A method proposed to the honourable House of Commons for ordering and collecting the duties to be paid to His Majesty upon births, marriages, unmarried persons, & burials. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A89115 of text R180580 in the English Short Title Catalog. Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A89115 Wing M1949A ESTC R180580 ocm 47683480

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 eng Poll tax -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. Public finance -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England -- London -- 17th century. eebo A method proposed to the Honourable House of Commons for ordering and collecting the duties to be paid to His Majesty upon births, marriages, unmarrie n/a 1694 2 392 3 0 0 0 0 0 76.53 D The rate of 76.53 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2014-05 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-10 Sampled and proofread 2014-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A METHOD Proposed to the Honourable House of Commons For Ordering and Collecting the DUTIES to be Paid to His MAJESTY UPON Births , Marriages , unmarried Persons , & Burials .

THAT there be a Register in every Diocess in England and Wales to be appointed by His Majesty ; and , unless of necessity , to reside in the chief City , or greatest Town in every Diocess .

That every such Register may be impowered to appoint Collectors under him , for whom he shall be answerable .

That such Register make up his Accounts , upon Oath , in the same manner ; and Pay his Monies into the Exchequor , at Sheriffs Account and Pay : And that the same be done in every Term , by the Registers for the Province of Canterbury , and twice a Year by the Registers within the Province of York .

That the Payments be made upon demand after every Payment shall become due .

That a Penalty be inflicted on every Collector not demanding , and on every person not paying when demanded ; and the Collector have liberty to enter into any House , at seasonable times , to take Accomp● of all Births , Burials , Marriages , and Persons not Married , and receive a Certificate of every Parson , Vicar , Preacher , or other person , who shall have Cognizance of any Birth , Burial , or Marriage , and view their Books of Registry , as well as receive and take other Notice and Information .

That the Register have 〈◇〉 per Pound , and the Collector 〈◇〉 per Pound , for Registring , Receiving , and Paying the Monies Taxed , as hath been done for Receiving and Collecting other Taxes .

That every person , under the Degree of a Knight , shall be distinguished as by the late Pole Act , and so Chargable , or not , as the Estate shall be valuable , to be Assessed as in usual manner , and discharged by oath , in case of Non-ability , and Commissioners of the Land Tax to be Commissioners in this , to determine as in other cases of persons over-charged by Assessments .

A Borrowing Clause as hath been before done in this present Parliament .