Taxation (No. 5) Act 1660

c. 9. ante.; c. 10.

ante.; c. 20.; ante.; Reasons for the present Grant.; Grant of £420,000.; to be paid in Six Months at £70,000 per Month.; By the Rules and Commissioners of c. 20.; ante.; Commissioners to meet 12th Jan. 1660, to execute Act.

WHEREAS It was well hoped that the Moneyes enacted to be raised by severall Acts of this Parliament that is to say one Act entituled An Act for the speedy provision of money for disbanding and paying off the Forces of this Kingdome both by Land and sea, and one other Act entituled An Act for supplying and explaining certaine defects in an Act entituled An Act for the speedy provision of money for the disbanding and paying off the Forces of this Kingdome both by Land and Sea, and one other Act entituled An Act for raising seavenscore thousand pounds for the compleate disbanding of the whole Army and paying off some part of the Navy would have effectually sufficed to have compleately disbanded the Armies and paid off the Navy, but by the slow comeing in of the same moneyes the growing charge being still kepte on the same cannot be effected without further supply, and if [X1 noe] further supply should be made the growing Charge would become insupportable, The Commons assembled in Parliament doe therefore give and grant unto your most excellent Majestie for the uses herein after expressed and noe other the summe of fower hundred and twenty thousand pounds to be raised and leavyed in manner following, and doe humbly pray your most Excellent Majestie that it may be enacted, And be it enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majestie by and with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled that the summe of threescore and ten thousand pounds by the moneth for six moneths begining from the first day of January One thousand six hundred and sixty shall be assessed taxed collected leayed and paid in the severall Countyes Cittyes and Burroughs Townes and Places within England and Wales and the Towne of Berwicke upon Tweede according to such rates rules and proportions and by the same Commissioners as in and by a certaine Act past this Parliament entituled Act for raiseing of seavenscore thousand pounds for the compleate disbanding of the whole Army and paying off some part of the Navy, which said Commissioners shall meete on or before the twelfth day of January One thousand six hundred and sixty, and are hereby enabled to use and execute all and every the like rates rules proportions powers and authorities as in and by the said Act are mentioned and referred unto, or expressed as fully and amply as if the same had beene perticularly inserted in this present Act,

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