Taxation Act 1695

IX. Rates ascertained, and Certificates returned to Commissioners, 12th March 1695.

Commissioners may give further Time; On Return of Certificates, Commissioners may examine Presenters; Commissioners, suspecting Persons or Lands omitted, &c. may summon persons concerned; Neglecting to appear; Penalty; Commissioners may examine into the Values, and set Rates; Assessors to give One Copy of their Assessment to the Commissioners; Commissioners to give Duplicates to Sub-collectors, &c. and to cause a Copy or Extract, under Hand and Seal to be certified into the Exchequer the 20th March 1695.; which the King's Remembrancer shall transcribe within Three Months and transmit to Auditor of the Receipt, who is to enter the same

And bee it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Rates and Assessments upon all ready Moneys Debts Goods Chattells Personal Estates and Publick Offices and Imployments of Profitt charged by this Act shall bee ascertained and the Certificates thereof returned to the Commissioners upon or before the Twelfth Day of March One thousand six hundred ninety five unlesse the Commissioners shall think fitt to give a further time and alsoe the Taxations and Assessments of the Pound Rate of Foure Shillings in the Pound of the yearely Value of all Mannors Messuages Lands Tenements Hereditaments and Premisses charged by this Act shall bee made and ascertained and the several & respective Certificates thereof returned in to the Commissioners upon or before the said Twelfth Day of March unlesse the Commissioners shall think fitt to give further time And upon Returne of any such Certificate the Commissioners or any Three or more of them shall and may (if they see cause) examine the Presenters thereof And if the said Commissioners or any Three or more of them within their several Limitts att the time of the Returne of the Certificates as aforesaid or within Twenty Days after shall know or have good cause to suspect that any Person or Persons or any the Mannors Messuages Lands or other the Premisses which ought to bee mencioned and charged in the said Certificates is or are omitted or that any Person or Persons in the said Certificates menconed is or are of a greater Estate or that any the said Mannors or other Premisses are of a greater yearely Value than in the said Certificate is menc[i]oed the said Commissioners or any Three or more of them shall have Power to summon such Person or Persons and the Owners and Possessors of such Mannors or other Premisses to appeare before them att a Day and Place p[re]fixed to bee examined touching the Matters aforesaid And if the Person or Persons summoned to bee soe examined shall neglect to appeare (not, having a reasonable Excuse for such his Default) every Person soe making Default shall pay to His Majesty double the Su[m]m hee should or ought to have been sett att or rated And moreover the Commissioners or the major part of soe many of them as shall bee present shall have Power by all lawfull ways and means to examine into the Estate of such Person and the Value of such Premisses chargeable by this Act and to sett such Rate or Rates upon the same as shall bee according to the true Intent of this Act And the said Assessors are hereby required to give one Copy of their Certificates or Assessments fairely written and subscribed by them unto the said Commissioners by whom they were appointed And the said Commissioners or. any Two or more of them are hereby [X1 required and ordered] to cause the said several and respective Assessments to them delivered (when by them approved of or altered according to the true Intent of this Act) to bee fairely written and to signe and seal several Duplicates or Copies of the said Assessments and one of them soe signed and sealed forthwith to deliver or cause to bee delivered unto the Subcollectors And shall likewise deliver or cause to bee delivered other Copies thereof soe signed and sealed unto the Head Collectors and Receivers General according to their several and respective Collections and Receipts And moreover the said Commissioners shall cause a true Copy or Extract of the whole Su[m]s assessed and charged within every Hundred Lathe Wapentake Parish Ward or Place rated or assessed in pursuance of this Act and of the whole Sum rated or assessed upon Personal Estates Offices or Imployments to bee certified add transmitted into His Majesties Court of Exchequer under the Hands and Seales of any Two or more of the Commissioners but without naming the Persons in such Certificates And this the said Commissioners shall cause to bee done upon or before the Twentieth Day of March One thousand six hundred ninety five or within Fourty Days after (all Appeals made to them made being first determined) and the Kings Remembrancer in the Exchequer for the Time being shall and is hereby required within Three Months after Duplicates of the last Payment shall bee transmitted to him to transcribe all the Schedules and Duplicates of the Su[m]ms returned to him from and for every respective County Ridings City and Towne and every Hundred Wapentake Parish Division Towne and Place, therein in a Book of Parchment in Alphabetical Order and in a fair legible Hand-Writing and within Three Months after the same shall bee soe by him received to transmitt all and every the same Schedules and Duplicates to the Office of Writer of the Tallies c[o]monly called The Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer who is hereby likewise authorized and required to enter the same in the like Alphabetical Order in another Book of Parchment fairely written to bee provided for that purpose.

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: ordered and required O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]