Section IV Landlords may retain the Assessment for Fee Farm and other Annual Rents charged on Lands, &c.

Persons intitled to such Rents, are to allow such Deductions.

And whereas many of the Mannours Messuages Lands Tenements Tithes Hereditaments or Premisses intended by this Act to be Charged with the Pound-Rate as aforesaid stand incumbred with or are subject and lyable to the Payment of severall Rent Charges or Annuities issueing out of the same or to the Payment of diverse Fee-Farme-Rents Rent-Service or other Rents thereupon Reserved or Charged by reason whereof the true Owners and Proprietors of such Mannours Messuages Lands Tenements Hereditaments and Premisses doe 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 Two shillings for every Twenty shillings of the true yearely value It is therefore Declared and Enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That it shall and may be lawfull to and for the Landlords Owners and Proprietors of such Mannours Messuages Lands Tenements Hereditaments and Premisses as are Charged with the Pound Rate as aforesaid to abate and deduct and to retaine and keepe in his or their Hands Two shillings in the Pound for every Fee-farme Rent and other Annuall Rent or Payment Charged upon or Issueing out of the p[re]misses or any part thereof or thereupon Reserved And all and every Person and Persons who are or shall be any way Intitled to such Rents and Annuall Payments are hereby required to allow such Deductions and Payments upon the Receipt of the residue of such Moneys as shall be due and payable to them for such Rents or Annuall Payments Reserved or Charged as aforesaid.