Land Tax Act 1693

II. Public Offices, (Exception of Military Officers, &c.

and certain Persons of the Ordnance,); to pay 4s. in the Pound.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Person and Persons Co[m]missioner or Co[m]missioners having useing or exercising any publick Office or Employment of Profit (such Military Officers who are or shall be in muster by the Muster Master General of the Army or in pay in Their Majesties Army or Navy in respect of such Offices only excepted (other then Governors Deputy or Lieutenant Governors of any Their Majesties Garrisons Forts or Castels for their Salaries or pay for the same Governments) And alsoe except such persons in Their Majesties Ordnance whose Salaries doe not exceed One hundred pounds per Annum) and all and every their Agents Clerks Secundaries Substitutes and other inferiour Ministers whatsoever shall yield and pay unto Their Majesties the su[m]m of Foure shillings for every Twenty shillings which he or they do receive in One yeare by virtue of any salary gratuity bounty-money reward fees or profitts to him or them accrewing for or by reason or occasion of their several offices or employments to be assessed imposed levied and collected in such manner as hereafter is menc[i]oed.