Crown Lands (Forfeited Estates) Act 1698

XCVIII. Commissioners, within their Division, to rate each other for their Personal Estates and Offices.

Commissioners to assess the Assessors.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Commissioners that shall be within any County, City, or Place, within the respective Limmits, or the major Part of them, shall tax and assesse every other Commissioner joyned with them, for or in respect of their ready Money, Debts and Personall Estate, as alsoe for and in respect of the Offices and Imployments of Profitt that shall then be held and enjoyed by such Commissioner, soe as the Residence and usuall Dwelling-place of such Commissioner soe to be taxed, be within the Division of such Commissioners by whom he is taxed, and soe as the Office or Imployment held or enjoyed by such Commissioners soe to be taxed, be likewise exercized within the Division or Limmitts of such Commissioners by whom he is to be taxed, And the Commissioners within their Division shall alsoe assesse every Assessor within their Division, for all and singular the Matters and Things for which by this Act he ought to be rated and assessed; And as well all Summs assessed upon every the said Commissioners and Assessors, as the Assessments made and sett by the Assessors aforesaid, shall be written, estreated levyed and gathered, as the same should and ought to have beene, if such Commissioners had not beene named Commissioners.