Marriage Duty Act 1695

V.

Commissioners appointed to execute 5 & 6 W.&M. c.21. to administer Oaths to Assessors. The said Commissioners to require Deans, &c. to produce twice a Year, Licences, Banns, and Registers.; Penalty £5.

And whereas by reason of some Defects in the said last recited Act and Doubts ariseing upon the same diverse Persons chargeable with the Duties in the said Act are not taxed as by the said Act they ought to be by reason whereof the said Act is eluded Be it therefore further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Com[m]issioners or any Two of them by the said Act appointed to putt the same in Execution shall and may and are hereby required to administer the Oaths in the said Act mentioned and by the said Act appointed to be taken by the Assessors for the first Yeare of the Five Yeares for which Terme the said Duties are granted to the several and respective Collectors in the County City or Place where the Assessment in the said Act contained is to be made every Yeare dureing the Continuance of the said Act And to the end the Duties granted by the said Act may hereafter be more certainely paid into His Majesties Exchequer the said Co[m]missioners or any Two of them shall and may in their respective Counties Cities and Places require & Co[m]mand the Deans Parsons Deacons Vicars Curates and their or any of their Substitutes of their respective Parishes Precincts and Places twice in every Yeare or oftner if they shall think fitt to produce and shew forth to the said Co[m]missioners or any Two of them and alsoe to the Assessors the Licences of all Persons married or Certificates of the Banns published and the Registers of all Persons buried born or christned within the respective Parishes Precincts & Places aforesaid on Pain to forfeit for every Neglect or Refusal so to do the Su[m]m of Five Pounds to be recovered by such Person or Persons and in such Manner as the Forfeitures in the said Act mentioned are appointed to be recovered.