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A proclamation for the ready in-bringing of the annexed and additional excise.
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Scotland. Privy Council.; Scotland. Sovereign (1694-1702 : William II)
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1697
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Wing S1936; ESTC R183559
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A PROCLAMATION For the Ready In-bringing of the Annexed and Additional Excise WILLIAM by the Grace of GOD King of Great Britain France and Ireland Defender of the Faith To _____ Macers of Our Privy Council Messengers at Arms Our Sheriffs in that part conjunctly and severally specially constitute Greeting Forasmuch as By the second Act of the sixth Session of this Our current Parliament The Lords of Our Privy Council are Authorized and Impowered to prescribe such other Methods and Orders besides what is mentioned in the said Act as they should Judge necessary for the better Up-lifting and In-bringing of the Additional Excise Imposed upon the respective Liquors specified in the said Act And specially for causing the same to be Raised and Up-lifted upon the Liquor and not upon the Malt. And We considering how necessar it is for the better In-bringing the Annexed and Additional Excise and for Determining all Differences betwixt the Brewars and the Tacksmen of the said Annexed and Additional Excise and their Sub-Tacksmen and Collectors from the first day of March one thousand six hundred and nyntie seven to the first day of March one thousand six hundred and ninty eight during which space the said Annexed and Additional Excise is now set in Tack That all Entries of Liquors of whatsoever sort Brown and Imported lyable to the said Excise be duely and timously made Do therefore With Advice of the Lords of Our â—rivy Council Require and Command the Commissioners of Supply of the several Shyres within this Kingdom Qualified according to Law and Residing whithin the Shyre And who by the said Act of Parliament are appointed Commissioners of the said Annexed Excise to meet at the Head-Burgh of the respective Shyres the first Tuesday of September next to come and at their said Meeting to Settle and Appoint Places within six Myles where the Brewers lives where the publick Excise Offices shall be most conveniently keept for the Brewers to Enter and give up the Quantities of the Liquors browen by them Lyable in Payment of the said Excise And appoints the saids Commissioners immediately after designing places for the saids Offices To cause make publick Intimation at all the church Doors within the saids respective Shyres of the particular places designed by them for the several Excise Offices With Certification to the saids Commissioners or any of them residing within the saids respective Shyres who shall failÈie to meet the said first tuesday of September nixt to come and to appoint and design the particular places for Excise Offices in manner above exprest Their Names shall be returned by their Clerk to the Lords of Our Privy Council To the effect they may take such Course therewith as they shall see Cause And We with Advice foresaid Require and Command the saids Commissioners to meet the first tuesday of every Moneth thereafter during the Continuance of the said Additional Excise in manner and for the ends prescribed and set down in the foresaid Act of Parliament And We with Advice foresaid Require and Command the whole Brewers within the Bounds alloted for the saids respective Excise Offices to wait upon the saids respective Commissioners thereat upon the first tuesday day of September above exprest without any further Intimation Charge or Citation to be given to them by the saids Tacksmen Sub-tacksmen or Collectors of the said Annexed and Additional Excise but the publication hereof allenâ—rly And there to give in and make And the saids Commissioners to receive from them full and faithful Entries of all Liquors browen or Retailed within the saids Bounds Lyable in payment of the said Annexed and Additional Excise since the first day of March last inclusive to the said first tuesday of September one thousand six hundred nyntie seven And because the Brewers and others Lyable to the said Excise for want of timous Intimation for the said Moneth of March and thereafter may pretend that they cannot give their Oaths if required upon the precise Quantity of their Brewing or Liquors Retailed by them during the said space They are therefore here by allowed to give their Oaths in these Terms That their said Brewing or Retail hath not exceeded such a Quantity which is hereby held as sufficient to make them Lyable for the same Declaring hereby and Certifying such Brewers and Retaillers who shall not Compear and attend the saids Commissioners the first tuesday of every Moneth for making the Entry of all Liquors Browen or Retailed by them Lyable to the said Excise for the preceeding Months they shall be holden as Confest and Decreets given against them for the Quantities of Liquors Lyble to the foresaid Annexed and Additional Excise which shall be contained in the Claims and Complaints to be given in by the Tacksmen Sub-tacksmen and Collectors against them Providing nevertheless that if the saids Brewers who shall failÈie and be holden as Confest shall at any time within three Moneths thereafter Compear before any Two of the saids Commissioners and having first made due Intimation to the Tacksmen make Faith as above and Report a Certificat thereon under their hands they shal be Reponed against the said Certification upon punctual payment of what they shall be found due And We with Advice foresaid appoint and ordaine that no Brewer within Brough of Royality Barrony or Regality Vend or Sell any part of their Browsts until first they make Entry thereof at the Excise Office within the Respective Burghs and there obtain a Sufferance for the quantity Brown which the keeper of the Office is to give gratis and without delay and that in case of non-entry or wrongous entry the Brewer within Burgh to be lyable in the Sum of Ten Pounds Scots toties quoties And all Execution competent shall be made use of by Our Tacksmen their Sub-Tacksmen or Collectors against the respective Brewers for the same And which Entrys may be disproven before any Magistrat Justice of Peace or Commissioner of Excise by Witnesses or Oath of Party notwithstanding of any Survey made by the Surveyers and Waiters And that all Brewers Barrels be for hereafter Marked with their own Name and the Seal of the next Excise-Office which Seal shall be Furnished to them gratis As also that no Person presume to Reset any Ale or Drinking Beer in their Houses in order to the Imbazling of the 〈◊〉 under the pain of Ten Pounds Scots toties quoties to be payed to the foresaids Tacksmen their Sub-Tacksmen or Collectors And farder that all Tapsters and Vintners of Ale and drinking Beer shall for hereafter before they Tap or Vend the same take first a Licence from the nixt Excise-Office and there give Bond and Caution that they shall not Tapp nor Sell for less Prices than these appointed by the Act of Parliament under the Penaltie of ten pounds Scots toties quoties it being always in the power of the Commissioners of Supplie and Excise to modifie the saids Penalties when Incurred as to all brewers not Living
in Burghs of Royallity Regality or Barrony And in regard the Excise of strong Waters Aquavity Brandy and Forregin Beer and ale is Ordered by the said Act of Parliament to be payed by the Retailers Therefore We with Advice of the Lords of our Privy Council Require and Command all brewers of Aquavity and Strong Waters to make monthly Entries of the quantities of the saids Liquors Browen by them and give in subscribed Lists to the nixt Excise-Office of the Names of the Persons to whom they Sell their Aquavity or strong Waters to be again Sold by Retail As likeways that the Collectors Clerks or Surveyers at Sea ports give up a true and particular Accompt to the saids Tacksmen their Sub-Tacksmen or Collectors of the said Excise of the Quantities of Foreign strong Waters Brandy and foreign Beer and Ale Imported from time to time and who is the Merchant Importer As also that the said Merchant Importer and all other Persons who now pretend to Sell the foresaids Liquors in haill Sale conform to the late Act of Parliament That is to say above a Pint be lyable and Obliged to give and Deliver subscrived Lists to the saids Tacksmen or their Sub-Tacksmen Deputes and Collectors of the Persons Names to whom they Sell the said Brandy strong Waters or Foreign Beer and Ale for Retail and of the Quantities Sold to them to the effect that the saids Retailers may be still lyable for the Excise thereof And in case the saids Commissioners or at lest Two of them shall fail yet to Meet and Attend the saids respective Excise Offices upon the said first Tuesday of September nixt or upon the first Tuesday of any subsequent Moneth during the continuance of the said Additional Excise The whole Division and each of them residing within the said Shire under the Certification foresaid and after Instruments taken against them of their FailÈie to Meet and Attend as said is We with Advice foresaid require and Command the Sheriffs and their Deputes or such as the said Sheriff shall Substitute to each particular Dyet for that effect allanerly to repair to the saids respective Offices within Twenty four-Hours after they shall be desired by the Tacksmen their Sub-Tacksmen or Deputies and Collectors of the said Annexed or Additional Excise there Summarly to Judge upon what occurs within the Bounds of that Office in reference to the said Annexed or Additional Excise Certifying the saids Sheriffs their Deputes or Substitutes if they Faill they shall be Punished as the Lords of Our Privy Council shall think sit And further We with Advice foresaid Prohibit and Discharge any of the Commissioners of Supply or other Inferior Judges or Officers of the Law within this Our Realm to stop or hinder either Quartering Poynding or any other lawful Execution that shall be used by Our Tacksmen their Sub-Tacksmen Deputes and Collectors of the said Annexed or Additional Excise against the respective Brewers and Retailers conform to the Entries that shall be made by them or according to the Quantities of Liquors Retailed by them or whereupon they shall be holden as Confest in manner and before the Judges above-mentioned except in the Case foresaid under the pain of being not only lyable for the Charges and Damnages Our saids Tacksmen their Sub-Tacksmen and Collectors shall sustain and incurr there through But also to such further pains as the Lords of Our Privy Council shall think sit And lastly It is hereby Declared that all the Penal toties quoties above-mentioned are to be understood not for every Delinquency but allanerly for every Conviction and for one single Transgression to be therein found OUR WILL IS HEREFORE and We Charge you strictly and Command that incontinent these Our Letters seen ye pass to the Mercat-Cross of Edinburgh and to the Mercat 〈◊〉 of the Head-Burghs of the several Shires and Stewartries within this Kingdom And there in Our Name and Authority by open Proclamation make Intimation hereof that none â—â—â—tend Ignorance And Ordains Printed Coppies hereof to be sent to the Sheriffs of the several Shires and Stewarts of the Stewartries within this Kingdom whom and their Clerks We Ordain to see the samen Published and Coppies thereof Affixed at the saids Mercat-Crosses and Appoints them to send Doubles thereof to all the Ministers both in Churches and Meeting-Houses within their respective Jurisdictions that upon the LORDS Day immediately preceeding the said first Tuesday of September nixt the samen may be Intimate and Read in every Paroch-Church and Meeting-House And a Coppie of the same Affixt upon the most Publick Door thereof And Ordains these Presents to be Printed Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh the Third Day of August and of Our Reign the Ninth Year 1697. Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii GILB ELIOT Cls. Sti. Concilii GOD Save the King Edinburgh Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson Printer to the King 's most Excellent Majesty Anno 〈…〉