Land Tax Act 1693

IV. Proviso where Lands subject to Rent Charges, &c.

Landlords may deduct 4s. in the Pound,; to be allowed by Persons entitled to such Rent Charges, &c.

And whereas many of the Mannors Messuags Lands Tenements Tythes Hereditaments and Premisses intended by this Act to be charged with the Pound Rates as aforesaid stand incumbred with or are subject and liable to the payment of several Rent-charges or Annuities issueing out of the same or to the payment of diverse Fee-farme Rents Rents Service or other Rents thereupon reserved or charged by reason whereof the true Owners and Proprietors of such Manors Messuages Lands Tenements Hereditaments and Premisses do not in truth receive to their owne use the true yearely value of the same for which neverthelesse they are by this Act charged to pay the full Pound Rate of Foure shillings for every Twenty shillings of the true yearly value It is therefore declared and enacted by the authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawfull to and for the Landlords Owners and Proprietors of such Mannors Messuags Lands Tenements Hereditaments and Premisses as are charged with the Pound Rate as aforesaid to abate and deduct [X1 & to] retaine and keep in his or their hands Foure shillings in the Pound for every Fee farme Rent or other annual Rent or Payment charged upon or issueing out of the Premisses or any part thereof or thereupon reserved And all and every person and persons who are or shall be any way intituled to such Rents and annual payments are hereby required to allow such deductions and payments upon the receipt of the residue of such moneys as shall be due and payable to them for such Rents or annual payments reserved or charged as aforesaid

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