the Persons Dwelling or Residing within the Limits of those places with which they shall be Charged and of all other things in Respect whereof any Person is or may be Chargeable by this Act together with the Assessments of the Respective Rates hereby Imposed on each particular Person according to the Rules and Directions hereof without Concealment Love Favour Dread or Malice upon pain of Forfeiture of any Summ not exceeding Five Pounds to be Levied as by this Act is Appointed and shall also then Return the Names of Two or more able and sufficient Persons within the Bounds and Limits of those Parishes or Places where they shall be Appointed Respectively as aforesaid to be Collectors of the Money due to His Majesty by this Act for whose Collecting and Paying unto the Receiver or Receivers to be Appointed by the said Commissioners for the Respective Baronies in manner following Such Money as they shall be Charged withal the Parish or Place by whom they shall be Imployed shall be Answerable which Certificate and Assessments shall be Assertained and Returned unto the Commissioners at or before the Tenth Day of January in the Year of Our Lord One thousand Six hundred Ninety seaven and upon the Delivery or Returning in of such Certificates or Assessments unto the said Commissioners they or any Two or more of them shall forthwith Issue out and Deliver their Warrants of Estreats to such Collectors as aforesaid for the speedy Collecting and Levying of the said Assessments and all Moneys and Rates due thereupon according to the Intent and Directions of this Act of which the said Collectors are hereby Required to make Demand of the Parties themselves or at the places of their last Abode within Six days after the Receipt of such Warrants or Estrates and to Levy and Pay in at such place as the Commissioners shall appoint unto the respective Barony Collector or Receiver and the respective Receivers are hereby Impowered and Required to call upon and hasten the Collectors to the said Payments and in Default thereof to Levy by Warrant under the Hands and Seals of any Two or more of the Commissioners upon the respective Collectors by Distress such Summ and Summs of Money as they have Received and as ought to have by them been paid and are not paid by Reason of their Failure in doing their Duty respectively according to the Direction of this Act. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That a true Duplicate of the whole Summ charged within every Barony Hundred Parish Ward Village and place Rated and Assessed pursuant to this Act without naming the persons shall under the Hands and Seals of two or more of the Commissioners thereunto appointed be returned into His Majesties Court of Exchequer before the Eight and Twentieth Day of February One thousand Six hundred Ninety seaven all Appeals being first determined and in like manner within Thirty days after each of the days of the said Quarterly Payments and the like Duplicates be also in convenient time made out and delivered unto the Receiver-General so as every of them may be duly Charged to answer their respective Collections and Receipts And that the said several summs be paid in each County to such person or persons as shall be appointed by the Chief Governour or Governours of this Kingdom for the time being to that Purpose Pursuant to this Act of which Appointment notice is to be given in Ten Days before the payment thereof by Publick Proclamation to be Issued by such Chief Governour or Governours and that the payment of such summs in each County to such person or persons so to be appointed and the Receipt under the Hands of such person or persons so Authorized by such Chief Governour or Governours owning the Receipt of such summ shall be a sufficient Discharge to the County or place from which the same is Received and as sufficient as any Exchequer Acquittance And upon return of any such Certificate or Assessment the said Commissioners or any two or more of them shall and may if they see cause Examine the Presenters thereof and if the said Commissioners or any two or more of them within their several Limits shall at the time of the Delivery of the said Certificates or within Twelve days after have knowledge or reasonable cause of suspition that any person or persons who ought to be mentioned in the said Certificate is or are omitted or that any person or persons in the said Certificates mentioned is not or are not fully and duly Charged according to the true intent of this Act the said Commissioners or any two or more of them shall have Power to warn such person or persons to appear before them at a day and place prefixed to be examined touching the premisses or any matter which may any-wife concern the same and if the person or persons warned to be examined shall neglect to appear not having a reasonable Excuse for such his Default every person so making Default shall pay unto His Majesty double the Summ or Rate he should or ought to have beén set at And moreover the said Commissioners or any two or more of them shall have Power by any Lawful ways and Means to Examine and Enquire into all matters and things for or by Reason of which any persons are Chargeable by this Act and to set such Rate or Rates upon such persons as shall be according to the true intent and meaning of this Act. That the Collectors for each Parish shall have Six pence in the Pound for what Money they shall pay to the Receiver of each Barony or Hundred and that the Receiver or Receivers for each Barony or Hundred shall have Four pence in the Pound for what Money he or they shall pay to the Person or persons to be appointed by the Chief Governour or Governours of this Kingdom for the time being as aforesaid And be it further Enacted by the Authority foresaid That the Presenters and Assessors for each Parish within this Kingdom for their Labour and Pains and performing their respective Duties in the due execution of this Act shall have and receive Six pence for every Twenty shillings Sterling they shall Assess and which shall be received by the Receiver or Receivers of each Barony for which such Assessors or Presenters shall be respectively appointed as such in pursuance of this Act to be paid by the several and respective Receivers of the several Baronies Which said payment of Six pence per pound as aforesaid shall by the Receiver or Receivers of the Barony or County be allowed unto such Collectors respectively as good payment for so much and the said Collectors respectively are hereby discharged from any Claim of His Majesty touching the said Summ of Six pence per pound And to the end the said Assessors or Presenters may have the more regard to the due execution of their Office as Assessors or Presenters according to the true intent and meaning of this
AN ACT FOR Granting a Supply TO HIS MAJESTY BY Raising Money by way of a POLL. DVBLIN Printed by Andrew Crook Printer to the King 's Most Excellent Majesty on Cork-Hill near Copper-Alley MDCXCVII An ACT for Granting a supply to His Majesty by raising Money by way of a POLL. CHAP. XXXIII WE Your Majesty's most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Commons of IRELAD in Parliament Assembled having a grateful sense of the Benefits we enjoy under the Auspicious Reign of our great Deliverer and Defender with all Thankfulness and Humility own Your Majesty's Goodness towards us and Your Indefatigable Pains and Care for our Safety And taking into our Consideration that many Debts Contracted by Your Majesty for our Security and Preservation remain unpaid through a Deficiency of Your Majesty 's Established and Settled Revenue to discharge the same As a further Acknowledgment of the Sincerity and Loyalty of our Hearts Do most humbly Present Your Majesty a Freé Gift of the several Summs hereafter following to be Levyed in manner herein-after expressed for and towards the payment and discharge of the Debts and other Ends hereafter particularly mentioned And do veseéch Your Majesty to accept thereof And that it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the King 's most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That all and every person and persons of what Age Sex or Degreé soever that shall be in this Kingdom at the time of executing this Act shall pay unto His Majesty Two shillings sterl per ann To commence from the Sixth day of November in the Year of Our Lord God One thousand Six hundred Ninety seaven except the Wives and Daughters of Day-Labourers living with their Parents and the Sons of Day-Labourers who have not attained their Age of Eighteén Years and also except Widows who by reason of their poverty are discharged from paying Hearth-money and all persons living on Alms. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every person and persons who at the time of the execution of this Act shall be of the several Qualities Ranks Orders and Degreés hereafter mentioned shall Annually pay unto His Majesty the several Summs hereafter in this Act set down and appointed beside and over and above their said Annual Poll of Two shillings sterl That is to say Every Arch-Bishop of this Kingdom shall pay the Summ of Fifty pounds sterl Every Bishop of this Kingdom shall pay the Summ of Twenty pounds sterl Every Dean of this Kingdom shall pay the Summ of Ten pounds sterl Every Arch-Deacon of this Kingdom shall pay the Summ of Five pounds sterl Every Cannon or Prebendary of this Kingdom shall severally pay the Summ of Fifty shillings sterl Every Doctor of Divinity Law or Phisick shall pay the Summ of Five pounds sterl Every Person having two or more Benefices with Eure of Souls making together One hundred pounds sterl or upwards shall pay Five pounds sterl Every person having one Benefice with Cure of Souls of the Yearly Value of One hundred pounds sterl shall pay Threé pounds sterl Every person having one or more Benefice or Benefices with Cure of Souls of the Yearly Value of Fifty pounds sterl and under a hundred pounds Yearly Value shall pay the summ of One pound sterl and no more Every person having a Sine Cure or Benefice without Cure of Souls of the Yearly Value of One hundred pounds sterl shall pay the summ of Ten pounds sterl and so after the Rate proportionably for any greater or lesser Sine Cure or Benefice without Cure of Souls being under or above the Yearly Value of One hundred pounds sterl Every Parson or Incumbent having but one Benefice with Cure of Souls and not residing thereon or having more Benefices then one with Cure of Souls and not residing on any one of them shall pay for every such Benefice of the Yearly Value of One hundred pounds ster the summ of Ten pounds ster and after that Rate proportionably for every greater or lesser Benefice And every Parson or Vicar having any Benefice or Benefices with Cure of Souls under the Yearly Value of Fifty pounds ster shall pay the summ of Ten shillings Every Chancellor of a Diocess or Vicar-General shall pay Five pounds ster Every Register of a Diocess shall pay the summ of Two pounds ten shillings ster Every Chancellor of a Cathedral shall pay two pound ten shillings ster Every Dignitary of what nature or kind soever shall pay Two pounds ten shillings sterl Every Curate having no Benefice shall pay Ten shillings and no more And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every person and persons who at the time of the execution of this Act shall be of the several Ranks and Degreés hereafter mentioned and shall be then within this Kingdom or that hath any Estate in Lands Tenements or Hereditaments in the same shall pay unto His Majesty the several Summs of Money hereafter in this Act set down and appointed That is to say Every person of the Degreé of a Duke of this Kingdom shall pay the summ of Fifty pounds sterl Every person of the Degreé of a Marquess having any Estate in this Kingdom shall pay Forty pounds Every person of the Degreé of an Earl inhabiting or resideing in this Kingdom at the time of the execution of this Act or having any Estate in the same shall pay the summ of Thirty pounds sterl Every person of the Degreé of a Viscount that shall be in this Kingdom at the time of the execution of this Act or that hath any Estate in the same shall pay the summ of Twenty five pounds sterl And that every person being of the Degreé of a Baron of this Kingdom who shall be in the same at the time of the execution of this Act or that hath any Estate in this Kingdom shall pay the summ of Twenty pounds sterl And that every person being eldest Son of such Duke who is Charged Fifty pounds as aforesaid shall pay Thirty pounds sterl Every younger Son of such Duke so Charged as aforesaid shall pay the summ of Twenty five pounds sterl Every eldest Son of such Marquess as is before Charged shall pay the summ of Twenty five pounds Every younger Son of such Marquess shall pay the summ of Twenty pounds sterl Every eldest Son of such Earl as is before Charged with Thirty pounds sterl shall pay the summ of Twenty pounds sterl Every younger son of such Earl as is Charged as aforesaid the summ of Fifteén pounds sterl Every eldest son of such Viscount Charged by this Act with the payment of Twenty five pounds sterl shall pay the summ of Seaventeén pounds ten shillings sterl Every younger son of such Viscount so Charged as aforesaid shall pay the summ of Thirteén pounds six shillings and eight pence Every eldest son of such Baron
as is before Charged by this Act with the payment of the summ of Twenty pounds sterl shall pay the summ of Fifteén pounds sterl Every younger son of such Baron so Charged as aforesaid shall pay the summ of Twelve pounds sterl Every woman having the Title of a Peeress of this Kingdom or who takes place as such by Descent or by any Grant from His Majesty or any of his Predecessors having any Estate in Lands Tenements Hereditaments or otherwise in this Kingdom or that shall be in this Kingdom at the time of the execution of this Act shall pay equal with any Peér of the same Degree Every Widow of a Noble man though Marryed to a Commoner shall pay one full third part of what her former Husband whose Relict she was should or ought to have paid had he been living Every Baronet of England Scotland or Ireland or Nova Scotia and every Knight of the Bath residing in this Kingdom at the time of the execution of this Act or having any Estate in Lands Tenements or Hereditaments in this Kingdom shall pay he summ of Fifteén pounds sterl Every person of the Degreé of a Knight Batchellor shall pay Ten pounds sterl Every person of the Degreé of an Esquire or so reputed or owning or writing himself such other then such as are reputed Esquires for having beén or being Mayor or Sheriffs or Members of any Corporation and every person that is or hath beén a Member of the House of Commons or born or doth bear the Office of a Sheriff or Justice of the Peace or Deputy Lievtenant residing in this Kingdom at the time of the execution of this Act or having any Estate in Lands Tenements or Hereditaments within this Kingdom shall pay the summ of Five pounds sterl Every reputed Knight Baronet Baron Viscount and Earl or who shall call or stile themselves so shall pay the same summ as they should have beén lyable to pay if they really were of that Quality Every Gentleman or reputed Gentleman or owning himself or writing himself such inhabiting or residing in this Kingdom or having any Estate in Lands Tenements or Hereditaments in this Kingdom shall pay the summ of Five and twenty shillings sterl Except Gentlemen who shall not be worth Twenty pounds sterl at the execution of this Act shall pay Five shillings sterl and no more Every Widow respectively residing in this Kingdom or having any Estate within the same shall pay One third part Rated by this Act on that Degreé of which the Husband of such Widow was in his life-time And be it further Enacted That every Person under the Degreé of a Baron being worth One hundred pounds in Goods Chattels or other Personal Estate shall pay Five shillings and that every Person as aforesaid worth in Personal Estate of any kind Two hundred pounds Sterling shall pay Ten Shillings and every Person worth Threé hundred pounds in Personal Estate as aforesaid shall pay Fifteén Shillings and every person worth Four hundred pounds in personal Estate as aforesaid shall pay One pound Sterl and every Person worth Five hundred pounds in Personal Estate as aforesaid shall pay One pound Five shillings every Person having in Personal Estate as aforesaid to the Value of One thousand pounds or upwards shall pay the summ of Five pounds sterl Every Tenant or Farmer of this Kingdom who payeth not a greater Rent then Ten pounds sterl per ann and every Shop-keéper Trades-man or Artificer not worth Ten pounds in Substance shall pay for no more Children under the Age of Sixteén years then two Every Tenant or Farmer paying above Ten pounds per ann Rent shall pay the summ of Two shillings and Six pence Every Tenant or Farmer paying above Twenty pounds per ann Rent shall pay the summ of Five shillings Every Tenant or Farmer paying above Forty pounds Rent per ann shall pay the summ of Ten shillings Every Tenant or Farmer paying above Sixty pounds per ann Rent shall pay the summ of Fifteén shillings Every Farmer or Tenant paying One hundred pounds per ann Rent or upward shall pay the summ of One pound Every Trades-man or Shop-keéper that is worth Twenty pounds or upwards in Personal Estate shall pay the summ of Two shillings and Six pence Every Trades-man or Shop-keéper worth Fifty pounds or upwards in Personal Estate shall pay Five shillings Every Shop-keéper or Trades-man worth One hundred pounds or upwards in Personal Estate shall pay Ten shillings Every Trades-man or Shop-keéper worth Two hundred pounds in Personal Estate shall pay Fifteén shillings Every Trades-man or Shop-keéper worth Threé hundred pounds shall pay One pound Every Trades-man or Shop-keéper worth Four hundred pounds in Personal Estate shall pay One pound Five shillings Every Gray-Merchant Merchant-Traveller or Pedler who usually Travels with an Horse shall pay One pound Every Gray-Merchant Merchant-Traveller or Pedler who usually Travels without an Horse shall pay Ten shillings Every Person in Orders of the Romish Religion shall pay Twelve shillings and Six pence And that all and every Person except Women Children under the Age of Sixteén and such as pay Two shillings and no more who have not already taken the Oaths and Subscribed the Declaration herein-after mentioned to His Majesty And who shall not voluntarily appear before the Commissioners or any two or more of them and take the said Oaths and make and subscribe the Declaration herein-after mentioned which Oath any two or more of the Commissioners in this Act named are hereby Impowered and Required to Administer and make an Entry or Memorandum thereof and of making and Subscribing the said Declaration in some Book to be kept for that purpose Every such Person who shall neglect to appear or shall not take the Oath and make and Subscribe the Declaration as aforesaid shall be charged with and shall pay to His Majesty double the summs which by Force or Vertue of any Clause in this Act he should or ought to pay or be charged with to be Levyed Collected Answered Recovered and paid in such manner and by such ways and means as are in this Act expressed and appointed for and concerning the Rates and summs hereby intended to be Doubled as aforesaid Provided nevertheless That whereas certain Persons Dissenters from the Church of England commonly called Quakers and now known to be such do scruple the taking any Oath it shall be sufficient for every such Person to make and subscribe the following Declaration I A. B. do Sincerely Promise and Solemnly Declare before God and the World That I will be True and Faithful to King WILLIAM And I Solemnly Profess and Declare That I do from my Heart Abhor Detest and Renounce as Impious and Heretical that Damnable Doctrine and Position that Princes Excommunicated or Deprived by the Pope or any Authority of the See of ROME may be Deposed or Murdered by their Subjects or any other person whatsoever And I do Declare that no Foreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate
as the same should and ought to have beén if the said Commissioners had not beén Named Commissioners And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Assessor Collector Receiver or any other Person appointed by the Commissioners shall wilfully neglect or refuse to perform his Duty in the due and speédy Execution of this present Act the said respective Commissioners or any two or more of them may and shall by vertue of this Act have Power and Authority to commit such Assessor Collector or Receiver to Goal till he or they have done his or their Duty according to this Act or to impose on such person or persons so refusing or neglecting their Duties any Fine not exceéding Twenty pounds for any one Offence at their Discretion the same to be Levyed and Certified as aforesaid into His Majesty's Court of Exchequer and Charged upon the respective Receivers amongst the rest of the rates aforesaid And the said Commissioners or any two or more of them may or shall from time to time call for and require an Account from the respective Receivers of all the Monies received by them of the said Collectors and of the payment thereof according to the direction of this Act and in case of any failure in the premisses the said Commissioners or any two or more of them are hereby required to cause the same to be forthwith Levyed and paid according to the true intent and meaning of this Act And in case of any Controversy arising between the said Commissioners concerning the said Rates or Assessments the Commissioners that shall be concerned therein shall have no Voice but shall withdraw during the Debate of such Controversy until it be determined by the rest of the Commissioners and in default thereof that the Commissioners then present shall have power and are hereby required to impose such Fine or Fines as to them shall be thought fit upon such Commissioners so refusing to withdraw not exceéding Twenty pounds and to cause the same to be Levyed and Paid as other Fines to be imposed by vertue of this Act are to be Levyed and Paid and all Questions and Differences that shall arise touching any of the said Rates Taxes Assessments or Levies and the Collecting thereof shall be heard and finally determined by Threé or more of the Commissioners upon Complaint thereof to them made by any person or persons thereby grieved without further Trouble or Sute in Law And the said Receiver-General his Deputy or Deputies shall give acquittances Gratis to the said Barony-Receivers who shall likewise give Acquittances Gratis to the said Parish-Collectors for all Monies of them respectively Received in pursuance of this Act which Acquittances shall be a full Discharge to said Collectors respectively And the said Collectors shall make and deliver to the said Receivers-General their Deputy or Deputies a perfect Schedule fairly written in Parchment under their Hands and Seals Signed and Allowed by any two or more of the respective Commissioners containing the Names and Surnames and places of aboad of every person within their respective Collection that shall make default of payment of any the Summs that shall be Rated or Assessed on such person by vertue of this Act and the Summ and Summs charged on every such person the same to be returned by him into His Majesty's Exchequer whereupon every such person making default of Payment may be charged by Process of the said Court according to the Course thereof in that behalf And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Letters Patents Granted by the King or late Queén's Majesties or any of their Royal Predecessors or to be Granted by His Majesty to any person or persons Cities Buroughs or Towns Corporate within this Realm or any manner of Liberties Priviledges or Exemptions from Subsidies Tolls Taxes Assessments or Aids shall be construed or taken to exempt any person or persons City Burough or Town Corporate or any of the Inhabitants of the same from the Burthen or Charge of any Summ or Summs of Money Granted by this Act and all Non-Obstantes in such Letters Patents for any such purpose or intent are declared to be void and of none effect And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Constables Head-Buroughs and other His Majesty's Officers shall and are hereby Required and Enjoyned to be respectively Aiding and Assisting in the execution of this Act and to obey and execute such Precepts or Warrants as shall be to them Directed in that behalf by the respective Commissioners hereby appointed or to any two or more of them And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Action Plaint Sute or Information shall be Commenced or Prosecuted against any person or persons for what he or they shall do in pursuance or in Execution of this Act such person or persons so Sued in any Court whatsoever shall or may plead the General Issue not Guilty and upon any Issue joyned may give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence and if the Plantiff or Prosecutor shall become Non-Sute or forbear further Prosecution or suffer Discontinuance or if a Verdict pass against him the Defendant and Defendants shall recover Treble Costs for which they shall have the like remedy as in case where Costs by Law are given to the Defendant And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the respective Parents Guardians and Tutors of every person under the age of One and twenty Years shall upon Default of payment of such person and upon demand pay what is due and payable by this Act for every such person Residing in their Family or under their Tuition as before herein is mentioned And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Money due and payable by this Act shall be paid by the particular Collectors of the respective Counties Cities Buroughs Towns Parishes and places who shall Collect the same unto the respective Barony Receivers who shall pay the same unto such Receiver or Receivers as shall by their Excellencies the Lords Iustices or other Chief Governour for the time being be appointed as before is mentioned And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the particular Collectors for payment of any Summs by them received unto such Barony-Receiver or Receivers shall not be oblidged to Travel above Twenty Miles from the place of their Habitation And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Receiver of any Hundred Barony or Division from time to time within the space of one Month next after he shall have received the full Summ that shall be Charged upon any Hundred Barony or Division for each particular Quarterly Payments that is to be made to such Receiver by Vertue of this Act shall give the Commissioners who shall act in such Hundred Barony or Division a Receipt under his Hand and Seal acknowledging his Receipt of the full summ Charged upon such Hundred Barony or Division
for such particular payment and the Receipt of such Receiver or Receivers as shall be appointed by the Lords Iustices of this Kingdom or other Chief Governour or Governours of this Realm for the time being as aforesaid to every Collector of any Barony Hundred or Division for so much of the said Assessments as shall be contained in such Receipt shall be a full Discharge to such Barony Hundred or Division against His Majesty His Heirs and Successors And for preventing such Vexations as might be occasioned by such Persons as shall be appointed to make Returns of such person and persons as make default of payment of the summ or summs on him or them Assessed by this Act. And to the intent such person or persons may Return true Account or Accounts into His Majesty's Court of Exchequer of such summ of Money as shall not be Received by them and every of them their and every of their Deputy and Deputies Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any such person shall Return or Certifie into the said Court any Summ or Summs of Money to be in Arrear or Vnpaid after the same hath been Received such person or persons so making such Return or Returns or shall cause any person or persons to be Set Insuper in the said Court for any Summ or Summs of Money that hath beén so Received that then every such person or persons making such Returns shall forfeit to every person or persons that shall be Molested Vexed or Damaged by reason of such unjust Certificate return or setting Insuper treble Damages that shall be thereby occasioned the said Damages to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in which no Essoin Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed nor any more then one Imparlance and shall also Forfeit unto His Majesty His Heirs and Successors double the Summ that shall be so unjustly certified or returned or caused to be set Insuper Provided always That all Penalties and Forfeitures to be incurred for any Offences against this Act for which there is no way for Levying herein before Prescribed or Appointed shall be Levyed by Warrant of any Two or more of the respective Commissioners of the Division or place where any such Offence was or shall be committed by Distress and Sale of the Goods of the Offenders rendering the Overplus to the Owner thereof after Deduction of reasonable Charges for Distraining the same And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners in every County at the General Meéting to be by them appointed after all Appeals shall be first determined shall cause Duplicates of the whole summs Charged within every Hundred Barony Ward or place Rated and Assessed in such County in pursuance of this Act without naming the persons to be fairly Written in Parchment and Assertained under Threé or more of their Hands respectively to each Duplicate and the same so by them Subscribed and Assertained shall be jointly and together delivered to the Sheriff of such County and be by him Transmitted to the Exchequer at or before the Twenty eighth Day of February in the Year of our Lord One thousand Six hundred Ninety seaven Provided always That no person shall be capable of Acting as a Commissioner in the Execution of this Act before he shall take the Oaths and Subscribe the Declaration appointed by this Act viz. YOU shall Swear That you will duly Execute the Act Intituled An Act for Granting a Supply to His Majesty by Raising Money by way of a Poll as a Commissioner according to your best Skill and Knowledge without Favour or Affection So help you God I A. B. do Sincerely Promise and Swear That I will be Faithful and bear True Allegiance to His Majesty King WILLIAM So help me God I A. B. do Swear That I do from my Heart Abhor Detest and Abjure as Impious and Heretical that Damnable Doctrine and Position that Princes Excommunicated or Deprived by the Pope or any Authority of the See of ROME may be Deposed or Murdered by their Subjects or any other whatsoever And I do Declare that no Foreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction Power Superiority Preheminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm So help me God I A. B Do Solemnly and Sincerely in the presence of God Profess Testifie and Declare that I do believe that in the Sacrament of the Lords-Supper there is not any Transubstantiation of the Elements of Bread and Wine into the Body and Blood of Christ at or after the Consecration thereof by any Person whatsoever And that the Invocation and Adoration of the Virgin MARY or any other Saint and the Sacrifice of the Mass as they are now Used in the Church of ROME are Superstitious and Idolatrous And I do Solemnly in the presence of God Profess Testifie and Declare That I do make this Declaration and every part thereof in the Plain and Ordinary Sense of the Words Read unto me as they are commonly understood by Protestants without any Evasion Equivocation or Mental Reservation whatsoever and without any Dispensation already Granted me for this purpose by the Pope or any other Authority or Person whatsoever or without Dispensation from any Person or Authority whatsoever or without believing that I am or can be Acquitted before God or Man or Absolved of this Declaration or any part thereof although the Pope or any other Person or Persons or Power whatsoever should Dispence with or Annul the same or Declare that it was Null and Void from the Beginning Which said Two last Oaths and Declarations are the same Oaths and Declaration intended also to be Administred to and be Made and Subscribed by such not being Quakers as already have not taken the said Oaths and Subscribed the said Declaration to Excuse them from paying double as aforesaid Which Oaths and Declaration it shall and may be Lawful for any Two or more of the Commissioners to Administer and take And they are hereby Authorized and Required to Administer and take the same to and from any other Commissioner And in Case any Person Named a Commissioner for putting in Execution this Act shall presume to act as a Commissioner before he shall have taken the said Oaths and Made and Subscribed the said Declaration he shall Forfeit to His Majesty the Summ of Two hundred pounds And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Housholder shall upon demand of the respective Assessors of the several Parishes or Places give an Account of the Names and Qualities of such persons as shall Sojourne or Lodge in their respective Houses under the Penalty of forfeiting to His Majesty the Summ of Ten pounds to be Levyed and Recovered in such manner as other Penalties in this Act mentioned are to be Levyed and Recovered And be it further Enacted and Declared that wherever any person or persons shall or may be liable to be Taxed by vertue of this Act in two or more Qualifications or Capacities and shall also be so Taxed that such person shall only pay in one of the said Capacities or Qualifications that is in such Capacity or Qualification which is most Beneficial for His Majesty And be it further Enacted That whereas there are several Summs of Money due to the People of this Kingdom for Debts Stated and unstated due by the Army for Quarters before the Four and Twentieth of June One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety Two that whatsoever Summ or Summs of Money shall be raised Levyed or Collected by vertue of this Act over and above One Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling payable in the first place unto His Majesty shall and may be Paid and applied towards the Discharge of the said Country Debts Stated and Vnstated in just and equal proportions as the several Debts so due bear proportion to the whole of the said Debts Provided alwaies and be it further Enacted That no Foreign Protestant Refugee nor any person who served as a Private Soldier in London-derry or Eneskillen during the late Seige of London-derry and all Common Soldiers in His Majesty's Army and Seamen in His Majesty's Fleét all Matrosses in the Train of Artillery and all Protestants who shall come into this Kingdom after the Sixth Day of November One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety Seaven who have not now any Estate or Interest in this Kingdom shall be wholy exempt from paying any Summ whatsoever towards this present Poll. And for as much great Abuses have formerly beén Committed to the prejudice of His Majesty in the execution of the former Poll Act under pretence of appealing against Assessments made which Appeals having been once heard and the Commissioners not having relived the party Appealing but judging him not to be Reliveable within the intention of the said Act the said parties have notwithstanding beén afterwards Relived by other Commissioners of Appeals who have taken on them to re-examine the said Appeal formerly heard and determined Be it further Enacted That no Appeal being once heard and determined shall be re-heard or Re-examined nor any new Appeal be received for any matter upon which or upon any part of which the said party hath formerly Lodged his Appeal and beén heard to the same FINIS