Poll Tax Act 1688

XXI. Commissioners from Time to Time to require Accounts from Receiver General, and, in case of Failure, Money to be levied. If any Controversy between Commissioners concerning Rates, Proceedings.

Questions touching the Rates determined by Two or more Commissioners. Receiver General to give Acquittances to Collectors gratis. Collectors to deliver to Receivers General a Schedule of Names, &c. of the Persons rated making Default, to be returned into the Exchequer.

And the said Commissioners or any Two or more of them may or shall from time to time call for and require an Account from the respective Receivers Generall of all the Moneys received by them of the said Collectors and of the Payment thereof into Their Majestyes Receipt of Exchequer according to the Direction of this Act And in case of any failure in the Premisses the said Commissioners or any Two or more of them are hereby required to cause the same to be forthewith Levyed and Paid according to the true intent and meaning of this Act And in case of any Controversie ariseing betweene the said Commissioners concerning the said Rates or Assesments the Commissioners that shall be concerned therein shall have noe [X1 Vote] but shall withdraw dureing the Debate of such Controversie untill it be determined by the rest of the Commissioners And all Questions and Differences that shall arise touching any of the said Rates Taxes Assesments or Levyes shall be heard and finally determined by two or more of the Commissioners upon Complaint thereof by them made by any Person or Persons thereby grieved without further trouble or Suite in Law And the said Receiver Generall his Deputy or Deputies shall give Acquittances gratis to the said Collectors for all Moneys of them received in pursuance of this Act which Acquittances shall be a full Discharge to the said Collectors respectively And the said Collectors shall make and deliver to the said Receivers Generall their Deputie or Deputies a perfect Schedule fairly written in Parchment under their Hands and Seales Signed and Allowed by any two or more of the respective Commissioners containing the Names and Sirnames and Places of abode of every person as well Peere or Commoner within their respective Collection that shall make default of payment of any of the Sums that shall be Rated or assessed on such person by vertue of this Act and the Summe and Summes charged on every such person the same to be by him returned into Their Majestyes Exchequer whereupon every person soe makeing default of payment may be charged by Processe of the Court according to the course thereof in that behalfe

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