Land Tax Act 1696

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.

And for the more effectual charging all the Duties hereby imposed on Persons Wages Anuities? Ready Money Debts Offices Imployments Professions and Stocks Be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if after the Rates and Assessments directed by this Act shall be made any Person shall come to inhabitt or reside in any Division or Place where such Person was not rated or taxed the Co[m]missioners acting within such Division or Place are hereby required & impowered to su[m]mon such Person before them and unlesse hee or she shall p[ro]duce a Certificate made according to the Directions of this Act whereby it shall appeare that hee or she was assessed and had actually paid all the precedent Monthly Payments in some other Place for his or her Person Wages Annuity Ready Money Debts Office Imployment or Profession Stock in Trade or Stock upon Land the said Co[m]missioners shall and are hereby required to cause such Person to be assessed or taxed for the same & cause the Money so assessed or taxed for the same or such Monthly Payments thereof as shall be unassessed and unpaid to be assessed levied and paid according to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act.