Taxation (No. 3) Act 1694

X. Commissioners to issue Warrants to the Sub-collectors for levying, &c.

Sub-collectors to levy and collect according to their Duplicates; and make Demand of Rates of Parties, or at last Place of Abode; Head Collectors to hasten Sub-collectors. In case of Neglect of Sub-collectors; Levy by Distress; Head Collectors to pay in to Receiver General on or before 20th of March; Receiver to pay into Exchequer on or before 25th of March; Times for the Second quarterly Payment; Head Collectors to pay to Receiver General, who is to pay into the Exchequer on or before 24th June; Times for the Third quarterly Payment; Head Collectors to hasten Sub-collectors, and may proceed by Distress. Head Collector to pay to Receiver General; Receiver General to hasten Head Collectors, and pay into Exchequer on or before 30th September; Times for the last quarterly Payment; Head Collectors to pay to Receiver General, who is to pay into Exchequer on or before 25 Dec; All Persons concerned in the Execution of this Act to use Diligence, &c.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That the Co[m]missioners or any Two or more of them shall issue out theire warrants or estreates to the Sub-collectors under theire hands and seales thereby requireing them to levy and collect one Fourth parte of the Rates and Assessments in respecte of theire personall estates offices and imployments as alsoe one Fourth parte of the Pound Rate charged upon all Mannors Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and p[re]misses as aforesaid; and the said Sub-collectors are hereby required and enjoyed to levy and collect the same according to the duplicates thereof by them received and according to the intent and direcc[i]ons of this Act; and to make demand of the said Rates and Assessments upon personall estates offices and imployments of the parties themselves if they cann be found or otherwise att the place of theire last abode and to pay the same unto theire respective Head-Collectors on or before the Fifteenth day of March One thousand six hundred ninety four or within twenty dayes after And the said Head Collectors are to hasten the said Sub-collectors and in case the same shall not be collected by reason of neglecte or failure of duty of the said Sub-collectors the said HeadCollectors are to levy by warrant under the hands and [X1 seales] of any Two or more of the said Co[m]missioners by distresse upon the Sub-collectors respectively such su[m]me and su[m]mes of money as by him and them ought to have beene paid and is or are not paid by reason of his failure in doeing his duty according the direccons of this Act; and every Head-collector is hereby required to make payment of what shall be soe levyed or received unto the Receiver Generall of the said County City or place upon or before the Twentieth day of March aforesaid or within Twenty dayes after; And the Receiver Generall is likewise required to call upon and hasten the said Head-collectors and to pay what he shall receive from the said Head-collectors into His Majesties receipte of Exchequer upon or before the Five and twentieth day of March One thousand six hundred ninty five or within twenty dayes after to the end the first payment of the said rates and assessements may by that time be fully answered and paid into His Majestie; and the said Sub-collectors shall also levy the second quarterly payment of the said rates and assessements charged as aforesaid upon or before the Third day of June next ensueing or within Twenty dayes after and shall alsoe pay the same in to the Head-collectors upon or before the Tenth day of June aforesaid or within Twenty dayes after, And the said Head-Collectors shall make payment thereof to the Receivers Generall of the said County City or Place upon or before the Scaventeenth day of June aforesaid or within twenty dayes after: And the said Receiver Generall is alsoe required to make payment of all which he shall soe receive into His Majesties receipte of Exchequer upon or before the Four and twentieth day of June aforesaid or within twenty dayes after to the end that the second payment of the rates and assessements soe charged as aforesaid may by that time be fully answered and paid in to His Majestie; and the said Sub-collectors are alsoe required and enjoyned to levy one other quarterly payment of the rates and assessements charged as aforesaid upon or before the Fourth day of September then next ensueing and shall alsoe pay the same unto the said respective HeadCollectors on or before the Twelvth day of September aforesaid or within twenty dayes after And the said HeadCollectors are to hasten the said Sub-collectors; and in case the same shall not be collected by reason of neglect or failure of duty in the said Sub-collectors the Head-Collectors are to proceede against them by distresse in like manner and by like warrant as aforesaid; and every Head-collector is hereby required to make payment of what shall be soe levyed or received unto the Receiver-Generall of the said County City or Place upon or before the Twentieth day of September aforesaid or within twenty dayes after; And the Receiver Generall is likewise required to call upon and hasten the said Head-collectors and to pay what he shall receive from the said Head-collectors into his Majesties Receipte of Exchequer upon or before the Thirtieth Day of September aforesaid or within [X2 Twenty] dayes after to the end that the third Payment of the said Rates and Assessements may by that time be fully answered and paid in to his Majestie; And the Sub-collectors shall also levy one other quarterly payment of the said rates and assessements charged as aforesaid upon or before the Third day of December then next ensueing or within Twenty dayes after and shall alsoe pay the same in to the said Head-collectors upon or before the tenth day of December aforesaid or within twenty dayes after; And the said Head-collectors shall make payment thereof to the Receiver Generall of the said County City or Place upon or before the seaventeenth day of December aforesaid or within twenty dayes after, And the said Receiver Generall is likewise required to make payment of all which he shall soe receive into his Majesties Receipt of Exchequer upon or before the Five and twentieth day of December aforesaid or within Twenty dayes after to the end that the Fourth and last quarterly payment of the said rates and assessements soe charged as aforesaid may by that time be fully answered and paid in to his Majestie: And all Co[m]missioners Collectors and Receivers are hereby required and enjoyned to apply themselves with all diligence to the most speedy and effectuall execuc[i]on of theire severall and respective dutyes and to use theire utmost endeavours that all estates herein charged may equally pay the rates and assessements according to the direcc[i]on of this Act; that soe his Majesties Service herein may not be delayed or hindred through any of theire willfull neglect or default:-

Editorial Information

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

X2 interlined on the Roll.