Taxation (No. 2) Act 1625

XIV. Double Charges not to be allowed.

Remedy in respect of Double Charges.

Provided alwaies, that every such p[er]son that shall be rated or taxed according to the intent and true meaning of this Act for paying of and to these Subsidies for and after the yearelie value of his Lands Tenements, and other reall possessions or proffitts, at any of the said taxacions, shall not after be sett and rated for his goods and chattells, or other moveable substance at the same taxacion, and that he that shalbe sett charged or taxed for the same Subsidies for his goodes chattells and other moveables at any of the said taxacions according to the true meaning of this Act, shall not after be charged taxed or chargeable for his lands or other reall possessions and proffitts abovesaid at the same taxacions or any of them, nor that any p[er]son by any taxacion be double charged for the said Subsidies, nor set or taxed at severall places by reason of this Act, But if any p[er]son happen to be double set taxed or charged, either in one place, or at severall places, then he to be discharged of the one taxacion, and charged with the other, according to the meaning and intent of this Act, any thing contayned in this p[re]sent Act to the contrary notwithstanding.