Penalty; Two Commissioners may examine Assessments, Registers, &c., and may charge in respect of Omissions, &c.; and allow and sign Assessments, &c. and may cause Abstracts of Sums accrued to be made up and signed, and transmitted to the ExchequerCollectors to render Accounts upon Oath.; Default of rendering Account, Penalty.
And to the end all the Moneys arising or which ought to arise by or for the said Duties may be duly assessed charged raised paid answered and accounted for It is hereby further enacted That on or before the First Day of August One thousand six hundred ninety eight and so from time to time once or oftener in every Three Months dureing the continuance of the said Duties the Commissioners aforesaid at some convenient Place or Places within their respective Limitts or Divisions shal meet together for the Execution of this and the said former Acts for the said Duties And that the said Commissioners or any Two or more of them shal have Power and they are hereby directed and authorized to warn not only the respective Assessors and Collectors but also the Surveyors Inspectors and Receivers General and (if need be) any Parsons Vicars Curates Parish Clerks and others concerned in relation to the said Duties or any of them to appear before themselves and other the Commissioners at every such Meeting and requiring them or such of them to whom it appertains respectively to bring in their Assessments Presentments and Accounts for or concerning the said Duties and also the Registers of the Marriages Births and Burials or Copies thereof as shal be directed And if Default be made therein contrary to such Warning given then the said Commissioners or the major part of them present at such Meeting shal and may fine the Offenders for every such Default not exceeding Five Pounds to be levyed as aforesaid for the Kings Use And that the said Commissioners or any Two or more of them shal and may proceed to examine the said Assessments Presentments and Accounts and also the Registers or the Copies thereof And if they or any Two or more of them do find that any Person or Persons are omitted or not fully charged shal and may cause such Person or Persons to be taxed and charged according to the true meaning of this and the said former Acts and thereupon to allow and sign the Assessments or Presentments and to cause Abstracts or Duplicates of the gross Sum or Sums which from time to time shal appear to them to have accrued or which ought to have accrued to His Majesty in every Parish or Place for the said respective Duties upon Marriages Births Burials Batchelors and Widowers to be made upp and signed by them or any Two or more of them and to be forthwith transmitted into the Exchequer (to witt) into the Office [X1of the Kings] Remembrancer there And that the respective Collectors of the said Dutys shal render their Accounts upon Oath to the best of [X2their] Knowledge which Oaths shal and may be administred by the said Co[m]missioners or any Two or more of them And in Default of rendring such Account when thereunto required by the said Commissioners or any Two or more of them every Collector makeing such Default shal and may be fined by the said Commissioners or any Two or more of them not exceeding Twenty Pounds to be levyed as aforesaid to the Kings Use