Land Tax Act 1691

IX. Allowance to Collectors.

Collectors may detain Allowance.; Allowance to Commissioners Clerks paid by Receiver General.

And it is hereby further enacted and declared That the Collectors of each Parish or Place which shall bee appointed by vertue of this Act shall upon Collection of the whole Summe appointed to be collected by them and Payment thereof as is hereby before appointed have and receive for theire paynes in collecting and paying the Moneys Three pence in the Pound which the said Collectors are impowered to detaine out of the last Payment of the Money of theire severall and respective Foure Quarterly Payments And the said Receiver Generall upon the receipt of the whole Assessments of the County Rideing City or Towne for which hee is appointed Receiver Generall in case hee hath received the severall Duplicates of each Parish or Place therein and not otherwise shall allow and pay according to such Warrant as shall bee in that behalfe given by the said Commissioners or any of them One Halfe-penny in the Pound for the Commissioners Clerkes for theire paynes in faire writeing the Assessments Duplicates and Copies.