Taxation Act 1695

XVII. Commissioners to call before them Collectors, and examine touching full Payment of Assessments;

and in case of Failure to levy.

And it is hereby further enacted and declared That att the Expirac[i]on of the respective Times in this Act prescribed for the full Payment of the said Foure Quarterly Payments the several and respective Co[m]missioners or any Two or more of them within their Division and Hundred shall and are hereby required to call before them the Collectors within each respective Division Hundred Parish and Place to examine and assure themselves of the full and whole Payment of the particular Su[m]m and Su[m]ms of Money charged within and upon the same Division Hundred and every Parish and Place therein and of the due Returne of the same into the Hands of the Receivers General their Deputy or Deputies of the said County Riding City Towne and Place respectively and by such Receiver General into the Receipt of His Majesties Exchequer to the end there may bee noe Failure in the Payment of any Part of the Assessment by virtue of this Act to bee assessed and paid And in case of any Failure in the Premisses the said Co[m]missioners or any Two or more of them are hereby to cause the same to bee forthwith levied and paid according to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act.