Taxation (No. 2) Act 1625

XIX. Commissioners to take Recognizances of Collectors.

Condition of Recognizance for first Subsidy.; Condition of Recognizance for Second Subsidy.; Commissioners to certify Recognizances,&c. into the Exchequer.; Penalty £10.; Collector not making Recognizance.; Penalty £20l.; Exchequer to cancel Recognizances on Payment of Collection into Exchequer without Fee.; Collector may appoint Days and Places for Payment of Collection.; Assessor,&c. not paying Collection to High Collectors,; after Allowance of 2d. in the Pound for Collection; Distress.; Proceedings thereon.

Provided alwaies, and be it enacted by the authoritie aforesaid that the said Co[m]missioners having authoritie by this Act to name and nominate the same high Collectors of every of the said Subsidies, shall ymediatelie uppon their nominacion and eleccion, take by authoritie of this p[re]sent Parliament, sufficient Recognizances or Obligacions, without any Fee or reward to be paid therefore, of every p[er]son so by them to be named to be high Collectors, to be bound to the Kings Majestie in the double so[m]me of the so[m]me of his colleccion, and to be indorsed and made uppon such condicion, that is to saie, for the colleccion of the payment of the said first Subsidie: That if the said Collector his Heires or Executors doe trulie content and pay to the use of the Kings Majestie, his Heires or Successors in the receipt of the said Exchequer, at or before the last day of October, next ensuing, so much of the said so[m]me of money allotted and appointed to his colleccion, as hee shall collects and gather, and content and pay the residue of his colleccion and charge within one moneth next after such tyme, as hee hath collected and gathered the same residue, that then the saide Recognizances or Obligacions to be void, or els to stand in full strength and vertue, And for the colleccion of the said second Subsidie, uppon condicion, That if the said Collector his heires or executors doe trulie content and pay to the use of the Kings Majestie his Heires or Successors in his receipt of Exchequer, at or before the said last day of Aprill which shalbe in the yeare of our Lord God, one thousand six hundred twentie and sixe, so much of the said so[m]me of mony allotted and appointed to his colleccion, as he shall collect and gather, and content and pay the residue of his colleccion& charge within one moneth next after such tyme, as he hath collected and gathered the same residue, that then the said Recognizances or Obligacions to be void, or els to stand in full force and vertue: Which said severall Recognizances or Obligacions so taken, the said Co[m]missioners shall severallie certifie and deliver into the Kings Majesties Exchequer with the severall Certificates of the said Taxacions and Rates of the payment of the said Subsidies, at and by the tyme to them p[re]scribed and appointed by this Act, for the certificate of the said severall Taxacions of the said Subsidies, uppon paine of forfeiture of ten pounds to the Kings Majestie for every such Recognizance or Obligacion not so certified, And that every such Collector so elected named and chosen uppon request to him made, shall knowledge and make the said Recognizance or Obligacion, uppon paine and forfeiture of twentie pounds to the Kings Majestie for the refusall thereof; And that the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer for the tyme being uppon payment of the said severall colleccions of the Subsidies at the daies and tymes herein lymitted for the payment thereof shall cancell and deliver the Recognizances or Obligacions for the payment thereof to the Collector or Collectors without any other warrant, and without any fee or reward to be paid for the same to any p[er]son. And every Collector so deputed, having the said Estreat in parchment as is aforesaid, shall have authoritie by this Act to appoint daies and places within the circuit of his colleccion, for the payment of the said Subsidies to him to be made and thereof to give warning by p[re]clamacion or otherwise, to all the Constables or other p[er]sons or inhabitants, having the charge of the particular colleccion within the Hundreds, Parishes, Townes, or other places by him or them lymited, to make payment for the said particuler colleccion of every su[m]me as to them shall appertayne. And if at the same day and place so lymitted and p[re]fixed by the said high Collector, the said Constable Officers, or other p[er]sons or inhabitants as is aforesaid, for the said particuler colleccion assigned and appointed within such Hundred Citie Towne or other place do not pay unto the said high Collectors, the some within their severall Hundreds, Townes, Parishes, and other places due and comprised in the said Estreat thereof, to them delivered by the said Co[m]missioners or so[m]me of them as is aforesaid, or so much thereof as they have by any meanes received two pence for every pound for the said particuler colleccion as is aforesaid, alwaies thereof to be allowed, excepted, and abated, that then it shalbe lawfull to the said high collectors and every of them and to their assignes, to distraine every of the said Constables Officers and other inhabitants for their said severall and particuler colleccion of the said so[m]mes 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 so[m]me, as so then shall happen to be gathered and levied, and behinde and unpaid, by the goods and chattells of every of them so being behinde, and the distresse so taken, to be kept and appraised and sold as is aforesaid, and thereof to take and levie the so[m]mes so then being behinde and unpaid, and the overplus co[m]ming of the sale of the said distresse (if any be) to be restored and delivered unto the owner in for me above remembred.