Section IX Commissioners to execute act according to the tenor thereof.

For Payment of the Two Moieties of the said Money,; Commissioners to direct Precepts to a certain Number of Inhabitants in Hundreds, &c. to appear before the the Commissioners.; Persons who receive Precepts are to shew such Precepts to the other Inhabitants named therein; Penalty £5.

And be it alsoe enacted by authoritie of this p[re]sent Parliament That the Commissioners and every of them which are named limited and appointed according to this act to be Commissioners in every such Shire Ryding Lathe Wapentake Rape City Town Borough Isle or any other place and none other shall truely effectually and diligently for their parts execute the effect of this present act according to the tenour thereof in every behalfe and no otherwise by any meanes without omission favour dread malice or any other thing to be attempted or done by them or any of them to the contrary thereof And the said Commissioners or as many of them as shall be appointed by the said Commission and none other for the execution of the said Commission and act shall for the taxation of the said first payment being the moitie or one halfe of the said sume and su[m]ms of money before the six and twentieth day of Aprill in the yeare of our Lord God One thousand six hundred fourty two And for the taxation of the second payment being the other moyety hereof before the first day of September One thousand six hundred fourty and two by vertue of the Commission delivered to them in form aforesaid directts theire severall or joynt precept or precepts unto eight seven six five four three or twoe (as for the number of the Inhabitants shall be requisite) of the most substantiall discreet and honest persons Inhabitants to be named by the said Commissioners or by as many of them as shall bee appointed by the said Commission of and in Hundreds Lathes Rapes Wapentakes Wards Parishes Towns and other places aswell within Liberties Franchises ancient demeasne places exempted and Sanctuaries as without within the limits of the Shires Ridings Lathes Wapentakes Rapes Cities Towns Boroughs and Isle aforesaid and other places within the limits of theire Commission and to the Constables Subconstables Bailiffs and other like Officers and Ministers of every of the said Hundreds Towns Rapes Wapentakes Wards Parishes and other places aforesaid as to the Commissioners and every number of them or to four or three of them by theire discretion shall seem expedient and as by the manner and use of those parts shall be requisite straitly by the said precept charging and commanding the said Inhabitants Constables and other Officers aforesaid to whom such Precept shall be so directed to appeare in theire proper persons before the said Commissioners or such number of them asX1 shall divide themselves according to the tenour of the said Commission at certaine dayes and places by the said Commissioners or any such number of them as is aforesaid within Cities Boroughs or Towns corporate or without in any other place as is aforesaid by theire discretion to be limited thereunto to do and accomplish all that to them on the part of the Kings Majestie shall be enjoyned touching this act Commaunding further by the said precept that he to whose hands such precept shall come shall shew and deliver the same to the other Inhabitants or Officers named in the same Precept and that none of them faile to accomplish the same upon pain of five pounds to be forfeited to the Kings Majestie