# Taxation (No. 3) Act 1695, Section VI: Commissioners Clerks to have 1d. in the Pound for writing Warrants, &c.


Persons neglecting to pay Rates,; Collectors to distrain.; If Rate not paid in Four Days then Distress appraised and sold for Payment of Rate; Overplus to the Owner.; Power to break open Houses, calling to Assistance Constables, &c.; Persons refusing, &c. to pay Rates,; Commissioners, &c. may commit, if no Distress.; Remedy for Persons aggrieved by the Assessment. Commissioners may abate or increase Assessment.; Commissioners to meet together for determining Appeals, &c.
And for the carefull writeing and transcribing the said Warrants Estreats and Duplicates in due tyme Bee itt, further enacted That the Clerks of the Commissioners who shall respectively performe the same shall by Warrant under two or more of the Co[m]missioners Hands have and receive from the respective Receivers Generall theire Deputy or Deputies One Penny in the Pound of all such Moneys as hee shall have received by vertue of such Warrants or Certificates who is hereby appointed and allowed to pay the same accordingly And if any Persons or Persons shall refuse to pay the severall Summe and Summes appointed by this Act for such Persons to pay upon. Demand made by the Officer or Collector of the Place according to the Precept or Estreats to him delivered by, the Commissioners appointed by this Act Itt shall and may bee lawfull to and for such Officer and Collector who are hereby thereunto authorized and required for Non payment thereof to distraine the Person or Persons soe refuseing by his or their Goods or Chattells and the Distresse soe taken to keep by the space of Foure Days att the Costs and Charges of the Owners thereof And if the said Owner doe not pay the respective Summes of Money due. by this Act within the said Foure Dayes then the said Distresse to bee appraized by Two or more of the Inhabitants where the said Distresse is taken and there to bee sold by the said Officer for payment of the said Money And the Overplus comeing by the said Sale (if any bee) over and above the Charges of takeing and keeping the said Distresse to bee immediately restored to the Owner thereof And moreover itt shall and may bee lawfull to breake open (in the day time) any House upon Warrant under the Hands and Seales of Three or more of the said Commissioners calling to theire Assistance the Constable Tythingman or Headborough within the Counties Cities Townes and Places where any Refusall Neglect or Resistance shall bee made Which said Officers are hereby required to bee ayding and assiting in the Premisses as they will answere the contrary at theire Perill And if any Persons or Persons appointed to pay any of the Duties charged by this Act shall refuse or neglect to pay the said Summe or Summes soe appointed to bee paid by the space of Twenty Dayes after Demand as aforesaid where noe sufficient Distresse can or may bee found whereby the same may bee levyed in every such Case Three or more of the Commissioners or Two Justices of the Peace by this Act appointed for any such City County or Place are hereby authorized by Warrant under their Hands and Seales to committ such Persons or Persons to the Common Gaole there to bee kept without Bayle or Mainprize untill payment shall be made And if any Person certifyed. assessed or rated find him or herselfe aggrieved with such assessing or rateing and doe within Tenne Dayes after Demand, made thereof complaine to the said Commissioners who signed or allowed theire Rate they or any Three or more of them shall and may within Tenne Dayes after such Complaint particularly examine the Parties soe complaineing upon his or her Oath concerning the Number of Windows or Lights in the Dwelling House for, which hee or they is or are respectively charged and upon due Examination or Knowledge thereof abate defalk encrease or enlarge the said Assessment and the same soe abated encreased or enlarged shall be estreated by them into the Excheq[uer] in manner aforesaid And to that end the said Commissioners are hereby required to meete together, for the determining such Complaints and Appeals accordingly.

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