- Latest available (Revised)
- Original (As enacted)
Land Tax Act 1698
You are here:
What Version
Opening Options
More Resources
Status:
This is the original version (as it was originally enacted). This item of legislation is currently only available in its original format. The electronic version of this Act has been contributed by British History Online and is taken from the printed publication.
Read more
XXIV.Auditors, &c. of Rents due to His Majesty, or Queen Dowager, to make Allowance as herein mentioned, without Fee, Penalty £20. Auditors unduly setting any Person insuper,
Penalty £200 and incapacity of Office.
And it is hereby further enacted That all and every Auditors Reeves Receivers and their Deputy and Deputies who audit or receive any Fee-Farme Rents or other Chief Rents due to His Majesty or the Queen Dowager or to any Person or Persons claiming by any Grant or Purchase from or under the Crowne shall allow Three Shillings for every Pound of the said Rents and proportionably for any greater or lesser Sum to the Party or Parties paying the same without any Fee for such Allowance upon the Penalty of Twenty Pounds to the Parties grieved to be recovered as aforesaid And if any Auditor of the Revenues or any of them belonging to His Majesty or to Her Majesty Katherine the Queen Dowager or any Deputy or other Person acting for or on the Behalfe of any such Auditor shall in the Account of any Reeve Receiver or otherwise set insuper any Tenant or other Person or make any such Tenant or other Person or his or their Estate lyable to any Distresse Forfeiture or Vexation whatsoever for any Sum or Sums of Money which by the true intent and meaning of this Act ought to be allowed after the said Rate of Three Shillings in the Pound or shall refuse neglect or delay to allow and finally to discharge the same in the proper Accounts wherein the same ought to be allowed or discharged That then and for every or any such Offence every such Auditor or Deputy or Person acting for such Auditor shall forfeite the Sum of Two hundred Pounds to the Party grieved to be recovered as aforesaid and shall be alsoe uncapable to enjoy his Office or Place or any other Office or Place of Trust or Profit under His Majesty or the said Queen Dowager
Options/Help
Print Options
PrintThe Whole Act
PrintThis Section only
Legislation is available in different versions:
Latest Available (revised):The latest available updated version of the legislation incorporating changes made by subsequent legislation and applied by our editorial team. Changes we have not yet applied to the text, can be found in the ‘Changes to Legislation’ area.
Original (As Enacted or Made): The original version of the legislation as it stood when it was enacted or made. No changes have been applied to the text.
Opening Options
Different options to open legislation in order to view more content on screen at once
More Resources
Access essential accompanying documents and information for this legislation item from this tab. Dependent on the legislation item being viewed this may include:
- the original print PDF of the as enacted version that was used for the print copy
- lists of changes made by and/or affecting this legislation item
- confers power and blanket amendment details
- all formats of all associated documents
- correction slips
- links to related legislation and further information resources
All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 except where otherwise stated. This site additionally contains content derived from EUR-Lex, reused under the terms of the Commission Decision 2011/833/EU on the reuse of documents from the EU institutions. For more information see the EUR-Lex public statement on re-use.