Poll Tax (Amendment) Act 1660

c. 9. ante.

Householders, within Two Days after Demand, to deliver to Assessor, &c. List of all Persons above 16 residing in their Families.; Penalty £5, and for every Person omitted 10s.

For the supplying and explaining of certaine defects in an Act of this present Parliament (entituled An Act for speedy provision of money for disbanding and paying off the forces of this kingdome both by Land and Sea) It is hereby enacted by the Kings Most Excellent Majesty and by and with the consent and advice of the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same That every Householder being Master or Mistris of a family shall within two dayes after demand made by any Assesser or other Officer therunto appointed deliver unto such Assessor or Officer of every parish towne or place wherin such Householder being Master or Mistresse shall dwell a true and perfect list of all persons above the age of sixteen yeares as shall be inhabiting or residing in their respective families together with the names sur-names degrees and qualities of such persons and if any such Master or Mistris shall make default of such delivery being therof convicted before any two of the Commissioners in the said Act named, he or she shall forfeit the summe of five pounds to the uses in this Act expressed and for every person ommitted out of such list as aforesaid the summe of ten shillings, the one moyety of such forfeiture to be imployed to the Informer, the other moyety to the uses in the said Act expressed, which forfeitures shall be leavyed by distresse and sale of the offenders goods rendering the overplus to the Owner.