Section XXXVI Papists of the Age of 17 and upwards, not having taken the Oath of c. 8. ante, to pay Double Rate.

Proviso for Papists taking the said Oaths within Ten Days after First Meeting of Commissioners.

And bee it further Enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That every Papist or reputed Papist being of the Age of Sixteene yeares or upwards who shall not have taken the Oathes mentioned and required to be taken by an Act made in the last Session of this present Parlyament Entituled An Act for the Abrogating of the Oathes of Supremacy and Allegiance and Appointing other Oathes shall Yeild and Pay unto Their Majestyes Double the Summes and Rates which by force or vertue of any Clause in this Act before mentioned or contained he or she X1should or ought to pay or be charged with (that is to say) for every hundred pounds of ready Money and Debts and for every hundred pounds worth of Goods Wares Merchandices Chattells or personall Estate the Summe of Fowre and twenty shillings and soe after that Rate for every greater or lesser quantity And for every Twenty shillings of the full yearely value of any Mannours Messuages or other Hereditaments or Premisses charged by this Act which he or she shall have or hold the Summe of Foure shillings to be Assessed Levyed and Collected Answered Recovered and Paid in such manner by such wayes and meanes and according to such Rules and Directions and under such Penalties and Forfeitures as are before in this Act expressed or appointed for and concerning the above mentioned Rates and Summes which are hereby intended to be doubled as aforesaid. Provided neverthelesse That if any such Papist or reputed Papist within Ten dayes after the First Meeting of the said Commissioners in the respective Counties or Places where he or she ought to be Taxed or Assessed according to the intent of this present Act shall take the said Oathes before Two or more of the said Commissioners which Oathes the said Commissioners are hereby impowered to Administer That in such Case he or she shall not be lyable to be doubly Assessed as aforesaid