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A84542
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An abstract of the Act for granting an aid to his Majesty, as well by a land-tax as by several subsidies and other duties payable for one year. An. 8 W. 3
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England and Wales.
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1696
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An ABSTRACT of the Act for Granting an Aid to His Majesty as well by a Land-Tax as by several Subsidies and other Duties Payable for One Year An. 8 W. 3. pag 36 ENacted That all Persons of what Estate Degree Age Sex or Condition soever within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed not receiving Alms shall pay unto His Majesty His Heirs and Successors within the space of One Year from 25 Jan. 1696. the Sum of 4. s. 4. d. by Monthly payments of 4 d. per Month reckoning 28 Days to each Month the first payment to be 22 Feb. 1696. pag 37 Over and above which Duty of 4 d. per Month all Servants and Journeymen except Day-Labourers having 4 l. per ann Wages or upwards and not exceeding 8 l. per ann to pay for the same 13 d. per l. for One Year by like Monthly payments of 1 d. per l. And for more than 8 l. per. annum Wages and not exceeding 16 l. per ann the Sum of 2 s. 2 d. per l. by like Monthly Payments of 2 d. per l. pag 38 And for more than 16 l. per ann Wages the Sum of 4 s. 4 d. per l. by like Monthly payments of 4 d per l. pag 39 All Persons having or claiming any Pension Annuity Stipend or other yearly Payment out of the Exchequer or any Branch of His Majesties Revenue except Rents issuing out of Lands Tenements or Hereditaments or charged upon the same and such Annuities as are or shall be exempted by Act of Parliament to pay for the same 4 s. 4 d. per l. for One Year by like Monthly Payments of 4 d. per l. pag 40 All Persons that have or are to have receive or enjoy any Salary Fee or Wages or any Perquisites Allowances Poundage Gratuities Rewards Emoluments Income or Profits whatsoever arising by any Commissions Offices or Imployments Ecclesiastical Civil or Military under His Majesty His Heirs or Successors or under the Queen Dowager the Prince or Princess of Denmark or under Lords of Manors or any other Persons and all their Clerks Deputies Assistants and Substitutes except Military Officers in Muster in the Army Navy or Ordnance to pay for the same 4 s. 4 d. per l. for One Year by like Monthly payments of 4 d. per pound pag 41 All Sergeants at Law Barristers Attorneys Sollicitors Publick Notaries Scriveners Chancellors Commissaries Officials Registers Advocates Proctors Apparitors or practising as such Broakers to pag 42 Merchants Factors and other Persons acting by Commission from Merchants All Practicers in Physick and Chirurgery Apothecaries and all other Professions not charged by the last foregoing Clause to pay 4 s. 4 d. for one Year for every 20 s. arising by their Practices or Professions by like Monthly Payments of 4 d. per l. pag 43 All Persons having any Estate in Ready Money or in Debts at Interest within or without the Realm or owing upon Mortgages Judgments Statutes Recognizances Bonds Bills Notes or other Securities except Loans and Debts from His Majesty and Arrears of Rent to pay 25 s. for One Year for every such 100 l. by Twelve Monthly Payments of 2 s. 1 d. for every 100 l. and so proportionably for a greater or lesser Sum a Farthing per l. each Month the first Payment to be 25 Febr. 1696. And thenceforth the 25th day of each Kalendary Month deducting only such Debts as are really and bona fide owing from such Person or Persons at Interest pag 44 All Persons using or exercising any Trade Mystery Occupation or business of Merchandising Shopkeeping or other Buying or Selling by Wholesale or Retail to pay 50 s. for One Year for every 100 l. value in Goods Wares Merchandizes Commodities Manufactures or Vendible Stock and Proportionably for a greater or lesser Value by Twelve like Kalendary Monthly Payments of a Halfpeny for every Pound value or 4 s. 2 d. for every 100 l. value pag 45 All Persons having in their Tenure Possession or Occupation any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments whereupon there shall be any Horses Mares Geldings Colts Bulls Oxen Cows Calves Sheep Lambs Swine or other Cattel great or small or other Quick Stock whether the same belong to such Persons respectively or to others to pay for One Year after the Rate of 12 s. for every 100 l. of the true value thereof by Twelve like Kalendary Monthly Payments of 12 d. for every 100 l. and so proportionably for a greater or lesser value pag 46 A Proviso That the Wives and Children under the Age of Sixteen Years of such Persons who are chargeable only with the first mentioned Duty of 4 d. per Month shall be Exempted from the said 4 d. per Month. pag 47 All Manors Messuages Lands Tenements Quarries Mines Iron-Works Salt-Works and Allom-Works Parks Chaces Warrens Woods Under-Woods Coppices Fishings Tythes and Tolls Annuities Rents-charge and yearly Profits whatsoever pag 48 shall be charged for one year with the Sum of 3 s. for every 20 s. of the true and full yearly value without respect to the present Rents reserved or to any other Rates of Taxes thereupon or making any Abatement pag 49 for Reparations or any other charges and shall be paid by twelve equal Monthly Payments the first payment to be made on the said 25 Feb. 1696 and so on the 25 day of every subsequent Kalendary Month. The Owners of any of the said Lands Tenements and Hereditaments which are liable to any Rent-charges Annuities Fee-farm Rents Rents-Service pag 50 or other Rents to deduct 3 s. in the Pound thereout and to be allowed it by the Persons Intituled to the said Rents pag 51 His Majesty to appoint Commissioners under the Great Seal of England for the more effectual Execution of this Act who shall Meet together at the usual places upon or before 20 Feb. 1696. and may then pag 52 Subdivide themselves so as there be Three or more to each Hundred or other Division And shall then give an Account in Writing to the Receiver General of the Commissioners appointed for each Division And the said Commissioners shall issue their Precepts to such as they think fit to be Presenters or Assessors to appear before them within Five Days And then to pag 53 read the Rates and charge them with the Execution of the Act And the Persons to whom any Precepts are directed absenting without Excuse or refusing to Serve to forfeit a Sum not exceeding 5 l. nor less than 40 s. The Commissioners to Appoint Two at the least pag 54 of the most sufficient Inhabitants of each Parish c. to be Assessors who by a Day Prefixed shall bring in Certificates of the Names of the Persons within their Division containing in several Collums 1. The Tax payable by Persons chargeable with the 4 d. per Month. 2. The Value of the Wages to be Rated 3. The Pensions Stipends or other yearly Payments 4. The Nature and Value of Offices Imployments and