Billeting Act 1679

XI. Receiver General and their Deputies to give Acquittances to Collectors. without Fee.; such Acquittances to be a Discharge.

Provided alwayes and bee it enacted by the authoritie aforesaid That the severall Receivers Generall which shall be appointed according to this Act their Deputy or Deputyes shall from time to time at every Payment appointed thereby give unto the severall Collectors within their respective Precincts upon the Payment of the whole Summe due at such times of Payment from their respective. Parishes Constablewicks or Places within each of their Collections severall Acquittances under their Hands without takeing any thing for the same and that in like manner at every time of Payment appointed by this Act the Receiver Generall of each County his Deputy or Deputyes shall give unto the severall Collectors aforesaid upon the Payment of the whole Summe or any part thereof due for their Parish or Place respectively at each time of Payment aforesaid severall Acquittances under their Hands and Seales without takeing any thing for the same which said Acquittances of every respective Receiver Generall his Deputy or Deputyes shall be a sufficient Discharge to the Collectors and to such Parish and Place respectively and to every Person charged within the said Collectors Charge against His Majestie His Heires and Successors for the Summe or Summes of Money soe acquitted.