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Commissioners for raising the Duties on Offices not belonging to any publick Department.
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CLXIII. And be it further enacted, That the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, or the Bailiffs and capital Burgesses, or the Principal Officers or Members by whatever Name they shall be called, of every Corporate City, Borough, Town, or Place, and of every Cinque Port throughout Great Britain, or any Three or more of them, not in any Case exceeding Seven, shall be Commissioners for executing this Act, and the Powers therein contained, in relation to the publick Offices or Employments of Profit in such City, Corporation, and Cinque Port, and in every Guild, Fraternity, Company, or Society, whether Corporate or not Corporate, within such City, Corporation, or Cinque Port, and for all Offices or Employments of Profit, (not being publick Offices or Employments of Profit under His Majesty), in such County, Riding, Shire, Stewartry, City, Liberty, Franchise, Town, or Place, whether in the Appointment of the Lieutenant, Custos Rotulorum, or the Justices or Magistrates, or Sheriff of such County, Riding, Shire, Stewartry, City, Liberty, Franchise, Town, or Place, or of any Trustees or Guardians of any Trust or Fund in such County, Riding, Shire, Stewartry, City, Town, or Place; and that for all Parochial Offices in any County, Riding, Shire, Stewartry, City, Town, or Place, (except Corporate Offices in Cities, Corporate Towns, Boroughs, or Places, or Offices in Cinque Ports as aforesaid) the Commissioners for executing this Act in relation to the Duties on Lands and Tenements, shall, in their several Districts, also execute this Act in relation to the said Duties on Offices in such County, Riding, Shire, Stewartry, City, Liberty, Franchise, Town, or Place, and such respective Commissioners shall and may exercise any of the Powers contained in this Act, in relation to any of the Duties herein mentioned, for causing due Returns to be made from the respective Officers within their respective Jurisdictions, and for compelling the Assessors to make their Certificates of Assessment, and returning the same, and for the due Collection of and accounting for the said Duties, and to act therein in all respects as fully and effectually as any other Commissioners are hereby empowered to act in relation to the said other Duties; provided the Monies collected of the said Duties under the respective Commissioners acting for such Offices in Corporate Cities, Boroughs, Towns, or Places aforesaid, or in the Cinque Ports, or in the several Counties, Ridings, Divisions, Shires, Stewartries, Cities, Liberties, Franchises, Towns, and Places, shall be paid to the Receiver General of the County, Riding, Shire, or Stewartry, and not otherwise, and that the like Duplicates shall be delivered of such last mentioned Duties as in other Cases where the same are directed to be paid in like Manner.
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