# Fire-Hearth and Stoves Taxation Act 1662, Section XIV: Account of Increase or Decrease of Hearths and Stoves to be taken and Duplicate sent into the Exchequer. Discharge on Decrease


And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That where any increase or decrease of such Hearths or Stoves shall hereafter happen that an account in writing of the same shall be had and made in like manner as the same is directed to be first taken returned and inrolled by this act and a Duplicate thereof sent into the Exchequer in such sort as is before directed And from thenceforth the Owner or Occupier of such House where such Decrease is shall be discharged proportionably without any further pleading in the Exchequer.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/14/10/section/XIV (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/fire-hearth-and-stoves-taxation-act-1662/section-XIV
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