Taxation Act 1695

XI. Sub-Collectors to pay to Head Collectors, whose Receipt to be a Discharge.

Reward to Sub-Collector.; Head Collector to pay to Receiver General.; Receiver General answerable.; Sub-Collectors travelling.; Receiver General's Acquittance a Discharge.; Receiver General to pay into Exchequer.; Allowance to him.

And it is further enacted and declared by the Authority aforesaid That the Moneyes received by the Subcollectors within their respective Divisions or Hundreds shall from time to time bee duely paid to the Head Collectors whose Receipt shall bee a sufficient Discharge unto every such Subcollector Which Subcollector for gathering the said particular Su[m]ms shall retaine in his Hands for every Twenty Shillings by him soe paid Three Pence for a Reward for his Pains and Service And the said Head Collector shall accordingly pay over the said Moneys unto the Receiver General of each County City or Place respectively in manner aforesaid (which Head Collector or Collectors shall bee nominated and appointed by the Receiver General of the respective Counties) which said Receiver General shall bee answerable for all such Su[m]ms of Money as shall bee by him or them collected or received And that noe Subcollector shall bee forced to travel above the space of Ten Miles for the Payment of the said Moneys that shall bee by him collected or received And the said Receiver Generals Acquittance shall bee a sufficient Discharge unto every such Head Collector And the Receiver General shall pay the whole Su[m]m by him received into the Receipt of His Majesties Exchequer in such manner and att or before such Days and Times as are herein before limitted and shall have an Allowance of Two Pence in the Pound for all Moneyes which shall be by him paid into the Receipt of the Exchequer upon or before the times prefixt in this Act.