Section XVII Proviso for Occupiers of Houses under 20s. per Annum, and not occupying Lands of 20s. per Annum, &c. on Certificate.

No Fee for Certificate.

Provided alwaies and be it hereby enacted That if the Church wardens and Overseers of the Poore of the Parish togeather with the Minister of the same or any two of them (whereof the Minister to be one) shall in writing under theire hands yearely certifie theire beleife that the house wherein any person doth inhabit is not of greater value then twenty shillings per annu[m] upon the full improved rent And that neither the person so inhabiting nor any other using the same Messuage hath useth or occupieth any Lands or Tenements of theire owne or others of the yearely value of Twenty shillings per annum nor hath any Lands Tenements Goods or Chattels of the value of Ten pounds in theire owne possession or in the possession of any other in trust for them That then in such case upon such Certificate made to the twoe next Justices of Peace and allowed by them (for which Certificate and allowance no Fee shall be paid) the person on whose behalfe such Certificate is made shall not be returned by the Constable or other Officer And the said house is hereby for that yeare discharged of and from all the Duties by this act imposed Any thing herein to the contrary notwithstanding