Section XVII Commissioners to take Recognizances of High collectors without Fee.

Condition of Recognizance.; Commissioners to certify.; Recognizances, &c. into the Exchequer; Penalty £10.; collector not making Recognizance; Penalty £20.; Exchequer to cancel Recognizances on Payment of collection into Exchequer without Fee.; collector may appoint Days and Places for Payment of collect.; Assessors, &c. not paying collect to High collectors,; with Allowance of 1d. in the Pound of collection.; Distress.; Proceedingsthereon.

Provided alwaies And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid that the said Commissioners having authority by this act to nominate the High collectors of the said moneys shall immediatly upon that nomination and election take by authority of this present Parliament sufficient Recognizances or Obligac[i]ons without any fee or reward to be paid therefore of every persons so by them to be named to be High collectors to be bound to the Kings Majestie in the double su[m]m of the su[m]m of his collection and to be endorsed and made upon such condic[i]on that is to say for the due collection and payment of the moneys for and towards the first moyty of the said Foure hundred thousand; pounds and su[m]m and su[m]ms aforesaid that if the said collector his heires or executors do truly content and pay to the persons aforesaid at the X1place appointed by this act for payment thereof at or before the twentieth day of July which shall be in the yeare of our Lord God One thousand six hundred fourty two so much of the said su[m]m of money allotted and appointed to his collect that he shall collect and gather and content and pay the residue of his collection and charge within one moneth next after such time as he hath collected and gathered the same residue that then the said recognizance or obligac[i]on to be void And for the collection of the said latter payment for and towards the other moyetie or one halfe of the said Four hundred thousand pounds upon condic[i]on that if the said Collectour his heires or executours doe truly content and pay to the persons aforesaid at the places appointed by this act for payment thereof at or before the twentieth day of January which shall be in the said yeare of our Lord God One thousand six hundred fourty two so much of the said su[m]m of money allotted and appointed to his collection as he shall collect and gather and content and pay the residue of his collection and charge within one moneth next after such time as he hath collected and gathered the same residue that then the said recognizance or Obligac[i]on to be void or else to stand in full force and vertue Which said severall and respective recognizance or obligac[i]on soe taken the said Commissioners shall severally certifie and deliver into his Majesties Court of Exchequer with the severall Certificates of the said taxations and rates of the said payments at and by the times prescribed and appointed by this act for the certificate of the said taxations of the said payments upon paine of forfeiture of ten pounds to the Kings Majestie for every recognizance or obligac[i]on not so certified And that every such collector so named and chosen upon request to him made shall acknowledge and make the said recognizance or obligac[i]on upon pain of forfeiture of twenty pounds to the Kings Majestie for the refusall thereof and that the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer for the time being upon payment of the said severall collections of the said moneys at the dayes and times herein limited for the payment hereof shall cancell and deliver the recognizances or obligac[i]ons for the payment thereof to the collector or collectors without any X2other Warrant and without any fee or reward to be paid for the same to any person And every collector soe deputed having the said Estreat in parchment as is aforesaid shall have authoritie by this act to appoint dayes and places within the circuit of his collection for the payment of the said moneys to him to be made and thereof to give warning by Proclamation or otherwise to all the Constables or other persons or inhabitants having the charge of the particular collection within the Hundreds Parishes Towns or other places by him or them limited to make payment of the said particular collect of every su[m]m as to them shall appertain And if at the same day and place so limited and p[re]fixed by the said High collector the said Constable Officers or other persons or inhabitants as is aforesaid for the said particular collection assigned and appointed within such Hundred Citie Town or other place doe not pay unto the said High collector the su[m]m within theire severall Hundreds Towns Parishes and other Places due & comprised in the said Estreat thereof to them delivered by the said Commissioners or some of them as is aforesaid or so much thereof as they have by any meanes received (one peny for every pound for the said particular collection as is aforesaid alwaies thereof to be allowed excepted and abated) that then it shall be lawfull for the said High collectors and every of them and for theire assignes to distreine every of the said Constables Officers and other Inhabitants for theire said severall and particular collection of the said su[m]ms comprised in the said Estreat and Writing thereof to them and every of them as is before expressed delivered or for so much of the same su[m]m as so then shall happen to be gathered and leavied and behinde and unpaid by the goods and chattels of every of them so being behind and the distresse so taken to be kept and appraised and sold as is aforesaid and thereof to take and leavy the su[m]ms so then being behinde and unpaid and the overplus coming of the sale of the said distresse (if any be) to be restored and delivered unto the Owner in form above remembred.