Land Tax Act 1691

XII. Persons not executing Act, Commissioners may fine.

Levied by Distress.; Fine not to exceed £20.; As to taking same off.; Fines paid to Receivers General and by them into Exchequer.; Certificate thereof by Receiver General.

And bee it further enacted and declared by the Authority aforesaid That if any Person or Persons shall wilfully neglect or refuse to performe [X1 his] or theire Duty in the due and speedy Execution of this present Act the said respective Commissioners or any Three or more of them have hereby Power to impose on such Person or Persons soe refuseing or neglecting theire Dutyes such Fine or Fines as by them shall bee thought fitt and to cause the same to bee levyed by Distresse and Sale of his and theire Goods. Provided that noe Fine to bee imposed by any of the said Commissioners shall for any one Offence exceed the Summe of Twenty Pounds which said Fine shall not bee taken off or discharged but by the consent of the majority of the Commissioners who imposed the same And that all Fines that shall bee imposed by vertue of this Act shall bee paid to the respective Receivers Generall and by them to the Receipt of Theire Majesties Exchequer and every Receiver Generall to whome any such Fine shall bee paid as aforesaid shall and is hereby required to returne a Certificate thereof in Parchment fairely written to the Office of the Kings Remembrancer as aforesaid before the Five and twentieth Day of January in the Yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety two and the like Certificate within the tyme aforesaid to the said Clerke of the Pells att the Receipt of the Exchequer that the same may be thereby knowne and charged in his Accompt

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