Taxation Act 1677

XXXIII. Receivers General making unjust Certificate or Return, or setting insuper;

Penalty to the Party.; Penalty to the King.

And for the better preventing of such unjust vexations as might be occasioned by such persons as shall be appointed Receivers Generall of any of the summes of money granted by this Act, And to the intent that the said Receivers Generall may returne a true accompt into His Majestyes Court of Exchequer of such summes of money as shall be received by them and every of them their and every of their Deputy and Deputyes Bee it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That if any [X1 such] Receiver Generall shall returne or certifie into the said Court any summe or summes of [X2 money] to be in arreare or unpaid after the same have beene received either by such Receiver Generall or by his Deputy or Deputyes or any of them or shall cause any person or persons to be sett insuper in the said Court for any summe or summes of money that hath beene soe received that then every [X1 such] Receiver Generall shall forfeite to every person and persons that shall be molested vexed or damaged by reason of such unjust Certificate, returne or setting insuper treble the dammages that shall be thereby occasioned, the said damages to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in which noe Essoigne Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed nor any more then one Imparlance and shall alsoe forfeite to His Majestie His Heires and Successors double the summe that shall be soe unjustly certified or returned or caused to be sett insuper.

Editorial Information

X1 interlined on the Roll.

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