Taxation (No. 3) Act 1694

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

On Return of Certificates. Commissioners or any Three may examine Presenters; If Commissioners suspect that Persons, &c. which ought to be charged, are omitted, or an under Value of Lands, they may. summon 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; Commissioners to cause same to be written, and sign and seal Duplicates. One delivered to Sub-collectors; others to Head Collectors and Receivers General; Commissioners to cause an Extract of Sums charged, &c. to be certified into Exchequer before 20th of March, or within 30 Days after; King's Remembrancer within Three Months to transcribe Duplicates, &c; and within Three Months after, to transmit the same to the Auditor of the Receipt.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That the Rates and Assessements upon all ready moneyes debts goods chattells personall estates and publick offices and imployments of profitt charged by this Act shall be ascertained and the certificates thereof returned to the Co[m]missioners upon or before the Fifth day of March One thousand six hundred ninety four unlesse the Co[m]missioners shall thinke fitt to give a further time; and alsoe the taxac[i]ons and assessements of the Pound Rate of Four shillings in the pound of the yearely value of all mannors messuages lands tenements hereditaments and p[re]misses charged by this Act: shall be made and ascertained and the severall and respective certificates thereof returned into the Co[m]missioners upon or before the Fifth day of March aforesaid unlesse the Co[m]missioners shall thinke 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 theire severall limits att the time of the returne of the certificates as aforesaid or within Twenty dayes after shall know or have good cause to suspect that any person or persons or any the mannors messuages lands or other the p[re]misses which ought to be menc[i]oned and charged in the said certificates is or are omitted or that any person or persons in the said certificates menc[i]oned is or are of a greater estate or that any the said mannors or other premisses are of a greater yearely value then in the said certificate is menc[i]oned 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 mannors or other p[re]misses to appeare before them att a day and place p[re]fixed to be examined touching the matters aforesaid; and if the person or persons su[m]moned to be soe examined shall neglect to appeare (not haveing a reasonable excuse for such his default) every person soe makeing default shall pay to his Majestie double the su[m]me he should or ought to have beene sett att or rated, and moreover the Co[m]missioners or the major parte of soe many of them as shall be p[re]sent shall have power by all lawfull waies and meanes to examine into the estate of such person and the value of such p[re]misses 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 theire certificates or assessements fairely written and subscribed by them unto the said Comissioners by whome they were appointed and the said Comissioners or any Two or more of them are hereby ordered and required to cause the said severall and respective Assessements to them delivered (when by them approved of or altered according to the true intent of this Act) to be fairely written and to signe and seale severall duplicates or copyes of the said Assessements and one of them soe signed and sealed forth-with to deliver or cause to be delivered unto the Subcollectors and shall likewise deliver or cause to be delivered other copies thereof soe signed and sealed unto the Head-Collectors and Receivers Generall according to theire severall and respective collecc[i]ons and receipts; and moreover, the said Co[m]missioners shall cause a true copy or extract of the whole su[m]mes 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]mes rated or assessed upon personall estates offices or imployments to be certified and transmitted into His Majesties Courte of Exchequer under the hands and seales of any Two or more of the Co[m]missioners but without nameing the persons in such certificates; and this the said Co[m]missioners shall cause to be done upon or before the Twentieth day of March then next ensueing or within Thirty dayes after (all appeales to them made being first determined) and the Kings Remembrancer in the Exchequer for the time being shall and is hereby required within Three moneths after the duplicates of the last payment shall be transmitted to him to transcribe all the schedules and duplicates of the su[m]mes returned to him from and for every respective County Rydeing City and Towne and every Hundred Wapentake Parish Division Towne and Place therein in a booke of parchem^t in alphabetticall order. and in a faire legible hand-writeing; and within Three moneths after the same shall be soe by him received to transmitt all and every the same schedules and duplicates to the Office of Writer of the Tallyes co[m]monly called The Auditor of the Receipte of the Exchequer, who is hereby likewise authorized and required to enter the same in the like alphabeticall order in another booke of parchement fairely written to be provided for that purpose:-