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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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or such other Persons as they shall appoint to imprison the Persons and the Sequestrators to sequester the Estates of every such Person for the advancement of the said service And the Tenants of all Houses and Lands which shall be rated by vertue of this Ordinance are hereby required and authorized to pay such summes of money as shall bee rated upon every such House and Lands and to deduct out of their Rents so much of the said Rates as in respect of the Rents of every such House and Lands the Landlords should or ought to pay or beare and the Landlords both mediate and immediate according to their respective Interests are hereby required to allow such deductions and payments upon the receipt of the residue of their Rents and to give Acquittances for their whole Rents as if no deductions had been made And if any Landlord refuse to make any such deduction or allowance or to give such acquittances then the respective Committees for the sequestrations in the Cities and Places aforesaid upon proof therof made be fore them are hereby authorized for every time they shall so refuse to seize and sequester for the service aforesaid one full halfe yeeres rent payable to such persons so refusing allowing out of the same the summe of money so paid by that Tenant as aforesaid And if any difference shall arise between Landlord an Tenant or any other concerning the said Rates the said severall Committees or any two of them in their severall divisions have hereby power to settle the same as they shall thinke fit And the said Collectors and every of them are hereby required from time to time to pay such summe and summes of money as shall be by them collected by vertue of this Ordinance to such Treasurer or Treasurers for the City of London and Liberties thereof as the Common Councell of the said City shall appoint And for the Lines of Communication and within the Weekly Bills of Mortality without the City and Liberties to such Treasurer or Treasurers as the respective Sub-Committees in their severall Divisions shall appoint And the said severall Committees are hereby required to take speciall care that the said Monethly Assessements be constantly levyed collected and paid to the said Treasurer or Treasurers once in every Moneth during the continuance of the terme mentioned in this Ordinance And bee it further Ordained by the said Lords and Commons that if any person or persons shall wilfully neglect or refuse to take upon him any Office or place herein mentioned incident to this service or having taken upon him such Office or place shall refuse or neglect to execute or perform the same or if any other person or persons shall neglect or refuse to perform his duty in the due and speedy execution of this present Ordinance the Lord Major of the said City for the time being or any two of the Aldermen of the same City for the City of London and the Liberties thereof and the said respective Committees without the Liberties of the said City and within the Lines of Communication and weekly Bills of Mortality or any five of them have hereby power to commit such person or persons so refusing or neglecting this service as aforesaid to prison there to remaine without Baile untill hee shall conform himselfe or otherwise to impose upon such person or persons so refusing or neglecting the said service or their duties therein such Fine or Fines as to them shall bee thought fit and cause the same to bee levyed by distresse and sale of goods in manner and forme aforesaid Provided That no fine to bee imposed upon any of the said Committees shall for any one offence exceed the summe of five pounds and that no fine to bee imposed upon any Assessor Collector or any other person to bee imployed by the said Committees in the said service or refusing to bee imployed therein shall for any offence exceed the summe of five pounds And that no priviledged place or person within the Cities and places aforesaid shall bee exempted from the said Assessements and Taxes And bee it further Ordained That the said severall and respective Committees and every of them shall from time to time give a true and perfect account of all their doings and proceedings in the execution of this Ordinance viz. The Treasurer or Treasurers for London and the Liberties to the Lord Major Aldermen and Common Councell of the said City of London or to such persons as they shall appoint And the said Sub-Committees and their Treasurers to the Committee for the Militia of the said City And bee it further Ordained that the Treasurers appointed to receive the money by vertue of this Ordinance are appointed and hereby authorized to issue out the said Monies so gathered and received for the purpose aforesaid and not otherwise within the City and Liberties as the Lord Major Aldermen and Commons in Common Councell assembled or such persons as they from time to time shall appoint for that purpose and without the said City and Liberties and within the Line of Communication and weekly Bills of Mortality as the said Sub-Committees within their severall divisions shall appoint for the uses aforesaid and not otherwise And bee it lastly by the said Lords and Commons further Ordained that all and every the respective Committees Assessors Treasurers and Collectors of the respective Divisions aforesaid and all that shall assist them in the premisses shall bee by the power of Parliament Protected and saved harmlesse both for what according to the true meaning of the Premisses they have or shall do therein Provided alwayes that such Rates and Assessements as shall bee made by virtue of this Ordinance upon any Peeres of this Kingdome or Members Assistants or Attendants upon either the Houses of Parliament shall before the same bee levyed bee presented to the respective Houses whose Members Assistants or Attendants shall bee concerned therein respectively and by such respective House allowed and approved of any thing in this present Ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding Jo. Brown Cleric Parliamentorum H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. Dom. Com. FINIS