Section VIII Two or more Commissioners to issue Warrants to the Sub-Collectors.
Sub-Collectors to demand; Assessments; and to levy and pay the same to Head Collectors.;Head Collectors to hasten Sub-Collectors; and to levy and distrain upon Sub-Collectors being behind.; Head Collectors to make Payment to the Receiver General.; Receiver General to pay into the Exchequer on or before the 25th of March, or within 20 Days after.; Sub-Collectors to levy 1st Quarterly Payment, and to pay same to Head Collectors.; Head Collectors to hasten Sub-Collectors, and in case of Failure to proceed as aforesaid. Head Collector to make Payment to the Receiver General on the 15th of March, or within 20 Days after.; Receiver General to hasten Head Collectors, and to pay into the Exchequer on or before the 25th of March, or within 20 Days after.; Sub-Collectors to levy 2d Payment, and pay the same to Head Collectors. Head Collectors to make Payment thereof to Receiver General.; Receivers General to pay into the Receipt of the Exchequer on the 24th of June, or within 20 Days.; Sub-Collectors to levy the 3d Quarterly Payment.; Head Collectors to hasten the Sub-Collectors. Head Collector to make his Payment to the Receiver General. Receiver General to hasten Head Collectors, and to; make his Payment into the Exchequer on or before 29th Sept. or within 20 Days.; Sub-Collectors to levy the Fourth Quarterly Payment. Head Collectors to make Payment to Receiver General, who is to make Payment into the Exchequer, on or before the 25th Dec. or within 20 Days.
And bee it further Enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That the Commissioners or any Two or more of them shall issue out their Warrants or Estreates to the Subcollectors under their Hands and Seales thereby Requireing them to Levy and Collect all and every the Assesments and all the Moneys and Rates due thereupon according to the Duplicates thereof by them received and according to the Intent and Directions of this present Act Which said Sub Collectors are hereby required to demand all and every the Rates and Assesments herein mentioned which are laid upon Persons in respect of their Personall Estates Offices or Employments and to make such Demands of the Parties themselves if they can be found or otherwise at the Place of their last Abode and to Levy and Pay the same upon or before the First day of March in the Yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred eighty and nine or within Twenty dayes after at such Place as the Commissioners shall appoint unto their respective Head Collectors who are hereby required to call upon and hasten their Subcollectors to the said Payments And at or upon the Eighth day of March aforesaid or within Twenty dayes after to Levy by Warrant under the Hands and Seales of any Two or more of the said Commissioners by Distresse upon the Subcollectors respectively such Summe and Summes of Money as by him or them ought to have beene paid and is or are not paid by reason of his failure in doeing his Duty according to the Directions of this Act soe as every Head Collector may make Payment unto the Receiver Generall of the said County City or Place to be Appointed by Their Majestyes of the full Summes by him to be paid on the Fifteenth day of March aforesaid or within Twenty dayes after And the Receiver Generall is likewise required to call upon and hasten the said Head Collectors and to Pay what he shall soe receive from the said Head Collectors into Their Majesties Receipt of X1Excheque upon or before the Five and twentyeth day of March aforesaid or within Twenty dayes after to the end that all and every the Rates and Assesments which by this Act are Imposed upon any Person or Persons in respect of his or their Personall Estate Offices or Employments may be spedily brought into Their Majestyes Receipt of Exchequer and there paid in upon or before the said Five and twentyeth day of March or within Twenty dayes after at One entire Payment And the said Sub Collectors are alsoe required and enjoyned to Levy one Fourth part of the Pound Rate charged upon all Mannours Messuages Lands Tenements Hereditaments and Premisses as aforesaid and to pay the same unto their respective Head Collectors on or before the Eighth day of March aforesaid or within Twenty dayes after And the said Head Collectors are to hasten the said Sub Collectors And in case the same shall not be Collected by reason of X2defect or failure of Duty of the said Sub Collectors the said Head Collectors are to proceede against them by Distresse in like manner and by like Warrant as aforesaid And every Head Collector is hereby required to make Payment of what shall be soe Levyed or Received unto the Receiver Generall of the said County City or Place upon or before the Fifteenth day of March aforesaid or within Twenty dayes after And the Receiver Generall is likewise required to call upon and hasten the said Head Collectors and to pay what he shall Receive from the said Head Collectors unto Their Majesties Receipt of Exchequer upon or before the Five and twentyeth day of March aforesaid or within Twenty dayes after to the end that the First Payment of the said Pound-Rate of Two shillings may by that time be fully Answered and Paid in to Their Majestyes, And the Subcollectors shall alsoe Levy the Second Quarterly Payment of the said Pound-Rate Charged as aforesaid upon or before the Second day of June then next ensueing or within Twenty dayes after and shall alsoe Pay the same unto the said Head Collectors upon or before the Ninth day of June aforesaid or within Twenty dayes after And the said Head Collectors shall make Payment thereof to the Receiver Generall of the said County City or Place upon or before the Sixteenth day of June aforesaid or within Twenty dayes after And the said Receiver Generall is alsoe required to make Payment of all which he shall soe Receive into Their Majestyes Receipt of Exchequer upon or before the said Foure and twentyeth day of June then next ensueing or within Twenty dayes after to the end that the Second Payment of the said Pound Rate soe Charged as aforesaid may by that time be fully Answered and Paid in to Their Majestyes And the said Sub Collectors are alsoe required and enjoyned to Levy One other Quarterly Payment of the said Pound Rate Charged as aforesaid upon or before the Fourth day of September then next ensueing and shall alsoe Pay the same unto the respective Head Collectors on or before the Twelfth day of September aforesaid or within Twenty dayes after And the said Head Collectors are to hasten the said Sub Collectors And in case the same shall not be Collected by reason of neglect or failure of Duty in the said Sub Collectors the Head Collectors are to proceede against them by Distresse in like manner and by like Warrant as aforesaid And every Head Collector is hereby required to make Payment of what shall be soe Levyed or Received unto the Receiver Generall of the said County City or Place upon or before the Nine and twentyeth day of September aforesaid or within Twenty dayes after And the Receiver Generall is likewise required to call upon and hasten the said Head Collectors and to Pay what he shall Receive from the said Head Collectors unto Their Majestyes Receipt of Exchequer upon or before the Nine and twentyeth day of September aforesaid or within Twenty dayes after to the end that the Third Payment of the said Pound-Rate of Two shillings may by that time be fully Answered and Paid in to Their Majesties And the Subcollectors shall alsoe Levy One other Quarterly Payment of the said Pound Rate Charged as aforesaid upon or before the Second day of December then next ensueing or within Twenty dayes after and shall alsoe Pay the same unto the said Head Collectors upon or before the ninth day of December aforesaid or within twenty dayes after And the said Head Collectors shall make Payment thereof to the Receiver Generall of the said County City or Place upon or before the Sixteenth day of December aforesaid or within Twenty dayes after And the said Receiver Generall is alsoe required to make Payment of all which he shall soe Receive into Their Majestyes Receipt of Exchequer upon or before the Five and twentyeth day of December aforesaid or within Twenty dayes after to the end that the Fourth and last Quarterly Payment of the said Pound Rate soe Charged as aforesaid may by that time be fully Answered and Paid in to Their Majesties And all Commissioners Collectors and Receivers are hereby required and enjoyned to apply themselves with all Diligence to the most speedy and effectuall Execution of their severall and respective Duties that soe Their Majestyes Service herein may not be delayed or hindred through any of their wilfull neglect or default.
Annotations
Editorial notes
- X1
Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Exchequer O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]
- X2
Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: neglect O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]