Land Tax Act 1691

XXXII. What Persons not to be Receivers General under this Act.

Receiver General to enter Certificate of his Name and Place of Abode with Clerk of the Pells.; On Default of Payment by Receiver, Proceedings.

Provided allwayes That noe Person shall bee capable of being a Receiver Generall by vertue of this Act who hath beene Receiver Generall of any Ayds or Summes of Money heretofore granted to Theire Majesties by any Act of Parliament and shall not passe his Accompt and obtaine his Quietus out of the Pipe for the same and produce a Certificate thereof to the Lord High Treasurer or Lords Commissioners of the Treasury before the last Day of Trinity Terme in the Yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety and two. Provided allwayes That every such Receiver Generall to bee hereby appointed shall upon the Receipt of his Commission for the said Office enter a Certificate of his Name and Place of Abode in the said Office of the Clerke of the Pells to the end that the said Clerke by him or his Deputy or Clerkes in that Office may have the meanes from tyme to tyme to enquire of the Performance of the Trust of such Receivers Generall respectively in the due Payment of the Money by him from tyme to tyme received into the Receipt of the Exchequer and upon any Neglect or Default of such Payment to informe the said Lord High Treasurer or Lords Commissioners of the Treasury therewith that a due course and remedy may bee by them applyed as the case may require