Poll Tax Act 1689

XII. Certain Commissioners under 1 W. & M. Sess. 2. c. 1. to be Commissioners under this Act.

General Meeting of Commissioners 10th May 1690; to direct Precepts to Inhabitants, Constables, &c. to attend; and thereupon the Commissioners to read, &c. the Rates openly; and prefix other Days for bringing in Certificates of Names, &c. of Persons residing within certain Limits, together with the Assessment; Penalty £5; and also the Names of Persons to be Collectors; Payment to Receiver General; Certificates and Assessments returned to Commissioners on 1 June 1690; and thereupon Commissioners to issue Warrants, &c. for collecting the Assessments, and Collectors to demand Payment accordingly within Six Days after Receipt of Warrant, and to levy and pay same on 20 June 1690, and if not paid then Distress upon Collector.

And bee it further Enacted by the the Authority aforesaid That for the better Assessing Ordering and Levying of the severall Summes of Money soe as aforesaid limitted and appointed to be paid and for the more effectuall putting of this present Act in execution the Persons named and appointed to be Commissioners by an Act of the last Parlyament Entituled An Act for a Grant to Their Majestyes of an Ayd of Two shillings in the Pound for One Yeare together with all the Members of this present House of Commons which were not named Commissioners in the said Act shall be Commissioners for putting in execution this present Act and the Powers therein contained within all and every the severall and respective Countyes Rideings Cityes Burroughs Townes and Places for which they shall be appointed Commissioners respectively And the said Commissioners in order to the speedy execution of this Act shall in their respective Countyes Rideings Cityes Burroughs Townes and Places meete together at the most usuall or common Place of Meeting within such of the said Countyes Rideings Cityes Burroughs Townes and Places respectively at or before the Tenth day of May One thousand six hundred and ninety And the said Commissioners or soe many of them as shall be present at the First generall Meeting or the major part of them may by their Consents and Agreements divide as well themselves as other the Commissioners not then present for the execution of this Act in Hundreds Laths Wapentakes Rapes Wards Towns and other Places within their Limitts Priviledged or not Priviledged in such Manner and Forme as to them shall seeme expedient and shall direct their severall or joynt Precept or Precepts to such Inhabitants High Constables Petty Constables Bayliffes and other such like Officers and Ministers and such number of they [X1 as they] in their Discretions shall thinke most convenient to be Presenters and Assessors requireing them to appeare before the said Commissioners at such Time and Place as they shall appoint not exceeding Eight dayes And at such their Appearances the said Commissioners or soe many of them as shall be thereunto appointed shall openly Reade or cause to be Read unto them the Rates in this Act mentioned and openly declare the Effect of their Charge unto them and how and in what manner they ought and should make their Certificates according to the Rates aforesaid And shall then and there prefix another Day to the said Persons to appeare before the said Commissioners and bring in their Certificates of the Names and Sirnames Qualityes Degrees and Titles of all and every the Persons dwelling or resideing within the Limitts of those Places with which they shall be Charged and of the Substances and Values of every of them in Moneys Debts Annuall Fees Salaries Perquisites Wages Profits Emoluments and other things chargeable by this Act together with the Assessment of the respective Rates thereby Imposed on each particular Person according to the Rules and Directions thereof without Concealment Love Favour Dread or Malice upon paine of Forfeiture of any Summe not exceeding Five pounds to be Levyed as by this Act is appointed And shall alsoe then returne the Names of two or more able and sufficient Persons within the Bounds and Limitts of those Parishes or Places where they shall be charged respectively as aforesaid to be Collectors of the Money due to Their Majestyes by this Act for whose paying unto the Receiver Generall (to be appointed by Their Majestyes) their Deputy or Deputyes in manner following such Moneys as they shall be charged withall the Parish or Place by whome they shall be Employed shall be Answerable Which Certificates and Assessments shall be Ascertained and Returned in to the Com[m]issioners at or before the First day of June One thousand six hundred and ninety And upon the Delivery or Returning in of such Certificates or Assessments unto the said Commissioners they or any two or more of them shall forthwith Issue out and Deliver their Warrants or Estreats to such Collectors as aforesaid for the speedy Collecting and Levying of the said Assessments and all Moneys and Rates due thereupon according to the Intent and Directions of this Act Of all which the said Collectors are hereby required to make Demand of the Parties themselves or at the Places of their last abode within Six dayes after the Receipts of such Warrants or Estreats and to Levy and Pay in the same on or before the Twentieth day of June One thousand six hundred and ninety at such Place as the Commissioners shall appoint unto the respective Receiver Generall his Deputy or Deputyes who are hereby Impowered and Required to call upon and hasten the Collectors to the said Payment And after the said Twentyeth day of June to Levy by Warrant under the Hands and Seals of any two or more of the Commissioners upon the Collector by Distresse such Summe and Summes of Money as he hath received and as ought by him to have beene paid and is not paid by reason of his failure in doeing his Duty according to the Direction of this Act

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