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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-8-act-1640/section-XIX",
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  "legislation": "aep/Cha1/16/32",
  "legislation_title": "Taxation (No. 8) Act 1640",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-8-act-1640",
  "path": "section/XIX",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XIX",
  "heading": "Allowance to High collectors and their Accountants.",
  "text": "Allowance to be paid by collectors to Commissioners for Expences and Labour of their Clerks.; Remedy for the same for Commissioners against collectors.\nAnd be it alsoe enacted by the said authority of this present Parliament that every of the said high collectors which shall accompt for any part of the said payments upon their severall accompts to be yeelded shall be allowed upon payment of the money chargeable upon his collection for every pound limited to his collect whereof any such collector shall be charged and yeeld accompt three pence as parcell of theire charge (that is to say) of every pound thereof for such persons as then have had the particular collection of the towns and other places (as is aforesaid) specified in his collection one peny and one other peny of every pound thereof (every of the said cheife collectors or theire accomptants to retaine to theire owne use for theire labour and charge in and about the premisses and one peny of every pound residue to be delivered allowed and paid by the said collector so being thereof allowed to such of the Commissioners as shall take upon them the busines and labour for and about the premisses) that is to say Every collector to pay that Commissioner or Commissioners which had the ordering of the writing of and for the said payments where the said collector or collectors had theire collection for the expences for the said Commissioners so taking upon them the said busines and labour of theire Clerks writing, the said precepts and extracts of the said collections the said last peny of every pound to be divided amongst the said Commissioners having regard to theire labour and busines taken by them and theire said Clerks in and about the premisses For which part so the said Commissioners appertaining the said Commissioners six five foure or three or as many of them as shall be thereunto appointed by the Kings Majesties Commission and every of them joyntly and severally for his and theire said part may have his remedie against the collector or collectors which thereof beene or might have beene allowed by action of debt in which the defendant shall not wage his lawe neither protection neither injunction neither essoin shall be allowed And the said Treasurers and Receivers appointed by this act for the said Four hundred thousand pounds and other su[m]ms or as many of them as shall take upon them the busines and labour in receiving and issuing out of the said moneys shall have one halfe peny in every pound so by them received and issued out for theire paines in that behalfe the same to be deducted out of the said su[m]ms so by them to be received as aforesaid.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "X1",
      "text": "interlined on the Roll."
    },
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      "label": "X2",
      "text": "Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: to O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]"
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      "type": "X",
      "label": "X3",
      "text": "O. omits."
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha1/16/32/section/XIX",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:37:27.390195+00:00"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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