Taxation (No. 2) Act 1625

XXIII. Allowance to High Collectors and their Accountants.

Allowance to be paid by Collectors to Commissioners for Expences and Labours of their Clerks.; Remedy for the same for Commissioners against Collectors.

And be it also enacted by the said authoritie of this p[re]sent Parliament That every of the said high Collectors, which shall account for any part of the said Subsidies in the said Exchequer uppon their severall accounts to be yeilded, shalbe allowed at every of the said payments of the said Subsidies for every pound lymited to his colleccion, whereof any such Collector shalbe charged and yeild account, sixe pence as parcell of their charge, that is to saie, of every pound thereof for such p[er]sons as then have had the particuler colleccion of the Townes and other places as is aforesaid specified in his colleccion, two pence and other two pence of every pound thereof, every of the said cheife Collectors, or their Accomptants to retaine to their owne use, for their labour and charge in and about the p[re]misses, and two pence of everie pound residue, to be delivered allowed and paid by the said Collector so being thereof. allowed, to such of the Co[m]missioners, as shall take uppon them the busines and labour for and about the p[re]misses, that is to saie, Every Collector to pay that Co[m]missioner or Co[m]missioners, which had the ordering of the writings of and for every of the said Subsidies, where the said Collector or Collectors had their colleccion, for the expences for the said Co[m]missioners, so taking uppon them the said businesse, and labour of their Clarkes writing the said p[re]cepts and Ext^acts of the said Colleccions, the said last two pence of every pound to be devided amongest the said Co[m]missioners, having regard to their labour and busines taken by them and their said Clarkes in and about the p[re]misses, for which part, so to the said Co[m]missioners appertayning, the said Co[m]missioners six, five, foure, three, or two, or as many of them as shalbe thereunto appointed by the Kinges Majesties Co[m]mission, and every of them joyntlie and severallie for his and their said part, may have his remedie against the Collector or Collectors, which thereof byn or might have bin allowed by accion of debt, in which the Defendant shall not wage his Lawe, neither Proteccion, neither Injunccion or Essoine shalbe allowed.