Land Tax Act 1693

XXIV. If Action for executing Act, General Issue, may be pleaded.

Treble Costs.; Receivers General to give Head Collectors Receipt; gratis.; Head Collectors to give Receipts gratis to Sub-collectors.; Sub-collectors to deliver a Schedule to Head Collectors of Defaulters where there is no Distress; which Schedule is to be delivered to Receivers General, and returned by him into the Exchequer.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Action Plaint [X1 Suit] or Information shall be co[m]menced or prosecuted against any Person or Persons for what he or they shall doe in pursuance or in execu[i]n of this Act such Person or Persons (soe sued in any Court whatsoever) shall and may plead the General Issue (not guilty) and upon any Issue joyned may give X2 and the Special Matter in Evidence and if the Plaintiff or Prosecutor shall become nonsuit or forbear further Prosecution or suffer a discontinuance or if a Verdict passe against him the Defendants shall recover their Treble Costs for which they shall have the like remedy as in any case where Costs by the Law are given to Defendants And the said Receivers General shall give Acquitancs (gratis) to the said Head Collectors for all moneys of them received And the said Head Collector shall alsoe give Acquitancs (gratis) to the Subcollectors for all such moneys as shall be paid them in pursuance of this Act And the said Subcollectors shall make and deliver to the said Head Collectors a perfect Schedule fairely written in Parchment under their Hands and Seals signed and allowed by any Two or more of the respective Co[m]missioners containing the Names Sirnames and Places of Abode of every Person within their respective Collections that shall make default of Payment of any of the su[m]ms that shall be rated or assessed or such Person by virtue of this Act where noe sufficient distresse is to bee found nor other satisfaction made and not otherwise and the su[m]m and su[m]ms charged on every such Person the same Schedule to bee delivered by the Head Collectors to the Receiver General of the County City or Place respectively to be by him returned into Their Majesties Court of Exchequer whereupon every Person soe makeing Default of Payment may be charged by Processe of the said Court according to the course of the Court of Exchequer in such Cases.

Editorial Information

X1 interlined on the Roll.

X2 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: this Act O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]