Taxation Act 1672

VIII. Collectors to pay Monies received by them to Receiver General or his Deputy, who is to transmit such Monies to the Exchequer. Salary to Receiver General 2nd. in the Pound in case he hath returned. Duplicate of Assessment into Exchequer.

And bee it further enacted and declared That the particular Collectors are hereby required to pay in all and every the Summes soe received by them unto the said Receivers-Generall aforesaid or their deputy or deputyes, for payment whereof the said Collectors shall not be oblidged to travell above ten miles from the place of their habitations, which said Receivers Generall are hereby required forthwith to transmitt or X1 cause to be paid the Moneyes by them received into the Receipt of His Majestyes Exchequer, And the said Lord Treasurer is hereby authorized to allow the said Receiver-General I of each County, Citty and Towne respectively in case he hath returned up as aforesaid a duplicate of the Assesment of each parish or place in the County Citty or Towne for which he is appointed Receiver-Generall a Sallary for his paines not exceeding two pence in the pound upon the clearing of his accompt, which duplicate soe to be returned into the Kings Remembrancers Office in the Exchequer is intended to containe noe more then the Summes in grosse to bee collected by each Collector and the severall names of the said Collectors.

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]