Marriage Duty Act 1694

XII. Certificates of Assessments to be returned to the Commissioners, before 13th of May 1695.

On Return of Certificates, Three Commissioners may issue Warrants for Collection; Collectors to demand Rates, and pay same to Receiver General, who is to hasten Collectors; and in default, to levy by Distress.

And bee it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That the Rates and Assessments charged by this Act shall bee ascertained and the certificates thereof returned to the Commissioners att or before the Thirteenth day of May One thousand six hundred ninety five And upon the delivery and returning of such Certificates or Assessments unto the said Commissioners they or any Three or more of them shall forthwith issue out and deliver their warrants or estreats to such Collectors as aforesaid for the speedy collecting and levying of the said Assessments as they shall respectively become due and payable and all moneys and rates due thereupon according to the intent and directions of this present Act of all which the said Collectors are hereby required to make demand of the parties chargeable therewith or att the places of their last abode within Tenn days after the said Duties hereby granted shall respectively become due and payable And to pay in the same within Twenty days after the receipt thereof att such place as the Commissioners shall appoint unto the respective Receiver General his Deputy or Deputies who are hereby impowered and required to call upon and hasten the Collectors to the said payment And in default of such payment to levy by warrant under the hands and seales of any Two or more of the Commissioners upon the Collectors by distresse and sale of his and their goods and chattells such su[m]m and sums of money as hee hath received and as ought by him to have been paid and is not paid by reason of his failure in doing his duty according to the direction of this Act.