# Taxation Act 1695, Section IV


Owners, &c. of Lands, &c. charged with a Pound Rate as herein mentioned, to deduct and retain 4s. in the Pound for Fee-farm Rents, &c. issuing thereout, and Persons entitled are to allow the same.
And whereas many of the Manors-Messuags Lands Tenements Tithes Hereditaments and Premisses intended by this Act to be charged with the Pound Rates as aforesaid stand encumbred with or are subject and liable to the payment of severall Rent charges or Annuities issueing out of the same or to the payment of divers Fee farme Rents Rent service or other Rents thereupon reserved or charged by reason whereof the true owners and proprietors of such Manors Messuages Lands Tenements Hereditaments and Premisses do not in truth receive to their owne use the true yearely value of the same for which neverthelesse they are by this Act charged to pay the full Pound rate of Four shillings for every Twenty shillings of the true yearly value It is therefore declared and enacted by the authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawfull to and for the Landlords Owners and Proprietors of such Manors Messuages Lands Tenements Hereditaments and Premisses as are charged with the Pound Rate as aforesaid to abate and deduct and to retaine and keep in his or their hands Four shillings in the pound for every Fee farme Rent or other Annuall Rent or Payment charged upon or issueing out of the Premisses or any part thereof or thereupon reserved And all and every person or persons who are or shall be any way intituled to such Rents and Annuall Payments are hereby required to allow such deductions and payments upon the Receipt of the residue of such Moneyes as shall be due and payable to them for such Rents or Annuall Payments reserved or charged as aforesaid

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/7-8/5/section/IV (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-act-1695/section-IV
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