Poll Tax Act 1691

1. Introductory Text

2. Reasons for this Grant.

3. II. Over the Sums aforesaid.

4. III. Cursitors and other Officers in Courts of Law, &c.

5. IV. Rates at which Persons already chargeable to find a Horse and Horsemen for Militia.

6. V. Persons not chargeable as above, and keeping a Coach, &c.

7. VI. Lords Spiritual and Temporal.

8. VII. Gentlemen and above, and under Peers, of 16 Years, and having £300, and being within the Realm, and not taking the Oaths of 1 W. & M. Sess. 1. c. 8. which Commissioners are to administer, &c. charged double.

9. VIII. Proviso for Quakers who may make Declaration of Fidelity of 1 W. & M. Sess. 1. c. 18.

10. IX. Commissioners under c. 5. ante, to be Commissioners for executing this Act.

11. X. Duplicate of Sum charged on every Hundred, &c. under Hand and Seal of Commissioners returned into Exchequer.

12. XI. Commissioners may examine into Estates, &c. chargeable, and set a Rate.

13. XII. Commissioners Clerks 1d. in the Pound.

14. XIII. Persons rated where they reside.

15. XIV. Commissioners may assess other Commissioners, and also Assessors.

16. XV. Assessor, Collector, &c. neglecting his Duty.

17. XVI. Letters Patent, &c. not to be an Exemption.

18. XVII. Constables, &c. to be aiding, and to obey Commissioners.

19. XVIII. In Actions for executing Act, General Issue.

20. XIX. Parents, Guardians, &c. of Infants to pay.

21. XX. Collectors to pay Monies to Receivers General, &c.

22. XXI. Collectors travelling.

23. XXII. Receiver General to give Commissioners a Receipt acknowledging the Money charged upon Hundred, &c.

24. XXIII. Receivers General certifying Arrears due where Monies have been received.

25. XXIV. Commissioners not liable to Penalties of 25 Car. II. c. 2.

26. XXV. Penalties how levied.

27. XXVI. After Appeals determined, Commissioners to cause Duplicates of Sums charged to be transmitted to Sheriff, to be by him transmitted to Exchequer.

28. XXVII. Commissioners to take the Oaths of 1 W. & M. Sess. 1. c. 8.

29. XXVIII. Where Persons charged to Horse or Horsemen to be assessed.

30. XXIX. 2 W. & M. Sess. 2. c. 10. recited.

31. XXX. Sergeants' Inns, Inns of Court, and Inns of Chancery, assessed by Benchers, &c.

32. XXXI. If it appear that the Monies collected do not amount to £1,341,700, Their Majesties, or the Exchequer by their Command, may make up Deficiency by a Loan.

33. XXXII. Such Loan, and Interest at £7 per Cent. per Annum, repaid out of next Aids.

34. XXXIII. 2 W. & M. Sess. 2. c. 11. continued, and...

35. THE TITLE OF THE PRIVATE ACTS.