# Taxation (No. 2) Act 1697, Section XI: Receiver General to give Commissioners a Receipt for Monies received by them.


Such Receipt a Discharge to Division, &c.; Receiver General to transmit Monies to Exchequer. Salary to Receiver General.
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Receiver General from time to time within the Space of One Month next after hee shall have received the full Su[m]m that shall be charged on any Hundred or Division for each particular Payment that is to be made to such Receiver General by virtue of this Act shall give to the Co[m]missioners that shall act in such Hundred or Division a Receipt under his Hand & Seale acknowledging the Receipt of the full Su[m]m charged upon such Hundred or Division for such particular Payment Which Receipt shall be a full Discharge for each Hundred or Division for such particular Payment against His Majesty His Heires & Successors which said Receivers General are hereby required forthwith that is to say within Twenty Days after the Receipt of the same as aforesaid to transmitt or cause to be paid the Moneys by them received into the Receipt of His Majesties Exchequer And the Lords Commissioners of His Majesties Treasury are hereby authorized to allow the said Receiver General of each County Riding City & Towne respectively a Salary for his Paines not exceeding Two Pence in the Pound for so much as hee shall pay into the Exchequer upon the clearing of his Account.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/9/10/section/XI (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-2-act-1697/section-XI
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