Taxation Act 1666

XVII. Commissioners may appoint Head Collector; whose Receipt shall be a Discharge to Sub-collector.

2d. in the Pound to Sub-collector. Head Collector to pay to Receiver General; whose Receipt shall be a Discharge to Head Collector.; 1d. in the Pound to Head Collector.; Receiver General to pay into Exchequer.; Allowance to Receiver General.

And bee it enacted That the said Coo[m]mis?sers or any three or more of them in their respective Division or Hundreds shall and are hereby, impowered to nominate and appoint under their hands and seales an honest able and responsible person to be Head Collector unto whom the moneyes [X1 paid] by the Sub Collector shall be duely paid as aforesaid whose Receipt shall be a sufficient discharge unto every such Sub Collector which Sub Collector for gathering the said perticular summes shall retaine in his hands for every Twenty shillings by him soe paid Two pence as a reward for his paines and service, And the said Head Collector is hereby required upon the receipt thereof to pay the same [X2 unto] the Receiver Generall of each County respectively in manner aforesaid And for his soe doeing the said Coo[m]mis?sers are hereby impowered and required to take such good Securitie as they shall thinke fitt,. Consideration being therein had of the said Collectors Receipt, And the said Receivers Generalls Acquittance shall be a sufficient Discharge unto every such Head Collector who shall retaine in his hands for every Twenty shillings by him soe paid One penny as a reward for his paines and service, And the said Receiver Generall shall (before the Thirtyeth day of Aprill aforesaid) pay the whole summe by him received into His Majestyes Exchequer, and shall have an allowance of Two pence in the pound for all moneyes which shall be by him paid into the Receipte of the Exchequer by the time prefixed in this Act, and for soe much as shall be by him paid in after the time prefixed One penny in the pound and noe more.

Editorial Information

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

X2 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: to O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]