Taxation (No. 2) Act 1663

XVII. Commissioners to take Recognizances of Collectors.

Condition of Recognizance for Two first Subsidies.; Condition of Recognizance of Two last Subsidies.; 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. Assessor, &c. not paying Collection to High Collectors, with Allowance of 2d. in the Pound of Collection.; Distress.; Proceedings thereon.

Provided alwayes and bee it enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That the said Co[m]missioners haveing Authority by this Act to name and nominate the said High Collectors of every the said Subsidyes shall immediately upon their 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 Majesty in the double Summe of the Summe of his Collection, And to be endorsed and made upon such Condition (that is to say) for the Collection of the payment of the said Two first of the said Fower Subsidies that if the said Collector his Heires or Executors doe truely content and pay to the use of the Kings Majestie his Heires [X1 and] Successors in the Receipt of the said Exchequer at or before the First day of November now next comeing soe much of the said Summe of money allotted and appointed to his Collection as he shall collect and gather and content and pay the Residue of his Collection and Charge within one Moneth [X2 next] after such time as he hath collected and gathered the same Residue, that then the said Recognizance or Obligation to be void or else to stand in full strength and vertue. And for the collection of the said Two last of the said Fower Subsidyes upon Condition that if the said Collector his Heires or Executors doe truely content and pay to the use of the Kings Majestie His Heires or Successors in His Receipt of Exchequer at or before the First day of May then next following soe much of the said Summe of money allotted and appointed to his Collection as 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 [X3 same] Recognizances or Obligations to be void or else to stand in full strength and vertue; Which said severall Recognizances or Obligations soe taken the said Co[m]missioners shall severally certifie and deliver into the Kings Majestyes Exchequer with the severall Certificates of the said Taxations and Rates of the payments of the said Subsidyes at and by the times to them prescribed and appointed by this Act for the Certificate of the said severall Taxations of the said Subsidy upon paine of forfeiture of Ten pounds to the Kings Majestie for every Recognizance or Obligation not soe certified, And that every Collector soe elected named and chosen upon request to him made shall knowledge and make the said Recognizance or Obligation upon paine of forfeiture of Twenty pounds to the Kings Majestie for refusall thereof, And that the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer for the time being upon payment of the said severall Collections of the Subsidyes at the dayes and times herein limited for the payment thereof, shall cancell and deliver the Recognizances or Obligations for the payment thereof to the Collector or Collectors without any other Warrant and without any Fee or Reward to be paid for the same to any person, And every Collector soe deputed haveing the said Estreate in Parchment as is aforesaid shall have Authoritie by this Act to appoint dayes and places within the circuit of his Collection for the payment of the said Subsidyes to him to be made, And thereof to give warning by Proclamation or otherwise to all the Constables or other Persons or Inhabitants haveing the charge of the perticular Collection within the Hundreds Parishes Townes or other places by him or them limitted to make payment of the said perticular Collection of every Summe as to them shall appertaine, And if at the same day and place soe limitted and prefixed by the said High Collector, the said Constable Officers or X4 other Persons or Inhabitants as is aforesaid for the said perticular Collection assigned and appointed within such Hundred Citty Towne or other place due and comprised in the said Estreate thereof to them delivered by the said Co[m]missioners or some of them as is aforesaid or soe much thereof as they have by any meanes received two pence for every pound for the said perticular Collection as is aforesaid alwayes thereof to be allowed, excepted and abated that then it shall be lawfull to the said High Collectors and every of them and to their Assignes to destraine every of the said Constables Officers and other Inhabitants for their severall and perticular Collection of the said Summe comprised in the said Estreate and Writeing thereof to them and every of them as is before expressed delivered, or for soe much of the same Summe as soe then shall happen to be gathered and levyed and behind and unpaid by the Goods and Chattells of every of them soe being behinde, And the Distresse soe taken to be kepte and appraised and sold as is aforesaid, And thereof to take and leavy the Summes soe then being behinde and unpaid, And the overplus comeing of the Sale of the said Distresse (if any be) to be restored and delivered to the owner in forme above remembred

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: or O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]

X2 interlined on the Roll.

X3 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: said O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]

X4 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: or O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]