Taxation Act 1672

IX. Collectors allowed 3d. in the Pound;

to be detained out of the last Payment. Allowance of one penny in the Pound to Commissioners' Clerks.

And it is hereby further enacted and declared That the Collectors of each parish or place which shall be appointed by vertue of this Act shall upon the collection of the whole summe appointed to be collected by them and payment theirof as is hereby and before appointed have and receive for their paines in collectsing and paying the moneyes three pence in the pound, which the said Collectors are impowered to detaine out of the last payment of the money of their severall and respective quarterly payments And the said Receivor Generall upon the receipt of the whole Assesment of the County Citty or Towne for which he is appointed Receiver Generall in case he hath received the severall duplicates of each parish or place therein and not otherwise shall allow and pay according to such warrant as shall be in that behalfe given by the Commissioners or any three of them one penny in the pound for the Commissioners Clerkes for their paines in faire writeing the Assesments Duplicates and Copies.