Land Tax Act 1688

XIII. The Power of Commissioners to tax other Commissioners; and also to tax the Assessors.

Such Assessments to be estreated and gathered as in other Cases.

And bee it further Enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That the Commissioners that shall be within any County, City or Place within their respective Limitts or the major part of them shall Rate Tax and Assesse every other Commissioner joyned with them for and in respect of the Goods Chattells and Personal Estate whereof such Commissioner shall be possessed And alsoe for and in respect of the Offices and Employments of Profit which at the time of such Taxation shall be held and enjoyed by such Commissioner soe as the Residence and usuall Dweling place of such Commissioner soe to be Taxed be within the Division of such Commissioners by whome he is Taxed and soe as the Office or Employment held and enjoyed by such Commissioner soe to be Taxed be likewise to be exercised within the Division or Limitts of such Commissioners by whome he is to be Taxed And the Commissioners within their Division shall alsoe Assesse every Assessor within their Division who shall be possessed of any Goods and Chattells or other Personall Estate for which by this Act he ought to be Rated and Assessed And as well all Summes upon every the said Commissioners and Assessors as the Assessments made and sett by the Assessors aforesaid shall be Written Estreated Levyed and Gathered as it should and ought to X1 have beene if the said Commissioners had not beene named Com[m]issioners

Editorial Information

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