Land Tax Act 1693

IX. Certificates of Assessments to be returned to the Commissioners before 5th Day of March 1693, unless they give further time.

On Return of Certificates.; Commissioners or any Three may examine Presenters.; If Commissioners suspect that Persons, &c. are omitted, or the Value of Lands.; they may summmon Party to be examined.; Persons summoned not appearing; Penalty.; Commissioners may examine into Value of Premises, and set Rates accordingly.; Assessors to give one Copy of Assessments to Commissioners.; who are to sign and seal Duplicates; One delivered to Sub-collectors.; others to Head Collectors and Receivers General.; Commissioners to cause Extracts of Sums charged, &c. to be certified into Exchequer before 20th Day of March, or within 30 Days after.; King's Remembrancer, within Three Months, to transcribe Duplicates, &c. and transmit to the Auditor of Exchequer, who is to enter the same.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That the Rates and Assessments upon all ready Monies Debts Goods Chattells Personal Estates and Publick Offices and Imployments of Profitt charged by this Act shall be ascertained and the Certificates thereof returned to the Commissioners upon or before the Fifth day of March One thousand six hundred ninety and three unlesse the Commissioners shall think fitt to give a further time And alsoe the taxations and assessments of the Pound Rate of Foure shillings in the pound of the yearely value of all Manors Messuages Lands Tenements Hereditaments and Premisses charged by this Act shall be made and ascertained and the several and respective Certificates thereof returned into the Co[m]missioners upon or before the Fifth day of March aforesaid unlesse the Commissioners shall think fitt to give further time And upon returne of any such Certificate the Co[m]missioners or any Three or more of them shall and may (if they see cause) examine the p[re]senters thereof And if the said Co[m]missioners or any three or more of them within their several Limitts att the time of the returne of the certificates as aforesaid or within Twenty days after shall know or have good cause to suspect that any person or persons or any the Manors Messuages Lands or other the Premisses which ought to be mentioned and charged in the said Certificates is or are omitted or that any person or persons in the said Certificates mentioned is or are of a greater Estate or that any the said Manors or other Premisses are of a greater yearely value then in the said Certificate is menc[i]oed the said Co[m]missioners or any three or more of them shall have power to su[m]mon such person or persons and the Owners and Possessors of such Ma[n]nors or other Premisses to appear before them att a day and place prefixed to be examined touching the Matters aforesaid And if the person or persons su[m]mmoned to be soe examined shall neglect to appeare (not having a reasonable excuse for such his default every person soe makeing default shall pay to their Majesties double the su[m]m hee should or ought to have been set att or rated And moreover the Commissioners or the major part of so many of them as shall be present shall have power by all lawfull ways and means to examine into the estate of such person and the value of such Premisses chargeable by this Act and to sett such Rate or Rates upon the same as shall be according to the true intent of this Act And the said Assessors are hereby required to give one Copy of their Certificates or Assessm[ent]: fairely written and subscribed by them unto the said Co[m]missioners by whom they were appointed and the said Co[m]missioners or any two or more of them are hereby ordered and required to cause the said several and respective Assessments to them delivered (when by them approved of or altered according to the true intent of this Act) to be fairely written and to sign and seale several Duplicates or Copies of the said Assessment and one of them so signed and sealed forthwith to deliver or cause to be delivered unto the Subcollectors and shall likewise deliver or cause to be delivered other Copies thereof so signed and sealed unto the Head Collectors and Receivers General according to their several [X1 respective] collections and receipts And moreover the said Co[m]missioners shall cause a true Copy or Extract of the whole sums assessed and charged within every Hundred Lathe Wapentake Parish Ward or Place rated or assessed in pursuance of this Act and of the whole su[m]ms rated or assessed upon Personal Estates Offices or Imployments to be certified and transmitted into their Majesties Court of Exchequer under the hands and seals of any two or more of the Commissioners but without nameing the persons in such their Certificates And this the said Commissioners shall cause to be done upon or before the Twentieth day of March then next ensuing or within Thirty days after (all appeals to them made being first determined) And the Kings Remembrancer in the Exchequer for the time being shall and is hereby required within Three Months after the duplicates of the last payment shall be tra[n]smitted to him to transcribe all the Schedules and Duplicates of the su[m]ms returned to him from and for every respective County Riding City and Towne and every Hundred Wapentake Parish Division Town and Place therein in a Book of Parchment in Alphabetical Order and in a faire legible Hand Writeing and within Three Months after the same shall be so by him received to transmitt all and every the same Schedules and Duplicates to the Office of Writer of the Tallies co[m]monly called The Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer who is hereby likewise authorized and required to enter the same in the like Alphabetical Order in another Book of Parchment fairely written to bee provided for that purpose.

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