# Taxation (No. 3) Act 1695, Section XIX: Assessors, &c. neglecting, &c. their Duty;


Commissioners to fine not exceeding £20 for one Offence.; Commissioners to call for Accounts from Receiver General of Monies received by him, and the Payment of it into Exchequer; If Controversy concerning assessing Commissioners, Commissioners concerned to withdraw; Questions touching Rates, &c. may be determined by Three Commissioners; Receivers General to give Acquittances gratis to Collectors. Collectors to deliver to Receiver General a Schedule of Names, &c. of Persons within their Collection having made Default of Payment.
And bee itt further enacted That if any Assessor Collector or other Person appointed by the Commissioners shall wilfully neglect or refuse to performe his Duty in the due and speedy Execution of this Act the said respective Commissioners or any Three or more of them may and shall by virtue of this Act impose on such Person or Persons soe refuseing or neglecting their Dutyes any Fyne not exceeding the Summe of Twenty Pounds for any one Offence the same to bee levyed and certifyed as aforesaid and charged upon the respective Receivers Generall amongst the Rates aforesaid and the said Commissioners or any Two or more of them may or shall from tyme to tyme call for and require an Account from the respective Receivers Generall of all the Moneys received by them of the said Collectors and of the Payment thereof into His Majesties Exchequer according to the Directions of this Act And in case of a failure in the Premisses the said Commissioners or any Three or more of them are hereby required to cause the same to bee forthwith levyed and payd according to the true Intent and Meaneing of this Act And in case of any Controversy ariseing betweene the said Commissioners concerning the said Rates or Assessments, the Commissioners that shall bee concerned therein shall have noe Voice but shall withdraw dureing the Debate of such Controversy untill itt bee determined by the rest of the Commissioners And all Questions and Differences that shall arise touching any of the said Rates Taxes Assessments or Levyes shall bee heard and finally determined by Three or more of the Commissioners upon Complaint thereof to them made by any Person or Persons thereby grieved without further Trouble or Suite in Law And the said Receiver General his Deputy or Deputies shall give Acquittances gratis to the said Collectors for all Moneys of them received in pursueance of this Act which Acquittances shall bee a full Discharge to the said Collectors respectively And the said Collectors shall make and deliver to the said Receivors Generall their Deputy or Deputies a perfect Schedule fairely written in Parchment under theire Hands and Seales signed and allowed by any Three or more of the said respective Co[m]missioners containeing the Names and Sirnames and Places of Abode of every Person within theire respective Collections that shall make default of Payment of any the Summes that shall bee rated or assessed on such Person for such Rate or Duty by virtue of this Act and the Summe and Summes charged on every such Person the same to be by him returned into His Majesties Exchequer whereupon every Person soe makeing default of Payment may bee charged by Processe of Court according to the Course thereof in that behalfe.

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