Land Tax Act 1698

LXXXV. Liberty given for administering Oaths relating to Talleys and Orders, till 29th Sept. 1699.

8&9 W.III.c.20; 9 W.III. c.3.

And be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Person and Persons Bodies Politick or Corporate who since the Tenth Day of June One thousand six hundred ninety seaven or before the Nine and twentieth Day of September One thousand six hundred ninety nine have bought or purchased or shall have bought or purchased any Orders or Parts of Orders or Tallies and through Ignorance Inadvertency or by any other Neglect or Omission have not or shall not have taken such Assignments and registred the same and made such Oath thereupon concerning the Prœmium or Allowance as are required by Two Acts the one made in the Eighth Yeare of His Majesties Reigne intituled (An Act for making good the Deficiencies of severall Funds therein mentioned and for enlargeing the Capitall Stock of the Bank of England and for raising the Publick Credit) And the other made in the Ninth Yeare of His Majesties Reigne intituled (An Act to give further time for the administring of Oaths relating to Tallies and Orders and for the easier Dispatch of the Publick Businesse in the Exchequer and in the Bank of England) within the respective time or times thereby limitted and the Executors Administrators Successors and Assignes of all and every such Person and Persons Bodies Politick and Corporate shall have Liberty for the doing thereof at any time or times upon or before the said Nyne and twentieth Day of September One thousand six hundred ninety nine and the respective Officers Commissioners or other Persons who were impowered by the said first recited Act to administer the said Oaths within the respective times thereby limitted are hereby authorized to administer the like Oaths within the time by this Act appointed