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 A. D. 1697* Anno o(fl:avo 6c nono GuLiELMi III. C. 20. 655 ferved and complied with during the Continuance of the Term hereby granted in the fame Duties j any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithftanding. XIV. And be it further ena£ted by the Authority aforcHud, That the Rates, Duties, Impofitions, and Duties on Mar. Sums of Money, granted to His Majefty, by an A6t paffcd in the fixth and fcventh Years of His Reign, riages. Births, intituled, An VlEt for granting to Hh Majejly certain Rates and Duties upon Marriages, Births, and Butials, ^"^ Burials, by nrJ upon Batckehrs, and Widazvers, for the Term of five Years, for carrying on the IVar againjll'xiwzi: ivith^'^^''^^-^^^^^ ' Vifour, and which were thereby to commence from the i>ril: Day of May one thoiifand hx hundred ninety- „',„j'i ,,^5. five fhall be, and are hereby continued, from and after the Expiration of the laid Term of live Years, un- e X l>. til the fliid firft Day of ^/i_g-'V//, which fhall be in the Year of our Lord one thoufand fcven hundred and fix, and no longer, and fliall be railed, levied, collected, anfwered, and paid unto Kis Majelly, in tho lame Manner and Form, and by fuch R.ules, Ways, and Means, and under luch Penaliies and Forfeitures, as are mentioned in the fame AcS for raifuig, levying, colleding, anfwellng, and paying the fame, and which v/ere thereby prefcribed for the four laft Y'ears of the Term thereby granted ; and that the faid re- cited Aft laft mentioned, and every Article, Rule, and Claufe, therein mentioned, as for and concerning the faid Rates, Duties, and Impolicions, ihall continue and be in full Force to the faid firil Day of Au- guji one thoufand "^tyitw hundred an,i iix, as fully and amply as if the fame were particularly recited, ex^ prefled, and enacted in the Body of this Aft. XV. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid. That the Rates, Duties, Impofitions, and Duties on Hou. Sums of Money, granted by an Kti palll-d in the feventh and eighth Years of His Majefty's Reign, in- fes by 7 & S ' ^ ' or Duties on Houjes, for making good the Deficiency ^'"i- <^- '^• ue for and during the Term of {<i-^n Years, from ""Jg"""* '"'"^ _ jy <.f March one thoufand fix hundred ninety-iiN;, fhall be, and are hereby con- j^ p_ p. tinued, from and after the Expiration of the faid Term of feven Years, until the faiJ flrft Day of Augiifi, zo Geo-i/cj. which fliall be in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and fix, and no lo;iger ; and fliail be raifed, levied, collected, anfwered, and paid unto His Majcrty, in the fame Manner and Form, and by fuch Rules, Ways, and Means, and under fuch Penalties and Forfeitures, as are mentioned in the fame Aft for railing, coUefting, levying, anfwering, and paying the fame, and which were thereby prefcribed for the fix laft Years of the Term thereby granted ; and that the fame Aft, and all Powers, Provifions, Penalties, Articles, and Claufes, therein contained, iliall continue and be of full Force and Efteft until the faid firft Day of ^z/o'rf/? one thoufand feven hundred and fix, and fhall be applied, praftifed, and exe- cuted, for the raifing, levying, collefting, anfwering, and paying the faid Duties thereby continued, ac- cording to the Tenor and Intent of this prefent Aft, as fully to all Intents and Purpofes, as if all and every the Claufes, Matters, and Things, in the faid Aft contained, had been again repeated in this Aft, and. particularly enafted. XVI. And for the better afc'ertaining and collefting the faid feveral Rates and Duties upon Marriages, jj^^jj;^. Births, and Burials, and upon Batchelors, and Widowers, and the faid feveral^ Rates and Duties upon appoint dffiJc« - Koufes; Be it enafted. That it fhall and may be lawful to and for His Majefly, His Heirs and Succeflbrs, for fuweying the from and after the five and twentieth Day of March one thoufand fix hundred ninety and feven, from time P"ti" on Mar- to time to give Direftions for conilituting and appointing fuch Perfon or Perfons, as Flis Majefty, His "^^ps, &c. Heirs and Succeflcirs, fhall think meet, to be the Officer or Officers for the Survey and Infpeftaon of the br"ng Windows Rates and Duties arifing upon Marriages, Births, and ]3urials, and upon Batchelors, and Widowers, and in eacli Houfe of the Regifter or Regifters of all fuch Marriages, Births, and Burials, within the feveral Counties of Eng- not aflified at land. Dominion of JVales, and Town of Berwick upon Tweed, and alfo of the Duties arifing upon Houfes 'of- within the fame, and for viewing and numbring the feveral Windows in each Houfe (not already ailefTed at O^fficerstoAjper-- the Rate of ten Shillings) and for the jnfpe£ting and examining ^the AfTeffinents, or Certificates thereof ^^,'5 ^f'^^.j^^f" ' made and to be made from time to time in purfuance of the faid Afts for granting the laid Rates or Duties, riages, &c.. or any other Thing belonging to the fame : Which Officers, or any of them, fhall have full Power to ex- amine and fupervife the Regifter and Regifters of all Marriages, Births, and Burials, and of the Afli:fl- ments of the fame, and the AiTefirnents of the Windows rated in every Parifh and Place, as aforefaid, and to take Copy or Copies, or Extrafts of fuch Regifter and AffefTments, and at feafonable Times, with a . Conftable, Headborough, Tythingman, or other Officers of the refpeftive Parifties or Places within the ■ feveral Counties of England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berivick u^on Tweed, who are hereby re- and the AfTciT-f ' auired to affift accordingly, to view and examine whether there be any more Windows (in Houfes not rated ments of Win nation and Infpeftion of the Regifters and Afleflinents, as aforefaid, fuch Officer or Officers fhall find that any Perfon or Premifes are under-rated, or not rated and charged as by the laid Afts or either of them are direfted and appointed, fuch Officer or Officers fhall certify the fame to the Commiffioners, or any two or - more of them, within the Divifion, Hundred, Pariih,. or Place, wherein fuch Negleft or Failure fhall hap- pen to be, which faid Commiffioners, or any two or more of them, fhall, and are hereby required to caufe, fuch Rate or Rates to be fet upon every fuch Perfon and Premifes, as fliall be according to the true Intent and Meaning of the faid Afts, and either of them. ' XVII. And whereas Batchelors and Widowers that are Servants in Hufbandry, by their frequent Re- - ' movals are returned as Fugitives, and efcape the Payment of the Duties to v/hich they are liable by the D;.ty for Ser- ' faid Aft ;' Be it further enadled. That the Duty or Duties wherewith fuch Servant or Servants fhall be ™"'^ '" ^'"l"- charged, fhall from time to time be paid by the Maftsr or Miftrefs of fuch Servant, and be dedufted oiU: "]^'' '"j^^" of his, her, or their Wages ; any thing in the faid Aft contained to the contrary notwithftanding. . UziJ: 's:c. XVIII. And be it alfo enafted and declared, That where any Houfe fhall be inhabited by two or more Houfe "inhabit- Families, cd b;- two Fa^: L