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Poll Tax Act 1688
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II.Public Officers to pay over and above Monthly Assessment of 1 W. & M. c. 3. ante, 12d. in the Pound of the Profits of their Office.
said Payments how raised.; Officers not rated to Monthly Assessment to pay 3s. in the Pound of the Profits of their Office.
And bee it further enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That all and every Person and Persons Commissioner or Commissioners haveing useing or exerciseing any Office Place or Publique Imployment whatsoever (such Persons who are or shall be in Muster and Pay at Land or Sea for or in respect of such their Pay onely excepted) and all and every their Deputies Agents Clerks Secondaries Substitutes and other their inferior Ministers and Servants whatsoever shall pay unto their Majestyes over and above the severall Summs with which he or they are or shall be charged in or to the Monthly Assesment by [X1any] Act of this present Parliament Entituled An Act for the Granting a present Aid to Their Majestyes the Summe of Twelve pence for every Twenty shillings which he or they doe receive in one Yeare by vertue of any Fees Proffits Perquisites or other Advantage [X2to him or them accrueing] or by reason or occasion of their severall Offices Agencies and Imployments and such who are not already Taxed in and by the said Monthly Assesments for and in respect of their Commissions Offices Agencies and Employments shall yield and pay unto Their Majesties the full Summe of Three shillings for every Twenty shillings which he or they doe recieve in one Yeare by vertue of any Fees Proffits Perquisits or other Advantages to him or them accruing or by reason or occasion of their severall and respective Commissions Offices and Employments the said severall Summs of One shilling and Three shillings to be Assessed Imposed Levyed and Collected in such manner as herein after is mentioned
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