Section IV Certificates of Assessments to be returned to the Commissioners before 4th of June 1696.; Commissioners to issue Warrants to Collectors for levying, &c.

Collectors to make Demand of Rates of Parties, and give Acquittance's gratis.; Receivers General to hasten Collectors.; In case of Default, to levy by Distress.

And bee itt further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Rates and Duties charged by this Act shall be ascertained and the Certificates thereof returned to the Co[m]missioners att or before the Fourth day of June One thousand six hundred ninety six and upon the Delivery and Returne of such Certificates or Assessments unto the said Commissioners they or any two or more of them shall forthwith issue out and deliver theire Warrants or Estreats to such Collectors as aforesaid for the speedy collecting and levying of the said Dutyes as they shall respectively become due and payable and all Moneys and Rates due thereupon according to the Intent and Directions of this present Act of all which the said Collectors are hereby required to make demand of the Parties chargeable therewith or att the Places of their last Abode within Ten dayes after the said Duties hereby granted shall respectively become due and payable and upon Payment thereof to give Acquittances under their Hands (without takeing any thing for such Acquittances) unto the severall Persons who shall pay the same And that such Acquittances shall bee a full and perfect Discharge to every such Persons who shall pay the same, against His Majesty His Heires and Successors And the said Collectors are hereby required to pay in all such Summes of Money as they shall receive within Twenty dayes after the Receipt thereof att such place as the Commissioners shall appoint unto the respective Generall Receiver his Deputy or Deputies who are hereby impowered and required to call upon and hasten the Collectors to the said Payment And in default of such Payment to levy by Warrant under the Hands and Seales of any Two or more of the Commissioners upon the Collectors by Distresse and Sale of his or their Goods and Chattells such Summe and Summes of Money as hee hath received and as ought by him to have beene paid and is not paid by reason of his Failure in doeing his Duty according to the direction of this Act.