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A.D. 1798. Anno tricesimo nono Georgii III. c. 3. 3 A.D. 1798. Anno tricesimo nono Georgii III. c. 3.

III. And be it further enacted, That, for and towards raising the several Sums of Money hereby charged on Persons in respect of Publick Offices or Employments of Profit, all and every Person and Persons, and all and every Commissioner and Commissioners, having, using, or exercising, any Publick Office or Employment of Profit in England, Wales, or Berwick, as aforesaid. which is or shall be rated or assessed by virtue of an Act passed in the thirty-eighth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act for granting an Aid to his Majesty by a Land Tax, to be raised in Great Britain, for the Service of the Year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight* and all and every their Clerks, Agents, Secondaries, Substitutes, and other inferior Ministers whatsoever, (such Military Officers who are or shall be in Muster by the Muster-Master General of his Majesty's Army, or in ray in his Majesty's Army or Navy, in respect of such Offices only excepted,) shall yield and pay unto his Majesty any Sum not exceeding the Sum at which such Office or Employment is or shall be assessed in the Year commencing from the twenty-fifth Day of March one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, determined by virtue of the said Act passed in the thirty-eighth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act for granting an Aid to his Majesty by a Land Tax, to be raised in Great Britain, for the Service of the Year one thovfanajeven hundred and ninety-eighty and that a!! and every Person and Persons, Guilds, Fraternities, Bodies Politick and Corporate, having an Annuity, Penfiop, Stipend, or other yearly Payment, either out of the Receipt of his Majesty's Exchequer in England, or out of any Branch of his Majesty's Revenue in Great Britain, or payable, or secured to be paid by any Person or Persons whatsoever in Great Britain, (not being or issuing out of any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or charged upon the same, or included in any Assertment made upon Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, mentioned in the said Act, passed in the thirty-eighth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act for granting an Aid to his Majesty by a Land Tax, to be raised in Great Britain, for the Service of the Year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eighty and not being Annuities or yearly Payments, which, by any Act or Acts of Parliament made, or to be made, are or shall be especially exempted from the Payment of Taxes or Aids,) shall yield and pay unto his Majesty the Sum of four Shillings for every twenty Shillings, by the Year, for every such Annuity, Pension, Stipend, or yearly Payment respectively, and after that Rate for one whole Year; the said several Rates and Sums of Money hereby granted to be assessed, imposed, levied, and collected, in such Manner as herein after is mentioned.

IV. And be it further enacted, That, for the better assessing, ordering, levying, and collecting of the several Sums of Money, so as aforesaid limited and appointed to be raised and paid in the aforesaid Part of Great Britain, called England, Wales, and Berwick upon Tweed, and for the more effectual putting this Act in Execution in Reference to the same, all and every the Person and Persons who, in and by an Act of

Parliament, made and passed in the thirty-seventh Year of his Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act for appointing Commissioners for putting in Execution an Act of this Session of Parliament, intituled, An Act for granting an Aid to his Majesty by a Land Tax, to be raised in Great Britain, for the Service of the Year one thousand seven hundred and ninety seven ;’ or in and by another Act, made and passed in the thirty-eighth Year of his Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act for rectifying Mistakes in the Names of several of the Commissioners appointed by an Ally made in the last Session of Parliament, to but in Execution an Ad7, made in the same Session, intituled, An Act for granting an Aid to his Majesty by a Land Tax, to be raised in Great Britain, for the Service of the Year one thousand seven hundred and ninety seven? and for appointing other Commissioners, together with those named in the first mentioned Act, to put in Execution an Act of this Session of Parliament, for granting an Aid to his Majesty by a Land Tax, to be rased in Great Britain,ybr the Service of the Year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight; and for indemnifying such Persons as have acted as Commissioners for executing the said Act, for granting an Aid to his Majesty by a Land Taxf to be raised in Great Britain for the Service of the Year one thousand seven hundred and ninety seveny were named and appointed Commissioners for nutting in Execution the same Acts within the several Counties, Ridings, Cities, Boroughs, Cinque Ports, Towns, Divisions, and Places, of England, Wales, and Town of Berwick upon Tweed, duly qualifying themselves according to the said Act passed in the thirty-eighth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act for granting an Aid to his Majesty by a Land Taxm to be raised in Great Britain, for the Service of the Year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eighty in that Behalf, shall be Commissioners for putting in Execution this present Act, and the Powers therein contained, within and for all and every the Parishes, Constablewicks, Divisions, Allotments, and Places, situate within the same Counties, Ridings, Cities, Boroughs, Cinque Ports, Towns, Divisions, and Places, respectively.

V. And be it further enacted, That the several Commissioners aforesaid shall meet together at the most usual and common Places of Meeting within their respective Hundreds, Lathes, Rapes, Wapentakes, Wards, and other Divisions respectively, within England, Wales, and Berwick upon Tweed, within which they are appointed Commissioners, on or before the thirtieth Day of April one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine; and shall meet afterwards in like Manner, as often as it shall be necessary, for putting fe much of this Act in Execution as is hereby committed to their Care and Charge; and the said Commissioners, or so many of them as shall be present at such Meetingor Meetings, or the major Part of them, are hereby authorised and required to inspect and examine the Assessments made by virtue of the said Act, for the Year ending on the twenty-fifth Day of March one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and ascertain the several and.respective Sums of Money charged by virtue of the said Act, in every rarish, Constablewick. Division, Allotment, or Place, for apd in respect of any Estate in ready Money, Debts, Goods Wares Merchandizes Chattels, or other Personal Estate; and also for and in respect of any Offices or Employments of Profit, Annuities, Pensions or Stipends, as aforesaid, by any Assessment made for the bid Year ending on the said twenty-fifth Day of March one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine; and fcpasate, divide, and set down in Writing, the Amount of the several and respective Sums charged upon

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Offices and Employments rated by 3$ Geo 3. c. 5. (Military Offices of the Army or Navy excepted) Quit pay the Rnte afTdTed thtreon under that Act;

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and Pensions and Annuities (not issuing out of Premises, or included in any A (Teamen: upon them, under 380*0.3. c. 5. or not exempted) shall pay 4s. in the Pound-

Commissioners of the Land Tax appointed by 37 Geo. 3. c. 35. and 38 Geo. 3. c. *6. shall put this Act in Execution,

Commissioners shall meet on or before April 30,

toinfped tM. Assessments for the Year ending March 15, 1799, on Personal Estate, Offices. &c. and distinguish them from tlioft on Land;

Estates