# Taxation Act 1690, Section V: Receiver General to give Commissioners a Receipt for Monies received by him from them.


Such Receipt to be a Discharge to Hundred, &c. Commissioners, in their several Divisions, to cause the Proportions charged to be equally assessed; and to appoint Assessors; Duty of such Assessors.
And bee it further Enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That every Receiver Generall from time to time within the Space of One Month next after he shall have received the full Summe that shall be Charged on any Hundred or Division for each particular Payment that is to be made to such Receiver Generall by Vertue of this Act shall give to the Commissioners that shall act in such Hundred or Division a Receipt under his Hand and Seale Acknowleding his Receipt of the full Summe Charged upon such Hundred or Division for such particular Payment which Receipt shall be a full Discharge of such Hundred or Division for such particular Payment against Their Majestyes Their Heires and Successors And the Commissioners within the severall Divisions or Hundreds or any Two or more of them are hereby Authorized and Required to cause the said severall Proportions Charged on the Respective Divisions and on every Parish and Place therein for the said Twelve Months Assessment to be Equally Assessed and Taxed and to appoint Two or more Assessors in each Parish or Place for the perfecting thereof who are hereby Required with all Care and Diligence to Assesse the same equally by a Pound Rate upon all Lands Tenements Hereditaments Annuities Rent Charges and other Rents Parks Warrens Goods Chattells Stock Merchandizes Offices (other then Military Offices and Offices relateing to the Navy under the Command of the Commissioners of the Admiralty and Officers within Their Majestyes Household) Tolls Profitts and all other Estates both Reall and Personall within the Limitts Circuits and Bounds of their respective Parishes and Places

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMarSess2/2/1/section/V (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-act-1690/section-V
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