Crown Lands (Forfeited Estates) Act 1698

LXXXVII. Officers of the Exchequer to deliver Lists of Pensions, Salaries, &c. to the Assessors gratis. and may stop the Tax, if unpaid, out of the same.

And be it enacted, That the Officers of the Receipt of His Majesties Exchequer, and in other the Publick Offices upon Request to them made by the respective Assessors shall deliver to them, gratis, true Lists or Accounts of all Pensions, Annuities, Stipends, or other annuall Payments, and of all Fees, Sallaries, and other Allowances, payable at the said Receipt, or in the said Publick Offices, for the better Guidance of the said Assessors in the chargeing of the same; And that in all Cases where any Pensions, Annuities, Stipends, or other annuall Payments, or the Fees, Sallaries, Wages, or other Allowances or Profitts charged by this Act, shall be payable at the Receipt of Exchequer, or by the Cofferer of His Majesties Household, or out of any other Publick Office, or by any His Majesties Receivers, or Paymasters, the Tax or Payment which in pursuance of this Act, shall be charged for or in respect of such Pensions, Annuities Stipends, Fees, Sallaries, Wages, Allowances or Profitts, shall and may, in case of Non-payment thereof, be detained and stopt out of the same, and be applied to the Satisfaction of the Rates and Duties not otherwise paid, as aforesaid.