessors, and requiring them to appear and certify the Names of Inhabitants liable to Rate; with the Particulars, and in the Manner herein mentioned; Assessors to duly assess the same, and to inform themselves of the yearly Value of Manors, &c; and where the Rent is less than the full yearly Value, the Assessors are to inform themselves thereof; and are then to assess the same accordingly, and to describe the Manors, &c. if it can be done, and bring Certificates of Assessment; Assessors to be Collectors; Assessors neglecting, &c. to serve; Penalty; How levied; Assessor, before entering upon his Office, to take the Oaths of 1 W. & M. Sess. 1. c. 8. and the Oath herein mentioned.
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Co[m]missioners shall direct their several or
joint Precept or Precepts to such Inhabitants High Constables Petty Constables Bayliffs or other like Officers or
Ministers and such Number of them as they in their Discretion shall think most convenient to be Presenters and
Assessors requiring them to appeare before the said Co[m]missioners att such Place and Time not exceeding Five
Days as they shall appoint And att such their Appearances the said Co[m]missioners or such of them that shall be
then present shall openly read or cause to be read unto them the several Rates Duties and Charges in this Act
mentioned and alsoe openly declare the Effect of their Charge to them and how and in what manner they ought
and should make their Certificates and how they ought to proceed in the Execution of this Act according to the
Rates aforesaid And if any such Constable Petty Constable Bailiff Inhabitants or other Officers or Ministers, to
whom any Precept shall be directed shall absent themselves without lawful Excuse to be made out by the Oaths
of Two Credible Witnesses (which Oaths the said Co[m]missioners or any Two of them are hereby impowered to
administer) or if any Person appearing shall refuse to serve then every such Person so making Default or refuseing
to serve shall for every time of such Default or Refusal forfeit and lose unto His Majesty such Su[m]ms as the
Com[m]issioners or so many as shall be then present or the major part of them being present shall think fitt not
exceeding the Su[m]m of Five Pounds nor lesse then Fourty Shillings And att and after such General Meeting and
Charge given as aforesaid the said Co[m]missioners shall take care that Warrants be issued forth and directed to Two
att least of the most able and sufficient Inhabitants of each Parish Townshipp or Place within their respective
Divisions thereby appointing & requiring them to be Assessors of all and every the Rates and Duties by this Act
imposed and shall therein alsoe appoint and prefix a certaine Day and Place for the said Assessors to appeare
before them and to bring in their Certificates in Writing of the Names and Sirnames of all and every Person or
Persons dwelling or residing within the respective Limitts of those Places with which they shall be charged upon
whom any the Rates Duties or Payments in this Act before specified and declared are to be sett and imposed
and to distinguish in several Columns to be contained in one or more Books or Sheets of Paper the Particulars
following (videl[ice]t) The Tax which is to be paid by such Persons as are chargeable with the said General Duty of
Foure Pence per Month The Value of the Wages for which any Persons are to be rated and the Monthly Rate
to be paid by them respectively The several Pensions Annuities Stipends or other yearly Payments which any
Persons do receive or are intituled unto and the Monthly Rate thereupon The Nature and Value of the several
Offices Imployments Places of Trust or Professions held enjoyed exercised or used by any of the said Persons and
the Monthly Rate or Rates thereupon The Su[m]ms in Ready Money together with the Debts att Interest which shall
be owing to any of the said Persons and the Monthly Rate to be charged thereupon The Trade Mystery or
Occupac[i]on of all Persons chargeable for Stock in Trade and the true Value of such their Stock respectively with
the Monthly Rate or Payment thereupon The true and real Value of every Persons Stock upon Land and the
Monthly Rate to be paid thereupon And the said Assessors shall duely assesse and tax the same to and with the
several Duties by this Act intended and they or any others which the said Co[m]missioners shall appoint to be Assessors
in this behalfe are be required and are hereby enjoyned to ascertaine and informe themselves by all lawfull ways
and means they can of the true and full yearely Value of all Manors Messuages Lands and Tenements as alsoe
of all Quarries Mines of Coal Tin or Lead Copper Mundick or other Mines Iron-Works Salt-Springs and SaltWorks Allom-Mines and Works Parks Chases Warrenns Woods Underwoods & Coppices and all Fishings Tythes
Tolls and other Yearely profitts and of all Hereditaments of what Nature or Kind soever scituate lyeing and being
happening or ariseing within the Limitts of those Places with which they shall be charged And in all Cases where
any Rent reserved or payable upon any Lease for Life Lives or Yeares or otherwise for any Manors Lands
Tents Hereditaments or other the Premisses is lesse than the real Yearely improved Value or not so much as
might be paid by a Rack-Rent for the same whether such Low Rent be occasioned by a Fine or by a beneficial
Bargaine or any other Accident or Cause whatsoever In all such Cases the Assessors are hereby strictly enjoyned
and required to take particular Care to informe themselves how much such Mannors Lands Tenements Hereditaments or
other the Premisses are bona fide worth by the Yeare above the reserved Rent and to charge Three Shillings in the
Pound for such over Value upon the Tenant in addition to the Tax to be paid for the reserved Rent And the
said Assessors being so ascertained of all and singuler the Premisses aforesaid they are to assesse all and every
the said Manors Messuages Lands Tents? and Premisses before appointed to be charged after the Rate of Three
Shillings for every Twenty Shillings of the full Yearely Value taking Care (where it can conveniently be done)
to describe the Names of the Manors Farms or other entire Things that shall be so charged And the said
Assessors in their Books or Papers of the several Assessments aforesaid shall insert such other Particulars or
Descriptions as may best ascertaine the Rates hereby intended to be imposed and shall bring with them att the
Time and Place so as aforesaid prefixed for their Appearance their Books or Certificates in Writing of all the
said Assessments And the said several Assessors who shall make the said Assessments shall by virtue of this Act
within the Limitts and Bounds of those Parishes Townships Constablewicks or Places where they shall be chargeable
respectively be Collectors of the Moneys to be paid to His Majesty by this Act For whose paying in to the Head
Collector in manner hereafter menc[i]oed such Moneys as they shall be charged withal the Parish or Place wherein
they are so imployed shall be answerable And if any Assessor so as aforesaid appointed or to be appointed shall
neglect or refuse to serve or shall make Default att the time appointed for his Appearance (not haveing a lawfull
Excuse to be witnessed by the Oaths of Two credible Witnesses (which Oath the said Co[m]missioners or any Two
or more of them have power to Administer) or shall not performe his Duty every such Assessor shall for every
such Neglect Refusal or Default forfeit and lose to His Majesty such Su[m]m as the Co[m]missioners or so many of
them as shall be present or the major Part of them shall think fitt not exceeding the Su[m]m of Twenty Pounds
nor under the Su[m]m of Ten Pounds to be levied by Distresse and Sale of the Offenders Goods and Chattells in
like manner as by this Act is appointed for the levying of the several Rates and Assessments herein mentioned
in case of neglect or refusal of Payment & to be charged upon the respective Receivers General together with the
said Rates and Assessments And every Assessor appointed or to be appointed by virtue of this Act shall before
hee take upon him the Execution of the said Imployment take the Oaths mentioned and required to be taken
by an Act made in the Parliament held in the First Yeare of the Reigne of King William and Queen Mary
intituled An Act for the abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy & Allegiance and appointing other Oaths And alsoe
take an Oath in these words following.
Two Commissioners may administer the Oaths.
You shall sweare well and truely diligently and faithfully to performe and execute the Duty of an Assessor and
to cause the Rates and Duties imposed by an Act intituled An Act for granting an Aid to His Majesty as
well by a Land Tax as by several Subsidies and other Duties payable for One Yeare to be duely and fully assessed
according to the best of your Skill and Judgement and therein you shall spare no Person for Favour or Affection
nor any Person grieve for Hatred or III will. So help you God. Which Oaths any Two or more of the said Co[m]missioners in the County City or Place where the said Assessment
is to be made have hereby Power and are hereby required to administer.
XV. 
Commissioners may examine Presenters, and if they see Cause to suspect that any Person, &c. is omitted or not fully charged, they may summon such Persons; Person neglecting, &c. to appear; Penalty; Commissioners may examine upon Oath; Assessors to give Copies of Certificates to Commissioners, who are to sign and seal and re-deliver the same, approved or altered, to Assessors, for the Purpose of Collection, &c; Commissioners to cause true Copies, &c. of Sums assessed to be certified into the Exchequer under Hand and Seal, without naming the Persons assessed, upon or before 10th March 1696, or within Forty Days after; Remembrancer, within Three Months, to transcribe Schedules, &c. and transmit the same to Office of Writer of the Tallies; His Duty thereon.
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Rates and Assessments as well of Foure Pence
per Month upon all Persons (except as aforesaid) as also upon Wages and upon Pensions Annuities Stipends and
other Yearely Payments and upon Offices Imployments Places of Trust and Professions and upon Ready Moneys
and Debts and upon Stock in Trade Stock upon Land and also the Taxations & Assessments of the Pound Rate
of Three Shillings in the Pound of the true yearely Value of all Manors Messuages Lands Tenements Hereditaments
and Premisses and all other Taxes and Duties chargeable by this Act shall be made and ascertained and the
several and respective Certificates or Assessments thereof returned in to the Co[m]missioners upon or before the Fifth
Day of March One thousand six hundred ninety six unlesse the Co[m]missioners shall think fitt to give further
times for the doeing thereof And upon returne of any such Certificate or Assessment the Co[m]missioners or any
Three or more of them shall and may (if they see cause) examine the Presenters thereof And if the said Co[m]issioners
or any Three or more of them within their several Limitts att the time of the returne of the Certificates as
aforesaid or within Twenty Days after shall know or have good cause to suspect that any Person or Persons
Wages Pensions Anuities? Stipends or other yearely Payments Offices Imployments Professions Ready Money
Debts Stocks or any the Manors Messuages Lands or other Matters or Things which ought to be contained &
charged in the said Certificates is or are omitted or are not fully charged according to the true meaning of this
Act the said Co[m]missioners or any Three or more of them shall have Power to su[m]mon such Person or Persons
or the Owners or Possessors of such Manors Lands Stocks or other the Premisses to appeare before them att a
Day and Place prefixt to be examined touching the Matters aforesaid And if the Person on Persons su[m]moned to
be so examined shall neglect to appeare (not having a reasonable Excuse for such his Default) every Person so
making a Default shall pay to His Majesty double the Su[m]m hee should or ought to have been sett att or rated
And moreover the said Co[m]missionersor the major part of them or of so many of them as shall be present shall
have full power by all lawfull ways and means to examine and informe themselves upon Oath (which they are
hereby impowered to administer) of all Persons and Things omitted to be charged or that are under assessed or
under charged and to sett such Rate or Rates upon the same as shall be according to the true intent and meaning
of this Act And the said Assessors are hereby required to give the Copies of their Certificates or Assessments
fairely written & subscribed by them unto the said Co[m]missioners by whom they were appointed And the said
Co[m]missioners or any Two or more of them are hereby ordered and required to cause the said several and respective
Assessments to them delivered (when by them approved of or altered according to the true intent of this Act)
to be fairely written and to signe and seale several Duplicates or Copies of the said Assessments distinguisht as
aforesaid And the Copie or Copies of them so signed and sealed forthwith to deliver or cause to be delivered
back to the said Assessors who are to collect by the same And shall likewise deliver or cause to be delivered
other Copies thereof so signed and sealed unto the Receivers General or their Head Collectors or Deputies according
to their several and respective Collections & Receipts And moreover the said Co[m]missioners shall cause true Copies
or Extracts of the whole Su[m]ms assessed and charged within every Hundred Lathe Wapentake Parish Ward or
Place rated or assessed to the Tax of Three Shillings in the Pound in pursuance of this Act and of the whole
Su[m]m rated or assessed as well for the Foure Pence per Month upon all Persons as alsoe upon Wages Pensions
Annuities Stipends or other Anūal Payments Professions Offices Imployments Ready Money Debts & Stocks
distinguisht as aforesaid to be certified and transmitted into His Majesties Court of Exchequer under the Hands
and Seals of any Two or more of the Co[m]missioners but without naming the Persons in such Certificates And
this the said Co[m]missioners shall cause to be done upon or before the Tenth Day of March One thousand six
hundred ninety six or within Forty Days after (all Appeals to them made being first determined) And the Kings
Remembrancer in the Exchequer for the time being shall and is hereby required within Three Months after
Duplicates of the last Payment shall be transmitted to him to transcribe all the Schedules and Duplicates of the
Su[m]ms returned to him from and for every respective County Riding City and Towne and every Hundred Wapentake
Parish Division Towne and Place therein in a Book or Books of Parchment in Alphabetical Order and in a faire
legible Hand Writing and within Three Months after the same shall be so by him received to transmitt all and
every the same Schedules and Duplicates to the Office of Writer of the Tallies co[m]monly called the Auditor of the
Receipt of the Exchequer who is hereby likewise authorised and required to enter the same in the like Alphabeticall
Order in another Book of Parchment fairely written to be provided for that Purpose.
XVI. 
Of whom Demand to be made; Collectors to pay to Head Collectors.
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Persons so appointed to be Collectors as
aforesaid shall levy and collect all and every the Taxes Rates or Duties so assessed and charged according to the
Intent and Direction of this Act which said Collectors are hereby required to demand all and every the Su[m]m and
Su[m]ms of Money which shall be so taxed and assessed for the said Duty of Foure Pence per Month payable by
all Persons except as herein excepted and for the said Duties on Wages Pensions Anuities Stipends or other
Annual Payments and for the said Profitts of Offices Employments or Professions Monthly and every Month as the
same shall become due or within Fourteen Days after the several Days and Times hereby appointed for the
Payment thereof respectively And the same Collectors or such other Collectors as shall be appointed by the
Co[m]missioners in this behalfe shall demand all and every the Su[m]m and Su[m]ms of Money which shall be taxed or
assessed as aforesaid for Ready Moneys Debts Stock in Trade or Stock upon Land and for the said Tax of Three
Shillings in the Pound upon all Manors Messuages Lands Tenements Hereditaments & other the Premisses
Monthly as the same are before in and by this Act directed and appointed to be paid or within Fourteen Days
after any such Monthly Payments shall become due Which said Demands shall and may be made of the Parties
themselves if they can be found or else att the place of their last abode or upon the Premisses charged with the
Assessment And the said several Collectors shall collect and levy the said Moneys so charged for His Majestys
Use and are hereby required and enjoyned to pay unto the respective Head Collectors all and every the said Rates
Duties and Assessments by them respectively collected or received within Foureteen Days next and im[m]ediately after
the several and respective Days and Times by this Act prefixed or appointed for the demanding receiving and
levying of the same as aforesaid att such Place or Places as the Co[m]missioners or any Two or more of them shall
appoint so as that within every Fourteen Days next and im[m]ediately after the utmost times hereby prefixed for the
demanding receiving or levying all & every the said Monthly Payments the whole Su[m]m due for such Monthly
Payments respectively shall be paid or answered by the Collectors to the said Head Collectors respectively.
XVII. 
Provided always and it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from time to time as often as
the Co[m]missioners of any County Hundred Division or Place or any Two or more of them by reason of the Sicknesse
Death or Failing of any of the said Collectors or by reason of the great Labour and Burthen which any Collector
in populous Places must undergo if they should continue in the Collection dureing the continuance of this Act shall
find it necessary or reasonable to putt other Collectors in the Rooms or Places of any such Collector or Collectors
so dead sick failed or overburthened with the Duty of his Place Itt shall and may be lawfull to and for the said
Co[m]missioners or any Two or more of them to issue their Precepts or Warrants to the Chief Inhabitants High
Constables Petty Constables Bayliffs or other like Officers or Ministers of the Place or to such Number of them
as they shall think convenient requiring them to returne the Names of One Two or more able and sufficient
Persons living within the Limitts and Bounds of those Parishes Townshipps Constablewicks or Places respectively
to be the Collector or Collectors of the Moneys to be paid to His Majesty there for whom the Parish or Place
shall be answerable And upon such p[re]sentment the said Co[m]missioners or any Two or more of them as aforesaid shall

and may authorize and appoint such Person or Persons so presented to be Collector or Collectors in the Room or
Place of any Collector or Collectors that shall be dead sick failed overburthened as aforesaid which new Collector
or Collectors so appointed or authorized shall be subject to the same Fines & Penalties for the Non-performing of
his or their Duties and shall have the same Powers Authorities & Allowances and be under the same Rules and
Directions as are by this Act provided for the preceding Collectors in case they had continued in their respective
Offices or Places.
XVIII. 
Receivers General to hasten Head Collectors, and to pay into the Exchequer; Commissioners and other Officers to execute Act.
And be it enacted by the Anthority aforesaid That the said Head Collectors shall call upon and hasten the
Subcollectors to the said Payments And in case all and every the said Rates Duties and Assessments shall not
be collected by reason of Neglect or Failure of Duty of the said Subcollectors the said Head Collectors are to
levy by Warrant under the Hands and Seals of any Two or more of the said Co[m]missioners by distresse upon the
Subcollectors respectively such Su[m]m and Su[m]ms of Money as by him and them ought to have been paid and is or
are not paid by reason of his Failure in doeing his Duty according to the Directions of this Act And every Head
Collector is hereby required to make Payment of all and every the Su[m]m or Su[m]ms of Money which shall be so
from time to time by him or them received unto the Receiver General of the respective Counties Cities or Places
to be appointed by His Majesty within Seven Days after the times hereby appointed for the Payment thereof by
the Subcollectors unto such Head Collectors And the respective Receivers General are likewise required to call
upon and hasten the said Head Collectors and to pay what they shall from time to time receive from the said
Head Collectors into His Majesties Receipt of Exchequer within Seven Days after the respective Days and Times
herein before prefixed & appointed for the Payment thereof by the said Head Collectors to the Receiver General
And all Co[m]missioners Collectors Head Collectors and Receivers are hereby required and enjoyned to apply themselves
with all Diligence to the most speedy and effectual Execution of their several and respective Duties and to use their
utmost Endeavors that all Persons and Estates & other things herein charged may fully and duely pay the Rates
and Assessments according to the Direction of this Act and so as that His Majesties Service herein may not be
delayed or hindred through any of their willfull Neglect or Default.
XIX. 
Allowance to Sub-Collectors; Head Collector nominated by Receiver General, who is to be answerable; and to pay into Exchequer; Allowance to Receiver General.
And it is further enacted and declared by the Authority aforesaid That the Moneys received by the Subcollectors
within their respective Divisions or Hundreds shall from time to time be duely paid to the Head Collectors whose
Receipt shall be a sufficient Discharge unto every such Subcollector which Subcollector for gathering the said
particular Su[m]ms shall retaine in his Hands for every Twenty Shillings by him so paid Foure Pence for a Reward
for his Pains and Service And the said Head Collector shall accordingly pay over the said Moneys unto the
Receiver General of each County City or Place respectively in manner aforesaid (which Head Collector or Collectors
shall be nominated and appointed by the Receiver General of the respective Counties) which said Receiver General shall
be answerable for all such Su[m]ms of Money as shall be by him or them so collected or received And that no Subcollector
shall be forced to travel above the Space of Ten Miles for the Payment of the said Moneys that shall be by him
so collected or received And the said Receiver Generals Acquittance shall be a sufficient Discharge unto every
such Head Collector And the Receiver General shall pay the whole Su[m]m by him received into the Receipt of His
Majesties Exchequer in such manner and att or before such Days and Times as are herein before limitted And shall
have an Allowance of Two Pence in the Pound for all Moneys which shall be by him paid into the Receipt of the
Exchequer upon or before the Times prefixt in this Act.
XX. 
And for the carefull Writing and Transcribing the said Warrants Certificates Estreats and Duplicates in due
time Itt is further enacted That the Co[m]missioners Clerks who shall respectively performe the same shall by Warrant
under Two or more of the Co[m]missioners Hands have and receive from the respective Receivers General or their Head
Collectors Three Halfe Pence in the Pound of all such Moneys as he or they shall have received by Virtue of such
Warrants & Estreats who are hereby appointed and allowed to pay the same accordingly.
XXI. 
Distress; and if Rate not paid within Four Days, Distress sold, &c; Houses, Trunks, &c. may be broken open upon Warrant of Commissioners, calling in Constables, &c.who are to aid; Where no sufficient Distress; Imprisonment in Common Gaol.
And be it further enacted and declared That if any Person or Persons shall refuse or neglect to pay any Su[m]m
or Su[m]ms of Money wherewith hee or they shall be rated and assessed by this Act upon Demand by the said Subcollector
of that Place according to the Precepts or Estreats to him or them delivered by the said Co[m]missioners That then
and in every such case it shall and may be lawfull to and for the said Subcollectors or any of them and hee and
they is & are hereby authorized and required for Non-payment thereof to levy the Su[m]m or Su[m]ms so rated and
assessed by Distresse and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of such Persons so refuseing or neglecting to pay or to
distraine upon the Messuages Lands Tenements & Premisses so charged with any such Su[m]m or Su[m]ms of Money &
the Goods and Chattells then and there found and the Distresse so taken to keep by the Space of Foure Days att
the Costs and Charges of the Owners thereof And if the said Owners do not pay the Su[m]m or Su[m]ms of Money so
rated or assessed within the space of the said Foure Days then the said Distresse to be appraised by Two or more
of the Inhabitants where the same shall be taken or other sufficient Persons and to be sold by the Collectors for
the Paym[en]t of the said Money and the Overplus coming by such Sale (if any be) over and above the Charges of
taking and keeping of the Distresse to be im[m]ediately returned to the Owners thereof And moreover it shall be
lawfull to break open in the Day time any House and upon Warrant under the Hands and Seals of any Two or
more of the said Com[m]issioners any Chest Trunk Box or other Thing where any such Goods are calling to their
Assistance the Constable Tythingman or Headboroughs within the Counties Cities Towns & Places where any such
Refusal Neglect or Resistance shall be made Which said Officers are hereby required to be aiding and assisting
in the Premisses as they will answer the contrary att their Peril And if any Person or Persons assessed by
this Act shall refuse or neglect to pay the Su[m]m or Su[m]ms so assessed by the space of Ten Days after Demand
as aforesaid where no sufficient Distresse can or may be found whereby the same may be levied in every such
case Three or more of the Co[m]missioners to be appointed as aforesaid for any such City County or Place are hereby
authorized by Warrants under their Hands and Seals to co[m]mitt such p[er]son or Persons to the Co[m]mon Goal there
to be kept without Bail or Mainprize until Payment shall be made.
XXII. 
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That where any Person or P[er]sons chargeable with any
the several Rates Duties or Assessments by this Act imposed or intended to be imposed shall be under the Age
of One and twenty Yeares in every such Case the Parents Guardians or Tutors of such Infants respectively upon
Default of Payments by such Infants shall be and are hereby made liable to & chargeable with the Payments
which such Infant ought to have paid And if such Parents Guardians or Tutors shall neglect or refuse to pay
as aforesaid itt shall and may be lawfull to proceed against them in like manner as against any other Person or
Persons making default of Payment as herein before appointed And all Parents Guardians & Tutors making
Payment as aforesaid shall be allowed all and every the Su[m]ms so paid for such Infants upon his and their Accounts.
XXIII. 
and may deduct out of Wages due; Tenant to pay, and may deduct out of Rent due.
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in all Cases where any Person or Persons as a
Domestick Servant Covenant Servant Journeyman or other Servant that is or dureing the continuance of this Act
shall be hired entertained or constantly imployed by any Master or Masters Mistress or Mistresses is by this Act
chargeable with the said Duty of Foure Pence per Month or with any the said Duties payable for Wages in every
such Case or Cases the respective Masters or Mistresses Master or Mistresse upon default of Payment by such
Servant shall be and are hereby made lyable to and chargeable with the Payment which such Servants ought to
have made dureing the time of their Continuance in such their Services respectively And if such Master or Mistriss
shall neglect or refuse to pay as aforesaid itt shall and may be lawfull to proceed against them in like manner
as against any other Person or Persons making Default of Payment as herein before appointed And all Masters
and Mistresses making Payment as aforesaid shall be allowed all and every the Su[m]ms paid for such Servants to
be deducted out of the Wages due or to be due and payable unto them respectively And the several and
respective Tenant or Tenants of all Houses Lands Tenements and Hereditaments which shall be rated by virtue
of this Act are hereby required and authorized to pay such Su[m]m or Sums of Money as shall be rated upon such
Houses Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and to deduct out of the Rents so much of the said Rate as for
every such House Lands Tenements or Hereditaments the Landlord should or or ought to pay and beare And
the said Landlords both mediate and immediate according to their respective Interests are hereby required to allow
such Deductions in Payments upon the Receipt of the Residue of their Rents.
XXIV. 
And it is enacted and declared That every Tenant paying the said Assessment last mentioned shall be acquitted
and discharged of so much Money as the said Assessments shall amount unto as if the same had been actually
paid unto such Person and Persons unto whom his Rents should have been due and payable.
XXV. 
For Annuities, &c. payable at the Exchequer; For other yearly Payments not charged upon Land; For Offices; Lodgers; In what Case Rate may be stopped out of Salaries, &c; Persons having Stock in Trade, Cattle, &c. where to be taxed; Tax paid on Agistment allowed by Owner; Persons out of the the Realm, and Persons having Manors, &c. where to be rated.
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Person who is or shall be charged with the
said general Duty of Foure Pence per Month or with the said Rates or Duties for Wages or for ready Money
or Debts shall be taxed in the Places respectively where they shall be resident att the time of the Execution of
this Act And that every Person chargeable by this Act in respect of any Annuities Stipends or other yearely
Payments payable att the Receipts of His Majesties Exchequer or issuing out of any the Branches of His Majesties
Revenues shall and may be taxed and assessed in the respective Places where such Annuities Stipends Pensions
or other yearely Payments are or shall be payable And that all other Pensions Stipends Annuities or other yearely
Payments (not charged upon Lands) shall be charged and assessed in the Places where the Persons intitituled to
receive the same doe reside And that every Person rated or assessed for his Office Imployment or Profession
shall be rated and pay for his said Office Imployment or Profession in the County City or Place where the same
shall be exercised And all Persons not being Housholders nor having a certaine Place of Residence shall be taxed
att the Place where they shall be resident att the time of the Execution of this Act And that in all Cases where
any Pensions Annuities Stipends or other Annual Payments or the Fees Salaries Wages or other Allowances or
Profits shall be payable att the Receipt of His Majesties Exchequer or by the Cofferer of His Majesties Household
or out of any other Publick Office or by any His Majesties Receivers or Paymasters the Tax Duty or Payment which in
pursuance of this Act shall be charged for or in respect of such Pensions Annuities Stipends or other Annual
Payments or for in respect of such Fees Salaries Wages or other Allowances or Profits shall and may in case
of Non-payment thereof be detained and stopt out of the same and be applied to the Satisfaction of the Rates
and Duties not otherwise paid as aforesaid And that where any Person or Persons Bodies Politick or Corporate
shall have any Goods Wares or Merchandizes or other Stock in Trade or any Cattell or other Quick Stock upon
Land it shall and may be lawfull to rate and assesse such Persons Bodies Politick or Corporate for the same in
such County or Place where such Stock shall be att the time of the Execuc[i]on of this Act and all Persons having
the Charge Custody Agistment or Keeping of any such Stock for the Use and Account of any other Person shall
be taxed and pay for the same according to the true Intent & Meaning of this Act and shall be allowed such
Tax or Payment upon his Accompts or shall be satisfied for the same out of such Goods or other things or
by the Owner thereof And if any Person who ought to be taxed by virtue of this Act with any the Rates or
Duties therein contained shall att the time of Assessment be out of the Realme such Person shall be rated therefore
in such County City or Place where hee was last abiding in this Realme And every Person who shall be rated
and assessed as aforesaid for or in respect of any Manors Messuages Lands Tenements or Hereditaments shall be
rated and assessed in the Place where such Messuages Manors Lands Tenements and Premisses respectively doe
lie and not elsewhere.
XXVI. 
Persons rated for Wages, Stock, &c. by changing Residence or fraudulently concealing Stock, &c. evading Rate; charged at the double Value.
Provided always That if any Person or Persons by reason of his her or their having several Mansion Houses
or Places of Residence or otherwise shall be doubly charged by occasion of this Act for or in respect of his her
or their Person Money Debts Stock or otherwise then upon Certificate made by any Two or more of the
Co[m]missioners for the County Riding City or Place of his her or their last Personal Residence under their Hands
and Seals of the Su[m]m or Su[m]ms charged upon him her or them and in what Capacity or Respect hee she or they
were so charged (which Certificate the said Co[m]missioners are required to give without Delay Fee or Reward) and
upon Oath made of such Certificate before any one Justice of the Peace of the County or Place where the said
Certificate shall be made which Oath the said Justice of the Peace is hereby authorized and required to administer
then the Person and Persons so doubly charged shall for so much as shall be so certified be discharged in every
other County City or Place And if any Person that ought to be taxed by virtue of this Act for or in respect
of his or her Person Wages Stock Office Profession or otherwise shall by changing of his or her Place of Residence
or by concealing fraudulently removing or shifting his her or their Goods Merchandizes or other Co[m]modities or
by the fraudulently driving of his her or their Cattle from one Place to another or by any fraudulent releasing
or altering of any Security or Securities for any Debt or Debts att Interest with Intention to avoid the Taxation
hereby intended or by any other Fraud or Covin shall escape from the Taxation or not be fully taxed and the
same be proved before the Co[m]missioners or any Two of them or before any Justice of the Peace in the County
Riding City or Place where such Person dwelleth or resideth att any time within Twenty Days next ensueing after
such Tax made, every Person that shall so escape from the Taxation and Payment or not be fully taxed shall be
charged upon Proof thereof att the Double Value of so much as hee should or ought to have been taxed att by
this Act the said Double Value upon Certificate thereof made into the Exchequer by the Co[m]missioners or Justices
(before whom such Proof shall be made) to be levied of the Goods Lands and Tenements of such Person.
XXVII. 
Penalty; Officers of Exchequer to deliver List of Pensions, &c. to Assessors.
And for the better Discovery of Persons or Things intended to be charged by this Act Be it further enacted
by the Authority aforesaid That every Householder shall upon the Demand of the Assessors of the respective
Parishes or Places give an Account of the Names and Qualities of such Persons as shall sojourne or lodge in
their respective Houses and of their respective Servants and of the full Wages allowed to such Servants under
the Penalty of forfeiting to His Majesty the Su[m]m of Five Pounds to be levied and recovered in such manner as
any other Penalties in this Act menc[i]oned shall or may be levied & recovered And that the Officers in the Receipt
of Exchequer and other Publick Officers upon request to them made by the respective Assessors shall deliver unto
them true Lists or Accounts of all Pensions Ann[u]ities Stipends or other Anual Payments and of all Fees Salaries
or other Allowances payable att the said Receipt or in the said Publick Offices for the better Guidance of the said
Assessors in the charging of the same.
XXVIII. 
Assessors to assess according to Note, unless they can more truly assess of their own Knowledge.
And for the better discovering and charging such of the Debts by this Act chargeable with the Monthly
Duty or Payment as aforesaid as att the time of the respective Assessments pursuant to this Act shall be owing
att Interest to any Person or Persons Bodies Politick or Corporate by or upon any Mortgages Statutes Merchant
or of the Staple Recognizances Judgements Bonds Bills Obligatorie Spialties? or upon any Bills or Notes whatsoever
or any other Securities for Money att Interest Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every
the respective Persons intituled to such Debts or which ought to pay the Tax hereby intended to be imposed
thereupon shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the said Assessors of the Parish or Place where such Debts
are to be assessed before they returne their Certificates or Assessments to the Co[m]missioners as aforesaid a Note
in Writing signed by such Person or Persons or by his her or their Appointment containing the total or grosse
Su[m]m of the Principal Moneys so owing to him her or them respectively upon Mortgages Statutes Merchant or
of the Staple Recognizances Judgments Bonds Bills Obligatory Specialties or upon any other Bills or Notes or
any other Securities for Money att Interest as are before mentioned and intended to be hereby charged whereby
the said Assessors may be enabled fully to Tax such Debts with the Duties by this Act payable in respect of
the same And the said Assessors are hereby impowered to tax and assesse such Persons for such Debts according
to the Notes in Writing so delivered to them respectively But in all Cases where no such Notes shall be delivered
or that the Assessors shall have sufficient Ground of their owne Knowledge or by good Information to believe
that the Persons charging themselves by the delivery of such Notes in Writing as aforesaid have more Moneys
att Interest than are contained in such Notes the said Assessors are hereby authorized and required to assesse and
tax such Persons for their Debts att Interest according to the best of their Skill and Judgement pursuant to their
Oath in that behalfe and according to the Powers and Directions before in this Act contained.
XXIX. 
And it is hereby enacted That all and every the said respective Person and Persons intituled to such Debts
att Interest as aforesaid shall deliver or cause to be delivered to Two or more of the Co[m]missioners for the County
Hundred or other Place respectively where such Debts are to be charged before such time as the said Co[m]missioners
respectively shall deliver their Estreats to the Subcollectors for the demanding or receiving the Su[m]ms to be
assessed in such Place a Specification or Particular in Writing signed by themselves or some others by their
Co[m]mand or Appointment of all and every such Debts so owing to them respectively att Interest upon Mortgages
Statutes Merchant or of the Staple Recognizances Judgements Bonds Specialties Bills or Notes or any other
Securities for Money att Interest as aforesaid mentioning therein the principal Su[m]ms so owing att Interest and also
specifying att the Election of the Person so intituled either the Persons or some of them who borrowed or are
lyable to the Payment of such Debts or some Estate Matter or Thing engaged for the same or the Nature of
the Securities the said respective Su[m]ms are owing upon whether Mortgage Statute Recognizance Judgment Bond
Specialty Bill Note or other Security together with the respective Dates thereof and the Names of the Witnesses
thereunto that so the said Co[m]missioners upon examining the Certificates or Assessments brought in by the said
Assessors may fully charge such Persons with the Taxes or Duties by this Act intended.
XXX. 
Which shall be Evidence for Creditor; Neglecting, &c. to deliver Specification; Penalty; Debts not contained in Specification not recoverable, and Security not Evidence in Law or Equity before 25th March 1699, unless Duty and Penalty first paid.
And it is hereby enacted That the said Co[m]missioners upon their Receipt of such Particulars or Specifications of
Debts as aforesaid shall signe and deliver back to the Parties bringing the same true Copies or Duplicates thereof
under the Hands and Seales of the said Co[m]missioners or any Two or more of them and attested by Two or
more credible Witnesses whereby the Party or Parties (if hee she or they should have occasion) may make it appeare
that hee she or they did truely and bona fide charge themselves for or in respect of the several Debts therein
contained Which said true Copies or Duplicates so delivered back and so signed and attested as aforesaid shall be
received and allowed for sufficient Evidence in all Courts and Places that hee she or they did so charge themselves
as aforesaid And in case any Person or Persons Bodies Politick or Corporate so required by this Act to deliver
Specifications or Particulars in Writing of such Debts as aforesaid shall refuse or neglect so to doe within the
time hereby prescribed contrary to the true Meaning of this Act That then and in every such Case all and every
such Person or Persons Bodies Politick or Corporate refusing or neglecting shall for such Offence over and above
the Duties hereby intended to be charged on such Debts forfeit and pay twice as much as such Duties for any
such Debts for which such Particulars or Specifications ought to have been given or which shall be omitted
therein do or should amount unto to be sued for att any time before the Five & twentieth Day of March One
thousand six hundred ninety nine (to wit) One Moiety thereof to the Use of His Majesty and the other Moiety
thereof to him or them that will sue for the same by Action of Debt or of the Case Bill Suit or Information
wherein no Essoign Protection Wager of Law or more than one Imparlance shall be granted or allowed And
moreover that any such Debt upon Mortgage Statute Merchant or of the Staple Recognizance Judgment Bond
Bill Obligatory Specialty or other Bill or Note or any other Security for Money att Interest not contained in such
Particular or Specification shall not be recoverable and the Specialty or Security for the same shall not be pleaded
or given in Evidence or be otherwise made use of in any Court either of Law or Equity before the said Five
and twentieth Day of March One thousand six hundred ninety nine unlesse the said Duty payable to the King
for such Debt and the said Penalty of Twice as much be first satisfied (that it to say) if there be no Action Bill
Suit or Information co[m]menced or depending by any Informer or Prosecutor then both the Duty and the Penalty
shall be first paid to His Majesty His Heires or Successors into the Receipt of the Exchequer And if there be
any such Action Bill Suit or Information depending then the said Duty and One Moiety of such Penalty shall be
first paid to the King as aforesaid and the other Moiety of the said Penalty to the said Informer or Prosecutor
XXXI. 
and if they find Stock fraudulently driven away, &c. to give Notice to the Commissioners; Refusing Assessors to enter, &c; Penalty.
And for the better Discovery of the true Value of all Stock upon Land intended to be charged by this Act
Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the respective Assessors of the several Districts Parishes or
Places where any such Stock shall be or remaine att the time of the Execution of this Act shall have full Power
and Authority and they are hereby enjoyned and required to enter into and upon any such Lands Grounds
Out-houses or other Places where any Stock upon Land by this Act chargeable shall be or remaine as aforesaid
there to view and value the same and when they shall have satisfied themselves in the Number Kinds and Values
of such Stock the said Assessors shall charge the Duties therefore payable in their respective Assessments according
to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act And in case the said Assessors upon such View as aforesaid shall
find that any such Stock as aforesaid hath been fraudulently driven or removed away by any Person or Persons
with Intention onely to defraud His Majesty or to avoid the Taxation thereof hereby intended the said Assessors
shall give Notice thereof to the Co[m]missioners to whom their Certificates are to be returned to the end such Person or
Persons may be proceeded against as by this Act in such Case is provided And if any Person or Persons chargeable
for Stock upon Land as aforesaid shall refuse to permitt or Suffer the said Assessors to enter view and value the
same or any Part thereof as aforesaid that then every such Person for such Refusal shall forfeit the Su[m]m of Ten
Pounds One Moiety thereof to His Majesty and the other Moiety to him or them that will sue for the same to be
recovered as aforesaid.
XXXII. 
Such Values esteemed to be what the Stock is worth to be sold; Assessors may enter Shops, &c. to take account and value Stock; Refusing Assesstors to enter &c; Penalty £40; Assessors may assess according to Particulars; Persons not delivering Particulars, or Assessors suspecting Fraud; Assessors may assess according to their Judgment; Assessments subject to Examination by Commissioners.
And to the end the true Value of all Stock in trade by this Act chargeable may be also knowne and the Duties
for the same may be likewise ascertained according to the true meaning hereof Be it further enacted by the
Authority aforesaid That all and every Person and Persons using or exercising any Trade Mystery Occupation or
Businesse of Merchandizing Shopkeeping buying or selling by Wholesale or Retaile shall deliver or cause to be
delivered to the said Assessors of the Parish or Place where such Stock in Trade is to be assessed within Ten Days
after the time that the Co[m]missioners shall issue their Warrant to the Assessors for making the Assessment in such Parish
or Place respectively a particular in Writing signed by themselves or by their Appointment of the whole Quantities
Kinds and Values of the several Goods Wares Merchandizes Co[m]modities Manufactures or other vendible Stock for
which such Person or P[er]sons respectively ought to be charged according to the true Intent and Meaning of this
Act whereby the said Assessors may be enabled fully to tax such Stock with the Duties by this Act payable in
respect of the same Which said Values shall be esteemed to be so much as the said Goods Wares Merchandizes
Co[m]modities Manufactures or other vendible Stock are bona fide worth to be sold for by such Person or Persons Bodies
Politick or Corporate respectively att the time of the Execution of this Act And the said Assessors of the District
Parish or Place where any Goods Wares Merchandizes Co[m]modities Manufactures or other Vendible Stock shall
be or remaine att the time of the Execution of this Act (in all cases where they shall think it necessary, for
their better Informac[i]on as to the Quantities Kinds & Values of the same) shall have Power & Authority and they
are hereby authorized and impowered to enter in the Day time into any Shops Warehouses or other Places whatsoever
where any such Goods or other Stock in Trade shall be or remaine there to take an Account thereof and to
view & value the same And all and every the said Person or Persons chargeable as aforesaid for Stock in
Trade shall be obliged by Force & Virtue of this Act (if thereunto required) to permitt and suffer the said
Assessors of the Place to make such Entrance View and Valuation to the end the said Assessors may be the
better enabled to make their Assessments as aforesaid And if any such Person or Persons shall refuse to permitt
or suffer such Assessors to enter into their Shops Warehouses or other Places being thereunto required as aforesaid
there to view and value their Stock or any part thereof then every such Person for such Refusal shall forfeit
the Su[m]m of Fourty Pounds One Moiety thereof to His Majesty and the other Moiety to him or them that will sue
for the same in the manner before mentioned And the said Assessors in case they be satisfied in the truth of the
particulars delivered to them as aforesaid both for the Quantities and Values of all the Goods Wares Merchandizes
Co[m]modities Manufactures or other Vendible Stock in Trade for which any Person or Persons shall be chargeable as
aforesaid shall proceed to tax and assesse the same with the Rates and Duties by this Act intended to be imposed
thereupon according to the said particulars But if the Person or Persons who ought to deliver the said particulars
in Writing of their Stock in Trade to the said Assessors shall not deliver the same within the time hereby prefixed
or if the respective Assessors shall find or suspect such particular given in Writing to be fraudulent either by omitting
of any Goods Wares Merchandizes Co[m]modities Manufactures or other Vendible Stock or by undervaluing of the same
or any part thereof the said Assessors are hereby authorized and required to assesse and tax such Person and
Persons for his her or their Stock in Trade according to the best of their Skill and Judgment pursuant to the
Oath by such Assessors in that behalfe taken and according to the Powers & Directions before in this  contained
all which Assessments so made by the said Assessors shall neverthelesse be subject to the Examination of the said
Co[m]missioners and to the Power before in this Act given to the said Co[m]missioners upon such Examination to sett
such Rate or Rates as shall be according to the true intent & meaning of this Act and shall also be subject to
the Power of the said Co[m]missioners for allowing abating defalking increasing or inlarging any such Assessments in
such Cases of Appeal or Complaint to be made to them as are herein after mentioned.
XXXIII. 
Penalty; In case of undue Assessment, &c. Complaint to Commissioners; Commissioners to examine into the same, and may increase or abate Rate, and to issue Warrant accordingly; Assessors, &c. to attend on Appeal.
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Steward Bayliffe or Tenant of any Houses
Lands Tenements or other Hereditaments being required by the Assessors of the Parish or Place where the same
are scituated or any or either of them to declare and make knowne to such Assessor or Assessors the true Rent by
such Tenant or Tenants payable for such Houses Lands Tenements and other Hereditaments or shall affirme or pretend
the same to be of lesse Rent than what hee she or they are bound to pay for such Lands Houses Tenements
or other Hereditaments every such Steward Bayliffe or Tenant for such Offence shall forfeit so much as such
Rent bona fide payable by such Tenant for such Lands Houses Tenements or other Hereditaments shall amount
unto for Two Yeares to be levied & recovered in such manner as any other Penalty in this Act mentioned shall
or may be levied and recovered and if any Person or Persons that shall be rated assessed or charged with any the
Rates Duties or Assessments by this Act intended or for or in respect of any Matter or Thing for which by
this Act hee she or they are or may be rated or charged, do find him her or themselves agrieved with such
assessing and rating and within Ten Days after Demand made of the Su[m]m or Su[m]ms of Money assessed on him
her or them do by himselfe herselfe or themselves or by his her or their Stewards or Bailiffs complain to the
Co[m]missioners who signed or allowed his her or their Rates the said Co[m]missioners or any Three or more of them
shall have and have hereby Power and are hereby required within Ten Days next after such Complaint to
examine any Person or Persons concerned or his her or their Stewards or Bayliffs upon Oath touching the Matters
or Things for which hee she or they shall be assessed and upon due Examination & Knowledge thereof allow
abate defalk increase or inlarge the said Assessment And the same so allowed abated increased or inlarged shall be
levied and shall be certified or estreated into the Exchequer in manner aforesaid And to that end the said
Co[m]missioners are hereby required to meet together for the determining of such Appeals and Complaints accordingly
And for this end to expresse in their Warrants or Estreats to the Collectors the Times and Places for determining
Appeals and to su[m]mon the respective Assessors concerning whose Assessment any Complaint shall be made to
attend att the Time and Place to be appointed for the determining such Complaint who are hereby required to
attend accordingly and Appeals once heard and determined to be final without any further Appeal upon any Pretence
whatsoever.
XXXIV. 
Commissioners may fine; levied by Distress; If no Distress; Imprisonment.
And be it further enacted and declared by the Authority aforesaid That if any Collector Assessor Receiver or
other Person appointed by the said Co[m]missioners shall wilfully neglect or refuse to performe his or their Duty in
the due and speedy Execution of this present Act or if any Assessor shall wittingly or willingly under-rate or
assesse att any Undervalue any Person or Thing chargeable by this Act the said respective Co[m]missioners or any
Three or more of them have hereby Power to impose on such Person or Persons so refusing neglecting or not
performing their Duties such Fine or Fines as by them shall be thought fitt so as the same exceed not the Su[m]m
of Thirty Pounds nor to be under the Su[m]m of Fifteene Pounds for every Offence Which said Fines shall not
be taken off or discharged but by the Consent of the majority of the Co[m]missioners who imposed the same but
shall be levied by Warrant under the Hands & Seales of the said Co[m]missioners or any Two or more of them by
Distresse and Sale of the Goods and Chattells of the Offenders and in Default of Goods and Chattells the Offenders
to be co[m]mitted (by Warrant under the Hands and Seals of the said Co[m]missioners or any Two or more of them)
to Prison there to remaine till Payment of the said Fines And that all Fines that shall be so imposed by virtue
of this Act shall be paid to the respective Receivers General and by them into the Receipt of His Majesties
Exchequer and charged upon the respective Receivers General amongst the rest of the Rates aforesaid.
XXXV. 
Commissioners may imprison the Persons and seize Estates of Collectors; and if Monies not paid, may call a Meeting and proceed to sale of Estates.
And it is hereby further enacted and declared That if any Collector that shall by virtue of this Act be appointed
for the Receipt of any Su[m]ms of Money thereby to be assessed neglect or refuse to pay any Su[m]ms or Sums of
Money which shall be by him received as aforesaid and to pay the same as in and by this Act is directed or
shall detaine in his or their Hands any Money received by them or any of them and not pay the same att such
time as by this Act is directed the Co[m]missioners of each County City Riding or Towne respectively or any Two
or more of them in their respective Divisions are hereby authorized and impowered to imprison the Person and
seize and secure the Estate both Real and Personal of such Collectors to him or them belonging or which shall
descend & come into the Hands or Possessions of his Heires Executors or Administrators wheresoever the same
can be discovered and found And the said Co[m]missioners who shall so seize and secure the Estate of any Collector
or Collectors shall be and are hereby impowered to appoint a time for the General Meeting of the Co[m]missioners
for such County Riding City Towne or Place and there to cause Publick Notice to be given att the Place where
such Meeting shall be appointed Six Days att the  before such General Meeting And the Co[m]missioners present
att such General Meeting or the major Part of them in case the Moneys detained by any such Collector or Collectors
be not paid or satisfied as it ought to be according to the Directions of this Act shall and are hereby impowered
and required to sell and dispose of such Estates which shall be for the Cause aforesaid seized and secured or any
Part of them and to satisfye and pay into the Hands of the Receiver General the Su[m]m that shall be so detained
in the Hands of such Collector or Collectors their Heires Executors or Administrators respectively.
XXXVI. 
and in case of Failure to levy the same.
And it is hereby further enacted and declared That att the Expiration of the respective times in this Act prescribed
for the full Payment of all the said Monthly Payments the several and respective Co[m]missioners or any Two or more
of them within their Division and Hundred shall and are hereby required to call before them the Collectors within
each respective Division and Hundred Parish and Place to examine and assure themselves of the full and whole
Payment of the particular Su[m]m and Su[m]ms of Money charged within and upon the same Division Hundred and every
Parish and Place therein and of the due Returne of the same into the Hands of the respective Receivers General
or their Head Collectors or Deputies of the said County Riding City Towne and Place and by such Receiver
General into the Receipt of His Majesties Exchequer to the end there may be no Failure in the Payment of any
part of the Rates Duties or Assessments by virtue of this Act to be assessed and paid And in case of Failure in
the Premisses the said Co[m]missioners or any Two or more of them are hereby authorized and required to cause
the same to be forthwith levied and paid according to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act.
XXXVII. 
Penalty; Questions concerning Rate determined by Commissioners.
And it is hereby enacted and declared That in case any Controversie arise concerning the said Assessments or
the Payment thereof which concerns any the Co[m]missioners by this Act to be appointed That the Co[m]missioners so
concerned in the said Controversie shall have no Voice but shall withdraw att the time of the Debate of any
such Controversie until it be determined by the rest of the Co[m]missioners And in Default thereof that the
Co[m]missioners then present shall have Power and are hereby required to impose such Fine and Fines as to them
shall be thought fitt upon such Co[m]missioner so refusing to withdraw not exceeding the Su[m]m of Twenty Pounds
and to cause the same to be levied and paid as other Fines to be imposed by this Act are to be levied and paid
And all Questions and Differences which shall arise touching any the said Rates Duties or Assessments or the
collecting thereof shall be heard & finally determined by the Co[m]missioners in such manner as by this Act is directed
upon Complaint thereof made to them by any Person or Persons thereby agrieved without further Trouble or Suit
in Law.
XXXVIII. 
and for Christ's Hospital and other Hospitals and Almshouses; and for Almsmen, &c. of Almshouses, &c. whose Maintenance does not exceed £20 per Ann.
Provided That nothing in this Act contained shall extend to charge any College or Hall in either of the Two
Universities or the Colleges of Windsor Eaton Winchester or Westminster or the Corporation of the Governors of
the Charity for the Reliefe of Poor Widdows and Children of Clergymen or the Colledge of Bromley or the
Charity settled by Tobias Rustat lately deceased upon the Masters Fellows and Scholars of Jesus Colledge in
Cambridge in trust for Six Poor Clergymens Widdows and for the Maintenance of Eight Poor Scholars in the said
College Sons of Clergymen deceased or any Hospital or Almshouses or any Free School for or in respect of the
Scite of the said Colledge Halls Almshouses Free Schools or Hospitalls or any Master Fellow or Scholar of any
such College or Hall or in any other Free Schools or any Reader Officer or Minister of the said Universities
Colleges or Halls or any Masters or Ushers of any School or any Almsmen of any Hospital or Almshouse for
or in respect of any Stipends Wages or Profitts whatsoever ariseing or growing due to them in respect of the said
several Places or Imployments in the said Universities Colleges Schools Hospitals & Almshouses or to charge any
of the Houses or Lands belonging to Christs Hospital Saint Bartholomews Bridewell Saint Thomas and Bethlehem
Hospital in the City of London and Borough of Southwarke or any of them or to the said Corporation of the
Governors of the Charity for the Reliefe of Poor Widdows and Children of Clergymen or to the Colledge of
Bromley or to the said Charity settled by Tobias Rustat deceased nor to extend to charge any the Almsmen or
Almswomen or other Poor Persons inhabiting within any other Hospital or Almshouse for or in respect of any
Rent or Revenues payable to them or any such of them for their im[m]ediate Use and Releife whose Anual? Maintenance
and Profitts shall not exceed in the whole the Su[m]m of Twenty Pounds.
XXXIX. 
Provided That no Tenants of any Lands or Houses by Lease or Grant from the said Corporation or any of
the said Hospitals or Almshouses or Free-Schools doe claime or enjoy any Freedom or Exemption by this Act but
that all the Houses & Lands which they so hold shall be rated and assessed for so much as they are yearely
worth over and above the yearely Rents reserved and payable to the said Corporation or to the said Hospitals
Almshouses or Free-Schools to be received and disbursed for the im[m]ediate Relief and Support of the Poor in the
said Hospitals Almshouses or Free-Schools.
XL. 
Provided and be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for the avoiding all Obstructions and Delays
in assessing and collecting the Su[m]ms which are to be rated & assessed by this Act upon any Manors Lands
Tenements Rents Tythes or other Hereditaments all Places Constablewicks Divisions and Allotments which have
used to be rated and assessed shall pay and be assessed in such County Hundred Rape Wapentake Constablewick
Division Place and Allotment as the same hath hitherto usually been assessed in and not elsewhere.
XLI. 
Provided neverthelesse That the Hundred of West Barnfeild formerly rated and assessed in the Lathe of Alesford
in the County of Kent may for the future if the Co[m]missioners think fitt be rated and assessed in the Lathe of
Stray in the County aforesaid as likewise may the Tything of Northmore in the County of Oxon be assessed in
the Hundred of Bampton in the said County and the Tythings of Charlbury Faller and Finstock in the Hundred
of Chadlington in the said County and alsoe the whole Towne and Parish of Leeds in the County of York in the
Hundred of Skyrack in the said County.
XLII. 
Provided always That nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to alter change determine or make void
any Contracts Covenants or Agreements whatsoever between Landlord and Tenant or any others touching the
Payment of Taxes or Assessments Any thing herein before mentioned to the contrary notwithstanding.
XLIII. 
Treble Costs; Receivers, &c. to give Acquittances to inferior Officers gratis; Schedule of Defaulters to be delivered by Sub-Collectors to Head Collectors, who are to deliver same to Receivers General; Exchequer Process to issue thereupon.
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Action Plaint Suit or Information shall be
co[m]menced or prosecuted against any Person or Persons for what hee or they shall do in pursuance or in Execution
of this Act such Person or Persons (so sued in any Court whatsoever) shall and may plead the General Issue (not
Guilty) & upon any issue joyned may give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence and if the Plaintiffs or
Prosecutors shall become Nonsuit or forbeare further Prosecution or suffer a Discontinuance or if a Verdict passe
against him the Defendants shall recover their Treble Costs for which they shall have the like Remedy as in any
Case where Costs by the Law are given to Defendants And the said Receivers General shall give Acquittances
(gratis) to the said Head Collectors for all Moneys of them received And the said Head Collectors shall give
Acquittances (gratis) to the Subcollectors for all such Moneys as shall be paid them in pursuance of this Act And
the said Subcollectors shall make & deliver to the said Head Collectors a perfect Schedule fairely written in
Parchment under their Hands and Seals signed and allowed by any Two or more of the Co[m]missioners containing
the Names Sirnames and Places of Abode of every Person within their respective Collections that shall make
Default of Payment of any of the Su[m]ms that shall be rated or assessed on such Person by virtue of this Act where
no sufficient Distresse is to be found nor other Satisfaction made and not otherwise and the Su[m]m and Sums charged
on every such Person the same Schedule to be delivered by the Head Collectors to the Receiver General of the
County City or Place respectively to be by him returned into His Majesties Court of Exchequer whereupon every
Person making Default of Payment may be charged by Processe of the said Court according to the Course of the
Court in such Cases.
XLIV. 
Commissioners to certify into the Exchequer, which shall be a sufficient Charge.
Provided also and be it further enacted That in Case any Lands or Houses in any Parish or Constablewick
shall be unoccupyed and no Distresse can be found on the same nor the Person of the true Owner or Proprietor
can be found within the County wherein such House or Land lieth by reason whereof the Rate and Assessment
upon such unoccupied House or Land cannot be levied that then upon Complaint made thereof to the Co[m]missioners
for the County where such Case shall happen to bee the said Co[m]missioners or any Two or more of them shall
certifie into His Majesties Court of Exchequer the Name of the Person whose Lands or House so lyeth unoccupyed
together with the Su[m]m thereupon assessed and the Parish and Place where such Land or House lyeth Which
Certificate is hereby declared to be a sufficient Charge upon the Person and Land or House therein named and
shall make the Person Debtor to His Majesty for the Su[m]m so assessed and the Court of Exchequer shall issue out
Processe thereupon against the Body Goods and all other the Lands of such Debtor untill the Su[m]m so assessed
shall be fully & actually levied and paid to His Majesty.
XLV. 
Wood may be cut and sold; Exception; and Purchaser may cut and carry away.
Provided always & be it enacted That where any Woodland shall be assessed and no Distresse can be hadd
that in such Case it shall and may be lawfull to and for any Collector Constable Headborough or Tythingman by
Warrants under the Hands and Seals of Two or more of the Co[m]missioners of that Hundred or Division att
seasonable Times of the Yeare to cutt and sell to any Person or Persons so much of the Wood growing on the
Woodlands (Timber Trees excepted) so assessed as will pay the Assessment or Assessments to be behind and
unpaid and the Charge incident thereunto And that it shall and may be lawfull for the Person and Persons and
his and their Assignes to whom such Woods! shall be so sold to fell cutt downe and dispose and carry away the
same to his owne Use rendring the Overplus (if any be.)
XLVI. 
they may be seized and sold.
Provided always and be it further enacted That where any Tax or Assessment shall be layed or charged upon
any Tythes Tolls Profitts of Marketts Faires or Fisheries or other annual Profitts not distrainable in case the same
shall not be paid within Fifteene Days after such Assessment so charged laid and demanded then it shall and
may be lawfull to & for the Collector Constable or other Officer thereunto appointed by Warrant under the
Hands and Seals of Two or more of the Co[m]missioners to sieze take and sell so much of the Tythes Tolls and
other Proffitts so charged as shall be sufficient for the levying the said Tax and Charges occasioned by such
Non-payment thereof rendring the Overplus to the Owner (if any be).
XLVII. 
Receiver General certifying into Exchequer Arrears that have been paid, or unduly setting insuper, &c; Penalty.
And for the better preventing such unjust Vexations as might be occasioned by such Persons as shall be appointed
Receivers General of any of the Su[m]ms of Money granted by this Act and to the Intent that the said Receivers
General may returne a true Account into His Majesties Court of Excheq[uer] of such Su[m]ms of Money as shall be
received by them and every of them their and every of their Head Collectors or Deputies Be it further enacted
by the Authority aforesaid That if any such Receivers General returne or certifie into the said Court any Su[m]m or
Su[m]ms of Money to be in arreare and unpaid after the same have been received either by such Receiver General or
by his Head Collectors or Deputies or any of them or shall cause any Person or Persons to be sett insuper in the
said Court for any Su[m]m or Su[m]ms of Money that hath been so received that then every such Receiver General
shall be liable to pay to every such Person and Persons that shall be molested vexed or damaged by reason of
such unjust Certificate Returne or setting Insuper Treble the Damages that shall be thereby occasioned the said
Damages to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in which no Essoigne Protection or Wager
of Law shall be allowed nor any more then One Imparlance & shall also forfeit to His Majesty His Heires and
Successors Double the Su[m]m that shall be so unjustly certified or returned or caused to be sett insuper.
XLVIII. 
and also Assessors.
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Co[m]missioners that shall be within any County
City or Place within their respective Limitts or the major Part of them shall rate tax and assesse every other
Co[m]missioner joyned with them for or in respect of their Persons Ready Money Debts Pensions Annuities Stock in
Trade or Stock upon Land and also for and in respect of the Offices & Imployments of Profitt or Professions
which shall then be held and injoyed by such Co[m]missioner so as the Residence and usual Dwelling Place of such
Co[m]missioner so to be taxed be within the Division of such Co[m]missioners by whom hee is taxed and so as the
Office Imployment or Profession held or injoyed by such Co[m]missioners so to be taxed be likewise exercised within
the Division or Limitts of such Co[m]missioners by whom hee is to be taxed And the Co[m]missioners within their
Division shall also assesse every Assessor within their Division for all & singular the Matters and Things for
which by this Act hee ought to be rated & assessed And as well all Su[m]ms assessed upon every the said Co[m]missioners
and Assessors as the Assessments made and sett by the Assessors aforesaid shall be written estreated levied &
gathered as the same should and ought to have been if such Co[m]missioners had not been named Co[m]missioners.
XLIX. 
Interest in the King's Printing House; assessed by Commissioners appointed for London; and the Sums paid by the Treasurers, &c. of the said Waterworks, &c.
And be it further enacted and ordained by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Person and Persons having
any Share or Shares or Interest in any Fresh Stream or Running Water brought to the North Parts of London
co[m]monly called the New River or in the Thames Waterworks or in the Hyde-Parke Marybone or Hampsted Waters
or any Rents or Profitts arising thereby and all and every Person and Persons having any Share or Interest in
any Office or Stock for insuring of Houses in cases of Fire or in the Convex or other Lights or in the Stock or
Stocks of Printing of Books in or belonging to the House co[m]monly called the Kings Printing house shall pay for
the same the Su[m]m of Three Shillings for every Twenty Shillings of the full yearely Value thereof And they and
all Companies of Merchants in London charged by this Act shall be assessed by the Co[m]missioners to be nominated
and appointed for the said City or any Three or more of them for their respective Shares and Interests aforesaid
and the aforesaid Joynt Stock or Stocks And the same shall be paid by the Governors and respective Treasurers
or Receivers of the said River-Waters and Water-Works and of the said Offices and Stocks respectively and be
deducted att and out of their next Dividend.
L. 
and in case of Failure to levy.
And it is further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Co[m]missioners or any Two or more of them
may and shall from time to time call for & require an Account from the respective Receivers General of all
the Money received by them their Head Collectors or Deputies of or from the said Collectors and of the Payments
thereof into the Receipt of His Majesties Exchequer according to the Direction of this Act And in case of any
Failure in the Premisses the said Co[m]missioners or any Two or more of them are hereby required to cause the
same to be forthwith levied and paid according to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act.
LI. 
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Letters Patents granted by His Majesty or any of
His Royal Progenitors to any Person or Persons Cities Boroughs or Towns Corporate within this Realme of any
manner of Libties? Priveledges or Exemptions from Subsidies Tolls Taxes Assessments or Aids shall be construed
or taken to exempt any Person or Persons City Borough or Towne Corporate or any of the Inhabitants of the
same or in the Tower of London from the Burthen and Charge of any Su[m]m or Su[m]ms of Money granted by this
Act but that all and every such Person or Persons City Borough and Towne Corporate shall pay their Proportions
of all Rates and Assessments by this [presentt] Act imposed Any such Letters Patents Grants or Charters or
any Clause of Non obstante Matter or Thing therein contained or any Law Statute Custome or Prescription to the
contrary notwithstanding.
LII. 
Provided also That no Person Inhabiting in any City Borough or Towne Corporate shall be compelled to be
any Assessor or Collector of or for any part of the Rates and Assessments hereby granted in any Place or Places
out of the Limitts of the said City Borough or Towne Corporate.
LIII. 
Provided always and be it enacted That every Rate Tax or Assessment which shall be made or imposed by
virtue of this Act in respect of any House or Tenement which an Ambassador Resident Agent or other Publick
Minister of any Forreigne Prince or State now doth or hereafter shall inhabitt or occupy shall be paid by the
Landlord or Owner of the said House or Tenem[en]ts respectively.
LIV. 
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in all priveledged and other Places being Extraparochial
or not within the Constablewicks or Precincts of the respective Assessors to be appointed by virtue of this Act
(although in any Monthly or other Tax they have not been assessed or rated heretofore) the said Co[m]missioners or
any Two or more of them shall and are hereby required to nominate and appoint Two fitt Persons living in or
neare the said priveledged or other Places as aforesaid to be Assessors for the said Places and to make and returne
the said Assessments in like manner as by this Act is appointed in any Parish Tything or Place who are hereby
required to collect and pay the same according to the Rates appointed by this Act for collecting & paying all
Su[m]ms of Money payable by this Act.
LV. 
Provided always and be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Co[m]missioner or Co[m]missioners who
shall be employed in the Execution of this Act shall be liable for or by reason of such Execution to any of the
Penalties mentioned in an Act made in the Five and twentieth Yeare of the Reigne of King Charles the Second
for the preventing of Dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants.
LVI. 
Provided always & be it enacted That no Person shall be capable of acting as a Co[m]missioner in the Execution
of this Act or executing any the Powers therein contained (unlesse it be the Power hereby given of administring
Oaths) until such time as hee shall have taken the Oaths appointed by an Act of Parliament made in the First
Yeare of the Reigne of King William and Queen Mary intituled An Act for abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy
and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths and also another Oath in the Forme or to the Effect following.
Form of Oath; which Commissioners may administer.
I A.B, do solemnly promise & sweare that I will faithfully and impartially performe the Trust and Duty in me
reposed as a Co[m]missioner for putting in Execution the Powers contained in an Act intituled An Act for granting
an Aid to His Majestie aswell by a Land Tax as by several Subsidies and other Duties payable for One Yearé.
So help me God.
Which Oaths it shall be lawfull for any Two or more Co[m]missioners to administer and they are hereby required
to administer the same to any other Co[m]missioner.
LVII. 
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Papist or reputed Papist being of the Age
of Sixteene Yeares and upwards who shall not have taken the Oaths mentioned & required to be taken by the
said last mentioned Act shall yeild and pay unto His Majesty Double the Su[m]ms & Rates which by force and virtue
of any Clause in this Act before mentioned or contained hee or she should or ought to pay or be charged with
to be assessed levied collected answered recovered and paid in such manner by such Ways and Means and according
to such Rules & Directions and under such Penalties and Forfeitures as are before in this Act expressed or
appointed for and concerning the above mentioned Rates and Su[m]ms which are hereby intended to be doubled as
aforesaid.
LVIII. 
Provided neverthelesse That if any such Papist or reputed Papist within Ten Days after the First Meeting of
the said Co[m]missioners in the respective Counties or Places where hee or she ought to be taxed or assessed according to the Intent of this present Act shall take the said Oaths before Two or more of the said Co[m]missioners
(which Oaths the said Two or more Co[m]missioners are impowered to administer) in that case hee or she shall not
be liable to be double assessed as aforesaid.
LIX. 
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Person being of the Age of Sixteen Yeares
and upwards and being within this Realme att the time of the Execution of this Act who shall not before that
time have taken the Oaths mentioned and required to be taken by the said Act intituled An Act for the abrogating
the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths and upon Su[m]mons by Warrant under the
Hand and Seale of any Two or more of the said Co[m]missioners shall refuse to take the said Oaths att the time
appointed in the said Warrant or shall neglect to appeare att such time before the Co[m]missioners in order to take
the said Oaths (which said Oaths the said Co[m]missioners or any Two or more of them are hereby impowered and
required to administer) shall yield and pay unto His Majesty Double the Su[m]ms and Rates which by force and
virtue of any Clause in this Act before mentioned or contained hee or she should or ought to pay or be charged
with in manner as is before in this present Act appointed touching Papists or reputed Papists.
LX. 
to pay double.
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Gentleman or so reputed or owning or
Writing himselfe such or being above that Quality who by virtue of an Act made in the Third Yeare of the
Reigne of King William and Queene Mary intituled An Act for raiseing Money by a Poll payable Quarterly for
One Yeare for carrying on a Vigorous Warr against France did pay or ought to have paid Double the Su[m]ms
charged by the said Act or were or ought to have been returned into the Exchequer for Non-payment thereof
who shall not voluntarily appeare before the said Co[m]missioners or any Two or more of them within Ten Days
after the first Meeting of the said Co[m]missioners in the respective Place or Places where hee ought to be taxed or
assessed and take the said Oaths appointed by the said Act made in the First Yeare of the Reigne of King
William and Queen Mary (which Oaths the said Co[m]missioners or any Two or more of them are hereby impowered
and required to administer and to make an Entry or Memorandum thereof in some Book to be kept for that
Purpose) such Person shall be charged with and pay Double the Su[m]m which by force and virtue of this Act hee
should or ought to have paid to be assessed levied collected answered recovered and paid in such manner by such
Ways and Means and according to such Rules and Directions and under such Penalties and Forfeitures as are
before in this Act expressed or appointed for or concerning the abovementioned Rates or Su[m]ms which are hereby
intended to be doubled as aforesaid.
LXI. 
And be it further enacted That any One or more of the said Co[m]missioners upon Information given or upon
any Cause of Suspicion in that behalfe shall and are hereby required and injoyned to cause every suspected Person
or against whom such Information shall be given to be su[m]moned to appeare to take the said Oaths as aforesaid.
LXII. 
Provided neverthelesse That whereas certaine Persons Dissenters from the Church of England co[m]monly called
Quakers and now knowne to be such do scruple the taking of any Oath Itt shall be sufficient for any such
Person to make and subscribe the Declaration of Fidelity contained in an Act made in the Parliament held in the
First Yeare of the Reigne of King William and Queen Mary intituled An Act for exempting Their Majesties
Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certaine Laws Which Declaration
any Two or more of the Co[m]missioners appointed for the Execution of this Act are hereby impowered and required
to take And every such Person so doeing shall not be liable to or chargeable with any the Double Rates
aforesaid.
LXIII. 
Provided always and be it enacted That where the Owners of any Lands Tenements and Hereditaments are
liable to be doubly charged as Papists or reputed Papists or otherwise by reason of their not having taken the
Oaths according to the Intent of this Act in every such Case such Owners onely shall be charged with and shall
pay the said Double Rates and the respective Tenants of such Lands Tenements and Hereditaments are hereby
discharged of and from the same Any Covenant for Payment of Taxes or other Agreement to the contrary
notwithstanding.
LXIV. 
Provided that not Poor Person shall be chargeable with or liable unto the Pound Rate imposed by this Act
upon Lands Tenements or Hereditaments that are not of the Yearely Value of Twenty Shillings in the whole.
LXV. 
Provided always That the Right Honorable the Master of the Rolls the Masters of Chancery Six Clerks
Clerks of the Petty-Bag Examiners Registers Clerks of the Inrollment Clerks of the Affidavits & Subpena Office
and all other the Officers of the Court of Chancery that execute their Offices within the Liberty of the Rolls shall
be there assessed for their respective Offices and not elsewhere.
LXVI. 
Penalty £10; Head Collector; Penalty £40.
And be it further enacted That if any Collector of any Parish or Place shall keep in his Hands and Poss[ess]ion
any Part of the Money by him collected for any longer time than is by this Act directed (other than the Allowance
made unto him by this Act) or shall pay any Part thereof to any Person or Persons other than to the Head
Collector or Receiver General of such County or Place or his respective Deputy that every such Collector shall
forfeit for every such Offence the Su[m]m of Ten Pounds And in case any Head Collector shall keep in his Hands
any Part of the Money paid to him by any Collector by virtue of this Act for any longer time than is by virtue
of this Act directed or shall pay any Part thereof to any Person or Persons other than the Receiver General
of such County or Place or his Deputy every such Head Collector shall forfeit for every such Offence the Su[m]m of
Forty Pounds.
LXVII. 
And for the more effectual charging all the Duties hereby imposed on Persons Wages Anuities? Ready Money
Debts Offices Imployments Professions and Stocks Be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if after the
Rates and Assessments directed by this Act shall be made any Person shall come to inhabitt or reside in any
Division or Place where such Person was not rated or taxed the Co[m]missioners acting within such Division or Place
are hereby required & impowered to su[m]mon such Person before them and unlesse hee or she shall p[ro]duce a
Certificate made according to the Directions of this Act whereby it shall appeare that hee or she was assessed and
had actually paid all the precedent Monthly Payments in some other Place for his or her Person Wages Annuity
Ready Money Debts Office Imployment or Profession Stock in Trade or Stock upon Land the said Co[m]missioners
shall and are hereby required to cause such Person to be assessed or taxed for the same & cause the Money so
assessed or taxed for the same or such Monthly Payments thereof as shall be unassessed and unpaid to be assessed
levied and paid according to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act.
LXVIII. 
Provided always That the Prison of the Kings Bench the Prison-House Lands Gardens and the Co[m]mon Side
and all the Rents Profitts & Perquisitts of the Office of the Marshall of the said Kings Bench Prison lyeing and
being in the Parish of Saint George the Martyr in the Borough of Southwark and County of Surrey and alsoe
the Prison-House Lands and Gardens of the Prison of the  Marshalsea Court and Prison lyeing and being in the
said Parish of Saint George in the Borough of Southwark and County of Surrey shall be charged and assessed to
the Assessment in the said Parish of Saint George and Borough of Southwark and not elsewhere Any thing to
the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
LXIX. 
Penalty £500.
Provided always and be it enacted That if any Person hereby named a Co[m]missioner shall presume to Act as a
Co[m]missioner in the Execution of this Act before hee shall have taken the Oaths which by this Act hee is required
to take and in the manner hereby prescribed hee shall forfeit to His Majesty the Su[m]m of Five hundred Pounds.
LXX. 
Provided always and be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all the Water-works in the Borough of
Southwark shall be rated & assessed by the Co[m]missioners and Assessors of the County of Surrey and not by the
Co[m]missioners or Assessors for the City of London Any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
LXXI. 
Provided always and be it enacted That all the Water-works in the City or Liberty of Westminster shall be
rated and assessed by the Co[m]missioners and Assessors for the said City and Liberty and not by the Co[m]missioners
or Assessors of the said City of London Any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
LXXII. 
Receiver General refusing, &c. to return Duplicates into the Exchequer; Penalty £50.
And whereas the Receivers General are by this Act appointed by a time limited as aforesaid to returne a true
Copy or Extract of the whole Sum[m] assessed and charged within every Hundred Riding Lathe Wapentake Parish
Ward or Place rated or assessed in pursuance of this Act together with the Su[m]ms assessed upon Personal Estates
Offices or Imployments and to transmitt the same into His Majesties Court of Exchequer Be it further enacted
That if any Receiver General by this Act appointed shall neglect or refuse to returne Duplicates as directed by
this Act of the Su[m]ms assessed and charged in the County Riding Lathe Hundred Wapentake Parish Ward or
Places whereof hee is Receiver General within the time hereby limitted into His Majesties Exchequer to the Office
of the Kings Remembrancer then every such Receiver General shall forfeit the Su[m]m of Fifty Pounds to any that
will sue for the same and be incapable thenceforth of any Office or Place of Trust in His Majesties Service.
LXXIII. 
Provided also and be it enacted That all and every Auditor Reeve Receiver and their Deputies who receive
any Fee-Farme Rents or other Chief Rents due to His Majesty or the Queen Dowager or to any Person or
Persons claiming by any Grant or Purchase from or under the Crowne shall allow Three Shillings in the Pound
and proportionably for any greater or lesser Su[m]m according to the true Intent and meaning of this Act to the
Party and Parties so paying the same without any Fee for such Allowance upon the Penalty of forfeiting the Su[m]m
of Ten Pounds and losing their respective Places and Offices if they faile therein.
LXXIV. 
Provided neverthelesse and it is hereby further enacted That nothing in this Act contained shall extend to
charge or tax any Rector Vicar or Curate who serves the Cure of Souls and actually resides upon his Rectory
Vicaridge or Curacy or personally serves the Cure of such Rectory Vicaridge or Curacy (upon the Accompt of
such his Rectory Vicaridge or Curacy onely) unlesse his Rectory Viccaridge or Curacy Rectories Viccaridges or
Curacies doe really and truely exceed the Value of Fourty Pounds by the Yeare.
LXXV. 
Provided always That nothing contained in this Act shall be construed or taken to discharge any Tenant of
any the Houses or Lands belonging to the said Colledges Halls Hospitalls Almshouses or Schools or any of them
who by their Leases or other Contracts are and do stand obliged to pay and discharge all Rates Taxes and
Impositions whatsoever but that they and every of them shall be rated and pay all such Rates Taxes and Impositions
Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwitstanding.
LXXVI. 
Provided always and it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Allowance of Three
Halfe Pence in the Pound to the Co[m]missioners Clerks herein before mentioned shall not be paid by the respective
Receivers General until the said Clerks for the respective Counties or Places do procure a Certificate from the
Office of the Kings Remembrancer in the Exchequer (which Certificate shall be made without Delay or Reward)
that such Clerks shall have perfected the Duplicates and transmitted the same into the said Office as is herein
before directed.
LXXVII. 
Such Members to be taxed at their Mansion Houses, &c.
And whereas several Members of Parliament by reason of their abiding within the Cities of London and
Westminster or the Suburbs of the same dureing former Sessions of Parliament have by the Assessors there been
taxed for their Personal Estates and to the Payment of Poll Money and the same Members have also been taxed
for the same in the several Counties where their Mansion Houses or Chief Places of Residence have usually been
and by Occasion of such Double Assessm[en]t. have been putt to unreasonable Vexation and Charge Be it therefore
further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the several Members of Parliament who att the Execution of
this Act dureing this or any Session of Parliament shall sojourne or abide within the said Cities of London and
Westminster or the Suburbs of the same shall for and in respect of the said Personal Tax of Foure Pence per
Month & in respect of the said Taxes or Duties to be charged upon their Ready Money and Debts be assessed
onely in the Places where such Members have their Mansion Houses or other Places where they most usually
reside dureing the Intervals of the Sessions of Parliament Any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
LXXVIII. 
Assessors to proceed from 20 Days after the rising of the present Parliament.
Provided always and be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Member of Parliament whose Mansion
House or most usual Place of Residence dureing the Intervals of the Sessions of Parliament is not within the
Cities of London and Westminster or within Twenty Miles of the same shall be assessed by virtue of this Act
for his Money or Debts owing to him for which hee is to give a Specification as aforesaid or for any Stock in
Trade or Stock upon Land until Twenty Days after the rising of this present Parliament either by Prorogation or
otherwise And that the Servants attending the Persons of the said Members shall not be assessed for their Wages
until the time aforesaid Att which Day or Time and not sooner the Assessors of the respective Parishes or
Places where such Money Debts or Stock are by this Act appointed to be charged shall begin to assesse and
charge the same together with the Wages of such Servants as aforesaid And they and all others by this Act
entrusted for the chargeing assessing ascertaining levying or receiving of the Duties hereby intended to be imposed
upon such Members of Parliament for their Money Debts or Stock shall proceed therein from and after Twenty
Days after the riseing of this present Parliament either by Prorogation or otherwise (and that the Servants attending
the Persons of the said Members shall not be assessed for their Wages until the time aforesaid) as fully and
effectually as if such Money Debts or Stock were comprehended in the General Assessment for such Parishes or
Places respectively Any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
LXXIX. 
Commissioners to examine into the Securities for such Debts, &c. and to act thereupon.
Provided always and it is hereby enacted That if any Person or p[er]sons who shall deliver such Specification or
Particular in Writing of the Debts att Interest owing to him her or them to the said Co[m]missioners as is required
by this Act shall make Oath before them or any Two or more of them (who are hereby directed and impowered
to administer the same) that any Debt or Debts contained in such Specification or Particular is or are desperate
and that hee she or they doe verily believe the same will never be satisfied or recovered then and in every such
Case and Cases the said Co[m]missioners by all lawfull Ways & Means shall examine and informe themselves of the
Nature of such Particular Debt or Debts and the Securities for the same and whether such Securities be sufficient
or insufficient and thereupon either to continue the Charge of the Tax or Duties hereby intended upon such a
particular Debt or Debts or to discharge the Party or Parties complaining thereof as to such Co[m]missioners shall
seem meet and reasonable and the discharging of such particular Debt or Debts from the Duty hereby imposed
thereupon shall be noted upon such Specification and the Duplicate thereof to be given as is before in this Act
directed Any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
LXXX. 
Persons delivering in Specification, to give Commissioners an Account on Oath of the Debts owing by them at Interest, and to have an Allowance in respect thereof.
And to the end that such Persons as duely give Specifications in Writing to charge themselves with the Duty
by this Act imposed for or in respect of Debts owing to them att Interest may have a Deduction or Allowance
made to them out of the same for such Debts as they doe really and bona fide owe att Interest to any other
Person or Persons according to the true Meaning hereof Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That
all and every such Person and Persons when hee or they shall deliver such Specifications as aforesaid shall or may
also give the Co[m]missioners an Account of the Debts which such Person shall actually and bona fide owe to any
other Person and Persons att Interest & such Co[m]missioner being satisfied in the Truth thereof either by the Oath
of the Party (which they or any Two or more of them have hereby Power to administer) or by other good
Information shall make a proportionable Allowance or Deduction for or in respect of such Debts which hee
owes att Interest to others out of the Tax or Duty for the Debts contained in his Specification Any thing
herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
LXXXI. 
Provided always that where any Person or Persons are and from the Nine and twentieth Day of September
One thousand six hundred ninety & six or longer have been in the actual Possession of any Manors Lands
Tents or Hereditaments by the real Receipt of the Rents or Profitts of the same by virtue of any Mortgage
or other Security for any Debts or Debts whereunto such Lands or other the p[re]misses were formerly liable in all
such Cases this Act or any thing herein contained shall not extend to charge any such Debt or Debts for
which such Poss[ess]ion is gained to or with the Payment of the said Duty hereby imposed Any thing herein
contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
LXXXII. 
Rates may be paid before 1st June 1697 in hammered Silver Monies.
And whereas several Persons who shall be assessed by this Act for or in respect of their Manors Lands
Tenements Rents Offices Persons Stocks Debts or other Matters or Things hereby intended to be charged
may be willing and desirous to pay or satisfie att once in ha[m]mered Silver Moneys att the Rate of Five Shillings
and Eight Pence an Ounce all or several of the Monthly Payments by this Act intended to be satisfied by them
Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall & may be lawfull to and for any p[er]son or Persons
att any time before the First Day of June One thousand six hundred ninety and seven to satisfie and pay to
the respective Collector or Collectors in such ha[m]mered Silver Moneys att such Rate as aforesaid all or any of the
said Monthly Payments assessed upon him her or them for the said whole Yeare or for any Months thereof
before hand Which said Collectors are hereby enjoyned and required upon every such Payment so made before
hand to give the Partie or Parties paying the same an Acquittance expressing the Sum[m] received for such Monthly
Payments for the respective Ma[n]nors Lands Tenements Rents Offices Persons Stocks Debts or other Matters or
Things for which such Payment shall be so made and every such Acquittance shall be a good Discharge against
His Majesty His Heires and Successors as if the Su[m]ms chargeable by this Act on such Manors Lands Tenements
Rents Offices Persons Stocks Debts or other Matters or Things were assessed or answered att such several &
respective Monthly Payments as are above mentioned Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
LXXXIII. 
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in all Cases where any Assessor or Assessors who
by this Act are required to make a Double Assessment upon Papists or reputed Papists or other Persons for not
taking of Oaths as aforesaid shall neglect to do his or their Duty therein the respective Co[m]missioners of the
County Riding Hundred Division or Place where such Double Assessment ought to have been made or any Three
or more of them shall take care and they are hereby authorized and required to cause such Papist or other
Person to be doubly charged according to the true Intent of this Act.
LXXXIV. 
Provided also and it is hereby enacted That where any Person or Persons being now beyond the Seas or any
Minor or Minors under the Age of One and twenty Yeares hath or shall have any Moneys upon Securities att
Interest in this Kingdome in his or their Name or Names or in the Name or Names of any other Person or
Persons in trust for him or them the Trustees or Guardians of the said Person or Persons shall pay and are hereby
required to pay the Duties appointed by this Act & shall be and are hereby indemnified and saved harmelesse
for their so doing Any thing contained in this Act or in any other Law to the contrary notwithstanding.
LXXXV. 
Receiver General paying otherwise than into the Exchequer (unless in hammered Money as herein mentioned) or otherwise unduly paying Monies, &c; Penalty £500.
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Receiver General to be appointed by His Majesty as
aforesaid his Deputy or Deputies shall in his Receipts Payments and Accounts separate and keep apart all the
Moneys by him or them to be received for or upon the said Duty of Three Shillings in the Pound by this Act
charged upon Manors Messuages Lands Rents Tenements Hereditaments and other the Premisses chargeable with
the said Tax or Pound Rate of Three Shillings in the Pound so that the same shall be distinct from his or their
Receipts Payments & Accounts of or for all other the Duties or Moneys by this Act granted And in case any
such Receiver General or his Deputy or Deputies shall pay any part of the Moneys paid to him or them by any
Collector or Head Collector by virtue of this Act for the said Pound Rate or Tax of Three Shillings in the
Pound to any Person or Persons whatsoever other than into the Receipt of His Majesties Exchequer and att or
within the respective times limitted by this Act unlesse it be hammered Money to be first carried to the next
Minits and after recoined to be brought to the Exchequer or in case any such Receiver General his Deputy or
Deputies shall pay any Part of the said Moneys arising by the said Pound Rate or Tax of Three Shillings in.
the Pound by any Warrant of the Co[m]missioners of the Tresury or the Lord Treasurer Under Treasurer or
Co[m]missioners of the Treasury for the time being or upon any Tally of Pro or Tally of Anticipation or other Way
or Device whatsoever whereby to divert or hinder the actual Payment thereof into the Receipt of the Excheq[ure]
as aforesaid That then such Receiver General shall for every such Offence of himselfe or his Deputy forfeit the
Su[m]m of Five hundred Pounds to him or them that will sue for the same in any Court of Record by Bill Plaint
or other Information wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager of Law is to be allowed.
LXXXVI. 
And it is hereby further enacted That the Co[m]missioners of the Tresury or the Lord Tresurer Under Treasurer
or Co[m]missioners of the Tresury for the time being or any of them doe not direct any Warrant to any of the
said Head Collectors or Receivers General or their Deputies for the Payment of any Part of the Moneys ariseing
by the said Tax or Pound Rate of Three Shillings to any Person or Persons other than into the Receipt of the
Excheq[ure] as aforesaid nor shall they nor any of them direct any Warrant to the Officers of the Exchequer for
the striking any Tally of Pro or Tally of Anticipation nor do any other Matter or Thing whereby to divert the
actual Payment of the said Moneys so arising by the said Tax or Pound Rate of Three Shillings in the Pound
into the Receipt of the Exchequer nor shall the Officers of the Exchequer strike or direct or Record the Striking
of any Tally of Pro or Tally of Anticipation upon any of the said Moneys upon any Account or Warrant
whatsoever nor shall any Teller throw downe any Bill whereby to charge himselfe with any of the said Moneys
until hee shall actually have received the same.
LXXXVII. 
Provided also and be it enacted That no Stay of Prosecution upon any Co[m]mand Warrant Motion Order or
Direction by Non vult ulterius prosequi shall be had made admitted received or allowed by any Court whatsoever
in any Suit or Proceeding by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information or otherwise for the Recovery of
all or any of the Pains Penalties or Forfeitures upon any Person or Persons by this Act inflicted or therein
mentioned for or in order to the Conviction or Disability of any Person offending against this Act.
LXXXVIII. 
and then Monies lent upon the general Credit of the Exchequer, and issued for the Services herein mentioned, &c; Principal Monies upon Orders of Loan transferred, how paid; Interest thereon, how paid; such Monies assignable.
Provided always and be it hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the principal
Su[m]ms of Money which have been lent to His Majesty and do remaine unsatisfied upon Creditt of such Contributions
for Anities? as were authorized to be made by the Act of Parliament made in the Seventh Yeare of His Majesties
Reigne intituled An Act for enlarging the Times to come in and purchase certaine Annuities therein mentioned
and for continuing the Duties formerly charged on Low Wines or Spiritts of the First Extraction for carrying on
the Warr against France and all and every the Orders of Loan for the same shall be in the First Place or Places
transferred to and placed upon the Register appointed to be kept by this Act for the said Pound Rate or Tax of
Three Shillings in the Pound in Course as they were lent And that all and every the Principal Su[m]ms of Money
which since the First Day of July One thousand six hundred ninety six and before the First Day of February
One thousand six hundred ninety six have been or shall be lent to His Majesty att the Receipt of Exchequer upon
Creditt of the Exchequer in General and have been or shall be issued for the Service of the Navy Victualling and
Land Forces or for carrying on the Works of the Mints & all & every the Orders of Loan for the same shall
be in the subsequent Place or Places transferred to and placed upon the Register appointed to be kept as aforesaid
for the said Pounds Rate or Tax of Three Shillings in the Pound in Course as they were lent and next after the
several Loans before by this Act appointed to be transferred as aforesaid Which transferences are hereby required
to be made by virtue of this Act without making any issues or taking any Receipts from the Parties in order to
transferr the said Loans And that the principal Moneys upon the said Orders so transferred shall be payable &
paid to the respective Lenders of the same his her or their Executors Administrators or Assigns out of the Moneys
arising by virtue of this Act of or for the said Pound Rate or Tax of Three Shillings in the Pound in the same
Course & Order they are hereby appointed to be transferred and with Preferrence to the Loans which any Person
or Persons shall make hereafter on the Creditt of the said Pound Rate or Tax of Three Shillings in the Pound
And that the Interest due or to be due for all the said Principal Su[m]ms so to be transferred as aforesaid shall be
paid & satisfied out of the Moneys ariseing by the said Pound Rate or Tax of Three Shillings in the Pound until the
respective times of the Satisfaction of the Principal And that any Person or Persons who are or shall be intituled
to any Moneys to be paid by such Orders to be transferred as aforesaid shall or may assigne over the same to,
any Person or Persons which Assignements shall be good and effectual in Law and so toties quoties Any thing
in this present Act or in any former Act or Act of Parliament to the contrary notwithstanding.
LXXXIX. 
Provided always and it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawfull
to and for any Person or Persons Natives or Foreigners Bodies Politick or Corporate to advance and lend to His
Majesty upon the Security of the said Pound Rate or Tax of Three Shillings for every Twenty Shillings upon
Manors Messuages Lands Tenements Rents Hereditaments and other the p[re]misses chargeable with the Payment
of Three Shillings in the Pounds as aforesaid any Su[m]m or Su[m]ms of Money not exceeding the Su[m]m of One Million
Five hundred thousand Pounds including the Su[m]s by this Act appointed to be transferred And to have and
receive for the Forbearance thereof Interest after the Rate of Eight Pounds for every One hundred Pounds for
One whole Yeare And moreover That no Money so lent upon the Security of this Act shall be rated or assessed
by virtue of this Act or any other Act of Parliament whatsoever.
XC. 
Tally of Loan to Lender, and Warrant for Interest; Orders for Repayment registered according to Date of Tally and paid in course; Monies to come in by this Act liable to satisfy such Loans; No. Fee for providing or making Books, &c; or for Payment of Money lent. Penalty; Punishment; Undue Preference by Officer, Penalty; Undue Preference by Deputy, Penalty; Auditor, Clerk of the Pells, or Teller, not making Payments in due Order; Penalty; How all such Penalties to be recovered.
And to the end that all Moneys which shall be so lent to His Majesty may be well and sufficiently secured
out of the Moneys ariseing of or for the said Pound Rate or Tax of Three Shillings in the Pound payable by
this Act Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That there shall be provided and kept in His Majesties
Exchequer (that is to say) in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipt One Book and Register in which all the
Moneys that shall be paid into the Exchequer by virtue of this Act of or for the said Pound Rate or Tax of Three
Shillings in the Pound shall be entred and registred apart and distinct from all other Moneys paid or payable to
His Majesty upon any other Branch of His Majesties Revenue or upon any other Account whatsoever And that
all and every Person and Persons who shall lend any Money to His Majesty upon the Creditt of the said Pound
Rate or Tax of Three Shillings in the Pound and pay the same into the Receipt of the Exchequer shall
im[m]ediately have a Talley of Loan struck for the same and an Order for his or their Repayment bearing the
same Date with his Tally in which Order shall be also contained a Warrant for Payment of Interest for the
Forbearance thereof not exceeding Eight Pounds per Centum per Annum for his Considerac[i]on to be paid every
Three Months until the Repayment of the Principal And that all Orders for Repayment of Money shall be
registred in Course according to the Date of the Tally respectively without other Preferrence of One before another
And that all and every Person and Persons shall be paid in Course according as their Orders shall stand registred
in the said Register Book so as the Person Native or Forreigner his Executors Administrators or Assigns who
shall have his Order or Orders first entred in the said Book of Register shall be taken and accounted the first
Person to be paid upon the Moneys to come in by virtue of this Act of or for the said Pound Rate or Tax of
Three Shillings in the Pound and hee or they who shall have his or their Order or Orders next entred shall
be taken and accounted to be the second Person to be paid and so successively & in course And that the
Moneys to come in by this Act of or for the said Pound Rate or Tax of Three Shillings in the Pound shall be
in the same Order liable to the Satisfaction of the said respective Parties their Executors Administrators or Assigns
successively without undue Preference of one before another and not otherwise and shall not be diverted or
divertible to any other Use Intent or Purpose whatsoever And that no Fee Reward or Gratuity directly or
indirectly be demanded or taken of any His Majesties Subjects for providing or making of any such Books
Registers Entries Views or Search in or for Payment of Money lent or the Interest thereof as aforesaid by any.
of His Majesties Officer or Officers their Clerks or Deputies on Pain of Payment of Double Damages to the Party
agrieved by the Party offending with Costs of Suit or if the Officer himselfe take or demand any such Fee or
Reward then to lose his Place also And if any undue Preference of one before another shall be made either in
Point of Registry or Payment contrary to the true Meaning of this Act by any such Officer or Officers then the
Party offending shall be liable by Action of Debt or on the Case to pay the Value of the Debt Damages and
Costs to the Party agrieved and shall be forejudged from his Place or Office And if such Preferrence be unduely
made by any his Deputy or Clerk without Direction or Privity of his Master then such Deputy or Clerk onely
shall be liable to such Action Debt Damage and Cost and shall be for ever after uncapable of his Place or Office And
in case the Auditor shall not direct the Order or the Clerk of the Pells Record or the Teller make Payment
according to each Persons due Place and Order as afore directed then hee or they shall be adjudged to forfeit and
their respective Deputies and Clerks herein offending to be liable to such Action Debt Damages and Costs in such
manner as aforesaid All which said Penalties Forfeitures Damages and Costs to be incurred by any of the Officers
of the Exchequer or any their Deputies or Clerks shall and may be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or
Information in any of His Majesties Courts of Record att Westm wherein no Essoign Protection Privelege Wager
of Law Injunction or Order of Restraint shall be in any wise granted or allowed.
XCI. 
Provided always and be it hereby declared That if it happen that several Tallies of Loan or Orders for Payment
as aforesaid beare Date or be brought the same Day to the Auditor of the Receipt to be registred then it shall be
interpreted no undue Preferrence which of those be entred first so as hee enters them all the same Day.
XCII. 
Provided also That it shall not be interpreted any undue Preference to incurr any Penalty in Point of Payment
if the Auditor direct and the Clerk of the Pells Record and the Tellers do pay subsequent Orders of Persons that
come and demand their Moneys and bring their Orders before other Persons that did not come to take their
Money and bring their Order in their Course so as there be so much Money reserved as will satisfie precedent
Orders which shall not be otherwise disposed but kept for them Interest upon Loan being to cease from the time
the Money is so reserved and kept in Bank for them.
XCIII. 
Memorial thereof without Fee; Assignee may in like manner assign.
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Person and Persons to whom any Money shall
be due for Loans by vertue of this Act after Order entred in the Book of Register aforesaid his Executors
Administrators or Assigns by Indorsement of his Order may assigne & transferr his Right Title Interest and Benefitt
of such Order or any part thereof to any other which being notified in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipt
aforesaid and an Entry or Memorial thereof also made in the Book of Register aforesaid for Orders which the
Officer's shall upon request without Fee or Charge accordingly make shall intitle such Assignee his Executors
Administrators and Assigns to the Benefitt thereof and Payment thereon & such Assignee may in like manner
assigne againe and so toties quoties and afterwardts it shall not be in the Power of such Person or Persons who
have or hath made such Assignements to make void release or Discharge the same or any the Moneys thereby
due or any part thereof.
XCIV. 
Treasury may make forth Bills of Credit for £1,500,000.
And for the better and more speedy answering of the Supplies hereby granted or that shall or may be granted
for the Service of the War for Yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety & seven Be it enacted
by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawfull to and for the Co[m]missioners of His Majesties Treasury
or any Three of them now being or for the High Treasurer or any Three or more of the Co[m]missioners of His
Majesties Treasury for the time being to cause Bills to be made forth att the Receipt of the Exchequer in such
Manner and Forme as they shall appoint for any Su[m]m or Su[m]ms of Money not exceeding One Million five hundred
thousand Pounds by virtue of this Act and to issue the same from time to time to such Uses of the Warr and
in such Proportions as they shall thinke fitt.
XCV. 
Exception.
And it is hereby enacted & ordained That the said Bills and every of them so to be issued shall be current
and passe in all Payments to any of His Majesties Receivers or Collectors of any Aids Taxes or Supplies hereby
granted or that shall or may be granted for the Service of the Warr for the Yeare of our Lord One thousand
six hundred ninety and seven except for the aid of Three Shillings in the Pound and to and from all others
who have or may have the Receipt of any of the said Aids Taxes or Supplies Any Law or Statute to the
contrary notwithstanding.
XCVI. 
Penalty.
And be it further enacted That all and every the said Receivers Collectors and others shall and are hereby
directed and required from time to time out of such milled Money or Gold as shall be in their Hands to pay
such Bills as shall be brought unto them by any Person or Persons desirous to have Money for the same upon
Penalty of forfeiting to the Party grieved double the Su[m]m so detained or refused to be recovered by Action of
Debt Bill or Plaint in any of His Majesties Courts of Record wherein no Essoign Protection Priveledge Injunction
or Wager of Law shall be allowed or any more than one Imparlance.
XCVII. 
And be it further enacted That as any of the said Bills shall be paid into the Exchequer by any of His
Majesties Receivers aforesaid the Officers of the said Excheq[uer] shall cause Tallies to be levied & delivered to the
said Receivers for their Discharge as amply & effectually to all Intents and Purposes as if they had paid Money
in Specie And that such of the said Bills as shall be paid into the Receipt of the Excheq[uer] shall be immediately
cancelled.
XCVIII. 
Deficiency made up out of Supplies of the next Session.
And for the more certaine and regular answering discharging and cancelling all the said Bills hereby authorized
to be issued as aforesaid Be it enacted That all and every the Su[m]m and Su[m]ms of Money which shall happen att
any time or times to be paid into the Exchequer in Specie for any of the Aids or Supplies hereby granted or
to be granted (except as aforesaid) for the Service of the Yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety
and seven shall be there im[m]ediately applied so farr as it will extend to take upp and cancell the Bills which shall
be brought by any Person to the said Receipt of Exchequer And that if it shall happen that the Aids or
Supplies hereby granted (except as aforesaid) in Bills that shall or may be granted for the Warr for the Yeare
One thousand six hundred ninety & seven shall fall short or be deficient of raiseing the said Su[m]m of One Million
Five hundred thousand Pounds so authorized to be issued in Bills as aforesaid Itt is hereby enacted & declared
That such Deficiency shall be in the first Place made Good and supplied out of any the Moneys that shall be
raised by any Act or Acts of the next Session of Parliament.
XCIX. 
Free Accesfs thereto without Fee, and to lie open at a certain Place within the Limit of Receipts; Penalty £100.
And be it enacted That every Receiver General who shall be intrusted in the Receipt of any of the Aids
Taxes or Supplies granted or to be granted for the Service of the Warr in the Yeare One thousand six hundred
ninety seaven shall keep faire Books of Account in Writing of all the Moneys by him received in which hee or
his Deputy or Deputies shall truely enter all the Su[m]ms by him or them to be received for every such Aid Tax
or Supply respectively together with the Names of each Collector and the Days when and Su[m]ms paid and how
much thereof is hammered Money and how much in milled Money or in Gold and of all Bills by him paid in
pursuance of this Act to which Account every Person concerned shall have free Accesse att all seasonable Times
without Fee or Charge and the said Accounts shall constantly lie open att one certaine Place within the Limitts
of his Receipt for that Purpose And if such Receiver shall neglect to keep such Book or to enter therein any
Su[m] or Su[m]ms of Money by him or them received and paid as aforesaid by the Space of Three Days after his
or their Receipt or Payment of the same or shall refuse any Person or Persons concerned to inspect such Book
without Fee or Charge as aforesaid every such Receiver shall forfeit for every such Offence the Su[m]m of One;
hundred Pounds to any Person or Persons who shall sue for the same and to be recovered by Action of Debt or
of the Case Bill Suit or Information as aforesaid.
C. 
Treasury to apply the same accordingly; Proviso.
Provided always and be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That by the first Bills to be issued as aforesaid,
or out of the first Moneys coming into the Exchequer by this Act for any the Duties hereby granted except the
said Pound Rate or Duty of Three Shillings in the Pound and Loans thereupon the Su[m]m of Two hundred
thousand Pounds is hereby declared to be appropriated for Payment of such Su[m]ms of Money as were due to any
Persons whatsoever for quartering of Soldiers between the First Day of January One thousand six hundred ninety,
and foure and the First Day of January One thousand six hundred ninety and six and shall not be otherwise paid
before the First Day of February One thousand six hundred ninety & six within any County City Borough or
Place within this Kingdome And the Lord Treasurer or the Co[m]missioners of the Treasury for the time being
are hereby directed and required to apply the same accordingly and to no other Use Intent or Purpose whatsoever
but in case the several Arrears for Quarters due as aforesaid shall not amount to the said Su[m]m of Two hundred
thousand Pounds Then and in such Case such Part onely of the said Su[m]m of Two hundred thousand Pounds.
shall be and is hereby declared to be appropriated as shall be sufficient for the Payment of such Quarters and is
hereby directed and required to be applied accordingly.
CI. 
Death.
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Person or Persons shall forge or counterfeit
any such Bill of Creditt as aforesaid or tender in Payment any such forged or counterfeited Bill of Creditt or
Demand Money thereupon of any Receiver or att the Exchequer (knowing the Bill so tendered or whereupon the
Money shall be so demanded to be actually forged or counterfeited) and with an Intention to defraud His Majesty
or any other Person or Persons That then every such Person or Persons so offending (being thereof convicted in
due forme of Law) shall be adjudged guilty of Felony and suffer the Pains and Penalties of Felony without
Benefitt of Clergy.
CII. 
Provided always and be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That this Act nor any thing therein contained
shall charge or be construed to charge his Royal Highnesse Prince George Hereditary of Denmark and Her Royal
Highnesse the Princesse Anne of Denmark or either of them or their Trustees with the above mentioned Duty or
Payment of Foure Shillings and Foure Pence for every Twenty Shillings by the Yeare for or in respect of the
Yearely Su[m]ms of Thirty thousand Pounds and Twenty thousand Pounds by the Yeare granted to several Persons
in trust for their Royal Highnesses by several Letters Patents under the Greate Seale of England bearing Date
on or about the Twentieth Day of February One thousand six hundred eighty & five and the Three and twentieth
Day of May One thousand six hundred and ninety but that the said Anuities? or Yearely Su[m]ms and their Royal
Highnesses and their Trustees in respect of the same shall by virtue hereof be acquitted and dischardged of from
and against the said. Duty of Foure Shillings and Foure Pence for every Twenty Shillings by the Yeare and
all Paym[en]ts whatsoever which might be charged by this Act for or in respect of the said Yearely Su[m]ms of Thirty
thousand Pounds and Twenty thousand Pounds by the Yeare as if this Act had never been made Any thing
herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
CIII. 
Provided always and be it enacted and declared by the Authority aforesaid That any Person or Persons who
are not charged over and above the Foure Pence per Month by this Act with any of the Taxes or Duties for
or in respect of any Wages Pensions Salaries Offices or Imploym[en]ts of the Yearely Value of Eight Pounds or
in Lands Tenements or Hereditaments of his or her owne of the Yearely Value of Forty Shillings or for or in
respect of Ready Money att Interest or Stock upon Land or Stock in Trade of the full Value of Five Pounds
shall not be charged or chargeable with the Payment of Foure Pence per Month for the Children of such Person
being under the Age of Sixteene Yeares.
CIV. 
Provided also That this Act shall not extend to charge any Poor Housekeepers or Householders who by
reason of their Poverty onely are exempted from contributing to Church or Poor.
CV. 
Provided always and be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That nothing in this Act contained shall extend
or be construed to charged any Buildings or Houses which have been begun to be built but never covered or
made habitable.
CVI. 
Tender of hammered Silver Money (Exception) at the rate of 5s. 2d. per Ounce Troy, good.
And whereas by an Act made and passed in this present Session of Parliament intituled An Act for the further
remedying the ill State of the Coine of the Kingdome Itt is enacted That from and after the First Day of
December One thousand six hundered ninety six no ha[m]mered Silver Coine of this Kingdome should be current
in any Payment whatsoever (except onely such as are therein before mentioned) otherwise than by Weight onely
after the Rate of Five Shillings and Two Pence for every Ounce of Sterling Silver Now to the end that such
hamered Silver Coine may be made current in Payments att the said Rate of Five Shillings and Two Pence by
the Ounce Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the first Day of February One
thousand six hundered ninety six the Tender of all such ha[m]mered Silver Money (except such Payments where
the same are by the said recited Act directed to be received att a greater Value) in any Payment or Payments
whatsoever to be made by any Person or Persons Bodies Politick or Corporate to any other Person or Persons
Bodies Politick or Corporate att the Rate of Five Shillings and Two Pence for every Ounce Troy shall be and
be deemed to be a good & sufficient Tender in Law and the Refusal thereof in any such Payment or Payments
shall be and be adjudged to be a Refusal of so much of the lawfull Coins of this Kingdome as fully and
effectually as if any such Tender & Refusal should be had and made of the lawfull and Current Coins of this
Realme Any thing in this or the before mentioned Act of Parliament contained to the contrary notwithstanding.