# Taxation (No. 8) Act 1640, Section XV: Rates estreated under the Seal and Sign Manual of the Commissioners, and Estreat delivered to sufficient Inhabitants, &c. of Hundreds, &c.


By Authority of Estreat, Officers, &c. to levy Rate.; Distress.; If Rate not paid in Eight Days, then Distress appraised and sold for Payment of Rate; Overplus to the Owner.; Officers, &c. to answer for the Portion limited to them only.
And be it further enacted by the authoritie aforesaid That after the taxes and assesses of the said sums upon and by the said assessing and certificate as is aforesaid made the said Commissioners or as many of them as shall be thereunto appointed and have authority by the Kings Majesties Commission shall with all speed and without delay by their writing estreat the said taxes thereof under the Seales and Signes manuall of the said Commissioners or as many of them as shall be appointed at the least And the same, shall deliver unto sufficient and substantiall Inhabitants Constables Subconstables Bayliffes and other Officers joyntly of Hundreds Towns Parishes and other places aforesaid within theire limits and to other sufficient persons inhabitants of the same onely by the discretion of the said Commissioners with the assent of the High Collectors and as the place and parties shall require as well the particular names and sirnames as the remembrance of all su[m]mes of money taxed and set of and upon every person as well man as woman chargeable by this act housholders and all other Inhabitants and Dwellers within the said Parishes Towns and places contributary to this act by authority of which writing and estreat so delivered the said Officers and other persons so named and deputed severally shall have full power and authority by vertue of this act immediately after the delivery of the said Writing or Estreat to demand leavie and gather of every person therein specified the su[m]m and su[m]ms in the same writing or estreat comprised and for non payment thereof to distrain the same person or persons so being behind and the occupier or tenant of Lands tenements or hereditaments chargeable by this act by his or theire goods and chattels and the distresse so taken to keepe by the space of eight dayes at the costs and charges of the Owner thereof And if the said Owner do not pay such su[m]m of money as shall be taxed upon him or her by authority of this act within the same eight dayes then the same distresse to be praised by four three or two of the Inhabitants where such distresse is taken and also then to be sold by the Constable or other Collector for the payment of the said money and the overplus coming by the sale if any be over and besides the charge of keeping the said distresse to be upon demaund restored to the Owner thereof which said Officers and other persons so deputed to aske take gather and leavie the said su[m]ms shall answer and be charged for the portion onely to them assigned and limited to be gathered leavied and comprised in the said Writing or Estreat so to them as aforesaid delivered to the persons and uses in the act expressed and the said su[m]m in that writing or estreat to be comprised to pay to the High collector or Collectors of that place in manner and form under written thereunto to be named and deputed

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha1/16/32/section/XV (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-8-act-1640/section-XV
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