Land Tax Act 1698

LXXVIII. Recital that under 9 W. III. c. 10., General Meetings of Commissioners had been held for settling Proportions of Payment towards Aid.

Certain of such Proportions rectified.

How Deficiencies in the entire Sum upon the whole County or Riding, made good.

And whereas upon the Act of Parliament made and passed in the Ninth Yeare of His Majesties Reigne intituled An Act for granting unto His Majesty the Sum of One Million four hundred eighty four thousand and fifteene Pounds One Shilling Eleaven Pence Three Farthings for disbanding Forces paying Seamen and other uses therein mentioned there have been severall General Meetings of Commissioners by that Act appointed for putting the same in Execution and at such Generall Meetings different Proportions towards the Aid thereby granted have been charged upon the same Hundreds or Divisions in some of the Counties of this Realme and of the Dominion aforesaid and in some of the Ridings of the County of Yorke whereby Controversies and Doubts have arisen concerning the just Proportion which every such Hundred or Division should answer toward raising the said Aid and by such meanes the full Sum which should be raised and paid to His Majesties use in severall Parts of this Kingdom and the Dominion aforesaid is in some measure delayed and like to prove deficient unless a timely remedy be applyed thereto Be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid That where such different Proportions have been charged upon any such Hundred or Division by such severall Generall Meetings as aforesaid and in such Cases only the same shall be rectified by charging upon every such Hundred or Division Three fourth parts of the Sum which was charged thereupon to the said Aid granted in the Fourth Yeare of His Majesties Reigne And the Commissioners for every such County and Ridings and for the respective Hundreds and Divisions therein shall take care that the said Proportions be regulated and charged levied and raised accordingly And if any deficiency shall remaine nevertheless in raising the entire Sum charged by the said Act upon the whole County or Riding where such Hundred or Division doth lye such Deficiency shall be made good in such Hundreds or Divisions of the same County or Riding as are not fully charged with the like Proportion of Three Fourth Parts of the said former Aid soe as the full Sum charged by the said Act upon the whole County or Counties Riding or Ridings before mentioned shall be fully answered and paid to His Majesties use according to the true meaning of the said Act although the Rate thereby upon any Lands Tenements or other Things do or may exceed Three Shillings in the Pound Any thing in the Act above mentioned to the contrary thereof notwithstanding