Taxation (No. 3) Act 1663

IV. Archbishops, &c. shall be Collectors.

Collectors offering Payment, Officer to receive the same within Four Days and give Receipt to Collector.; Auditors to take Accounts and make Allowances.; Delaying, &c. so to do, Penalty £10.; Imprisonment until Penalty paid.

Item Your Highnesse said Prelates and Clergy doe grant That every Archbishop Bishop, and (the See being void) every Deane and Chapter of that See void, And none other person or persons shall be Collector of the said Fower Subsidyes within their proper Diocesse dureing the time appointed for the payment of the said Fower Subsidyes, And Your said Prelates and Clergy doe most humbly beseech Your Majestye that it may be enacted by Your Majestie and Your High Court of Parliament for the speedy payment of the said Fower Subsidyes and to avoid delayes thereof that when and as often as any Collector or Collectors chargeable with the Collection of the said Fower Subsidyes or of any part thereof, or their or any of their Under Collector or Under Collectors Deputie or Deputyes of any of them shall offer the Payment of the said Fower Subsidyes or of any part of them to the use of Your Majestie Your Heires and Successors to any person or persons appointed to receive the same by Your Highnesse or by Your Lord High Treasurer, That the said person or persons soe appointed shall within Fower dayes next after such appointment receive or cause to be received the Money soe offered to be paid without any further delay, and deliver one sufficient Bill testifying the receipt thereof to the said Collector or his Under Collector or Deputy upon every such perticular Payment, And that every such Auditor as is or shall be appointed to take or receive the accompt of any such Collector or Collectors or of their severall Under Collectors or Deputyes shall within six dayes next after request to him to be made truely and indifferently take the said Accompt and make allowance as by this Grant is appointed, upon paine that every such person or persons appointed to receive the same summe or summes of Money soe offered, and every such Auditor shall loose and forfeite for every defaulte or delay to be made to the Collector or Collectors [X1 Under Collector or ] Under Collectors Deputye or Deputyes soe offering to make Payment or Accompt as is aforesaid the summe of Ten pounds of lawfull Money of England, the one Moyety thereof to be to Your Majestie Your Heires and Successors, and the other Moyety to the said Collector or Collectors Under Collector or Under Collectors Deputy or Deputyes soe greived, the same to be paid upon Complaint to be made to the said Lord Treasurer or Under Treasurer or to the Lord Cheife Baron of Your Majestyes Court of Exchequer, who upon such Complaint shall presently examine the matter, and finding the fault shall committ the Offender to Ward there to remaine untill he shall have paid the said severall sumes soe forfeited.

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