Taxation (No. 3) Act 1640

XIV. Commissioners to take Recognizances of High Collectors, without Fee.

Condition of Recognizance.; Commissioners to certify Recognizances, &c. into the Exchequer.; Penalty £10.; Collector not making Recognizance; Penalty £20.; Exchequer to cancel Recognizances on Payment of Collection into Exchequer without Fee.; Collector may appoint Days and Places for Payment of Collection.; Assessors, &c. not paying Collection to High Collectors,; with Allowance of 1d. in the Pound of Collection.; Distress.; Proceeding thereon.

Provided alwaies and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid that the said Commissioners haveing authority by this Act to nominate the high Collectors of the said two Subsidies shall immediately upon that nomination and election take by authority of this present Parliament sufficient Recognizances or Obligations without any Fee or Reward to be paid therefore of every person soe by them to be named to be high Collectors to be bound to the Kings Majestie in the double Sum of the Sum of his Collection and to be indorsed and made upon such condic[i]on that is to say for the due collections and payment of the said twoe Subsidies that if the said Collector his Heires or Executors doe truly content and pay to the persons aforesaid at the place aforesaid at or before the last day of February which shall be in the yeare of our Lord God 1641 soe much of the said Su[m]me of money allotted and appointed to his Collection that he shall collect and gather and content and pay the residue of his Collection and charge within one Moneth next after such time as he hath collected and gathered the same residue that then the same Recognizance or Obligation to be void Which said Recognizances or Obligac[i]ons soe to be taken the said Commissioners shall severally certifie and deliver into His Majesties Court of Exchequer with the severall Certificates of the said taxations and rates of the payment of the said Subsidies at and by the time to them prescribed and appointed by this Act for the certificate of the said taxations of the said Subsidies upon paine of forfeiture of Tenn pounds to the Kings Majestie for every Recognizance or Obligac[i]on not soe certified And that every such Collector soe named and chosen upon request to him made shall acknowledge and make the said Recognizance or Obligac[i]on upon paine of forfeiture of Twenty pounds to the Kings Majestie for the refusall thereof And that the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer for the time being upon payment of the said severall Collections of the said twoe Subsidies att the day and time herein limited for the payment hereof shall cancell and deliver the Recognizances or Obligac[i]ons for the payment thereof to the Collector or Collectors without any other Warrant and without any Fee or Reward to bee paid for the same to any person and every Collector soe deputed having the said Estreat in parchment as is aforesaid shall have authority by this Act to appoint dayes and places within the circuit of his Collection for the payment of the said twoe Subsidies to him to be made and thereof to give warning by proclamation or otherwise to all the Constables or other persons or inhabitants having the charge of the particular Collection within the Hundreds Parishes Townes or other Places by him or them limited to make payment of the said particular Collection of every Su[m]me as to them shall appertaine and if att the same day and place soe limited and prefixed by the said high Collector the said Constable Officers or other Persons or Inhabitants as is aforesaid for the said particular Collection assigned. and appointed within such Hundred City Towne or other Place doe not pay unto the said high Collector the Su[m]me within theire severall Hundreds Townes Parishes and other places due and comprised in the said Estreat thereof to them delivered by the said Co[m]mission[er]s or some of them as is aforesaid or soe much thereof as they have by any meanes received (one penny for every pound for the said particular collection as is aforesaid alwaies thereof to be allowed excepted and abated) that then it shall be lawfull for the said High Collectors and every of them & for theire Assignes to distrain every of the said Constables Officers and other Inhabitants for theire said severall and particular collection of the said Su[m]ms comprised in the said Estreat and writing thereof to them and every of them as is before expressed delivered or for soe much of the same Su[m]me as shall then soe happen to be gathered and leavied and behinde and unpaid by the Goods and Chattels of every of them soe being behinde and the distresse soe taken to be kept and apprised and sold as is aforesaid and thereof to take and leavie the Su[m]ms soe then being. behinde & unpaid and the overplus comeing of the Sale of the said distresse (if any be) to be restored and delivered unto the Owner in form above remembred.