{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-act-1640/section-V",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-act-1640/section-V.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Cha1/16/2",
  "legislation_title": "Taxation Act 1640",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-act-1640",
  "path": "section/V",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "V",
  "heading": "Commissioners to execute Act according to the tenor thereof.",
  "text": "Persons who receive Precepts are to shew such Precepts to the other Inhabitants or Officers named therein. Penalty 40s.\nAnd be it alsoe Enacted by authoritie of this present Parliament That the Commissioners and every of them which are named limited and appointed according to this Act to be Commissioners in every such Shire Ryding Lathe Wapetake Rape City Town Borough Isle and the said Houshold or any other place and none other shall truly effectually and diligently for theire parts execute the effect of this present Act according to the tenour thereof in every behalfe and no otherwise by any meanes without omission favour dread malice or any other thing to be attempted or done by them or any of them to the contrary thereof And the said Commissioners or as many of them as shall bee appointed by the said Commission and none other for the execution of the said Commission and Act shall for the taxation of the said two first Subsidies before the fifteenth day of February in the Yeere of our Lord God One thousand six hundred fourty And for the taxation of the said twoe other of the said four Subsidies before the twoe and twentieth day of Aprill next ensuing by vertue of the Commission delivered to them in form aforesaid direct theire severall or joynt precept or precepts unto eight seaven six five foure three or twoe (as for the number of the Inhabitants shall be requisite) of the most substantiall discreet and honest persons Inhabitants to bee named by the said Commissioners or by as many of them as shall be appointed by the said Commission of and in Hundreds Lathes Rapes Wapentakes Wards Parishes Townes and other places aswell within Liberties Franchises ancient demesne places exempted and Sanctuaries as without within the limits of the Shires Rydings Lathes Wapentakes Rapes Cities Townes Boroughs and Isle aforesaid and other Places within the limits of theire Commission and to the Constables Subconstables Bailiffes and other like Officers & Ministers of every of the said Hundreds Towns Rapes Wapentakes Wards Parishes and other places aforesaid as to the said Commissioners and every number of them or to three or two of them by theire discretion in division shall seeme expedient and as by the manner and use of those parts shall be requisite straightly by the said Precept charging and commanding the said Inhabitants Constables and other Officers aforesaid to whom such Precept shall be soe directed to appeare in theire proper persons before the said Commissioners or such number of them as they shall divide themselves according to the tenour of the said Commission at certain dayes and places by the said Commissioners or any such number of them as is aforesaid within Cities Boroughs or Towns Corporate or without in any other place as is aforesaid by theire discretion to be limited thereunto to do and accomplish all that to them on the part of the Kings Majestie shall be enjoyned touching this Act-Commanding further by the said Precept that he to whose hands such Precept shall come shall shew and deliver the same to the other Inhabitants or Officers named in the same Precept And that none of them faile to accomplish the same upon pain of forty shillings to be forfeited to the Kings Majestie.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "annexed to the Original Act in separate Schedules."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha1/16/2/section/V",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:43:51.278804+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."
}