Taxation Act 1678

II. Commissioners under 29 C. II. c. I. to be Commissioners for executing this Act.

Persons concerned in levying, &c. under this Act to have the Benefits and subject to the Penalties as Persons levying the former Assessments.

And bee it further enacted That all and every the persons who are appointed to act as Commissioners for the Execution of the said former Act shall likewise be and soe are hereby constituted and appointed to be Commissioners for the Execution of this present Act within the severall and respective Countyes Cityes Burroughs Townes and Places for which they were formerly appointed, and all and every the Commissioners aforesaid or before mentioned shall have and execute like Powers and Authorities Rules and Dircttions touching the better assessing collecting levying receiveing and paying the said Two hundred and six thousand fower hundred sixty two pounds seaventeene shillings and three pence And all and every. Person or persons who shall be lyable unto or any wayes concerned or imployed in the assessing collecting levying receiving disposeing or paying any of the Moneys by this Act imposed shall have like Benefitts Advantages and Discharges and shall be subject to the like Penaltyes and Forfeitures in case of misapplying the Money hereby given or any neglect or refusall to pay their respective Assesment or to performe their respective Dutyes as any other person or persons lyable unto or concerned or imployed in the assessing collecting levying receiving disposeing or paying any of the said former Assesments ought to have or be subject unto as fully and amply as if all and every the Names Persons Officers Clauses Matters and Things to the said former Assesments relateing had respectively beene againe in this Act sett downe repeated and enacted.