Section XX No Member of Parliament or Commissioner to be named collectors.

Commissioners not compellable to make Presentments other than to Exchequer.; Persons assigned to be Commissioners not to be named Head collectors.; Head collectors acquitted of Fees.; Taking Fees of Accountants; Penalty.; Imprisonment.; Commissioners at Meetings to shew Certificates and Presentments to the other Commissioners.; Indenture of collectors Names, and of Sums written to collectors, Fines, &c. to be certified by Commissioners into the Exchequer.; collectors answerable for their own collect only.; Commissioners, if they cannot agree, &c. may make several Indentures.; collectors answerable for their own collect only; and upon Payment to be discharged in the Exchequer without Fee Penalty.; Commissioners or collectors or Persons taxed dying before discharged, Heirs and Executors chargeable as such Persons would have been if alive.; And Persons having in their Custody Real or Personal Estates of Persons dead to answer as if such Persons were living.; Commissioners not thinking fit to join in one Certificate,; Proceedings.; Commissioners making Default of Certificate, Process out of Exchequer against them.

And be it further enacted that no person now being a member of this present Parliament nor any Commissioner shall be named or assigned to be any collector Subcollector or Presenter of the said Payments or any part thereof nor any Commissioner shall be compelled to make any presentment or certificate other then into the Kings Majesties said Exchequer of for or concerning the said payments or any part or parcell thereof And likewise that no other person that shall be named and assigned to be Commissioners in any place to and for the execution of this act for the raising of money be or shall be assigned or named Head collector of either of the said payments neither of any part thereof And that every such person & persons which shall be nominated and appointed as is aforesaid to be Head collectors of and for the payment of the said Four hundred thousand pounds and su[m]m and su[m]ms of money payable by vertue of this act or of any part thereof be and shall be acquitted and discharged of all manner of fees and rewards and of every other charge in the Kings Majesties Exchequer or elsewhere of them or any of them by reason of that collection payment or account or any thing concerning the same to be asked And that if any person receive or take any fees rewards or pleasures of any such accomptants or use any unnecessary delay in theire accompt that then he shall forfeite to the Kings Majesty for every peny or value of every peny so taken five shillings and five pounds to the party greived for every such delay and suffer imprisonment at the Kings Majesties pleasure And after every taxing and assessing of the X1said su[m]m and su[m]ms of money aforesaid had or made and the said extracts thereof in parchment unto the collector in manner and forme before rehearsed delivered the said Commissioners which shall take upon them the execution of this act within the limits of theire said Commission by theire Agreements shall have meetings togeather At which meetings every of the said Commissioners which then shall have taken upon them the execution of any part of the said Commission shall by himselfe or his sufficient deputy truly certifie and bring forth unto the said Commissioners named in the said Commission the certificate and presentment made before him and such other Commissioners as were limited with him in one limit (so as the same certificate may be accompted & cast with the other certificates of the other limits within the same Commission) and then the said Commissioners and every number of them unto three at the least as is aforesaid if any be in life or theire executors or administrators of theire goods if they then be dead shall joyntly and severally as they were divided within their limits under their Seales by theire discretions make one or severall writings indented containing in it aswell the names of the said collectors by the Commissioners for such collections and accompts in the Exchequer and payments assigned as the grosse and severall su[m]ms written unto every such collectors to receive the said payments and also all fines amerciaments and other forfeitures if any such be by reason of this act as shall happen X2to be within the limit and p[re]cinct of theire Commission to be certified into the Kings Majesties Exchequer by the said Commissioners in which writing or writings indented so to be certified shall be plainly declared and expressed the whole and entire sum and sums of the said payments severally limited to the collection of the said collectors severally deputed and assigned to the said Sums so as none of the said collectors so certified in the said Exchequer shall be compelled there to accompt or be charged but only to and for the su[m]ms limited to his collection and not to or for any sum limited to the collection of his fellowes but every of them shall be severally charged for theire part limited to theire collection And if the said Commissioners joyned in any one Commission amongst themselves in that matter cannot agree or if any of them be not ready or refuse to make certificate with the other of the same Commissioners that then the said Commissioners may make severall Indentures in form aforesaid of theire severall limits or separations of collectors within the limits of theire Commission upon and in the Hundreds Wards Wapentakes Lathes Rapes or other such like divisions within the said severall limits of theire Commission as the places there shall require to be severed and divided and as to the same Commissioners shall seeme good to make divisions or other limits or collections for the severall charges of the same collectors so that alway one collector shall be charged and accompt for his part to him to be limited onely by himselfe and not for any Sum limited to the part of any of his fellowes and the charges of every of the collectors to be set and certified severally upon them and every such collector upon his accompt and payment of the sum of Money limited within his collection to be severally by himselfe acquitted and discharged in the said Exchequer without paying any manner of fees or rewards to any person or persons for the same upon pain and penaltie last abovesaid and not to be charged with or for any portion of any other collectors And if any Commissioner after he hath taken certificate of them that as is aforesaid shall before any Commissioners examined and the su[m]ms rated and set and the bookes and writings thereof being in his hands or if any collector or other person charged with any receipt of any part of the said Four hundred thousand pounds or other su[m]m or su[m]ms of money payable by this act or any other person taxed or otherwise by this act charged with or for any parcell of the said su[m]m of Four hundred thousand pounds or other su[m]m or su[m]ms of money payable by this act or with any other su[m]m fine amerciament penaltie or other forfeiture happen to die before the Commissioners collectors or other whatsoever person or persons have executed accomplished satisfied or sufficiently discharged that which to every such person shall appertain or belong to do according to this act then the executors administrators and heires of every such person and all other seised of any lands or tenements that any such person being charged by this act and deceasing before he be discharged thereof or any other to his use onely had of an estate of inheritance at the time that any such person was named Commissioner collector or otherwise charged with or for any manner of thing to be done satisfied or paid by reason of this act And all those that have in theire possession or hands any goods chattels leases or other things that were to any such person or persons at the time of his death or any lands or tenements that were the same persons at the time that he was as X3is aforesaid charged by this act shall be by the same compelled and charged to do and accomplish in every case as the same person so being charged should have done or ought have been compelled to do if he had beene in plene life after such rate of the Lands and Goods of the said Commissioner and collector as the partie shall have in his hands And if the said Commissioners for causes reasonable then moving shall thinke it not fit to joyn in one certificate as is aforesaid then the said person or persons that shall first joyne togeather or he that shall first certifie the said writing indented as is aforesaid shall certifie all the names of the Commissioners of that Commission whereupon such writing shall be there then to be certified with the divisions of the Hundreds Wapentakes Wards Tithings and other places to and X4among other such Commissioners of the same Commission with the names of the said Commissioners where such eparations and divisions shall be with the grosse su[m]ms of money as well of and for the said su[m]ms of money taxed or set of or within the said Hundreds Wards Wapentakes or other places to him or them divided or assigned that shall so certifie the said first writing as of the fines amerciaments penalties and other forfeitures if any happen to be within the same limits whereof the same writing shall be certified And after such writings indented which as is aforesaid shall be certified and not contain in it the whole su[m]ms set and taxed within the limits of the same Co[m]mission the other Commissioners of the same before the day of payment of the said su[m]m or su[m]ms of money shall certifie into the said Exchequer by their writing or writings indented to be made as is aforesaid the grosse and severall sums set and taxed within the places to them limited for every of the said payments and other fines amerciaments penalties & forfeitures with the names of the Hundreds Wards Wapentakes and other places to them assigned or else by theire said Writings indented to certifie at the same place before the same day of payment such reasonable causes for theire excuses why they may not make such certificate of and for the said su[m]ms of money fines amerciaments and other forfeitures growing or set by reason of the causes of theire lets or of theire not certifying as is aforesaid or else in default thereof processe to be made out of the Kings Majesties said Exchequer against the said Commissioners and every of them not making Certificate as is aforesaid by the discretion of the Treasurer and Barons of the said Exchequer.