{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poll-tax-act-1660/section-VIII",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poll-tax-act-1660/section-VIII.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Cha2/12/9",
  "legislation_title": "Poll Tax Act 1660",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poll-tax-act-1660",
  "path": "section/VIII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "VIII",
  "heading": "Persons residing in London or within 15 Miles paying before the time limited to the Persons herein named as Treasurers;",
  "text": "to receive an Acquittance, and taken to be an acceptable Service.\nAnd It is further enacted and declared by the authoritie aforesaid that if any person or persons of what degree ranke or quality soever inhabiting or residing within the Citty of London, or within fifteene Miles distant from the said Citty shall before the time limitted by this Act pay unto Sir Richard Browne Baronet, Sir John Langham Baronet Sir William Wheeler Knight Sir William Vincent Knight Thomas Rich Esquire and the Chamberlaine of the Citty of London for the time being, (who are hereby constituted and appointed Treasurers for the receiving and issueing of all & singuler the summes of money by this Act intended to be raised) or unto any two of them, and shall receive from the said Treasurers or any two of them a Certificate or acquittance acknowledging the receipt of such summes, the said partyes severally shall thereby be discharged of for or concerning the said summes and all such payments shall be taken as an acceptable service to his Majestye and the Kingdome",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/12/9/section/VIII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:35:50.277439+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."
}