Bedford Level Act 1667

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;

and so in proportion.

And whereas the said twelve thousand Acres Residue of the said nynety five thousand Acres are by the said graduall Acre tax towards the raiseing of the So[m]me of Six thousand one hundred and tenn pounds seaven shillings one penny halfe penny are rated and taxed at one shilling three pence p[er] Acre being a Medium as if the whole nynety five thousand Acres had been rated taxed and assessed at fifteene pence p[er] Acre Bee it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That when and soe often as a Taxe of the said Su[m]me of six thousand one hundred and tenn pounds seaven shillings one penny halfe penny shall be taxed and assessed upon the said nynety five thousand Acres, that then the said twelve thousand Acres shall be rated taxed and. assessed by the said Governor Bayliffes and Conservators and their Successors or any five or more of them where of the said Governor and Bayliffes or any of them to be two at fifteene pence the Acre and according to the Proporc[i]oon for the raiseing of any greater or a lesser Su[m]me then six thousand one hundred and tenn pounds seaven shilling one penny halfe penny to be received paid and leavyed together with Penalties in such and the like Manner as the Taxes sett and imposed or to be sett and. imposed upon the said eighty three thousand Acres are by this Act provided for to be received paid and leavyed.