Land Tax Act 1691

XLIII. Collector keeping Money in hand, or paying to Persons other than the Receiver General.

Penalty £5.; Receiver General or Deputy paying Monies paid to him to Persons other than the Exchequer, or paying by Warrant upon Tally of Pro or Tally of Anticipation, &c. to divert Payment into the Exchequer.; Penalty £500.

And for the effectuall doeing thereof and that the said Summe of Tenne hundred thousand pounds hereby appropriated to the Uses aforesaid may not bee diverted or applyed to any other Purpose And alsoe to the intent that all the moneys given by this Act may bee duely paid into Theire Majesties Exchequer Bee itt further enacted That if any Collector of any Parish or Place shall keepe in his hands any part of the money by him collected for any longer tyme then is by this Act directed (other then the Allowance made unto him by this Act) or shall pay any parte thereof unto any Person or Persons other then the Receiver Generall of such County or Place or his respective Deputy That every such Collector shall forfeite for every such Offence the Summe of Five pounds And in case any Receiver Generall or his Deputy shall pay any parte of the moneys paid to him or them by any Collector by vertue of this Act to any Person or Persons whatsoever (other then the Receipt of Theire Majesties Exchequer) and that att or within the respective tymes lymited by this Act or in case such Receiver Generall or his Deputy shall pay any parte of the said moneys by any Warrant of the Commissioners of the Treasury or the Lord Treasurer Under Treasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury for the tyme being or upon any Tally of Pro or Tally of Anticipation or other Way or Device whatsoever whereby to divert or hinder the actuall payment thereof into the Receipt of the Exchequer as aforesaid That then such Receiver Generall shall for every such Offence of himselfe or his Deputy forfeite the Summe of Five hundred Pounds to him or them that shall sue for the same in any Court of Record by Bill Plaint or Information wherein noe Essoigne Protection or Wager of Law is to bee allowed.