Land Tax Act 1693

LXXVI.

Receiver General neglecting, &c. to return Duplicates of Sums assessed;; Penalty £50;; and Disability.; Remembrancer neglecting, &c. to transcribe Schedules, &c. of Sums returned;; Auditor of the Receipt not entering Schedules, &c.;; Penalty £100; and Disability.

And whereas the Receivers General by this Act appointed by the time limitted as aforesaid to returne a true copy or extract of the whole su[m]m assessed and charged within every Hundred Riding Lathe Wapentake Parish Ward or place rated or assessed in pursuance of this Act together with the su[m]ms assessed upon personal Estates Offices or Employments and to transmitt the same into their Majesties Court of Exchequer And the Kings Remembrancer is also required to transcribe the schedules and duplicates of the said su[m]ms to him returned in a Parchment Book in alphabetical order to be by him transmitted to the Office of Writer X1 of the Tallies co[m]monly called Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer who is thereupon likewise required to enter the same in [X2 a] Parchment Book in the like alphabetical order be it further enacted That if any Receiver General by this Act appointed shall neglect or refuse to returne duplicates of the su[m]ms assessed and charged in the County Riding Hundred Lathe Wapentake Parish Ward or places whereof hee is Receiver General within the time hereby limitted and to returne the same into their Majesties Exchequer to the Office of the Kings Remembrancer then every such Receiver General shall forfeit the su[m]m of Fifty pounds to any that will sue for the same and be thenceforth incapable of any Office or place of Trust in their Majesties service And if the Kings Remembrancer for the time being shall neglect or refuse within the times hereby appointed to transcribe the schedules and duplicates of the su[m]ms so to him returned in a book of Parchment in alphabeticall order as hereby required and transmitt the same to the office of the said Writer of the Tallys And if the said Writer of the Tallys commonly called Auditor of the Receipt shall not enter the same in alphabetical order in another Parchment Book as hereby directed they and every of them respectively offending shall forfeit the su[m]m of One hundred pounds to any that will sue for the same and be thenceforth incapable of any office or place of trust in their Majesties service which said forfeitures by any Receiver General Kings Remembrancer or Auditor of the Receipt shall be recovered by Action of Debt Plaint or Informac[i]on in any of their Majesties Courts of Record att Westminster wherein no Essoigne Protection or Wager of shall be allowed nor any more then One Imparlance.

Editorial Information

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

X2 interlined on the Roll.