# Taxation: Members of Parliament Act 1700, Section LXVIII: LXVIII. Members of Parliament to be assessed for their Personal Estates where their Mansion Houses or other Places of Abode usually are out of Parliament.


And whereas severall Members of Parliament who by reason of their Attendance in Parliament have by the Assessors of London Westminster and Middlesex and the Suburbs of the same been taxed for their Personall Estates and to the Paiment of the Poll Money and have been put to unreasonable Vexation and Charge Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the severall Members of Parliament who at the Execution of this Act dureing this Session of Parliament shall abide within the said Citties of London and Westminster or the Suburbs of the same or within the County of Middlesex shall for or in respect of their ready Money or Debts or any other Tax which may be laid on their Persons or Personall Estate during this Session of Parliament be assessed onely in the Places where such Members have their Mansion Houses or other Places where they most usually reside during the Intervall of Parliament Any thing herein conteined to the contrary notwithstanding

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/12-13/10/section/LXVIII (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-members-of-parliament-act-1700/section-LXVIII
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