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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-3-act-1688/section-VI",
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  "legislation": "aep/WillandMarSess2/1/1",
  "legislation_title": "Taxation (No. 3) Act 1688",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-3-act-1688",
  "path": "section/VI",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "VI",
  "heading": "Assessors neglecting or refusing to serve, or making Default of Appearance, or not performing their Duty.",
  "text": "Penalty.; Oaths to be taken by the Assessors.; 1 W. & M. Sess. I. c. 8.; Form of Oath.\nAnd if any Assessor soe as aforesaid appointed or to be appointed shall neglect or refuse to Serve or shall make Default at the time appointed for his Appearance (not haveing a lawfull Excuse to be Witnessed by the Oathes of Two credible Witnesses which the said Commissioners or any Two of them have power to Administer) or shall not performe his Duty every such Assessor shall for every such Neglect Refusall or Default forfeit and lose unto Their Majesties such Summe as the Commissioners or soe many of them as shall be present or the major part of them shall thinke fitt not exceeding the Summe of Ten pounds nor under the Summe of Five pounds to be Levyed by Distresse and Sale of the Offenders Goods and Chattells in like manner as by this Act is appointed for Levying the severall Rates and Assesments herein mentioned in case of neglect or refusall of Payment and to be charged upon the respective Receivers Generall together with the said Rates and Assesments And every Assessor soe as aforesaid appointed or to be appointed shall before he take upon him the Execution of the said Imployment take the Oathes mentioned and required to be taken by an Act of this present Parlyament Entituled An Act for Abrogating the Oathes of Supremacy and Allegiance and Appointing other Oathes And alsoe take an Oath to be Administred in these Words following",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMarSess2/1/1/section/VI",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:26:46.277072+00:00"
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  "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."
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