4s. 4d. for One Year, to be paid by all Persons (not receiving Alms) from 25th of Jan. 1696, by Monthly Payments, reckoning 28 Days to each Month.
II.13d. in the Pound, at 4d. per Month, to be paid by all Servants (except Day Labourers) for Wages of £4 per Ann. and not exceeding £8 per Ann. over and above the said Duty of 4d.
III.Pensions out of the Public Revenue (Exception) to pay 4s. 4d. in the Pound.
IV.Great Officers of State, Judges, Masters in Chancery, &c. as herein mentioned,
V.Serjeants, Barristers, Attornies, Proctors, &c. not being charged with the said last mentioned Duty of 4d. per Month, to pay, over and above the first mentioned Duty of 4d. per Month, 4s. 4d. in the Pound.
IX.Proviso for the Wives and for the Children under 16, of certain Persons.
X.Manors, Lands, Quarries, Mines, Parks, Fishings, &c. Annuities, Rent Charges, &c. as well within ancient Demesne as without, to pay 3s. in the Pound of the full yearly Value, without respect to the present Rent or to other Rates or Abatements.
XI.Recital that many Manors, &c. are liable to Incumbrances.
XII.The King under the Great Seal may appoint Commissioners for executing this Act in Counties, &c.
XIII.Commissioners at such Meeting to set down in Writing what Number shall act in each Division. Proviso.
XIV.Commissioners to order Constables, &c. to attend, and then read to them their Charge.
XV.Assessments to be made and Certificates returned to Commissioners upon or before 5th March 1696, unless further Time given.
XVII.Power to the Commissioners to put other Collectors in the room of Collectors dying or being unable to serve, &c.
XVIII.Head Collectors to hasten Sub-Collectors, and in Case of Failure, to levy by Warrant of Two Commissioners, and to pay to Receiver General.
XXIII.In Default of Payment by Servant, &c. Master or Mistress liable;
XXV.Where Persons liable for Wages, ready Money, or Debts, are to be taxed.
XXVI.Persons having several Mansion Houses, &c. upon Certificate of the Commissioners and Oath, not to be doubly charged.
XXVII.Housekeepers to give an Account of Lodgers and of Wages to Servants to Assessors.
XXVIII.Creditors to deliver to Assessors a Note of gross Amount of Debt.
XXIX.Creditors to deliver to Commissioners a Specification of Debts due to them as herein mentioned.
XXX.Commissioners to sign and deliver back to Creditor a Duplicate of such Specification under Hand and Seal.
XXXI.Assessors may enter Lands, &c. to view and value Stock chargeable;
XXXII.Wholesale and Retail Dealers to deliver to Assessors a Particular of Stock in Trade, &c.
XXXIII.Stewards, &c. not declaring Rent, or declaring untruly.
XXXIV.Assessor, Collector; &c. neglecting, &c. to perform their Duty, or willfully underrating, &c.
XXXV.Collectors refusing to pay, or detaining Money received;
XXXVI.At the Expiration of the Time for monthly Payments, Commissioners to summon Collectors and assure themselves of the Payment;
XXXVII.If any Question as to assessing a Commissioner, such Commissioner to withdraw.
XXXVIII.Proviso for Universities, Colleges of Windsor, Eton, Winchester, and Westminster, and for Hospitals in respect of Scite of College, &c.
XXXIX.Tenants of Hospitals rated for what the Lands are worth above Rents reserved.
XL.Constablewicks, &c. to pay, and be assessed in such Counties as heretofore.
XLI.Proviso for the Hundred of West Barnfield, Kent; Tything of Northmore in Oxon, &c.
XLIII.In Actions for executing Act, General Issue may be pleaded.
XLVII.Receiver General certifying into Exchequer Arrears that have been paid,...
XLIX.Shares in New River, Thames, Hyde Park, Marylebone, and Hampsted Waters.
LI.Letters Patent, &c. not construed to exempt from Subsidy, &c.
LIII.Proviso respecting Assessments on Houses where Foreign Ministers reside.
LIV.Proviso respecting Nomination of Assessors and Collectors in Extra-parochial and Privileged Places.
LV.Commissioners not liable to Penalties of 25 Car. 11. c.2.
LVI.Commissioners to take the Oaths of I W. & M. Sess. 1. c.8. and the following Oath.
LVII.Papist of 16 and upwards, not having taken the Oaths, to pay double.
LVIII.Proviso where, within 10 Days after First Meeting of Commissioners, he shall take the Oaths.
LIX.Persons of 16 and upwards, who shall not have taken the Oaths before the Execution of Act, and who, being summoned, shall refuse to take them, or neglect to appear before Commissioners, to pay double.
LX.Gentlemen, &c. who by 3 W.&M.c.6. paid double, or have been returned into Exchequer for Nonpayment, not appearing before the Commissioners to take the Oaths,
LXI.Commissioners to summon Persons suspected, to appear and take the Oaths.
LXII.Proviso for Quakers subscribing the Declaration of Fidelity, 1 W.& M. Sess. 1. c. 18.
LXIII.Where Owners of Lands are liable to be doubly charged, as Papists, &c. such Owners only charged and Tenants discharged.
LXIV.No Person liable to Pound Rate whose Lands are under 20s.
LXV.Chancery Officers within the Liberty of the Rolls to be there assessed.
LXVI.Collectors keeping Money in Hand, or unduly paying the same;
LXVII.Any Person coming to reside where he is not rated, Commissioners to require Certificate of Assessment and Payment in the Place left, or else to assess.
LXVIII.King's Bench Prison and Maŕshalsea Prison assessed in St. George, Borough of Southwark.
LXXII.Receiver General refusing, &c. to return Duplicates into the Exchequer;...
LXXIII.Receivers of Fee Farm Rents, &c. for the Crown, &c. to allow 3s. in the Pound to the Party paying.
LXXIV.Proviso for Rectors, &c. residing or personally serving Cure.
LXXV.Tenants of Lands, &c. belonging to Colleges, &c. not discharged.
LXXVI.Allowance to the Commissioners' Clerks not paid till Certificate from Remembrancer's Office.
LXXVII.Recital that Members of Parliament have been taxed for their Personal Estates in London and in their several Counties.
LXXVIII.Proviso as to assessing Members for their Debts, Stock in Trade, &c. whose Mansion Houses are not in London, or within 20 Miles thereof; and as to the assessing Servants of Members.
LXXIX.Proviso for Persons delivering in Specification, making Oath that Debts are desperate.
LXXX.Persons delivering in Specification, to give Commissioners an Account on...
LXXXI.Proviso for Persons in possession of mortgaged Lands, &c.
LXXXII.Rates may be paid before 1st June 1697 in hammered...
LXXXIII.Assessors not making double Assessment upon Papists, &c. Commissioners to assess.
LXXXV.Receivers General to keep apart the said Duty of 38. in the Pound upon Manors, &c.
LXXXVI.Treasury not to direct any Warrant to Receivers General for Payment, but into the Exchequer, nor to Officers of the Exchequer, for diverting the Payment of the said Monies.
LXXXVII.No stay of Prosecution by non vult ulterius prosequi.
LXXXVIII.Monies lent to the Crown and remaining unsatisfied, upon 7W.III. c.2. to be first placed upon the Register;
LXXXIX.Persons may lend Money to His Majesty on this Act at £8 per Cent. per Ann. not exceeding £1,500,000.
XCII.Paying subsequent Orders if first demanded, no undue Preference if sufficient reserved to satisfy preceding Orders.
XCIII.Orders for Payment of Money lent may be assigned by Indorsement.
XCIV.Treasury may make forth Bills of Credit for £1,500,000. And...
XCVI.Receivers, &c. out of milled Money or Gold in Hand to pay the said Bills.
XCVII.Tallies to be delivered at the Exchequer for Monies paid in by Receivers.
XCVIII.Monies paid into the Exchequer in Specie (Exception) for 1697 to be applied to take up Bills.
C.£200,000 appropriated as herein mentioned out of the First Bills or First Monies (Exception.)
CI.Forging Bills of Credit, or tendering such in Payment knowingly.
CII.Proviso for Prince George and the Princess Anne of Denmark.
CIII.Proviso for Persons not charged above the 4d. per Months in respect of Wages, &c.