Land Tax Act 1692

VIII. Head Collector's Receipt a Discharge to Subcollector. Subcollector to have 3d. in the Pound.

Head Collector to pay to and be appointed by Receiver; Subcollector travelling; Receiver General's Acquittance a Discharge, who is to pay into Exchequer; Allowance to Receiver General.

And it is further enacted and declared by the Authority aforesaid That the Moneyes received by the Sub-collectors within theire respective Divisions or Hundreds shall from time to time be duely paid to the Head Collectors whose receipte shall be a sufficient discharge unto every such Sub-collector which Sub-collector for gathering the said particular Su[m]mes shall retaine in his hands for every Twenty Shillings by him soe paid Three Pence as a reward for his paines and service And the Head Collectors shall accordingly pay over the said moneyes unto the Receiver Generall of each County City or Place respectively in manner aforesaid which Head Collector or Collectors shall be nominated and appointed by the Receiver Generall of the respective Countyes which said Receiver Generall shall be answereable for all such su[m]mes of money as shall be by him or them collected or received and that noe Sub-collector shall be inforced to travell above the space of tenne miles for the payment of the said moneyes that shall be by him collected or received And the said Receiver Generalls acquittance shall be a sufficient discharge unto every such Head Collector and the Receiver Generall shall pay the wholl Su[m]me by him received into the Receipte of Theire Majesties Exchequer in such manner and att and before such dayes and times as are herein before limitted And shall have an allowance of two pence in the Pound for all moneyes which shall be by him paid into the Receipte of the Exchequer upon or before the times p[re]fixed in this Act:-