{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-3-act-1688/section-X",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-3-act-1688/section-X.json",
  "legislation": "aep/WillandMarSess2/1/1",
  "legislation_title": "Taxation (No. 3) Act 1688",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-3-act-1688",
  "path": "section/X",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "X",
  "heading": "Fee to Commissioners Clerks for transcribing Warrants. Persons neglecting, &c. to pay Assessment in respect of Personal Estate, Offices, or Lands; Distress issued and Proceedings thereon.",
  "text": "Rate not paid in Four Days Distress appraised and sold for Payment, and Overplus to Owner.; Houses, &c. may be broken open.\nAnd for the carefull Writeing and Transcribeing the said Warrants Estreats and Duplicates in due time It is further Enacted That the Commissioners Clerkes who shall respectively performe the same shall by Warrant under Two or more of the Commissioners Hands have and receive from the respective Head Collectors One Peny in the Pound of all such Moneys as he or they shall have Received by vertue of such Warrants and Estreats (who are hereby appointed and allowed to Pay the same accordingly) And if any Person shall neglect or refuse to pay the severall Rates and Assesments wherewith he is Charged by this Act for or in respect of his Personall Estate Offices or Employment and which he ought to Pay Or if the Pound Rate or any Payment thereof soe as aforesaid Charged upon any Mannours Messuages Lands Tenements Hereditaments and Premisses shall be neglected or refused to be Paid Then upon Demand made by the Officer or Collector of the Place according to the Precept or Estreate to him delivered by the said Commissioners it shall and may be lawfull to and for such Officer or Collector and he and they is and are hereby required for Non-payment thereof to Distraine the Person or Persons soe refuseing or neglecting to Pay by his or their Goods or Chattells or to Distraine in and upon the Messuages Lands Tenements and Premisses soe Charged and the Goods and Chattells then and there found and the Distresse soe taken to keepe by the space of foure Dayes at the Costs and Charges of the Owner thereof and if the said Owner doe not pay the Summe of Money due by this Act within the said Foure dayes Then the said Distresse to be Appraised by two or three of the Inhabitants where the said Distresse is taken and to be sold by the said Officer or Collector for the payment of the said Money and the overplus comeing by the said Sale (if any be over and above the Charges of takeing and keepeing the Distress) to be immediately restored to the Owner thereof And moreover it shall be lawfull to breake open in the day-time any House and upon Warrant under the Hands and Scales of any two or more of the said Commissioners any Chest Trunke or Box or other things where such Goods are (calling to their Assistance the Constables Tythingmen or Headburroughs within the Countyes Townes or Places where any Refusall Neglect or Resistance shall be made which said Officers are hereby required to be Aiding and Assisting in the Premisses)",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "interlined on the Roll."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMarSess2/1/1/section/X",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:26:46.277072+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}