Land Tax Act 1698

LXXIX. Reasons for the present Enactment.

Re-assessments herein mentioned made good.

And whereas it hath so happened that the Moneys assessed in pursuance of the Directions of the said late Act have not been nor could be collected or levied by reason of some Houses standing empty and others being fallen in their Rents and Values and other like Accidents and thereupon the respective Commissioners and Assessors in the said Act named have been or must be forced to make Reassessments in severall Parishes and Places where such Deficiences have happened whereby some Persons have been or may be assessed to pay something more than after the Rate of Three Shillings for every Twenty Shillings of the yearly Values of their Houses or Lands to make good the said Deficiencies which may occasion Suits and Differences concerning the legality and validity of such Reassessments For the preventing thereof be it enacted and declared by the Authority aforesaid That all such Reassessments made or to be made within the respective Hundreds Divisions Parishes Townes or Places being allowed and signed by such Number of the said Commissioners as by the said Act are required to signe the Duplicates of the Assessments therein mentioned shall be good and valid and effectuall in the Law Any thing to the contrary notwithstanding