Bedford Level Act 1667

1. Introductory Text

2. Recital of 15 Car. II. c. 17.

3. II. Whenever there is a Tax of £ 6,110. 7s. 1½d. upon the said 95,000 Acres, then the said 12,000 Acres to be rated at Fifteen-pence per Acre;

4. III. Days on which Tax on the 95,000 Acres to be set.

5. IV. 15 C. II. c. 17. § 8. Days for Sales for Non-payment of Taxes appointed.

6. V. Names of the Surveyors who are to digest the 83,000 Acres into Seven Sorts;

7. VI. Tax of £6,110. 7s. 1½d. laid on the 83,000 Acres according to gradual Acre Tax.

8. VII. Recital that Samuel Sandys the elder had a Right to a Conveyance of certain Shares of Sir Miles Sandys the elder and others under an Indenture of 12th June, 1 Car. II.

9. VIII. Sales for Non-payment of Taxes of those Lands void;

10. IX. Sergeant at Mace, by virtue of Precept under Corporation Seal,...

11. X. Recital that, by the Refusal of the Corporation to convey the said Lands, Rents had accrued due.

12. XI. Who are to pay thereout Arrears of the said gradual Acre Tax.

13. XII. Proviso for Thomas Lord Culpeper.

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