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Assessors to be furnished with Lists to ascertain the Value, and may require Returns, and to deliver a Certificate of Assessment.
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CLXXIV. And be it further enacted, That the proper Officers or their respective Deputies, and the Receivers and Paymasters in every public, Department of Office, and in every other Office for which Commissioners are hereby intended to be appointed for raising the Duties hereby charged on such Offices respectively, and any Agent or Agents by whom any Salaries, Fees, Wages, Perquisites, or Profits, shall be payable, shall, upon Request to them made by the respective Assessors for the said respective Duties, deliver gratis true Lists or Accounts of all such Salaries, Fees, Wages, Perquisites, and Profits received by them, and belonging to such Offices respectively, and of all Pensions payable to them respectively, for the better Guidance of the said Assessors in charging the same; and if the said Assessors shall be dissatisfied with such Accounts, it shall be lawful for them to require any Officer whole Office shall not be truly valued in such Account, to prepare and produce to them, within the like Period of Time as is limited for the Returns of other Accounts by this Act, a List or Account of the Salaries, Fees, Wages, Perquisites, and Profits of the Office exercised by him, which Returns such Officer shall be obliged to make under the Penalties and Forfeitures contained in this Act for not making other Returns hereby required, and from Documents and Papers in their respective Offices, the said respective Assessors shall make their Certificates of Assessment upon the Persons holding such Offices, or entitled unto such Pensions respectively, according to the Annual Value thereof, at the Rate in the Schedule to this Act annexed, and shall, in like Manner as is before directed with respect to Assessors for any Parish or Place, bring in their said Certificates to the respective Commissioners for their Allowance, who shall forthwith set their Hands to the same, which Assessments shall be in force for One Year, commencing and payable at the like Periods as the Assessments in Parishes are made payable; and the said respective Commissioners for the Duties on Offices shall cause the like Duplicates to be made thereof, and delivered to Collectors, with like Warrants to collect the said Duties, as is before directed to be given to Collectors for any Parish or Place: and the said Collectors of the said Duties on Offices shall have the like Authority to demand and levy the said Duties, as is herein given to Collectors of any Parish or Place: Provided always, that in all Cases where any Salaries, Fees, Wages, Perquisites, or Profits of any Publick Office be detained and stopped out of the same, or out of any Monies which shall be paid thereupon, and the Amount of the Monies so detained or stopped of the Duties on Offices or Employments of Profit as aforesaid, shall be wrote off in the Books of the Collectors of the said Duties, in Satisfaction and Discharge thereof, or of so much thereof as shall be to detained; and the proper Officers in the respective Offices shall keep true Accounts of all Monies stopped, and (upon Request) shall give Copies of such Accounts to the proper Collectors of such Monies; and the Money so detained of the Duty on Annuities, Pensions, or Stipends, shall be accounted for and pain in the Manner herein-after directed.
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