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Bedford Level Act 1663
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LI.After the Year 1668, Taxes shall not exceed 2s. per Acre in any one Year on the 10,000 Acres vested in the King, or the 2,000 Acres vested in the Assignees of the Earl of Portland. Proviso for Abatement.
Provided alwayes and it is hereby enacted and declared by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the first Day of August which shall be in the Yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred sixty and eight no Tax or Taxes exceeding two Shilling the Acre in any one Yeare shall bee assessed laid or leavied upon the said tenn thousand Acres by this Act vested in the Kings Majesty his Heires Successors and Assignes or upon any Part thereof or upon the two thousand Acres hereby vested in the Assignes of the said Earle of Portland but in case the Taxes to be assessed upon the said eighty three thousand Acres are hereby vested in the said Corporation shall not amount unto soe much in Proportion as two Shillings an Acre according to the Proportion for each Acre, then a proportionable Abatement shall be made out of the said two Shillings Acre which shall be charged yearly by an equall Rate upon every Acre of the said tenn thousand Acres and the said two thousand Acres according to the Rate imposed upon every Acre of the said eighty three thousand Acres whether the same shall be assessed by an Acre Tax or a Pound Rate or by any other Way Any Thing herein conteined to the contrary notwithstanding
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