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Poll Tax Act 1691
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XXVII.Commissioners to take the Oaths of 1 W. & M. Sess. 1. c. 8.
which the Commissioners may administer.; Penalty £200.
Provided always And be it enacted That no person shall be capable of acting as a Co[m]missioner in the execuc[i]on of this Act before hee shall take the Oaths appointed by an Act made in the first yeare of Their Majesties reigne entituled An Act for the abrogateing the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance X1 appointing other Oaths which Oaths it shall be lawfull for any two or more of the Co[m]missioners to administer and they are hereby authorized and required to administer the same to any other Co[m]missioner And in case any person named a Co[m]missioner for putting in execuc[i]on of this Act shall presume to act as a Co[m]missioner before bee shall have taken the said Oaths he shall forfeit to Their Majesties the su[m]m of two hundred pounds.
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X1Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: and O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]
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