Taxation (No. 3) Act 1694

XI. Head Collector's Receipt a Discharge to Sub-collector. Sub-collector to have Three-pence in the Pound. Head Collector to pay to and be appointed by Receiver.

Sub-collector travelling; Receiver General's Acquittance a Discharge, who is to pay into Exchequer; Allowance to Receiver General.

And it is further enacted and declared by the authority aforesaid that the moneyes received by the Sub-collectors within theire respective Divisions or Hundreds shall from time to time be duly paid to the Head-collectors whose Receipte shall be a sufficient discharge unto every such Sub-collector Which Sub-collector for gathering the said particular su[m]mes shall retaine in his hands for every twenty shillings by him soe paid three pence as a reward for his paines and service; and the said Head-collectors shall accordingly pay over the said moneys unto the Receiver Generall of each County City or Place respectively in manner aforesaid which Head-collector or Collectors shall be nominated and appointed by the Receiver Generall of the respective Countyes which said Receiver Generall shall be answereable for all such su[m]mes of money as shall [X1 be] by him or them collected or received; And that noe Sub-collector shall be forced to travell above the space of tenn miles for the payment of the said moneys that shall be by him collected or received; And the said Receiver Generalls acquittance shall be a sufficient discharge unto every such Head-collector; And the Receiver Generall shall pay the wholl su[m]me by him received into the receipt of His Majesties Exchequer in such manner and att and before such dayes and times as are herein before limitted and shall have an allowance of two pence in the pound for all moneys which shall be by him paid into the receipte of the Exchequer upon or before the times p[re]fixt in this Act:-

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X1 interlined on the Roll.