Section VIII Commissioners to be rated at such Place where they shall be Commissioners; other Persons where they have resided for the most Part of the preceding Year.

Absentees assessed where last abiding.; Rate to be according to the Substance of Persons liable.; Remedy for Commissioners and other Persons taxed in any Place other than where they are Commissioners or were resiant for most Part of the preceding Year.; Fee for Allowance.

And alsoe it is enacted by the same authority that every person to be rated and taxed as is aforesaid shall be rated and set and the Su[m]m on him set to be levied at such place where he and his family were resident for the most part of the Yeare next before the presentment and taxation made and noe where else and that noe Commissioner for his Subsidie shall be taxed or rated for his Goods or Lands but in the Shire or other place where he shall be Commissioner and that if any person chargeable by this Act att the time of the said assessings happen to be out of this Realme and out of Wales or far from the place where he shall be knowne then he to be set where he was last abiding in this Realme or in Wales and after the substance value and other profits of every person to be knowne by examination certificate or other manner of way as is aforesaid and that every person taxed in any County or Place other then where he or his family were resiant for the most parte of the Yeare then next before or in any County or Place other then where he is Commissioner for the Subsidies if he be a Commissioner upon Certificate made to the said Court of Exchequer under the hands & seales of twoe Commissioners for the same Subsidie in the same County or place where such person and his family were resiant for the most part of the Yeare then next before or where he is a Commissioner for the taxation & payment of the same Subsidy testifying his most resiance having a family or being a Commissioner shall be a sufficient discharge for the taxation of that person in any other places and of and for all other Su[m]ms of Money upon such persons soe set and taxed save only the taxations made in that County or place from which such Certificate shall be made as is aforesaid and for the Sums of Money upon such person there assessed or taxed and that such Certificate without any Plea or other Circumstance shall be a sufficient Warrant aswell to the Barons and Auditors of that said Court of Exchequer as to all and every other Officers to whom the Allowance thereof shall appertaine paying for such discharge and allowance onely six pence and noe more.