Land Tax Act 1691

VIII. Notice of money received by Receiver General or his Deputy to Commissioners.

Receipt of Receiver General a Discharge to Collector.; Collector to pay to Receiver General.; Collectors travelling for such Payments,; Receiver General to transmit monies to Exchequer.; Salary to Receiver General.

And be it further enacted and declared by the Authority aforesaid That the money received by the said Collectors within the respective Divisions or Hundreds shall from tyme to tyme be duely paid to the Receiver Generall or to his Deputy or Deputies to be appointed under his Hand and Seale whereof Notice under the Hand and Seale of the Receiver Generall shall bee given unto the Commissioners or any Three of them within the respective Divisions or Hundreds within Tenne Dayes after the First Generall Meeting and soe from tyme to tyme within Tenne Dayes after every Death or Removall of any Deputy (if any such shall happen) and the Receipt of such Receiver Generall his Deputy or Deputies or any of them shall bee a sufficient Discharge unto every such Collector And the particular Collectors are hereby required to pay in all and every the Summes soe received by them unto the said Receivers Generall or theire Deputy or Deputies for Payment whereof the said Collectors shall not bee obliged to travell above Tenne Miles from the Places of theire Habitac[i]os which said Receivers Generall are hereby required forthwith to transmitt or cause to bee paid the moneys by them received into the Receipt of Theire Majesties Exchequer And the Lords Commissioners of Theire Majesties Treasury are hereby authorized to allow the said Receiver Generall of each County Rideing City and Towne respectively in case hee hath returned upp as aforesaid Duplicates of the Assessment of each Parish or Place in the County Rideing City or Towne for which hee is appointed Reciver Generall a Salary for his Paines not exceeding Two Pence in the Pound upon the cleareing of his Accompt which Duplicates soe to bee returned into the Kings. Remembrancers Office in the Exchequer and the Office of the Clerke of the Pells are intended to containe noe more then the Summes in grosse to bee collected by each Collector and the severall Names of the said Collectors.