Poll Tax Act 1697

X. Commissioners to cause Duplicate of Sums assessed to be returned into Exchequer, under Hand and Seal, without naming the Persons assessed, before 10th Sept. 1698; others to Receiver General.

Time for the First Quarterly Payment; Second; Third; Fourth; Commissioners may examine Presenters, and if they have cause to suspect that any Person is not fully charged, they may summon such Persons; Persons neglecting, &c. to appear; Penalty; Commissioners may examine, &c; Allowance to Receiver General; Allowance to Collector.

And be it enacted That a [X1 true] Duplicate of the whole Sum charged within every Hundred Lathe Wapentake Parish Ward or Place rated and assessed in pursuance of this Act without naming the Persons shall under the Hands and Seals of Two or more of the Commissioners thereunto appointed be returned into His Majesties Exchequer before the Tenth Day of September One thousand six hundred ninety eight (all Appeals being first determined) and in like manner within Thirty Days after every other Quarterly Payment And that like Duplicates be also in convenient time made out and delivered unto the Receivers General so [X2 that] every of them may be duely charged to answer their respective Collections and Receipts And that the said several Quarterly Sums to be paid into His Majesties Exchequer at the several times following (that is to say) The First of the said Quarterly Payments on or before the Twentieth Day of September One thousand six hundred ninety eight The Second of the said Quarterly Payments on or before the Twentieth Day of December One thousand six hundred ninety eight The Third of the said Quarterly Payments on or before the Twentieth Day of March One thousand six hundred ninety eight And the Fourth and last of the said Quarterly Payments on or before the Twentieth Day of June One thousand six hundred ninety nine And upon Returne of any such Certificate the said Commissioners or any Two or more of them shal and may (if they see cause) examine the Presenters thereof And if the said Commissioners or any Two or more of them within their several Limitts shall at the time of the Delivery of the said Certificates or within Twelve Days after have Knowledge or reasonable Cause of Suspicion that any Person or Persons who ought to be mentioned in the said Certificate is or are omitted or that any Person or Persons in the said Certificate mentioned is not or are not fully and duly charged according to the true Intent of this Act the said Commissioners or any Two or more of them shal have Power to warn such Person or Persons to appear before them at a Day and Place prefixed to be examined touching the Premisses or any Matter which may any way concern the same And if the Person or Persons warned to be examined shal neglect to appear not having a reasonable Excuse for his Default every. Person so making Default shall pay unto His Majesty Double the Sum or Rate he should or ought to have been set at And moreover the said Commissioners or Two or more of them shal have Power by any lawful Ways and Means to examine and enquire into all Matters and Things for or by reason of which any Persons are chargable by this Act and to set such Rate or Rates upon such Persons as shal be according to the true intent and meaning of this Act And the said Receiver General shall have an Allowance of Two Pence in the Pound for all Moneys which shal be by him paid into the Receipt of the Exchequer And every Collector shal have Three Pence in the Pound for what Money he shal pay to the Receiver General his Deputy or Deputies.

Editorial Information

X1 interlined on the Roll.

X2 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: as O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]