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A46002 An assesment for Ireland for three months; at ten thousand pounds by the month Commencing the 12th. day of Ianuary 1654. and determining the 12th. of April following. Dublin this 1. of Ianuary 1654. 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. Ireland. Lords Justices and Council. 1654 (1654) Wing I336C; ESTC R236087 14,258 25

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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 ●●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