Taxation Act 1672

IV. Commissioners in their several Divisions to cause the Proportions charged to be equally assessed, and to appoint Assessors,

Duty of such Assessors.

And bee it further enacted and declared by the authority aforesaid That the Commissioners within the severall Divisions or Hundreds or any two or more of them are hereby authorized and required to cause the said severall proportions charged on the respective Divisions and on every parish and place therein for the said eighteene moneths Assessment to be equally assessed and taxed and to appoint two or more Assessors in each parish or place for the perfecting thereof who are hereby required with all care and diligence to assesse the same equally by a pound rate upon all Lands Tenements Hereditaments Annuityes Rents Parks Warrens Goods Chattells Stocke Merchandize Offices (other then Judiciall and Military Offices and Offices relateing to the Navy under the Command of the Lord High Admirall and Offices within His Majestyes Household) Tolls Proffitts and all other Estates both reall and personall within the Limitts, Circuits and Bounds of their respective parishes and places.