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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/duties-on-marriages-etc-act-1697/section-V",
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  "legislation": "aep/Will3/9/32",
  "legislation_title": "Duties on Marriages etc. Act 1697",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/duties-on-marriages-etc-act-1697",
  "path": "section/V",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "V",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In case of Removal of Persons to other Places chargeable, without Payment of Duty, Commissioners to certify; and thereupon Commissioners of such other Places to levy Duty.\nAnd in regard Persons liable to the said Duties upon Marriages Births Burials Batchelors and Widowers or some of them do frequently remove or go away from the Places where they ought to have paid the same to other Parts or Places and thereby evade the Payment thereof For prevention of such Deceipts for the future it is hereby further enacted and declared by the Authority aforesaid That in every such Case of the Removal or going away of any Person without Payment of the Duties aforesaid or any of them the Commissioners aforesaid or any Two or more of them shal and may certify such Default in Writeing under their Hands and Seals and every such Certificate shal be a sufficient Ground and Warrant by vertue of this Act for the like Number of Commissioners in any other County or Place where such Person shal reside or be found to cause His Majesties Duty or Duties to be by him paid in such other County or Place to His Majesties use and for Non payment thereof to levy the same by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of every such Person so in default rendring to him the Overplus ariseing by such Sale after the Kings Duty and the Charge of the Distress shal be satisfied.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "interlined on the Roll."
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/9/32/section/V",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:22:48.113957+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}