WHereas in an Act made this present Parliament , Entituled , An Act for an Assessment upon England , at the Rate of Sixty thousand Pounds by the Moneth , for Three Moneths ; from the Twenty fifth day of March , One thousand six hundred fifty seven , to the Twenty fourth day of Iune then next ensuing , It is , amongst other things , Provided and Declared , That in case the ordering and payment of the Moneys by the said Act appointed , into the immediate Receipt of the Exchequer , shall be found inconvenient , so as the Moneys raised thereby cannot be paid in by the time limited in the said Act for the seasonable supply of the Publique Service , That then it shall and may be lawful for His Highness the Lord Protector and Council ( if they shall so judge it fit ) to Order and Direct the Managing , Levying and Payment of the said Moneys in such a way , method and maner , as the Monethly Assessments for the Army have been formerly managed , rated and paid , Any thing in the said Act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding .

And for as much as the time for bringing in of the said Three Moneths Assessment draws so nigh , and the present necessity of the Commonwealth being so urgent , that it will not admit of so much delay , as the Alteration from the former way and method in bringing in Assessments will necessarily produce , It is Ordered by His Highness the Lord Protector , by , and with the Advice and Consent of His Council , That the Commissioners in the said Act named , do take Security of the Receivers-General for the respective Counties , Cities , Towns and Places , in such sort as formerly . And that the said Receivers-General , and every of them respectively , are hereby Authorized and Required from time to time , to make payment of the several sums which shall be by them received , of all and every Collector and Sub-collector , upon the said Three Moneths Assessment , by vertue of the said Act , unto John Blackwel the yonger , and Richard Dean , Esqs Receivers-General for the said whole Three Moneths Assessment , at Guild-Hall London ( or where , or to whom they shall appoint ) to be by them paid into , and accompted for , in the Receipt of His Highness Exchequer ; And that all and every the Acquittance and Acquittances of the said Receivers-General for the said whole Three Moneths Assessment , shall be unto the said Receivers for the said respective Counties , Cities , Towns and Places , a sufficient Discharge .