Taxation Act 1688

X. Particular Collectors to pay in Money received by them to Receiver General.

Collectors not obliged to travel more than 10 Miles to pay Money to Receiver General; Salary to Receiver General.

And bee it further Enacted and Declared That the particular Collectors are hereby required to pay in all and every the Summes soe received by them unto the said Receivers Generall or their Deputie or Deputies for Payment whereof the said Collectors shall not be obliged to Travell above Ten Miles from the Place of their Habitations which said Receivers Generall are hereby required forthwith to Transmitt or cause to be paid the Money by them received into the Receipt of the Exchequer And the Lord High Treasurer or the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being or any three or more of them are hereby Authorized and Required to allow the said Receiver Generall of each County Rideing City and Towne respectively in case he hath Returned up as aforesaid a Duplicate of the Assesments of each Parish or Place in the County Rideing City or Towne for which he is appointed Receiver Generall a Salary for his paines not exceeding Two pence in the Pound upon the clearing [X1 of] his Accompt which Duplicate soe to be Returned into the said Receipt of the Exchequer is to containe noe more then the [X2 Summe] in Grosse to be collected by each Collector and the severall Names of the said Collectors

Editorial Information

X1 interlined on the Roll.

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