Taxation Act 1677

XVIII. Privileged Places, Fee Farm Rents, &c. liable.

Proviso for Tenants thereof paying.

And bee it hereby enacted and declared That noe priviledged place or person Body Pollitique or Corporate within the Countyes Cittyes and Townes aforesaid shall be exempted from the said Assesments and Taxes and that they and every of them and alsoe all Fee farme Rents and all other manner of Rents Payments Summes of money Annuities issueing out of any Lands within Citty or County shall be lyable towards the payment of every summe by this Act to be taxed and leavyed and all the Tenants of every Fee farme Rent, other Rent Summes of money or Annuities aforesaid are hereby directed and authorized to pay them proportionably according to the Rates and Assesments by this Act appointed and directed, and all such Tenants shall be hereby saved and kept harmlesse by authority of this Act from any further payment of such portion of any such Rent, Rents Summes or Annuities either to the Exchequer or to any other person or persons to whome any such Rent, Rents Summes of moneyes or Annuities as aforesaid should or ought to be paid to all intents and purposes whatsoever as fully and amply as if they had paid the same into the Exchequer or to any person or persons to whom the same is reserved or become due.