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Land Tax Act 1696
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XVII.Power to the Commissioners to put other Collectors in the room of Collectors dying or being unable to serve, &c.
Provided always and it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from time to time as often as the Co[m]missioners of any County Hundred Division or Place or any Two or more of them by reason of the Sicknesse Death or Failing of any of the said Collectors or by reason of the great Labour and Burthen which any Collector in populous Places must undergo if they should continue in the Collection dureing the continuance of this Act shall find it necessary or reasonable to putt other Collectors in the Rooms or Places of any such Collector or Collectors so dead sick failed or overburthened with the Duty of his Place Itt shall and may be lawfull to and for the said Co[m]missioners or any Two or more of them to issue their Precepts or Warrants to the Chief Inhabitants High Constables Petty Constables Bayliffs or other like Officers or Ministers of the Place or to such Number of them as they shall think convenient requiring them to returne the Names of One Two or more able and sufficient Persons living within the Limitts and Bounds of those Parishes Townshipps Constablewicks or Places respectively to be the Collector or Collectors of the Moneys to be paid to His Majesty there for whom the Parish or Place shall be answerable And upon such p[re]sentment the said Co[m]missioners or any Two or more of them as aforesaid shall and may authorize and appoint such Person or Persons so presented to be Collector or Collectors in the Room or Place of any Collector or Collectors that shall be dead sick failed overburthened as aforesaid which new Collector or Collectors so appointed or authorized shall be subject to the same Fines & Penalties for the Non-performing of his or their Duties and shall have the same Powers Authorities & Allowances and be under the same Rules and Directions as are by this Act provided for the preceding Collectors in case they had continued in their respective Offices or Places.
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