Section VII Assessments on Personal Estate, Offices, &c. to be made, and Certificates returned on or before the 19th of Feb. unless longer Time be given by the Commissioners.

The like Provision as to Assessments on Real Estates.; On Return of Certificates, Commissioners may examine Presenters.; Commissioners having Cause to suspect that any Persons or Lands are omitted or undercharged, may summon the Persons concerned to be examined.; Persons summoned neglecting to appear; Penalty, Double Rate.; Commissioners may examine into the Values, and set such Rates as are according to the Intent of the Act.; Assessors to give one Copy of their Assessment to the Commissioners.; Commissioners to give Duplicates to the Sub-Collectors, Head Collectors, and Receivers General; And to cause a Copy or Extract under Hand and Seal to be certified into the Exchequer before the 17th of March; Which the King's Remembrancer shall transcribe within Three Months and transmit to the Office of the Auditor of the Receipt; Who is to enter the same.

And bee it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Rates and Assesments upon all ready Moneys Debts Goods Chattells Personall Estate and Publiq[uire] Offices and Employments of Proffit charged by this Act shall be ascertained and the Certificates thereof returned to the Commissioners upon or before the Nineteenth day of February One thousand six hundred eighty nine unlesse the Commissioners shall thinke fitt to give further time And alsoe the Taxations and Assesments of the Pound-Rate of Two shillings in the Pound for every Twenty shillings of the yearely Value of all Mannours Messuages Lands Tenements Hereditaments and Premisses charged by this Act shall be made and ascertained and the severall and respective Certificates thereof returned in to the Com[m]issioners upon or before the Nineteenth day of February aforesaid unlesse the Commissioners shall thinke fitt to give further time And upon returne of any such Certificate the Commissioners or any Three or more of them shall and may (if they see cause) Examine the Presenters thereof And if the said Com[m]issioners or any Three or more of them within their severall Limitts at the time of the returne of the Certificates as aforesaid or within Twenty dayes after shall know or have good cause to suspect that any Person or Persons or any the Mannours Messuages Lands or other the Premisses which ought to be mentioned and charged in the said Certificates is or are ommitted or that any Person or Persons in the said Certificate mentioned is or are of a greater Estate or that any the said Mannours or other Premisses are of a greater yearely Value then in the said Certificate is mentioned the said Commissioners or any Three or more of them shall have Power to Summon such Person or Persons and the Owners or Possessors of such Mannours or other Premisses to appeare before them at a Day and Place prefixed to be Examined touching the Matters aforesaid And if the Person or Persons Summoned to be soe Examined shall neglect to appeare (not haveing a reasonable Excuse for such his Default) every Person soe making Default shall pay to Their Majestyes double the Summe he should or ought to have beene Sett at or Rated And moreover the Commissioners or the major part of soe many of them as shall be present shall have Power by all lawfull Wayes and Meanes to Examine into the Estate of such Person and the Value of such Premisses chargeable by this Act and to Sett such Rate or Rates upon the same as shall be according to the true intent of this Act And the said Assessors are hereby required to give one Copy of their Certificates or Assesments fairely Written and Subscribed by them unto the said Commissioners by whome they were appointed And the said Commissioners or any Two or more of them are hereby ordered and required to cause the said severall and respective Assesments to them delivered (when by them Approved of or Altered according to the true intent of this Act) to be fairely Written and to Signe and Seale severall Duplicates or Copies of the said Assesment and one of them soe Signed and Sealed forthwith to deliver or cause to be delivered unto the Sub Collectors and shall likewise deliver or cause to be delivered other Copies thereof soe Signed and Sealed unto the Head Collectors and Receivers Generall according to their severall and respective Collections and Receipts And moreover the Commissioners shall cause a true-Copy or Extract of the whole Summes Assessed and Charged within every Hundred Lath Wapentake Parish Ward or Place Rated or Assessed in pursuance of this Act and of the whole Summes Rated or Assessed upon Personall Estates Offices or Imployments to be Certifyed and Transmitted into Their Majestyes Court of Exchequer under the Hands and Seales of any Two or more of the Commissioners but without nameing the Persons in such their Certificates And this the said Commissioners shall cause to be done upon or before the Seaventeenth Day of March then next ensueing or within Thirty dayes after (all Appeales to them made being first determined) And the Kings Remembrancer in the Exchequer for the time being shall and is hereby required within Three monthes after the Duplicates of the last Payment shall be Transmitted to him to Transcribe all the Schedules and Duplicates of the Summes returned to him from and for every respective County Rideing City and Towne and every Hundred Wapentake Parish Division Towne and Place therein in a Booke of Parchment in Alphabeticall Order and a faire Legible Handwriteing and within Three monthes after the same shall be soe by him received to Transmitt all and every the same Schedules and Duplicates to the Office of the Writer of the Tallyes com[m]only called the Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer who is hereby likewise authorised and required to Enter the same in the like Alphabeticall Order in another Booke of Parchment fairely Written to be X1provided for that purpose