Land Tax Act 1696

LXXXII.

Rates may be paid before 1st June 1697 in hammered Silver Monies.

And whereas several Persons who shall be assessed by this Act for or in respect of their Manors Lands Tenements Rents Offices Persons Stocks Debts or other Matters or Things hereby intended to be charged may be willing and desirous to pay or satisfie att once in ha[m]mered Silver Moneys att the Rate of Five Shillings and Eight Pence an Ounce all or several of the Monthly Payments by this Act intended to be satisfied by them Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall & may be lawfull to and for any p[er]son or Persons att any time before the First Day of June One thousand six hundred ninety and seven to satisfie and pay to the respective Collector or Collectors in such ha[m]mered Silver Moneys att such Rate as aforesaid all or any of the said Monthly Payments assessed upon him her or them for the said whole Yeare or for any Months thereof before hand Which said Collectors are hereby enjoyned and required upon every such Payment so made before hand to give the Partie or Parties paying the same an Acquittance expressing the Sum[m] received for such Monthly Payments for the respective Ma[n]nors Lands Tenements Rents Offices Persons Stocks Debts or other Matters or Things for which such Payment shall be so made and every such Acquittance shall be a good Discharge against His Majesty His Heires and Successors as if the Su[m]ms chargeable by this Act on such Manors Lands Tenements Rents Offices Persons Stocks Debts or other Matters or Things were assessed or answered att such several & respective Monthly Payments as are above mentioned Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.