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Land Tax Act 1696
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XXVII.Housekeepers to give an Account of Lodgers and of Wages to Servants to Assessors.
Penalty; Officers of Exchequer to deliver List of Pensions, &c. to Assessors.
And for the better Discovery of Persons or Things intended to be charged by this Act Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Householder shall upon the Demand of the Assessors of the respective Parishes or Places give an Account of the Names and Qualities of such Persons as shall sojourne or lodge in their respective Houses and of their respective Servants and of the full Wages allowed to such Servants under the Penalty of forfeiting to His Majesty the Su[m]m of Five Pounds to be levied and recovered in such manner as any other Penalties in this Act menc[i]oned shall or may be levied & recovered And that the Officers in the Receipt of Exchequer and other [X1Publick Officers] upon request to them made by the respective Assessors shall deliver unto them true Lists or Accounts of all Pensions Ann[u]ities Stipends or other Anual Payments and of all Fees Salaries or other Allowances payable att the said Receipt or in the said Publick Offices for the better Guidance of the said Assessors in the charging of the same.
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