Officers not taxed in the Monthly Assessment to pay 3s. in the Pound.
And bee it further enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That all and every person and persons Coo[m]missioner or, Coo[m]missioners haveing useing or exerciseing any Office Place or Publique Imployment whatsoever (such persons who are or shall be in Muster and Pay at Land or Sea onely excepted) and all and every their Deputies Agents Clerkes Secondaries Substitutes and other their inferiour Ministers and Servants whatsoever who are already taxed in [X1or] to the said Monethly Assessment for & in respect of their Offices Agencies and Imployments shall likewise pay unto His Majestie over and above the severall summes with which they are or shall be charged in or to the said Monethly Assessment the summe of Twelve pence for every Twenty shillings which he or they doe receive in one yeare by vertue of any Fees, Proffitts Perquisites or other Advantages to him or them accrueing, or by reason or occasion of their severall Offices Agencies and Imployments, And such who are not already taxed in and by the said Monethly Assesment for and in respect of their Coo[m]missions Offices Agencies and Imployments shall yeild and pay unto His Majestie the full summe of Three shillings for every Twenty shillings which he or they doe receive in one yeare by vertue of any Fees Proffitts Perquisites or other advantages to him or them accrueing or by reason or occasion of their severall and respective Coo[m]missions, Offices, Agencies and Imployments The said severall summes of Twelve pence in every Twenty shillings, and Three shillings in every Twenty shillings to be assessed imposed leavyed and collected in such manner as is herein after mentioned, allowing to every such Officer and Coo[m]mis?er one Third part of the Anuall Salary or Summe of moriey he shall soe receive, for and towards his [X1or] their charge of executeing any such Coo[m]mission Office or Place before mentioned.
Editorial Information
X1Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: and O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]