{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-act-1678/section-XXXIV",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-act-1678/section-XXXIV.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Cha2/30/1",
  "legislation_title": "Taxation Act 1678",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-act-1678",
  "path": "section/XXXIV",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XXXIV",
  "heading": "Two Commissioners may cause Proprtions charged on Divisions to be taxed, and appoint Assessors.",
  "text": "The Duty of Assessors.\nAnd bee it further enacted and declared by the Authoritie aforesaid That the Commissioners within the severall Divisions or Hundreds or any two or more of them are hereby authorized and required to cause the severall proportions charged on the respective Divisions and on every Parish and Place therein for the said Twelve Moneths Assessment to be equally assessed and taxed and to appoint two or more Assessors in each Parish or Place for the perfecting there of who are hereby required with all care and diligence to assesse the same equally by a Pound rate upon all Lands Tenements Hereditaments Annuities Rents Parks Warrens Goods Chattells Stocke Merchandices Offices (other then Military Offices and Offices relateing to the Navy under the Command of the Lord High Admirall and Offices within His Majestyes Household) Tolls Proffitts and all other Estates both Reall and Personall within the limitts circuits and bounds of their respective Parishes and Places.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: said O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/30/1/section/XXXIV",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:27:19.069703+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."
}