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Section XV Persons having several Mansions, and being doubly charged;

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

Certificate by Commissioners without Fee; ; and on Oath of Certificate, ; discharged in every other County, &c.; Persons out of the Realm rated where laft abiding.; Persons ; unduly escaping Assessment; charged double.

Provided always That if any person having several Mansion houses or places of residence shall bee doubly charged by virtue of this Act that upon certificate made by Two or more of the Co[m]missioners for the County City or place (which certificate the said Co[m]missioners are hereby required to give without delay fee or reward) of his or their personal residence under their hands and seales of the su[m]ms or su[m]ms there charged upon him or them or in what capacity or respect hee or they were soe charged And upon oath made of such certificate before any Justice of the Peace of the County or place where such Certificate shall bee made (which oath the said Justice of Peace is hereby authorized to administer) then the person or persons soe doubly charged shall for soe much as shall bee certified bee discharged in every other County City or place And if any person att the time of the assessing shall bee out of the Realme such person shall bee rated where such person was last abideing within the Realme and if any person that ought to bee taxed by virtue of this Act by changeing his place of residence or by fraud or covin shall escape from the Taxation and not bee taxed and the same bee proved before the Commissioners or Two of them or Two Justices of the Peace of the County where such person dwelleth or resideth att any time within Twelve months next ensuing after such Taxation made every person that shall soe escape from the said Taxation and Payment shall bee charged upon proof thereof att the double value of soe much as hee should or ought to have been taxed by this Act the said double value upon certificate thereof made into the Exchequer by the Co[m]missioners or Justices before whom such proof shall bee made to bee levied of the goods Chattells X1 and Tenements of such persons towards the Supply aforesaid.

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Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Lands O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]