Anno Regni GULIELMI ET MARIAE, REGIS & REGINAE Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae & Hiberniae, QUINTO. At the Parliament begun at Westminster the Twentieth Day of March, Anno Dom. 1689. In the Second Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord and Lady, WILLIAM and MARY, by the Grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, King and Queen, Defenders of the Faith, &c. And from thence Continued by several Prorogations and Adjournments to the Seventh Day of November, 1693. being the Fifth Session of this present Parliament.  
 royal blazon or coat of arms of William and Mary HO●… SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE dieu ET MON DROIT  
LONDON, Printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, deceased, Printers to the King and Queens most Excellent Majesties. 1693.   

Anno Quinto GULIELMI & MARIAE. An Act for Granting to Their Majesties an Aid of Four Shillings in the Pound for One year, for Carrying on a Vigorous War against France.  
WE Your Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Commons Assembled in Parliament, acknowledging with all Humility and Thankfulness Your Majesties abundant care of Our Preservation; and being deeply sensible of that extraordinary Charge and expense with which Your Majesties Present Occasions are to be Supported, for the necessary Defence of Your Realms, and the Prosecution of a Vigorous War against France, both by Sea and Land, have cheerfully and unanimously Given and Granted, and do hereby Give and Grant unto Your most Excellent Majesties, the Rates and Assessments herein after mentioned, to be Raised and Levied in manner following; and to most humbly beseech Your Majesties that it may be Enacted.  
And be it Enacted by the King and Queens most Excellent Majesties, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and of the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That Their Majesties shall Have and Receive the Rates and Assessments hereafter mentioned, of and from every Person Spiritual and Temporal, of what Estate or Degree soever he or they be; Which said Rates or Assessments, shall be Taxed, Assessed, Levied and Paid into Their Majesties Receipt of Exchequer, according to the Tenor of this Act, and in manner and form following: That is to say, That all and every Person and Persons, Bodies politic and Corporate, Guilds and Fraternities within this Kingdom of England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick upon Tweed, having any Estate in ready moneys, or in any Debts whatsoever owing to them within this Realm or without; or having any Estate in Goods, wears, merchandises, or other Chattels, or Personal Estate whatsoever within this Realm or without, belonging to, or in Trust for them( Except, and out of the premises deducted, such sums of Money as he or they do, bona fide, owe, and such Debts owing to them as shall be adjudged desperate by the Commissioners appointed by this Act; And also the Stock upon Lands, and such Goods as are used for household-stuff) shall yield, and pay unto Their Majesties Four shillings in the Pound, according to the true yearly value thereof for one year;( that is to say) For every Hundred Pounds of such ready Money and Debts; and for every Hundred Pounds worth of such Goods, wears, merchandises or other Chattels, or other Personal Estate, the sum of Four and twenty Shillings; and so after that rate for every greater or lesser Sum or Quantity, to be Assessed, Levied and Collected in manner hereafter mentioned.  
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all and every Person and Persons, Commissioner or Commissioners, having, using or exercising any public Office or Employment of Profit( such Military Officers who are or shall be in Muster by the Muster Master General of the Army, or in Pay in Their Majesties Army or Navy, in respect of such Offices only excepted( other then Governours, Deputy or Lieutenant Governours of any Their Majesties garrisons, Forts or Castles for their Salaries, or Pay for the same Governments) And also except such Persons in Their Majesties Ordnance whose Salaries do not exceed One hundred Pounds per Annum) and all and every their Agents, Clerks, Secundaries, Substitutes and other inferior Ministers whatsoever, shall Yield and Pay unto Their Majesties the Sum of Four Shillings for every Twenty Shillings which he or they do receive in One Year, by virtue of any Salaries, Gratuity, Bounty-Money, Reward, Fees or Profits to him or them accrueing, for or by reason or occasion of their several Offices or Employments, to be Assessed, Imposed, Levied and Collected, in such manner as hereafter is mentioned.  
And to the end a further Aid and Supply for Their 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 Four Shillings for every Twenty Shillings of the true Yearly Value for One Year and no longer, Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all and every Manors, messages, Lands and Tenements, as also all Quarries, Mines of Coal, Tin or led, Copper, Mundick-Iron, or other Mines, Iron Works, Salt Springs and Salt Works; All alum Mines or Works, all Parks, chaces, Warrens, Woods, Vnderwoods, Coppices; And all Fishings, tithes, Tolls, Annuities and all other Yearly Profits; And all Hereditaments of what nature or kind soever they be, situate, lying, and being, happening or arising within the Kingdom of England, Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick upon Tweed, or within any the Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Towns, Divisions, Ridings, Hundreds, laths, Wapentakes, Parishes and Places thereof, as well within Ancient Demesne and other Liberties and privileged Places as without, shall be and are hereby Charged for One Year only and no longer, with the Sum of Four Shillings for every Twenty Shillings of the full Yearly Value, and so in Proportion for any greater or lesser Value; And all and every Person and Persons, Bodies politic and Corporate, Guilds, Mysteries, Fraternities and Brotherhoods, whether Corporate or not Corporate, having or holding any Manors, messages, Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments or other the premises, shall yield and pay unto Their Majesties the Sum of Four Shillings for every Twenty Shillings by the year, which the said Manors, messages, Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments and other the premises are now worth to the Leased, if the same were truly and bona fide Leased or Demised at a Rack Rent, and according to the full true yearly 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 former Rates or Taxes thereupon imposed, or making any abatement in respect of Reparations, Taxes, Parish Duties, or any other Charges whatsoever; which said Sum of Four and twenty Shillings for the yearly Profit of every Hundred Pounds Value of all Personal Estates, as aforesaid, and Four Shillings for every Twenty Shillings by the Year, of the said true yearly Value of all other the premises, shall be Assessed, Levied and Collected in manner hereafter mentioned, and shall be paid into the Receipt of Their Majesties Exchequer by Four Quarterly Payments: The First Payment thereof to be made upon the Six and twentieth Day of March, which shall be in the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety and four.  
And whereas many of the Manors, messages, Lands, Tenements, tithes, Hereditaments, and premises, intended by this Act to be charged with the Pound Rates, as aforesaid, stand encumbered with, or are subject and liable to the payment of several Rent-charges or Annuities issuing out of the same, or to the payment of divers Feé-farm Rents, Rents Service or other Rents thereupon reserved or charged, by reason whereof the true Owners and Proprietors of such Manors, messages, Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments and premises, do not in truth receive to their own use the true yearly value of the same, for which nevertheless, they are by this Act charged to pay the full Pound Rate of Four Shillings, for every Twenty Shillings of the true yearly value: It is therefore Declared and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That it shall, and may be lawful to, and for the Landlords, Owners, and Proprietors of such Manors, messages, Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments and premises as are charged with the Pound Rate, as aforesaid, to abate and deduct, and to retain, and keép in his or their hands, Four Shillings in the Pound for every Feé-farm Rent, or other Annual Rent, or Payment Charged upon, or Issuing out of the premises, or any part thereof, or thereupon reserved; And all and every Person and Persons, who are, or shall be any way entitled to such Rents, and Annual Payments, 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 payments reserved or charges, as aforesaid.  
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That for the better Assessing, Ordering, Levying and Collecting of the several Sums of Money, so as aforesaid, Limited and Appointed to be paid; and for the more effectual putting of this present Act in Execution, all and every the Persons that were name and Appointed Commissioners of, and for the Execution of the Act made in the Fourth year of Their Majesties Reign, entitled, An Act for Granting to Their Majesties an Aid of Four Shillings in the Pound for One year, for Carrying on a Vigorous War against France, and shall qualified according to the Directions of this Act, shall be Commissioners for putting in Execution this Present Act, and the Powers therein contained, within all and every the several and respective Counties, Ridings, Cities, Cinque Ports, Boroughs, Towns and Places for which they were Appointed Commissioners in the aforesaid Act.  
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the said Commissioners, so as aforesaid, Nominated and Appointed, shall( in the respective Counties, Ridings, Cities, Boroughs, Divisions, Towns and Places( for which they are Appointed Commissioners respectively) meet together at the most usual and Common Place of Meeting within each of the said Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Divisions, Towns and Places respectively, upon the Twentieth Day of February, which shall be in the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety and three; and the said Commissioners, or so many of them as shall be present at the said First General Meeting, or the mayor Part of them, are hereby authorised and Required to put this present Act in Execution, according to the best of their Iudgments and Discretions, and shall then, if they shall see Cause, Subdivide and Distribute, as well themselves as other Commissioners then not present, for the Execution of this Act, into lesser Numbers, so as Three or more of the said Commissioners may be Appointed for the Service of each Hundred or other Division, and so as may best conduce to the Carrying on of Their Majesties Service hereby Required.  
And for the more effectual performance hereof, Be it Enacted and Declared by the Authority aforesaid, That the Commissioners at their first General Meeting, or the mayor part of them present shall agree, and set down in Writing, who, and what number of the said Commissioners shall act in each of the said Divisions or Hundreds, nevertheless not thereby to restrain the said Commissioners from acting as Commissioners in any other part of the County or place for which they are nominated, and deliver a true Copy of such Writing to the Receiver General, to the end that there be no failure in any part of the due Execution of the Service by this Act required.  
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the said Commissioners shall direct their several or joint Precept or Precepts, to such Inhabitants, High-Constables, Petty-Constables, bailiffs, and other like Officers and Ministers, and such number of them as they in their discretion shall think most convenient, requiring them to appear before the said Commissioners, at such place and time( not exceeding Ten days) as they shall appoint. And at such their Appearances, the said Commissioners shall openly red, or cause to be red unto them, the Rates and Assessments in this Act mentioned, and also 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 proceéd in the Execution of this Act, according to the Rates aforesaid. And if any High Constables, Petty Constables, bailiffs, 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 Commissioners, or any two of them, are hereby empowered to administer) or if any Person appearing, shall refuse to serve, then every such Person so making default, or refusing to serve, shall for every time of such default or refusal, forfeit, and lose unto Their Majesties, such Sums as the Commissioners, or so many as shall be present, or the mayor part of them being present, shall think fit, not exceeding the Sum of Five Pounds, nor less then forty Shillings. And at and after such General Meeting had, and Charge given, as aforesaid, the said Commissioners shall take care that Warrants be Issued forth and directed to Two at the least of the most able and sufficient Inhabitants of each Parish, Township or Place within the respective Divisions, thereby appointing and requiring them to be Assessors of all and every the Rates and Duties by this Act imposed; and shall therein also appoint and prefix a certain Day and Place for the said Assessors to appear before them, and to bring in their Certificates in Writing of the Names and surnames of every Person dwelling and residing within the limits of those places with which they shall be Charged, and of the Substance and valves of every of them in ready Money, Debts, Goods, Chattels or other Personal Estate whatsoever( except before excepted) or in public Offices or employments of Profit. And the said Assessors are therein also to be required, and are hereby enjoined to ascertain and inform themselves by all lawful ways and means they can, of the true and full yearly Value of all Manors, messages, Lands and Tenements, as also of all Quarries, Mines of Coal, Tin, or led, Copper, Mundick, or other Mines, Iron Works, Salt Springs and Salt-works, alum Mines and Works, Parks, chaces, Warrens, Woods, Vnderwoods and Coppices; and all Fishings, tithes, Tolls, Annuities, and other yearly Profits; And of all Hereditaments, of what nature or kind soever, situate, lying and being, happening or arising within the Limits of those Places with which they shall be Charged; And being so thereof ascertained, they are to Assess all and every the said Manors, messages, Lands, Tenements and premises, before Appointed, to be Charged after the Rate of Four Shillings for every Twenty Shillings, of the full yearly Value, as the same are Let for, or worth to be Let at the time of Assessing thereof, as aforesaid; And to bring with them, at the Time and Place, so as aforesaid, prefixed for their Appearance, a Certificate in Writing of the said Assessment; And shall then also return the Names of Two or more able and sufficient Persons, living within the Limits and Bounds of those Parishes, Townships, Constablewicks, or Places where they shall be Chargeable respectively, to be Collectors of the Moneys to be paid to Their Majesties by this Act; For whose paying in to the Head Collector in manner hereafter mentioned, such Moneys as they shall be Charged withal, the Parish or Place wherein they are so employed 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 at the time appointed for his Appearance,( not having a Lawful Excuse to be Witnessed by the Oaths of Two credible Witnesses, which the said Commissioners, or any Two or more of them, have Power to Administer) or shall not perform his Duty, every such Assessor shall, for every such Neglect, Refusal or Default, forfeit and lose unto Their Majesties such Sum as the Commissioners, or so many of them as shall be present, or the mayor Part of them, shall think fit, not exceeding the Sum of Twenty Pounds, nor under the Sum of Ten Pounds, to be Levied by Distress and Sale of the Offenders Goods and Chattels, in like manner as by this Act is Appointed, for Levying the several Rates and Assessments herein mentioned, in case of neglect or refusal of Payment, and to be Charged upon the respective Receivers General, together with the said Rates and Assessments; And every Assessor, so as aforesaid, Appointed or to be Appointed, shall, before he take upon him the Execution of the said Employment, take the Oaths Mentioned and Required to be taken, by an Act made in the Parliament held in the First year of Their Majesties Reign, entitled, An Act for the Abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance, and Appointing other Oaths; and also take an Oath to be administered in these Words following; You shall Swear well and truly to Execute the Duty of an Assessor, and to cause the Rates and Duties Imposed by an Act, entitled, An Act for Granting to Their Majesties an Aid of Four Shillings in the Pound for One year, for Carrying on a Vigorous War against France, to be duly and impartially Assessed, according to the best of your Skill and Knowledge; and therein you shall Spare no Person for Favour or Affection, nor any Person Grieve for Hatred or Ill-will, So help you God.( Which Oaths any Two or more of the Commissioners, in the County, City or Place where the said Assessment is to be made, have hereby Power, and are hereby Required to Administer.)  
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Rates and Assessments upon all ready moneys, Debts, Goods, Chattels, Personal Estates, and public Offices and employments of Profit, charged by this Act, shall be ascertained, and the Certificates thereof returned to the Commissioners upon, or before the Fifth day of March One thousand six hundred ninety and three, unless the Commissioners shall think fit to give a further time; And also the Taxations and Assessments of the Pound Rate, of Four Shillings in the Pound, of the yearly value of all Manors, messages, Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments and premises charged by this Act, shall be made and ascertained, and the several and respective Certificates thereof returned in to the Commissioners, upon, or before the Fifth day of March aforesaid, unless the Commissioners shall think fit to give further time; And upon return of any such Certificate, the Commissioners, or any Three or more of them shall, and may( if they see cause) Examine the Presenters thereof; And if the said Commissioners, or any Three or more of them, within their several Limits, at the time of the return of the Certificates, as aforesaid, or within Twenty Days after, shall know, or have good cause to suspect, That any Person or Persons, or any the Manors, messages, Lands, or other the premises, which ought to be Mentioned and Charged in the said Certificates, is, or are omitted; or that any Person or Persons in the said Certificates mentioned, is, or are of a greater Estate, or that any the said Manors, or other premises, are of a greater yearly value then in the said Certificate is mentioned, the said Commissioners, or any Three, or more of them, shall have Power to Summon such Person or Persons, and the Owners and Possessors of such Manors, or other premises, to appear before them, at a Day and Place Prefixed, to be Examined touching the Matters aforesaid; And if the Person or Persons Summoned to be so Examined, shall neglect to appear,( not having a reasonable Excuse for such his default) every Person so making default, shall pay to Their Majesties double the Sum he should, or ought to have been Set at, or ranted: And moreover, The Commissioners, or the mayor part of so many of them as shall be present, shall have power by all lawful ways and means, to Examine into the Estate of such Person, and the Value of such premises Chargeable by this Act, and to set such Rate or Rates upon the same, as shall be according to the true intent of this Act; And the said Assessors are hereby required to give one Copy of their Certificates or Assessments fairly written and subscribed by them, unto the said Commissioners by whom they were appointed, and the said Commissioners, 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 fairly Written, and to Sign and Seal several Duplicates or Copies of the said Assessment, and one of them so Signed and Sealed forthwith to deliver or cause to be delivered unto the Subcollectors, and shall likewise deliver or cause to be delivered other Copies thereof so Signed and Sealed unto the Head Collectors and Receivers General according to their several and respective Collections and Receipts. And moreover, the said Commissioners shall cause a true Copy or Extract of the whole Sums Assessed and Charged within every Hundred, lethe, Wapentake, Parish, Ward or Place, ranted or Assessed in pursuance of this Act, and of the whole Sums ranted or Assessed upon Personal Estates, Offices or employments to be certified and transmitted into Their Majesties Court of Exchequer, under the Hands and Seals of any Two or more of the Commissioners, but without naming the Persons in such their Certificates; And this the said Commissioners shall cause to be done upon or before the Twentieth Day of March then next ensuing, or within Thirty 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 Threé Months after the Duplicates of the last Payment shall be transmitted to him, to transcribe all the Schedules and Duplicates of the Sums returned to him from and for every respective County, Riding, City and Town, and every Hundred, Wapentake, Parish, Division, Town and Place therein in a Book of Parchment in Alphabetical Order, and in a fair legible Hand Writing, and within Threé Months after the same shall be so by him received, to transmit all and every the same Schedules and Duplicates to the Office of Writer of the Tallies, commonly called, The Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer, who is hereby likewise authorised and required to enter the same in the like Alphabetical Order in another Book of Parchment fairly Written to the provided for that purpose.  
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Commissioners or any Two or more of them, shall Issue out their Warrants or Estreats to the Sub-Collectors under their Hands and Seals, thereby requiring them to Levy and Collect one Fourth part of the Rates and Assessments in respect of their Personal Estates, Offices and employments, and also one Fourth part of the Pound Rate Charged upon all Manors, messages, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments and premises, as aforesaid. And the said Subcollectors are hereby required and enjoined to Levy and Collect the same, according to the Duplicates thereof by them received, and according to the Intent and Directions of this Act, and to make demand of the said Rates and Assessments, upon Personal Estates, Offices and employments of the Parties themselves if they can be found, or otherwise at the place of their last Abode, and to pay the same unto their respective Head Collectors on or before the Fifteenth Day of March, One thousand six hundred ninety threé, or within Twenty Days after. And the said Head Collectors are to hasten the said Subcollectors, and in case the same 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 Commissioners, by Distress upon the Subcollectors respectively, such Sum and Sums of Money as by him and them ought to have been paid and is or are not paid, by reason of his Failure in doing his Duty, according to the Directions of this Act. And every Head Collector is hereby required to make Payment of what shall be so Levied or Received unto the Receiver General of the said County, City or Place, upon or before the Twentieth Day of March aforesaid, or within Twenty Days after: And the Receiver General is likewise required to call upon and hasten the said Head Collectors, and to pay what he shall receive from the said Head Collectors unto Their Majesties Receipt of Exchequer upon or before the Six and twentieth Day of March, One thousand six hundred ninety four, or within Twenty Days after, to the end the First Payment of the said Rates and Assessments may by that time be fully answered and paid in to Their Majesties. And the Subcollectors shall also Levy the Second Quarterly Payment of the said Rates and Assessments Charged as aforesaid, upon or before the Second Day of June then next ensuing, or within Twenty Days after, and shall also pay the same in to the Head Collectors, upon or before the Ninth Day of June aforesaid, or within Twenty Days after; And the said Head Collectors shall make payment thereof to the Receivers General of the said County, City, or Place, upon, or before the Sixteénth day of June aforesaid, or within Twenty Days after; And the said Receiver General is also required to make payment of all which he shall so receive, into Their Majesties Receipt of Exchequer, upon, or before the Five and twentieth day of June aforesaid, or within Twenty days after, to the end, that the second payment of the Rates and Assessments so charged as aforesaid, may by that time be fully Answered and Paid in to Their Majesties: And the said Subcollectors are also Required, and enjoined to Levy one other Quarterly Payment of the said Rates and Assessments Charged, as aforesaid, upon or before the Fourth Day of September, then next ensuing; and shall also Pay the same unto the said respective Head Collectors, on or before the Twelfth Day of September aforesaid, or within Twenty days after: And the said Head Collectors are to hasten the said Subcollectors, and in Case the same shall not be Collected by reason of neglect or failure of Duty in the said Subcollectors, the Head Collectors are to proceed against them by Distress, in like manner and by like Warrant, as aforesaid; And every Head Collector is hereby required to make payment of what shall be so Levied or Received, unto the Receiver General of the said County, City, or Place, upon, or before the Twentieth day of September aforesaid, or within Twenty Days after; And the Receiver General is likewise required to call upon, and hasten the said Head Collectors, and to pay what he shall receive from the said Head Collectors, into Their Majesties Receipt of Exchequer, upon, or before the Nine and twentieth day of September aforesaid, or within Twenty days after, to the end, that the third Payment of the said Rates and Assessments may, by that time be fully Answered and Paid in to Their Majesties: And the Subcollectors shall also Levy one other Quarterly payment of the said Rates and Assessments charged as aforesaid, upon or before the Third day of December then next ensuing, or within Twenty days after, and shall also Pay the same unto the said Head Collectors, upon, or before the Tenth day of December aforesaid, or within Twenty days after; And the said Head Collectors shall make payment thereof to the Receiver General of the said County, City, or Place, upon, or before the Seventeénth day of December aforesaid, or within Twenty days after; And the said Receiver General is likewise required to make payment of all which he shall so receive, into Their Majesties Receipt of Exchequer, upon, or before the Five and Twentieth day of December aforesaid, or within Twenty days after, to the end, that the Fourth and Last Quarterly Payment of the said Rates and Assessments so Charged as aforesaid, may by that time be fully Answered and Paid in to Their Majesties: And all Commissioners, Collectors, and Receivers, are hereby required and enjoined to apply themselves with all diligence, to the most speédy and effectual execution of their several and respective Duties, and to use their utmost endeavours, that all Estates herein Charged, may equally pay the Rates and Assessments, according to the direction of this Act, that so Their Majesties Service herein may not be delayed or hindered through any of their wilful neglect or default.  
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 duly paid to the Head Collectors, whose Receipt shall be a sufficient Discharge unto every such Subcollector, which Subcollector, for gathering the said particular Sums, shall retain in his Hands, for every Twenty Shillings by him so paid, Threé pence, as a Reward for his Pains and Service; And the said Head Collectors 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 Sums of Money as shall be by him or them Collected or Received: And that no Subcollector shall be forced to travail above the space of Ten Miles, for the payment of the said moneys that shall be by him 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 Sum by him Received, into the Receipt of Their Majesties Exchequer, in such manner, and at or before such days and times as are herein before limited; 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 prefixed in this Act.  
And for the careful writing and transcribing the said Warrants, Certificates, Estreats and Duplicates in due time, it is further Enacted, That the Commissioners Clerks who shall respectively perform the same, shall by Warrant under Two or more of the Commissioners Hands, have and receive from the respective Receivers General, One penny in the Pound of all such Moneys as he or they shall have received by virtue of such Warrants and Estreats, who are hereby appointed and allowed to pay the same accordingly.  
And be it further Enacted and Declared, That if any Person or Persons shall refuse or neglect to pay any Sum or Sums of Money whereat he or they shall be ranted and Assessed, that then it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Collectors or any of them, and he and they is and are hereby authorised and required for non Payment thereof, to Levy the Sum or Sums so ranted and Assessed by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of such Person so refusing or neglecting to pay by his or their Goods or Chattels, or to Distrain upon the messages, Lands, Tenements and premises so Charged with any such Sum or Sums, and the Goods and Chattels then and there found, and the Distress so taken, to keep by the space of Four Days at the Costs and Charges of the Owners thereof, and if the said Owner do not pay the Sum or Sums of Money so ranted and Assessed within the space of the said Four Days, then the said Distress to be Appraised by Two or Three Inhabitants where the same shall be taken, or other sufficient Persons, and to be sold by the Collectors for the Payment 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 Distress) to be immediately returned to the Owner thereof. And moreover, it shall be lawful to break open( in the Day time) any House, and( upon Warrant under the Hands and Seals of Two or more of the said Commissioners) any Chest, Trunk, Box or other things where any such Goods are, calling to their assistance the Constable, tithingmen and Headboroughs within the Counties, Cities, Towns and Places where any Refusal, Neglect or Resistance shall be made; Which said Officers are hereby required to be Aiding and Assisting in the premises, as they will Answer the contrary at their Peril; and the several and respective Tenant or Tenants of all Houses, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments which shall be ranted by virtue of this Act, are hereby required and authorised to pay such Sum or Sums of Money as shall be ranted upon such Houses, Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, and to deduct out of the Rents so much of the said Rates, as in respect of the said Rents of every such House, Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, the Landlord should or ought to pay and bear; 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.  
And it is Enacted and Declared, That every Tenant paying the said Assessments, shall be acquitted and discharged for 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; And if any Person or Persons so ranted or Charged, do find him or themselves aggrieved with such Assessing or Rating, and do within Ten Days after Demand made of the Sum or Sums of Money Assessed on him or them, Complain to the Commissioners, the said Commissioners, or any Three or more of them, so as the mayor Part of the Commissioners who Signed or Allowed his or their Rates be present, shall have, and have hereby Power, within Ten Days, next after such Complaint, particularly to Examine any Person or Persons, upon his or their Oath, touching the Value of his or their Real or Personal Estate, and other the Matters aforesaid; and upon due Examination and Knowledge thereof, Allow, Abate, Defaulk, increase, or Enlarge the said Assessment, and the same so Allowed, Abated, increased or Enlarged, shall be Levied, and shall be Certified or Estreated into the Exchequer, in manner aforesaid; and to that end, the said Commissioners are hereby required to Meet together for the determining of such Complaints and Appeals accordingly; and for this end, to Express in their Warrants to the Collectors, the Times and Places for Determining Appeals, and Appeals once Heard and Determined, to be final, without any further Appeal upon any pretence whatsoever.  
And be it further Enacted and Declared by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Assessor, Collector, Receiver, or other Person appointed by the said Commissioners, shall wilfully neglect, or refuse to perform his or their Duty, in the due and speedy execution of this present Act; or if any Assessor shall witting or willingly under Rate, or Assess at an under Value any Person or Thing Chargeable by this Act, the said respective Commissioners, 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 fit, so as the same exceed not the Sum of Twenty Pounds, nor to be under the Sum of Ten Pounds; which said Fines shall not be taken off or discharged, but by the Consent of the majority of the Commissioners who Imposed the same, but shall be levied by Warrant under the Hands and Seals of the said Commissioners, or any Two of them, by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the Offenders; and in default of Goods and Chattels, the Offenders to be Committed( by Warrant under the Hands and Seals of the said Commissioners) to Prison, there to remain till Payment of the said Fines; And that all Fines that shall be Imposed by Virtue of this Act, shall be paid to the respective Receivers General, and by them into the Receipt of Their Majesties Exchequer.  
And it is further Enacted and Declared, That if any Collector that shall( by virtue of this Act, be appointed for the Receipt of any Sums of Money thereby to be Assessed) neglect, or refuse to pay any Sum 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, and shall detain in his or their Hands, any Money received by them or any of them, and not pay the same at such time as by this Act is directed, The Commissioners of each County, Riding, City or Town respectively, or any Two or more of them, in their respective Divisions, are hereby authorised and empowered to Imprison the Person, and Seize and Secure the Estate both Real and Personal, of such Collectors to him belonging, or which shall descend or come into the Hands or Possession of his Heirs, Executors or Administrators, wheresoever the same can be discovered and found, and the said Commissioners who shall so Seize and Secure the Estate of any Collector or Collectors, shall be, and are hereby empowered to appoint a time for the General meeting of the Commissioners, for such County, Riding, City, Town, or Place, and there to cause public Notice to be given at the Place where such Meeting shall be appointed, Six Days at least before such General meeting; And the Commissioners present at such General Meeting, or the mayor 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 empowered and required to sell and dispose of all such Estates, which shall be for the Cause aforesaid Seized and Secured, or any part of them, and to satisfy and pay into the Hands of the Receiver General, the Sum that shall be so detained in the Hands of such Collector or Collectors, their Heirs, Executors, or Administrators respectively.  
And it is hereby further Enacted and Declared, That at the Expiration of the respective times in this in this Act prescribed for the full Payment of the said Four Quarterly Payments, the several and respective Commissioners, 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, Hundred, Parish and Place, to Examine and assure themselves of the full and whole Payment of the particular Sum and Sums of Money Charged within and upon the same Division, Hundred, and every Parish and Place therein, and of the due Return of the same into the Hands of the Receivers General, Their Deputy or Deputies of the said County, Riding, City, Town and Place respectively, and by such Receiver General into the Receipt of Their Majesties Exchequer; to the end there may be no failure in the Payment of any part of the Assessment by virtue of this Act to be Assessed and Paid; And in case of any failure in the premises, the said Commissioners or any Two or more of them are hereby to cause the same to be forthwith Levied and Paid according to the true intent and meaning of this Act.  
And it is hereby Enacted and Declared, That in case any controversy arise concerning the said Assessment, or the Dividing, Apportioning or Payment thereof, which concerns any the Commissioners by this Act appointed, that the Commissioners so concerned in the said controversy shall have no Voice, but shall withdraw at the time of the Debate of any such controversy, until it be determined by the rest of the Commissioners, and in default thereof, that the Commissioners then present shall have power, and are hereby required to impose such Fine and Fines, as to them shall be thought fit, upon such Commissioners so refusing to withdraw, not exceeding the Sum 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 that shall arise touching any the said Rates, Assessments or Levies, or the Collecting thereof, shall be heard and finally determined by the Commissioners in such manner as by this Act is directed, upon Complaint thereof made to them by any Person or Persons thereby aggrieved, without further trouble or svit in Law.  
Provided, That nothing contained in this Act shall extend to Charge any College or Hall in either of the Two universities, or the Colleges of Windsor, eton, Winchester or Westminster, or the Corporation of the Governours of the Charity for Relief of Poor Widows and Children of Clergymen, or the College of Bromley, or any Hospital for or in respect of the Scites of the said Colleges, Halls or Hospitals, or any Master, Fellow or Scholar of any such College or Halls, or any Reader, Officer or Minister of the said universities, Colleges or Halls, or any Masters or ushers of any School for or in respect of any Stipend, Wages or Profits whatsoever arising or growing due to them in respect of the said several Pl●… and Employments in the said universities, Colleges or Schools, 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 Southwark, or any of them; or the said Corporation of the Governours of the Charity for Relief of poor Widows and Children or Clergymen, or the College of Bromley; 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 Rents or Revenues payable to them, or any such of them, for their immediate use and Relief, whose Annual Maintenance and Profits shall not exceed in the whole the Sum of Twenty Pounds.  
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, do Claim or Enjoy any Freédom or Exemption by this Act: But that all the Houses and Lands which they so hold, shall be ranted and Assessed for so much as they are yearly worth, over and above the Rents reserved and payable to the said Corporation, or to the said Hospitals or Almshouses, to be received and disbursed for the immediate support and relief of the Poor in the said Hospitals and Almshouses.  
Provided also, that where any Person inhabiting within the City of London, or any other Cities or Towns Corporate, hath his Dwelling house in one of the Parishes and Wards therein, and hath any Goods, wears, or merchandises, Chargeable by this Act, in one or more of the other Parishes or Wards in the same City, That then such Person shall be Charged, Taxed and Assessed for such his Goods and merchandises, in the Parish or Ward where he dwelleth, and not elsewhere in the said City.  
Provided, and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That for the avoiding all Obstructions and Delays in Assessing and Collecting the Sums, which by this Act are to be ranted and Assessed, all Plates, Constable wicks, Divisions and Allotments, which have used to be ranted and Assessed, shall Pay and be Assessed in such County, Hundred, Rape, Wapentake, Constablewick, Division, Place and Allotment, as the same hath heretofore usually been Assessed in, and not elsewhere.  
Provide always, That nothing in this Act Contained shall be Construed to Alter, Change, Determine or make voided 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.  
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Action, Plaint, svit or Information shall be commenced or prosecuted against any Person or Persons for what he 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 pled the General Issue( not Guilty) and upon any Issue joined, may give this Act, and the Special Matter in Evidence, and if the plaintiff or Prosecutor shall become Nonsuit, or forbear further Prosecution, or suffer a Discontinuance, or if a Verdict pass against him, the Defendants shall recover their triple 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 also 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 and deliver to the said Head Collectors a perfect Schedule fairly written in Parchment, under their Hands and Seals, Signed and Allowed by any Two or more of the respective Commissioners, containing the Names, surnames and Places of Abode of every Person within their respective Collections that shall make Default of Payment of any of the Sums that shall be ranted or Assessed on such Person by virtue of this Act, where no sufficient Distress is to be found, nor other satisfaction made, and not otherwise, and the Sum 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 Their Majesties Court of Exchequer; Whereupon every Person so making Default of Payment, may be Charged by Process of the said Court, according to the Course of the Court of Exchequer in such Cases.  
Provided always and be it further Enacted, That in case any Lands or Houses in any Parish or Constablewick shall lye unoccupied, and no Distress 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 and Lands cannot be Levied, that then upon complaint made thereof to the Commissioners for the County where such Case shall happen to be, the said Commissioners or any Two or more of them shall certify into Their Majesties Court of Exchequer the Name of the Person whose Lands or House so lieth unoccupied, together with the Sum thereupon Assessed, and the Parish or Place where such Land or House lieth; which Certificate is hereby Declared to be a sufficient Charge upon the Person and Land or House therein name, and shall make the Person Debtor to Their Majesties for the Sum so Assessed, and the Court of Exchequer shall Issue out Process thereupon against the Body, Goods and all other the Lands of such Debtor, until the Sum so Assessed be fully and actually Levied and Paid to Their Majesties.  
Provided always, and be it Enacted, That where any Wood-lands shall be Assessed, and no Distress can be had, That in such Case, it shall, and may be lawful to, and for any Collector, Constable, Head-borough, or tithingman, by Warrant under the Hands and Seals of two or more of the Commissioners of that Hundrred or Division, at seasonable times of the year, to Cut and Sell to any Person or Persons, so much of the Wood growing on the Woodlands( Timber-Treés 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 lawful for the Person and Persons, and his and their Assigns, to whom such Woods shall be sold, to Fell, Cut down, and Dispose, and Carry away the same to his own use, rendering the Overplus( if any be) to the Owner, any Law to the contrary notwithstanding.  
Provided always, and be it further Enacted, That where any Tax or Assessment shall be Charged or laid upon any tithes, Tolls, Profits of Markets, Fairs, or Fishery, or other Annual Profits not Distrainable, in case the same shall not be paid within Fifteén days after such Assessment so Charged, or Laid, and Demanded, Then it shall and may be lawful, to, and for the Collector, Constable, or other Officer thereunto appointed, by Warrant under the Hands and Seals of Threé or more Commissioners, authorised by this Act, to Seize, Take, and Sell so much of the said tithes, Tolls, and other Profits so Charged, as shall be sufficient for the Levying of the said Tax and Assessment, and all Charges occasioned by such Non-payment thereof, rendering the Overplus to the Owner, if any be.  
And for the better preventing of such unjust Vexations, as might be occasioned by such Persons as shall be appointed Receivers General of any of the Sums of Money granted by this Act; And to the intent that the said Receivers General may return a true Account into Their Majesties Court of Exchequer, of such Sums of Money as shall be received by them, and every of them, their, and every of their Deputy and Deputies; Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if any such Receiver General return, or certify into the said Court, any Sum or Sums of Money to be in Arrear or unpaid, after the same have been received, either by such Receiver General, or by his Deputy or Deputies, or any of them, or shall cause any Person or Persons to be set Insuper, in the said Court, for any Sum or Sums of Money that hath been so received; That then every such Receiver General shall be liable to pay to every Person and Persons, that shall be molested, vexed, or damaged, by reason of such unjust Certificate, Return, or Setting Insuper, triple the Damages that shall be thereby occasioned; the said Damages to be recovered by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information, in which no Essoign, Protection, or Wager of Law shall be Allowed, nor any more then one Imparlance, and shall also Forfeit to Their Majesties, Their Heirs and Successors, double the Sum that shall be so unjustly Certified or Returned, or cause to be set Insuper.  
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That where any Person or Persons, Chargeable with any Rates or Assessments by this Act imposed, shall be under the Age of One and twenty years, in every such Case, the Parents, Guardians and Tutors of such Infants respectively, upon default of Payment by such Infants, shall be, and are hereby made liable to, and charged with the Payments which such Infants ought to have made: And if such Parents, Guardians or Tutors, shall neglect or refuse to Pay, as aforesaid, it shall and may be Lawful to proceed against them, in like manner as against any other Person or Persons, making default of Payment as herein is mentioned. And all Parents, Guardians and Tutors, making Payment, as aforesaid, shall be Allowed all and every the Sums paid for such Infants, upon his or their Accounts.  
And be it further Enacted, That every Person ranted or Assessed for his Office or Employment, shall be ranted and Pay for his said Office and Employment in the County, City or Place, where such Office or Employment is Executed. And every Person who is or shall be ranted for, or in respect of any Personal Estate to him any way belonging, shall be ranted at such Place where he or she shall be Resident at the time of the Execution of this Act; And all Persons not being householders, nor having a certain Place of Residence, shall be Taxed at the Place where they shall be Resident at the time of the Execution of this Act. And if any Person who ought to be Taxed by virtue of this Act, for or in respect of his Personal Estate, shall at the time of his Assessment, be out of the Realm, such Person shall be ranted therefore in such County, City or Place where he was last abiding within the Realm.  
Provided that where any Person shall have any Goods, wears or merchandises, in any County or Counties, other then the County where he shall be resident, or had his last residence, it shall be lawful to Rate or Assess such Person, for such Goods, wears and merchandises in the County, or Counties where the same shall be; And every Person who shall be ranted, or Assessed as aforesaid, for, or in respect of any Manors, messages, Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, shall be ranted and Assessed in the Place where such messages, Manors, Lands, Tenements and premises respectively do lie, and not elsewhere.  
Provided always, That if any Person or Persons, by reason of his 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 or their personal Estate, Then upon Certificate made by two or more of the Commissioners for the County, Riding, City or Place of his or their last Personal Residence, under their Hands and Seals, of the Sum or Sums Charged upon him or them, and in what Capacity or Respect he or they were so Charged,( which Certificate the said Commissioners are required to give, without Delay, Feé, or Reward) And upon Oath made of such Certificate before any one Iustice of the Peace of the County or Place where the said Certificate shall be made,( which Oath the said Iustice of Peace is hereby authorised 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 Personal Estate, shall by changing his place of Residence, or by any other fraud or covin escape from the Taxation, and not be Taxed, and the same be proved before the Commissioners, or any Two of them, or before any Iustice of the Peace in the County, Riding, City, or Place where such Person dwelleth or resideth, at any time within One year next ensuing after such Tax made, every Person that shall so escape from the Taxation and Payment, shall be charged( upon proof thereof) at the double value of so much as he should, or ought to have been Taxed at, by this Act; the said double value, upon Certificate thereof made into the Exchequer by the Commissioners or Iustices( before whom such proof shall be made) to be Levied of the Goods, Lands and Tenements of such Person.  
And for the better discovery of Personal Estates, 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 sojourned or Lodge in their respective Houses, under the Penalty of forfeiting to Their Majesties the Sum of Twenty Pounds to be Levied and Recovered in such manner as other Penalties in this Act mentioned are to be Levied and Recovered.  
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Commissioners that shall be within any County, City or Place within the respective Limits, or the mayor part of them, shall Rate, Tax and Assess every other Commissioner joined with them for and in respect of the ready Money, Debts, Goods, Chattels and Personal Estate of such Commissioners; And also for and in respect of the Offices and Employments of Profit which at the time of such Examination shall be held and enjoyed by such Commissioners, so as the residence and usual dwelling-place of such Commissioner, so to be Taxed, be within the Division of such Commissioners by whom he is Taxed, and so as the Office and Employment held and enjoyed by such Commissioner, so to be Taxed, be likewise to be Exercised within the Division or Limits of such Commissioners by whom he is to be Taxed, and the Commissioners within their Division shall also Assess every Assessor within their Division for all and singular the premises for which by this Act he ought to be ranted and Assessed; And as well all Sums Assessed upon every the said Commissioners and Assessors, as the Assessmens made and set by the Assessors aforesaid, shall be Written Estreated, Levied and Gathered as the same should and ought to have been, if such Commissioners had not been name Commissioners.  
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, commonly called, The New River, or in the Thames Water-works, or in the hid Park, or Marybone Waters, or any Rents or Profits arising thereby; And all Person and Persons having any Share or Interest in the Stock or Stocks of Printing of Books in or belonging to the House commonly called, The Kings Printing House, shall pay for the same the Sum of Four Shillings for every Twenty Shillings of the full Yearly Value thereof; And they and all Companies of Merchants in London, Charged by this Act, shall be Assessed by the Commissioners Nominated and Appointed for the said City, or any Threé of them, for their respective Shares and Interests aforesaid, and the aforesaid joint Stock and Stocks; And the same shall be paid by the Governours and respective Treasurers of the said respective Companies, and by the Treasurers or Receivers of the said River, Waters and Water-works, and Stock for Printing, and be Deducted at and out of their next Dividend.  
Provided also, That this Act shall not extend to the Inhabitants of Scotland, Ireland, Jersey or Guernsey, for and concerning any such Personal Estate which they or any to their use have within the Places aforesaid.  
And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the said Commissioners, or any Two or more of them, may, and shall from time to time call for, and require an Account from the respective Receivers General of all the Moneys received by them of the said Collectors, and of the payments thereof into Their Majesties Receipt of Exchequer, according to the direction of this Act, and in case of any failure in the premises, the said Commissioners, 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.  
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That no Letters Patents granted by Their Majesties, or any of Their Royal Progenitors, to any Person or Persons, Cities, Boroughs or Towns Corporate within this Realm, of any manner of Liberties, privileges, or Exemptions from Subsidies, Tolls, Taxes, Assessments or Aids, shall be construed, or taken to exempt any Person or Persons, City, Borough or Town-Corporate, or any of the Inhabitants of the same, or in the Tower of London, from the burden and Charge of any Sum or Sums of Money granted by this Act; but that all and every such Person and Persons, City, Borough, and Town Corporate, shall pay their Proportions of all Rates and Assessments by this present Act imposed, any such Letters Patents, Grants, or Charters, or any Clause of Non obstante, Matter or Thing therein contained, or any Law, Statute, Custom or Prescription to the contrary notwithstanding.  
Provided also, that no Person inhabiting in any City, Borough, or Town-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 Limits of the said City, Borough, or Town-Corporate.  
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 public Minister of any Foreign Prince or State now doth, or hereafter shall inhabit or occupy, shall be paid by the Landlord or Owner of the said House, or Tenements respectively.  
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That in all privileged and other Places, being Extraparochial, or not within any 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 ranted heretofore) the said Commissioners, or any Two or more of them, shall, and are hereby required to nominate and appoint Two fit Persons, living in or near the said privileged or other Places as aforesaid, to be Assessors for the said Places, and to make and return their said Assessments in like manner as by this Act is appointed, in any Parish, tithing or Place; And also to appoint One or more Collectors, who are hereby required to Collect, and Pay the same according to the Rates appointed by this Act, for Collecting and Paying all Sums of Money payable by this Act.  
Provided always, and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That no Commissioner or Commissioners, 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 Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, for the preventing of Dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants.  
Provided always, and be it Enacted, That no Person shall be capable of Acting as a Commissioner in the Execution of this Act, before he shall have taken the Oaths appointed by an Act of Parliament made in the First Year of Their Majesties Reign, entitled, An Act for the Abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance, and appointing other Oaths, which Oaths it shall be lawful for any Two or more Commissioners to Administer, and are hereby required to Administer to any other Commissioners.  
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That every Papist, or reputed Papist, being of the Age of Sixteen Years and upwards, who shall not have taken the Oaths mentioned and required to be taken by the said last mentioned Act, shall Yield and Pay unto Their Majesties double the Sums and Rates which by Force or Virtue of any Clause in this Act before mentioned or contained, he or she should or ought to pay or be charged with, to be Assessed, Levied and 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 and concerning the above mentioned Rates and Sums which are hereby intended to be doubled, as aforesaid.  
Provided nevertheless, That if any such Papist, or reputed Papist, within Ten Days after the first meeting of the said Commissioners, in the respective Counties or Places, where he 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 Commissioners( which Oaths the said Commissioners are hereby empowered to Administer) that in such case he or she shall not be liable to be doubly Assessed, as aforesaid.  
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That every person being of the Age of Sixteén years or upwards, and being within this Realm at 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, entitled, An Act for the Abrogating of the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance, and Appointing other Oaths; And upon Summons by Warrant under the Hand and Seal of any Two or more of the Commissioners appointed by this Act, shall refuse to take the said Oaths at the time appointed in the said Warrant, or shall neglect to appear at such time before the Commissioners, in order to take the said Oaths( which Oaths the said Commissioners, or any Two or more of them, are hereby empowered and required to Admini●… er shall yield, and pay unto Their Majesties double the Sums and Rates, which by force or virtue of any Clause in this Act before mentioned or contained, he 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.  
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That every Gentleman, or so reputed, or owning or writing himself such, or being above that Quality, who by virtue of an Act made in the Third Year of Their Majesties Reign, entitled, An Act for Raising Money by a Poll, payable quarterly for one Year, for carrying on a Vigorous War against France, did pay, or ought to have paid, double the Sums charged by the said Act, or were, or ought to have been Returned into the Exchequer for non-payment thereof, who shall not voluntarily appear before the said Commissioners, or any Two or more of them, within Ten days after the first Meeting of the said Commissioners, in the respective place or places where he ought to be Taxed or Assessed, and take the said Oaths appointed by the said Act, made in the first year of Their Majesties Reign( which Oaths the said Commissioners, or any Two or more of them, are hereby empowered 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 Sums which by force or virtue of this Act, he 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 above mentioned Rates and Sums, which are hereby intended to be doubled, as aforesaid.  
And be it further Enacted, That any One or more of the Commissioners appointed by this Act, upon Information given, or upon any cause of suspicion in that behalf, shall, and are hereby required and enjoined to cause every Person suspected, or against whom such Information shall be given to be Summoned to appear to take the said Oaths, as aforesaid.  
Provided nevertheless, That whereas certain Persons, Dissenters from the Church of England, commonly called Quakers, and now known to be such, do scruple the taking of any Oath, It shall be sufficient for every such person, to make and subscribe the Declaration of Fidelity, contained in an Act made in the Parliament held in the First year of Their Majesties Reign, entitled, An Act for Exempting Their Majesties Protestant Subjects, Dissenting from the Church of England, from the Penalties of certain Laws; which Declaration any Two or more of the Commissioners appointed for the Execution of this Act, are hereby empowered and required to take, and every such person so doing, shall not be liable to, or chargeable with any of the double Rates aforesaid.  
Provided that no poor person shall be charged with, or liable unto the Pound Rate imposed by this Act, upon Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, whose Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments are not of the yearly Value of Twenty Sillings in the whole.  
Provided always, That the Right Honourable the Master of the Rolls, the Masters of Chancery, Six Clerks, Clerks of the Petty Bag, Examiners, Registers, Clerks of the enrolment, Clerks of the Affidavits and Subpena Office, and all others 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.  
Be it further Enacted, That if any Collector of any Parish or Place shall keep in his Hands any part of the Money by him Collected for any longer time then is by this Act directed( other then the allowance made unto him by this Act) or shall pay any part thereof to any Person or Persons other then 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 Sum 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 then is by virtue of this Act directed, or shall pay any part thereof to any Person or Persons other then the Receiver General of such County or Place, or his Deputy, every such Head Collector shall forfeit for every such Offence the Sum of forty Pounds; And in case any Receiver General, or his Deputy, shall pay any part of the Moneys paid to him or them by any Collector, by virtue of this Act, to any Person or Persons whatsoever( other then the Receipt of Their Majesties Exchequer, and at or within the respective times limited by this Act) or in case such Receiver General, or his Deputy, shall pay any part of the said Moneys by any Warrant of the Commissioners of the Treasury, or the Lord Treasurer, under Treasurer or Commissioners 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 Exchequer, as aforesaid, that then such Receiver General shall for every such Offence of himself, or his Deputy, forfeit the Sum of One thousand Pounds to him or them that shall 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.  
And it is hereby further Enacted, That the Commissioners of the Treasury, or the Lord Treasurer, under Treasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being, or any of them, do not direct any Warrant to any of the said Head Collectors, or Receivers General, or their Deputy, for the payment of any part of the Moneys hereby given to any Person or Persons, other then into the Receipt of the Exchequer, as aforesaid; Nor shall they or any of them direct any Warrant to the Officers of the Exchequer for the striking of 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 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 down any Bill whereby to Charge himself with any of the said Moneys, until he shall have actually received the same.  
Provided also and be it Enacted, That no Stay of Prosecution upon any Command, Warrant, Motion, or Order, or Direction by non vult ulterius prosequi shall be had, made, admitted, received or allowed by any Court whatsoever, in any svit or Proceeding by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information or otherwise for the recovery of all or any the Pains, Penalties or Forfeitures, upon any Person or Persons by this Act inflicted or therein mentioned, or for or in Order to the Conviction or Disability of any Person Offending against this Act.  
Provided also and be it Enacted, That no Person shall be capable of acting as a Commissioner in the Execution of this Act for any County or Riding, or the Cities of London or Westminster, unless he was Assessed, and did pay to Their Majesties the Sum of Twenty Shillings Quarterly towards the Rates and Assessments, Granted by an Act made in the Third year of Their Majesties Reign, entitled, An Act for Raising Money by a Poll, payable Quarterly for One year, for the Carrying on a Vigorous War against France; or the Sum of Four Pounds to the Act made in the Fourth year of Their Majesties Reign, entitled, An Act of Review of the Quarterly Poll Granted to Their Majesties in the last Session of this present Parliament: And also that no Person shall be capable of acting as a Commissioner in Execution of this Act, for any other City, or in any Borough, Town or Cinque Port, or the Counties thereof respectively, unless he was Assessed, and did Pay to Their Majesties the Sum of Twenty Shillings Quarterly, as aforesaid; or was Assessed and did Pay to Their Majesties the Sum of Then Shillings Quarterly( as a Tradesman worth Three hundred Pounds) towards the said Quarterly Poll; or the Sum of forty Shillings to the said Act for Review of the said Quar terly Poll.  
Provided always, That every Person who did pay to Their Majesties the Sum of Ten Shillings Quarterly( as a Tradesman worth Three hundred Pounds) toward the said Quarterly Poll, may be capable of acting as a Commissioner, for and within any City, Borough or Town-Corporate, whereof he is an Inhabitant, although he was Nominated a Commissioner for the County at large, in which such City, Borough or Town-Corporate is situate, unless Commissioners were particularly Appointed by the said Act for such City, Borough or Town-Corporate.  
Provided nevertheless, That in Case there shall not be a sufficient number of Commissioners for any City, Town and County of the same Borough, Town or Cinque Port( for which, by this Act, Commissioners are particularly appointed) capable of Acting according to the Qualifications aforesaid for putting this Act in Execution, that in every such Case, any of the Commissioners appointed for the County at large, within which, such Cities, Towns and Counties of the same Borough, Town, or Cinque Port doth stand, or which is next adjoining thereto, may act as Commissioners in the execution of this Act, within such City, Town and County of the same Borough, Town, or Cinque Port.  
Provided also, and be it further Enacted, That in case there shall not be a sufficient number of the persons nominated to be Commissioners for any County, who shall be capable of acting as Commissioners, according to the qualifications in this Act before mentioned, That in every such Case it shall be Lawful for Their Majesties to issue or cause to be issued one or more Commission or Commissions under the Great Seal of England, and thereby to nominate, constitute and appoint such, and so many persons being Resident, and having real Estates of the value of One hundred Pounds a year in the said respective Counties, for which they shall be respectively nominated to be Commissioners for putting this present Act in Execution in the said Counties respectively, which said Commissioners so to be nominated and appointed for the said Counties respectively shall have such and the same Powers for putting this Act in Execution in the said respective Counties, and under the same Rules and Directions, as any other Commissioners Nominated or Appointed by this Act, any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.  
And for the more effectual Charging all Personal Estates, Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if after the Assessments on Personal Estates directed by this Act shall be made, any Person shall come to Inhabit or Reside in any Division or Place where such Person was not ranted or Taxed for Personal Estate, the Commissioners acting within such Division or Place, are hereby Required and empowered to Summon such Person before them; and unless he or she shall produce a Certificate made according to the Directions of this Act, whereby it shall appear that he or she was Assessed, and had actually paid all the precedent Quarterly Payments, in some other place for his or her Personal Estate, the said Commissioners shall, and are hereby Required to cause such person to be Assessed for his or her Personal Estate, and cause the same, or such Quarterly Payments thereof as shall be Vnassessed and unpaid, to be Assessed, Levied and Paid, according to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act.  
Provided always, That the Prison of the Kings-Bench, the Prison-House, Lands, Gardens and the Common side, and all the Rents, Profits and Perquisites of the Office of the Marshal of the said Kings-Bench Prison, lying and being in the Parish of Saint George the Martyr in the Borough of Southwark and County of Surrey, and also the Prison-House, Lands and Gardens of the Prison of the Marshal of the Marshalsea Prison, and all Offices, Perquisites and Profits of the Marshalsea Court and Prison, lying and being also in the said Parish of Saint George in the Borough of Southwark, and County of Surrey, shall be Charged and Assessed to this Assessment in the said Parish of Saint George, and Borough of Southwark, and not elsewhere, any thing to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.  
Provided always, and be it Enacted, That if any person hereby name a Commissioner, shall presume to act as a Commissioner in the Execution of this Act, before he shall have taken the Oaths which by this Act he is required to take, and in the manner hereby prescribed, he shall forfeit to Their Majesties the Sum of Five hundred Pounds.  
Provided always, and be it Enacted, That where the Owners of any Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments are liable to be doubly charged as Papists, Reputed Papists, or otherwise by reason of their not having taken the Oaths according to the intent of this Art, in every such Case, such Owners only 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 Agreément to the contrary notwithstanding.  
Provided always, and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all the Waterworks in the Borough of Southwark shall be ranted and Assessed by the Commissioners and Assessors of the County of Surrey, and not by the Commissioners or Assessors for the City of London, any thing herein before contained to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.  
Provided always, and it is hereby Enacted, That it shall and may be Lawful to, and for any Person or Persons, Natives or Foreigners, Bodies politic or Corporate, to advance and lend unto Their Majesties upon the Security of this Act, any Sum or Sums of Money, and to have and receive for the forbearance thereof, any Sum not exceeding Seven Pounds by the Hundred for one whole year and no more, directly or indirectly, and that no Money so Lent upon the Security of this Act, shall be ranted or Assessed by Virtue of this Act.  
And to the end that all Moneys which shall be Lent to Their Majesties on the Credit of this Act may be well and sufficiently secured out of the Money arising and payable by this Act, Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That there shall be provided and kept in Their Majesties Exchequer( that is to say) in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipts one Book and Register in which all Moneys that shall be paid into the Exchequer, by virtue of this Act, shall be Entred and registered apart and distinct from all other Moneys paid or payable to Their Majesties upon any other Branch of Their Majesties Revenue, or upon any other Account whatsoever; And that all and every Person and Persons who shall Lend any Money to Their Majesties upon the Credit of this Act, and pay the same into the Receipt of the Exchequer, shall immediately have a Tally of Loan struck for the same, and an Order for his or their Repayment, bearing the same Date with his or their Tally; In which Order shall be contained a Warrant for Payment of Interest for Forbearance thereof, not exceeding Seven Pounds per Centum per Annum for his or their Consideration, to be paid every Threé Months until repayment of his or their Principal; And that all Orders for repayment of Money shall be registered in Course, according to the Date of the Tally respectively, without pference of one before another; And that all and every Person and Persons shall be paid in Course, according as their Order shall stand entred in the said Register Book; so as the Persons, Natives or Foreigners, his or their Executors, Administrators or Assigns, who shall have his or their Order or Orders first entred in the said Book or Register, shall be taken and accounted the First Person or Persons to be paid upon the Moneys to come in by virtue of this Act; And he 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 and in Course. And that the Moneys to come in by this Act shall be in the same Order liable to the Satisfaction of the said respective Parties, their Executors, Administrators and Assigns respectively and successively, without pference of one before another, and not otherwise, and not to be 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 Their 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 Their Majesties Officer or Officers, their Clerks or Deputies, upon pain of paying triple Damages to the Party aggrieved by the Party offending, with Costs of svit; Or if the Officer himself take or demand any such Fee or Reward, then to lose his Place also; And if any undue pference 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 aggrieved, and shall be forejudged from his Place or Office; And if such pference be unduly made by any his Deputy or Clerk, without direction or privity of his Master, then such Deputy or Clerk only shall be liable to such Action, Debt, Damages and Costs, 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 bells Record, or the Teller make Payment according to each persons due Place and Order, as afore directed, Then he 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, Damages, Forfeitures 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 Their Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster, wherein no Essoign, Protection, privilege, Wager of Law, Injunction, or Order of Restraint shall be in any wise Granted or Allowed.  
Provided always, and be it hereby declared, That if it happen that several Tallies of Loan, or Orders for payment, as aforesaid, bear date, or be brought the same Day to the Auditor of the Receipt to be registered, Then it shall be interpnted no undue pference which of those be entred first, so he enters them all the same day.  
Provided also, that it shall not be interpnted any undue pference to incur any penalty in point of payment, if the Auditor direct, and the Clerk of the bells 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 demand their Money, and bring their Order in their course, so as there be so much Money reserved as will satisfy 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.  
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That every Person or Persons to whom any Money shall be due by virtue of this Act, after Order entred in the ●… ook of Registry aforesaid for payment thereof, his or their Executors, Administrators or Assigns, by Endorsement of his or their Order, may Assign and Transfer his or their Right, Title, Interest and Benefit 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 Officers shall upon Request, without Fee or Charge accordingly make, shall Entitle such Assigneé, his and their Executors, Administrators and Assigns, to the benefit thereof, and payment thereon, and such Assigneé may in like manner Assign again, and so toties quoties, and afterwards it shall not be in the power of such person or persons, who have, or hath made such Assignments, to make voided, Release or Discharge the same, or any the Moneys thereby due, or any part thereof.  
Provided always, and be it further Enacted, That all and every the Principal Sums of Money, not exceeding in the whole the Sum of One hundred and eighteén thousand five hundred and six Pounds Five Shillings and Ten Pence, which in pursuance of an Act lately made, entitled, An Act for Granting to Their Majesties certain Rates and Duties of Excise upon Beer, Ale and other liquours, for securing certain recompenses and Advantages in the said Act mentioned, to such Persons as shall Voluntarily Advance the Sum of Ten hundred thousand Pounds towards the Carrying on the War against France, and of Their Majesties Letters of Privy Seal, bearing Date the Fourteénth Day of September, One thousand six Hundred ninety threé, made in pursuance of the said Act, have been Lent or shall be Lent to Their Majesties, at the Receipt of Exchequer, not having been repaid; And all and every the Principal Sums of Money, not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Two hundred ninety threé thousand six hundred ninety two Pounds Seventeén Shillings and Ten Pence; which in pursuance of the Act of Parliament lately made, entitled, An Act for the Review of the Quarterly Poll, and of Their Majesties Letters of Privy Seal, bearing Date the Tenth Day of August, One thousand six hundred ninety threé, made in pursuance of the said Act, have been Lent or shall be Lent to Their Majesties at the Receipt of Exchequer, not having been repaid; And all and every the Principal Sums of Money, not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Four hundred thousand Pounds, which after the Seventeénth Day of November, One thousand six hundred ninety threé, have been Lent or shall be Lent to Their Majesties at the said Receipt, pursuant to Their Majesties Letters of Privy Seal, bearing Date the Twenty seventh Day of November, One thousand six hundred ninety threé, for or towards Maintenance of Their Majesties Fleét for the Year One thousand six hundred ninety four; And all and every the Orders of Loan for the said several and respective Principal Sums, shall be in the first place transferred to, and placed upon the Register appointed to be kept by this Act, and shall be registered thereupon in such Course and Order as the Loans thereof respectively in point of time were made at the said Receipt; Which Transferrences shall and may be, and 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 transfer the said Loans; And that the Principal Moneys upon the said Orders so transferred, shall be payable and paid to the Lender or Lenders of the same, his, her or their Executors, Administrators or Assigns, out of the Moneys arising by virtue of this Act, in the same Course and Order according to which they are hereby appointed to be transferred, and with pference to the Loans which any Person or Persons shall make hereafter on Credit of this present Act; And that the Interest after the Rate of Seven Pounds per Centum per Annum due or to be due for the said Principal Sums, not exceeding One hundred and eighteén thousand five hundred and six Pounds Five Shillings and Ten Pence, and Four hundred thousand Pounds, and after the Rate of Eight Pounds per Cent per Annum due or to be due for the said Principal Sums, not exceeding Two hundred ninety threé thousand six hundred ninety Two Pounds Seventeen Shillings & Ten Pence to be transferred, as aforesaid, shall be paid and satisfied out of the Moneys arising by this Act, until the respective times of the satisfaction of the Principal; And that the Auditor of the said Receipt, upon the transferring of the said Loans, or the Orders for the same, as aforesaid, shall make Memorandums in the margin of the Books where the same stand entred, importing the transference thereof, and that they are to be paid out of the Moneys arising by virtue of this Act; And that any Person or Persons who are or shall be entitled to any Moneys to be paid by such Orders, to be transferred, as aforesaid, shall or may Assign over the same to any other Person or Persons; Which Assignments shall be good and effectual in Law, and so, toties quoties, any thing in the said former Acts or in this present Act to the contrary notwithstanding.  
And it is hereby further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That out of the Money that hath or shall be Levied or Paid by Virtue of this Act into the Receipt of the Exchequer, as well upon Loans as otherwise, the Sum of Ten hundred thousand Pounds, including therein the Sum of Four hundred thousand Pounds already Borrowed and to be Borrowed for the use of the Navy, as is herein before Declared, shall and is hereby Appropriated for the Services of the Navy and Ordnance, Performed and to be Performed; And that all other Money which shall be Levied and Paid by Virtue of this Act into the Receipt of the Exchequer, as well upon Loans as otherwise, other then the Principal Sums herein before Appointed to be transferred to this Act, and the Interest thereof; And also the Sum of Ten hundred thousand Pounds Appropriated for the Services of the Navy aforesaid, shall be Applied and Appropriated, and is hereby Appropriated, to and for the Payment of Their Majesties Land Forces and Armies, and the Paying for Arms, Ammunition, and other Charges incident to the War, and not otherwise.  
And for the more Effectual doing thereof, and that the Sums by this Act Appropriated, may not be Diverted or Applied to any other Purpose then is hereby Declared and Intended, Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Rules and Directions Appointed and Enacted, in One Act made in the First year of Their Majesties Reign, entitled, An Act for a Grant to Their Majesties of an Aid of Two Shillings in the Pound for One year, for the speedy Payment of Money thereby Granted into the Receipt of the Exchequer, by the Collectors and Receivers, and for Distribution and Application thereof, and keeping distinct accounts of the same; and all other Provisions, Pains, Penalties and Forfeitures thereby Enacted, in case of Diversion of any Money thereby Appropriated, are hereby Revived and Enacted to be in Force, and shall be Practised, Applied, Executed and put in ure, for and concerning the Distribution and Application of the said Sums hereby Appropriated, as fully, amply and effectually, as if the same were here particularly Repeated and Reenacted.  
And for the better securing the Trade of this Kingdom, Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That over and above the Ships of War for the Line of Battle, and for Convoys to Remote Parts, at the least Four Ships of the Third Rate, Sixteen Ships of the Fourth Rate, Thirteen Ships of the Fifth Rate, and Ten Ships of the Sixth Rate, shall be from time to time Directed and Appointed by the Lord High Admiral of England, or Commissioners for Executing the said Office for the time being, to such proper Stations as they shall deem meet, to Cruize for securing the Merchant Ships in their going out and returning home.  
Provided always, and be it Enacted, That nothing in this Act Contained shall Restrain or be Construed to Restrain the Lord High Admiral of England, or the Commissioners for Executing the Office of the Lord High Admiral of England for the time being, from directing any of the Ships Appointed by this Act to be Cruisers, to be Employed in the Line of Battle in Cases of great Necessity.  
Provided always, and be it Enacted, That out of the Moneys hereby appropriated to, and for the payment of Officers and Seamen that have served, and shall serve in Their Majesties Navy Royal, and to, and for the paying for Naval Stores, other then for Victuals, and Provisions, and to and for the expenses of Their Majesties Office of Ordnance, in respect of Naval Affairs, and for other necessary uses and Services performed, and to be performed for the said Navy, all such part thereof as shall be Issued and Paid by the Treasurer of the Navy, by Warrant of the Principal Officers and Commissioners of the Navy, or any Threé or more of them for Naval Stores and Provisions, shall be paid in Course to every Person or Persons, or the Assigns to whom any such Money is, or shall be due, according to the Dates of the Bills or Contracts registered for the same, and not otherwise; And that out of all such further part of the said Moneys as shall be Issued and Paid to the Lieutenant and Principal Officers of the Ordnance, or the Paymaster thereof, or his Deputy, for the expense of Their Majesties Ordnance, as to Naval Affairs, and by them, or the said Paymaster respectively, to any Person or Persons, for Ammunition, or any other use or Service relating to the Office of the Ordnance, shall be in like manner paid in Course to every Person and Persons, or their Assigns respectively, according to the respective Dates of the Bills and Contracts for the same, and not otherwise: And the controller of the Navy, and Storekeéper of the Ordnance, are hereby respectively required to keép One or more Book or Books in their respective Offices, wherein all Bills and Contracts, in reference to the Navy, and Office of the Ordnance( for such Bills and Contracts respectively as aforesaid) shall be duly registered, and all and every such Person or Persons concerned therein, may have recourse thereunto, without paying any Feé or Reward for so doing: And if any pference of one before another shall be made, either in point of Registry, or Payment, contrary to the true meaning of this Act, either by the said Treasurer of the Navy, or Paymaster of the Ordnance, or controller of the Navy, or Storekeeper of the Ordnance, or any of them, or their respective Deputies or Clerks, then the Parties offending shall be liable, by Action of Debt, or on the Case, to pay double the value of the Debt, Damages and Costs to the Party grieved; All which said Penalties, Damages and Costs to be incurred by the Persons aforesaid, or any of them respectively, shall and may be recovered by the said party grieved by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information, in any of Their Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster, wherein no Essoign, Protection, privilege, Wager of Law, Injunction, or Order of Restraint, shall be in any wise granted or allowed.  
Provided nevertheless, that it shall and may be lawful for the said Lieutenant, and Principal Officers of the Ordnance, and the Officers of the Navy-board, upon any Emergent or extraordinary occasions, to pay any of the said Money appropriated by this Act to any Person or Persons upon Account, by way of impressed, any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.  
Provided also, That it shall not be construed any pference to incur any Penalty in point of payment in course, as aforesaid, if the said Treasurer of the Navy, or Paymaster of the Ordnance, or their Deputies respectively do pay subsequent Bills of Persons which come and demand their Money, and bring their Warrant or Order in their Course for the same, so as there be so much Money reserved as will satisfy precedent Bills or Contracts registered, as aforesaid, which shall not be otherwise disposed of, but kept for them in the said respective Offices.  
And whereas the Receivers General, by this Act appointed by a time limited, as aforesaid, to return a true Copy, or Extract of the whole Sum Assessed and Charged within every Hundred, Riding, lethe, Wapentake, Parish, Ward, or Place, ranted or Assessed in pursuance of this Act, together with the Sums Assessed upon Personal Estates, Offices or Employments, and to transmit the same into Their Majesties Court of Exchequer; And the Kings Remembrancer is also required to Transcribe the Schedules and Duplicates of the said Sums to him returned, in a Parchment Book in Alphabetical Order, to be by him transmitted to the Office of the Writer of the Tallies, commonly called Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer, who is thereupon likewise required to enter the same in a Parchment Book in the like Alphabetical Order: Be it further Enacted, That if any Receiver General, by this Act appointed, shall neglect or refuse to return Duplicates of the Sums Assessed and Charged in the County, Riding, Hundred, lethe, Wapentake, Parish, Ward or Places whereof he is Receiver General, within the time hereby limited, and to return the same into Their Majesties Exchequer, to the Office of the Kings Remembrancer, then every such Receiver General shall forfeit the Sum of Fifty Pounds to any that will Sue for the same, and be thence forth incapable of any Office or Place of Trust in Their Majesties Service; And if the Kings Remembrancer for the time being, shall neglect or refuse, within the times hereby appointed, to transcribe the Schedules and Duplicates of the Sums to him so returned, in a Book of Parchment in Alphabetical Order, as hereby required, and transmit the same to the Office of the said Writer of the Tallys; And if the said Writer of the Tallys, commonly called Auditor of the Receipt, shall not enter the same in Alphabetical Order in another Parchment Book, as hereby directed, they and every of them respectively Offending, shall forfeit the Sum of One hundred Pounds to any that will Sue for the same, and be thenceforth incapable of any Office or Place of Trust in Their Majesties Service; Which said Forfeitures by any Receiver General, Kings Remembrancer or Auditor of the Receipt, shall be recovered by Action of Debt, Plaint or Information, in any of Their Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster; Wherein no Essoign, Protection, or Wager of Law shall be allowed, nor any more then One Imparlance.  
Provided also, and be it Enacted, That all and every Auditor, Reeve, Receiver, and their Deputies, who receive any Fee-Farm-Rents or other Chief Rents due to Their Majesties or the Queén Dowager, or to any other Person or Persons claiming by any Grant or Purchase, from or under the Crown, shall allow Four Shillings in the Pound, 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 Sum of Ten Pounds, and losing their respective Places and Offices, if they fail therein.  
Provided nevertheless, and it is hereby further Enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall extend to Charge or Tax any Rector or Vicar who has the Cure of Souls and actually resides upon his Rectory or vicarage( upon the Account of such his Rectory or vicarage only) unless his Rectory or vicarage does really and truly exceed the Value of Thirty Pounds by the Year, or unless he has more then One Rectory or vicarage.  
Provided always, and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That every Master and Fellow of every College and Hall( who are now resident in this Kingdom and) every Reader and Officer and Minister of either of the universities, shall Voluntarily appear before the said Commissioners, or any Three or more of them, before the time limited for Returning the Assessments to be made by virtue of this Act be Expired, and take the Oaths required and mentioned to be taken by an Act made in the First Year of Their Majesties Reign, entitled, An Act for the Abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance, and Appointing other Oaths; which Oaths the said Commissioners are hereby empowered and required to Administer, and make an Entry and Memorandum thereof in some Book to be kept for that purpose, and upon neglect or not appearing and taking the said Oaths, as aforesaid, Eight Shillings in the Pound of the Profeits which he or they might have received, had he or they taken the said Oaths, for or by reason of all and every Stipend, Wages, Salary or Profits whatsoever arising or growing due, in respect of the said several Places or employments in the said universities, Colleges or Halls, shall be actually paid to Their Majesties for the use of the War, and be Levied, Collected and Received in such manner, as the rest of the Money Given by this Act.  
Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall extend, or be construed to extend to confirm any of the said Persons who have, or shall neglect, or refuse to take the said Oaths in such manner as is herein before appointed in their respective Places and Employments.  
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 Colleges, Halls, Hospitals, 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 ranted, and Pay all such Rates, Taxes and Impositions, any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.  
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