Land Tax Act 1688

VI. Rates to be ascertained, and Certificates returned to Commissioners, on or before Oct. 12, 1689. Commissioners may give further Time. Assessors to give Copy of Certificates, &c. to the Commissioners, and the Commissioners or Two of them, if they approve, to sign and seal Duplicates, and deliver the same to Receiver General, &c.

And also certify a true Copy of the Sums assessed to the Exchequer, under Hand and Seal, on or before Nov. 25, or within 30 Days after.; Duty of the King's Remembrancer in the Exchequer thereon.

And bee it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Rates and Assessments upon all Goods Chattells Personall Estate Offices and Publique Places and Imployments charged by this Act shall be ascertained and the Certificates thereof returned to the Commissioners upon or before the Twelfth day of October One thousand six hundred eighty nine unlesse the Commissioners shall thinke fitt to give further time And alsoe the Taxations and Assessments of the Pound Rate of Twelve pence in the Pound for every Twenty shillings of the yearely value of all Messuages Lands Tenements Hereditaments and Premisses charged by this Act shall be made and ascertained and the severall [X1 and respective] Certificates thereof returned in to the Commissioners upon or before the Twelfth day of October aforesaid unlesse the Commissioners shall thinke fitt to give further time And the said Assessors are hereby required to give one Copy of their Certificates or Assessments fairely written and subscribed by them unto the said Commissioners by whome they were appointed and the said Com[m]issioners or any two or more of them are hereby ordered and required to cause the said severall and respective Assesments to them delivered (if by them approved of) to be fairely written and to Signe and Seale severall Duplicates or Copies of the said Assesments and one of them soe Signed and Sealed forthwith to deliver or cause to be delivered unto the Subcollectors And shall likewise deliver or cause to be delivered other Copies thereof soe Signed and Sealed unto the Head Collectors and Receivers Generall according to their severall and respective Collections and Receipts And moreover the Commissioners shall cause a true Copy or Extract of the whole Summes Assessed and Charged within every hundred Lath Wapentake Parish Ward or Place Rated or Assessed in pursuance of this Act and of the whole Summes Rated or Assessed upon Personall Estates Offices or Imployments to be Certified and Transmitted into Their Majestyes Court of Exchequer under the Hands and Seales of any two or more of the Commissioners but without nameing the Persons in such their Certificates And this the said Commissioners shall cause to be done upon or before the Twenty fifth day of November then next ensueing or within Thirty dayes after all Appeales to them made being first determined And the Kings Remembrancer in the Exchequer for the time being shall and is hereby required within Three months after the Duplicates of the last Payment shall be Transmitted to him to Transcribe all the Schedules and Duplicates of the Summes Returned to him from and for every respective County Rideing City and Towne and every Hundred Wapentake Parish Division Towne and Place therein in a Booke of Parchment in Alphabeticall Order and in a faire Legible Hand writeing and within Three months after the same shall be soe by him Received shall Transmitt all and every the same Schedules and Duplicates to the Office of the Writer of the Tallies commonly called the Auditors of the Receipt of the Exchequer who is hereby likewise Authorized and Required to Enter the same in the like Alphabeticall Order in another Booke of Parchment fairely written to be provided for that purpose

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