Ormsby Thomas Ormsby Henry Wadington Philip Ormsby Anthony Ormsby Gilbert Câ—rreâ— Thomas Cartwright Lewis Iones Robert Oliver Francis Iackson Francis King William Boswell Lewis Winkfield Richard Woods Edward 〈◊〉 Iohn Lang Robert Boyle Esquires For the Countie of 〈◊〉 Sir Charles Coot Sir George 〈◊〉 Sir George St. George Knights Richard Coot Owen Winn Robert Park William St. George Nathaniel Evanson Henry Crofton of Moghil William Handcock Charles carteâ—â—â— Oliver St. George Henry â—â—â—fold Owen 〈◊〉 Henry Waddington 〈◊〉 Iones Iames Shaen Esquires For the Countie of Galway with the Town of Galway Sir Charles Coot Knights Iohn Reynolds 〈…〉 William Edward Francis 〈◊〉 Francis â—ores William Moore Oliver St. George Thomas Davis Henry Greenway Iohn Boswel Iames Cuff Stephen Squib Robert â—acâ—â—eâ—â— Charls Holcroft Iohn Eyre Iohn Winn Robert Clerk Iohn Desbrough Philip Bigo Robert Clerk Robert Ormsby Henry Wadington Gilbert Carter Esquires And it is further Ordered and Declared that the several and respective Commissioners hereby appointed for the several and respective Counties and Cities aforesaid shall within eight daies or sooner if it may be next ensuing the publication hereof meet together in the chief Towns in each of the said Counties or some other convenient place by the said Commissioners for that purpose to be appointed or any two or more of them giving notice to the rest of the time and place of such their meeting which said Commissioners are hereby required and authorized in Order to the effectual and timely putting in execution of the contents hereof to divide and apportion the said Assesments in as equal and impartial manner as they can according to the manner and form hereafter expressed that is to say The said Assesment is to be Raised Assessed and Leavied for three months aforesaid commencing the twelfth day of Ianuary instant and determining the twelfth day of April next and shall be forthwith Taxed and Assessed by a pound rate equally on the several Divisions Baronies and Parishes in the respective Counties Cities and Places aforesaid for all and every the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Goods Chattels Monies Stock or Estate yeilding any profit or increase according to the value thereof that is to say as much upon every twenty shillings Rent or yearly value of Land and real Estate as upon Money Stock and other personal Estate by an equall Rate wherein every six pound in Money Stock or other personall Estate shall bear the like charge as shall be said upon every twenty shillings yearly Rent or yearly value of Land as will raise the Monthly sum or sums charged upon the respective Counties or Places aforesaid for the better effecting whereof It is hereby further Ordered and Declared that the several 〈…〉 Commissioners hereby appointed in the several and respective Counties and Cities shall meet together as occasion shall be from time to time once every week or fourteen daies at least at the chief Town in each County or some convenient place as aforesaid And the said Commissioners or any three or more of them shall after the publique reading hereof there chuse nominate and appoint two or three or more if they shall think fit of the honest and able Protestant English inhabitants if it may be in the several respective Baronies Towns Parishes or Cities aforesaid and them to appoint to take a particular exact enquiry Survey or Estimate of each mans Land Tenement rent stocks in every respective Citie Town Vilage or place together with the yearly value profits of the same and to return the said inquiry Survey or Estimate under their hands in writing to the said Commissioners or to such Person or Persons of them as shall be by the said Commissioners appointed to receive the same And to the end an equal rate throughout the whole Counâ—â—y and every part thereof may be obtained the said Commissioners or any two or more of them may and are hereby authorized to administer an Oath if they see cause to the respective Persons aforesaid for their faithful discharge of the trust reposed in them and for their just and impartial dealing in the same such Enquiries Surveys or Estimates to be delivered in writing within one and twenty daies after the said day of the said Commissioners first meeting and the said Commissioners or any three or more of them then preâ—â—â— after the said return upon the view and perusal of the said several inquiries Surveys or Estimates shall truely cast up the total Revenue and yearly profits of the whole Counties Cities and Towns aforesaid to the 〈◊〉 equal pound rate may be apportioned upon every Baronie Citie Township or Parish according to the proportion and sum of money charged upon the said County by vertue of this present Order if the said Commissioners shall not see just cause to alter the said returns and the said Commissioners or any three or more of them assembled are by vertue hereof authorized and appointed to apportion each mans share or proportion due according to the said return or as they shall iudge most equall and indifferent and shall forthwith send forth their Warrants to the several Conâ—â—alâ—â—es or other Person or Persons 〈◊〉 each Barony or Parish 〈◊〉 they shall â—ee 〈◊〉 requiring them forthwith to collect the several and respective sums of Money to each mans Name annexed which sums are to be expressed not in 〈◊〉 but in words at length for which purpose the said Commissioners are with the said Warrants likewise required to send a particular of what each mans Seâ—s under the charge of the said Constable or other Person or Persons in each Baronie appointed as aforesaid is rateable to his Land Tenement Rent or Stock c. returned as aforesaid requiring the said Constable 〈◊〉 other Person or Persons so intrusted to make payment of the Monies so Collected into the hands of the Receivers for thâ—â— purpose appointed or to be appointed and in Order to the writing the Duplicates aforesaid the said Receivers Clerks are for that purpose from time to time to attend on the said Commissioners at the time and place of their meeting and the said Commissioners are likewise to cause the said Assesments to be fairly Written and Subscribed by them and delivered to the respective Receivers aforesaid and to certifie 〈◊〉 Writing the true State thereof together with the total both of the Profits of Land Houses Rent and Stock c. in each County and Baronie and what respectively is charged on every twenty shillings 〈◊〉 in Land Tenements Rent and on every expound Stack unto Henry Markham Edward Roberts and Richard Kingdon Esquires Commissioners General for the publick Revenue Stores of Ireland their Office in Dublin And it is hereby further Ordered That if any Person or Persons shall refuse or neglect to pay the respective sums of Money on him or them Taxed that it shall and may be lawful for the said Constable or other Person or Persons appointed as aforesaid to Collect the 〈◊〉 to break open
all such matters as shall be objected against the said Commissioners of Applotment and upon full hearing of both Parties if by clear and good proof it shall appear That the said Commissioners of Applotment have under pretence of their Authority aforesaid raised more Moneys than by Instructions from the said Commissioners of Revenue they were impowered to raise they are to cause such Commissioners forthwith to pay all such Money as they or any of them have so raised and not paid into the Treasury into the hand of the respective Receivers as 〈…〉 the present three 〈…〉 the same but of the County or Barony out of which such Moneys by the said Commissioners of applotment was so raised Except the said County or Barony be in Arrear of former Assesments and in 〈…〉 Moneys are to be paid and 〈…〉 as so 〈◊〉 paid towards discharge of 〈◊〉 Arrears 〈…〉 the said Commissioners for the Assesment are also to certify from time to time their proceedings herein past 〈◊〉 to the 〈◊〉 Commissioners General that such Offenders may be further proceeded against according to the nature of their offence And to the end all Arrears of former Assesments may be timely paid into the hand of the aforesaid respective Receivers in order to the supply of the 〈◊〉 and other publick Charges The said respective Receivers are hereby 〈◊〉 to summon all Commissioners of Applotment or other persons formerly entrusted or employed by the Commissioners of the Revenue for the Assesing and Leavying the said Assesments requiring them forthwith to pay into the 〈◊〉 all such Arrears and in default thereof the said respective Receivers are to assign those Arrears for 〈◊〉 pay of the Forces according to such 〈…〉 they shall for that purpose 〈◊〉 from Our 〈◊〉 or the aforesaid Commissioners General for the Publick Revenue And it is further hereby Ordered and Declared That no other sum or sums of Money be by any person or persons whatsoever charge◠〈◊〉 any Countie or place in Ireland in consideration of any Publick 〈◊〉 or Assesment whatsoever either for 〈…〉 â—ree-Quarter of any sort Caâ—â—â—age 〈◊〉 Money Salt 〈◊〉 Small 〈◊〉 Bedding Bed Cloaths or other Charge whatsoever And if any Officer or Souldier shall offend herein the person or persons 〈◊〉 are to make their 〈◊〉 to the Officer 〈…〉 fo the respective Precincts or to the Authority-General 〈◊〉 the Army or his 〈◊〉 at the 〈◊〉 Quarters who are 〈◊〉 to proceed against such Offenders according to Martial Law Provided nevertheless That no Rents for Monies 〈…〉 Tenements and Hereditaments or Revenues belonging to Colledges Hospitals Alms-houses or given to any charitable or pious use be charged towards the payment of the several sums and proportions aforesaid save onely for so much as the said Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments are and shall be respectively worth by the year over and above the Rent and Revenue thereof respectively due and payable to the said Colledges Hospitals Alms-Houses Charitable and pious use and every of them respectively Provided also And it is hereby further Ordered and Declared That no waste Houses or Lands unplanted unimployed or unmanured shall during their being unplanted unimployed or unmanured be charged to pay any part or proportion of the said Monthly Tax and Assesment Provided further That where any person hath taken any Estate at a certain yearly Rent to be paid for the same in liew of Assesments and other Publick Taxes and the said Grant to such persons continueth in being pursuant to such Orders Rules and Instructions as have been given by the late Commissioners of the Commonwealth for the setting and letting of Lands such person or persons are to enjoy the benefit of his or their said Grant and the proportions of Assesments falling of right upon such Lands so lett is to be supplied out of the Rents of the said Lands and the Baronie or place in which the said Lands do lie is to be freed and discharged from so much of the said Assesments as shall be supplyed or discharged out of the Rents of the Lands aforesaid and the remainder of Rent due to the Common-wealth above the said Conteâ—â—â—tion is to be paid into the hands of the respective Receivers aforesaid Provided notwithstanding That if any person or persons have taken any Lease from the Common-wealth at a certain yearly Rent and the Rents reserved upon the same fall short of the present Contribution said upon Lands of equal value in the same Baronie Town-ship Will or Parish by virtue of this Order all such Lands are hereby Ordered and Declared to be liable and subject to the payment of Contribution for the Stock and Tillage upon the same equal in proportion to the rest of the Inhabitants of the Countrey respectively according to Iustice equitie And in such case the aforesaid person or persons who have taken Land at a certainty as aforesaid shall be and are hereby discharged from the Rents payable in pursuance of such Contracts made with the Common-wealth as aforesaid Yet so as to have the Benefit of such Lands 〈◊〉 contribution falling due for the same during the term of their aforesaid Leases according to the Instructions given for making such Leases Provided also That none of the Commissioners herein nominated shall in any thing relating to their own Estates or the Estates of any of their Fathers Brothers Tenant or Tenants give their votes therein or shall 〈◊〉 or apportion the respective Sum or Sums of Money payable for his or their Tax in 〈◊〉 hereof And all Officers Civil and Military and all other persons whatsoever are hereby strictly required to be aiding and assisting in the due execution of the Power and Trust hereby granted as they shall be thereunto required Dated at Dublin Ianuary the first 1654. Tho. Herbert Clerk of the Council ORdered by the Lord Deputy and Council That this Order and Commission for the Assesment be forthwith Printed and Published Signed by Order of the said Lord Deputy and Council THO. HERBERT Clerk of the Council By the Lord Deputy and Council ORdered That the several persons hereunder named be and are hereby added to the Commissioners for Assesment in the several Counties to their names annexed and are hereby impowered to act as Commissioners as fully to all intents and purposes as any the Commissioners named in an Order and Commission of the 12º instant For the Kings County Iohn Eyre Esq For the Barony at Dâ—liâ—k and County of Meath Iohn Hetch Esq For the County of Derry Iohn Barret Alexander Staples Esqs For the County of Kerry Thomas Herbert Esq For the County of Typerary Robert Knight Matthew Iacob Esquires For the County of Waterford Edward Hiâ—gate Robert Thornhill Iohn Ioyâ—â— Iohn Houghton Iohn Pike Senior Esquires Dated at Dublin Jan. 18º 1654. THOMAS HERBERT Clerk of the Council
any House Chest Trunk or Box and to Leavy by distress of Goods or other wise the said Tax bringing the said Goods so distrained unto the respective 〈◊〉 aforesaid or the next Commissioners herein for such County 〈…〉 or Iustice of the Peace for such Countie and in case the said Owner 〈…〉 shall neglect to pay his or their Tax 〈…〉 or their Goods 〈◊〉 distrained within four days after such distress 〈…〉 the said Respective 〈…〉 or Iustices of the Peace are too 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 distress to be sold by publick canting or otherwise in some publick Market causing such Persons Assesments to be paid there out and the overplus to be returne to the Owner allowing the Constable reasonable consideration not exceeding two shillings in the pound for his destraining for the said Tax And the said Constable or other Person or Persons appointed for Collecting the same are hereby authorized to call to his or their Assistance any Officer or Souldier of the Army or any other Person or Persons whatsoever in the due prosecution of the premises which Assistance the said Person or Persons so required are not to refuse at their peril And if the said Constable or other Person or Persons appointed as aforesaid shall neglect the duty hereby required from them and shall suffer the said Assesment to run in Arrear after the same shall grow due having received Warrant for Collecting the same as aforesaid then the said Commissioners or any two of them receiving certificate hereof in writing from the aforesaid respective Receivers may and are hereby anthorized if they see cause to give Order and Direction to any Officers or Souldiers of the Army to Quarter upon such Person or Persons so neglecting his or their duty to Collect the Assesment as aforesaid or to impose such Fine or Fines under the said Constable or Person or Persons appointed as aforesaid as they shall think fit not exceeding for any one Offence five pounds Leavying the same by distress of Goods or otherwise as is before directed and causing the same for 〈◊〉 to be paid into the hands of said respective Receivers for the use of the Common-wealth and if any Person or Persons employed or required to take a particular and exact enquiry Survey or Estimate of the profits of Lands Tenements Rents and Stock as aforesaid shalt neglect or refuse to make his or their returns without the time and according to the manner as is before diverted or 〈◊〉 knowingly or willingly make any false or short return of the real or personal Estate of any Person or Persons the said Commissioners for the Assesment or any three 〈…〉 of them being fully satisfied of the 〈◊〉 thereof are hereby 〈◊〉 to impose such fine or fines on small Offender as they shall think fit not exceeding for any the 〈◊〉 Ten Pounds causing one Moiety of the same to be paid into the hands of the respective Receivers for the use of the Common-wealth and the other Moyety to the Discoverer or Discoverers to be Leavied by distress of Goods as is before directed And to the end no obstruction may be in the timely paying in of the aforesaid Assesment It is hereby further Ordered That the Goods and Stock of each respective Tenant or Holder shall be â—â—able to be Taxed as well for any Rent or Profit due which ought to be paid by the Farmer Tenant or Occupier to the Land-Lord or any other person or persons whatsoever claiming the same as for his own Stock or Holding And the said Assesment to paid by the Farmer Tenant or Occupier of Land by virtue of this Order for any in respective of such Rents and Profits and which in 〈◊〉 ought to be paid by the Land-Lord the said Farmer Tenant or Occupier of the said Land shall be acquitted and discharged for so much thereof as the said Tax or Assesment shall amount unto as effectually to all intents and purposes as if the same had been actually paid unto his Land-Lord or any other person or persons unto whom his Rent shall become due and payable And if any person or persons shall refuse or neglect to pay his or their Assesment and convey away his or their Goods or other personal Estate whereby the sum of Money Assessed on him cannot be Leavied as is before expressed that then the aforesaid Commissioners or any two or more of them are hereby authorized to imprison the said persons and sequester the Estate of every such person to the use the Common-wealth or if any person or persons shall conceal his or their goods or remove their Goods or Cattle from one County to the other or any part of them thereby endeavoring to avoid the hearing a due proportion of the aforesaid Assesment Vpon the discovery thereof and due proof made before any two or more of the aforesaid Commissioners it shall and may be lawful for them to sequester such Goods or Cattle and to cause the same to be Canted or Sold 〈◊〉 some Publick Market paying one Moyety of what Money shall be raised by Sale of the said Goods or Cattle into the hands of the respective Receivers abating the same out of the Applotment of the Monthly Sess of the Barony in which the said Goods or Cattle ought to have paid and the other Moyety to pay or cause to be paid unto the Owners of such Goods or Cattle and the said Commissioners of the Assesment in the respective Counties are to cause due and Publick Notice hereof to be given And it is also further Ordered That if it shall so happen that any of the aforesaid Tax be laid on any insolvent person that is not able to pay the same so much as shall be so charged shall be re-Applotted by the said Commissioners equally on the Barony wherein such insolvency shall happen And it is further hereby Ordered That if any question or difference shall arise for or concerning the aforesaid Assesments that the aforesaid Commissioners are hereby authorized to hear and determin the same and to do thereinto the relief of the party grieved according to 〈◊〉 and Iustice And if any difference shall be between any of the said Commissioners concerning the execution of the Trust to them committed they are in such cases to have recourse to the aforesaid Commissioners General for the Publick Revenue who are hereby authorized and impowered to hear and determin the same or to Report the state thereof unto Vs. And whereas several complaints have been made against several Commissioners of Applotment alledging that they have raised other and greater sums of Money under pretence of the power and Trust reposed in them by the late Commissioners of the Revenue than of right they ought to have raised or have been paid into the Publick Treasury to the great wrong and oppression of the Countrey It is therefore further Ordered and Declared That the said Commissioners for Assesment or any three or more of them shall have Power and Authority to examin upon Oath