Taxation: Members of Parliament Act 1700

VIII. [X1 VIII. Assessors to deliver One Copy of Assessment to Commissioners; who are to sign and seal Duplicates,

One to be delivered to Collectors, others to Receiver General.; A like Schedule to be transmitted and certified into Exchequer, all Appeals being first determined. King's Remembrancer, or his Deputy, to give Receipts gratis for the said Duplicates, under Penalty of £10.

And for the compleating of the whole Sum charged as aforesaid and to the End the aforesaid Sums charged upon the severall and respective Counties Ridings Cities Boroughs Towns and Places may be duely collected and true Accounts thereof [X2 made] the said Assessors are hereby required to deliver one Copy of their respective Assessments fairly written and subscribed by them unto the said Commissioners within the Time to be prefixed as aforesaid and the said Commissioners or any Two or more of them are hereby ordered and required to sign and seal Two Duplicates of the said Assessments and the One of them to deliver or cause to be delivered to Two or more honest and responsible Persons to be Collectors which the said Commissioners are hereby authorized to nominate and appoint for each Parish or Place with Warrant to the said Collectors to collect the same Assessment payable as aforesaid so as the said severall Sums may be paid to the Recievers Generall at the respective Times hereby limitted And the said Commissioners are hereby required to deliver or cause to be delivered a Schedule or Duplicate in Parchment under their Hands and Seals fairly written containing the whole Sum assessed upon each Parish or Place unto the Reciever Generall of each County Riding City Borough Town or Place respectively or his Deputy and shall transmitt or cause to be transmitted a like Schedule or Duplicate into the Kings Remembrancers Office of the Exchequer and this the said Commissioners shall cause to be done upon or before the Eighth Day of August One thousand seven hundred and one or within Twenty Days after (all Appeals to them [X2 made] being first determined) for which Duplicates the Remembrancer or his Deputy shall give to the Person that brings the same a Receipt in Writing gratis under the Penalty of Ten Pounds to be recovered to the Kings Use as other Penalties are by this Act recoverable.]

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