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Poll Tax Act 1660
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VII.Sums collected to be issued by Treasurers to the Uses in this Act
mentioned. Officers making Default in collecting, &c.; accountable before Parliament.
And Be it further enacted that all and every the summes to be collected and raised by and according to the tenor of this Act shall be paid and issued out by the [X1Treasurerers] in this Act named or any two or more of them respectively to the use and uses in this present Act mentioned and noe other, as by order of the Lords and Commons, or of such persons as they shall authorize therunto shall be appointed and directed and not otherwise, and that all and every the said person and persons who are to be charged or chargable with the receipt of any the said summes in this Act mentioned, which shall willfully [X2negclet,] or make default in the collecting leavying or paying of the severall summes by them or any of them respectively to be received or paid, or in execution of their severall dutyes [X3according to the tenor] and true meaning of this Act shall be accomptable for the same to the Parliament, and shall be lyable to such punishment as shall bee thought fitt by the Parliament to be inflicted,
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X1Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Treasurers O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]
X2Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: neglect O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]
X3interlined on the Roll.
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