Complex sentence: Exemption certificates had to be signed by a minister, a churchwarden, or an overseer of the poor and two Justices of the Peace, and was clearly not targeting the wealthier people with multiple or larger properties, as originally intended.
Split into simpler sentences: Exemption certificates had to be signed by a minister, a churchwarden, or an overseer of the poor and two Justices of the Peace. It was clearly not targeting the wealthier people with multiple or larger properties, as originally intended.