# Taxation (No. 8) Act 1640, Section XVI: Commissioners to appoint collectors;


to be High collectors.; Commissioners to deliver Estreats indented under their Seals and Sign Manual to collectors.; collectors to answer the Sums comprized in Estreat.
And further be it enacted by the said Authority that such of the said Commissioners or the more part of them as shall take upon them the execution and busines of the said Commission shall for the payment of the said moneys name such sufficient and able persons in Shires Ridings Lathes Wapentakes Rapes Cities Towns corporate and other whatsoever places as well within places priviledged as without not being foreprised in this act to be High collectors and to have the collection and receipt of the said su[m]ms set and leviable within the p[re]cincts limits and bounds where they shall be so limited and appointed to be High collectors and to every of the said collectors so severally named the said Commissioners or two of them at the least with all speed and without delay after the said su[m]ms of money be set by all the limits of the same theire Commission or in such limits as the High collectors shall be so severally assigned shall under theire seales and signes manuall deliver one Estreat indented in parchment comprising in it the names of all such persons as were assigned to leavy the said particular su[m]ms of every Hundred and Wapentake Town and other place aforesaid with the names and surnames of the persons so chargeable according to the Estreat so hereof first made and delivered as is aforesaid And the collectors to be assigned shall be charged to answer the whole su[m]m comprised in the said Estreat limited to his collection

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