Taxation (No. 2) Act 1625

XXV. Head Collectors for First Subsidy not compellable to be Collectors of Second Subsidy.

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 Collection only.

And that every such p[er]son or p[er]son which shalbe named and appointed as is aforesaid to be head Collectors of and for the payment of the said first Subsidie, or of any part thereof, shall not be compelled to be Collector for the payment of the said second Subsidie nor any part thereof. . And the said Collectors which shalbe assigned for the colleccion of the said two Subsidies, or of any part thereof and every of them, be and shalbe acquited and discharged of all manner Fees and Rewards and of every other charge in the Kings Majesties Exchequer, or elswhere, of them, or any of them by reason of that colleccion payment or accompt, or any thing conc[er]ning the same to be asked, And that if any p[er]son receive or take any Fees, Rewards or pleasures of any such Accomptants, or use any unnecessary delay in their accompt, that then he shall forfeit to the Kings Majestie for every penny or value of every pennyworth so taken, five shillings, and five pounds to the partie greived for every such delay, and suffer imprisonment at the Kinges Majesties pleasure. And after every taxing and assessing of the said severall Subsidies (as is aforesaid) had or made, and the said ext^acts thereof in Parchment, unto the Collector in manner and forme before rehearsed, delivered, The said Co[m]missioners, which shall take uppon them the execucion of this Acte within the limitts of their Co[m]mission by their agreements, shall have meetings together, At which meeting every of the said Co[m]missioners, which then shall have taken uppon them the execucion of any part of the said Co[m]mission, shall by himselfe or his sufficient Deputie trulie certifie and bring forth unto the said Co[m]missioners named in the said Co[m]mission, the Certificate and Presentment made before him and such other Co[m]missioners as were lymitted with him in one limitt, so as the same certificate may be accompted and cast with the other Certificates of the other limitts within the same Co[m]mission, and then the said Co[m]missioners and every nomber of them, unto two at the least, as is aforesaid, if any be in life, or their Executors or Administrators of their goods, if they then be dead, shall joyntlie and severallie as they were divided within their lymitts under their seales, by their discrecion make one or severall writings indented, contayning in itt aswell the names of the said Collectors by the Co[m]missioners for such colleccions and accounts in the Exchequer and payments in the said receipt, deputed and assigned, as the grosse and severall so[m]mes written unto every such Collectors to receive the said Subsidies, and also all Fynes, Amerciaments, and other Forfeitures, if any such by reason of this Acte, happen to be within the limitt and p[re]cinct of their Co[m]mission, to be certified into the Kings Majesties said Exchequer by the said Co[m]missioners. In which writing or writings indented so to be certified, shalbe plainelie declared and expressed the whole and entire so[m]me or so[m]mes of the said Subsidies severally lymited to the collection of the said Collectors, severally deputed and assigned to the said so[m]mes, Soe as none of the said Collectors, so certified in the said Exchequer, shalbe compelled there to account, or to be charged, but onelie to and for the so[m]mes lymitted to his colleccion, and not to or for any so[m]me lymited to the colleccion of his fellowes: But every of them shalbe severallie charged for their, part lymited to their Colleccion.