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Poll Tax Act 1697
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XXX.Commissioners may summon Persons coming to reside in District in London, &c. where not rated.
And it is hereby further enacted That if any Person shall come to inhabit or reside in any Division or Place within London or Westminster or Five Miles thereof where such Person was not rated or taxed the Commissioners acting within such Division or Place are hereby required and impowred to summon such Person before them and unless he or she shal produce a Certificate X1 according to the direction of this Act whereby it shall appear that he or she were assessed and had actually paid all the preceeding Quarterly Payments in some other Place the said Commissioners shall and are hereby required to cause such Persons to be assessed according to this Act and cause the same or such Quarterly Payments thereof as shall be unassessed and unpaid to be assessed levyed and paid according to the true intent and meaning of this Act.
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X1Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: made O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]
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