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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poll-tax-act-1694/section-IX",
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  "legislation": "aep/WillandMar/5-6/14",
  "legislation_title": "Poll Tax Act 1694",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poll-tax-act-1694",
  "path": "section/IX",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "IX",
  "heading": "Commissioners under 4 W. & M. c. 1. ante, to be Commissioners for executing this Act;",
  "text": "and to be qualified under this Act and c. 1. ante.; Commissioners to meet 2d May 1694; may divide themselves; and direct Precepts to Inhabitants, Constables, &c. to attend; and thereupon Commissioners to read, &c. the Rates openly, and instruct them how to make their Certificates, and prefix another Day for bringing Certificates of Names, &c. of Persons residing within certain Limits, together with Assessment; ;Penalty £5; and also return Collectors; for whose paying to Receiver General, Parish to be answerable.; Such Certificates and Assessments to be returned to Commissioners 18th May 1694; and thereupon Commissioners to issue Warrants for collecting Assessments, and Collectors to demand Payment accordingly; and to levy and pay same for the said several quarterly Payments at the times herein mentioned.; Receivers to hasten Collectors.; If not paid, Distress upon Collector.\nAnd bee it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That for the better assessing ordering and levying of the several su[m]ms of money soe as aforesaid limitted and appointed to bee paid and for the more effectual putting of this present Act in execuc[i]on all and every the persons that were named and appointed Commissioners of and for the execution of the Act made in the Fourth yeare of Their Majesties Reigne entituled An Act for granting to Their Majesties an Aid of Foure shillings in the pound for One yeare for carrying on a vigorous Warr against France and shall bee qualified according to the directions of this Act and the Act made in this present Session of Parliament entituled An Act for granting to Their Majesties an Aid of Foure shillings in the Pound for One Yeare for carrying on a vigorous Warr against France shall bee Commissioners for putting in execution this present Act and the powers therein contained within all and every the several and respective Counties Ridings Cities Cinque Ports Boroughs Townes and Places for which they were appointed Commissioners in the aforesaid Act And the said Commissioners in order to a speedy execution of this Act shall (and are hereby required) in their respective Counties Ridings Cities Boroughs Townes and Places meet together att the most usual or common place of meeting within such of the said Counties Ridings Cities Boroughs Townes and Places respectively on the Second day of May One thousand six hundred ninety foure And the said Commissioners or soe many of them as shall be present att the first General Meeting or the major part of them may by their consents and agreements divide aswell themselves as other the Commissioners not then present for the execution of this Act in Hundreds Lathes Wapentakes Rapes Wards Townes and other Places within their Limitts Priviledged or not priveledged in such manner and forme as to them shall seem expedient and shall direct their several or joint precept or precepts to such Inhabitants High Constables Petty Constables Bayliffs and other such like Officers and Ministers and such number of them as they in their discretions shall think most convenient to bee Presenters and Assessors requireing them to appeare before the said Co[m]missioners att such time & place as they shall appoint not exceeding Eight days And att such their appearing the said Commissioners or soe many of them as shall bee thereunto appointed shall openly read or cause to be read unto them the Rates in this Act mentioned and openly declare the Effects of their charge unto them and how and in what manner they ought and should make their Certificates according to the Rates aforesaid and shall then and there prefix another day to the said persons to appeare before the said Commissioners and bring in their Certificates of the Names and Sirnames Qualities Degrees Titles Estates Professions Imployments and Trades of all and every the persons dwelling: or residing within the limitts of those places with which they shall bee charged and of all other things in respect whereof any person is or may bee chargeable by this Act together with the Assessment of the respective Rates hereby imposed on each particular person according to the Rules and Directions hereof without concealment love favour dread or malice upon paine of forfeiture of any su[m]m not exceeding Five pounds to bee levied as by this Act is appointed and shall alsoe then returne the names of two or more able and sufficient persons within the Bounds and Limitts of those Parishes or Places where they shall bee charged respectively as aforesaid to bee Collectors of the money due to Their Majesties by this Act for whose paying unto the Receiver General (to bee appointed by Their Majesties) their Deputy or Deputies in manner following such moneys as they shall bee charged withal the Parish or Place by whom they shall bee employed shall bee answerable which Certificates and Assessments shall bee ascertained and returned into the Commissioners att or before the Eighteenth day of May One thousand six hundred ninety foure and upon the delivery or returning in of such Certificates or Assessments unto the said Co[m]missioners they or any two or more of them shall forthwith issue out and deliver their Warrants of Estreats to such Collectors as aforesaid for the speedy collecting and levying of the said Assessments and all monies and Rates due thereupon according to the intent and directions of this Act of all which the said Collectors are hereby required to make demand of the Parties themselves or att the Places of their last Abode within Six days after the receipt of such Warrants or Estreats and to levy and pay in att such place as the Commissioners shall appoint unto the respective Receiver General his Deputy or Deputyes the su[m]ms payable for the first of the said quarterly payments on or before the First day of June One thousand six hundred ninety foure and the su[m]ms payable for the second of the said quarterly payments on or before the First day of September One thousand six hundred ninety foure the su[m]ms payable for the third of the said quarterly payments on or before the First day of December One thousand six hundred ninety foure and the su[m]ms payable for the fourth and last of the said quarterly payments on or before the First day of March One thousand six hundred ninety foure And the respective Receivers are hereby impowered and required to call upon and hasten the Collectors to the said Payments And in default thereof to levy by Warrant under the Hands and Seales of any two or more of the Commissioners upon the respective Collectors by distresse such sum and su[m]ms of money as they have received and as ought by them to have been paid and are not paid by reason of their failure in doeing their duty respectively according to the direction of this Act.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Agreement O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]"
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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