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 A. D. 1757. Anno tricefimo primo Georgii II. * C. 22. 2t^ VI. And be it further enaifted and declared, That the feveral Commlffioners aforefaid, f!iall_ meet together commi/lionerj at the moil ufual and common Places of Meeting within each of the faid Counties, Ridings, Cities, Boroughs, tomeeton rr be= Cinque Ports, Towns and Places refpedlively, within England^ Wales^ and Town of Berwick upon Tweedy f"re jd July for which they are appointed Commiflioners as aforefaid, yearly on or before the third Day of Julyy and af- )"r]yj terwards in like Manner, as often as it fliall be neceflary for putting fo much of this Aft in Execution, as is hereby committed to their Care and Charge; and the faid Commiflioners, or fo many of them as {hall be and fubdivide prefent at fuch Meeting or Meetings, or the major Part of them, are hereby authorized and required, to put tliemfelves, &c, fo much as aforefaid of this prefent Act in Execution, and (hall alfo, if they fee Caufe, fubdivide and diftri- bu'te themfelves, and the other Commiflioners not then prefent, into lefs Numbers, fo as three or more of the faid Commiflfioners may be appointed for the Service of each Hundred, Lathe, Wapentake, Rape, Ward, or other Divifion, as may beft conduce to the carrpng on his Majefty's Services, hereby required; never- thfelefs, not thereby to reftrain the faid Commiflioners, or any of them, from afting as Commiflioners in any other Part of the County or Place for which they are appointed : And the faid Commiflioners, within the CommJffioners feveral Hundreds, Lathes, Wapentakes, Rapes, Wards, or other Divifions, England, PFales, and 5^;'- ^'^^s"" General wick upon Tweed, or any tv/o or more of them, are hereby authorized and required at fuch General Meeting, vvhhini' Days or within eight Days after, according to the beft of their Judgments and Difcretions, to afcertain and fet down after, to rate in Writing, in a Rate to be prepared by them for that Purpofe, the Amount of the faid Duty of one Shil- the Amount of ling in the Pound, to be paid in purfuance of this A6V, by all Commiflioners or other Officers, their Clerks, ''^J^ ^^^y P^v- Agcnts, Secondaries, Subftitutes, and other inferior Minifters and Perfons whatfoever, having, ufmg or exer- ^„ g^^r" ^■^,^ cihng any of the faid Oflices or Employments, the Salary, Wages, Fees and Perquifites whereof exceed the ^^nt" of T'rofi^r' Value of one hundred Pounds per Annum^ within their refpeftive Hundreds, Lathts, Wapentakes, Rapes, in Proportion to Wards, or other Divifions, in Proportion to the annual Value at which the Profits of fuch Oflices or Em- the Value at ployments refpeftively ftand valued and rated, in the laft AflTeflment to the Land Tax, for the faid refpeftive J^*^'"^^ ^^'=y Hundreds and Divifions refpeftively : And to the End the aforefaid Duty on fuch Perquifites of Offices and th"ia'i{'LaQd Employments may be duly colledled, and true Accounts thereof made, the faid Commiffioners, or any Tax. three or more of them, are hereby required and ordered, within the Time above limited, to fign and feal two Duplicates of the faid Rates hereby directed to be made by them, and one of them to deliver, or caufe J^"/|'7^"l to be delivered, to fuch Perfons as fliall then be Colleftors of the Land Tax for each Parifh and Place, or to figrej &c. bv fuch other two or more honeft and refponfible Perfons, which the fiid Commiffioners fliall at their Difcre- ihem,'andone tion nominate and appoint to be Colleitors of this prefent Duty, for each Parifh or Place, with Warrant to delivered to the the Collectors to coUeft the Sums contained in fuch Rates, refpeclively payable as aforefaid, fo as the faid fe- Colleflors, &c. veral Sums may be paid to the Receiver General at the refjoedtive Times herein limited ; and if any Perfon for colka""' or Perfons (hall think himfelf or themfelves aggrieved, by being over-rated by the faid Commiflioners, it fhall ' ' ^' and may be lawful to and for fuch Perfon or Perfons, to appeal from the fame to the Barons of his Ma- ve!i'^'i,'"V^'^^'^'^* jefty's Court of Exchequer, and the Barons of the laid Court, or any one or more of them, is and are over-me^d"^irayr hereby authorized and required to hear and determine all fuch Appeals, on or before the laft Day of Michael- appeal to the Ba. mas Term yearly ; and the faid Colleftors are hereby required, upon the Application of any Perfon or Per- rtnsof the £x- fohs who fha!l think himfelf or themfelves over-rated, to the faid Rates, to permit fuch Perfon or Perfons, or '^h^q""'"- their Stewards or Bailiffs, or other proper Reprefentatives, to infpeft the Duplicates of fuch Rates, upon Cciieftors to _ the Divifion or Diftri(fl of which he is CoUeftor, at all feafonable Times in the Day, without any Fee or P'^'^-'!/"'^^','^'" Reward for the fame ; and every Perfon fo intending to appeal to the faid Barons, ihall, and he is hereby re- ,,. quired to give Notice thereof in Writing, to one or more of the Colle<fl:ors of the Parifli wherein he is rated, of l^^n'thVi ^A f " fuch his Intention to appeal ; and it is hereby declared, that all Appeals once heard and determined by the tenticn lo'ap."" faid Barons, or any one or more of them, mall be final, without any further Appeal upon any Pretence peal. whatfoever : And the faid Commiffioners are hereby required to deliver, or caufe to be delivered, a Schedule ^pp^als once or Duplicate in Parchment, under their Hands and Seals, fairly written, containing the whole Sum rated ^""' ^"'' '^^'^^'^" within each Parifli or Place, unto the Receiver General of each County, Riding, City, Borough, Town ^!|")'^ "^^ * and Place refpeftively in England, Wales, and Berwick upon Tweed, or his Deputy ; and ftiail tranfmit, or a Duplicate caufe to be tranfmitted, a like Schedule or Duplicate into the King's Rem.embrancer's Office of the Exche- Paichmcntof quer ; and this the faid Commiffioners fhall caufe to be done, upon or before the firft Day of Hilary Term, ti'" Rate to be or v> * bin twenty Days after (all Appeals being firft determined) for which Duplicates the Remembrancer, p""^'" "^"'^'^ or his Deputy, (hall give to the Perfon who brings the fame, a Receipt in Writing ^r^^z/x. rar-^'?nd onrt* the Remembrancer's Office, by the firft Day of Hilary Term, or 20 Days after (all Appeals firft deteimined.' VII. And be it ena6ted by the Authority aforefaid, That the faid Duty by this A6I: impofed upon Offi.ces Dutv t^ Ve rai- or Employments within that Part of the Kingdom of Great Britain called Erigland, Wales, and Berwick upon fej, c< llefUd Tweed, as aforefaid, fhall in all refpedts (fave as is herein otherwife enafted and provided) be raifed, levied, anj paid, .n like colleded and l^aid into his Majefty's Exchecucr, for the Purpofe in this A6t ex prefixed, in fuch and in like ^.'"'■^"'^'''^"'J Form and Manner, and with fuch Allowances, and under fuch Penalties, Forfeitures and Difabiliiies, and ["o^l^anct,! anj accorc'ing to fuch" Rules, Methods an ; Directions, as are prefcribed or appointed for raifing, levying, col- under fuVh Se- lecting and paying the Aid commonly called The Land Tax, wirhin Ejigland, Wales, znd Beriuick upon naltief, &c. ^s Tweed, in and by an Ait of Parliament made and pafled in this prefent Seffion of Parliame: t, intituled, Jn '''f tan-iTaxof JJt for granting an Aid to his Majejiy hy a Land Tax, to he raifed in Great Britain, for the Seriice of the Year "^^^ Seflicn. one thoiifaud feven hundred and fifty-eight ; and for enforcing the Payment of the Rates to be affejfed upon Sonicr- fet Houfe in the Strand ; and all and every the Powers, Authorities, Rules, Direftions, Penalties, Forfeit- ures, Claufes, Matters and Things contained in tlie faid ACt, for the raifing, levying, collecting and pay- ing tbe Rates or Duties thereby gi anted, v/ithin England, Walcs^ et Berwick upon Tweed, (fo far forth as the fame are not with refpeCt to the Duties granted by this prefent ACt varied and altered) fhall be in full Force, and be duly obferved, praCiifed, and put in Execution, for raifing, levying, collecting and paying the fcid Duty by this ACt impofedon Offices and Employments, within England, Wales, and Berwick upon Tweedy