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A80238 A commission for the due and effectual assessing and leavying of the fourth part of the yearly value of lands, & of the yearly increase or profit of stocks, and other personal estate in the prespective precincts in Ireland; for, and towards the pay of the armie. Ireland. Commissioners of the Common-wealth of England for the Affairs of Ireland. 1654 (1654) Wing C5551B; ESTC R174183 5,949 9

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A COMMISSION FOR The due and effectual Assessing and Leavying of the fourth part of the yearly value of Lands of the yearly increase or profit of Stocks and other Personal Estate in the Respective Precincts in IRELAND for and towards the Pay of the ARMIE IRELAND By the Commissioners of the Common-wealth of England for the Affairs of Ireland WHereas In and by one Act of Parliament Intituled An Act for the speedy and effectual Satisfaction of the Adventurers for Lands in Ireland c. It is amongst other things enacted That all Inhabitants Owners Occupiers and Tenants of Lands in Ireland shall from and after the 24. of Iune next 1654. be charged to pay for the said Lands and Stock thereon towards any publick charge no more than one fourth part both for the Land-Lord Tenant of the true full yearly value profit of their respective Lands and Stock thereon as by the said Act more at large appeareth To the end therefore that the said Branch of the said Act may be duly put in execution the Commissioners of the Revenue in every respective Precinct in Ireland or any three or more of them within every Precinct respectively are hereby authorized and required to Tax Assess and Levie upon all every the Inhabitants Owners Occupiers Tenants of Houses Lands Tenements Tithes Fishings and other Heredi●aments and upon all and every Fraternity Guild Corporation Bodies-Politick or Corporate having or holding any Houses Lands Tiths VVeares Fishings or other Hereditaments or any Rents Annuities or profits out of Lands Tiths VVeares Fishings or other Hereditaments within their respective Precincts the full fourth part of the true and yearely value of all and singular the said Houses Lands Tenements Tythes Fishings and other Hereditaments within the said Precincts respectively according to the best improved Rate the same now is or may be let by the Land-lord at the Rack without Stock thereupon And likewise the full fourth part of the yearly increase or profit of the Cattle Seed-corn and other Stock and personall Estate belonging to or imployed by all and every the Inhabitants Owners Occupiers and Tennants of Lands within the said Precincts respectively as Stock upon the said Lands And also the full fourth part of the yearely increase or profit of all Stocks of money and goods imployed by all and every person and persons within the said Precincts respectively in the way of Merchandize or trade or in any other way whereby increase or profit doth accrue to the Owner The said increase or profit of Stock and personall Estate to be computed according to the Rate of eight pounds for every hundred pounds that the same shall be valued to be worth according to the best and most improved Rates the fourth part whereof That is to say Forty shillings for every Hundred pounds in Stock is to be assessed and levied as aforesaid and so rateably for greater and lesser Stocks And for the more due and effectuall assessing and levying of the said fourth part according to the Tenor of the said recited Act The said Commissioners of Revenue in every respective Precinct are hereby authorized and required to issue out their warrants to any two or more of the most able and faithfull men in every Barony Division or Allotment within each Precinct thereby requiring them forthwith to value all and every the Houses Lands Tenements tythes Fishings and other Hereditaments within their respective Baronies Divisions or Alotments according to the best improved yearely value the same now is or may be let by the Land-lord at the Rack without Stock thereupon And likewise to value all Cattle Seed-corn and other Stock and personall Estate yeelding increase or profit belonging to or imployed by all and every the said Owners Occupiers and Tennants of Lands and other Inhabitants within their respective Baronies Divisions or Allotments And to cause the said yearely Value of the respective Lands Tenements Tythes Fishings and other Hereditaments in every respective persons holding possession or occupation within their respective Baronies Divisions or Allotments together with the true value of the Cattle Seed-corn money goods and other Stock and personall Estate yeelding increase or profit belonging to or imployed by the said persons respectively to be fairely written in a Parchment Roll or Book Setting downe at every mans name the name and quantity of the Lands Tenements tythes Fishings and other Hereditaments he holdeth or occupieth together with the name of the Owner or Proprietor thereof and the true yearely Value of the same according to the said best improved Rates in another distinct Column the true yearly value of every perticular persons Stock according to the said best improved Rates And the said Rolls or Books being prepared as aforesaid to returne the same attested under their Hands unto the said Commissioners of Revenue respectively before the six and twenty day of Iune next ensuing And the said Commissioners of Revenue in every respective Precinct are required to returne unto the Commissioners of the Common-wealth before the tenth day of Iuly next Duplicates of the Rolls or Books hereby appointed to be returned unto them and to be perfected by them as aforesaid of the true yearly Value of the Lands Stock and other personall Estate of every person within their respective Precinct And for the better discovery of the true value of the said Lands and Stock as abovesaid the said Commissioners of Revenue are by their said Warrants to authorize the said persons whom they shall appoint to value the same as aforesaid to send for such persons as they shall think fit within their respective Baronies Divisions or Allotments and to examine them touching the premisses and to use all other good waies and meanes for the discovery of the same letting all persons concerned within their respective Baronies Divisions or Allotments know That if any person shall conceale the Number quantity or kind of any part of his Estate to the end the same may be freed or exempted from the Assessment or Duty aforesaid The said Estate so concealed shall be seized to the use of the Common-wealth which the Commissioners of Revenue in their respective Precincts are hereby authorized to do and to cause the same to be appraised and sold in open Market to such person or persons as shall give most for the same and to cause the money for which the same shall be sold as aforesaid to be paid in to the publick Treasury of the Precinct wherein the said Estate shall be so seized And in all cases where the Commissioners of Revenue or any of them shall suspect that the Lands Tenements Tythes Goods or Stock so returned unto them as aforesaid are by the said Returnes undervalued they or any three or more of them are hereby authorized and required to make further inquirie of the true improved Value of such Lands Tenements Tythes goods Stock so undervalued and by all good wayes and meanes to informe themselves of the true
value of the same And to that end to send for persons and if they see cause to examine them upon Oath in all matters wherein such persons are not concerned for the better discovery of the Truth of the premises and thereupon to inlarge and increase the said Value to so much as they shall by view Enquiry or Examination as aforesaid find the same to be worth more then what they were presented at by the said Returnes And to cause the said Returnes to be altered in those perticulars and made agreeable to the said increased Value And the said Returnes being made and perfected as aforesaid The said Commissioners of Revenue respectively or any three or more of them are hereby authorized required to Tax assess the fourth part of the true yearly value of all Lands Tenements Tythes Fishings and other Hereditaments without Stock therupon and of all Cattle Seed-corne money goods and other Stock and personall Estate yeelding increase or profit within their respective Precincts according to the Values set downe in the said Returnes and according to the Rates above specified That is to say for every hundred pounds by the year in Lands Tenements tythes Fishings other Hereditaments five and twenty pounds and for every hundred pounds in Stock money or other personall Estate yeelding profit or increase forty shillings And so rateably for greater lesser proportions of Land and Stock which Tax and Assesse of the fourth part of the value of Lands and of the fourth part of the increase or profit of Stock and other personall Estate is to be in liew of all other Assessments Contributions and other publique charge of that nature for and in consideration of the said Lands and Stock for one whole yeare commencing the six and twentieth day of Iune next ensuing At which time the present Assessments determine and ending the six and twentieth day of Iune which shall be in the year of our Lord 1655. And the said fourth part of the value of Land and increase of Stock being taxed and assessed by the respective Commissioners of Revenue as aforesaid they or any three or more of them are hereby required to cause the same to be Estreated or fairely writ in a Parchment Roll or paper Book in severall Estreates Rolls or Bookes That is to say one Estreat for each Barony Division or Allotment wherein is to be comprized the Names and Sirnames of every person who is chargable to pay the said Tax or Assess within such Barony Limit or Division and the Sum thar every such person is to pay for the whole year and how much thereof for Lands and how much for Stock and what every such person is to pay thereof quarterly And the said Estreates Rolls or Books being prepared as aforesaid and signed by the said Commissioners of the Revenue and likewise entred in a Book to remain with them as a Record They the said Commissioners of the Revenue or any three or more of them are hereby authorized and required forthwith to nominate appoint authorize by warrants under their Hands Seals and written at the end of every such Estreate Roll or Book two or more able fit persons within every Barony Limit or Division to Collect and Leavy the said Tax and Assess for the said year ending the six and twentieth of Iune 1655. and to pay in the same to the Treasurer of the publick Revenue within every respective Precinct And upon neglect or refusal of payment of the said Tax or Assess after demand thereof made to distrain for the same And the distress so taken to drive lead and carry away and the same to detain and keep for the space of six daies and in case with in that time the Tax be not paid Then the said Collectors are to be impowred by special Order in writing from the said Commissioners of Revenue or any two or more of them to make Sale of the said distress in open Market to such person or persons as will give most for the same and out of the proceed thereof to pay and discharge the said Tax or Assess due upon such person so distrained upon together with such reasonable compensation for the taking and keeping of the said distress as the Commissioners of the Revenue or any two or more of them shall by writing under their hands award rendering the over-plus if any be to the Owner And whereas the Monethly Assessments are from and after the six and twentieth day of Iune next to determine whereby the Monethly pay of the Forces of the Army will be retarded and thereby the said Forces will be necessitated to take free-quarters upon the Countrey if some timely course be not taken to prevent the same It is therefore hereby Ordered That the said Commissioners of Revenue or any three or more of them in their respective Precincts do in and by their said VVarrants to be issued as aforesaid for the Collecting of the said Tax require the speedy Leavying and Collecting of one Quarter part of the said Tax or Assess and to cause the same to be paid to the Treasurer of the Publick Revenue within every Respective Precinct before the first day of August next ensueing towards the pay and maintenance of the said Forces And in case any person or persons shall refuse to execute such Warrants Commissions or orders as shall be directed unto him or them for the ends and purposes aforesaid or shall be found unfaithful or negligent in the performance of his or their duty in the premises The said Commissioners of Revenue or any three or more of them are hereby impowered and authorized upon certain knowledge of such refusal neglect or misdemeanor by examination of persons or otherwise to set upon every such offendor for every time they shall so offend such fine and fines as they shall think fit and proportionable to the offence not exceeding the sum of Five pounds for any one offence and to cause the said fines to be leavyed upon the goods and other estate of such offendors respectively and to be payd to the Treasurer of the Publick Revenue of the Precinct where the offence is cōmitted for the use of the Common-wealth And likewise to punish such offendors by imprisonment of their persons there to remain for such time as they shall judge convenient without Bail Provided the time of their imprisonment for any one offence exceed not eight and twentie days And the said Commissioners of Revenue or any three or more of them within their Precincts are hereby further authorized to examine hear and determine all differences and complaints which shall happen between Land Lord and Tenant or between any other persons touching the proportioning the said Tax or Assess in such way as shall be most agreeable to Iustice For which end they are to take notice that the Land-Lord is to pay the full fourth part of the whole Rent Annuity or other Provenue reserved upon or out of any Lands Tyths or other Hereditaments and where Lands are of more value than the Rent Annuitie or Provenue reserved for or out of the same the Land-Lord is to allow to the Tenant out of the said Rent Annuity or other Provenue one fourth part thereof towards the said Tax and no more And the Tenant is to pay for the said yearly value of the Land above the Rent Annuity or other Provenue reserved as aforesaid except in case where the Tenant hath taken any Lands since the beginning of the late Rebellion at a certain Rent to be payd his Land-Lord over and above all Assessments and other publick Charges payable out of the said Lands whereby the Tenant by covenant or promise is engaged to pay all Taxes and other publick charge for or in respect of the said Lands in which case the Land-Lord is to have the benefit of his bargain and to receive his Rent intirely and the Tenant is to pay the said whole Tax according to his Agreement And whereas it hath been the practice of many of the Irish Inhabitants to remove themselves their Families and Stocks out of one Precinct in to another to avoid the payment of such publick charge as of right they ought to pay and thereby the publick Revenue hath been much diminished It is hereby further Ordered and Declared That where any Inhabitant shall after that his Stock is valued as aforesaid remove his said Stock out of the Precinct where the same shall be so valued and returned as is herein before directed such person and persons so removing his and their Stocks out of the Precinct where the same shall be first valued as aforesaid without special licence in writing first had and obtained from the Commissioners of Revenue of the Precinct out of which such person is to remove or any three or more of them shall nevertheless pay for his said Stock in the Precinct wherein the same was valued as aforesaid And shall also be subject and lyable to pay the full proportion for his said Stock in the Precinct into which such person shall remove And the Commissioners of Revenue in every respective Precinct are to cause the same to be leavyed accordingly And the Inhabitants of every respective Town Vill or Parish where such person resides are to give timely notice to the Commissioners of Revenue of the Precinct of such removal of Stocks our of the Town Vill or Parish wherein the persons so removing do reside upon pain of being lyable to pay such proportion of Assessments as shall fall upon such Stocks as shall be so removed without licence and thereby the publick Revenue of the Precinct diminished And all Officers of the Army and all other Officers and Ministers of Iustice and all other persons whatsoever are to be ayding and assisting unto the said Commissioners of Revenue within their respective Precincts and their subordinate Ministers in the due execution of the power and trust hereby committed unto them as often as they shall receive Warrants from the said Commissioners of Revenue in that behalf DUBLIN the 15. day of May 1654. Charles Fleetwood Miles Corbet Jo Jones ORdered by the said Commissioners That this Commission be forthwith Printed and Published Signed by order c. THO HERBERT Secr. DVBLIN ¶ Printed by WILLIAM BLADEN Anno Dom. 1654.