Section XIII Persons aggrieved by Rate, &c. may complain to Commissioners.
Commissioners to meet to hear Complaint; and may abate or increase the Assessment.
And if any person certified assessed or rated find him or herselfe agrieved with such assessing or rateing and doe within Five days after demand thereof made complaine to the said Commissioners X1the said Co[m]missioners or any Three or more of them (whereof Two shall bee of the Commissioners who signed or allowed his or her Rate) shall and may within Seven days next after such complaints particularly examine the party soe complaineng X2 upon his or her Oath touching the same and upon due examination or knowledge thereof abate defaulk increase or inlarge the said Assessment and the same soe abated increased or inlarged shall bee estreated by them into the Exchequer in manner aforesaid And to that end the said Commissioners are hereby required to meet together for the determineing of such Complaints and Appeals accordingly.
Annotations
Editorial notes
- X1
interlined on the Roll.
- X2
Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: complaining O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]