Poll Tax Act 1689

IX. Merchants of London, not free, £10. Merchant and Traders, holding a House of £30 per Ann. in London, 10s.

Members of East India Company, 40s. in the £100 for Shares; Members of the Guinea Company, the like; Members of the Hudson's Bay Company, the like; Payments to Governors, &c; deducted out of next Dividend.

And bee it further Enacted and Ordained That the severall Persons hereafter mentioned Resideing and Inhabiting within this Kingdome shall pay the severall Summes of Money hereafter in this Act respectively sett downe and Charged on them (That is to say) Every Merchant Tradeing in the Port of London and Resideing within the said City or Ten miles thereof and not being Free of the said City shall pay the Summe of Ten pounds And every Merchant or other Person whatsoever useing any Trade or Manuall Occupation and holding a House of Thirty pounds per Annum within the City of London or within Twenty miles of the same shall pay the Summe of Ten shillings Every Member in the East-India Company shall pay for his Share or Shares which he hath in the Joynt Stock of the said Company Forty shillings for every Hundred pounds according to the first Capitall of the said Stock Every Member of the Guinea Company shall pay for his Share or Shares which he hath in the Joynt Stock of that Company Forty shillings for every Hundred pounds according to the first Capitall of the said Stock Every Member of the Company commonly called the Hudsons Bay Company shall pay for his Share or Shares which he hath in the Joynt Stock of that Company Forty shillings for every Hundred pounds according to the first Capitall of the said Stock To be paid by the Governors and Treasurers of the said East-India Guinea and Hudson's Bay Companies and to be deducted at their next Dividend