Taxation Act 1677

VII. £103,231.8s. 7½d. the First Payment, to be paid to Receiver General; on or before 24th June 1677; Second Payment, 29th Sept. 1677;

Third Payment, 25th Dec. 1677; Fourth Payment, 25th March 1678; Fifth Payment, 24th June 1678; Last Payment, 24th August 1678; Assessors to deliver Copy of Assesment to Commissioners who are to sign and seal Two Duplicates, and deliver one to Collector, whom they are to appoint, together with a Warrant to collect the Assessments.; Monies to be paid to Receiver General, and by him into the Exchequer.

And bee it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That the summe of One hundred and three thousand two hundred thirty one pounds eight shillings seaven pence halfe penny being the first of the said Five quarterly and two moneths payment hereby imposed shall be assessed collected leavyed and paid unto the Receiver Generall of the said severall Countyes who shall be appointed by his Majestie on or before the Fower and twentieth day of June in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred seaventy and seaven And the summe of One hundred and three thousand two hundred thirty one pounds eight shillings seaven pence halfe penny being the second of the said Five quarterly and two moneths payments on or before the twenty nineth day of September in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred seaventy and seaven, And the summe of One hundred and three thousand two hundred thirty one pounds eight shillings seaven pence halfe penny being the Third of the said Five quarterly and two moneths payments on or before the Twenty fifth day of December in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred seaventy and seaven, And the summe of One hundred and three thousand two hundred thirty one pounds eight shillings seaven pence halfe penny being the Fourth of the said Five quarterly and Two moneths Payments on or before the Twenty fifth day of March in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred seaventy and eight, And the summe of One hundred and three thousand two hundred thirty one pounds eight shillings seaven pence halfe penny being the Fifth of the said Five quarterly and two moneths payments on or before the Twenty fourth day of June in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred seaventy and eight And the summe of Sixty eight thousand eight hundred and twenty pounds nineteene shillings one penny being the said Two moneths payment and the last of the respective payments above mentioned on or before the Twenty fourth day of August in the said yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred seaventy and eight. And for the compleating of the whole summe charged upon the same and to the end the aforesaid summes charged upon the severall and respective Countyes Cittyes Burroughes Townes and Places may be equally and indifferently assessed according to the true intent of this Act and the money duely collected and true Accompt thereof made the said Assessors are hereby required to deliver one Copy of their respective Assesments fairely written and subscribed by them unto the said Commissioners and the said Commissioners or any two X1 of them are hereby ordered and required to signe and seale Two Duplicates of the said Assesments and the one of them to deliver or cause to be delivered to one or more honest and responsible person or persons to be Collector or Collectors which the said Commissioners are hereby authorized to nominate and appointe for each Parish or Place with Warrant to the said Collector or Collectors to collect the said Assesment payable as aforesaid soe as the said severall summes may be paid in to the said Receivers Generall at the respective times aforesaid. And the said Commissioners are hereby required to deliver or cause to be delivered a Schedule or Note containing the perticular summes assessed upon each Parish or Place to the Receiver Generall of each County Citty Burrough Towne or Place respectively to be by him the said Receiver Generall transmitted into the Kings Remembrancers Office in the Exchequer which the said Receiver Generall is required to performe accordingly.

Editorial Information

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