Author: COLLECTOR OF TAXES
Title: By Virtue of His Majesty's Letters of Privy-Seal, bearing Date the sixth Day of March, in the Eighteenth Year of His Reign, We do hereby constitute and appoint James Gee of Bishop Burton in the County of York Esquire to be His Majesty's Receiver General of Part of the said County of York, that is to say in the East and West Riding thereof and the Town and County of the Town of Kingston upon Hull of and for all Sums of Money granted by an Act...An Act for granting an Aid to His Majesty by a Land Tax...Giving and granting...full Power to do and Perform whatsoever shall be requisite or necessary...to appoint such persons...he is hereby required to take special Care, that the whole of the sum received by him or his Deputies, be paid into the receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer...
Description: 1745. Printed and manuscript, 250 x 335 mm. on vellum. This item may have at some time been mounted and will bear traces on the reverse of adhesive or removal of mounts. Appointment/Commission for a Collector of Taxes, signed by Middlesex as President of the Council.

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