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Fire-Hearth and Stoves Taxation Act 1662
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V.Justices of Peace to cause Accounts of Hearths and Stoves to be enrolled by Clerk of the Peace, and Duplicates signed, to be returned into the Exchequer within One Month
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And be it further enacted That the said Justices of Peace shall cause all the said Accounts of the severall Hearthes and Stoves within the respective Counties to bee inrolled by the Clerke of the Peace of the said respective Counties Ridings in Yorkshire and Divisions in Lincolnshire and alsoe a Duplicate thereof in Parchment under the Hands and Seales of three or more of the Justices of Peace of the respective Counties and Places aforesaid who are hereby required to sign the same to bee returned into His Majesties Court of Exchequer within one moneth next after such account delivered unto them att theire respective Quarter Sessions aforesaid upon pain that the Clerke of the Peace of every such County Riding or Division respectively offending therein shall forfeit to His Majesty His Heires and Successors the su[m]m of Two hundred pounds for the first moneth and for the second moneth he shall so neglect every such Clerke of the Peace shall forfeit and lose his or theire place & office and the same shall become void accordingly which forfeiture and penalty shall be recovered and levied as this act directs
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