Land Tax Act 1692 (c. 1)

XXVII. Commissioners to call before them Collectors, and examine touching full Payment of Assessments;

and in case of Failure, to levy.

And itt is hereby further enacted and declared That att the Expirac[i]on of the respective times in this Act prescribed for the full Payment of the severall and respective Rates and Assessments herein before granted the severall and respective Co[m]missioners or any Two or more of them within theire Division and Hundred shall and are hereby required to call before them the Cheife Collectors and Sub-collectors within each respective Division and Hundred to examine and assure themselves of the full and whole Payment of the particular su[m]me and su[m]mes of money charged within and upon the said Division and Hundred and every Parish and Place therein and of the due returne of the same into the Hands of the Receiver Generall of the said County City Towne [X1 or] Place respectively and by such Receiver Generall to the Receipte of Theire Majesties Exchequer to the end there may be noe Failure in the Payment of any parte of the Rates and Assessements which by this Act ought to be levyed and paid And in case of any Failure in the Premisses the Co[m]missioners or any two of them are to cause the same fort[X2 h]with to be levyed and paid according to the true intent and meaneing of this Act:-

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: and O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]

X2 interlined on the Roll.