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A37988 An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament for the raising of money to pay the charge of the fortifications and guards, and for other necessary uses for the safety of the city and parts adjacent within the lines of communication and weekly bills of mortality : die Martis, 3. Decemb. 1644. England and Wales. Parliament. 1644 (1644) Wing E2016; ESTC R29758 4,482 12

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Die Martis 3. Decemb. 1644. AN ORDINANCE OF THE LORDS and COMMONS assembled in PARLIAMENT FOR THE Raising of Money to pay the Charge of the Fortifications and Guards and for other Necessary Uses For the safety of the City and parts adjacent within the Lines of Communication and weekly Bills of Mortality LONDON Printed by Richard Cotes 1644. AN ORDINANCE OF THE LORDS and COMMONS IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED FOrasmuch as the Fortifications and Guards within the Cities of London and Westminster and parts adjacent within the Lines of Communication and weekly Bills of Mortality are very necessary for the safety and defence of the said Cities and places and preservation of the Parliament in these times of distraction and danger and for that the Citizens and Inhabitants within the said Cities and places have been and are daily at great charges in maintaining the same For raising of money to pay the charge of the Fortifications and Guards aforesaid and for satisfying the great debts thereby already incurred and other necessary uses The Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled have Ordained And bee it Ordained by the said Lords and Commons That there shall bee monethly charged and levyed upon the Cities of London and Westminster The Hamblets of the Tower and Burrough of Southwark and all other Parishes and places within the Line of Communication and weekly Bills of Mortality the summe of six thousand nine hundred sixty two pounds foure shillings That is to say upon the City of London five thousand foure hundred eighty two pounds ten shillings three pence Upon the City and Liberty of Westminster six hundred sixteen pounds ten shillings eight pence halfe penny Upon the Hamblets foure hundred ninty three pounds foure shillings seven pence Upon the Burrough of Southwark three hundred sixty nine pounds eighteen shillings five pence farthing for the purposes aforesaid for six moneths To commence from the first day of November last past And to the end the severall summes of money may bee duly raised levyed and paid as hereafter is directed Bee it further Ordained by the said Lords and Commons That the Lord Major and Aldermen of London shall bee Committees for the City of London and Liberties thereof And the Lord Major and Aldermen of London and six such persons of every of the Sub-committees for the Militia within the Lines of Communication and weekly Bills of Mortality as the said severall and respective Committees shall nominate and appoint for this service and the former Committees named in the Ordinance for the two last moneths assessements for the City of Westminster Burrough of Southwarke Hamblets of the Tower and other places within the Line of Communication and Weekly Bills of Mortality without the City of London and Liberties thereof shall bee Committees for the said City of Westminster Burrough of Southwarke Hamblets of the Tower and places aforesaid without the City of London and Liberties thereof within their severall and respective divisions which said Committees in their severall and respective divisions or any two or more of them respectively are hereby authorized and required to direct their warrants to such number of Persons as they shall thinke fit within their severall and respective divisions to bee Assessors for the said Rates which said Persons are hereby authorized and required to assesse all and every Person and Persons wheresoever they shall live and inhabite either within the said Limits or without having any reall or personall Estate within the Limits Circuits and Bounds of their respective Divisions according to the rate and proportion in this Ordinance mentioned An bee it further Ordained by the Lords and Commons That the severall Summes which shall bee hereafter assessed or taken upon the severall Cities and Places aforesaid shall be assessed and taken both for Lands and Goods upon such Persons and Estates and in such manner and forme as is directed for the Weekly Assessements in an Ordinance of Parliament of the fourth day of March 1642. Intituled An Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament For the speedy raising and levying of Money for the maintenance of the Army raised by the Parliament and other great Affaires of the Common-wealth by a Weekly Assessement and to the end the said Rates be equally and indifferently assessed and the Moneys duly Collected and true accompt thereof made the said Assessors are hereby required within six days after such assessement made to deliver two Copies of their respective assessements fairly written and subscribed by them unto the said respective Committees or to any of them whereof one to remain with the said Committee and the other to be delivered to the Collectors with Warrants to levy the said Moneys And the said severall Committees or any three of them are hereby respectively authorized from time to time to nominate one or more sufficient and honest Persons in every Division or allotment to bee Collectors of the said Moneys so assessed and Rated which said Collectors are hereby authorized and required to collect the said Moneys so assessed and the said respective Committees or any six of them are hereby authorized to allow and pay unto the said respective Collectors two pence in the pound for their paines in collecting the said Moneys and one penny in the pound to their Clerkes for their paines in fair writing the said Assessements and if any Person or Persons whatsoever shall refuse or neglect to pay any Summe or Summes of Money whereat he or they shall bee Rated and assessed That then it shall and may be lawfull to and for the said Collectors or any of them to leavy the summe so assessed by Distresse and the Sale of the Goods of such person or persons so refusing or neglecting to pay deducting the summe assessed and the reasonable charges of Distraining and restore the overplus to the owner thereof And likewise to breake open any House Chest Truncks Boxe or other thing wherein any such Goods are and to call to their assistance any of the Trained Bands Constables Headboroughs or any other Forces within the Cities and Places where any resistance shall be made or any other person or persons whatsoever which said Forces and Persons are hereby required to bee aiding and assisting in the premises as they shall answer the contrary at their perills And if any Question or difference shall happen to arise upon the taking such Distresse betweene the parties distrained and distraining the same shall be ended and determined by the said Committees or any two of them and the said several Committees or any two or more of them are hereby authorized and required to use such other wayes or meanes for the speedy levying of the said Assessements as to them shal be though fit And if any person or persons shall purposely convey away his or their Goods or any other personall Estate whereby the sum of money so assessed cannot bee levyed according to this Ordinance Then the said respective Committees or any two of them are hereby authorized by themselves