Poll Tax Act 1694

1. Introductory Text

2. Reasons for passing this Act.

3. II. Over the Su[m]ms aforesaid.

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

5. IV. Persons, Deputy Lieutenants, &c. already chargeable by Estate to find a Horse and Horseman for Militia.

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

7. VI. Lords Spiritual and Temporal to pay over and above charge by this Act.

8. VII. Persons under Peers of 16 Years, and having £300 and being within the Realm, and not having taken the Oaths of 1 W. & M. Sess. 1. c. 8.

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

10. IX. Commissioners under 4 W. & M. c. 1. 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 Clerks One penny in the Pound.

13. XII. Persons assessed refusing to pay on Demand, Officer may distrain.

14. XIII. Persons aggrieved by Rate, &c. may complain to Commissioners.

15. XIV. Persons rated where they reside.

16. XV. Persons having several Mansions, and being doubly charged;

17. XVI. Commissioners may assess other Commissioners and also Assessors.

18. XVII. Assessor, Collector, &c. neglecting his Duty.

19. XVIII. Letters Patent, &c. not to be an Exemption.

20. XIX. Constables, &c. to be aiding in executing Act, and obey Commissioners.

21. XX. In Actions for executing Act, General Issue may be pleaded.

22. XXI. Parents, Guardians, &c. of Infants, to pay for Persons residing in their Families.

23. XXII. Collectors to pay pay Monies to Receiver General &c.

24. XXIII. Collector travelling.

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

26. XXV. Receivers General certifying Arrears due where Monies have been received.

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

28. XXVII. Penalties how levied.

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

30. XXIX. Commissioners to take the Oaths of 1 W. & M. Sess. 1. c. 8.;

31. XXX. Where Persons charged in respect of finding Horse or Horsemen, and Assessment not paid, and no Goods;

32. XXXI. Serjeants Inn, Inns of Court, and Inns of Chancery how assessed.

33. XXXII. Persons coming to reside in any Division within London, &c. where he was not rated, Commissioners may summon.

34. XXXIII. Householders to give Names, &c. of Lodgers.

35. XXXIV. Members of the House of Commons who were Commissioners under 4 W. & M. c. 1. and qualified under this Act, may act as Commissioners in the Counties for which they were appointed under c. 7. ante.

36. XXXV. Reciting the true Intent of c. 7. ante as to Contributors of £10 under that Act.

37. XXXVI. Monies arising under c. 7. ante or so much as shall remain after Payment herein mentioned, reserved to be disposed of by Act of Parliament.