Taxation (No. 3) Act 1694

XXXV. Commissioners within their Division to rate each other for their Personal Estates and Offices.

Commissioners to assess the Assessors.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid; That the Co[m]missioners that shall be within any County City or Place within the respective limitts; or the major parte of them shall rate tax and assesse every other Co[m]missioner joyned with them for or in respecte of the ready money debts Goods Chattells and personall Estate of such Co[m]missioners and alsoe for and in respecte of the Offices and Employments of Profitt which att the time of such examinac[i]on shall be held and enjoyed by such Co[m]missioners soe as the residence and usuall Dwelling-place of such Co[m]missioner soe to be taxed be within the division of such Co[m]missioners by whome he is taxed and soe as the Office and Employment held and enjoyed by such Co[m]missioner soe to be taxed be likewise to be exercised within the division or limitts of such Co[m]missioners by whome he is to be taxed and the Co[m]missioners within theire Division shall alsoe assesse every assessor within theire division for all and singuler the p[re]misses for which by this Act he ought to be rated and assessed And aswell all su[m]mes assessed upon every the said Co[m]missioners and assessors as the assessements made and sett by the assessors aforesaid shall be written estreated levyed and gathered as the same should and ought to have beene if such Co[m]missioners had not beene named Co[m]missioners:-