Taxation (No. 2) Act 1625

X. Assessors misbehaving.

Commissioners may set a Fine upon them; estreated into the Exchequer.

And it is further enacted That if the said Taxors or Assessors shall not dulie behave themselves in their inquirie, taxacion, Assessement, or Certificate, but shall affeccionately corruptlie or parciallie demeane themselves in that behalfe, in such wise, that the Co[m]missioners shalby their consideracions deeme them offenders worthie of punishment, for not doeing their duties therein, that then foure or more of the Co[m]missioners in that Countie for the said Subsidie, shall have power and authoritie by their discrecions either to charge the said Assessors uppon their corporall oathes, for the better service aforesaid in that behalfe, or els by their discrecions to taxe and sett uppon the said Assessors for their misdemeanors in that behalfe, such a fine or paine as they shall thincke good, soe that it exceed not the so[m]me of ten pounds, and the same fine or paine att their discrecions to estreat into the Courte of Exchequer: Everie which Fine soe taxed and sett, by foure of the said Co[m]missioners or more, and being estreated with the Schedule and Bookes of that limitt shalbe levied and answered to the Kings use in [X1 like] manner, and forme to all intents and purposes, as anie other so[m]mes that shalbe taxed and become due by virtue of this Statute and Act of Subsidie, and not in any other wise or manner.

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: the like O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]