Poll Tax Act 1697

XLI. Orders for Payment of Money lent may be assigned by Indorsement.

Memorial thereof without Fee; Assignee may in like manner assign.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Person or Persons to whom any Money shall be due by vertue of this Act after Order entred in either of the Books of Register aforesaid for Payment thereof his Executors Administrators or Assigns by Indorsment of his Order may assign & transfer his Right Title Interest and Benefit of such Order or any part thereof to any other which being notified in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipt aforesaid & an Entry or Memorial thereof also made in the Books of Register aforesaid for Orders which the Officers shall upon Request without Fee or Charge accordingly make shall intitle such Assignee his Executors Administrators and Assigns to [X1 the] Benefit thereof and Payment thereon and such Assignee may in like manner assign again and so toties quoties and afterwards it shal not be in the Power of such Person or Persons who have or hath made such Assignments to make void release or discharge the same or any the Moneys thereby due or any part thereof.

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: be O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]