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Taxation Act 1640
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III.Aliens and others, who at the time of the said Assessments are out the Realm,
IV.For the assessing the said Subsidies great Officers of State to appoint Commissioners.
For the County of Yorke and for the Westrid of the County of Yorke
V.Commissioners to execute Act according to the tenor thereof.
VI.Persons named in Precepts to appear before the Commissioners.
VIII.Commissioners to be rated at such Place where they shall be Commissioners;
IX.Proviso for Persons having Two Mansions, or being Household Servants or Waiting Servants to the King or others.
X.The Power of Commissioners to tax other Commissioners, and also Assessors.
XI.Rates estreated under the Seals and Sign Manual of the Commissioners; and Estreats delivered to sufficient Inhabitants, &c. of Hundreds, &c.
XVII.Assessors, Attornies, Factors, &c. after being charged with Receipt of Assessment, dying or removing or concealing their Goods, &c. or when Monies comprized in Estreat cannot be levied by Distress, or where Distress cannot be sold;
XX.Persons having Temporal and Spiritual Possessions, and also Personal Property, not to be doubly charged.
XIX.Proviso for Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Winchester College, Eton College, Poor Knights of Windsor, and Free Schools, and Readers, &c. in the Universities, and for Hospitals, &c.
XX.Inhabitants of Cinque Ports for the most Part of the Year before the Grant not chargeable during Resiance only.
XXII.Alien or Denizen assigning his Lands, &c. to his Child with Intent to defraud the Subsidy, such Child chargeable as an Alien.
XXIII.Recital that £50,000 had been advanced by the City of London, £50,000 by Sir John Harrison Knight, Member for the Town of Lancaster, and William Harrison Esq. Member for the Town of Queenborough in Kent.
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