Section XCIII XCIII. Recital of Stat. 9 W. III. c. 10. § 6.X1

10 W. III. c. 9. £78 and of 11 W. III. c.2. § 68.; Reasons for this Enactment; In Counties, &c. where the Monies granted by the said Three last mentioned Acts, remain unassessed, or not raised,Commissioners under this Act to enquire thereof at a General Meeting in manner herein mentioned.

And whereas by an Act of Parliament made in the Ninth Yeare of His Majesties Reigne intituled An Act for granting to His Majesty the Summe of One million four hundred eighty four thousand fifteen Pounds One Shilling and Eleaven Pence Three Farthings for disbanding Forces paying Seamen and other Uses therein mentioned the Commissioners thereby appointed or so many of them as should be present at such Generall Meeting or Meetings as were thereby prescribed or the major Part of them were authorised and required to ascertaine and sett downe in Writing the severall Proportions which in their Judgements and Discretions ought to be charged on every Hundred Lathe Wapentake Rape Ward or other Division respectively for and towards the raising of the whole Sume by that Act charged upon the whole County Citty or other Place for which they were thereby named Commissioners And whereas by an Act of Parliament made in the Tenth Yeare of His Majesties Reign intituled An Act for granting to His Majestie the Sume of One million four hundred eighty four thousand fifteene Pounds One Shilling and Eleaven Pence Three Farthings for disbanding the Army providing for the Navy and other necessary Occasions the Comissioners thereby appointed or so many of them as should be present at such generall Meeting or Meetings as are therein mentioned or the major Part of them were authorized and required to ascertain and sett downe in Writing the severall Proportions which ought to be charged on every Hundred Lathe Wapentake Rape Ward and other Division respectively for and towards the raising the whole Sume by that Act charged upon the whole County Citty or other Place for which they were thereby appointed Commissioners haveing regard in proportioning the same to set downe and ascertaine Three Fourth Parts of the intire Sumes which were assessed on the same Hundreds or Divisions respectively by virtue of an Act of Parliament made in the Fourth Yeare of the Reigne of His Majestie and the late Queen Mary intituled An Act for granting to Their Majesties an Aid of Four Shillings in the Pound for One Yeare for carrying on a vigorous Warr against France And in the said Act of the Tenth Yeare of His Majesties Reigne Provision was made that where different Proporcions had been charged X2upon any one and the same Hundred or Division at severall Generall Meetings of the Commissioners for putting in Execution the said Act of the Ninth Year of His Majesties Reigne towards the Aid granted by the said Act of the Nineth Yeare of His Majesties Reigne And in such Cases onely the same should be rectified by charging upon every such Hundred or Division Three Fourth Parts of the Sume which was charged thereupon to the said Aid granted in the Fourth Yeare of His Majesties Reign And whereas by an Act of Parliament made in the Eleaventh Year of His Majesties Reigne intituled An Act for granting an Aid to His Majestie by Sale of the forfeited and other Estates and Interests in Ireland and by a Land Tax in England for the severall Purposes therein mentioned (amongst other things therein conteined) the Sume of Nine hundred eighty nine thousand nine hundred sixty five Pounds Nineteen Shillings and Six Pence Halfepenny is granted to His Majestie And the Commissioners thereby appointed for raising the same were thereby directed to ascertain and set down in Writing the severall Proporcions which ought to be charged upon every Hundred Lathe Wapentake Rape Ward or other Division respectively for or towards the raising the whole Summe by that Act charged upon the whole County Citty or other Place for which they were thereby appointed Commissioners haveing regard in proportioning the same to sett downe and ascerteine One Moyety or Halfe Parte of the intire Sumes which were assessed on the same Hundreds or Divisions respectively by virtue of the aforesaid Act of the Fourth Yeare of His Majesties Reigne and in the said Act of the Eleaventh Year of His Majesties Reigne there is conteined a Clause reciteing that in executing the said Act of the Tenth Yeare of His Majesties Reigne the Commissioners in some Counties had not regard to sett downe & ascertaine the said Three Fourth Parts but had eased some Hundreds Rapes and Divisions by which meanes the full Sume which should be raised was in some measure delayed and like to prove deficient and enacting that where such Su[m]ms had not been assessed and raised upon the X3said Act made in the Tenth Year of His Majesties Reigne in every Hundred Rape and Division aforesaid the same should be rectified by chargeing upon every such Hundred Rape and Division so eased so much as will make up Three Fourth Parts of the Summe which was charged thereupon to the said Aid granted in the Fourth Year of His Majesties Reigne as by the said severall Acts of Parliament relation being thereunto had may more fully appear And whereas notwithstanding the severall Directions and Provisions above recited severall considerable Summs of Money of the Aids granted to His Majesty by the said severall Acts of the Nineth Tenth and Eleaventh Years of His Majesties Reigne do remaine unassessed or not levied and are deficient within severall Counties and other Places by reason the Directions conteined in the said former Acts have not been duly complied with many of which said Arreares and Deficiencies are in the Accounts of severall Receivors Generall set as Supers upon whole Counties Parts of Counties Ridings and otherwise and the rest of the said Arreares and Deficiencies are wholly unaccounted for to His Majestie Be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in all and every such Counties Rideings Cities or other Places where the Moneys granted by the Three Acts last mentioned or any of them or any Part thereof do remaine unassessed or not raised the Commissioners for putting this present Act in Execuc[i]on for such Counties Rideings Cities or other Places respectively or so many of them as shall be present at a Generall Meeting for such County Riding City or other Place or the major Part of them shall enquire and informe themselves of and concerning all and every such Sume and Sumes of Money so in Arreare or deficient upon the said former Aids or any of them and shall cause the same to be charged upon the respective Hundreds Divisions and Subdivisions upon which the same ought to have been charged or raised by the said former Acts respectively (that is to say such of the said Arrears as are due to His Ma[jes]tie upon the said Act of the Ninth Yeare of His Majesties Reigne shall be charged upon such Hundreds Laths Wapentakes Rapes Wards and other Divisions and Subdivisions respectively as the Commissioners for the whole County Riding City or other Place for which they were Commissioners at their First Generall Meeting for that Aid did according to their Discretions charge with the same.