Fire-Hearth and Stoves Taxation Act 1662

VIII. Constables, &c. to pay to High Constables the monies collected; deducting 2d. in the Pound; and to deliver Names of Persons paying and not paying.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the aforesaid Constables Treasurers and other Officers whoe are hereby authorized to collect the aforesaid duties shall within Twenty dayes next after the aforesaid times at which the said duties shall be due to his Ma[jes]tie as aforesaid pay unto the High Constables of the several hundreds and respective limits all such money as they shall receive for the aforesaid duties receiving an Acquittance without paying any thing for the same and deducting Two pence in the pound for their pains in collecting the same And shall alsoe then in writing under his hand deliver unto the said High Constable the Names of the persons of whom they receive the same and alsoe the Names of such persons who ought to have paid the respective duties yearely charged upon them and have not paid the same where no distresse can be had.