{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poll-tax-act-1694/section-X",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poll-tax-act-1694/section-X.json",
  "legislation": "aep/WillandMar/5-6/14",
  "legislation_title": "Poll Tax Act 1694",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poll-tax-act-1694",
  "path": "section/X",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "X",
  "heading": "Duplicate of Sum charged on every Hundred, &c. under Hand and Seal of Commissioners, returned into Exchequer.",
  "text": "Duplicates delivered to Receiver General. The said Quarterly Sums paid into Exchequer at the times herein mentioned.; Upon Return of Certificate Commissioners may examine Presenters, and suspecting Value of Estate,; may warn Persons to appear to be examined. ; Persons not appearing; Penalty.; Commissioners may examine into Estates, &c. chargeable, and set a Rate.; Receiver General Twopence in the Pound.; Collector Threepence in the Pound.\nAnd bee it enacted That a true Duplicate of the whole su[m]m charged within every Hundred Lath Wapentake Parish Ward or Place rated and assessed in pursuance of this Act (without nameing the persons shall under the Hands and Seales of Two or more of the Co[m]missioners thereunto appointed bee returned into Their Majesties Exchequer before the second day of July One thousand six hundred ninety foure (all Appeals being first determined) And in like manner within Thirty days after every other quarterly payment and the like Duplicates bee alsoe in convenient time made out and delivered unto the Receivers General soe as every of them may bee duely charged to answer their respective Collections and Receipts And that the said several quarterly sums bee paid into Their Majesties Exchequer att the several times following that is to say the First of the said quarterly payments on or before the Second day of July in the yeare One thousand six hundred ninety foure the second of the said quarterly payments on or before the Second day of October in the said yeare One thousand six hundred ninety foure the third of the said quarterly payments on or before the Second day of January in the said yeare One thousand six hundred ninety foure And the fourth and last of the said quarterly payments on or before the Second day of April in the yeare One thousand six hundred ninety five And upon returne of any such Certificate the said Commissioners or any Two or more of them shall and may (if they see cause) examine the Presenters thereof And if the said Commissioners or any Two or more of them within their several Limitts shall att the time of the delivery of the said Certificates or within Twelve days after have knowledge or reasonable cause of suspition that any person or persons who ought to bee mentioned in the said Certificates is or are omitted or that any person or persons in the said Certificates mentioned is not or are not fully and duely charged according to the true intent of this Act the said Commissioners or any Two or more of them shall have power to warne such person or persons to appeare before them att a day and place prefixed to bee examined touching the premisses or any matter which may any ways concerne the same And if the person or persons warned to bee examined shall neglect to appear not having a reasonable excuse for such his default every person soe makeing default shall pay unto Their Majesties double the su[m]m or rate hee should or ought to have been sett att And moreover the said Commissioners or any Two or more of them shall have power by any lawfull ways and meanes to examine and enquire into all matters and things for or by reason of which any persons are chargeable by this Act And to sett such Rate or Rates upon such persons as shall bee according to the true intent and meaning of this Act And the said Receiver General shall have an allowance of Two pence in the pound for all moneys which shall bee by him payd into the Receipt of the Exchequer And every Collector shall have Three pence in the pound for what moneys hee shall pay to the Receiver General his Deputy or Deputies",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMar/5-6/14/section/X",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:23:57.662972+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}