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Section III Cursitors and other Officers in Courts of Law, &c.

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Merchants and Brokers.; Clergymen of £80 and upwards.; Preachers not having Orders.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That every Cursitor Philizer Attorney Sollicitor Clerk in Chancery or Exchequer or other Courts of Law or Equity or Scrivener or practising as such and every Chancellor Commissary Official and Register and every Advocate Proctor Apparitor and Publick Notary or practising as such and all other Officers in any Court and all Merchants Brokers to Merchants and Pawn-Brokers shall bee charged to pay Twenty shillings quarterly att the several days before-mentioned And none of the said persons soe charged to bee further liable to be charged or pay as haveing a personal Estate of Three hundred pounds and under Six hundred pounds or any Estate real or personal of the value of Six hundred pounds or more And alsoe that every Clergyman not being a Lord Spiritual haveing or receiving in or by any Benefice or Contribution (or otherwise) to the value of Eighty pounds per annum or upwards And every Preacher or Teacher in any Congregation whatsoever not having taken Orders according to the discipline of the Church of England haveing and receiving by any Contribution or otherwise to the value of Fourescore pounds per annum or upwards (other then French Protestants) shall bee charged and pay Twenty shillings quarterly att the several days before-mentioned And none of the said last mentioned persons soe charged to bee further charged or pay as haveing an Estate real or personal of such value as aforesaid.