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Section IX Sub-Collectors to pay Monies received by them to Head Collectors, whose Receipt to be a Discharge. Reward to Sub-Collector, Head Collectors to pay to Receiver General, and to be nominated by him. Receivers General answerable. Sub-Collectors not obliged to travel more than 10 Miles to make their Payments.; Receiver General's Acquittance a Discharge to Head Collector.; Reward to Head Collector.; Receiver General to pay Monies received by him into the Exchequer, as before mentioned. Allowance to Receiver General.

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And it is further Enacted and Declared by the Authoritie aforesaid That the Moneys Received by the Sub Collectors within the respective Divisions or Hundreds shall from time to time be duely Paid to the Head Collectors whose Receipt shall be a sufficient Discharge unto every such Sub Collector which Sub Collector for Gathering the said particular Summes shall retaine in his Hands for every Twenty shillings by him soe Paid Three pence as a Reward for his Paines and Service And the Head Collectors shall accordingly Pay over the said Moneys unto the Receiver Generall of each County City or Place respectively in manner aforesaid (which Head Collector or Collectors shall be Nominated and Appointed by the Receivers Generall of the respective Counties which said Receivers Generall shall be Answerable for all such Summes of Money as shall be by him or them Collected or Received) And that noe Sub Collector shall be enforced to Travell above the space of Ten miles for the Payment of the said Moneys that shall be by him Collected or Received And the said Receiver X1Generall Acquittance shall be a sufficient Discharge unto every such Head Collector who shall retaine in his Hands for every Twenty shillings soe by him Paid One Peny as a Reward for his Paines and Service And the Receiver Generall shall Pay the whole Summes by him Received into the Receipt of Their Majestyes Exchequer in such manner and at or before such Dayes and Times as are herein before limited and shall have an Allowance of Two pence in the Pound for all Moneys which shall be by him Paid into the Receipt of the Exchequer upon or before the Times prefixed in this Act.

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Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Generalls O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]