AN ORDINANCE Touching the Assessing, Levying, and Collecting of the latter Three months' Assessment Appointed by an Act of the late PARLIAMENT, ENTITLED, An Act for an Assessment at the rate of 120000 l. by the Month, for six Months, from the 25. of December 1653. to the 24. of June than next ensuing, towards the maintenance of the Armies and Navies of this Commonwealth.   depiction of the state arms of the Commonwealth (1649-60) consisting of the cross of St. George (patron saint of England) and the Irish harp 

Friday, 17. February, 1653.  
ORdered by His Highness the Lord Protector, and His Council, that this Ordinance be forthwith printed and published.  
HENRY SCOBELL Clerk of the Council.   
London, Printed by William dugard and Henry Hills, Printers to His Highness the Lord Protector, 1653.   

 depiction of the state arms of the Commonwealth (1649-60) consisting of the cross of St. George (patron saint of England) and the Irish harp  
AN ORDINANCE Touching the Assessing, Levying, and Collecting of the latter three Month's Assessment, appointed by an Act of the late Parliament, Entitled, An Act for an Assessment at the rate of 120000 l. by the Month, for six Months, from the 25. of December 1653. to the 24. of June than next ensuing, towards the maintenance of the Arms and Navys of this Commonwealth.  
WHereas by an Act of the late Parliament, Entitled, An Act for an Assessment at the rate of one hundred and twenty thousand pounds by the Month, for six Months, from the five and twentieth day of December one thousand six hundred fifty and three, to the four and twentieth day of June than next ensuing, towards the maintenance of the Armies and Navies of this Commonwealth, It is among other things provided and enacted, That if the Commissioners for any County, City, or Town in the said Act named, should at their second general meeting find, that, for want of sufficient time, a just and perfect survey, or rate, of each Parish & place within such County, City, or Town, as is directed by the said Act, could not be made, & returned, so as to proceed to the rating and apportioning of the whole six month's Assessments, in way and manner as is in that Act prescribed, That then it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners in any of the said Counties, Cities, or Towns, where the said surveys and rates for want of such sufficient time shall not be made and returned as aforesaid, to proceed at their second general meeting, to apportion the first three of the said six months' Assessment, according to the most just and equal way of rates held in such Counties, Cities, and Towns; And the Commissioners of such Counties, Cities, and Towns, in their respective Divisions, to cause the same to be assessed, levied, collected, and paid. And the Assessors, Collectors and Subcollectors in their Respective Divisions, Parishes, and places were thereby authorized and required, in assessing, levying, and collecting of the said first three Month's Assessment, to proceed accordingly. And in such Counties, Cities, and Towns where the first three Month's Assessment was appointed to be assessed, and levied according to the rates held in such places as aforesaid, the several and respective Commissioners, and other persons therein, were authorized to put in execution all the powers given by that Act unto them, for causing the said three month's Assessment to be fully, and timely assessed, collected, levied, and paid, as if the same had been assessed and rated by a poundrate, and as the six month's assessment appointed by that Act, were therein directed to be assessed and rated. But for the apportioning assessing, levying and payment of the last three of the said six month's Assessment by a survey & pound rate; It was Enacted, That the Commissioners of such Counties, Cities and Towns, where the first three month's Assessment should be appointed to be rated, assessed and paid, according to the rates held in such places as aforesaid, or the major part of them present at the said second general meeting, were thereby authorized, and required to appoint a third general meeting, on the first day of March, one thousand six hundred fifty and three, and at their said second general meeting to give such orders, and directions, and appoint such times for the effectual taking, examining and returning of surveys, and determining all controversies which might happen therein, as that a true, and perfect survey of each parish, and place within such County, City, or Town might be returned unto them at their said third general meeting. And the said Commissioners in their respective Divisions, and Hundreds, or any two of them were likewise to proceed effectually therein, according to the powers given them in that Act for that purpose. And the Commissioners for such County, City, or Town, or the major part of so many of them as should be present at the said third general meeting, were thereby required to sum, and cast up the total of the surveys of each County, City, and Town, and to proceed to apportion, levy, and raise the said latter three month's Assessment upon all Estates real and personal, in such manner, and by such ways, as the six month's Aessessments were therein first appointed to be rated, assessed, levied and paid. And whereas by the said Act the latter three month's Assessments is appointed to be collected so as the same may be fully paid into the high Collectors, and by them to the Receiver General to complete the whole six months' Assessment at, or before the twentieth day of April at the furthest, which shall be in the year, one thousand six hundred fifty and four. Now to the end the whole Assessment by the said Act appointed may be fully collected, and paid in for the preventing of freequarter, and for the more effectual carrying on of the public service, His Highness the Lord PROTECTOR by and with the advice and consent of his Council doth Declare and Ordain, That in case the way, or manner of assessing the said later three month's Assessment by a pound rate in such sort as is prescribed by the said Act shall prove prejudicial, and obstructive to the bringing in the said latter three month's Assessment appointed by the said Act, by the time in the said Act for that purpose limited, That then, and in all such cases, the said Commissioners in any of the said Cities, Counties, Towns, and places in the said Act mentioned where such obstructions shall be or happen, shall appoint a general meeting together, and the major part of them meeting may, and are hereby authorized (for the removal of such obstructions, and the more speedy and effectual execution of the said Act) to proceed according to the most just and equal way of rates held in such places in the proportioning, levying and assessing the respective sums charged upon them, any thing in the said Act to the contrary thereof contained in any wise notwithstanding.   

Friday, the 17th of February, 1653.  
ORdered by His Highness, the Lord PROTECTOR, and His Council, that this Ordinance be forthwith printed and published.  
Hen. Scobell Clerk of the Council.   

Printed by William Dugard and Henry Hills, Printers to His Highness the Lord PROTECTOR. MDCLIII.