# Taxation (No. 3) Act 1695, Section V: Duplicate of Assessments to be made out and delivered to Receiver General.


Receiver General to pay into Exchequer on the 29th Sept. and 25th March, or within 40 Days after.; On Return of Certificate Commissioners may examine Presenters thereof, and summon Persons suspected of being omitted in Certificates, &c.; Persons summoned neglecting to appear, Penalty Double Rate.; Receiver General to have 2d. in the Pound.; Collector 3d. in the Pound.
And bee itt enacted That a true Duplicate of the said Assessments be in convenient tyme made out and delivered unto the respective Receivers Generall soe as every of them may bee duely charged to answere their respective Collections and Receipts And that the respective Receivers Generall shall pay the severall Summes of Money by them received by vertue of this Act into His Majesties Exchequer by Halfe yearely Payments upon the Nine and twentieth of September and Five and twentieth of March or within Forty dayes after And upon the Returne of any such Certificate the said Commissioners or any Three or more of them shall and may (if they see cause) examine the Presenters thereof And if the said Commissioners or any Three or more of them within theire severall Limitts shall att the time of the Returne of the Certificates or within Twenty dayes after have certaine Knowledge or vehemently suspect that any Dwelling House or Houses or the Names of any Persons which ought to bee charged by this Act are omitted in the said Certificates or the full Number of Windows in any House not sett downe or that any Dwelling House is under-charged or not duely charged according to the Direction of this Act the said Commissioners or any Three or more of them shall have Power to summon the Person or Persons inhabiting such Dwelling House to appeare before them att a day and place prefixed to bee examined touching the Rates and Duties aforesaid or touching other Matters which may any way concerne the Premisses And if any Person or Persons summoned to be soe examined shall neglect to appeare not having a reasonable Excuse for such his Default every Person soe makeing Default shall pay unto His Majesty double the Summe of the Rate he should or ought to have beene sett att And moreover the said Commissioners or any Three or more of them shall have Power by all lawfull Wayes and Meanes to examine and inquire into the Number of Windows in any Dwelling House charged by this Act And to sett such Rates and Summes upon such Houses as shall be according to the true Intent and meaning of this Act And the said Receiver Generall shall have an Allowance of Two Pence in the Pound for all Moneys which shall bee by him paid into the Receipt of the Exchequer And that every Collector shall have Three Pence in the Pound for what Money hee shall to the Receiver Generall his Deputy and Deputies.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/7-8/18/section/V (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-3-act-1695/section-V
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