Land Tax Act 1688

XXIII. At the Expiration of the Times prescribed for the Payment of the Rates, the Commissioners are to call before them the Collectors, and to examine and assure themselves of the several Payments; and in case of Failure in the Premises, Commissioners to proceed forthwith.

And it is hereby further Enacted and Declared That at the expiration of the respective Times in this Act prescribed for the full payment of the severall and respective Rates and Assessments herein before Granted the severall and respective Commissioners or any two or more of them within their Division and Hundred shall and are hereby required to call before them the Chiefe Collectors and Subcollectors within each respective Division and Hundred to Examine and Assure themselves of the full and whole Payment of the particular Summe and Summs of Money Charged within and upon the said Division and Hundred and every Parish and Place therein and of the due Returne of the same into the Hands of the Receivers Generall of the said County City Towne and Place respectively and by such Receiver Generall to the Receipt of His Majesties Exchequer to the end there may be noe failure in [X1 the payment of ] any part of the Rates and Assessments which by this Act ought to be Levyed and paid and in case of any failure in the Premisses the Commissioners or any two of them are to cause the same to be [X2 forthwith] Levyed and paid according to the true intent and meaning of this Act

Editorial Information

X1 interlined on the Roll.

X2 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: forthwith to be O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]