Taxation (No. 2) Act 1625

XVI. The Power of Commissioners to tax other Commissioners, and also Assessors.

Barons and Persons of higher Estate taxed by the Lord Chancellor, Lord Treasurer, and other Persons named by the King.; Rate estreated and certified.

And be it further enacted by the authoritie aforesaid, That the said Co[m]missioners in every Co[m]mission, which shalbe or inhabite in any Countie or Place within the lymitts of their Co[m]mission, or the more part of them, shall have full power and authoritie by this Act to set taxe and sesse every other Co[m]missioner joyned with them in every such Co[m]mission, and the said Co[m]missioners within their Division shall also assesse every Assessor within their Division, for his or their goods lands and other the p[re]misses as is abovesaid, by which [X1 said] Co[m]mission the said Co[m]missioners, to whome it shall appertaine, shall indifferentlie set taxe and sesse themselves and the said Assessors.; and that aswell the so[m]mes uppon every of the said Co[m]missioners and Assessors so sessed rated and taxed as the su[m]mes made and p[re]sented by the Presenters, as is abovesaid, shalbe written certified, set and estreated, and the Estreats thereof to be made with other the inhabitants of that part, and within the lymitts of the same Co[m]mission and Division, so to be gathered and levied, in like manner as it ought or should have bene, if the said Co[m]missioners had not bene in the said Co[m]mission, And that all p[er]sons of the estate of a Baron or Baronesse, and every estate above shalbe charged with their freehold and value as is aforesaid by the Chauncellor or the Lord Keeper of the great Seale of England, the High Treasurer of England for the tyme being or one of them, together with other such p[er]sons as by the Kings Majesties authoritie or co[m]maundement shalbe named and appointed, and they to be charged for the said severall payments of the said Subsidies after the forme of the said Graunt according to the taxacion aforesaid and the so[m]me of and uppon them to be taxed and set with the names of the Collectors appointed for gathering and paying of the same, to be estreated delivered and certified at dayes and places above specified by the Lord Chauncellor or Keep of the great Seale, and Lord Tresurer, or one of them, together with other such p[er]sons, as thereunto shalbe named, as is aforesaid.

Editorial Information

X1 O. omits.