Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	county_n	parish_n	town_n	9,891	5	9.5452	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74497	An ordinance touching the assessing, levying, and collecting of the latter three months assesment appointed by an act of the late Parlament, entituled, An act for an assesment at the rate of 120000 l. by the moneth, for six moneths, from the 25. of December 1653, to the 24. of June then next ensuing, towards the maintenance of the armies and navies of this Commonwealth. Fryday, 17. February, 1653. Ordered by His Highness the Lord Protector, and His Council, that this ordinance be forthwith printed and published. Henry Scobell Clerk of the Council.	England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell); England and Wales. Council of State.	1654 (1654)	Thomason E1063_12; ESTC R209544	2,356	7

AN ORDINANCE Touching the Assessing Levying and Collecting of the latter Three Months Assesment Appointed by an Act of the late PARLAMENT ENTITULED An Act for an Assesment at the rate of 120000 l. by the Moneth for six Moneths from the 25. of December 1653. to the 24. of June then next ensuing towards the maintenance of the Armies and Navies of this Commonwealth Fryday 17. February 1653. ORdered by His Highness the Lord Protector and His Council that this Ordinance be forthwith printed and published HENRY SCOBELL Clerk of the Council London Printed by William du-Gard and Henry Hills Printers to His Highness the Lord Protector 1653. AN ORDINANCE Touching the Assessing Levying and Collecting of the latter three Moneths Assesment appointed by an Act of the late Parlament Entituled An Act for an Assessment at the rate of 120000 l. by the Moneth for six Moneths from the 25. of December 1653. to the 24. of June then next ensuing towards the maintenance of the Armys and Navys of this Common-wealth WHereas by an Act of the late Parlament Entituled An Act for an Assessment at the rate of one hundred and twenty thousand pounds by the Moneth for six Moneths from the five and twentieth day of December one thousand six hundred fifty and three to the four and twentieth day of June then next ensuing towards the maintenance of the Armies and Navies of this Commonwealth It is among other things provided and enacted That if the Commissioners for any County City or Town in the said Act named should at their second general meeting find that for want of sufficient time a just and perfect survey or rate of each Parish place within such County City or Town as is directed by the said Act could not be made returned so as to proceed to the rating and apportioning of the whole six moneths Assesments in way and manner as is in that Act prescribed That then it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners in any of the said Counties Cities or Towns where the said surveys and rates for want of such sufficient time shall not be made and returned as aforesaid to proceed at their second general meeting to apportion the first three of the said six months Assessment according to the most just and equal way of rates held in such Counties Cities and Towns And the Commissioners of such Counties Cities and Towns in their respective Divisions to cause the same to be assessed levyed collected and paid And the Assessors Collectors and Sub-Collectors in their Respective Divisions Parishes and places were thereby authorized and required in assessing levying and collecting of the said first three Moneths Assessment to proceed accordingly And in such Counties Cities and Towns where the first three Moneths Assessment was appointed to be assessed and levyed according to the rates held in such places as aforesaid the several and respective Commissioners and other persons therein were authorized to put in execution all the powers given by that Act unto them for causing the said three moneths Assessment to bee fully and timely assessed collected levied and paid as if the same had been assessed and rated by a poundrate and as the six moneths assessement appointed by that Act were therein directed to bee assessed and rated But for the apportioning assessing levying and payment of the last three of the said six moneths Assessment by a survey pound rate It was Enacted That the Commissioners of such Counties Cities and Towns where the first three moneths Assessment should bee appointed to be rated assessed and paid according to the rates held in such places as aforesaid or the major part of them present at the said second general meeting were thereby authorized and required to appoint a third general meeting on the first day of March one thousand six hundred fiftie and three and at their said second general meeting to give such orders and directions and appoint such times for the effectual taking examining and returning of surveys and determining all controversies which might happen therein as that a true and perfect survey of each parish and place within such Countie Citie or Town might bee returned unto them at their said third general meeting And the said Commissioners in their respective Divisions and Hundreds or any two of them were likewise to proceed effectually therein according to the powers given them in that Act for that purpose And the Commissioners for such Countie Citie or Town or the major part of so many of them as should bee present at the said third general meeting were thereby required to sum and cast up the total of the surveys of each Countie Citie and Town and to proceed to apportion levy and raise the said latter three moneths Assessment upon all Estates reall and personal in such manner and by such wayes as the six moneths Aessessments were therein first appointed to be rated assessed levied and paid And whereas by the said Act the latter three moneths Assessments is appointed to be collected so as the same may be fully paid into the high Collectors and by them to the Receiver General to compleat the whole six months Assessment at or before the twentieth day of April at the furthest which shall bee in the year one thousand six hundred fiftie and four Now to the end the whole Assessment by the said Act appointed may be fully collected and paid in for the preventing of free-quarter and for the more effectual carrying on of the publique service His Highness the Lord PROTECTOR by and with the advice and consent of his Council doth Declare and Ordain That in case the way or manner of assessing the said later three moneths Assessment by a pound rate in such sort as is prescribed by the said Act shall prove prejudicial and obstructive to the bringing in the said latter three moneths Assessment appointed by the said Act by the time in the said Act for that purpose limitted That then and in all such cases the said Commissioners in any of the said Cities Counties Towns and places in the said Act mentioned where such obstructions shall bee or happen shall appoint a generall meeting together and the major part of them meeting may and are hereby authorized for the removal of such obstructions and the more speedy and effectual execution of the said Act to proceed according to the most just and equal way of rates held in such places in the proportioning levying and assessing the respective summes charged upon them any thing in the said Act to the contrarie thereof contained in any wise notwithstanding Friday the 17th of Februarie 1653. ORdered by His Highness the Lord PROTECTOR and His Council that this Ordinance bee forthwith printed and published Hen. Scobell Clerk of the Council Printed by William Du-Gard and Henry Hills Printers to His Highness the Lord PROTECTOR MDCLIII