# Taxation (No. 2) Act 1627, Section XXVII: Allowance to High Collectors and their Accountants.


Allowance to be paid by Collectors to Commissioners for their Expences and the labour of their Clerks.; Remedy for the same for Commissioners against Collectors.
And be it also enacted by the said authoritie of this p[re]sent Parliament, That every of the said high Collectors, which shall account for anie part of the said Subsidies in the said Exchequer uppon their severall accounts to be yeilded shalbe allowed at every of the said payments of the said Subsidies for every pound lymitted to his colleccion whereof any such Collector shalbe charged and yeild account six pence as parcell of their charge (that is to saie) of every pound thereof for such p[er]sons as then have had the particuler colleccion of the Townes and other places as is aforesaid specified in his colleccion two pence and other two pence of every pound thereof every of the said cheife Collectors or their Accomptants to retaine to their owne use for their labour and charge in and about the p[ro]misses and two pence of every pound residue to be delivered allowed and paid by the said Collector so being thereof allowed to such of the Co[m]missioners as shall take uppon them the business and labour for and about the p[re]misses, that is to saie Every Collector to pay that Co[m]missioner or Co[m]missioners which had the ordering of the writings of and for every of the said Subsidies where the said Collector or Collectors had their colleccion for the expences for the said Co[m]missioners so taking, uppon them the said busines and labour of their Clerkes writing the said Precepts and Extracts of the said Colleccions, the said last two pence of every pound to be devided amongest the said Co[m]missioners having regard to their labour and busines taken by them and their said Clerkes in and about the p[re]misses, for which part so to the said Co[m]missioners appertayning the said Co[m]missioners six five foure three or two or as many of them as shalbe thereunto appointed by the Kings Majesties Co[m]mission and every of them joyntlie and severallie for his and their said part may have his remedie against the Collector or Collectors which thereof byn or might have byn allowed by accion of debt, in which the Defendants hall not wage his Lawe neither p[ro]teccion neither Injunccion or Essoine shalbe allowed.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha1/3/8/section/XXVII (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-2-act-1627/section-XXVII
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