A CONTINUATION OF THE ABRIDGMENT Of all the STATUTES OF K. William and Q. Mary AND OF King William the Third In Force and Use Begun by J. Washington of the Midd. Temple Esq Revised and Continued after his Death to the end of the Session of Parliament 27 April 1696. And now further Continued from the beginning of the Second Session of the Third Parliament 20 October 1696. to the end of the Third and last Session of the said Third Parliament 5 July 1698. With Two New Tables LONDON Printed by Charles Bill and the Executrix of Tho. Newcomb deceased Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty And by W. Rawlins and S. Roycroft Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins Esquires MDCXCIX THE TITLES OF THE STATUTES Contained in this ABRIDGMENT WITH THE HEADS Under which they Stand. Anno. 8. W. 3. Part. 3. Sess 2. 1. AN Act for Importing and Coining Guineas and Half-Guineas Coin 2. An Act for the further Remedying the ill State of the Coin of the Kingdom Coin 3. An Act to Explain that part of the Act passed the last Session of Parliament for Laying several Duties on Low Wines and Spirits of the first Extraction and for Preventing the Frauds and Abuses of Brewers Distillers and other Persons chargeable with the Duties of Excise which Relates to the Payment of Tallies and the Interest thereof Excise 4. An Act to Attaint Sir John Fenwick Baronet of High Treason Treason 5. An Act to Attaint such of the Persons concerned in the late Horrid Conspiracy to Assassinate his Majesties Royal Person who are fled from Justice unless they render themselves to Justice and for continuing several others of the said Conspirators in Custody Treason 6. An Act for Granting an Aid to his Majesty as well by a Land Tax as by several Subsidies and other Duties payable for One Year Taxes Anno 8 9 W. 3. 7. An Act for Granting to his Majesty several Duties upon Paper Vellum and Parchment to Encourage the bringing of Plate and Hammered Money into the Mints to be Coined Taxes 8. An Act for Incouraging the bringing in Wrought Plate to be Coined Coin 9. An Act to Restore the Market at Blackwell Hall to the Clothiers and for Regulating the Factors there Blackwell-Hall 10. An Act to Enable the Returns of Juries as formerly until the first day of November One thousand six hundred ninety seven Iuries 11. An Act for the better preventing Frivolous and Vexatious Suits Snits 12. An Act for continuing certain Additional Impositions upon several Goods and Merchandizes Customs 13. An Act for continuing several former Acts for Punishing Officers and Soldiers who shall Mutiny or Desert his Majesties Service and for Punishing False Musters and for Payment of Quarters for One year longer Soldiers 14. An Act for the Compleating the Building and Adorning the Cathedral Charch of St. Paul London and for Repairing the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster Churches 15. An Act for Repairing the Highway between Ryegate in the County of Surrey and Crawley in the County of Sussex High-ways 16. An Act for Enlarging Common High-ways High-ways 17. An Act for Paving and Regulating the Hay-Market in the Parishes of St. Martins in the Fields and St. James within the Liberty of Westminster Hay-Market 18. An Act for Relief of Creditors by making Compositions with their Debtors in Case Two thirds in Number and Value do Agree Creditors 19. An Act for Repealing a Clause in a former Act relating to Party Guiles and for the better preventing Frauds and Abuses of Brewers and others Chargeable with the Duties of Excise Excise 20. An Act for making good the Deficiences of several Funds therein mentioned and for Enlarging the Capital stock of the Bank of England and for Raising the Publick Credit Taxes 21. An Act for Laying a Duty upon Leather for the Term of Three years and making other Provision for Answering the Deficiences as well of the late Duties upon Coals and Culm as for Paying the Annuities upon the Lottery and for Lives charged on the Tunnage of Ships and the Duties upon Salt Taxes 22. An Act for Granting to his Majesty certain Duties upon Malt Mum Sweets Cyder and Perry as well towards Carrying on the War against France as for the necessary Expence of his Majesties Houshold and other Occasions Excise 23. An Act to enforce the Act for the Increase and Incouragement of Seamen Seamen 24. An Act for Granting to his Majesty a further Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage upon Merchandizes Imported for the Term of Two years and Three quarters and an Additional Land Tax for One year for Carrying on the War against France Customs 25. An Act for Licensing Hawkers and Pedlars for a further Provision for payment of the Interest of the Transport Debt for the Reducing of Ireland Taxes 26. An Act for the better Preventing the Counterfeiting the Current Coin of this Kingdom Coin 27. An Act for the more effectual Relief of Creditors in Cases of Escapes and for preventing Abuses in Prisons and pretended Privileged Places Prisons c. 28. An Act for the better Observation of the Course Anciently Used in the Receipt of Exchequer Exchequer 29. An Act for the Repair of the Peers of Bridlington alias Burlington in the East-Riding of the County of York Burlington 30. An Act for supplying some Defects in the Laws for the Relief of the Poor of this Kingdom Poor 31. An Act for the easier obtaining Partitions of Lands in Coparcenary Joynt Tenancy and Tenancy in Common Partitions 32. An Act to restrain the number and ill Practices of Brokers and Stock-Jobbers Brokers 33. An Act to make perpetual and more effectual an Act Intituled An Act to prevent delays at the Quarter Sessions of the Peace Iustices of Peace 34. An Act for the Lessening the Duty upon Tin and Pewter Exported and Granting an Equivalent for the same by a Duty upon Drugs Customs 35. An Act for Raising the Militia for the Year One thousand six hundred ninety seven although the Months Pay formerly advanced be not repaid Militia 36. An Act for the further Encouragement of the Manufacture of Lustrings and Alamodes within this Realm and for the better preventing the Importation of the same Trade 37. An Act for Explaining and Enforcing the Act for Paving and Cleansing the Streets within the Cities of London and Westminster and Borough of Southwark and Weekly Bills of Mortality and Streets adjoyning thereunto And for Widening the Street at the South end of London-Bridge London Anno 9 W. 3. Part. 3. Sess 3. 1. An Act against Corresponding with the late King James and his Adherents Treason 2. An Act to prevent the further Currency of any Hammered Silver Coin of this Kingdom and for recoining such as is now in being and for the making out new Exchequer Bills where the former Bills are or shall be filled up by Indorsements Coin 3. An Act to give further time for the Administring of Oaths relating to Talleys and Orders and for the easier
Dispatch of the Publick Business in the Exchequer and in the Bank of England Oaths 4. An Act for Continuing the Imprisonment of Counter and others for the late Horrid Conspiracy to Assassinate the Person of his sacred Majesty Imprisonment Anno 9 10 W. 3. 5 An Act for satisfying and discharging the Arrears of several Annuities which Incurred between the Seventeenth Day of May One thousand six hundred ninety six and the Seventeenth Day of May One thousand six hundred ninety seven Annuities 6. An Act that all Retailers of Salt shall sell by Weight Salt 7. An Act to prevent the Throwing or Firing of Squibs Serpents and other Fireworks Squibs 8. An Act for Explaining an Act made the last Session of Parliament for Granting to his Majesty certain Duties upon Malt Mum Sweets Cyder and Perry Taxes 9. An Act for Rendring the Laws more effectual for preventing the Importation of Foreign Bone-Lace Loom-Lace Needle-Work Point and Cut Work Trade 10. An Act for Granting to his Majesty the Sum of One million four hundred eighty four thousand and fifteen pounds One shiling Eleven pence three farthings for Disbanding Forces Paying Seamen and other Uses therein mentioned Taxes 11. An Act for Explaining an Act made the last Session of Parliament Entituled An Act for supplying some Defects in the Laws for the Relief of the Poor of this Kingdom Poor 12. An Act for the Inlarging Repairing and Preserving the Bridge and Key of the Borough of Bridgwater in the County of Somerset Bridgwater 13. An Act for Granting to his Majesty several Duties upon Coals and Culm Taxes 14. An Act for Continuing the Duties upon Coffee Tea and Chocolate and Spices towards satisfaction of the Debt due for Transport Service for the Reduction of Ireland Taxes 15. An Act for determining Differences by Arbitration Arbitration 16. An Act to Execute Judgments and Decrees saved in a Clause of an Act of the First year of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary Intituled An Act for taking away the Court holden before the President and Council of the Marches of Wales Iudicial Proceedings 17. An Act for the better Payment of Inland Bills of Exchange Trade 18. An Act for Repairing the High-ways from the Town of Birdlipp and the Top of Crickly-Hill in the County of Gloucester to the City of Gloucester High-ways 19. An Act for Cleansing and making Navigable the Channel from the Hithe at Colchester to Wivenhoe Rivers 20. An Act to Naturalize the Children of such Officers and Soldiers and others the Natural Born Subjects of this Realm who have been born abroad during the War the Parents of such Children having been in the Service of this Government Soldiers 21. An Act for the better Preventing the Counterfeiting Clipping and other Diminishing the Coin of this Kingdom Coin 22. An Act to Repeal an Act made in the Nine and thirtieth year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Intituled An Act to Restrain the Excessive making of Malt and to Discharge and Vacate Orders made by Justices of Peace by Virtue thereof for Restraining Maltsters from making Malt. Malt. 23. An Act for Granting to his Majesty a further Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage towards Raising the yearly Sum of Seven hundred thousand pounds for the Service of his Majesties Houshold and other uses therein mentioned during his Majesty Life Customs 24. An Act for Inlarging the time for Purchasing certain Estates or Interests in several Annuities therein mentioned Annuities 25. An Act for Granting to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors further Duties upon Stampt Vellum Parchment and Paper Taxes 26. An Act to Settle the Trade to Africa Trade 27. An Act for Licensing Hawkers and Pedlars for a further Provision of Interest for the Transport Debt for Reducing of Ireland Taxes 28. An Act for the Exporting Watches Sword-Hilts and other Manufactures of Silver Trade 29. An Act to Repeal the Act made the last Session of Parliament Intituled An Act for Relief of Creditors by making Composition with their Debtors in case Two thirds in number and value do Agree Creditors 30. An Act for Increasing his Majesties Duties upon Lustrings and Alamodes Customs 31. An Act for Raising the Militia for the year One thousand six hundred ninety eight although the Months pay formerly advanced be not Repaid Militia 32. An Act for the more effectual suppressing of Blasphemy and Prophaneness Religion 33. An Act to Stop the Coining Farthings and Halfpence for One year Coin 34. An Act for the better and more orderly payment of the Lottery Tickets now payable cut of certain Additional Duties of Excise and of other Annuities lately payable out of the Tunnage Duties Taxes 35. An Act for preventing Frauds and Abuses in the Charging Collecting and Paying the Duties upon Marriages Births Burials Batchclors and Widowers Taxes 36. An Act for the Increase and Preservation of Timber in the New Forest in the County of Southampton Ships and Shipping 37. An Act for applying to the use of his Majesties Navy and Ordinance the Overplus of the Money and Stores which were provided for the Building Seven and twenty Ships of War Ships c. 38. An Act for Granting to his Majesty an Aid by a Quarterly Poll for One year Taxes 39. An Act for Setling and Adjusting the Proportions of Fine Silver and Silk for the better making of Silver and Gold Thread and to prevent the Abuses of Wire-drawers Trade 40. An Act for the explanation and better Execution of former Acts made against Transportation of Wool Fullers-Earth and Scouring Clay Wool 41. An Act for the better preventing the Imbezlement of his Majesties Stores of War and Preventing Cheats Frauds and Abuses in paying Seamens Wages Stores of War 42. An Act for Enlarging the time for Registring of Ships pursuant to the Act for preventing Frauds and regulating Abuses in the Plantation Trade Trade 43. An Act for the better Incouragement of the Royal Lustring Company and the more effectual preventing the Fraudulent Importation of Lustrings and Alamodes Trade 44. An Act for Raising a Sum not exceeding Two Millions upon a Fund for payment of Annuities after the rate of Eight pounds per Cent. per Ann. and for setling the Trade to the East-Indies Trade 45. An Act for taking away half the Duties imposed on Glass Wares and the whole Duties lately laid on Stone and Earthen Wares and Tobacco Pipes And for Granting in lieu thereof New Duties upon Whale Fins and Scotch Linen Taxes A CONTINUATION OF THE ABRIDGMENT OF ALL THE STATUTES OF King WILLIAM and Queen MARY AND King William III. In Force and Use From October the 20th 1696. to July 5. 1698. Annuities I. STat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 5. For discharging the Sum of 255663 l. 5 s. 8 d. remaining unpaid upon the several Annuities which between 17 May 1696. and 17 May 1697. became due and ought to have been paid out of 5 seventh parts of the late Duties of Tunnage and 2 seventh parts of the same Duties as also out of certain
Policy Contract Bargain or Agreement which is to be performed after the 1st day of May 1697. upon which any Pramium is or shall be given or paid for Liberty to deliver receive accept or refuse any share in any Joint-stock Talleys Orders Exchequer Bills or Bank Bills other than such Policies and Contracts as are to be performed within three days from the time of making the same shall be utterly null and void and every such Praemium shall be paid back XII If any Praemium shall be given contrary to the intent and meaning of this Act with the privity of a sworn Broker or if any person shall Act or Trade as a Broker not being Admitted according to this Act and the same shall come to the knowledge of a sworn Broker in every such Case such sworn Broker shall forthwith discover the same and in case he shall not so do the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen shall displace such sworn Broker who shall for ever be incapable to use or exercise the Trade of a Broker XIII All penalties and forfeitures given by this Act shall be recovered by Action of Debt c. in any of the Kings Courts of Record at Westminster in which no Essoin c. one Moiety to the King the other to him that shall sue for the same XIV This Act to continue from the 1st of May 1697. for the space of three years and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament XV. No person buying or selling of Cattle Corn or any other Provision or Coal shall be esteemed a Broker within this Act. XVI No Broker Admitted by this Act shall after the time aforesaid till the end of next Session of Parliament act or deal or drive any Bargain to buy or sell Talleys or other Securities upon Parliamentary Funds unless Licensed so to do by the Lords of the Treasury or three of them under the penalty of 500 l. I. Stat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 29. For Repair of the Peers of Bridlington alias Burlington in the East-Riding of Yorkshire It is Enacted That after 1 May 1697 and until 1 May 1704 there shall be paid for the repairing and amending the said Peer one farthing for every Chalder of Coals that shall be loaden on Board any Ship or other Vessel at or in the Port of Newcastle upon Tyne or at Sunderland Blythe Suton Sluce Culler Coats or any place reputed a Member of the Port of Newcastle Which said Duties during the term aforesaid shall be answered and paid unto Arthur Lord Viscount Irwin Sir Griffith Boynton Sir Charles Hotham Sir William Strickland Sir William St. Quintin Baronets Sir Michael Wharton Sir Matthew Peirson Sir William Hustler Sir Richard Osbaldeston Knights Ralph Wharton John Buck Robert Monckton Hugh Bethell Robert Byerly Charles Osborn Esquires and to the Wardens of Trinity-House at Hull for the time being the Survivors and Survivor of them and the Executors and Administrators of such Survivor or to their Deputy or Deputies thereunto appointed by some Writing under their or the major part of their Hands and Seals by the Master of the Vessel whereupon such Coals shall be loaden The said Duties to be paid at such place or places as shall be appointed in or near the place of Loading II. No Officer of the Customs within the Ports Harbours Creeks or places aforesaid shall during the time aforesaid take any Entries or give any Cocket or other Discharge for any Ship or other Vessel so loaden with Coals as aforesaid till the Duties hereby granted shall be paid to the respective Deputies appointed to receive the same as aforesaid and that the Master of such Ship or Vessel do produce an Acquittance testifying the Receipt thereof And every Officer of the Customs making default in any of the Premisses shall forfeit the Sum of 50 l. to the said A. Lord Viscount J. Sir G. B. c. to be recovered with Costs in any of the Kings Courts of Record by Action of Debt c. wherein no Essoin c. shall be allow'd III. Any person or persons by Warrant under the Hands and Seals of the said A. Lord Viscount J. Sir G. B. c. or the major part of them may go on Board any Ship or other Vessel loaden with Coals at any the foresaid places to inspect and take an account of the lading of such Coals IV. All such Sums of Money which shall be raised by the Duties aforesaid and recovered for any Forfeitures in this Act appointed other than what shall be laid out or allow'd for Collecting the said Duty not exceeding 6 d. in the pound shall be by the said A. Lord Viscount J. Sir G. B c. applyed to the rebuilding repairing and amending the said Port or Peer of Bridlington alias Burlington and there shall be provided and kept by the said persons their Deputy or Deputies one or more Books in which all Receipts and Payments by virtue of this Act shall be entred expressing the time when and persons from and to whom the same were made And once yearly the Justices of the Peace for the East-Riding of the County of York at their quarter-Quarter-Sessions may order the said Books to be brought before them to inspect the same and upon any mis-imployment of the said Duties to make such Orders for the better management of the same according to the intent of this Act as they shall think most fit Which Orders shall be observed by all persons concerned upon such Penalties not exceeding 100 l. as they shall set to be levyed upon the Goods of the Offenders by Warrant from the said Justices V. The said A. Lord Viscount J. Sir G. B c. or the greatest number of them that shall be then living may by Indenture under their Hands and Seals convey and assure the Duties granted by this Act or any part thereof as a Security for Money to be borrowed for the ends and purposes of this Act. VI. If any person shall be sued for any thing done by virtue of this Act he may plead the General Issue and give the special Matter in Evidence and upon Nonsuit or Verdict for the Defendant he shall recover double Costs VII After 1 May 1697 the said A. Lord Viscount J. Sir G B c. or any three or more of them may from time to time survey and inspect the sufficient Building and Repairs of the Peer aforesaid with all Walls Jetteys Sluces Sockers and Locks thereof and certifie the State and Condition of the same in Writing to the said Justices at their Quarter Sessions who are hereby impowered to charge the Lands formerly granted by K. James I. 20 Sept. in the 21st year of his Reign to John Earl of Holdernesse his Heirs and Assigns with such equal assesment as they shall judge sufficient and necessary for repair of the same and in default of Payment of the said assesment the Defaulter to be distrained by Warrant of three of such Justices and after
Bills brought in so to be cancelled And as to the Interest that shall have incurred on the said Old Bills to their being brought in it shall be so computed as to abate what did accrue whilst they lay in any of the Receivers or Collectors Hands or in the Exchequer and shall be written on the said New Bills XXXIV Stat. 9 10. W. 3. cap. 21. Any person to whom any piece or pieces of Silver Money shall be tendred being diminisht otherwise than by Wearing or by the Stamp Impression Colour or Weight suspected to be Counterfeit may cut break or deface such Piece or Pieces And thereupon appearing Counterfeit the Tenderer shall bear the Loss but being of due Weight and appearing Lawful Money the person who cut it shall take it for what it was Coined for XXXV If any Dispute arise whether the Piece so cut be Counterfeit it shall be determined by the Mayor Bailiffs or Chief Officer of the Place where Tendred if a City or Town Corporate or if not then by the next Justice of Peace of the County XXXVI The Tellers of the Exchequer their Deputies and Clerks and the Receivers General of his Majesties Revenue shall cut break or deface every piece of Counterfeit or unlawfully diminisht Silver Money Tendred them in Payment for his Majesties Use And the said Tellers and Receivers General their Deputies and Clerks shall weigh all Silver Money by them Received and the same or any piece thereof appearing by the Weight or otherwise to be Counterfeit or Unlawfully Diminisht shall not be received by or from them in the Exchequer XXXVII The Act made the last Session of this present Parliament Intituled An Act for the better Preventing the Counterfeiting the Current Coin of this Kingdom and every Article thereof shall be in Force till 25 March 1701. and thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament XXXVIII Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 33. No persons shall after 24 June 1698 and before 24 June 1699. Coin or make or cause to be coin'd or made any Farthings or Half-pence or tokens to go for Farthings or Half-pence of Copper or any other Metal whatsoever on pain of forfeiting Five Pounds for every Averdupoize Pound Weight of such Farthings and Half-pence so Coined one Moiety to the King the other to such persons as will sue for the same XXXIX The Contractors for making or coining of Copper Farthings and Half-pence shall not by virtue of any Agreement made with his Majesty and the late Queen for giving in Exchange to his Majesties Subjects weekly Farthings and Halfpence made of Copper for Farthings and Half pence made of Tin be obliged to perform such Exchange for so many weeks only as are between the said 24 June 1698. and the said 24 June 1699. Creditors I. Stat. 8 9 W. 3. cap 18. Two thirds or more in Number and Value of all real Creditors their Executors Administrators Guardians and Trustees and other Persons Authorized by them may make such Compositions as they think fit with their Debtors who being unable to pay the whole are withdrawn or absconded or are Prisoners for Debt before 17 Nov. 1696. II. Which Composition being for the Equal Benefit of all the Creditors and Subscribed and Sealed by the said Two thirds without any fraudulent Agreement shall be Binding III. And all persons Subscribing and Sealing such Composition shall within Twenty days after being required thereunto in writing before two Witnesses by any of the Creditors make Oath in writing before a Master in Chancery Ordinary or Extraordinary on what account their Debts became due and that they neither have nor are to receive any greater advantage than the said Composition Which Oath shall be made and filed in Chancery at the charges of the requirer within twenty days and the persons forswearing themselves shall suffer as for Perjury IV. Persons refusing to make such Oath or claiming a greater Debt than due or receiving or agreeing to receive a greater advantage than the said Composition their Subscription shall be void they shall forfeit 100 l. and treble the Value fraudulently claimed received or agreed to be received with full Costs of Suit to the Creditors suing for the same and the Money so recovered over and above the Charges shall go to the Creditors Contributing thereto V. Where any Debtor compounded with shall be kept in Prison contrary to such Composition the Lord Keeper Master of the Rolls or any of the Judges may in presence of the Creditor or absence if lawfully Summon'd discharge such Debtor out of Prison upon producing such Composition and Schedule of Debts upon Oath and swearing the cause of Imprisonment to be only for such Debts and the Creditor shall pay the Charges of such detaining and the Keeper of the Goal is to Attend with and Discharge such Prisoner under penalty of 5 l. a day VI. Persons Sued for any thing done in prosecution of this Act the Plaintiff being Nonsuit or Cast shall pay treble Costs VII Provided this Act shall not make void any Securities by Mortgage Pawn Judgment Statute or Recognizance or otherwise whereby the Lands Tenements Hereditaments Goods and Chattels of such Debtors may be charged so as the same affect not the person of the Debtor Compounded with VIII And provided that Agreements already made between Debtors and Creditors shall be of Force subject to the Benefits of this Act for enforcing such Agreements IX Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 29. After 24 June 1698. The Act made in the second Session of this present Parliament held 8 9 W. 3. Intituled An Act for Relief of Creditors by making Compositions with their Debtors in case Two thirds in Number and Value do Agree and every Clause Matter and Thing therein contained shall be Repealed Determined and of no Force X. This Act shall not make void any Agreement or Composition made bona fide before the said 24 June nor any Order for the Discharge of any Debtor out of Custody made in pursuance of such Composition by virtue of the abovesaid Act or within the saving or benefit thereof before the said 24 June But every such Composition whereupon any such Order of Discharge is made shall be good and effectual and every such Order of Discharge is hereby Confirmed and every such Composition whereupon no such Order of Discharge shall be made shall be of the same force as if this Act had not been made Nor shall it Pardon or Discharge any person who before the said 24 June shall Incur any Penalty by committing any Offence against the said Act. XI No Persons Discharged by virtue of the said Act before the said 24 June shall be deemed to be Discharged thereby who to procure any Agreement or Release from their Creditors have before one of the Judges or one of the Masters in Chancery corruptly made any false Oath to the Defrauding their Creditors but every such Agreement and Release obtain'd upon a false Oath by any person being
purposes and the principal Moneys thereupon payable in Course and the Interest every three months as if the former Orders were not cancelled IV. The Governour and Company of the Bank of England shall not be obliged to make Dividends of the Moneys received by them by virtue of the Talleys and Orders which have been subscribed into the Capital Stock of the said Bank since the enlarging thereof once in every four months but after 25 Mar. 1698. shall make such Dividends once in every six Kalendary Months at the least unto the Members of the said Corporation according to their respective Shares and Interests in the said Capital Stock Partitions I. STat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 31. From and after the first day of May 1697 after Process of Pone or Attachment return'd upon a Writ of Partition and Affidavit made of due notice given of the said Writ of Partition to the Tenant or Tenants to the Action and a Copy thereof left with the Occupier or in the Tenants absence to the Wife Son or Daughter of the Age of 21 of the Tenant in Possession of the Manors Lands c. whereof the Partition is to be unless the Tenant in Possession be Demandant in the Action at least 40 days before the return of the Pone or Attachment if there be no Appearance entred in 15 days after the return in the Court where such Writs are returnable then the Demandant having entred his Declaration the Court may proceed to examine the Demandants Right and Part and according as they shall find the same to be they shall for so much give Judgment by Default and award a Writ to make Partition which Writ being executed after 8 days notice to the Occupier and return'd and thereupon final Judgment entred the same shall be good and conclude all persons whatsoever although all persons concerned are not named in the Proceedings nor the Title of the Tenants truly set forth II. Provided that if any person concerned against whose Right such Judgment by default is given shall within one year after or in case of Infancy Coverture Non Sanae Memoriae or absence Beyond-Seas within one year after such Inability removed move the Court where such Judgment is entred and shew good matter in Bar of such Partition then the Court may suspend or set aside such Judgment and admit the Tenant to appear and plead and the Cause shall proceed as if no such Judgment had been given and if the Court shall adjudge for the first Demandant then the first Judgment shall stand confirm'd and the person so appealing shall pay Costs or if within such time the persons concerned shall shew to the Court an inequality in the Partition the Court may award a new Partition to be made in presence of all Parties concerned if they will appear which second Partition return'd and filed shall be good and firm against all persons except as before for ever III. No Plea in Abatement shall be admitted in any Suit for Partition nor shall the same abate by reason of the Death of any Tenant IV. When the High Sheriff cannot conveniently be present at the Execution of any Judgment in Partition the Under-Sheriff in presence of two Justices of Peace of the County may proceed to the Execution of the same by Inquisition in due Form of Law and the High Sheriff shall make the same Return as if he were personally present After Partition made return'd and filed the Under-Tenants shall continue in their Tenancies as before they were divided and set out to the respective Landlords under the same Rents and Covenants c. so also where any Demandant is Tenant in actual Possession to the Tenant to the Action for his part and proportion or any part thereof V. The respective Sheriffs Under-Sheriffs and Deputies and Justices of Peace in case of Disability in the High-Sheriff shall give due attendance to the Executing of such Writ of Possession or every of them to pay the Demandant Costs and Damages not exceeding Five pounds for Which the Demandant may bring his Action in any of the Kings Courts at Westminster wherein no Essoin c. In case the Demandant shall not pay the Sheriffs c. such Fees as they demand the Court shall award what each person shall receive VI. This Act to continue for seven years and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament Poor I. Stat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 30. If any person who after the First Day of May 1697. shall come to any Parish or other Place to Inhabit shall at the same time deliver to any of the Church Wardens or Overseers of the Poor of the Place where he comes a Certificate under the Hands and Seals of the Church-wardens or Overseers of the Poor of any other Parish or Place Attested by Two or more Witnesses thereby owning the Person mentioned in the Certificate to be an Inhabitant legally Settled in that Parish or Place such Certificate having been Allowed and Subscribed by Two Justices of Peace of the County City or Borough from whence it comes shall oblige the said Parish or Place to receive and provide for the person mentioned in the Certificate with his Family as Inhabitants whenever the party shall happen to become Chargeable to the place to which such Certificate was given and then and not before it shall be Lawful for such Person and his Children though Born in that Parish not having otherwise Acquired a Legal Settlement to be removed to the place from whence such Certificate was brought II. After 1 September 1697. every such person as shall receive Relief of any Parish or Place and the Wife and Children cohabiting in the same House except such Child as shall be permitted to live at home to attend some helpless Parent shall upon the Right Shoulder of their upper Garment in a visible manner wear a large Roman P with the first Letter of the Name of the Parish or Place where the said person Inhabits cut in Red or Blue Cloath as the Church-wardens or Overseers shall appoint The Poor person neglecting or refusing to wear such Badge or Mark may be punish'd by any Justice of Peace of the County either by ordering his or her Relief on the Collection to be abridged or withdrawn or by Committing the party to the House of Correction not exceeding 21 Days and if any Church-warden or Overseer of the Poor after the said 1 Septemb. shall relieve any such Poor person not wearing such Badge he being Convicted by one Witness before a Justice of Peace shall Forfeit for every such Offence 20 s. to be Levied by Distress and Sale of Goods one Moiety to the use of the Informer the other to the Poor of the Parish III. Justices of Peace at their Quarter Sessions upon any Appeal concerning the Settlement of any Poor person or upon Proof of notice given of an Appeal though the Appeal was not afterwards Prosecuted shall Award to the party for whom such
the Parish of St. Giles in Colchester XV. Provided That all Goods c. unloaden out of any Ship or Vessel at Wivenhoe and not brought to Colchester or within the Liberties thereof or Laden at Wivenhoe and not first Carried from or through Colchester or the Liberties thereof shall not be liable to the said Duties Oath being made thereof if required before such Collector or any Custom-house Officer XVI The said Mayor and Commonalty by Indenture under their Common Seal with consent of the Commissioners may engage the Profits arising as aforesaid for any Term not exceeding 21 Years to any persons that will upon such Security advance Money for Carrying on the said Work for securing the Repayment thereof with Interest not exceeding 6 per Cent. XVII Provided That if before the end of 21 Years sufficient Moneys shall be raised for the purposes aforesaid and so adjudged by the Commissioners that then after Repayment of the Money so borrowed with Interest the said Duties shall cease XVIII Provided That upon Dispute touching the Weight and Quantity of the Goods liable to the said Duties the Collector may weigh the same and if they prove more than the Collector did insist upon the Owner shall bear the charges of weighing XIX If any persons be proseeuted for Acting in pursuance of this Act they may plead the General Issue and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence And if the Prosecutor be Nonsuit or Discontinue or a Verdict or Judgment pass against him the Defendant shall recover Costs XX. Provided That if a New Cut be made through the said Earl of Kents Land called Gravel-Pit-Land it shall be at the Election of the said Earl to have the Value of the Land so severed or to keep the same And if the said Earl shall within Twelve Months after such severance signifie his Election to keep the same the Right thereof shall be Vested in the said Earl and the said Mayor and Commonalty c. shall make a Wall and Bank cross the present Old Chanel at both ends thereof which said Old Chanel shall also be Vested in the said Earl XXI Provided That this Act take not away any Persons Right of Fishing in the said River Salt I. Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 6. After 25 Mar. 1698. No Badger Retailer or other person making or dealing in Salt or buying Salt to sell again shall sell or dispose of any Salt in England or Wales and Town of Berwick otherwise than by Weight after the Rate of 56 Pound Weight to the Bushel and not by measure or any other manner upon Forfeiture of Five Pounds to the Informer who shall prosecute for the same II. The Forfeitures and Offences against this Act shall be determined by any two or more Justices of Peace residing near the place where such Offence was committed But persons agrieved may appeal to the Justices at the next General Quarter Sessions whose Judgment therein shall be final III. All Justices of Peace upon complaint of Offences contrary to this Act are to Summon the Party accused and upon proof of the Matter of Fact by Oath of two or more Witnesses or Confession of the Party to give Judgment and issue out Warrants for Levying such Forfeitures on the Goods and Chattels of the Offender to be sold if not redeemed in six days rendring the Overplus and for want of Distress to Imprison the Offender till satisfaction be made IV. When any Salt shall be Entred to be put on Board any Boat Ship or Vessel or carried by Land and the Duty paid or secured together with all Moneys then or before due and payable by Bond or otherwise on Account of Salt delivered the proper Officer shall upon due Notice by himself or Deputy in the Day time between Sun-rising and Sun-setting attend the Weighing out such Salt without loss of time to the persons that shall Ship off or carry the same upon Forfeiture of 40 s. to be recovered as other Penalties in this Act are directed Seamen I. Stat. 8 9. W. 3. cap. 23. All such persons who by virtue of the Act made the last Session of this Parliament For the Increase and Incouragement of Seamen 7 8. W. 3. cap. 21. are Intituled to the Provisions and Advantages in the Hospital in the said Act mentioned and out of the Revenues thereof shall from time to time be placed in the said Hospital upon Certificates to be produced as by the said Act is directed in succession as the person registred shall be in Course and Order of time upon the Registry Book and the Widows and Children of the persons longest registred before others II. Every Seaman or Mariner who have Liberty and shall be willing to register themselves as by the said Act directed after the 10th of April next bringing such Certificate as the said Act directs under the hand of any one Justice of Peace of the County where he lives may and shall be registred and himself Wife Widow and Children be Intituled to all Advantages given by the said Act as if the Certificate were under the hands of two Justices according to the said Act. The Justice or Justices giving such Certificate are required diligently to enquire into the truth of the same and if occasion be to examine the party upon Oath and if any fraud or deceit appears to certify the Admiralty thereof III. Any persons already registred or who shall hereafter be registred and who then were or shall after be raised to the degree of a Masters Mate in any of the Kings Ships their Wives Widows and Children are declared and enabled to enjoy all and every the Benefits and Advantages given to any other person so registred by the said recited Act. IV. After the said 10th of April all Seamen above the Age of 50 years and who shall appear by the Books of the Navy Office to have served on Board any of the Kings Ships for seven years last past without wilful Disserting shall upon producing Certificates as aforesaid under the hands of one or more Justices of Peace be registred and have and enjoy the several Privileges in the said Act mentioned V. Provided that after the 10th day of April 1699. No Seaman above the Age of 50 years shall be admitted to register himself without giving such Reasons for his omitting to do it during the time of such Service on Board as shall be approved by the Admiralty or Navy or by the persons appointed for keeping the said Register VI. It shall be Lawful for the Commissioners appointed for Registring Seamen by Warrant under their Hands and Seals to cause all Masters and Commanders of Ships not in his Majesties Service to appear before them and discover upon Oath the Number Rates Salaries Wages and Times of Service of all and every persons or person serving in such Ships or Vessels and which by the foresaid Act are obliged to pay 6 d. per mensem out of their Salaries and Wages And if any
not of the Yearly Value of 20 s. in the whole LXVIII A Proviso that the Chancery Officers within the Liberty of the Rolls shall be there Assessed LXIX Collectors keeping any Moneys in their Hands or not paying the same as the Act directs are to forfeit 10 l. and the Head Collectors for the like offence 40 l. LXX If after the Assessment any Persons remove to a Place where they were not Rated the Commissioners are to Summon such Persons before them and cause them to be duly Rated and to pay the same or such part as shall be unpaid unless the party produces a Certificate that he hath been Rated and Paid elsewhere LXXI The Kings Bench Prison with the Lands c. and the Rents and Profits of the Marshal thereof and the Prison House Lands c. of the Marshalsea Prison and Offices and Perquisites of the Marshals Court shall be Assessed in the Parish of St. George in Southwark LXXII Any person acting as a Commissioner before he hath taken the Oaths forfeits 500 l. to the King LXXIII The Water-works in Southwark are to be Rated by the Commissioners and Assessors of Surrey and those in Westminster by the Commissioners and Affessors for Westminsler LXXIV Receivers General neglecting or refusing to return Duplicates of the Assessments into the Exchequer by the times prefixt shall forfeit 50 l. and be incapable of any Trust from his Majesty LXXV All Auditors and Receivers are to allow 3 s. in the Pound out of any Fee Farm or other Chief Rents payable to his Majesty or the Queen Dowager or any others by Grant or Purchase from the Crown under the Penalty of 10 l. LXXVI A Proviso that Rectories Vicaridges or Curacies under 40 l. per Annum shall not be Taxed if the Rector Vicar or Curate resides upon the Place or personally serves the Cure LXXVII No Tenant of Houses or Lands belonging to Colleges Halls Hospitals Alms-houses or Schools who by their Contracts are obliged to pay all Taxes shall be Discharged LXXVIII The Allowance of Three Half-pence in the Pound to the Commissioners Clerks is not to be paid till they have transmitted the Duplicates into the Remembrancers Office and have a Certificate thereof LXXIX Members of Parliament are to be Assessed for their Personal Tax of 4 d. per Month and for their ready Money and Debts where they usually reside in the Intervals of Palriament Provided that if their usual Residence be not within the Cities of London and Westminster or 20 Miles of the same they shall not be Assessed for their Money Debts Stock in Trade or upon Lands until 20 Days after the rising of the Parliament And Servants attending the said Members are not to be Assessed for their Wages until the time aforesaid LXXX A Proviso That upon Oath before the Commissioners that any Debts contained in the Specifications required by this Act are desperate the Commissioners are to inform themselves and to Charge or Discharge the same as they see cause which Discharge is to be noted upon the said Specification and Duplicates thereof LXXXI Persons giving an Account in their Specifications of the Money they owe at Interest the Commissioners being satisfied therewith by Oath or otherwise shall make a proportionable Allowance or Deduction out of the Tax LXXXII Provided That where Lands c. are and from 29 Sept. 1696. have been in the actual possession of any Person for Debts to which the same were liable such Debts are not to be charged by this Act. LXXXIII All or any part of the Monthly payments in this Act may be paid for the whole year or any Months thereof before hand in Hammer'd Silver Money at 5 s. 8 d. per oz. at any time before 1 June 1697. LXXXIV If the Assessors neglect the Commissioners are to take care That Papists and persons not taking the Oaths be doubly charged LXXXV Persons beyond Sea and Minors having Moneys at Interest in this Kingdom their Trustees or Guardians are to pay the Duties LXXXVI Receivers General are to keep a distinct Account of the 3 s. in the Pound upon Lands Tenements Hereditaments c. And every such Receiver General or his Deputy misapplying any part of the Moneys arising by the said Pound Rate of 3 s. in the Pound shall Forfeit 500 l. LXXXVII The Commissioners of the Treasury or Lord Treasurer are not to direct any Warrant for payment of any Moneys arising by the said Pound Rate of 3 s. otherwise than into the Exchequer nor to the Officers of the Exchequer for striking any Talleys of Pro or Anticipation upon the same nor shall any Teller charge himself with any of the said Moneys till he has actually received it LXXXVIII No stay of Process shall be made for any of the Penalties by this Act inflicted LXXXIX Loans on Credit of Contributions for Annuities pursuant to an Act 7 W. 3. remaining unsatisfied to be in the first place Transferred to the Register appointed for the Tax of 3 s. in the Pound And in the next place all Moneys lent upon Credit of the Exchequer in general between 1 July 1696. and 1 Febr. 1696. which Transferred Orders of Loan shall be Assignable XC Any persons Natives or Foreigners may lend his Majesty any Sums not exceeding 1500000 l. including the Sums Transferred at the rate of 8 l. per Cent. on Credit of the Tax of 3 s. in the Pound and the Moneys so lent on this Act are not to be Taxed XCI A distinct Register is to be kept in the Exchequer of the produce of the 3 s in the Pound And the Interest for Moneys lent thereon shall be paid in course every three Months without any undue preference by the Officers of the Exchequer as they will avoid the Penalties inflicted by the Act. XCII Orders of Loan by Virtue of this Act being Entred are made assignable XCIII The Commissioners of the Treasury or High Treasurer may issue Bills at the Exchequer for any Sums not exceeding 1500000 l. for the use of the War Which Bills shall be Current in all Payments for any Aids or Supplies for the War for the year 1697 except in the 3 s. in the Pound XCIV And the Receivers and Collectors out of the Mill'd Money or Gold in their Hands are to pay such Bills as shall be brought to them under Penalty of forfeiting double the Sum. Which Receivers upon Payment of any of the said Bills into the Exchequer are to have Talleys for their Discharge And the Bills so paid in to be immediately Cancelled XCV And the Money paid into the Exchequer for any Supplies for the Year 1697. Except for the 3 s. Aid shall be applied to the taking up and cancelling such Bills But if the Supplies for the Year 1697. Except for the 3 s. Aid be Deficient of 1500000 l. Authorized to be Issued in Bills such Deficiency is to be in the first place made Good out of any Moneys that shall be Raised by any Act of next Session of
than sufficient to pay the Interest at 5 per Cent. for the said Principal Sum of 330769 l. 10 s. 7 d. then the Surplus shall remain in the Exchequer and not be disposed of otherwise than by Act of Parliament CCXXV. The Commissioners of the Treasury or Lord Treasurer for the time being may out of the Money so raised pay to the said Commissioners their Clerks or other persons such Moneys as they shall reasonably deserve for their Service in relation to this or the foresaid Act. CCXXVI This Act shall not extend or be construed to give any Power to any Hawker c. to sell or expose any Wares or Merchandizes in any City Town Corporate or Market Town within this Realm otherwise than might have been done before the making of this Act. CCXXVII Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 8. All the Duties which have been or hereafter shall be paid into the Exchequer by virtue of the Act made the last Sessions of Parliament Intituled An Act for Granting to His Majesty certain Duties upon Malt Mum Sweets Cyder and Perry as well towards Carrying on the War against France as for the necessary Expences of His Majesties Houshold shall be applied to the Payment of the Loan of 200000 l. Borrowed thereupon with Interest for the same or so much as remains due and unpaid thereof and to the Discharge of certain Bills and Tickets issued thereupon with Interest in the first Place in such Course and Order as the said Act directs and to no other use whatsoever until the said Loan and the said Bills and Tickets with Interest shall be fully paid CCXXVIII The Rules and Directions in an Act made 1 W. M. Intituled An Act for a Grant to their Majesties of an Aid of Two Shillings in the Pound for One year for the speedy Payment of Moneys thereby Granted into the Exchequer by the Collectors and Receivers thereof and for the Distribution and Application thereof and keeping distinct Accounts of the same and the Penalties in case of Diversion of any Money thereby Appropriated are hereby revived touching the Distribution of the Duties hereby Appropriated CCXXIX Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 10. Enacted That the Sum of One Million four hundred eighty four thousand and fifteen Pounds One Shilling Eleven Pence three Farthings be Levied and Paid to his Majesty within the space of One Year from 2 Febr. 1697. according to the Proportions on the several Cities Towns and Counties in the Act mention'd CCXXX Towards the raising whereof all persons having any Estate in ready Money or Debts Wares Merchandizes or other Chattels except such Debts as they do bona fide owe and desperate Debts owing to them and except Stock upon Land and Houshold Goods and Loans to his Majesty shall pay 3 s. in the Pound of the true yearly value for One year that is to say For every Hundred Pounds the Sum of 18 s. and so for a greater or lesser Sum. CCXXXI All persons having any publick Office or Imployment of Profit Military Officers in Muster or Pay in his Majesties Guards Garisons or Navy excepted and their Agents Clerks and Inferiour Ministers shall pay 3 s. in the Pound for One year out of the Fees or Profits of their Offices or Imployments CCXXXII All Manors Messuages Lands and Tenements and all Quarries Mines Iron-works Salt-works Allom-works all Parks Chaces Warrens Woods Under-woods Coppices all Fishings Tithes Tolls Annuities and other yearly Profits and Hereditaments and all Persons Bodies Politick and Corporate Guilds and Fraternities having any such Lands Tenements or Hereditaments shall be Charged with as much equality as possible towards the Sums by this Act imposed which shall be Paid into the Exchequer by Four Quarterly Payments the first whereof to be upon 2 May 1698. CCXXXIII The Landlords Owners and Proprietors of such Lands Tenements and Hereditaments may abate out of every Fee-farm Rent or other Annual Rent or Payment so much as the same shall by a just proportion amount unto CCXXXIV For the more effectual putting this Act in execution the several Persons in the Act named shall be Commissioners who shall meet together in their several Districts on or before 20 April 1698. and afterwards as often as shall be necessary and shall set down in Writing the Proportions to be paid by every Division for making up the whole Sum and may subdivide themselves so as Two or more be appointed for each Division but not to restrain the Commissioners from Acting in any other part of the County or Place for which they are nominated Commissioners CCXXXV Which Commissioners at their General Meeting shall give Lists to the Receiver General of those who are to act in each Division which Commissioners in their several Divisions shall cause the Proportions to be equally Assessed and shall direct their Precepts to such Inhabitants c. as they shall think convenient to be Presenters and Assessors requiring them to appear at a place and time not exceeding Ten days and shall then charge them with the Execution of this Act And if any persons to whom such Precept is directed shall absent themselves without lawful Excuse or shall refuse to serve they shall forfeit a Sum not exceeding 5 l. CCXXXVI The Commissioners shall appoint Two or more of the most sufficient Inhabitants of each Parish c. to be Assessors and shall prefix them a day and place to bring in their Assessments who are to Assess the full Sum given them in Charge and bring in a Certificate thereof with the Names of Two or more able persons living within the respective limits to be Collectors for whom the Parish or Place shall be answerable CCXXXVII Every Assessor before he acts shall take the Oaths appointed 1 W. M. to be Administred to them by Two or more of the Commissioners and shall deliver one Copy of their Assessment to the Commissioners who shall Sign and Seal Two Duplicates thereof one to be delivered to the Collectors the other in Parchment to the Receiver General containing the full Sum Assessed on each Parish or Place and shall transmit a like Duplicate to the Kings Remembrancers Office on or before 24 June 1698. or within 20 days after all Appeals being first determined CCXXXVIII The Collectors shall Levy the Rates so Assessed and shall demand the same of the Parties themselves or at the place of their last abode or upon the premisses charged and shall pay the same to the Receiver General or his Deputy at such time and place as the Commissioners shall appoint so as the whole Sum for each Quarterly Payment be made according to the Act. CCXXXIX And the Receiver General is to give Notice of his Deputies to the Commissioners within Ten days after the first General Meeting and so within Ten days after the death or removal of any Deputy and the Receipt of such Receiver General or his Deputies shall be a Discharge to the Collectors who shall not be obliged to travel above Ten
be Nonsuit or forbear Prosecution the Defendant shall have treble costs CCCXXI. Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 14. That the Additional and other Duties and Impositions upon the several sorts of Goods and Merchandizes Imported into this Kingdom and from thence Exported Expressed and Granted in and by an Act An. 6 7. W. 3. Intituled An Act for Granting to His Majesty several Additional Duties upon Coffce Tea Chocolate and Spices towards Satisfaction of the Debts due for Transport Service for the Reduction of Ireland shall be Continued from 1 May 1698. and be levied and paid to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors till 1 May 1701. And that the said Act and all Powers Articles and Clauses therein contained shall continue in Force till the said 1 May 1701 and shall be practised and executed for levying and paying the said Additional and other Duties and Impofitions hereby contioned for paying interest for the Debt due for the said Transport Service CCCXXII Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 25. After 1 Aug. 1698. there shall be paid to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors for ever over and above all other Duties the Sums following viz. For every Skin or Piece of Velum or Parchment or Sheet or Piece of Paper on which there shall be Ingrossed or Written CCCXXIII Any Grant under the Great Seal or Dutchy of Lancaster of any Honour Dignity Promotion Franchise Liberty or Privilege or Exemplification of the same Except Commissions of Rebellion in Process 40 s. CCCXXIV Any Pardon Except the General Circuits and Newgate Pardon Wairant of Reprieve Relaxation from Fines Corporal Punishments or Forfeitures 40 s. CCCXXV Any Grant of Money above 100 l. under the Great or Privy Seal only any Grant of Office or Imployment above 50 l. per Ann. any Grant of Lands in Fee or Leases for Years or other Grant of Prosit under the Great Seal Exchequer Dutchy of Lancaster or Privy Seal only 40 s. each CCCXXVI Any Presentation or Donation Collation Dignity or Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Promotion of 10 l. per Annum or above in the Kings Books 40 s. CCCXXVII Any Dispensation for two Ecclesiastical Dignities or Benefices or other Dispensation or Faculty 40 s. CCCXXVIII Any admittance of a Fellow of the College of Physicians or of any Attorney Clerk Advocate Proctor Notary or other Officer in any Court 40 s. CCCXXIX But not to extend to any annual Officer in a Corporation or Inferior Court whose Office is under 10 l. per Annum in the whole CCCXXX Any appeal from the Court of Admiralty Arches or Prerogative of Canterbury or York 40 s. CCCXXXI Any Exemplification under the Seal of any Court 5 s. CCCXXXII Any Decree or Dismission in Chancery Exchequer Dutchy of Lancaster Palatine of Chester Durham or other Court of Equity 6 d. CCCXXXIII Any Institution or Licence under the Seal of an Archbishop Bishop Chancellor Ordinary or Eeclesiastical Court 5 s. CCCXXXIV Any Writ of Error Certiorari or Appeal except to the Delegates 5 s. CCCXXXV Any Significavit pro Corp ' deliberat ' 5 s. CCCXXXVI Any Sentence Attachment or Relaxation in the Admi ralty or Cinque Ports 5 s. CCCXXXVII Any Letter of Mart 5 s. CCCXXXVIII Any Probate of a Will or Administration above 20 l. value 5 s. CCCXXXIX Any Recognizance Statute Staple or Statute Merchant 5 s. CCCXL Any Record of Nisi prius or postea 2 s. 6 d. CCCXLI Any Judgment Sigu'd by any Officer of the Courts at Westminster 2 s. 6 d. CCCXLII Any Commission out of Ecclesiastical Courts 2 s. 6 d. CCCXLIII Any Warrant Monition or Personal Decree in the Courts of Admiralty or Cinque Ports or Beneficial Warrant or Order under the Sign Manual except for the Navy Army and Ordinance 2 s. 6 d. CCCXLIV Any Special Ball or Appearance 1 s. CCCXLV. Any Bill Answer Replication Rejoynder Interrogatories Depositions or other Pleadings in Chancery Exchequer Dutchy and Palatine Courts and other Courts of Equity 1 s. CCCXLVI Any Admission into a Corporation or Company the Universities Inns of Court and Chancery 1 s. CCCXLVII Any Affidavit except for Burying in Woollen or before the Officers of the Customs Justices of Peace or Commissioners for Taxes ex officie 6 d. CCCXLVIII Any Copy of such Affidavit 6 d. CCCXLIX Any Indenture Lease or Deed Poll except for binding poor Parish Children Apprentices 6 d. CCCL Any Original Writ except where Capias Issues Subpaena Bill of Middlesex Latitat Writ of Capias Quo minus Ded. potestatem and other Writs Processes or Mandates where the Debt Damage or Demand is of 40 s. or above except for levying Fines suffering Common Recoveries and Habeas Corpus Writs 6 d. CCCLI Any Entry of Actions in London and other Corporations and Courts of 40 s. or above 6 d. CCCLII. Any Common Bail and Appearance 6 d. Which is to be Entred or Filed in eight days after the Process is Returnable on Penalty of 5 l. to the Plaintiff CCCLIII Any Rule or Order of Court at Westminster 6 d. CCCLIV. Any Copy of such Rules or Orders or other Records or Proceedings 6 d. CCCLV. Any Citation Monition Libel Allegation Deposition Answer Sentence Final Decree or Inventory in Ecclesiastical courts Admiralty or Cinque-Ports or Copies thereof 6 d. CCCLVI. Any Charter-Party Policy of Assurance Passport Bond Release Contract Obligatory Instrument Protest Procuration Letter of Attorney or other Notarial Act 6 d. CCCLVII Any Declaration Plea Replication Rejoynder Demurrer or other Pleadings in Courts of Law 1 d. and Copies thereof 1 d. CCCLVIII Any Depositions except the Draughts thereof before they are Ingrossed Copies of Bills Answers Pleas Demurrers Replications Rejoynders Interrogatories Depositions or other Proceedings in Courts of Equity and Copies of Wills 1 d. CCCLIX After 1 Aug. 1698. Every Officer or Clerk in the Courts at Westminster shall set down the day and year of his Signing any Writ of Arrest upon such Writ and duly enter the same on Penalty of 10 l. CCCLX This Act shall not extend to Bills of Exchange Accounts Bills of Parcel Bills of Fees or Bills or Notes not Sealed for payment of Money at sight or demand or at the end of certain days of payment CCCLXI. Nor to the Probate of Wills or Letters of Administration of Common Seamen or Soldiers dying in the Kings Service a Certificate thereof being produced and Oath thereupon made before the proper Judge CCCLXII Nor to any Warrant or Recognizance before a Justice of Peace or the Surrender of any Copy-hold Estate or Copies of such Estate or Court Marshal Proceedings for Trial of a Common Soldier or proceedings before Commissioners of Sewers or in the Court of Stanneries CCCLXIII Sea Officers shall pay the same Stamp Duty as Land Officers pay by this Act only CCCLXIV The Duties by this Act granted shall be liable to such Redemption by Parliament as shall be declared this Session CCCLXV The King or Commissioners of the Treasury shall appoint Commissioners for managing these Duties who
Courts of Record of this Kingdom or in any of his Majesties Plantations or Colonies in America XXXIV If any Ship Trading to Africa and the Goods therein be Cast away or Lest before she arrive at her Port The Proprietors or Exporters shall upon their sending any other Ship to Africa be allowed so much as was paid to the said Company for the Goods so lost XXXV All the Natural born Subjects of England Trading to Africa and paying the Duties by this Act imposed shall have the same Protection for their Persons Ships and Goods from the said Forts and Castles and the like freedom for their Trade as the said Company and their Ships and Goods have And all Persons Trading to Africa and paying the Duties as aforesaid may at their own charge settle Factories on any part of Africa within the limits aforesaid without let of the said Company And all Persons not Members of the said Company so Trading and paying the said Duties shall with their Ships and Goods be free from all Molestation Penalties or Impositions from the said Company by reason of their so Trading XXXVI If any Goods exported for Africa having paid the Duties on this Act shall be brought back to England or the Plantations they may be exported again to Africa without paying any Duty Oath being first made by two Persons not interested in such Goods that the Duty was paid upon their first Exportation A Copy of the Entry of such Goods upon their former Exportation being first preduced and attested upon Oath of two Persons XXXVII All the Duties arising by this Act are hereby appropriated wholly to the maintenance of the Forts and Castles on the Coasts of Africa in the Possession of the said Royal African Company and for keeping them well repaired and providing them with Ammunition and Warlike Stores and Soldiers to defend them and paying the Officers and Soldiers and no other uses whatsoever And a true account of the said Duties and laying out the same shall be kept in a Book for that purpose which shall lie open at the African-House in London to be perused by all Persons Trading to Africa And that an Account be made up yearly at Michaelmas or within 20 days after and Recorded in the Exchequer XXXVIII No Duty imposed by this Act shall be required in England or the Colenies aforesaid for any Gold or Silver imported from Africa but the same may be Landed without Entry or Declaration thereof XXXIX This Act shall not hinder any Persons from Trading to that part of Africa called Barbary extending Southerly as for as Cape Blancho XL. Any of his Majesties Subjects notwithstanding the Act of 5 6. W. M. that no other Copper than what is made of English Ore should be exported may Export from England all such Copper Bars as have been Imported thither from Foreign Parts and upon Exportation shall draw back all Duties or Vacate the Securities saving the half of the old subsidy as is usual in other Commodities XLI No Governor or Deputy Governor of any his Majesties Colonies or Plantations in America or the Judges there or any other for their use shall after 29 Sept. 1698 be a Factor or Agent for the said Company or others for the Sale or Disposal of Negroes but every Person offending herein shall serselt 500 l. to the uses aforesaid to be recovered in any of the Courts of Record at Westminster XLII This Act shall be in force only 13 years and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament XLIII Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 28. After 24 June 1698. It shall be lawful to Export such Watches Sword Hilts Wrought-Plare and other Silver Manufactures made within this Kingdom being of the fineness of Eleven ounces and Ten peny weight to every pound Troy and so proportionably for a greater or lesser weight according to the Rules prescribed in the Act made 8 9 W. 3. Intituled An Act for the Incouraging the bringing in of Wrought-Plate to be Coined as shall be yearly allowed by the Commissioners of the Customs or any three of them XLIV No Person shall after the said 24 of June Export or send or Indeavour to Export or send out or this Kingdom any outward or inward Box Case or Dyal plate of Gold Silver Brass or other Metal for Clock or Watch without the movement in or with every such Box Case or Dyal-plate made up fit for use with the Clock or Watchmakers name Ingraven thereon Nor shall any Persons after the said 24 of June 〈…〉 to be made up any Clock or Watch without ingraving or putting their own Name and place of Aboad or Freedom and no other Name or Place on every Clock or Watch they shall so make up on the forfeiting every such Empty box Case and 〈◊〉 Clock and Watch not made up and Ingraven as aforesaid and for every such offence 20 l. one Moiety to the King the other to them that shall Sue for the same in any of his Majesties Courts of Record XLV Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 39. After 24 July 1698 All Silver Wire to be drawn for the making of Gold and Silver Thread shall hold at the least 11 oz. 16 penny weight of Fine Silver to the pound Troy and all Silver to be guilt for that use shall be of the same fineness and shall not have loss than four peny weight of Fine Gold laid upon each pound weight of Silver on forfeiture of five shillngs per Ounce to be paid by the Refiner or Maker XLVI After the said 24 of July no Gilt Wire shall be coloured with Verdigrease or Dead-head or any other forced Colour on forfeiture of 2 s. 6 d. per Ounce And for all Gold and Silver so prepared and reduced into Plate there shall be allowed at least six Ounces to cover four Ounces of Silk the finest of which Silk shall not run above sixteen Yards to the penny weight Troy And six Ounces to cover three Ounces and a half of Silk not running above thirty six Yards to the penny weight Troy And six Ounces to cover three Ounces of Silk not running above ninety Yards to the penny weight Troy And for all Gold and Silver Thread made finer six Ounces of Plate to cover two Ounces and a half of Silk And shall be Spun close upon well Boiled and Light Dyed Silk only except Frost-work on forfeiture of 2 s. 6 d. per Ounce And every Spinner of Gold and Silver Thread that shall lay Gold or Silver Plate upon Silk in other proportions shall forfeit for every Ounce so spun two shillings XLVII After the said 24 of July Copper Brass and every other inferior Metal than Silver shall be Spun upon Thread Yarn or Incle only and not upon Silk on forfeiture of five shillings per Ounce XLVIII After the said 24 of July No Gold or Silver Thread Lace Fringe or other Work made thereof nor any Thread made of Copper Brass or any Inferior Metal
or Wire or Plate ready wrought for the covering of Silk or Thread shall be Imported into this Kingdom on pain of being forfeited and burnt XLIX Of the several Penalties in this Act one Moiety shall be to the King the other to them that shall sue for the same in any the Courts of Record at Westminster L. If any Person be sued for what he shall do in Execution of this Act he may plead the General Issue and give the Special Matter in Evidence and upon a Non-suit Discontinuance or Verdict against the Plaintiff the Defendant shall have treble Costs LI. No Penalty shall be inflicted on any Person exposing to sale any Silver Wire or Silver or Gold Thread or Lace or Fringe on or before 29 Sept. 1699 though not made according to this Act provided it be proved by Oath before a Justice of Peace of the Place that such Goods were made on or before 24 July 1698. LII Every Prosecution upon this Act shall be commenced within Six months after the Offence committed LIII This Act shall continue for Three years and thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament LIV. Stat. 9 10 W. 3. Cap. 42. Whereas by an Act 7 8 W. 3. Intituled An Act for Preventing Frauds and Regulating Abuses in the Plantation Trade It is Enacted That after the 25th of March 1698. No Ship or Vessel shall pass as a Ship of the built of England Ireland Wales Berwick Guernsey Jersey or any His Majesties Plantations in America so as to Trade to or from the said Plantations till Registred as enacted by the said Act And yet several Merchants Trading to the Plantations have sent out several Ships and Vessels thither but through madvertency only have omitted to Register them It is Enacted That all Ships and Vessels of the Built of England Ireland Wales Berwick Guernsey Jersey or any His Majesties Plantations in America being English Property shall have Nine months longer from the said 25th of March 1698. for Registring such Ships which being Registred within the said Nine months shall have the advantage of the saie Act as if Registred before the said 25 Mar. 1698. LV. Stat. 9 10 W. 3. Cap. 43. After 1 July 1698. no Foreign Silks known by the name of Alamodes or Lustrings shall be Imported into this Kingdom but into the Port of London only and Notice shall be given to the Commissioners or Chief Managers of the Customs there of the Quality and Quantity with the Marks Numbers and Package of all such Silks intended to be Imported with the Name of the Importer and of the Ship and her Burthen and of the Master and Commander on which they are to be Laden and the Port where the same are to be taken on Board And a Licence shall be taken under the Hands of the said Commissioners or Chief Managers of the Customs or any three of them for the Importing of the same which Licence is to be granted without Fee or Reward LVI The said Commissioners or Chief Managers of the Customs shall cause to be marked and sealed all such Alamodes and Lustrings which shall be Imported after the said 1st of July according to this Act and cause a dissinct Registry thereof to be kept in the Custom-House to be made without Fee or Reward before the Goods be delivered out of the Custom House Warchouse And if any of the said Silks shall be Imported into this Realm other where than in the Port of Londen or Imported without such Notice and Licence and the Duties paid for the same or shall not be so sealed and marked such Silks or the sull value thereof shall be forfeited And the Silks which shall be seised and forfeited by virtue of this or any former Act shall be sold and exported pursuant to the Rules mentioned in an Act of 8 9 W. 3 Intituled An Act for the further Encouragement of the Manufacture of Lustrings and Alamedes within this Realm LVII All Persons who shall Import or bring into this Kingdom any Alamodes or Lustrings contrary to this Act or knowingly receive the same into their Custody or sell or offer to sale any such Foreign Silks so fraudulently Imported and their Aiders Abettors and Assistants knowing thereof shall forfeit 500 Pounds LVIII If any Commission or Warrant Officer or other Person in the Service of His Majesty and having the Command of any Ship or Vessel shall Import or Convey or procure or suffer to be Imported or take on Board any Alamodes or Lustrings in Order to be Imported into this Kingdom or shall Unship or suffer to be Unshipt into any Boat or Vessel any such Silks knowing thereof shall over and above the Forfeitures and Penalties in this or any other Act be ipso facto rendred uncapable of serving His Majesty by Sea or Land or of receiving any Advantage by virtue of such Service And if any Seaman Mariner or other belonging to any Ship or Vessel shall discover any Alamodes or Lustrings so Imported or Unshipt in order to be Imported contrary to this Act such Persons shall over and above their part of the Forfeitures by this Act be discharged from on Board such Ship or Vessel if they desire the same and the Captain or Master shall immediately give them a Ticket Intituling them to their Wages on Board such Ship or Vessel LIX If any Persons shall afterwards Counterfeit or Misapply any of the Seals or Marks now used at the Custom House for Sealing and Marking Alamodes and Lustrings according to this or any other Act or the Seals or Marks of the said Company for Marking and Sealing their Goods they their Aiders and Abettors shall for every such Offence forfeit 500 Pounds and stand in the Pillory two Hours And all Persons who shall buy or fell or have in their Possession any Alamodes or Lustrings with a Counterfeit Seal or Mark or with the Custom-House or Companies Seal or Mark not lawfully affixed thereto knowing thereof and not discovering the same shall forfeit the Goods and 100 Pounds Any Persons with a Writ of Assistance from the Exchequer or with a Constable or Officer and a Justice of Peace's Warrant may in the day time Enter into any House Shop Warehouse or other place to search for and seize any Alamodes or Lustrings Imported contrary to this or any other Act or Sealed or Marked as aforesaid And in case of Resistance to break open Doors Chests and other Package to bring thence to his Majesties Ware house any such Silks And the Justices of Peace are to grant such Warrants to Credible Persons making Oath they suspect there are such Silks where they intend to Search And upon Dispute whether such Silks were Manufactured beyond the Seas or Imported contrary to this Act the Proof shall lie upon the Importer or Owner and not upon the Prosecutor LX. All Officers of the Customs or in Corporations or elsewhere shall be assisting in the Execution of this Act and if any Officer
four days the Goods to be appraised by two or more Inhabitants and to be sold and the overplus above the Assesment and Charges of Distress to be immediately restored to the Owner Churches I. STat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 14. For Compleating the Building and Adorning the Cathedral of St. Paul London and for Repairing the Cathedral of St Peter Westminster It is Enacted That for all Coals and Culm Imported into the Port of London from the 29th of September 1700. until the 29th of September 1716. there shall be paid for every Chalder of Coals or Culm One Shilling and for every Tun of such as are sold by Weight One Shilling which said Imposition of One Shilling shall be Levied and Paid in such manner and form and under such penalties as are exprest and directed by the Act 1 Jac. 2. cap. 15 The Articles Rules and Clauses of which Act except otherwise hereafter provided shall be of such force and effect as if the same were particularly set down and Enacted by this Act. II. All Moneys Levied by this Act shall be disposed as herein after mentioned And the Archbishop of Ganterbury the Bishop of London and Lord Mayor of London for the time being or any two of them shall have such Powers and Authorities unless otherwise herein after directed as they had by the said former Act. III. One Sixth part of all Moneys which shall be raised by virtue of this Act shall be appropriated and disposed to the Repairing of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter in Westminster and the said Archbishop of Canterbury Bishop of London and Lord Mayor of London for the time being or any two of them shall during the Continuance of this Act pay or cause to be paid to the Chancellour of the Exchequer the Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench and the Dean of the said Church for the time being Commissioners hereby appointed for Repairing the said Church the said Sixth part of such Moneys by Quarterly Payments the first Payment to be made on the Thirtieth of December 1700. Which said Money shall be laid out and expended in Repairing the said Collegiate Church And the like Books of Accounts to be inspected by any person gratis shall be kept by the Commissioners and the like Abstract of such Books of Accounts shall be yearly transmitted into the Exchequer in such manner as is directed to the said Archbishop Bishop and Lord Mayor in the aforesaid Act. IV. The said Archbishop Bishop and Lord Mayor may deduct yearly out of the sums to be by them paid as aforesaid one Sixth part to their Deputies and Officers for their Collecting the Duties hereby continued and Inspecting the Coal-Meters V. The said Commissioners or any Two of them may by Indenture under their hands and seals engage the Profits arising out of the sums hereby Granted towards the Repairing of the said Collegiate Church as a Security for Money by them to be borrowed for the intent and purpose aforesaid which Money is to be imployed accordingly VI. A sum not exceeding Three thousand Pounds part of the Duty hereby Granted shall in Four Years be paid towards the Building the Parish-Church of St. Thomas in Southwark according to such Directions as the President Treasurer and Governours of the Hospital there with allowance of the foresaid Archbishop Bishop and Lord Mayor or any two of them shall approve and allow VII After the 29th of September 1697. the Stipend or Allowance of the Surveyor General of the Building of the said Cathedral of St. Paul shall be paid one Moiety yearly and the other Moiety in one intire sum within Six Months after the finishing the said Cathedral and not before Coin I. STat. 8 W. 3. cap. 1. The Act past in the First Sessions of this present Parliament Intituled An Act for taking off the Obligation and Encouragement for Coining Guineas for a certain time therein mentioned and all things therein contained except what relates to the Recompences by the said Act appointed to be applied to the Silver Mints and what concerns the African Company shall be Repealed and utterly made Void and all persons may freely Import into this Kingdom Guineas and Half-Guineas as they might before the making the said Act. II. The Master and other Officers of the Mint in the Tower of London shall on or before the Tenth day of November 1696. prepare and set apart one or more Mill or Mills with other Conveniencies to be imployed for the Coinage of Gold which shall be brought thither by any persons Natives or Foreigners to be Received in Coined and Delivered out in such manner as by the Statute made 18 Car. 2. is directed so that the Course in Coinage of Gold and Silver be kept in distinct Accounts and not interfere and such Coining and Delivering out of Gold in a distinct Course although there be Silver remaining there Uncoined shall not be interpreted any undue Preference any thing in the said Statute of 18 Car. 2. notwithstanding III. Stat. 8 W. 3. cap. 2. All Hammered Silver Money Clipped or Unclipped as shall be brought to any of his Majesties Mints between the Fourth of November 1696. and the First of July 1697. shall be received there at the Rate of 5 s. 4 d. per Ounce Troy IV. All his Majesties Receivers or other Officers concerned in the Receipt or Collection of his Majesties Aids Taxes or other Revenues or of any Loans shall and are hereby required to receive in payment all such Hammered Silver Coin as shall be Tendred for any Aids Taxes or other Revenues or upon Loans at any time after the Fourteenth of November 1696. until the First of February next following as to Loans and all Arrears of Aids Taxes or Revenues due before the said First of February and until the First of June then next following as to all future Aids Taxes and other Revenues at the Rate of 5 s. 8 d. per Ounce And the Tender Payment or Loan of every Ounce of such Hammered Silver Coin shall be as good for the sum of 5 s. 8 d. as if the said sum of 5 s. 8 d. had been Tendred Paid or Lent in Lawful Current Coin V. After the First of December 1696. no Hammered Silver Coin of this Kingdom shall be Current in any Payment except such as before mentioned otherwise than by Weight only after the Rate of 5 s. 2 d. per Ounce of Sterling Silver VI. All such Hammered Money consisting only of Pieces having both the Rings or the greatest part of the Letters or Six Pences of Sterling Silver not Clipt within the innermost Ring as have been before the Eighteenth Day of November 1696. actually received by any Commissioner Receiver General or other Receiver or Collector by Tale for any Publick Tax or Revenue whatsoever shall and may be paid by them by Tale and not by Weight within the times hereafter following viz. Every particular Receiver or Collector shall have time to make his Payments to the Head Collector
this Act at 5 s. 4 d. per oz. shall be Melted down and Coin'd into Mill Money and applied and placed to the Accounts of the particular Revenues to which the same did belong and shall be disposed accordingly so far as it will extend without being diverted to any other Use than such as the same is appropriated unto by Parliament XXI Stat. 8 9. W. 3. cap. 26. For preventing the Counterfeiting the Coin It is Enacted That after 15 May 1697. no Smith Ingraver Founder or other person whatsoever except such as are Imploy'd in his Majesties Mints for the use of the said Mints only or persons Lawfully Authorized by the Lords of the Treasury shall knowingly make or mend any Punchion Counter-punchion Matrix Stamp Dye Pattern or Mold of Steel Iron Silver or other Metal or of Spaud or Fine Founders Earth or Sand or other Materials whatsoever by which shall be Made or Impressed the Figure Stamp or similitude of both or either side of any Gold or Silver Coin Current within this Kingdom or make or mend any Edger Instrument or Engine contrived for making of Money round the Edges with Letters Grainings or other Marks resembling those on the Edges of Money Coin'd in the Kings Mint nor any Press for Coinage or Cutting Engine for cutting round Blanks nor knowingly buy sell or hide or without Lawful Authority or Excuse have in his House or Possession any such Tool or Instrument before mention'd And any person whatsoever except as before who shall offend in any the matters aforesaid every such Offender his Aiders and Abetters shall be guilty of High Treason XXII If any person after the said 15 May shall without Lawful Authority wittingly Convey out of any of the Kings Mints any of the said or other Instruments used about Coining of Money there or any useful part of such Instruments such persons so Offending their Aiders and Abetters shall be guilty of High Treason XXIII If any person other than such as are Imploy'd in the Kings Mints or who have Authority from the Lords of the Treasury shall after the said time mark on the Edges any the Current Coin of this Kingdom or any Diminisht Coin of this Kingdom or any Counterfeit Coin resembling the Coin of this Kingdom with Letters Grainings or other Marks like those on the Edges of Money Coin'd at the Kings Mint every such Offence shall be High Treason and the Offenders shall suffer accordingly XXIV If any person after the said time shall Colour Guild or Case over with Gold or Silver or any Wash or Materials producing the Colour of Gold or Silver any Coin resembling the current Coin of this Kingdom or any Round Blanks of base Metal or of course Gold or Silver of the size of Mill'd Money or Guild over silver Blanks to be Coin'd into pieces resembling the current Gold Coin of this Kingdom every such person his Aider and Abetter shall be guilty of High Treason XXV If any Punchion Dye c. used or designed for Coining or Counterfeiting of Gold or Silver Money shall at any time after the said 15 May be hid conceal'd or found in the House or Possession of any person not imploy'd in some of the Kings Mints or having the same by some Lawful Authority any person may seize the same and carry them forthwith to some Justice of Peace to be produced in Evidence against the person who shall or may be prosecuted for such Offence and after such producing in Evidence the same shall be totally defaced and destroyed by Order of Court or in the presence of the same or some other Justice of Peace XXVI And if after the said 15 May any counterfeit or diminisht Money shall be produced in Evidence or otherwise that immediately after such producing the said Money shall be cut in pieces in open Court or in the presence of some Justice of Peace and then deliver'd to the Rightful Owner XXVII If any person after the said time shall Blanch Copper for sale or mix Blancht Copper with Silver or knowingly buy or sell or offer to sell such or buy or sell any Malleable Composition or Mixture of Metals or Minerals which shall be heavier than Silver and look and wear like Standard Gold but be manifestly worse than Standard or shall receive pay or put off any counterfeit Mill'd Money or Mill'd Money unlawfully diminisht and not cut in pieces at a lower Rate than the same by its denomination shall import every such person shall be guilty of Felony and suffer Death as in case of Felony XXVIII This Act shall not extend to make any Corruption of Blood or loss of Dower And all persons who after the said 15th of May shall be accused of any Treason or Felony by this Act shall be tried in such manner as is used against Offenders for Counterfeiting the Kings Money XXIX All and every the Crimes mention'd in an Act made 6 7 W. 3. Intituled An Act to prevent Counterfeiting and Clipping the Coin of this Kingdom may be heard and determined upon Indictment or Presentment either in the Court of Kings Bench or before the Justices of Assize XXX This Act to continue and be in force till the end of the next Session of Parliament and no longer and no prosecution shall be made upon this Act unless commenced within Three Months after the Offence committed XXXI Stat. 9. W. 3. cap. 2. After 10 Jan. 1697 no Hammered Silver Coin of this Kingdom shall be esteemed the lawful Coin of this Realm nor be current in any payment at any Rate or Value by Weight or otherwise nor shall the Tender of any such Hammer'd Silver Money after the said 10 Jan. be deemed a good Tender in Law nor the Refusal thereof in any payment be adjudged a Refusal of the lawful Coins of this Kingdom XXXII Provided that any persons may carry into any of the Mints in the Tower of London or in the Cities of Bristol Exeter Chester Norwich and York before 1 Mar. 1697. any Old Hammer'd Money to be Recoined And the Master or Worker of every such Mint or his Deputy is to receive the same and cause it to be melted down and Recoin'd into the lawful Coins of this Kingdom and pay back the same so Recoin'd by 25 Mar. 1698. to the several Importers XXXIII The Commissioners of the Treasury or any three of them may cause new Exchequer Bills to be made forth and deliver'd to such persons as shall demand them in lieu of such Bills as shall be brought in filled up with Indorsements which Old Bills shall be cancelled and kept apart from all other Bills whatsoever And such New Bills shall have the like Currency and the same punishment shall be inflicted for Forging or Counterfeiting the same and they shall be subject to the same Rules Methods and Continuance as the Old Bills were and shall bear the same Numbers Dates Principal Sums and Rate of Interest per diem as were born on the Old
thereof Convicted upon any Indictment or Infomation shall be void Customs I. Stat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 12. The several Additional and other Rates Impositions Duties and Charges upon Goods and Merchandizes Imported and Exported Mentioned and Granted by an Act made the 4 5 W. M. Intituled An Act for Granting to Their Majesties certain Additional Impositions upon several Goods and Merchandizes for the Prosecuting the present War against France shall be continued from the First of March 1696. and be Levied and Paid till the Seventeenth day of May 1697. And the foresaid Act and all Articles and Clauses therein contained shall continue and be of force till the said Sevententh of May 1697. II. Stat. 8 9. W. 3. cap. 24. Over and above all Subsidies of Tunnage and Poundage and other Duties already payable for Wines Goods and Merchandizes there shall be paid for all Wines imported into this Kingdom from 1 May 1697. to 1 Feb. 1699. one other Subsidy called Tunnage viz. III. For every Tun of French Wine brought into the Port of London as Merchandize by Natural Born Subjects 4 l. 10 s. and by Aliens 6 l. And every Tun of Wine brought into any other Port of this Kingdom by Natural Born Subjects 3 l. and by Aliens 4 l. 10 s. IV. Every Butt or Pipe of Sweet Wines of the Growth of the Levant Spain or Portugal or elsewhere brought into the Port of London by Natural Born Subjects 45 s. and by Aliens 3 l. And every Butt or Pipe brought into any other Port by Natural Born Subjects 30 s. and by Strangers 25 s. V. Every Awm of Rhenish Wine or of the Growth of Germany imported by Natural Born Subjects 20 s. and by Aliens 25 s. VI. And Wines Landed in the Out Ports and afterwards brought to London by Certificate shall pay so much more as they paid short of the London Duty VII Which several Rates for Wines are the same as in the Book of Rates referred to by the Act Ann. 12. Car. 2. ch 4. VIII All manner of Goods and Merchandizes imported from the said 1 May 1697. to 1 Febr. 1699. shall pay one further Subsidy of Poundage of 12 d. per l. of the Value thereof according to the said Book of Rates IX And if any such Goods are not particularly Rated in the said Book the Duty shall be Levyed according to the Value affirmed upon the Oath of the Merchant X. Except all Wines before limited to pay Subsidy of Tunnage all Fish English taken and imported in English Bottoms all Fresh Fish and Bestial imported and all other Goods mentioned to be Custom-free in the said Book of Rates and such Goods as are commonly used in Dying XI Provided That all Drugs imported from the Place of their Growth in English Built Ships shall be rated to this Act but One Third Part charged in the said Book of Rates XII All Spicery except Pepper imported from the place of its Growth in English Built Shipping shall be rated to this Act but one Third Part charged in the said Book of Rates XIII Linen imported shall not pay the Additional Duty of one Moiety charged in the said Book of Rates XIV All Foreign Wrought Silk exported within one Year from the Importation shall have Two Thirds of the Rate hereby charged repaid at the Custom-house XV. Wrought Silks imported shall not be charged with the Additional Duty of One Moiety mentioned in the said Book of Rates Nor is Tobacco of the English Plantation to be charged with the Additional Duty of One peny per Pound over and above the Subsidy in the said Book of Rates Nor are the Wines of France Germany Portugal or Madera to be charged with the Additional Duty of 3 l. per Tun or any other Wines with 4 l. per Tun mentioned in the said former Acts or Book of Rates XVI For all Tobacco of the English Plantations exported within a Year from its importation the Subsidy of 1 d. per l. hereby granted shall be repaid at the Custom-house XVII Out of the Duties by this Act granted there shall be the like Allowances as are prescribed in the former Act or Book of Rates XVIII The Duties hereby granted shall be Levied by the Officers of the Customs under direction of the Commissioners of the Customs and paid into the Exchequer for the Uses in this Act mentioned And the Rules and Directions of the former Act of Tunnage and Poundage and Book of Rates shall be observed for Levying the Duty by this Act granted XIX The Additional Duty on French Goods and Merchandizes granted the last Session ch 24 shall not extend to such as shall be bona side seized or taken and condemned as Prize except such seizing be by Connivance or Collusion XX. The whole Duty charged by this Act on Sugars of the English Plantations in America shall be paid back upon Exportation XXI There shall be repaid at the Custom-house within one month after demand 3 s. for every Hundred VVeight of Sugar refined in England and exported Oath being made that it was produced from Brown and Muscavado Sugar charged by this Act imported from the English Plantations in America and for which the Duty was paid upon importation XXII For the Duty hereby granted on Tobacco of the English Plantations in America the Importer shall have Three Months time to pay the same with a Discount of 10 l. per Cent. per Ann. for Prompt Payment XXIII Ginger of the English Plantations in the West Indies valued in the Book of Rates at 16 d. per l. shall pay for the said former Subsidy 12 d. per Hundred VVeight and for this present Subsidy 12 d. also per Hundred VVeight and no more XXIV After 1 May 1697. no cut Whale-bone other than in Fins only shall be imported under the Penalty of Forfeiting the same and double the Value XXV Provided That the Goods and Merchandizes charged by this Act except Foreign Wrought Silk Tobacco Sugars and Refined Sugars Exported by any Merchant English within a year or by a Stranger within nine months after Importation for which the Duty hereby granted hath been paid Inward the whole Subsidy hereby granted and paid for such Goods Wines or Merchandizes shall be repaid within one month after Demand But that there be no Drawback for such Wrought Silks Tobacco and Sugars unless exported within the time limited for other Goods and all other Requisites performed and then not only the Two Thirds but the remaining One Third of the Subsidy hereby granted is to be repaid XXVI Provided That his Majesties Naval Stores bought before 25 Mar. 1697. shall not be charged with the Duty hereby granted XXVII And whereas by an Act of this present Parliament for granting a Supply of 3 s. in the Pound by a Land Tax c. It is thereby Enacted That all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whatsoever be charged for One Year with 3 s. in the Pound of the true Yearly Value to be paid
by twelve equal monthly Payments the first Payment to be made 25 Febr. 1696. And that every Papist or reputed Papist of the Age of Sixteen Years who had not taken the Oaths required Ann. 1 W. M. should pay double unless such Papist did take the same within ten days after the first Meeting of the Commissioners And that every person of the Age of Sixteen Years who not having taken the Oaths did not upon Summons take the same should also pay double And that every Gentleman or so reputed who ought to have paid double to the Quarterly Poll Ann. 3. W. M. and did not voluntarily take the same before the Commissioners within ten days after their first Meeting should likewise pay double And that the Commissioners should upon information or suspicion Summon every suspected person to take the said Oaths but that Quakers making and subscribing the Declaration of Fidelity appointed Ann. 1 W. M. should not be liable to pay double XXVIII For a further supply it is now Enacted That all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whatsoever charged by the other Act with 3 s. in the pound shall now be charged for one Year from 25 Jan. 1696. with the further Sum of 1 s. in the pound viz. 4 s. per pound in the whole XXIX And all persons who by the other Act ought to pay double or 6 s. per pound shall pay 2 s. in the pound over and above the said 6 s. XXX The Commissioners appointed for the 3 s. in the pound shall be Commissioners for this present Act of 1 s. per pound and the said double Rates with all the Powers and Authorities of the said other Act. And the Assessors and Collectors of the 3 s. shall be the Assessors and Collectors of the 1 s. and the said double Rates XXXI For the avoiding repeated Assessments the Assessors and Collectors shall charge collect and levy One third part of the Duty of the 3 s. and double rates for and in satisfaction of the said rate of 1 s. and the double rates by Kalendary Months the first payment for three months to be on 25 Apr. 1697. or within 14 days after and afterwards each Kalendary Month successively in such manner as they are required by the said other Act of 3 s. per l. and shall pay the same to the Head Collectors accordingly to be answered by the Receivers General into the Excheqner according to the directions of the said other Act. And all persons concerned or imployed by virtue of this Act shall be subject to the Penalties and have the Benefits of the said other Act. And all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments subject by Distress or otherwise to the rates of 3 s. per l. shall in like manner be subject to the rates of 1 s. per pound XXXII And whereas by the said other Act of 3 s. in the pound c. the Commissioners of the Treasury may issue Exchequer Bills not exceeding the Sum of 1500000 l. for the use of the War and by the Act for making good the deficiencies of Funds c. the said Bills are to be Current to the Receivers or Collectors of any Tax or Supply granted this Session for the War or otherwise and also at the Exchequer with 5 d. per Day Interest for each Hundred Pounds It is further Enacted That the Commissioners of the Treasury may issue Exchequer Bills not exceeding 1200000 l. over and above the said 1500000 l. so as there be not at any one time above 2000000 l. standing out in such Bills which Bills to have like Currency and Interest as the said Bills for 1500000 l. XXXIII The persons contracting with the Treasury to advance Money for Circulating the said Bills for 1500000 l. shall be discharged of their Contracts as soon as the Sums by them agreed to be advanced shall be called for and paid or so soon as Bills for 1500000 l. issued by the former or this present Act shall be Cancelled or that the Funds for the War for this present Year shall have produced sufficient to take up and Cancel the same XXXIV The Commissioners of the Treasury may in like manner agree for the Advancing any further Sums for Exchanging such Bills of the said 1200000 l. as may be refused at the Rate of 10 l. per Cent. per Ann. XXXV The Bills issued for the said 1500000 l. and 1200000 l. which shall not be Cancelled by the Produce of those Funds by the 25th of March 1698. shall be taken up and Cancelled by the Arrears of those Funds or by the Moneys Granted next Session of Parliament And the persons advancing Moneys for Exchanging such Bills of the 1200000 l. as shall be refused shall be discharged of their Contracts as soon as the Sums Contracted for shall be paid by them and if the same be not called for by the 25th of March 1698. they shall thenceforth be absolutely discharged of their Contracts XXXVI Till it shall be published by Proclamation that the Treasury hath made Provision that the said Bills may be Exchanged for ready Money such Bills for the 1200000 l. shall be Current only in the Supplies Granted for the War this present Year 1697. except the 3 s. in the Pound XXXVII It shall be Felony without benefit of Clergy to Forge or Counterfeit any of the said Bills or Demand Money thereon knowing the same to be Counterfeited XXXVIII Out of the Moneys arising by this Act by Bills of Credit or otherwise 672197 l. is Appropriated for the Navy and for the Sea-Service in the Office of the Ordnance the Ordinary of the Navy the Payment of Marine-Officers and Charge of Registring Seamen to compleat the Sum of 2372197 l. for those Services and the remainder for the Land Forces Ordnance Ammunition and Incidents of War XXXIX The Rules and Directions in the Act Ann. 1 W. M. for Granting an Aid of 2 s. per. Pound touching the Payment thereof and Management in the Exchequer with the Penalties in case of Diversion shall be revived and applied to the Sums hereby Appropriated XL. Stat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 34. For lessening the Duty on Tin and Pewter Exported It is Enacted That after the 10th of May 1697 there shall be paid on any Entry of Tin to be Exported for every Hundred Weight containing 112 Pounds of Tin unwrought 3 s. and for every hundred Weight of wrought Tin commonly called Pewter 2 s. and so proportionably and no more XLI After the said 10th of May till 1 Aug. 1706. the Subsidy to be received for all Drugs Imported directly from the place of their Growth in English Built Ships shall be according to the full Value of the respective Species enumerated in the Book of Rates and for all Drugs otherwise Imported treble such Value XLII Nothing in this Act shall extend to the laying a further Duty on any sort of Drugs used in Dying XLIII Stat. 9 10 W. 3 cap 23. Over and above all Subsidies of Tunnage and
shall be likewise paid every Three Months out of the said weekly Sums of 600 l. a Week under the same Penalties or Forfeitures as by the aforementioned Act are prescribed II. Stat. 8 9. W. 3. cap. 19. After the Tenth of April 1697. the Clause relating to Party Guiles in the Act made the last Sessions of this Parliament 7 8 W. 3. cap. 30. Abr. Excise n. 106. shall be Repealed to all Intents and Purposes III. Every Common Brewer shall after the said Tenth of April declare to the Gauger how much Strong Beer or Ale he intends to make of a Guile and how much Small if he intends any before any part of such Guile is cleansed or removed and upon refusal of such Discovery the Gauger shall return the whole Guile to be Strong and the Brewer shall beside Forfeit for every Barrel of Ale or Beer contained in such Guile 20 s. And in case after such Declaration any Increase be made of the Strong Beer or Ale or any part thereof laid off the said Brewer shall Forfeit for every Barrel so Increased or laid off 5 l. and the Servant assisting therein shall Forfeit for every Barrel 20 s. and in Default of Payment shall suffer Three Months Imprisonment In case the Increase be made by adding Beer or Ale left of a former Brewing the Brewer shall Incur all the said Penalties unless it be proved by Oath that it was done in the sight and view of the Gauger IV. If it shall appear to the Gaugers that the Quality of Strong Beer or Ale remaining of a former Guile and added to a Guile of New Drink hath been alter'd since it was Brewed he shall Return all such Beer and Ale so added to a Guile of new Drink as if the same were then originally Brewed and the Brewer shall pay the Duties accordingly V. No Common Brewer shall after the 28th day of April 1697. have or keep any Pipe or Stop-cock under Ground or other private Conveyance by which any Beer Ale or Worts may be conveyed from one Tun Brewing Vessel or Place to another on pain to Forfeit for every such Offence the Sum of 100 l. VI. From and after the said 28th of April any Gauger or Officer of Excise may in the day time and in the presence of a Constable or other Lawful Officer of the Peace and request first made break up the Ground in any Common Brew-house or the Ground adjoyning or any Wall to search for such private Pipe or Conveyance and if any such be found to follow the same and to examine and try whether such Pipe can convey any Beer Ale c. into any other place but if no such private Conveyance shall be found such Gauger shall make good the Ground or other Place so broken or make satisfaction for the same The person opposing any Gauger in such search shall Forfeit 50 l. VII It shall be Lawful nevertheless for any Common Brewer to keep any Pipes Stop-cocks or other Conveyances above Ground in open View for the use of his Trade VIII Every Common Brewer who after the foresaid 10th of April shall without first giving notice to the next Office of Excise set up or alter any Tun Batch Float Cooler or Copper or have or keep any private or conceal'd Tun Batch c. other than such as are openly known to be commonly used in his Brewhouse he shall Forfeit for every such Vessel 200 l. IX If any Common Brewer or Maker of Cyder shall after the said 10th of April deliver to any Distiller or Vinegar Maker any Wash Tilts Ale Beer Vinegar Beer or Cyder without first giving notice to the Gauger of that Division of what Quantity he intends to deliver and when and to whom he shall Forfeit for every Barrel so delivered 20 s. X. No Common Distiller shall after the said 10th of April set up alter or enlarge any Tun Cask c. or have or keep any private or conceal'd Tun Cask Copper Still or other Vessel or any private or conceal'd Warehouse Cellar c. without first giving notice thereof as aforesaid upon pain to Forfeit 20 l. And every Person in whose Occupation any House shall be where such things shall be discover'd shall Forfeit 50 l. XI After the said 10th of April every Person making or keeping any Wash Cyder or other Materials fit for Distillation and having in his Possession any Still or Stills containing Twenty Gallons or upwards Proof being made thereof by Oath before some Justice of Peace shall be deemed a Common Distiller for Sale and subject to the Duties of Excise XII All Fines Penalties and Forfeitures by this Act imposed shall be Sued for and Recovered by such Ways and Means as used by the Laws of Excise or by Action of Debt Bill Plaint c. in the Courts of Record at Westminster whereof one Moiety to the King the other to the Informer XIII Any Persons who have already set up or hereafter shall set up any Works or Offices for Making or Distilling for Sale any Low Wines or Spirits from Drink brewed from Malted Corn or Cyder giving notice to the Commissioners of Excise within Ten days after the Entring such Office or Work may follow such Work and may Refine the Spirits of their own making paying the Duties and being subject to the Fines and Penalties as other Distillers are XIV Stat. 8 9. W. 3. cap. 22. There shall be paid to his Majesty for all Malt made of any Grain whatsoever which any Malster or maker of Malt for Sale Seller or Retailer of Malt Brewer Distiller Inn keeper Victualler or Vinegar-maker in this Kingdom or any other for their use shall be possessed of 20 April 1697. Six Pence per Bushel by such persons respectively And for every Bushel of Malt made within this Kingdom of any Grain whatsoever from 20 April 1697. to 20 July 1699. by any person whatsoever for Sale or not for Sale the Sum of Six Pence by the Makers thereof respectively And for every Barrel of Mum made or sold in England from 20 April 1697. to 20 July 1699. Ten Shillings over and above the present Duties by the Maker or Seller respectively And for every Barrel of Sweets made from Foreign or English Materials from 20 April 1697. to 20 July 1699. over and above the present Duties Twelve Shillings by the Maker thereof And for all Cyder and Perry made for sale from the said 20 April 1697. to 20 July 1699. over and above the present Duties on Cyder and Perry sold by retail 4 s. per Hogshead by the first Buyer or Retailer XV. And every person who shall buy any Cyder or Perry or Fruit to make into Cyder or Perry and shall sell any of the said Cyder or Perry so bought or made by the Hogshead or any greater or lesser Measure shall be deem'd a Retailer and chargeable with the said Duties XVI All which Duties shall be under the Management of the Commissioners of Excise and
Five Every Score of Oxen or Neat Cattle Eight Pence and so proportionably for every greater or lesser Number To be paid from the passing of the Act by all persons who shall Travel with Horse Coach Cart or Wagon or shall lead or drive any Oxen or other Cattle beforementioned in and through the High-way aforesaid to the said Collectors or Receivers at some convenient place on the said High-way between the Top of Birdlipp and City of Gloucester where a Turn-pike or Gate may be set up as the Justices shall appoint XXIX Every Receiver or Collector shall if Required give in a weekly Account upon Oath to one or more of the Justices to be returned to the Justices at the Quarter Sessions to Examine and make such Order therein as to them shall seem meet XXX Any person refusing or neglecting to pay the said Toll on Demand the Collector or Receiver may Distrain and Detain such Horse Cart Coach Calash Chariot Wagon Oxen Hogs and other Cattle till the Toll be paid with Damages in making the Distress Which Money so received shall be paid to the Surveyors towards mending the said Ruinous Places in the said High-ways and not elsewhere XXXI The said Surveyors at the Quarter Sessions next after the end of their Year shall give an Account to the Justices of their Receipts and Disbursments that the Overplus of the Money if any may be paid to the succeeding Surveyors towards amending the said High-ways or Repaying the Money Lent before hand And such Allowances shall be made by the Justices to the Surveyors and others assisting in the said amending or advancing Moneys thereto as to them shall seem meet XXXII If the Collector or Receiver shall not duly pay the Surveyors or if the Surveyors shall not make the payments Ordered by the Justices then the Justices at the Quarter Sessions shall enquire thereinto upon Oath and Commit the persons Convicted thereof to Goal till they have made a true Account and Payment XXXIII The said Surveyors for the time being by Order of the Justices or any Five of them may Ingage the Profits arising by the said Toll and by a Levy upon the respective Parishes pursuant to the Act made 3 4 W. M. for the better Repairing and Amending the High-ways and for Settling the Rates of Carriage of Goods or by any other Act for the Moneys by them borrowed for that purpose and may under their Hands and Seals Transfer the said Profits for any Term not exceeding Fifteen Years to such as will upon that Security Advance the Money so Lent with Interest And the Justices shall Distribute the said Money to any persons giving Security to Repair and Amend the said High way in the proportions aforesaid XXXIV Any person without Lawful excuse neglecting or refusing to take upon him the Office of Surveyor being thereunto chosen or to do his Duty therein may be Fined by the Justices not exceeding 5 l. And in such case or in case of Death some other person shall be appointed Surveyor by the Justices or two of them Which Fines and Forfeitures shall be paid to the Surveyors towards Repairing the said High-ways XXXV If a Suit be Commenced for any thing done in pursuance of this Act the Action shall be laid in the County of Gloucester only and the Defendant may Plead the General Issue and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence and if the Action be laid elsewhere or the Plaintiff be Non Suit or Discontinue his Action or have Judgment against him upon Demurrer the Defendant shall have Double Costs and Charges XXXVI No person passing where the Toll is taken and returning the same day shall pay a second time and persons passing through the said place from any adjoyning Parish may carry Stones Lime Gravel Dung Mould or Compost and Carts with Hay not sold or going to Market or Corn in the Straw at Hay time or Harvest Ploughs Harrows and other Implements of Husbandry and Stock of Cattle belonging to the Lands of the respective Parishes shall pass the said place without paying as also all Soldiers on their March and the Carts Wagons and Coaches attending them and all persons riding Post XXXVII All persons Chargeable by Law towards Repairing the said High-ways shall still remain so XXXVIII This Act shall not be in Force longer than Twenty Years from 24 Jun. 1698. And if before the Expiration of the said Term the said High-ways shall be sufficiently amended and so adjudged by the Justices at their Quarter Sessions then upon repayment of the Moneys borrowed the said Toll shall cease XXXIX No Turnpike shall be Erected nor Toll Demanded till Security given to the Justices at the Quarter Sessions that the said High-way shall within Five Years be sufficiently Repaired XL. The persons so giving Security shall have full power to Levy for Twenty Years after 24 Jun. 1698. Six Pence in the Pound with the Arrears thereof on all the Parishes adjoyning to the said High-way towards the Repairing thereof and shall cause to be done by the Parishioners within the said Parishes all that is required by the forementioned Act of 3 4 W. M. for the better Repairing the High-ways or by any other Act And if the Toll Granted by this Act with the Sum Charged on the said Parishes be not sufficient to Repair the said High-way within the time limited the persons so giving Security shall Levy and Collect Two Pence in the Pound on the Hundred and Hundreds in which the said High-way or any part thereof doth lye to be Levied by Distress and Sale of Goods if not paid within Ten days after Demand And if the persons so giving Security shall not do what is required of them by this Act they shall forfeit 100 l. per Ann. to such person as shall sue for the same XLI The persons so having given Security in case the said High-way shall not be sufficiently Repaired or Certified so to be by the Justices of the Peace for Herefordshire or Ten of them by the time limited in their Security shall over and above the Sums they shall be bound for Forfeit 500 l. One moiety to the Repairing the said High-way the other to such person as shall Sue for the same XLII The Toll shall not be Demanded by virtue of this Act unless the Security given to the Justices of Peace of Gloucestershire at the Quarter Sessions shall be approved of by Five Justices of Peace for Herefordshire under their Hands and Seals Imprisonment I. STat. 9 W. 3 cap. 4. Enacted That Counter John Bernardi Robert Cassells Robert Meldrum James Chambers and Robert Blackburne being in Newgate for a Traiterous Conspiracy to Assassinate his Majesty together with such other persons as shall hereafter render themselves or be apprehended and against whom Oath shall be made of their being concerned in the said Conspiracy shall be Detained and Kept in Custody without Bail or Mainprize till 1 Jan. 1698. and to the end of the next
Session of Parliament unless they shall be sooner Bailed or Discharged by Six of the Privy Council Iuries I. Stat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 10. It shall be lawful at any time before the 1st of Nov. 1697. for all Sheriffs or Coroners of Counties where Lists have not been Returned pursuant to the Act made the first Sessions of this present Parliament Intituled An Act for the Ease of Jurors and better Regulating of Juries to make Returns of Jurors in all Cases as they might have done before the making of the said Act. And from and after the Feast of S. Michael 1697. all Justices of the Peace are Required and Commanded at their Sessions of the Peace next before the Feast of S. Michael yearly to Issue forth Precepts to the respective Constables within their respective Counties or Divisions requiring them to make such Return of Persons to Serve upon Juries as by the said Act is directed Iudicial Proceedings I. Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 16. The High Court of Chancery Court of Exchequer at Westminster or Court of Great Sessions in the respective Counties in Wales where the Cause or Causes Originally arose may issue forth Execution or Executions and other Processes upon every Judgment or Decree given or made in the Court held before the President and Council of the Marches of Wales before 1 June 1689. as if such Judgment or Decree had been given or made in either of the said Courts of the Exchequer or Grand Sessions II Provided That the said Courts have power to Review Rehear Reverse or Affirm the said Judgments and Decrees Iustices of Peace I. Stat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 33. The Act made 5 6 W. M. Intituled An Act to Prevent Delays of Proceedings at the Quarter Sessions of the Peace shall be and is continued and made Perpetual II. After the 21st of April 1697. the Party prosecuting any Certiorari to remove an Indictment from the Quarter Sessions may find two sufficient Manucaptors to enter into a Recognizance before any one of the Justices of the Kings Bench in the same Sum and under the same Condition as are required by the former Act whereof mention shall be made on the Back of the Writ under the Hand of the Justice who took the same which shall be as Effectual to stay Proceedings as if taken before a Justice of Peace in the Proper County and it shall be added to the Condition of the Recognizance that the Party Suing out the Certiorari shall appear from day to day in the Court of Kings Bench and not depart till discharged by the said Court London I. STat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 37. After 10 April 1697. all and every person and persons inhabiting in the Out Parishes of Middlesex and Westminster and Liberties thereof in the Borough of Southwark or in the Streets Lanes or Alleys comprized in the Weekly Bills and in the Town of Kensington shall Weekly on Wednesday and Saturday at the least between the hours of Six and Nine in the Forenoon cause to be swept and cleansed all the Streets Lanes Alleys and publick places before their respective Houses Buildings and Walls as well as of Churches and other publick places that the Dirt and Soil in the Streets may be heaped ready for the Scavenger to carry away upon pain to forfeit 10 s. for every Offence II. If any Conviction upon this Act or that of 2 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 8. shall be by view or knowledge of a Justice of Peace then one half of the penalty shall be to the Poor the other if for default of Pavement towards repairing the same and cleansing the Streets to be paid to the Scavenger otherwise to the relief of the Poor III. Where one side of a Street or Lane lies within the Bills of Mortality and the other side without the Justices of Peace may cause the respective Inhabitants to Pave that other side under the same penalty as if the same had been within the Bills of Mortality IV. The aforementioned Act of 2 W M. and the Clause therein against the Breeding Feeding or Keeping of Swine in the Backsides of the Paved Streets of the said Cities c. shall after 10 April 1697. be effectually put in execution against all persons whatsoever who shall presume to keep any manner of Swine so far as the Contiguous Buildings of the said Streets shall extend or within 50 yards thereof V. Where there is any Liberty Precinct or Vill within the Weekly Bills that uses to repair their own High-ways and also perform days work to other High-ways and are or shall become unable then after the said 10th of April the Justices of Peace at their special Sessions to be held every Four Months may allow so many days work as the said Justices shall think fit to be imployed by the Inhabitants of such Liberty c. in repairing the High-ways within such Liberty c. and the residue of the days Work as such Inhabitants are liable to do shall be imployed in repairing the other High-ways VI. So much of the Ancient High-way leading from Tottenham-Court near St. Giles's Pound towards Tiburn as is now built on both sides thereof shall be hereafter repaired paved and maintained by such persons as have heretofore used to repair pave and maintain the same under the Penalties aforesaid VII Sir Robert Clayton Sir William Ashhurst Sir Richard Onslow Bart. Denzil Onslow Esq Anthony Bowyer Esq Charles Cox Esq John Arnold Esq Samuel Lewyn Esq Thomas Wymondesal Esq William Gulston Esq Francis Wilkinson Esq Thomas Roffey Esq John Riches Esq Sir John Fleet Sir John Parsons Sir James Houblon Sir Rich. Levett Spencer Cooper Esq Joseph Scriven Esq or any 11 of them shall have Power and Authority to treat and agree with the Owners of such Houses on or near the South end of London Bridge as they shall think fit to be removed rebuilt or pulled down or any part of them and upon payment of such Money as shall be agreed on to appoint Workmen to pull down the said Houses or cause the said Owners to rebuild accordingly VIII And this Act shall indempnify the said Commissioners and all persons Authorized by them as if the same had been sold by Deed and done by Fine and Recovery or any other way And if any person or persons shall wilfully refuse to treat and agree as aforesaid or through Nonage or other Disability cannot in such cases the said Commissioners may issue out a Warrant or Warrants to the Sheriffs of London and Surrey to return a Jury before the said Commissioners or any 11 of them which Jury are upon their Oaths to enquire and assess such Damage and Recompence as they shall judge fit to be awarded to the Owners and Occupiers of any such Houses and such Verdict of the Jury and Judgment of the Commissioners thereupon and the Legal payment or tender of the Money so awarded shall be binding against the Parties their Heirs
Executors Administrators and Assigns and all others claiming any Interest in the said Houses or Ground whereon they stand and shall be a full Authority for the said Commissioners or any 11 of them to cause the said Houses to be removed and pulled down IX None shall Act as a Commissioner to the purposes aforesaid till Sworn before the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper for the Due and Impartial execution of the Trust reposed in him Malt. I. STat. 9 10. W. 3. cap. 22. Whereas there hath been some doubt whether the Act made 39 Eliz. Intituled An Act to restrain the Excessive making of Malt be now in Force yet nevertheless several Justices of Peace at their Quarter Sessions have made Orders to Restrain Malsters from Buying of Barley for Malting and from Exercising the Imploy of Malting for a year to the lessening his Majesties Revenue by the Duty of 6 d. per Bushel laid on Malt and a Discouragement to Malsters Enacted That the said Act of A. 39 Eliz. be Repealed and all Orders made by Justices of Peace for Restraining Malsters from making of Malt since the said Duty of 6 d. per Bushel was laid on Malt are hereby Vacated Militia I. Stat. 8 9. W. 3. cap. 35. If at any time before 25 Apr. 1698. It shall be found by his Majesty to be necessary for the Defence of this Kingdom to draw out the Militia Soldiers into actual Service and the same shall be signified to the respective Lieutenants Deputy Lieutenants c. It shall be Lawful for the said Lieutenants c. notwithstanding that one or more Months Pay before that time advanced be not reimbursed to raise and draw out the said Soldiers into actual Service and to cause the persons charged to provide each their Soldier with Pay in hand not exceeding one months Pay II. Stat. 9 10. W. 3. cap. 31. If at any time before 24 June 1699. It shall be found necessary by his Majesty for the defence and safety of this Kingdom to draw out into actual Service the Soldiers mentioned and appointed in and by the Act made Anno 13 14 Car. 2. Intituled An Act for Ordering the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom and the same shall be declared and signified by his Majesty to the respective Lieutenants or Deputy-Lieutenants and the Warden of the Cinque-ports c. It shall be lawful for the said Lieutenants or their Deputies or any three or more of them and the Warden of the Cinque ports or his Lieutenant in pursuance of such Orders from his Majesty notwithstanding that one or more months Pay before that time advanced be not reimbursed to raise and draw out the said Soldiers into actual Service charged with Pay in hand not exceeding one months Pay III. Papists or reputed Papists and persons refusing to take the Oaths mentioned in the Act 1 W. M. Intituled An Act for abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths chargeable in respect of their Estates to the finding a Horse Horseman and Arms or a Foot Soldier and Arms the Lieutenants or Deputy-Lieutenants of the County or Division where such Estates do lye or three or more of them may appoint such person as they shall think meet to furnish one or more Horsemen or Foot-Soldiers and Arms for the said Estates and may charge the said Estates with 8 l for a Horse Horseman and Arms and 30 s. for every Foot-Soldier and Arms And if the persons so chargeable neglect or refuse to pay the same on demand the said Lieutenants or Deputy-Lieutenants may levy the same by Distress and Sale of Goods of such Papists c. or upon their Tenants and the Arrears for the like Services already performed to be determined by three or more Deputy-Lieutenants rendring the Overplus the charge in levying thereof being first deducted And the Tenants so distrain'd on may deduct the same out of their Rents IV. Where two or more persons are charged to find any Horse or Foot-Soldier and Arms three or more Deputy-Lieutenants of the County or Division may direct who shall find the Horse and Arms or Foot-Soldier and Arms and who shall be the Contributors and settle the Payments by every Contributor if not ascertained by the Parties And such Contributor or his Tenant not paying his proportion upon demand three or more of the Deputy-Lieutenants of the County or Division may levy the same by Distress and Sale of Goods of the person so neglecting or refusing to pay rendring the Overplus the charge in levying being first deducted And the Tenant may deduct the Sum so charged out of the Rent payable to his Landlord Oaths I. STat. 9. W. 3. cap. 3. All persons who since 10 June 1697. or before the said 10 June have bought any Orders or parts of Orders or Talleys and have or shall neglect to take Assignments and Register the same and to make an Oath thereupon concerning the Praemium or Allowance within the 10 days limited by the Act Ann. 8 9 W. 3. Intituled An Act for making good the Deficiencies of several Funds therein mentioned and for enlarging the Capital Stock of the Bank of England and for Raising the Publick Credit and their Executors Administrators Successors and Assigns shall have liberty for the doing thereof till 10 June 1698. And the Officers Impowered by the said former Act to Administer the said Oaths within the times thereby limited are to Administer the like Oaths within the times by this Act appointed II. Where Orders of Loan or Talleys were actually bought before 10 June 1697. and Oath there of shall be made by 10 June 1698. before the persons appointed by the said former Act for Administring the other Oaths concerning the Praemium or Allowance the persons claiming such Orders or Talleys by Assignments not Registred or by Indorsements only shall not be obliged to take the said other Oath concerning the Praemium And where the respective Oath shall be duly made pursuant to this Act touching such Orders or Talleys as aforesaid the Assignment thereof shall be as effectual as if the Oath had been made within the time limited by the said former Act. III. After 10 Jan. 1697. The Officers of the Exchequer may upon request of the persons Intituled to Orders and Talleys of Loan take in and cancel so many of the said Orders as follow successively in number and course and are of the same date and payable to one and the same person or Corporation and whereof the Interest has been paid to one and the same time together with the Talleys belonging to such Orders and to give them as few Orders and Talleys in lieu thereof and of the same value and course of payment as shall be desired no one such new Order containing above 5000 l. Upon which new Orders shall be Indorsed how far the Interest hath been satisfied and to whom last Assigned Which said new Orders and Talleys shall be valid to all intents and
Parliament XCVI Every Receiver General is to Enter in Books all the Sums he receives the Names of each Collector the days when and Sums paid how much in Hammer'd and how much in Mill'd Money or Gold and all Bills by him paid in pursuance of this Act. Which Books are to lye constantly open at one certain place within his Receipt to which all persons are to have access And every Receiver neglecting to keep such Book or to Enter his Receipts by the space of three days or refusing any person to inspect the same shall forfeit 100 l. XCVII A Proviso That 200000 l. out of the first Bills to be issued or the first Moneys arising by this Act Except the 3 s. Aid and Loans thereupon shall be Appropriated for payment of Soldiers Quarters in England between 1 Jan. 1694. and 1 Jan. 1696 not otherwise satisfied before 1 Feb. 1696. if the said Quarters amount to so much It shall be Felony to Counterfeit the said Exchequer Bills without Benefit of Clergy XCVIII A Proviso That this Act shall not Charge the 50000 l. per An. Granted in Trust for the Prince and Princess of Denmark with the Duty of 4 s. 4 d. per Pound XCIX Persons not Charged over and above the 4 d. per Month with the Duties on Wages Pensions Salaries Offices or Imployments of the yearly Value of 8 l. or for their own Lands or Tenements of the yearly Value of 40 s. or for Money or Stock of the Value of 5 l. shall not be Charged with the 4 d. per Month for their Children under the Age of Sixteen Years C. Also Poor Housekeepers who by reason of their poverty do not contribute to Church or Poor shall not be charged by this Act Nor shall it extend to charge Houses not cover'd or made habitable CI. A Proviso That Hammer'd Money shall be Current at 5 s. 2 d. per oz. after 1 Feb. 1696. in all payments except where it is directed to be Received at a greater value CII Stat. 8 9. W. 3. cap. 7. During the term of two years from 1 March 1696 a Duty of 20 per Cent. of the true value for all Paper Vellum and Parchment of what kind soever made within this Kingdom shall be paid by the Makers thereof And for all Paper Pastboard Vellum and Parchment either in Rolls Reams Quires Books printed or not printed or otherwise Imported during the said Term 25 per Cent. over and above all Customs and Duties already payable for the same CIII Which Duties on Importations shall be paid by the Importers upon making their Entries of the same or shall be secured to be paid within three Months after such Entry with a Discount of 10 per Cent. per Ann. for payment in ready Money with a Clause of forfeiture upon Landing any such Imported Commodities before Entry be made thereof CIV The said Duties on Importations to be Collected by the Officers of the Customs according to the true value to be esteemed upon the Oath of the Importer And the Duties upon the said Commodities made within the Realm shall be ascertained by Commissioners thereunto appointed their Substitutes or Deputies under the direction of the Commissioners of the Treasury CV In case of Controversie the value of such Goods made within the Realm shall be esteemed by Affidavit of the Makers thereof in Writing with Liberty to his Majesties Officers to take such Goods at the value specified in the said Affidavits paying down ready Money for the same CVI. The makers of the said Manufactures shall before 25 Mar. 1697. give notice in Writing of the place where such Manufactures are usually made or intended to be made and the Names and places of abode of the makers thereof under the penalty of 20 l. And shall not make the same but in such common places whereof they shall first have given Notice and shall permit the respective Officers of the said Duties to take notice of the stock of Materials for making the same And shall within five days after such Commodities are made so as to be fit for use and before the removal thereof make true Entries of the same with his Majesties Officers and shall then or within six Months after pay the said Duties and thereupon shall have a permission gratis for carrying the same away with an Allowance of 10 per Cent. per An for prompt payment CVII It shall be Lawful for the said Officers to search and see what quantities of the said Commodities are making who are not to be refused Entrance under the penalty of 10 l. And if any persons shall endeavour to Defraud his Majesty of his just Dues for the same they shall Forfeit 50 l. and the Commodities concealed not entred or unlawfully removed shall be also forfeited CVIII All Merchants Stationers Wholesale-sellers Retailers Paper-makers and others having on 1 Mar. 1696. any stock of Paper Parchment Vellum or Pastboard for sale shall pay a Duty of 17 l. 10 s. per Cent. of the true value thereof within ten days after the said 1 Mar. 1696. CIX The persons aforesaid shall deliver to the proper Officer a Particular in Writing Signed of the Quantities Kinds and Values of the said Goods which Officers are Impowred to take an Account of and view the said Goods and shall be permitted so to do under the penalty of 20 l. And if the said Duties be not paid by 11 Mar. 1696. nor secured to be paid within three Months the said Officers may Levy the same by Distress of the Goods and Chattels of the persons liable thereunto CX Provided that the persons paying the said Duties by 11 Mar. 1696. shall be allowed 10 per Cent per An. for prompt payment And the valuation of the said Stock shall be esteemed by the Oath of the Owner taken in Writing with liberty to the Kings Officer to take such Goods at the value specified in the said Affidavit paying down ready Money for the same CXI Upon neglect to give in such particulars before 5 Mar. 1696. or not giving in the full of the said Stock or carrying away or concealing any part thereof before the Duty shall be paid or secured to forfeit 50 l. and the Goods so not given in or carried away or concealed shall be forseited CXII In case of Seizure and Information or Complaint thereupon within eight days two of the next Justices of the Peace are to hear and determin the matter and upon Appeals the Justices of the next Quarter Sessions are to hear and determin the same finally CXIII All Entries Accounts and Permissions aforesaid are to be made gratis CXIV Provided that upon Exportations beyond the Seas the Duties so paid or secured shall be repaid or discharged CXV Any persons may Lend on the Credit of this Act 125000 l. at 8 per Cent. Interest free from Taxes to be paid every three Months till repayment of their Principal which shall be repaid in course and the Money not diverted to any other
other persons intituled to Principal and Interest thereon And that out of the said General Fund the Interest due to the Bank shall be made up 8 l. per Cent. CLI Provided That where any Revenue is already appropriated by Parliament for repayments in course the same shall be paid accordingly But that the new Funds in this Act shall be applied as hereby prescribed CLII. And in case of Judgment of Forfeiture given against the said Bank the yearly Payments out of the Exchequer and all the Estate belonging to the said Bank shall be vested for three Years in twenty four persons or Trustees chosen by the Bank who shall have full power to receive the Moneys due unto the said Bank as if no such Judgment had been given and to pay and discharge the Debts due at the time of such Judgment After which the surplus shall be divided amongst the several Members And then the said yearly payments shall be vested in the particular Members their Executors Administrators and Assigns in proportion to a List thereof to be made up by the said Trustees and shall be Assignable CLIII The said Bank may imploy a Clerk to take Docquets of any Extents Judgments c. in any the Offices of Record at Westminster paying as for a Search only CLIV. No Member of the said bank shall be adjudged a Bankrupt by reason of his Stock in the said Bank nor the said Stock be subject to any Foreign Attachment CLV The Moneys received out of the Exchequer for the said Bank shall once in every four Months be divided among the Members proportionably for their particular use and behoof only CLVI Provided That the Debts of the said Bank shall never exceed their Capital Stock under Penalty of subjecting the Overplus of their particular Shares and Dividends so received to satisfie the said Debts CLVII If at the end of one year after 24 Jun. 1697. the said Funds for Interest shall appear insufficient they shall be made up out of such Aids c. as shall be granted the then next Session of Parliament and so in any succeeding Year CLVIII And if upon 1 Aug. 1706. or within three Months after the Produce of the several Aids c. shall not be sufficient to discharge the Principal and Interest intended to be discharged by this Act then the same shall be supplied out of such Aids c. as shall be granted the then next Session of Parliament CLIX. The present Governour Deputy Governour and Directors of the Bank shall continue till 24 June 1697. and till others be chosen which shall be before 24 July 1697. And those new Chosen to continue till 25 Mar. 1698. But in that and all future Elections not above Two Thirds of the Directors of the preceding Year to be chosen CLX After 25 Mar. 1697. and till 25 Dec. 1699. there shall be paid for Salt over and above all other Duties already payable the Rates following viz. for every Gallon of Salt imported 2 d. And for every Gallon of Salt or Rock Salt made at the Salt-Works 1 d. to be Collected and Answered pursuant to the Rules and Directions of the Act An 5 6 W. M. touching the Duty upon Salt and the Act An. 7 8 W. 3. for continuing the said Duty But with an Allowance upon Exportation for every Cask of Pilchards or Scads of 50 Gallons 8 s every Barrel of White Herrings 20 d. of Red Herrings 16 d. of Salmon 3 s. 4 d. and every hundred of Cod-fish Ling or Hake 10 s. over and above all former Allowances with a Drawback of the Duty for all Exported Salt CLXI This Duty upon Salt shall be appropriated with the said other Duties to payment of Interest due before 25 Decemb. 1699. to the Bank or others upon the deficient Funds and the overplus towards the Principal CLXII For Five Years after 10 June 1697. or before the end of the then next Session of Parliament no person shall give or take directly or indirectly for any Talley or Order above Six per Cent. more than the Interest thereof under Penalty of treble the value of the Principal and to suffer as an Extortioner CLXIII And after the said 10 June 1697. no Orders or Talleys shall be Transferred but by Writing Sign'd and Registred and Affidavit made if payable by Order at the Exchequer before the Auditor of the Exchequer or Clerk of the Pells or if payable by Talley of Pro at the Excise Office Post Office or other Publick Office then before one or more Commissioners of Excise or Postmasters General or other Chief Officers in such Publick Office that no Allowance whatsoever exceeding the Interest and Six per Cent. as aforesaid hath been taken or agreed to be taken for such Assignment Which Assignments and Affidavits shall be Made Registred Administred and Noted gratis CLXIV And every Broker or Sollicitor who shall after the said 10 June take above 2 s. 6 d. for the Brokage of One hundred pounds shall forfeit Twenty pounds and contracting for any Praemium contrary to this Act shall forfeit Five hundred pounds and suffer as an Extortioner CLXV But persons having actually bought Orders of Loan or Talleys before the said 10 June and shall make Oath thereof shall not be obliged to take the Oath touching Praemium CLXVI The Bills of Credit authorized to be issued this present Session of Parliament shall be received and taken not only by the Receivers or Collectors of Taxes granted or to be granted for the War this Year 1697. but be Current to the Commissioners Receivers or Collectors of any Tax or Supply granted or to be granted this present Session and also at the Exchequer And that there shall be an Allowance upon the said Bills of 5 d. a day for every hundred pounds till payment thereof at which time the person so answering the same to his Majesty shall put to his Name and Day of the Month. CLXVII And the said Bills are not to be Cancelled except by the Tellers of the Exchequer but as they are issued out are to be Signed and Dated toties quoties CLXVIII And in case any of the said Bills should be refused the Commissioners of the Treasury may Contract with any persons to advance ready Money for Exchanging and Circulating the said Bills upon such Security as shall be agreed on and a further Reward not exceeding Ten per Cent. per Ann. And the Interest Money shall be paid to such Contractors out of the Supplies granted for the War for Ann. 1697. CLXIX Provided That till the said Bills for 1500000 l. can be exchanged for Ready Money they shall be current only for the Taxes granted for the War for Ann. 1697. exclusive of the 3 s. Aid but afterwards for all Taxes or other Payments to his Majesty CLXX All the present Governours of any English Plantations shall before 25 March 1698. and the future Governours within six months after their Entrance upon their Governments take the Oath appointed in
Office be within the limits of the Commissioners who Tax the same And the Commissioners shall also Assess the Assessors CCLXVI. No person in any City Borough or Town Corporate shall be compelled to be an Assessor or Collector out of the limits thereof CCLXVII The Tax on Houses where Foreign Ministers reside shall be paid by the Owner CCLXVIII In all Extra-Parochial and Privileged places the Commissioners shall nominate Two persons in or near the said places to be Assessors and shall appoint one or more Collectors CCLXIX The Commissioners shall not be liable to the Penalties in an Act 25 Car. 2. touching Popish Recusants CCLXX. No Commissioner shall act unless it be in Administring Oaths before he take the Oaths 1 W. M. ch 6. which any two of them may Administer to any other Commissioner CCLXXI. Any Commissioner acting before he hath taken the Oaths shall forfeit 200 â— to the King CCLXXII Offices shall be rated and paid for where the same are executed CCLXXIII Offices in Chancery within the liberty of the Rolls shall be there Assessed CCLXXIV Persons for personal Estates and persons not being Housholders shall be rated where resident at the execution of the Act and persons out of the Realm shall be rated for personal Estate where last resident within this Realm CCLXXV Any persons having Goods c. in any County other than where he lives shall be rated in the County where the Goods are and persons for Lands Tenements c. shall be rated where the said Lands c. lye CCLXXVI Any persons in respect of several places of Residence being doubly Charged for Personal Estate shall upon Certificate and Oath thereof be discharged for so much as is so Certified CCLXXVII This Act shall not extend to Personal Estates in Scotland Ireland Jersey or Guernsey CCLXXVIII If any person by changing his Residence or other Fraud escape being Taxed for Personal Estate upon proof thereof he shall be Charged Treble CCLXXIX Every Housholder shall upon demand give an Account of his Lodgers to the Assessors under penalty of 5 l. CCLXXX Shares in the New-River-Water Thames Marybone or Hampsted Waters Offices of Insurance from Fire Convex or other Lights and Stock in the Kings-Printing-House shall be Taxed 3 s. in the Pound And the said Shares and all Companies of Merchants in London shall be Assessed by the Commissioners for London and payed by the Governors and the respective Treasurers or Receivers CCLXXXI Every Papist of the Age of 16 years or upwards who shall not have taken the Oaths required An. 1 W. M. shall pay double Taxes unless such Papist within 10 days aster the first Meeting of the Commissioners do take the same before two Commissioners CCLXXXII Every person of the Age of 16 years or upward refusing to take the said Oaths or neglecting to appear before the Commissioners in Order to take the same when Summoned shall likewise pay double CCLXXXIII Every Gentleman or so reputed who by the Act for the Quarterly Poll 3 W. M. did or ought to have paid double and doth not voluntarily appear before the Commissioners within ten days after the first Meeting and take the said Oaths shall likewise pay double CCLXXXIV The Commissioners upon Information or Suspicion shall Summon every person Suspected to Appear and take the said Oaths CCLXXXV But Quakers instead of the Oaths may make and subscribe the Declaration of Fidelity 1 W. M. Where the Assessors neglect to make double Assessments on Papists or others for not taking the Oaths the Commissioners shall cause it to be done CCLXXXVI Where the Owners of Lands c. are liable to be double charged such Owners only shall be so charged and the Tenants Discharged notwithstanding any Covenant for Payment of Taxes CCLXXXVII The Kings Bench-Prison with its Lands and the Rents and Perquisites of the Marshal thereof and also the Marshalsea-Prison and Office and Perquisites of the Marshalsea-Court shall be Assessed in the Parish of St. George in Seuthwark CCLXXXVIII The Water-works in Southwark shall be Assessed by the Commissioners and Assessors of Surrey and the Water works in Westminster by the Commissioners and Assessors of Westminster CCLXXXIX All persons concern'd are to use their utmost Endeavours for the due Execution of the Act. CCXC. No person shall be liable to the pound Rate whose Lands c. are not 20 s. per Annum in the whole CCXCI. If any Collector shall keep the Money in his hands or Pay any part thereof other than to the Receiver General or his Deputy he shall Forfeit 20 l. And the Receiver General or his Deputy not Paying the same as the Act directs he shall forfeit 500 l. CCXCII The Commissioners of the Treasury c. shall not divert the Payment of the said Moneys into the Exchequer nor shall the Officers of the Exchequer strike any Talley of Pro or Anticipation on the same or any Teller charge himself therewith till actually received CCXCIII No noli prosequi or other stay of Prosecution shall be allowed in any Suit against Offenders herein CCXCIV. The Commissioners are impowered to lessen the Assessment on Proof that the Lands c. are charged above 3 s. in the pound and the Money so abated shall be Reassessed as they shall judge most equal either on the whole Hundred or Division or on such part thereof as shall appear to be under-charged CCXCV. The Receivers General shall be answerable for their Deputies and shall nominate so many of them that no Subcollector may be forced to Travel above Ten Miles for Payment of the Moneys by him Collected And in default of such Nomination to Forfeit 100 l. one Moiety to his Majesty the other to the Prosecutor CCXCVI. In case there be not a sufficient number of Commissioners capable of Acting for any City c. any of the Commissioners for the County at large may Act for such City c. CCXCVII. Members of Parliament Abiding in or about London and Westminster shall be Assessed for any Tax to be laid on their Persons or Personal Estates during this Session where their Mansion-Houses are or where they usually Reside in the Intervals of Parliament CCXCVIII The first General Meeting of the Commissioners for the West-Riding of Yorkshire shall be at Pontefract for the North-Riding at Thirske and for the East Riding at Kilham CCXCIX A Register shall be kept by the Auditor of the Exchequer of all the Moneys arising by this Act and one other Register of all Orders for Moneys payable thereout CCC The Principal Sums lent between 8 Oct. 1697. and 4 Apr. 1698. not exceeding 850000 l. shall be in the first place Transferred and paid in due course out of the Moneys arising by this Act with Interest at 8 per Gent. Payable every Three Months and the Orders for the same may be Assignable CCCI. And in the next place so much as on 11 Apr. 1698. shall not be Raised of the 255663 l. 5 s. 8 d. for paying of several
of this Realm and all Widows having a Dower or Joynture of 100 l. per Ann. or more or being worth 1000 l. and all unmarried Women worth 1000 l. shall pay 20 s. quarterly for one year at the days before mentioned but no persons not having such Estates and thereof making Oath before two or more of the Commissioners shall be charged with the said quarterly Sum of 20 s. CCCCXXI Every Cursitor Philizer Attorney Solicitor Clerk in Chancery or Exchequer or other Courts of Law or Equity or Scrivener or practising as such and every Chancellor Commissary Official Register and every Advocate Proctor Apparitor and publick Notary or practising as such and all other Officers in any Court and all Merchants Brokers to Merchants and Pawn Brokers shall pay 20 s. quarterly at the days before mentioned and none of the persons so charged to be further charged as a Gentleman CCCCXXII Every Clergy-man not being a Lord Spiritual having by any Benefice Benefices Contribution or otherwise 60 l. per An. or upwards and every Preacher or Teacher in any Congregation not in Orders according to the Church of England having in Gratuities Contributions Rewards or Bounties 60 l. per An. or upwards shall pay 20 s. quarterly at the days before mentioned and then not to be further charged as a Gentleman every such Dissenting Preacher or Teacher having by any Contribution or otherwise 150 l. per An. or upwards shall pay double the said Sum of 20 s. quarterly at the several days before mentioned And every Clergy man having in several Benefices or Ecclesiastical Promotions 150 l. per An. or upwards shall pay double the Sums charged upon other Clergy-men CCCCXXIII Every Tradesman Shopkeeper and Vintner worth 300 l. and upwards shall over and above the foresaid quarterly Sums of 1 s. pay the Sum of 10 s. quarterly on the days before mentioned CCCCXXIV Every person who by reason of his or her Estate is or would be chargeable if such person was no Officer in the Militia to find a Horse in the Militia shall for each Horse so chargeable over and above all other Sums pay 20 s. quarterly on the days before mentioned and so proportionably for contributing towards a Horse or Horses CCCCXXV Every person not finding or contributing to a Militia Horse who keeps a Coach Chariot or Calash shall over and above all other Sums pay 20 s. quarterly on the days before mentioned except for Stage Coaches and Hackney Coaches CCCCXXVI Every Lord Spiritual or Temporal of this Realm shall over and above any Sum chargeable by this Act pay 10 l. quarterly on the days before mentioned CCCCXXVII Every Gentleman or so Reputed or being above that Quality and under the Degree of a Peer of this Realm worth 300 l. and being 16 years of age or upwards and within the Realm who has not taken the Oaths and shall not voluntarily take them before two or more of the Commissioners shall pay double the Sums he ought to be charged with CCCCXXVIII Provided that Quakers making and subscribing the Declaration of Fidelity before any two or more of the Commissioners shall not be charged double CCCCXXIX All the persons named and appointed Commissioners in an Act of this present Session For Granting to his Majesty the Sum of One Million for hundred eighty four thousand and fifteen Pounds One Shilling Eleven Pence Three Farthings for Disbanding Forces Paying Seamen and other Uses therein mentioned shall be Commissioners for putting in Execution this present Act in all the Places for which they are appointed Commissioners by the said Act. CCCCXXX Which Commissioners in their respective Counties Divisions and Places shall meet together at the most usual place of meeting on 20 July 1698. and may divide themselves as they shall see expedient and shall direct their precepts to such Inhabitants Officers and Ministers as they shall think convenient to be Presenters and Assessors Requiring them to appear before the Commissioners within eight days and shall then openly declare the Effects of their charge unto them and how they ought to make their Certificates and prefix another day for bringing in their Certificates of the Names and Sirnames Qualities Degrees Titles Estates Professions Imployments and Trades of all Persons within their respective Limits with the Assessment of the respective Rates hereby imposed without Favour or Malice upon forfeiture of a sum not exceeding ten pounds And shall then return two or more sufficient persons within the said Limits respectively to be Collectors For whose paying to the Receivers General the Moneys they shall be Charged withal the Parish or Place shall be answerable which Assessments shall be returned to the Commissioners by 12 August 1698. who shall thereupon Issue their Warrants to the Collectors for levying the same and the Collectors shall thereupon make their demands within four days after and pay in the first of the said quarterly payments on or before 1 September 1698. The second payment on or before 1 December 1698. The third on or before 1 March 1698. And the fourth on or before 1 June 1699. And the Receivers are to hasten the Collectors to the said quarterly payments and in default thereof to levy by Warrant of two or more of the Commissioners upon the Collectors by Distress the Moneys by them received and not paid in CCCCXXXI A Duplicate of the whole sum charged on each Division or Place without naming the persons shall be returned into the Exchequer before 10 September 1698. All Appeals being first determined and so within thirty days after every other quarterly payment and like Duplicates to be delivered to the Receivers General And the said quarterly Sums to be paid into the Exchequer on or before 20 September 1698. 20 December 1698. 20 March 1698. and 20 June 1699. CCCCXXXII Upon return of the Certificates the Commissioners may examine the same and if then or within twelve days after they shall know or suspect any persons to be omitted or not duly charged they may warn such persons before them to be examined thereupon who neglecting to appear not having a reasonable excuse shall pay double and the Commissioners may by any lawful ways or means inquire into all things chargeable by this Act and set such Rates as shall be according to the true meaning thereof CCCCXXXIII The Receiver General shall have an allowance of 2 d. in the pound for all Moneys paid by him into the Exchequer and every Collector 3 d. in the pound for what he shall pay to the Receiver General and the Commissioners Clerks three half-pence in the pound of what shall be received by virtue of the Warrants and Estreats by them made out CCCCXXXIV Persons refusing or neglecting to pay the sums charged upon demand the Collector is to Distrain their Goods and Chattels and if the Money be not paid within four days after then such Distress is to be appraised and sold and the Overplus Restored to the Owners CCCCXXXV Persons refusing or neglecting to
pay the Assessment in ten days after demand where no sufficient Distress can be found three of the Commissioners may commit such Persons to Gaol till payment be made CCCCXXXVI Persons agrieved and complaining to the Commissioners within six days after demand the Commissioners or three of them whereof two who signed the Rate may within eight days after examine the Complainant upon Oath and thereupon abate or increase the same and the Commissioners are required to meet together for determining such Complaints and Appeals accordingly CCCCXXXVII All Persons shall be rated where Resident with their Families at the Execution of the Act and Persons not Housholders nor having a certain place of abode and all Servants shall be Taxed where Resident at the time The Tax on Servants to be paid by the Master or Mistress and Deducted out of their Wages CCCCXXXVIII Persons doubly charged for several Mansion Houses or Places of Residence upon Certificate of two of the Commissioners of their Personal Residence and of the Sums charged and Oath made of such Certificate before a Justice of Peace shall for so much as shall be certified be discharged in every other place CCCCXXXIX Persons at the time of the assessing being out of the Realm shall be rated where last abiding in the Realm CCCCXL. Persons escaping Taxation by Fraud or changing their Residence upon proof thereof before two of the Commissioners or Justices of the Peace shall at any time within twelve Months after be charged double CCCCXLI The Commissioners shall Tax one another and shall Assess the Assessors CCCCXLII Assessors Collectors Receivers or other persons wilfully neglecting or refusing to perform their Dury the Commissioners or two of them may Fine them not exceeding 20 l. CCCCXLIII The Commissioners or two of them shall call for an Account from the Receivers General of the Moneys received by them and paid into the Exchequer and in case of failure to cause the same to be forthwith levied CCCCXLIV Upon any Controversie between the Commissioners about the said Rates the Commissioners concerned are to withdraw under penalty of a Sum not exceeding 20 l. CCCCXLV All differences touching any of the said Rates and the Collecting thereof shall be finally determined by three or more Commissioners without further trouble CCCCXLVI The Receivers General shall give Acquittances to the Collectors gratis and the Collectors shall deliver to the Receivers General a Schedule in Parchment under their hands and seals signed by two or more Commissioners of the names and places of abode of every person making default of payment to be returned into the Exchequer from whence Precess shall be Issued against them for the same CCCCXLVII No Letters Patents shall exempt any persons or places from the Charge Granted by this Act. CCCCXLVIII All Constables Headboroughs Tything-men and other Officers shall be Aiding in the Execution of this Act and obey such Precepts as shall be directed to them by the Commissioners or any Two of them CCCCXLIX Persons Prosecuted for Acting in pursuance of this Act may plead the General Issue and give this Act and the special matter in Evidence and upon a Nonsuit Discontinuance or Verdict against the Prosecutor the Defendant shall recover Treble Costs CCCCL The Parents Guardians and Tutors of Persons under the Age of 21 Years shall upon Default pay the Duties for such Persons CCCCLI All Moneys payable by this Act shall be paid by the Collectors to the Receivers General Appointed by his Majesty or to their Deputies whereof notice shall be given to the Commissioners within Ten days after their General Meeting and so within Ten days after the Death or Removal of any Deputy and their Receipts shall be a Discharge to the Collectors CCCCLII The Collectors shall not be Obliged to travel above Ten Miles for payment of any Sums to the Receivers General CCCCLIII Every Receiver General within one Month after the Receipt of the whole Sum charged on any Hundred or Division for each Quarterly payment shall give the Commissioners of the Division a Receipt for the same under his Hand and Seal which shall be a full Discharge to such Hundred or Division CCCCLIV If any Receiver General Certifie into the Exchequer any Money in Arrear or Unpaid after the same hath been Received or cause any Person to be unjustly set Insuper he shall Forfeit to the Person Molested or Damaged thereby Treble Damages and to the King double the Sum so Unjustly Certified or set Insuper CCCCLV No Commissioner shall be Liable for his Execution of this Act to the Penalties in the Act Anno 25 Car. 2. For Preventing Dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants CCCCLVI All Penalties Incurred by this Act shall be Levied if not otherwise Prescribed by Warrant of Two or more of the Commissioners where the Offence was Committed by Distress and Sale of Goods CCCCLVII The Commissioners at a General Meeting All Appeals being first Determined shall cause Duplicates of the whole Sum Charged on each Division or Place Written in Parchment without Naming the persons and Signed by Three or more of the Commissioners to be Joyntly Delivered to the Sheriff of the County to be Transmitted to the Exchequer by 20 September 1698. CCCCLVIII No Person shall Act as a Commissioner before he Take the Oaths appointed 1 W. M. which any Two Commissioners may Administer under the Penalty of 200 l. Forfeiture to his Majesty CCCCLIX Persons chargeable to the Finding or Contributing to a Militia Horse shall be Assessed in such places where they ought so to Find or Contribute And if such Assessment be not Paid within the time Limitted and no Goods or Chattels of the Parties sufficient to be found then it shall be Lawful in case the Tenant of the Lands pay not the Assessment within Ten Days to Levy the same by Distress and Sale of the Tenants Goods which shall be allowed the Tenant on payment of his Rent CCCCLX Serjeants Inn in Fleet-street and Serjeants-Inn in Chancery Lane the four Inns of Court and the Inns of Chancery shall be Rated according to the proportion Imposed by this Act. CCCCLXI Persons coming to reside in any Division within London or Westminster or Five Miles thereof and not there Taxed shall be Summoned before the Commissioners and Assessed unless they produce Certificates of their being Assessed and having paid the preceding Quarterly payments CCCCLXII Every Housholder shall give the Assessors an Account of the Names and Qualities of their Lodgers under penalty of 5 l. CCCCLXIII Persons may pay all or any of the Quarterly payments to the Collectors beforehand for which the Collectors Acquittance shall be a good Discharge CCCCLXIV Members of Parliament shall be Assessed where their usual Residence is in the Intervals of Parliament CCCCLXV Out of the Moneys paid into the Exchequer upon the Act of this present Session for Granting to His Majesty several Duties upon Coals and Culm 250000 l. shall be Appropriated for payment of Seamen that have or
procured In which case such Arbitration or Umpirage shall be void and set aside by any Court of Law or Equity so as such corruption or undue Practice be complain'd of in the Court where the Rule is made for such Arbitration before the last day of the next Term after such Arbitration made and published to the Parties Blackwell-Hall I. STat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 9. Enacted That after the 1st of May 1697. the Governours of Blackwell-hall and their Deputies shall strictly observe and keep the following Times and Rules viz. The publick Market of Blackwell-hall shall be held every Thursday Friday and Saturday from eight of the Clock in the Forenoon till twelve and from two of the Clock in the Afternoon till five the said hours of beginning and ending the said Market shall be known by ringing the Market Bell in the said Hall the same to be continued Weekly through the whole Year except days of Humiliation or Thanksgiving and the Keepers of the said Hall shall not admit any buying or selling of any Woollen Cloth at the said Hall upon any other days or hours than as aforesaid upon the penalty of 100 l. II. The said Governours c. shall appoint to the Countrey Clothiers the most convenient Room in the said Hall for the sale of their Cloth and Warehouse Room for Lodging and safe keeping the same paying the Ancient Duties of the said Hall and no more III. No Factor or any Person whatsoever other than the Owner of the Cloth shall sell or expose to sale out of the said Market of Blackwell-hall any Cloth directed to be brought to the said Market or any Factor there upon penalty of 5 l. for every Cloth so sold IV. The Hall-keepers Clerks and Master-Porters of the said Hall shall take care that the Rules and Orders appointed by this Act be put in Execution and shall diligently and faithfully keep their weekly Registers of all Clothes bought and sold there in which Books they shall truly enter the names and habitation of the Owners Buyers and Sellers and times of Sale and Factor or other person buying or selling of every Cloth to which said Books it shall be lawful for the Clothiers their Agents or Servants at all convenient times to have recourse without Fee V. Any Hall-keeper Clerk or Master-Porter neglecting his Duty herein shall for every Offence forfeit 10 l. Every person after the said first of May buying any Cloth of any person except of the Owner otherwise than for ready Money the person selling shall within twelve days after the sale and delivery of the same take or demand of the Buyer a Note testifying under the Buyers hand the Cloth sold and the Sum of Money sold for payable to the Owner and shall deliver such Note on demand to the Owner or any person authorized by him to receive the same on pain to forfeit to the Owner of the Cloth sold double the Value thereof for every neglect of so doing And if any such Buyer upon trust shall refuse or neglect to give such Note upon request at any time next after eight days after sale and delivery he shall forfeit for every such Offence 20 s. for every Cloth so sold to the Owner and every piece of Cloth not returned within eight days after delivery of the same shall be deemed to be passed and approved of by the Buyer as a Merchantable Cloth and all Contracts and Agreements for allowing a longer time for the passing of any Cloth shall be Void VI. All forfeitures and penalties imposed by this Act may be sued for by Action of Debt Bill Plaint c. in any of his Majesties Courts of Record in which no Essoin c. and but one Imparlance shall be allowed and if not otherwise herein before disposed of one Moiety to the King the other to the Informer VII Provided if the Owner of the Cloth neglect to sue for any of the penalties by the space of six Months then any other person may sue for the same and one Moiety shall be to the King the other to the Informer VIII Every known or reputed Factor for selling Cloth in the said Market of Blackwell-hall shall before the 24th of June 1697. if requested by any Clothier give and deliver a true Account in Writing of the Effects of such Clothier which now are or before the first of May 1697. shall be in the hands of such Factor and the particular Clothes of such Clothier sold by such Factor and the sums of Money due to such Clothier by any Contract of such Factor and of the names and abodes of such persons from whom such sums are due and if any such Factor shall refuse or neglect so to do he shall forfeit to the person to whom he ought to give such Account 10 l. to be recovered as aforesaid Bridgwater I. Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 12. For inlarging repairing and preserving the Bridge and Key of the Borough of Bridgwater in Com. Somerset it is Enacted That for fourteen years after the first of May 1698. Every Master or Person having the Command of any Ship or Vessel Unlading on the said Key or into any Barge Boat Hoy or Lighter to pass through the said Bridge shall pay at the Unlading thereof as follows viz. II. For every Weigh of Coals according to the measure used there Last of Wheat Rye Barley Malt and other Grain and for every Weigh of Salt and every Tun of any other Goods or Merchandizes whatsoever and so proportionably for a greater or lesser Quantity Imported and Unladen in the said Port such sum not exceeding twelve pence Inclusive of all Keyage Wharfage Pontage and Cranage heretofore payable as the Mayor Aldermen Burgesses and Commonalty of the said Borough and their Successors in Common Council assembled shall from time to time order or appoint III. The said Mayor Aldermen Burgestes and Commonalty so assembled as aforesaid during the said fourteen Years may choose such persons to be Collectors of the Money so to be appointed to be paid as they shall think fit which Collectors shall pay the same to the Receiver of the Profits of the said Borough to the use of the said Mayor Aldermen Burgesses and Commonalty for the purpose aforesaid and no other use whatsoever IV. There shall be Eight or any Five of them Commissioners to take the Accounts of the Receipts and Disbursements of the Moneys so Collected during the said Term Four of which shall be yearly nominated by the Mayor Aldermen Burgesses and Commonalty in Common Council assembled and the other Four by the Justices of the Peace for the said County of Somerset at the respective Quarter Sessions of the Peace which Commissioners or any five of them may from time to time Require the Collectors who shall receive the Moneys in pursuance of this Act to render them a true Account of the Moneys which shall rest due upon such Account which they shall order to be laid out for
the Uses aforesaid as there shall be cause And the Mayor of the said Borough is to Administer an Oath to the Collectors and persons imployed for the faithful Executing their Offices in and about the Premisses V. The said Collectors shall be allowed for their pains in Executing the said Office out of the Money by them received so much as the said Mayor c. in Common Council assembled shall think fit not exceeding one Shilling in the Pound VI. The said Collectors may at seasonable times Enter into any Ship or Vessel within the said Port of Bridgwater to see what Goods shall be in the same Unlading And in case the sums of Money appointed to be paid as aforesaid shall not be paid by the Master or other person having the Command of any Ship or Vessel Unlading as aforesaid then the said Collectors may by Warrant from the Mayor or Aldermen of the said Borough or one of them Distrain such Ship or Vessel and all Tackle Apparel and Furniture thereunto belonging and keep the same till they be satisfied and paid the sums Imposed by this Act which if not paid within Ten days next after such Distress then the said Collectors may sell the said Distress and therewith satisfie themselves for the Duty so unpaid and also for keeping such Distress rendring the Overplus VII The said Mayor c. in Common Council assembled may by Indenture under their Common Seal Convey the Duties Granted by this Act or heretofore payable as a security for any sums of Money by them to be borrowed for the ends and purposes of this Act to any persons that have advanced or shall advance any Moneys upon such security All which Money to be borrowed shall be imployed towards the Inlarging Preserving and Repairing the said Bridge or Key of Bridgwater aforesaid VIII The Keys or Wharfs now standing on each side of the River below the Bridge of Bridgwater aforesaid or that shall be Inlarged or Repaired not exceeding in length on each side of the said River 150 Yards are and shall be taken for lawful Keys or Wharss for the Landing or Laying on Shore any sort of Goods and Merchandizes whatsoever IX From and after the Expiration of the Years hereby Granted the ancient Duties of Keyage Pontage and Cranage shall be demanded and paid as heretofore Brokers I. Stat. 8 9. W. 3. cap. 32. For Restraining the III practice of Brokers and Stock-jobbers It is Enacted That after 1 May. 1697. No person whatsoever shall use or exercise the Office or Imployment of a Broker or deal as such in London Westminster or Southwark or the Limits of the Weekly Bills of Mortality in making or concluding Bargains between Merchant and Merchant or others concerning Wares and Merchandizes or Moneys to be taken up by Exchange or concerning any Talleys or Orders Bills of Credit or Tickets payable at the Exchequer or any publick Office or concerning any of the Bank-Bills or Notes or Stock of the Bank or Stock of any Company or Society that is or shall be Incorporated until such person shall be admitted and licensed by the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of London II. Upon admittance of any such Broker he shall take an Oath to the effect following viz. That he will truly and faithfully execute and perform the Office and Imployment of a Broker between party and party in all things appertaining to the Duty of the said Office and Imployment without Fraud or Collusion to the best of his skill or knowledge and according to the Tenour and Purport of the Act Intituled An Act to Restrain the Number and Ill practice c. III. And every such person within Three Months after such Admittance shall in the Court of Chancery or Kings-Bench or Quarter Sessions take the Oaths appointed in the Act 1 W. M. cap. 8. and Subscribe the Association appointed by the Act made 7 W. 3. cap. 27. And every such person shall at his Admittance give Bond to the Lord Mayor Citizens and Commonalty of London in the Penalty of 500 l. with Condition That if he do and shall well and truly Vse Execute and Perform the Office and Imployment of a Broker between Party and Party without Fraud Covin or any Corrupt or Crafty Devices according to the Purport true Intent and Meaning of the Statute in that case lately made and provided then the Obligation to be void IV. The Number of such Brokers shall not at one time exceed 100. and the Fees upon Admittance into the said Imployment shall not exceed 40 s. V. The Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen shall cause the Names of such Brokers as shall be Admitted by Virtue of this Act and their places of habitation to be publickly affixt on the Royal Exchange in Guildhall and in such other publick places in London as they shall think fit VI. If any person shall act as a Broker after the time aforesaid not being admitted according to this Act he shall forfeit 500 l. over and above such other Forfeitures as he shall any ways incur by virtue of this Act and if any person after the time aforesaid shall knowingly Imploy any person to deal for him as a Broker or Stock-jobber not being admitted and sworn as aforesaid such person shall forfeit the sum of 50 l. and if any person after the time aforesaid not being a sworn Broker according to this Act shall act and deal as a Broker in Discounting Talleys or Bills or in Stock-jobbing in selling Bank-stock or any other Securities upon any Fund granted by Parliament such person shall Forfeit 500 l. and stand in the Pillory in some publick place in London three several Days for the space of one Hour in the Morning VII After the time aforesaid every sworn Broker shall keep a Book or Register in which he shall enter all Contracts and Bargains that he shall make between any persons within three days after the Contract with the parties Names and for omitting so to do he shall forfeit 50 l. VIII If any such Broker after the time aforesaid shall directly or indirectly take above 10 s. per Cent. for Brokage he shall for every such Offence forfeit 10 l. IX Every sworn Broker after his Admittance as aforesaid shall carry about him a Silver Medal having the Kings Arms on one side and the Arms of the City of London with his own Name on the other side which he shall produce at the concluding of every Bargain to the Parties concern'd upon pain to forfeit 40 s. for every Omission X. If any such Broker after the time aforesaid shall deal for himself in the Exchange or Remittance of Moneys or Buy any Talleys Orders Bills or Shares in any Joint-stock for his own use or buy Goods or Merchandizes to sell again or make any profit in buying or selling any Goods more than the Brokage allowed by this Act he shall forfeit the sum of 200 l. and be for ever incapable to act as a Broker XI Every
till the Eighteenth of December 1696. making Oath before such Head Collector That the Hammered Money then Brought or Tendred was actually and bona fide received by him before the Eighteenth day of November 1696. upon the respective Tax or Revenue upon which he offers to pay the same and that he hath not made any Profit thereby other than what is allowed by Act of Parliament Which Oath shall be taken in Writing and brought with the Money it relates to into the Receipt of the Exchequer And the respective Receiver General or Head Collectors of any the said Taxes or Revenues shall have time till the Tenth day of January 1696. for paying such Hammered Moneys as aforesaid into the Receipt of the Exchequer who are to make Oath before the Auditor of the Receipt or Clerk of the Pells That the Money so by them Tendred or Brought was actually and bona fide received by them by Tale before the said Eighteenth day of December 1696 on Account of such Tax or Revenue or was brought to them by such particular Receivers within the time limited and that they have not made any Profit thereby other than what is allowed by Act of Parliament All which said Oaths or Affidavits in Writing shall be filed by the Clerk of the Fells VII Which said Hammered Money so brought into the Exchequer and all such like other Hammered Moneys actually being and remaining in the Receipt of the Exchequer on the Eighteenth day of November 1696. having been bona fide received there by the respective Tellers who are to make Oath as aforesaid for any Tax or other Revenue shall from time to time be melted down and cast into Ingots and delivered into his Majesties Mint to be there reduced to Sterling and Coined by the Mill and Press into the Lawful Coins of this Realm And all the New Money proceeding from such Ingots except necessary Charges shall be brought back into the Exchequer and there placed to the respective Accounts of the said particular Revenues Taxes Loans c. to which the said Hammered Moneys respectively did belong and shall be issued paid out and disposed in like manner as ought to be in case the said Hammered Money were not Recoined under the same Penalties and Forfeitures as would have been incurred in case the same were not Recoined VIII All Money that shall be brought in on the Account of Taxes Revenues or Loans at 5 s. 8 d. per Ounce shall be by the respective Officers Receivers or Collectors carried to the next Adjacent Mint to be Recoined and the said Taxes c. shall not be brought into the Exchequer till Recoined IX The Collectors and Receivers of the Moneys for making Navigable the Rivers Wye and Lugg in the County of Hereford shall and may till the First of June 1697. receive Hammered Money Clipt or Unclipt at 5 s. 8 d. per Ounce and pay it in at that Rate to the Receiver General who shall according to the Direction of the Trustees either pay the same forthwith to the persons who have Lent Moneys for the Purposes abovesaid or send the same to the next Mint to be Coined and after it shall be received from the Mint then pay the same X. Stat. 8 9. W. 3 cap. 8. Any Persons Natives or Foreigners who by themselves or others shall bring any sort of Wrought Plate between 1 Jan. 1696. and 4 Nov. 1697. to any of his Majesties Mints or to such Persons as shall be Authorized to Receive the same shall be then and there paid for such Plate at 5 s. 4 d. per oz. And all such Plate having the Goldsmiths Hall Mark and Workmans Mark shall be Received as Sterling Silver But where it hath not the said Marks the Quantity of Sterling Silver contained therein shall at the Election of the Party be adjusted upon Oath by the proper Officers of the Mint or such other Person as shall be Authorized to Receive the same or else shall be forthwith Melted and Essayed and Allowed for accordingly XI Which said Officers of the Mint and other persons Authorized to Receive the said Plate shall first take an Oath faithfully and impartially to declare the Quantity of Sterling Silver contained in any Wrought Plate so brought in XII And the Plate so brought in shall be Entred in Books with the Weight and Value thereof and shall be forthwith Coin'd and not delay'd by the Coining of other Silver And the New Moneys proceeding from the same with such other Moneys as shall be appropriated for this Service shall be apply'd to pay for the Plate so brought in XIII The Moneys Imprested for this Service and the New Money proceeding from the said Plate shall go to pay the Allowance of 5 s. 4 d. per oz. to the Bringers in of the said Plate at the time of bringing in the same XIV The Officers where such Plate is brought in or where Hammer'd Money is to be Recoin'd shall once in 14 days publish in Writing how much Wrought Plate or Hammer'd Money has been brought in and Recoin'd or remains not Coin'd under a Penalty of 20 l. XV. Provided That all such Plate having the said Marks shall be receiv'd as Sterling Silver without deduction for Soader unless in any hollow part of the said Plate XVI The Commissioners of the Treasury may Issue and Apply 50000 l. towards payment of the said Allowance of 5 s. 4 d. per oz. to be reckned part of the sum of 125000 l. for Coining of Hammer'd Money and Plate XVII After 25 Mar. 1697. no silver Vessel Plate or Manufacture of silver shall be Wrought or Made less in Fineness than 11 oz. Ten Peny Weight of Fine Silver in every Pound Troy nor sold or exchanged if made after the said 25 March unless it be silver wire or small Things not capable of receiving a Mark until the same hath been Marked with the two first Letters of the sirname of the Worker and with the Marks of the Goldsmiths Company which instead of the Leopards Head and the Lyon shall be a Lyons Head erased and the Figure of a Woman commonly called a Britannia and with the Wardens Mark denoting the Year under the penalty of Forfeiture XVIII If the Wardens or Masters of the Goldsmiths Company Mark any Plate made after 25 Mar. contrary to this Act or wherein there is any Falshood or Deceit they shall forfeit the value thereof XIX Any person possessed of Plate and Assessed to the Aid lately Granted to his Majesty as well by a Land Tax as by several Subsidies and other Duties payable for One Year may before 1 Jun. 1697 pay all or any such Monthly payments in wrought Plate at 5 s. 4 d. per oz. without deduction for Soader unless in any hollow part thereof which the Collectors are Required to Receive accordingly XX. All Hammer'd Moneys made Current at 5 s. 2 d. per oz. and paid into the Exchequer at that Rate And all Plate receiv'd by virtue of
Contributions for the said Tickets And if such Contributions before 24 June 1697. be not sufficient to pay the said Loans with Interest such Loans shall be satisfied out of the Duties on Malt brought in in specie And so many Tickets not deliver'd out as are equal to such Principal Money unsatisfied to be Cancelled and the rest Drawn and proportion'd accordingly Which Money so Lent to His Majesty to be part of the Sum appropriated to his Majesties Houshold and other his necessary Occasions LIX Every Round Bushell 8 Inches and ½ wide throughout and 8 Inches deep shall be esteem'd a Winchester Bushel LX. The 1400 l. in Hammer'd Money paid into the Custom-house of Exon by Daniel Ivry and Henry Arthur Merchants before 4 May last shall be receiv'd by Tale by the Collector there and be carried to the Mint to be Coin'd into Mill'd Money Hawkers and Pedlars Vide Taxes Stat. 8 9. W. 3. cap. 25. Hay Market I. STat. 8 9. W. 3. cap. 17. After 25 March 1697. Every Cart Load of Hay that shall stand to be Sold in the Street called the Hay-Market in the Parishes of St. Martins in the Fields and St. James's within the Liberties of Westminster shall Pay 3 d. and every Cart Load of Straw 1 d. in ease of the Parishioners of the said Parishes for and towards the Paving and Amending the said Street II. Every Cart Load that Pays and is not Sold shall not Pay the next Market Day for standing III. Upon refusal of Payment the Offenders Goods may be Distrain'd by Warrant of any Justice of Peace of Middlesex or Westminster and Sold within Three Days after Distress returning the Overplus IV. The said Street shall be Construed to extend in Length from the Old Toll Post at the upper end of the Hay-Market to the Phaenix Inn at the lower end and in Breadth from Kennel to Kennel which shall be esteemed the Bounds of the said Market V. A Hand-Bell shall be Rung by the Toll-gatherer about the Market Twice a Day on every Market Day viz Tuesday Thursday and Saturday weekly at One Hours Distance to give Notice of the time of ending the Market according to the Stat. 2 W. M cap. 8. In default of such Ringing Persons Selling Hay or Straw shall the next immediate Market Day Stand and Sell Toll-free VI. All Forfeitures given by the foresaid Act shall be Demanded in the said Market by the Bell-Ringer on the same Day on which they are incurr'd and Complaint shall be made of the Offence to some Justice of the Quorum in Westminster before the next succeeding Market Day or else no person shall be liable to such Forfeitures VII The Collectors of the said Toll shall yearly at every Easter Sessions give to the Justices of Peace of the said County and City a particular Account upon Oath of their Receipts and Disbursements and the Overplus to go to the County of Middlesex High-ways I. Stat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 15. The Justices of Peace at their next Sessions for the County of Surrey shall Appoint Surveyors of the High-ways for the year ensuing pursuant to the Statute 3 4 W. M. cap. 12. who shall meet and Survey the Lanes leading from Woodhatch Borough to Sidlow Mill and Salmons Cross in the Parish of Ryegate and the Lanes called Horsehill and Bonehurst and Petteridge in the Parish of Horley in the County of Surrey and make their Certificates thereof to the Justices who thereupon shall make such Orders in and about the same as to them shall seem good II. The Surveyors shall require such Carts and Persons as are liable to work in the High-ways to work in the respective Places paying according to the usual Rate of the Country III. Where there is not sufficient Gravel Chalk Sand or Stones to be found in the proper Parish the Surveyors or whom they shall Appoint may Dig Take and Carry away the said Materials By direction of the Justices out of the Waste or Common of any Neighbouring Parish paying a reasonable Satisfaction for the same and filling up the Ground if directed or desired IV. The Justices at their special Sessions shall Appoint one or more Receiver or Receivers of Toll viz. Of every Horse 1 d. Coach 6 d. Calash or Chariot 6 d. Waggon or Cart 6 d. Score of Sheep or Lambs 1 d. and so proportionably Score of Calves 2 d. Score of Hogs 2 d. and so proportionably for a greater or lesser Number not being under Five Score of Oxen or Neat Cattel 6 d. and so proportionably that shall pass through the said Way after the passing of this Act. The Place for Collecting the said Tolls to be at such convenient Place upon the High-way in or near the said Lanes as the Justices of Peace at their special Sessions shall appoint V. The Receivers or Collectors of the said Toll shall give a monthly Account upon Oath to one or more of the next Justices to be Return'd to and Examin'd by the Justices at the next special Sessions The Horse Cart c. of any Person refusing to pay the said Toll may be Distrain'd and Detain'd till the Toll and Damages of Distress be satisfied VI. The Surveyors shall at the next special Sessions Account to the Justices in Writing under their Hands for all Moneys Receiv'd of the Collectors and Disbursements in or about the said High-ways Paying the Overplus to the Surveyors for the year ensuing And the Justices shall make Allowances to them for their Care and Pains as to them shall seem good VII If the Collectors of the Toll shall not upon request duly pay the same to the Surveyors or in case the Surveyors shall not make such Account and Payments as the Justices shall Order the Justices upon due Proof may Imprison the Offenders VIII The Surveyors or the more part of them by Order of the Justices at their Special Sessions may engage the Profits arising by the said Toll by Indenture under their Hands and Seals for any Term not exceeding Fifteen years to any Persons who shall Lend any present Sum of Money at 6 per Cent. Which Money so Advanced shall be Distributed by the Iustices at their Special Sessions for the Purposes aforesaid IX Such as neglect or refuse having no Lawful excuse to take upon him the Office of Surveyor being thereunto chosen shall be Fined by the Justices not exceeding 5 l. to be Levied by Distress and Sale of Goods and in such case or in case of Death some other Person to be chosen Surveyor X. All Fines and Forfeitures Incurr'd by virtue of this Act shall be paid to the Surveyors for the time being for and towards the Repairing the said Lanes XI Actions brought against any Person for any thing done in pursuance of this Act shall be laid in the said County of Surrey and not elsewhere the Defendant may Plead the General Issue and give the Special Matter in Evidence c. and in case the Cause goes
for the Defendant he shall have double Costs XII Persons passing the Place where Toll is taken and returning the same day shall not Pay Toll twice nor shall Persons pay who pass with Carriages from any next adjoyning Parish going to Market or in Matters of Husbandry nor Soldiers upon their March nor Persons Riding Post XIII Persons Chargeable by Law towards Repairing of the said High-ways shall still remain so XIV This Act shall be of force no longer than for Twenty years and if the said Lanes shall be sooner amended and so adjudged by the Justices at their Quarter Sessions then after payment of the Money Borrowed the aforesaid Toll shall cease XV. The Justices of Surrey and also the Justices of Sussex shall yearly at the Epiphany Quarter Sessions if they think fit appoint Three Persons of each County to view the said Lanes and examine the Surveyors Accounts and in case they find any misapplication of the Moneys Levied by this Act to certifie the same to the Judges at the next Assizes for the County of Surrey who are to hear and finally determine the same XVI Stat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 16. For enlarging Common High-ways It is Enacted that the Justices of Peace of any County City c. or the major Part of them Five at least at their Quarter Sessions may enlarge or widen any High-ways in their respective Counties c. So that the Ground to be taken into the said High-ways do not exceed Eight Yards in Breadth and that they do not pull down any House nor take away any Ground from Garden Orchard Court or Yard XVII For Satisfaction of the Owners the said Justices shall Impannel a Jury and Administer an Oath to them that they will Assess such Damages and Recompence to the Owners or others Interested in the Ground not exceeding 25 Years Purchase as they shall think reasonable c. And upon payment of the said Money so Awarded or leaving it in the Hands of the Clerk of the Peace of the County for the Use of the Owner the Interest of the said Owner shall be divested out of him and the said Ground shall be esteemed a Publick High-way to all Intents whatsoever XVIII And the said Justices shall order Assessments to be made and Levied upon all such persons that ought to Repair the said High-way and the Money thereby Raised shall be Imploy'd towards Purchasing the Land to enlarge the said High-ways and making Ditches and Fences The said Assessments to be Levied by the Overseers of the High-ways by Distress and Sale of Goods if not paid within Ten Days after Demand XIX No such Assessment shall in one Year exceed the Rate of 6 d. in the Pound for Lands nor 6 d. in the Pound for personal Estates XX. The said Justices at the Request of any Person for enlarging High-ways shall at their Quarter Sessions Issue out their Precepts to the Owners of Ground to be Laid to the said High ways to Appear and shew Cause why the said High-ways should not be enlarged XXI After an Order or Decree is made for the Laying out of Ground for enlarging High-ways the Owner hath Liberty in Eight Months after to Cut down any Wood or Timber growing upon the said Ground or upon neglect the Justices shall Sell it and deliver to the Owner the Value XXII Persons Agrieved by Order of the Justices may Appeal to the Judges of Assize at the next Assize only who may Affirm or Reverse the same and if they see cause to affirm to Award Costs against the Appellant XXIII Where any Common High-way shall be enclosed after a Writ of Ad quod Damnum Issued and Executed any person Injured or Agrieved by such Inclosure may Complain to the Justices at the Quarter Sessions next after such Inquisition who may hear and finally determine the same c. But if no such Appeal be made then the said Inquisition and Return Recorded by the Clerk of the Peace to be for ever Binding XXIV Justices of Peace at their respective special Sessions to be held by Virtue of the Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 12. in such Cases as they shall think necessary shall direct their Precepts to the Surveyors of the High-ways where Two or more Cross High-ways meet requiring them to erect where such Ways joyn a Stone or Post with an Inscription directing to the next Market Town to which each of the said Cross Ways lead And in case the Surveyor or Surveyors neglect or refuse so to do for the space of Three Months every such Offender shall Forfeit 10 s. to be Levied by Warrant of one Justice directed to the Constable requiring him to Distrain and Sell the Goods of such Offender and Imploy the Money to the said Purpose XXV Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 18. The Justices of Peace at the Quarter Sessions for the County of Gloucester or any Five of them next after 1 May 1698. may then and every Year nominate and appoint Surveyors of the ruinous High-way and Road from the Town of Birdlipp and the Top of Crickley-Hill in the County of Gloucester to the City of Gloucester for the Year ensuing out of the Inhabitants of the adjacent Parishes who within one Week after Notice given them of their Election are to meet in their several Divisions to Survey the same and consider the best Method for Repair thereof and Certifie the same to the Justices at the next Quarter Sessions who thereupon shall make such Orders about the same as to them shall seem good which shall be observed by the said Surveyors and all others concerned in putting this Act in Execution XXVI The said Surveyors may appoint such Carts and Persons within the said adjacent Parishes to come and Work in the said respective Places as they shall think needful for which the Surveyors shall pay the usual Rate of the Countrey in case they shall be required to Work beyond the times limited by the Statutes XXVII Where there is not sufficient Gravel Sand or Stones in any Parish or Hamlet where the said ruinous places lye to Repair the same the said Surveyors and such as they shall appoint may dig and carry away any Gravel Sand or Stones out of the Waste or Common of any Neighbouring Parish or Hamlet without paying for the same and in Default thereof may dig the same in any persons Grounds not being an House Garden Orchard Yard or Meadow or Avenue to an House making only such reasonable satisfaction to the Owner or Occupier of such Ground as the Damage sustained thereby XXVIII The said Justices at the Quarter Sessions may appoint Receivers or Collectors of the Toll to be paid towards the said Work viz. For every Horse One Peny Every Stage Coach or Hackney Coach One Shilling Every other Coach Calash or Chariot One Shilling Every Wagon Six Pence Every Cart Six Pence Every Score of Hogs or Pigs Three Pence and so proportionably for a greater or lesser Quantity not under
Appeal shall be Determined or to whom such notice had been given such Costs and Charges as the said Justices shall think reasonable and if the person order'd to pay such Costs shall live out of the Jurisdiction any Justice of the Peace where such person shall Inhabit may and shall upon request and a true Copy of the Order for payment produced and proved upon Oath cause the Money mentioned in that Order to be Levied by Distress and in case no Goods can be found to Commit the person to Prison for Twenty Days IV. No unmarried person not having Child or Children lawfully hired into any Parish or Town for one year shall be deemed to have a good Settlement in such Parish unless he shall continue in the same Service during one whole year V. Where any poor Children shall be Appointed to be bound Apprentices pursuant to the Act of 43 Eliz. cap. 2. the Persons to whom they are appointed to be bound shall receive and provide for them according to the Indenture and upon refusal so to do upon Oath thereof made by a Churchwarden or Overseer before Two Justices he or she so Offending shall Forfeit 10 l. to be Levied by Distress and Sale of Goods to be Applied to the use of the Poor of the Parish where such Offence was Committed Saving to such persons their Appeal to the next Quarter Sessions for that County whose Order therein shall be final VI. After the 1 of May 1697 the Appeal against any Order for the Removal of any Boor person shall be had at the Quarter Sessions of the County or Division wherein the Parish or Place from whence such Person shall be removed doth lie and not elsewhere VII Nothing in this Act to extend to make void any promise already made to receive and take back any persons in case they should become poor or want Relief VIII Nor be construed to hinder the Justices of Peace within the Liberty of St. Albans from Hearing and Determining Appeals in their Quarter Sessions as they might have done before the making this Act. IX Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 11. For Explaining the Act made the last preceding Session Intituled An Act for supplying some Defects in the Laws for the Relief of the Poor of this Kingdom whereby it was Enacted That such persons as after 1 May 1697. shall come into any Parish or Place to Inhabit or Reside should at the same time deliver to the Church-wardens or Overseers of the Poor there a Certificate as by the Act directed It is Declared That no persons who shall come into any Parish by any such Certificate shall be adjudged by any Act whatsoever to have procured a legal Settlement in such Parish unless such persons shall bona fide take a Lease of a Tenement of 10 l. per Annum or shall legally be placed in and execute some Annual Office in such Parish Prisons and pretended Privileged Places I. Stat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 27. After 1 May 1697. All Prisoners in the Kings Bench or Fleet on Contempt Mesne Process or Execution shall be actually detain'd within the said Prisons or the Rules of the same till discharged by Law II. If after 1 May 1697. the Keeper of any Prison suffer any Prisoner Committed on Mesne Process or Execution to be out of the Rules except on a Habeas Corpus or Rule of Court it shall be deem'd an Escape III. After 1 May every person obtaining Judgment in an Action of Escape against the Marshal or Warden of the said Prisons of the Kings Bench and Fleet shall have not only the Remedies already allowed by Law but if such Judgment was obtain'd without fraud upon a real Debt the profits of the said Marshal or Warden or some fit part thereof shall be Sequestred towards Satisfaction of the said Debt with Costs and Damages IV. And after the said 1 May such Marshal or Warden Suing forth a Writ of Error for delay only shall put in special Ball or no Execution shall be stayed V. If the Keeper of any Prison take Money to connive at any Escape he shall Forfeit 500 l. and his Office VI. This Act shall not make void the Securities given by Prisoners for their Lodgings without the said Prisons of the Kings Bench and Fleet being within the Rules of the same VII After the said 1 May No Retaking shall be given in Evidence in an Action of Escape unless specially Pleaded and Oath made by the Keeper of the Prison That such Escape was without his Consent But if such Affidavit prove false such Keeper shall Forfeit 500 l. VIII If after 1 May any Prisoner in Execution Escape the Creditor may retake such Prisoner by any New Capias or may Sue forth any other kind of Execution IX Every Keeper's refusing after one days notice to shew the Prisoner in Execution to the Creditor or his Attorney shall be judged an Escape X. Persons desiring to Charge any Person with an Action or Execution shall at their request have a Note in Writing from the Keeper of the Prison whether such person be a Prisoner or not under Forfeiture of 50 l. And such Note shall be sufficient Evidence XI All Conveyances and Mortgages of the Inheritance of the said Prisons of Kings Bench and Fleet and their Appurtenances and all Leases thereof and the Titles of the Marshal and Warden or other Proprietor thereunto and all Trusts and Declarations of Trust touching the same shall be Inrolled before the 24 of June 1697. viz. That of the Kings Bench in the Kings Bench Court and that of the Fleet in the Common Pleas and also all such Conveyances c. for the future within six Months after executing the same or else to be void XII After the said 1 May the Offices of Marshal of the Kings Bench Prison and Warden of the Fleet shall be Executed by the Persons to whom the Inheritance of those Prisons c. belongs or their sufficient Deputies for whom the persons having such Inheritances shall be answerable and the said Inheritances and Profits shall be subject to make satisfaction upon Escapes and the Misdemeanors of such Deputies XIII After the said 1 May any Person having Cause of Action against the Warden of the Fleet may File a Bill in the Common Pleas or Exchequer and a Rule being given to Plead thereto within Eight Days Judgment shall be Sign'd against the said Warden if he Plead not within Three Days after such Rule is out XIV After the said 1 May Any person having Cause of Action against any Prisoner in the Fleet entring a Declaration and delivering a Copy thereof to such Prisoner in any personal Action or to the Turn-key or Porter of the Fleet after a Rule to Plead to be out at Eight Days and Oath made before a Judge of the Delivery of such Declaration may Sign Judgment against such Prisoner or Defendant XV. After the said 1 May No Prisoners shall pay Chamber Rent in the Kings Bench
of the Wood shall at the next Attachment or Swain-mote Court be presented And upon proof thereof made two or more of the Verderers shall Fine such persons for every such Offence not exceeding 5 l. and send the Party to Goal for three Months or till payment of the Fine to the High or Under-Steward of the said Forest one Moiety to the Informer the other to be accounted for as his Majesty shall think fit VII All Persons punished by this Act shall not be punished by any other Law for the same Offence VIII This Act shall not alter the Forest Laws except as before mentioned IX All persons having any Right of Common of Pasture or Pannage or any Privileges within the said Forest shall enjoy their Right of Pannage between 14 Sept. and 11 Nov. after Michaelmas 1716. and not before on forfeiture of any Hogg Pigg or Swine that after Michaelmas next and before the time aforesaid shall be found in the Wastes of the said Forest And their Common of Pasture is continued to them in the said Wast Ground of the Forest when not Inclosed except in the Fence month viz. 15 days before and after Midsummer and in the Winter Heyning viz. from 11 Nov. to 23 Apr. subject to the Forest Laws as they might have enjoyed the same before the making of this Act Saving also to the adjacent Inhabitants their ancient right of Fuel provided they do not sell or dispose of any part thereof nor take the same in other manner than they ought nor by reason of any Claim not allowed according to the Forest Laws before 27 Eliz. X. If any persons take any Grant of the said Inclosures or Wastes or any Woods or Trees growing thereon every such Grant shall be void and the persons incapable to hold the same and shall forfeit treble the Value of such Grant to them which shall first sue for the same and shall also be incapable of holding any Office or Imployment whatsoever XI When any Sale of Wood shall be within the Forest publick notice thereof shall be given by the proper Officers in the adjacent Market Towns three weeks at least before such Sale and the proper Officers shall before the Sale give notice to two or more of the Verderers of the Valuation made and the person who shall offer most Money over and above the Valuation making his Proposal in Writing and giving Security for payment of the Money shall be the Purchaser XII No Officer shall take any Fee or Gratuity for Felling Trees to be cut down for the Inclosures or upon Sale of the residue of such Trees or of the Lops Tops or Roots of the said Trees XIII Any Officer offending in cutting down and disposing of Trees contrary to this Act shall forfeit his Office XIV Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 37. The Sum of 570000 l. having been appropriated for the Building and for the Guns Rigging and Furnishing of 27 Ships of War out of one third part of the Moneys arising by an Act made 2 W. M. Intituled An Act for Granting to their Majesties several Additional Duties of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for Four years from the time that an Act for doubling the Duty of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors during the space of One Year doth expire and by a preceding Act therein mentioned which Additional Duties were by several Clauses in an Act 3 4 W. M. Intituled An Act for Raising Money by a Poll payable Quarterly for one year for the carrying on a Vigorous War against France continued till 17 May 1697. for the Uses directed by the former Act And the said 27 Ships having been built and furnished except one Third Rate now building at Chatham and the Moneys appropriated being sufficient with an Overplus so much of the said Overplus as shall remain in the hands of the Treasurers of the Navy shall be applyed to the use of his Majesties Navy and so much as shall remain in the hands of the Treasurer or Paymaster of the Office of the Ordnance shall be applied to the Service of that Office relating to the Navy and the said Treasurers shall be accountable for the same accordingly And all such Stores bought for the said Ships as shall be more than necessary for that purpose shall be applied to the Service of his Majesties Navy and Ordnance and the proper Officers shall be accountable for the same I. Stat. 8 9 w. 3. cap. 13. The Act made 4 5 W. M. Intituled An Act for Punishing Officers and Soldiers who shall Mutiny or Desert their Majesties Service and for Punishing False Musters and for Payment of Quarters shall continue in Force from 10 Apr. 1697. to 10 Apr. 1698. and no longer II. And the Act made in the Fifth and Sixth years of King William and Queen Mary Intituled An Act for continuing the Act for punishing Officers and Soldiers who shall Mutiny or Desert their Majesties Service and for punishing False Musters and for payment of Quarters for one Year longer shall continue in Force from the said 10 April 1697. to 10 Apr. 1698. and no longer III. And the Act made in the Sixth and Seventh Years of the Reign of his present Majesty King William Intituled An Act for continuing two former Acts for punishing Officers and Soldiers who shall Mutiny or Desert his Majesties Service and for punishing false Musters and for payment of Quarters for one Year longer And also an Act made in the 7th and 8th Years of his said Majesties Reign Intituled An Act for continuing several former Acts for punishing Officers and Soldiers who shall Mutiny or Desert his Majesties Service and for punishing False Musters and for payment of Quarters for one Year longer shall continue in force from 10 Apr. 1697. to 10 Apr 1698. and no longer IV. Every Officer Commanding in Chief shall within twenty four hours after his coming into Quarters make publication by Sound of Trumpet or Beat of Drum in the Market-place or other Publick place how much shall be allowed every Soldier to be trusted above his Allowance for Diet Hay and Straw and how that no Shop-keeper shall trust any private Soldier for Goods without leave in Writing from the Officer commanding in Chief on pain of Forfeiting the Sum so intrusted And the Officer commanding in Chief omitting to make such Publications to be liable to pay the Debts so contracted V. One or more Justices of the Peace shall upon Complaint regulate the Quartering and Billetting of Soldiers VI. From 10 Apr. 1697 No Innholder Victualler or other Person shall be obliged to provide Meat or other Victuals for any Soldiers legally Quarter'd on them except in their March only if they shall give or tender to each Horseman 6 d per diem for his subsistance in Meat only and to every Dragoon and Foot Soldier 4 d. per diem for the same besides Candle and the Use of his Fire for dressing his Meat VII Provided
with the Principal Officers or Commissioners of the Navy Ordnance or Victualling Office for his Majesties use shall make any Stores of War or Naval Stores with the Marks usually used to his Majesties said Stores viz. Cordage of three Inches and upwards with a white Thread laid the contrary way smaller Cordage from three Inches downwards with a Twine in lieu of a White Thread laid the contrary way Canvis wrought or unwrought with a blue streak in the middle or any other Stores with the Broad Arrow by Stamp Brand or otherwise upon pain that every such person not being a Contractor as aforesaid or Imployed by such Contractor shall for every such Offence forfeit such Goods and 200 l. with Costs of Suit one moiety to the King the other to the Informer to be Recovered in any the Courts of Record at Westminster II. Persons in whose Custody such Stores so Marked shall be found not Imployed as aforesaid or who shall conceal such stores so marked and be convicted thereof shall forfeit such Goods and 200 l. with Costs of Suit one moiety to his Majesty and the other to the Informer and suffer Imprisonment till payment thereof unless such person upon his Tryal produce a Certificate under the hand of three or more of the Commissioners of the Navy Ordnance or Victuallers particularizing the Goods in question and the reason of such Goods coming into such persons hands III. Whereas divers persons have personated Seamen who have served on Board his Majesties Ships and thereby fraudulently received Moneys at the Pay Office or elsewhere and have Forged Letters of Attorney or Bills of Sale Assignment or Last Wills and have personated the Wives Relations or Creditors of such Seamen and taken Letters of Administration to them or Forged Letters of Attorney Bills of Sale or other Authorities in the Names of their Executors or Administrators for receipt of the Wages due to such Seamen It is Enacted That the Persons their Aiders or Abettors that shall be convicted of the said Crimes and Offences committed after 24 Jun. 1698. shall besides all other penalties forfeit 200 l. with costs of Suit one moiety to the King the other to the Informer to be recovered as aforesaid and suffer Imprisonment till payment thereof IV. The said principal Officers or Commissioners may sell and dispose of any the said Stores so marked as they might have done before the making of this Act and the Buyers may quietly keep and enjoy the same upon producing a Certificate under the Hand and Seal of three or more of the said Principal Officers or Commissioners that they bought such Goods from them or from some person who bought them from the said Officers or Commissioners before such Stores were found in their Custody Which Certificate shall express the quantities of such Stores and when and where bought of the said Commissioners Which Commissioners are to give such Certificates within 30 days after the sale and delivery of such Stores so sold V. Persons sued for discovering or seizing any such Stores so marked may plead the general Issue and give this Act and the special matter in Evidence And if the Defendants prove the Stores were so Marked and the Plaintiffs do not prove they were so Imployed or had such Certificate before such discovery and seizure and shewed it to the Defendants before such Suit commenced the Defendants shall be acquitted unless upon sight of such Certificate they did not deliver back to the Plaintiffs such Stores so seized in good Condition And upon such acquitting or that the Plaintiffs discontinue or be Nonsuit the Defendants shall recover Treble Costs VI. After the said 24 Jun. No Seamans Will contain'd in the same Instrument with a Warrant or Letter of Attorney shall be good in Law VII No Ecclesiastical Court or any person shall take more than 1 s. for the Seal Writing or Suing forth any Administration granted to the Wife or Children of any Seaman dying in pay of his Majesties Navy unless such Seamans Goods and Chattels amount to 20 l. The persons offending to forfeit to the Party grieved 10 l. VIII The principal Officers and Commissioners of the Navy or any chief Commander of any his Majesties Ships at Sea may Lend any of his Majesties Stores to any Merchant Ship or Vessel in Distress or otherwise in case such Goods be restored with all possible Conveniency and provided the persons Borrowing the same have such Certificate as aforesaid which the Lenders are hereby required to give Suits I. Stat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 11. After 25 of March 1697. where several persons shall be made Defendants to any Action of Trespass Assault false Imprisonment or Ejectione Firmae and any one or more shall upon Tryal be Acquitted by Verdict every person so Acquitted shall Recover his Costs of Suit unless the Judge shall immediately after the Tryal in open Court certifie upon the Record that there was a reasonable Cause for making such person or persons a Defendant or Defendants to such Action II. After the said 25 of March if any person shall Commence in any Court of Record any Action or Suit wherein upon Demurrer Judgment shall be given against the Plaintiff or Defendant or if at any time after Judgment given for the Defendant the Plaintiff shall Sue a Writ of Error and the said Judgment shall be affirmed or the said Writ discontinued or the Plaintiff Nonsuit therein the Defendant shall have Judgment to Recover his Costs against such Plaintiff and Execution by Capias ad satisfaciendum Fieri facias or Elegit III. After the said 25 of March in all Actions of Waste and Debt upon the Statute for not setting forth of Tithes where the Damage found by the Jury shall not exceed Twenty Nobles and in all Suits upon Writs of Scire facias and upon Prohibitions the Plaintiff obtaining Judgment or Award of Execution after Plea Pleaded or Demurrer joyn'd therein shall likewise Recover his Costs of Suit and if the Plaintiff become Nonsuit or Discontinue or a Verdict pass against him the Defendant shall have Costs and Execution for the same IV. In all Actions of Trespass Commenced after the said 25 of March in any Court of Record at Westminster where it shall appear at the Tryal and be certified by the Judge on the back of the Record that the Trespass was wilful and malicious the Plaintiff shall Recover not only his Damages but his full Costs of Suit V. Provided nothing herein contain'd shall alter the Laws in being as to Executors and Administrators in such Cases where they are not at present liable to pay Costs of Suit VI. In all Actions commenced in any Court of Record after the said 25 of March if the Plaintiff dye after an Interlocutory Judgment and before a final Judgment the said Action shall not abate if the said Action might be originally prosecuted by his Executors or Administrators and if the Defendant die after such Interlocutory Judgment and before Final Judgment
100 l. value VIII All persons having in their Tenure Possession or Occupation any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments whereupon there shall be any Horses Mares Geldings Colts Bulls Oxen Cows Calves Sheep Lambs Swine or other Cattle great or small or other Quick Stock whether the same belong to such persons respectively or to others shall pay for one Year after the Rate of 12 s. for every 100 l. of the true value thereof by Twelve like Kalendary Monthly payments of 12 d. for every 100 l. and so proportionably for a greater or lesser value IX A Proviso That the Wives and Children under the Age of Sixteen Years of such persons who are chargeable only with the first mentioned Duty of 4 d. per Month shall be Exempted from the said 4 d. per Month. X. All Manors Messuages Lands Tenements Quarries Mines Iron-Works Salt-Works and Allom-Works Parks Chaces Warrens Woods Under-Woods Coppices Fishings Tythes and Tolls Annuities Rents-charge and yearly Profits whatsoever shall be charged for one Year with the Sum of 3 s. for every 20 s. of the true and full yearly value without respect to the present Rents reserved or to any other Rates or Taxes thereupon or making any Abatement for Reparations or any other Charges and shall be paid by Twelve equal Monthly payments the first payment to be made on the said 25 Febr. 1696. and so on the 25th day of every subsequent Kalendary Month. XI The Owners of any of the said Lands Tenements and Hereditaments which are liable to any Rent-charges Annuities Fee-farm Rents Rents-Service or other Rents may deduct 3 s. in the Pound thereout and be allowed it by the persons Intituled to the said Rents XII His Majesty may appoint Commissioners under the Great Seal of England for the more effectual Execution of this Act who shall Meet together at the usual places upon or before 20 Feb. 1696. and may then Subdivide themselves so as there be Three or more to each Hundred or other Division And shall then give an Account in Writing to the Receiver General of the Commissioners appointed for each Division And the said Commissioners shall Issue their Precepts to such as they think fit to be Presenters or Assessors to appear before them within Five days and then to read the Rates and Charge them with the Execution of the Act And the persons to whom any Precepts are directed absenting without Excuse or refusing to Serve shall Forfeit a Sum not exceeding 5 l. nor less than 40 s. XIII The Commissioners shall appoint Two at the least of the most sufficient Inhabitants of each Parish c. to be Assessors who by a day prefixed shall bring in Certificates of the Names of the persons within their Division containing in several Columes The Tax payable by persons Chargeable with the 4 d. per Month The value of the Wages to be Rated The Pensions Stipends or other yearly payments The Nature and Value of Offices Imployments and Professions The Ready Money and Debts at Interest The Stock in Trade The Stock upon Land and the Monthly Rates of the Premisses respectively XIV And the Assessors are Injoyned to Inform themselves of the full yearly Value of all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whatsoever above the Reserved Rent and to Assess the same at the Rate of 3 s. for every 20 s. of the full yearly Value and to Describe the Lands c. in their Books so as may best Ascertain the Rates intended by the Act to be Imposed XV. The Assessors shall be the Collectors of the Moneys payable by this Act and the Parish c. to be answerable for their paying it to the Head Collectors And if any Assessor refuse to Serve or make Default without a Lawful Excuse he shall Forfeit a Sum not exceeding 20 l. nor less than 10 l. XVI Every Assessor shall before the Execution of the said Imployment take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and an Oath for the faithful Execution of his Duty as an Assessor And shall make the Assessments and return the Certificates thereof to the Commissioners by the Fifth Day of March 1696. who may then Examine the same or within Twenty days after And if the Commissioners suspect any of the Lands c. to be under Charged they may examine the Owners thereof who for neglecting to appear without Lawful Excuse shall Forfeit double the Sum Chargeable thereupon XVII The Commissioners shall Inform themselves upon Oath of any Omissions or Under Assessments and set such Rates as shall be according to the Meaning of the Act And deliver back Duplicates of the Assessments to Collect by and to the Receivers General and their Head Collectors And return Extracts of the said Assessments into the Exchequer on or before the Tenth of March 1696. or within Forty days after And the Kings Remembrancer is within Three Months after the Duplicates of the last payment return'd to transmit Copies to the Auditor of the Receipt XVIII The Assessments shall be Collected Monthly or within Fourteen days after they become due and Collectors are to pay what they receive to the Head Collectors within Fourteen days after the times prefixt for Demanding the same XIX The Commissioners may appoint other Collectors in the Rooms of such as dye are sick fail or are overburdened XX. The Head Collectors shall hasten the Subcollectors and in case of neglect or failure shall Distrain upon the Subcollectors And the Head Collector shall make payment to the Receiver General within Seven days after the time for payment by the Subcollectors And the Receiver General is to hasten the Head Collectors and to pay what he receives from the Head Collector into the Exchequer within Seven days after the times prefixt for payment by the Head Collector And all persons concerned in the Execution of this Act are to use Diligence XXI The Head Collectors Receipt shall be a Discharge to the Subcollector Which Subcollector is to have 4 d. in the Pound for what he Receives and not forced to Travel above Ten Miles XXII The Head Collector is to be appointed by the Receiver General who is to be answerable for the Money so Collected or Received and whose Acquittance shall be a Discharge to the Head Collector Which Receiver General is to have 2 d. in the Pound for what he shall pay into the Exchequer And the Commissioners Clerks to have 3 Half-pence in the Pound for Writing the Warrants Certificates Estreats and Duplicates XXIII In case of Non-payment the Subcollectors to Distrain and the Distress having been kept Four days at the Owners Charge then to be Appraised and Sold and the Overplus returned XXIV It shall be lawful to break open Houses in the day time and by Warrant from the Commissioners any Chest c. Calling to Assistance the Constables c. And where no Distress can be found the person to be Imprisoned till payment XXV Parents or Guardians are to pay the Rates Imposed on Infants and to be allowed the same on
or discharged but by Consent of the majority of the Commissioners who Imposed the same but shall be Levied by Distress or Sale of the Offenders Goods and in default of Goods the Offenders shall be Imprisoned till payment of the Fines XLIII The Collectors not paying the Money they Collect according to the direction of the Act are to be Imprisoned and their Estates Seized Whereupon the Commissioners are to appoint a General Meeting of which Six days Notice at least is to be given and then to Sell what shall be so Seized or any part thereof XLIV At the Expiration of the time for the full payment of all the said Monthly payments the Commissioners are to examine into the full payment of the Sums Charged and in case of failure to cause the same to be forthwith Levied and Paid XLV If any Controversie arise concerning the Assessing the Commissioners the Commissioners concern'd shall withdraw during the Debate and in default thereof shall be Fined not exceeding 20 l. And all Questions and Differences are to be determin'd by the Commissioners without Suit in Law XLVI A Proviso against Charging any Colleges or Halls in the Universities or the Colleges of Windsor Eaton Winchester or Westminster The Corporation of Clergymens Sons Bromley Colledge or the Settlement in Trust of Tobias Rustat on Jesus College or any Alms-Houses or Free-Schools or any Master Fellow or Scholar of any College or Free-School or any Reader Officer or Minister of the Universities or the Masters or Ushers of any Schools or Alms Men of any Hospital or Alms-house for their Stipends or the Houses or Lands of Christs Hospital St. Bartholomews Bridewell St. Thomas and Bethlehem Hospital or the Poor of any Hospital whose Annual Maintenance doth not exceed 20 l. Provided that the Tenants of such Hospitals c. shall be Rated for what the Lands are worth above the Rents reserved XLVII All places are to be Assessed in such County Division or Place where usually Assessed Provided that West Barnfield Hundred in Kent may be Assessed in the Lathe of Scray Northmore Tything in Oxfordfordshire in the Hundred of Bampton The Tythings of Charlbury Faller and Finstock in the Hundred of Chadlington The Town and Parish of Leeds in Yorkshire in the Hundred of Seyrack XLVIII A Proviso that this Act shall not make void any Contracts between Landlords and Tenants or any others touching Taxes XLIX If any Action be Commenced or Prosecuted for any thing done in pursuance of this Act the Defendant may plead the general Issue and this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence and if the Plaintiff be Nonsuit or Verdict pass against him the Defendant shall recover Treble Costs L. The Receivers General shall give the Head Collectors Acquittances gratis and so shall the Head Collectors to the Subcollectors LI. The Subcollectors shall deliver Schedules to the Head Collectors of those that make default of Payment where there is no Distress which Schedules are to be deliver'd to the Receivers General to be return'd into the Exchequer And where Land or Houses are unoccupied and no Distress nor the person of the Owner to be found within the County such persons Name is to be Certified into the Exchequer and Process thereupon is to issue against the Body Land and Goods LII In case of Non-payment for Woodlands and no Distress to be had so much of the Wood Timber Trees excepted may be Felled and Sold as will pay the Assessment And in case of Non-payment of Tythes Tolls Profits of Markets Fairs Fisheries or other Annual Profits not Distrainable so much thereof may be seized and Sold as the Tax amounts unto LIII Receivers General returning any into the Exchequer who have paid their Tax are to Forfeit treble Damage to the Party agrieved and to his Majesty double the Sum unjustly certified LIV. The Commissioners are to Assess each other within their Division and are also to Assess the Assessors LV. All persons having any share in the New-River Thames Hide-Park Marybone or Hampsted Waters or any Profits arising thereby or any Stock in the Office for Insuring of Houses or in the Convex or other Lights or in the Kings Printing House shall pay 3 s. in the Pound of the full yearly Value and these Stocks or Shares and all Companies of Merchants in London are to be Assessed by Three or more of the Commissioners appointed for the City of London and the Sums to be paid by the respective Governors Treasurers or Receivers LVI The Commissioners are to require an Account from time to time of the Moneys Receiv'd by the Receivers General and of the Payments thereof into the Exchequer and in case of failure to cause the same to be forthwith Levied LVII No Letters Patents or Privileges shall exempt any from Payment of the Rates in this Act. LVIII Provided that no person be compelled to be an Assessor or Collector out of the Limits of the City Borough or Town Corporate where he lives LIX And provided that the Assessments on Houses where Foreign Ministers shall be resident shall be paid by the Landlord or Owner LX. In all Privileged and extraparochial Places the Commissioners are to Nominate two persons in or near the said places to be Assessors LXI A Proviso that no Commissioner shall be liable to the Penalties in the Act of 25 Car. 2. touching Popish Recusants nor be capable to Act before he hath taken the Oaths in the Act 1 W. M. For Abrogating the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and also the Oath hereby appointed which Oaths any Two of the Commissioners are to Administer LXII Every Papist or reputed Papist of the Age of Sixteen Years or upwards not having taken the Oaths in the said Act of 1 W. M. is to pay double unless he or she take the Oaths within Ten Days after the first meeting of the Commissioners LXIII Every person of Sixteen years of Age or upwards who shall not have taken the Oaths before the time of the Execution of the Act and being Summon'd shall refuse to take the Oaths or neglect to appear before the Commissioners in order thereto shall pay double LXIV Every Gentleman or so reputed or being above that Quality who by the Act 3 W. M. for the Quarterly Poll did or ought to have paid double and shall not voluntarily take the Oaths before Two or more Commissioners within Ten days after their first meeting shall pay double LXV And the Commissioners upon Information or Suspicion are to Summon the person suspected to appear and take the Oaths Quakers instead of the Oaths may Make and Subscribe the Declaration of Fidelity 1 W. M. and so doing shall not be liable to double Rates LXVI Provided that where the Owners of Lands are liable to double Rates such Owner only shall pay the double Rate and not the Tenant notwithstanding any Covenant for payment of Taxes LXVII A Proviso that no person be liable to the Pound Rate whose Lands c. are
Wines c. on the 6000 l. per Week out of the Excise or the 600 l. per Week out of the Post-Office and the other fifth part in Bank Bills or Notes CXXXV After 24 Jun. 1697. Interest of Eight per Cent. per Ann. shall be allowed for the Talleys and Orders so subscribed out of the Funds or Provisions granted by this Act. CXXXVI The Interest payable to the Bank upon so many Talleys or Orders as the Bank is already possessed of whereof the principal shall be equal to the said Fifth part subscribed in Bank Bills or Notes shall be likewise augmented to Eight per Cent. per ann after the said 24 June CXXXVII And the said new Subscribers shall after the said 24 June be Members of and united to the present Bank of England by the Name of the Governour and Company of the Bank of England with perpetual Succession and a Common Seal c. CXXXVIII Provided That upon twelve months notice after 1 Aug. 1710. upon repayment by Parliament to the said Bank the 1200000 l. mentioned in the Act for granting several Rates upon Tunnage c. and all Arrears of the 100000 l. per ann and all the Principal and Interest which shall be due to the said Bank upon Talleys c. then the said Bank to cease and determine But that during the continuance of this Bank no other Bank shall be crected or permitted by Act of Parliament CXXXIX The Interest due on Talleys and Orders subscribed into the Bank shall be accepted as so much Principal Money CXL The said Bank may borrow or give security for by Bills over and above the 1200000 l. to which they were at first limited any Sum not exceeding the Sum subscribed under an Obligation of paying the said Bills in Money upon demand and in default thereof the said Bills to be paid at the Exchequer out of the first Money due unto the Bank other than the Fund of 100000 l. per ann But that these Bills shall be distinguisht from the Debts contain'd within the said 1200000 l. CXLI The Capital Stock and Fund of the said Bank shall be exempt from Taxes CXLII After the compleating of the said Subscriptions the Interest of all Talleys and Orders subscribed together with the said 100000 l. per ann shall be applied to the use of the Bank proportionably to each Members Share therein CXLIII After 25 Mar. 1697 the Stock of the said Bank shall be accounted a Personal and not a Real Estate and descend accordingly And no Bank Stock shall be sold without Registring the Contract thereof at the Bank within seven days and actually transferring it within fourteen days CXLIV No Act of the Bank shall forfeit the Stock thereof provided they pay their Debts And it shall be Felony to counterfeit the common Seal of the said Bank or any seal'd Bank Bill or any Bank Note or alter or erase such Bills or Notes CXLV The Office of the Exchequer shall keep distinct Accounts of all Moneys appropriated or due to the said Bank either upon the Fund of 100000 l. per Annum or any other Parliamentary Funds or for Talleys belonging to the said Bank and shall duly Direct Record and make Payment thereof under Penalty of loss of Place c. CXLVI The Moneys arising by the continuation of the Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage c. by Wines Vinegar and Tobacco c. by the Additional Impositions on Goods and Merchandizes by Vellum Parchment and Paper by Marriages Births and Burials c. and by the Duties on Houses from the times the said Duties are severally continued as aforesaid till 1 Aug. 1706. And by the surplus of the said Duties on Wine Vinegar and Tobacco c. over and above the 1500000 l. Credit given thereupon and the Interest thereof arising by the Act continued till the said 29 Sept. 1701. And also on Houses after the repayment of 7382 l. 11 s. 4 d. borrowed thereon and the Interest thereof And after that the Bills Signed at the Mints for 6 d. per oz. upon Plate brought in between 4 May 1696. and 4 Nov. 1696 arising by the Act granted for seven years from 25 Mar. 1696. And upon Salt Glass-Wares c. after the repayment of 1724000 l. borrowed thereon and the Interest thereof arising by the Act Anno 7 8 W. 3. shall be the General Fund for making good the particular Funds or Deficiencies in this Act expressed and shall be appropriated and applied accordingly CXLVII And the Moneys arising by the said General Fund before 28 Jun. 1698. as well for the Duties on Houses after the said 7382 l. 11 s. 4 d. and the Interest thereof and the 6 d. per oz. for Silver is satisfied as for the said Additional Duties on Goods and Merchandizes continued from ult Febr. 1696. shall be applied towards Interest due to the Bank of England or others for Loans upon the First Third and Fourth 4 s. Aids the Quarterly Poll three Fourths of the Customs and two Thirds of the Additional Excise and upon the Additional Impositions ending 1 Mar. 1696. And out of the same Moneys the Bank shall receive so much as will make their part of the Interest 8 l. per Cent. for all their Talleys and Orders CXLVIII Provided That if the said Money fall short a proportionable part so far as it will extend shall be applied to the Interest upon each of those Funds And if there be an Overplus the same to go towards the principal Moneys upon each of those Funds proportionably CXLIX And the Moneys arising by the said General Fund after 28 Jun. 1698. as well by the said Duties on Houses and Additional Impositions as at any time or times for the said Duties on Vellum Parchment and Paper continued from 28 Jun. 1698. to 1 Aug. 1706. And for Tunnage and Poundage c. continued from 25 Dec. 1699 to 1 Aug. 1706. And for Marriages Births and Burials c. continued from 1 May 1700. to 1 Aug. 1706. And for Wines Vinegar and Tobacco c. continued from 28 Sept. 1701. to 1 Aug. 1706. And by the said surplus on Wines Vinegar and Tobacco c. and on Salt Glass Wares c. shall be applied towards Principal and Interest of the said First Third and Fourth Aids of 4 s. per pound the Quarterly Poll the three Fourths of the Customs the Duties on Salt c. the two Thirds of the Additional Excise the Additional Impositions the Duties on Vellum Paper and Parchment on Marriages Births and Burials c. on Wines Vinegar and Tobacco c. and the 300000 l. per Annum out of Tunnage and Poundage in proportion to the respective Deficiencies as computed in this Act. CL. And by 26 July 1698. and thenceforth every Twenty eight days an account shall be made up at the Treasury of all the Moneys brought in applicable to the said deficient Funds which shall be applied proportionably as aforesaid as well to the Bank of England as
Miles from their Habitations CCXL The Sum of 371003 l. 15 s. 6 d. for the first Quarterly Payment shall be paid to the Receivers General on or before 2 May 1698. And the like Sum for the second Quarterly Payment on or before 2 Aug. 1698. The like Sum for the third Quarterly Payment on or before 2 Nov. 1698. And the Sum of 371003 l. 15 s. 5 d. three Farthings for the last Quarterly Payment on or before 2 Feb. 1698. CCXLI. Every Receiver General within a Month after he shall have received the full Sum charged on any Division for each particular Payment shall give the Commissioners a Receipt which shall be a full Discharge for such particular Payment Which Receivers General shall within Twenty days after their Receipt pay the same into the Exchequer and shall be Allow'd 2 d. in the Pound for what they shall so pay in CCXLII. The Collectors shall have 3 d. in the Pound for what they Collect and Pay pursuant to the Act And the Commissioners Clerks shall be allow'd Three Half-pence in the Pound for Writing the Assessments Duplicates c. CCXLIII Persons refusing or neglecting to pay the Collectors are to Levy the Sum Assess'd by Distress and having kept the same Four Days at the Owners Charge then to be Appraised and Sold and the Overplus return'd And it shall be Lawful to break open Houses in the day time and by Warrant from Two Commissioners any Chest c. calling to assistance the Constables c. and all Questions concerning Distresses shall be Determin'd by the Commissioners CCXLIV Persons refusing to pay their Assessment by the space of four days after demand or conveying away their Goods except a Peer or Peeress shall be committed to Goal till Payment be made CCXLV The Tenants are to pay the Tax and deduct the same out of their Rents which the Landlords are requir'd to allow CCXLVI Tenants paying the Assessments shall be discharg'd for so much and the Commissioners shall have power to settle Differences between Landlord and Tenant or others concerning the Tax CCXLVII. Persons over-rated complaining to the Commissioners within six days after Demand may be relieved within ten days after Demand of the said Assesment and Appeals once determin'd to be final CCXLVIII In case the Proportions set by this Act on any County c. shall not be duly answer'd as first laid the Commissioners are to cause new Assessments to be made CCXLIX Any person neglecting or refusing to do his Duty in the execution of the Act may be fined as the Commissioners shall think fit not exceeding 20 l. which Fine shall not be taken off but by consent of the Commissioners who Impos'd the same but shall be paid into the Exchequer and inserted in the Duplicates CCL Collectors not paying the Money they receive as the Act directs are to be imprison'd and their Estates Real and Personal seiz'd and sold for satisfaction CCLI The Commissioners are to examine whether the Money Assess'd be duly Collected and Returned to the Receivers General and by them paid into the Exchequer and in case of failure to cause the same to be forthwith levied and paid CCLII In case any Controversie arise about the Assesments which concerns any Commissioners the Commissioners concern'd are to withdraw during the Debate and in default the Commissioners present may set a Fine not exceeding 20 l. CCLIII No Priviledged Place or person shall be Exempt from the Assessment but they and also all Fee-Farm and other Rents and Payments issuing out of Land shall be Taxed and paid by the Tenants who shall thereupon be kept harmless CCLIV This Act shall not extend to charge any College or Hall in the Universities the Colleges of Windsor Eaton Winton and Westminster the Corporation of Clergymens Sons Bromley Colledge or any Hospital for the Sites thereof nor any Master Fellow Scholar Reader Officer or Minister of the Universities c. nor Masters or Ushers of Schools for their Stipends nor the Houses or Lands of Christs Hospital St. Bartholomews Bridewell St. Thomas or Bethlehem Hospital or Mr. Askes Hospital at Hoxton or the Charity of Zechariah Jepson at Rippon or of the said Corporation of Clergy-mens Sons or Bromley College nor any other Hospital or Alms house in respect only of Rents for the immediate relief of the Poor therein CCLV. Nevertheless the Tenants of Lands or Houses belonging to Hospitals shall be rated for what such Houses and Lands are worth above the Rents reserved and the Tenants to Colleges c who by their Leases or Contracts are to pay Taxes shall not be discharged CCLVI. All Auditors and Receivers of Rents due to the King or Queen Dowager shall allow a Rate to be abated in proportion to the Tax on the Lands c. out of which they are payable CCLVII Persons inhabiting in London or any other City or Town Corporate shall be Taxed in the Parish or ward where they dwell CCLVIII. No Clause or Proviso in this Act shall lessen the Sum appointed to be levied by the Act. Nothing in this Act shall make void any Contracts between Landlord or Tenant or others touching payment of Taxes CCLIX All places shall be Assess'd in such County Division or Place where usually assess'd Provided that West-Barnfeild Hundred shall be Assess'd in the Lath of Scray in Kent Northmore Tything in the Hundred of Bampton in Oxfordshire Charthbury Faller and Finstock Tythings in the Hundred of Chadlington the Town and Parish of Leeds in Yorkshire in the Hundred of Skyrack and the Forest of Chute where the same was Assess'd to the first 4 s. Aid CCLX If any Action be brought for any thing done in pursuance of this Act the Defendant may plead the General Issue and give this Act and the special Matter in Evidence and if the Plaintiff be Nonsuit c. the Defendant shall recover treble Costs CCLXI Where Lands or Houses are unoccupied and no Distress found Distress may be made at any time after by the Collectors Constable or Tything Man and unless redeem'd in four days may be sold rendring the Overplus to the Owner and distributed proportionably to the Parties who contributed to the Tax of the said unoccupied Lands CCLXII Where Wood-Lands are Assess'd and no Distress can be had the Collectors c. by Warrant from the Commissioners at seasonable times of the year may cut down and sell so much Wood Timber Trees excepted as will pay the Assessment CCLXIII Where Tythes Tolls Profits of Markets c. are Taxed and the same not paid in fifteen days after demand the Collectors c. by Warrant of the Commissioners may seize so much of the said Tythes c. as will pay the Tax CCLXIV Receivers General returning any Persons into the Exchequer who have paid the Tax shall forfeit treble Damages to the Party grieved and to his Majesty double the Sum returned CCLXV. The Commissioners shall Assess each other for personal Estates and Offices so as such personal Estate and
pay subsequent Tickets when brought and demanded before such Tickets as were not brought in course provided there be Money reserved to satisfie such preceding Tickets CCCCIV The additional Duties of Excise granted by the said Act and which ought to come weekly into the Exchequer the Officers Salaries and incident Charges not exceeding 2500 l. per Ann. only excepted are hereby appropriated during the whole term of 16 years thereby granted to the payment of the said Annuities and Tickets for the same CCCCV. After 15 May 1698. No Officer appointed to pay the Annuities for one two or three Lives purchased for the respective Considerations mentioned in the Act of 5 6 W. and M. Intituled An Act for Granting to their Majesties several Rates and Duties upon Tunnage of Ships and Vessels and upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for securing certain Recompences and Advantages in the said Act mentioned to such persons as shall voluntarily advance the Sum of 1500000 l. towards carrying on the War against France payable quarterly out of two seventh parts of the several Duties thereby granted and the Reversions of the said Annuities or some of them or further interest therein purchased by several subsequent Acts shall pay off any quarterly payment of the said Annuities till the preceedent quarter be paid off or the Money ready in the Office for payment thereof whereof publick notice in Writing shall be affixed in the said Office under Penalty of forfeiting his place and 100 l. for every such offence to the Persons who shall Sue for the same to be recovered with costs of Suit as aforesaid CCCCVI Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 35. Enacted That all the Clauses in the Acts of the sixth seventh and eighth years of his Majesties Reign in relation to the Duties on Marriages Births Burials Batchelors and Widowers not otherwise hereby altered or explained shall be duly observed under the Penalties in the said Acts. CCCCVII The Commissioners for the Aid to his Majesty of 1484015 l. 1 s. 11 d. 3 f. shall be Commissioners for the said Acts for Marriages Births and Burials till 24 Jun. 1699. who with the Justices of Peace or a Quorum of them appointed by the former Acts shall have full power to Act in all things relating to the said Duties and after the 24 Jan. 1699. the Justices as aforesaid shall be the Commissioners CCCCVIII All persons required by the former Acts to keep a Register shall with the name of every person Married Buried Christened or Born express the Degree and Quality according to which the Duty ought to be paid and upon Burials the names of the Heirs Executors Administrators Fathers Mothers Guardians Churchwardens Overseers or others who are to pay for the same and where they dwell And in case of Births the names of the Fathers Mothers Guardians or Curators of such Children and where they live And in case of Marriages the Husbands abode under penalty of 20 l. one moiety to the King the other to the Informer And every person who ought to pay the said Duties shall give the Minister who performs the Office of such Marriage Burial or Christening a true relation of the Degree and Quality according to which the Duty ought to be paid and where the person lives who ought to pay the same to be inserted in the Register under penalty of 20 l. CCCCIX. The words Ecclesiastical Persons in this Act and Persons in Holy Orders in the former Acts are to comprehend Bishops where Marriages Christenings or Burials are performed by them CCCCX Upon any Persons removal or going away without payment of the Duties any two of the Commissioners certifying such default under their Hands and Seals the like number of Commissioners in any other place where the person shall be sound shall cause the said Duties to be paid and upon default may Levy the same by Distress and Sale of Goods CCCCXI All Penalties in this and the former Acts touching the said Duties except the Penalty of 100 l. for not duly keeping a Register shall be determined by two or more Justices or Commissioners near the place upon Oath and levied by distress and sole of Goods and for want of Distress the Offender to be Committed to Prison But the Commissioners may mitigate such Penalty so that it be not less than double the Duty CCCCXII The Commissioners in the respective Divisions shall meet together on or before the first of August 1698. and so once or oftner every three Months for the Execution of this and the former Acts and they or any two of them are to warn the Assessors Collectors Surveyors Inspectors and Receivers General and if need be any Parsons Vicars Curates Parish-Clerks and others concerned in the said Duties to bring in their Assessments Accounts and Registers and upon default may Fine the Offenders not exceeding 5 l. CCCCXIII And shall Examine the said Assessments Accounts and Registers and cause the persons omitted or not fully charged to be duly taxed and thereupon to sign the Assessments and cause Duplicates of the gross Sums to be Transmitted into the Exchequer CCCCXIV The Collectors shall render their Accounts upon Oath and in default thereof may be fined by the Commissioners not exceeding 20 l. CCCCXV. Every Collector duly discharging himself shall besides the 3 d. in the pound in the former Acts be allowed 2 d. in the pound for what he shall pay to the Receiver General and the Commissioners Clerks shall have an Additional allowance of 1 d. in the pound CCCCXVI After 1 Aug. 1698. every person who ought to pay any of the said Duties shall pay or tender the same to the proper Collector within twenty days after it shall become due on pain of paying double the said Duties CCCCXVII The Clause in the former Act An. 6. W. 3. for the Collectors delivering a Copy of the Assessment to the Minister of the place under penalty of 5 l. and for the Ministers reading the same in the Church under the like penalty is hereby Repealed CCCCXVIII The ten days allowed by the said former Act for Appealing shall be reckoned from the time of the Collectors demand CCCCXIX Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 38. Enacted That every person of what Age Sex or Condition soever in England and Wales shall pay to his Majesty one shilling on 24 Aug. 1698. one shilling 24 Novemb. 1698. one shilling 24 Febr. 1698. and one shilling 24 May 1699. Except such as receive Alms of the Parish and their Children under the age of 16 years and all poor House keepers not contributing to Church or Poor and their Children under 16 years and except all Children under 16 years of Day Labourers and Servants in Husbandry and of such who have 4 Children or more and are not worth in Lands Goods and Chattels 50 l. CCCCXX Every Gentleman or so Reputed having an Estate real or personal or in both of 300 l. or more and every person above that quality and not a Peer
shall serve in the Navy Royal And out of the first Moneys arising by this Act 250000 l. shall be Appropriated for payment of Quarters due from the Land Forces in England since 1 Jan. 1696. CCCCLXVI The Rules and Directions in the Act 1 W. M. For a Grant to Their Majesties of an Aid of Two shillings in the Pound for One Year for the speedy payment of the Money thereby Granted and Application thereof and all other Provisions therein are hereby Revived touching the Distribution and Application of the Sums hereby Appropriated CCCCLXVII Any Persons Natives or Foreigners Bodies Politick or Corporate may Advance and Lend upon the Security of this Act any Sums of Money not exceeding 500000 l. at 7 per Cent. per Ann. Interest for the first 250000 l. and 8 per Cent. per Ann. for the Remaining 250000 l. CCCCLXVIII And may also Lend upon the Security of the Moneys arising upon Coals and Culm after 24 Jun. 1698. any Sum not exceeding 500000 l. at 7 per Cent. per Ann. Interest for the first 100000 l. and 8 per Cent. per Ann. for the remaining 400000 l. And no Money so lent or advanced shall be Assessed CCCCLXIX There shall be kept in the Exchequer in the Auditors Office Two Books for Registring all Moneys that shall be paid in upon the Quarterly Poll hereby granted and on Coals and Culm distinct from all other Money And all persons lending Money thereon shall have a Talley and Order for Repayment with Interest payable every Three Months which Orders shall be Registred and paid in Course without preference of one before another and without taking any Fee or Reward for such Registers Entries Views or Search under Penalty of double Damages to the Party agrieved with costs of Suit and if it be by the Officer himself loss of place also And under Penalty of paying the value of the Debt Damages and Costs and loss of place in case of undue preference CCCCLXX Provided That it shall be no undue preference where several Orders are brought to the Auditor the same day which of those he Enters first Nor shall it be any undue preference if the Auditor Direct the Clerk of the Pells Record and the Tellers pay Subsequent Orders where persons demand not their Money in Course provided so much Money be reserved as will satisfie precedent Orders Interest ceasing from the time of such reservation CCCCLXXI All which Orders being Entred may by Indorsement and Entry thereof in the said Register Book be Assigned and Tranferred toties quoties CCCCLXXII His Majesty may make use of any Sums not exceeding 600000 l. in the whole arising by any the Aids or Supplies granted or to be granted this Session of Parliament and not particularly Appropriated towards discharging the Talleys of Pro or Assignment or other Talleys remaining unsatisfied on the Hereditary and Temporary Excise or on the Weekly Sum of 6000 l. issuing out of the same or on the Post-Office and Weekly Sum of 600 l. issuing out of the same and for other His Majesties necessary Occasions or for satisfying such Moneys as have been or shall be borrowed to supply the same CCCCLXXIII All Auditors Reeves or Receivers and their Deputies shall upon the Act of this present Session for granting to His Majesty 1484015 l. 1 s. 11 d. 3 q. For Disbanding Forces paying Seamen and other Uses therein mentioned allow 3 s. for every Pound Rent due for any Fee farm Rent or other chief Rents due to His Majesty or the Queen Dowager or to any person or persons Claiming by any Grant or Purchase from or under the Crown and proportionably for any greater or lesser Sum to the parties so paying the same without Fee upon Penalty of 20 l. And if any such Auditor or his Deputy set insuper any Tenant or other person or make their Estate liable to Distress or Vexation for any Money which ought to be allowed after the said Rate of 3 s. in the Pound or refuse or neglect to allow the same he shall forfeit 100 l. to the Party grieved and be incapable of his Office or Place or any other Office or Place of Trust or Profit under His Majesty or the Queen Dowager CCCCLXXIV Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 45. Enacted That after 1 Aug. 1698. One half of the several Rates and Duties Charged by several Acts made in 6 7 W. 3. on Glass and Glass wares and the whole Duties charged by the said Acts on Stone and Earthen Bottles Stone and Earthen Wares and on Tobacco Pipes shall cease and be no longer payable CCCCLXXV And that in lieu thereof from 10 July 1698. there shall be paid to his Majesty for 8 years for all Whale-Fins and Scotch Linens Imported into England Wales or Barwick over and above all Duties already payable the further Rates following viz. CCCCLXXVI For all Whale-Fins caught and Imported in any Ships belonging to the Greenland Company 3 d. per pound weight And for all Whale Fins Caught or Imported by Foreigners or by Ships not belonging to the said Company 6 d. per pound Weight to be paid by the Importers CCCCLXXVII For all Linen of the Manufacture of Scotland called Twill Imported or Brought in as aforesaid Ten shillings for every hundred containing 120 Ells. And for all Scotch Linen called Ticking Six shillings 8 d. per hundred containing 120 Ells to be paid by the Importers CCCCLXXVIII The Importer giving Security at the Custom-House shall have 12 Months to pay the Duty by 4 equal quarterly payments And in case he pays Ready Money shall be abated after 10 per Cent. per Ann. If the Goods aforementioned after the Duties paid or secured be again Exported by any English Merchant within 12 Months or by Strangers in 9 Months the said Duty to be wholly Repaid or the Security vacated for what shall be so exported CCCCLXXIX Provided That this Act shall not make void any payments of Money due to his Majesty for any Glass Wares Stone or Earthen Wares or Tobacco Pipes actually made before the said 1 Aug. And that all matters and things contained in the said two former Acts for Securing to His Majesty the Duties on Glass Wares shall be applied for securing the moiety of the said Duty on Glass Wares not hereby taken away CCCCLXXX And for all Glass Wares which shall be Exported before 1 Decemb. 1698. for which the whole Duties have been paid or secured the same shall be repaid or the security vacated And for all Glass Wares exported after the said 1 Decemb. 1698. only one Moiety of the said former Duties shall be drawn back CCCCLXXXI No Makers of Glass or Glass Wares after the said 1 Aug. 1698. shall draw or remove from their Kins or Surrores any Glass or Glass-Wares unless the Officer appointed to attend such Glass-house be present or have Notice of it on Forfeiture of 10 l. one Moiety to the King the other to the Prosecutor CCCCLXXXII All Bottles and Glass Vessels
imported although filled with Liquor shall pay one Moiety of the Duties charged thereon by the former Acts. CCCCLXXXIII Upon the Importation of any Whale Fins Scotch Linen or Tickings as aforesaid Entry thereof shall be made in the Custom-house where imported And in case of Landing any such Goods before due Entry made and the Duties secured or without a Warrant from the Commissioners or proper Officers of the Customs for Landing the same such Goods shall be forfeited or the value thereof and be recovered of the importer or proprietor one Moiety to the King the other to the Seiser or Prosecutor CCCCLXXXIV The said Duties payable for Whale Fins and Scotch Linen as aforesaid shall be managed by the Commissioners of the Customs And the Receivers General of the Customs shall bring the Produce thereof necessary charges only excepted into the Receipt of the Exchequer And the Officers of the Exchequer shall apply the said Duties as also the half Duties on Glass Waies for the payment of such Principal and Interest Moneys whereunto the whole Duties on Glass and Earthen Wares and Tobacco Pipes ought to have been applied in the same Order and under the like Penalties and Forfeitures as in the said former Acts are prescribed Trade I. Stat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 36. Enacted That whosoever shall Import any Foreign Alamodes or Lustrings into England Wales or Town of Berwick without paying the Customs and Rates due for the same at such Importation or shall Import any Alamodes or Lustrings prohibited by Law or undertake or agree to deliver or shall deliver any such Goods or Merchandize or shall pay any Money Praemium or Reward for Insuring or Conveying any such Goods or knowingly receive or take the same into his or her House Custody or Possession such Person may be prosecuted for the same in any Action Suit or Information and thereupon a Capias specifying the Sum of the Penalties shall Issue and the Party obliged to give sufficient Bail to the Officer to appear in Court and shall at the time of appearance give sufficient Bail to pay the penalties for such Offences in case of Conviction or yield his Body to Prison II. It shall be lawful for any Person to Sue for and Recover the penalty of 500 l. imposed by the Stat. 4 5 W. M. upon Insuring to Import Prohibited Goods or Goods without paying Custom cap. 15 Customs 166. by Action of Debt c. in any of the Kings Courts of Record at Westminster wherein no Essoign c. shall be allowed III. All Black Alamodes and Lustrings wheresoever made which shall be found in the Possession of any Person not Markt and Seal'd by the Custom House or the Royal Lustring Company shall be forfeited and may be seized as forfeited whether the same hath been bought and sold or not and the Person in whose Custody they are found shall incur the penalties relating to Alamodes and Lustrings in an Act made 6 7 W. 3. cap. 18. Trade 84. IV. No Alamodes and Lustrings that after the 10 of April 1697 shall be seized and forfeited by virtue of any Law now in force shall be used in England but shall be exported again and to that end shall immediately on their Seizure be carried to the Custom-house Ware house in London and there sold by Inch of Candle on Condition to be exported and Security given for Exportation which Security may be discharged by Certificate from the Port where such Goods shall be Landed or Oath made that they were lost at Sea V. On Exportation of Foreign Lustrings or Alamodes the Exporter shall not be Intituled to Receive Draw back or be repaid the Customs or Impositions paid or secured on Importation of the same or any part thereof VI. Every Person that shall Imbezel Pawn Sell or Detain any of the Silk delivered to them as Agents Journeymen Warpers or Winders or after it is wrought up and every Receiver Buyer and Pawn-taker of any the said Goods shall be subject to all the Penalties and Punishments mentioned and provided in an Act made 13 14 Car. 2. chap. 15. and in another Act made 20 Car. 2. chap. 6. both for regulating the Trade of Silk throwing VII All such pieces of Alamodes and Lustrings as some Weavers have now by them unmarkt and shall appear upon Oath made in Writing before any Justice of Peace by one or more credible Witnesses to be Manufactured within this Realm before the 10 of April 1697 shall be brought to the Royal Lustring Companies Ware-house and the Evidence being there produced shall be Markt and Sealed gratis by the said Company before the 1 of May 1697 and then be lawful to be Sold as if manufactured by the said Company VIII The said Weavers shall give an Account weekly to the said Company to whom they have Sold such Goods so marked and sealed under the penalty of double the value of such Goods for every Omission to be recovered as other Penalties inflicted by this Act and the said Company shall keep a Register of the said Sales IX Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 9. All Persons who after 25 March 1698 shall Import or cause to be Imported into England or Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed or who shall after 24 December 1698 Sell Barter or offer to Sale or knowingly keep in their Custody for Sale or for the use of any Importer or Dealer in the Commodities aftermentioned any Foreign Bone-lace Loom-lace Needle-work Point or Cutwork shall forfeit 20 s. per Yard for all the said Foreign Bone-lace c. so Imported Sold Bartered offered to Sale or kept as aforesaid together with all the said Goods X. The Importation Selling Bartering offering to Sale or Barter or knowingly keeping for that purpose any Foreign Bone-lace c. is hereby declared a Common Nuisance And the said prohibited Goods or any part thereof may be seized and the Offenders prosecuted by any person whatsoever Any Persons with a Constable or Tythingman with a Warrant from a Justice of Peace in the day time may enter into any House Shop Cellar Ware-house or Room or other place whatsoever to Search for and Seize any of the prohibited Goods before mentioned and in case of Resistance to break open Doors Chests Trunks and other Package whatsoever to Seize the Goods prohibited by this Act And every Justice of Peace is to grant such Warrant to any credible Persons making Oath that they have reason to suspect there are such prohibited Goods where they intend to Search XI All Foreign Bone-lace c. Seized by virtue of this or any other Act shall be carried to the next Custom house not thence to be delivered unless to be produced at a Trial or otherwise discharged by Law The Goods so seized and condemned shall be sold publickly by Inch of Candle whereof publick notice in Writing to be affixed at the Custom-house Door and other publick place where the Goods are lodged Ten days before the Sale
Proof upon Oath before the next Justice of Peace that the same was duly Entred and a Warrant for Conveyance obtain'd it shall likewise be Forfeited And the Persons so Carrying the same away shall Forfeit to His Majesly double the Value and also 10 s. per Bushel LXXVII No Retailer or Shopkeeper shall ship any Salt for any Port of this Kingdom before Oath or other Proof made before the Collectors that the Duty is Paid or Secured LXXVIII Masters of Ships Carrying Salt or Rock-Salt from one Port to another shall before they have a Warrant for Landing it Deliver to the Collectors Particulars thereof upon Oath and that no more hath been Laded since their coming out of Port and upon Landing any Part thereof at any other Port shall have a Certificate thereof or Forfeit double the Value so Landed and also 10 s. per Bushel LXXIX No Fees shall be taken for Debentures Tickets Warrants or Licenses touching the said Duties LXXX Provided that for Fish exported there be allowed over and above all former Allowances For every Cask of Pilchards er Scads from 1 July 1698 to 25 December 1699. 20 s. and after 24 December 1699. 28 s. For every Barrel of White Herring from â— July 1698. to 25 December 1699. 4 s. 2 d. And from 24 December 1699. 5. s. 10 d. For every Barrel of Red Herring from 1 July 1698. to 25 December 1699. 3 s. 4 d. and after 24 December 1699. 4 s. 8 d. For every Barrel of Salmon from 1 July 1698. to 25 December 1699. 8 s. 4 d. and after 24 December 1699. 11 s. 8 d. For every Hundred of Codfish Ling or Hake after 1 July 1692 and before 25 December 1699. 25 s. and after 24 December 1699. 35 s. For every Last of Dried Red Sprats after 1 July 1698. 6 s. 8 d. LXXXI Which Allowances shall be Paid by the Salt Collector in the Port from whence such Fish is Exported within Thirty Days after Demand upon a Debenture duly verified and Oath made that the Fish was English taken and really Exported beyond Sea And if the Collector have not sufficient Money to pay the same upon his Certificate the Commissioners of Excise shall be Chargeable therewith out of the first Money in their Hands on the said Salt Duties And any Officer neglecting or refusing to pay the said Money or give such Certificate shall forfeit double the Sum payable LXXXII Upon Exporting any Salt Foreign or English or Rock-Salt the Officer where such Salt was Made or Imported and the Duty Paid or Secured shall deliver Certificates thereof gratis and the Officer at the Place of Exportation shall thereupon give a Debenture for Repayment of the Duty by the Officer where it was before Paid or Secured LXXXIII All Salt Imported or Brought into England Wales or Berwick not there Made shall pay as Foreign Salt and Scotch Salt brought into England by Land shall be entred at Carlisle or Berwick under forseiture of double the value and also 10 s. per Bushel LXXXIV Persons Sued for any thing done in pursuance of this Act may Plead the General Issue and give the Act in Evidence and if the Plaintiff he Cast Nonsuit or forbear Prosecuting the Desendant shall have double Costs LXXXV No Writ of Certiorari shall supersede the Orders of the Commissioners of Excise or Justices of Peace touching the Duties on Salt LXXXVI No Salt shall be Delivered from any Salt-works without Notice given to the Officer on Pain of Forfeiture and also 10 s. per Bushel One half to the Prosecutor the other to the King LXXXVII If any Exported Salt after the Duty has been repaid be Landed in this Kingdom before the Duty be again paid the Offender shall forfeit double the value thereof and 10 s. per Bushel LXXXVIII Subjects of this Realm shipping Salt for any part of England in a Ship perishing at Sea or taken by Enemies upon proof thereof before the Justices in Session of the loss of such Salt shall be allowed to buy the like quantity without Duty LXXXIX Salt-Rock or Rock-Salt after Entry and a Warrant may be removed to convenient Ware-houses and the Duty need not be paid or secured till sold and delivered XC No Person shall be obliged by any Contract made before 25 Dec. 1698. to deliver any Salt or Rock Salt unless the Buyer pay the Duty XCI Salt-Rock or Rock-Salt shall be Entred by Weight only at 120 pound weight to the Bushel XCII Refiners of Rock-Salt which had paid the Duty shall have an Abatement over and above any former Allowances of 2 s. 4 d. per Bushel XCIII The charge of managing this Duty on Salt may be paid out of the said Duties XCIV Salt made from Rock-Salt allowing the Drawback and all Refined Salt Imported or Made in England is to be charged with the said Duties XCV All Salt except Rock Salt shall be ascertained as to the Duty at 56 pounds weight to the Bushel XCVI All Salt brought from Scotland and all Imported and Home-made Salt brought in or landed before due Entry shall be forfeited and 10 s. per Bushel XCVII The Collectors of the said Salt Duties shall provide Scales at every Salt-work and Persons living near such Salt-works or Salt-pits shall be Sworn Weighers and paid for the same by the Collectors XCVIII The Officers shall deliver as many Warrants or Permits to Salt Carriers as they desire gratis for what they shall Load at one time XCIX All Persons shall sell Salt except foreign Salt after 56 pound weight to the Bushel under Penalty of 5 l. to the Informer C. The Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen in London shall by to July 1698. ascertain the price of Salt within the City of London and Bills of Mortality And the Justices of Peace in their General Sessions for other Places by 1 Aug. 1698. And so from time to time if necessary And Persons selling for higher prices or refusing to sell at the prices settled shall forfeit 5 l. to be Levied by Distress and Sale of Goods by Warrant from the Lord Mayor aforesaid or a Justice of Peace of the Place who in default of a Distress may Imprison the Offender till payment thereof one Moiety to the King the other to the Prosecutor CI. The Commissioners of Excise and Commissioners for the Stamp Office respectively shall keep apart and pay Weekly into the Exchequer the Duties on Salt by this Act granted and the Additional Duties on Stampt Velum Parchment and Paper granted to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors by an Act of this present Session and a distinct Register thereof shall be kept in the Exchequer CII The Commissioners for managing the said Duties not paying the same duly into the Exchequer or misapplying any part thereof shall forfeit their Places and be uncapable of any Place of Trust and pay double the value so misapplied CIII In the Excise Office and Stamp Office there shall for ever be Commissioners and Comptrollers for the Execution
And all Persons Trading by Licence shall enter their Licences in the Books of the General Society and take an Oath to the like effect And no Member of any Company having Power to Trade thither during his Continuance in the said Company shall Trade otherwise than in the Joint Stock thereof And every Member of such Company shall take an Oath before Two or more of the Trustees for the said Company to be faithful and not to Trade to the Indies during his Continuance in the said Company upon any private Account And no person shall be Intrusted to Trade upon the Joint Stock or for a Company before he hath taken an Oath to be faithful to such Company and not to Trade thither but for the Account of such Company CXXV Provided that Quakers may instead of an Oath make a solemn Declaration to the same effect CXXVI All Persons Trading to the East Indies in pursuance of this Act except in a Company shall Enter the Goods they Export in a Book before the Lading thereof with the Ship and Masters Name that all Persons concern'd may see whether they Trade for more than is allowed which Entries shall be upon Oath or Solemn Affirmation made before Two or more Trustees for the General Society till a Company be Erected and then before Two or more Directors of such Company CXXVII The General Society and Companies in Joint stock may be impowred by his Majesties Charters to make by Laws for the good of the said Trade CXXVIII Persons not making true Entries and Affirmations shall forfeit the Goods Exported or designed to be Exported and the proceed thereof and double the Value to be divided as the Charters shall appoint CXXIX No Company or particular Person shall Trade to the East Indies before Security given to the Commissioners of the Customs That all the Goods to be Laden by or for them in the Indies shall be brought to England without Breaking Bulk the Danger of the Seas Pirates c. excepted And any Difficulties or Disputes in acceptance of such Security shall be determined by any of the Barons of the Exchequer CXXX All Goods Imported by the Company or other Traders to the East Indies shall be sold openly by Inch of Candle on pain of forseiting the same or the value thereof one moiety to his Majesty the other to the Prosecutor CXXXI His Majestics Commission or Charters shall direct in what manner the shares in the yearly Fund and in the Stock in Trade shall be Assigned or Transferred CXXXII The Stocks shall be esteemed in Law personal Estates and descend accordingly CXXXIII The Annuities Issuing out of the yearly Fund and the Shares in Trade shall be exempt from Taxes CXXXIV A Guardian or Trustee for an Infant may subscribe a moiety of the Money in his Trust CXXXV No Member of any Society or Company within this Act shall in respect of his Stock only be Adjudged a Bankrupt nor the Stock liable to Foreign Attachment CXXXVI The General Society nor any Company Established in pursuance of this Act shall Borrow or give Security for any Sums on Credit of the Funds by this Act Granted nor Borrow Owe or give Security for any other or greater Sums than shall be Imployed in their Trade which shall be borrowed only on their Common Seal and not Repayable in less than six Months not Discount any Bills of Exchange or other Bills or Notes or keep Books or Cash for any Persons whatsoever other than their own Corporation or Society CXXXVII An Additional Duty of 5 per Cent. shall be laid on all East-India Goods Imported after 29 Sept. 1698. by any persons Trading pursuant to this Act to be paid over to the General Society or such Companies as may be Erected or their respective Treasurers for maintaining Ambassadors and Defraying any other extraordinary Expences the Overplus to be disposed to the benefit of all the Members CXXXVIII And Security shall be given before Landing thereof for payment of the said Additional Duty of 5 per Cent. as soon as the Goods shall be sold And Goods Landed before due Entry and the Duty secured or without Warrant shall be forfeited one Moiety to the King the other to the Scizer CXXXIX The said Duty of 5 per Cent. to be managed by the Commissioners of the Customs and paid over as the Act appoints CXL Upon Three years notice after 29 Sept. 1711. and Repayment by Parliament of the said Two Millions or such part thereof as shall be advanced and all Arrears of the said Annuities then all Duties Annuities and things granted by this Act to cease and determine CXLI All Wrought Silks imported from the East-Indies or Persia after 29 Sept. 1698. shall pay an Additional Duty of 1 s. 10 d. per pound Weight Averdupoiz CXLII The Persons who may Trade to the East-Indies pursuant to this Act shall have the sole Trade thither after 29 Sept. 1698. And any other persons Trading thither shall forfeit Ship and Goods and double the value thereof One 4th part to the Prosecutor the other three parts to the General Society or Company they bearing the charge of Prosecution CXLIII If in any One year after 29 Sept. 1699. the Duties by this Act appropriated be not sufficient to satisfie the payments appointed such Deficiency shall be made good out of the next Parliamentary Aids CXLIV Provided that the present East-India Company may Trade thither till 29 Sept. 1701. And that Ships not in the Service of the said Company which were cleared from England to the East-Indies before 1 July 1698. so as they return into this Kingdom without breaking Bulk in Europe shall not be liable to Forfeitures CXLV The present East-India Company shall pay their just Debts and their Estate shall be liable thereunto and if they make any Dividend after 24 June 1698. before full payment of their Debts the respective Members shall be liable so far as their Shares upon such Dividends shall extend to pay besides double Costs of Suit CXLVI Every Society or Company to be Erected in pursuance of this Act shall take care not to Owe at any one time more than the value of their Capital Stock undivided And if by any Dividends their Debts at any time exceed their Capital Stock the respective Members shall be liable so far as the Shares they Received upon such Dividends will extend besides Costs of Suit CXLVII Out of the Moneys contributed on this Act or arising by any other Act of this Session not particularly Appropriated there shall be applyed To the use of the Mints 29209 l. For the Civil Government 40000 l. over and above the 600000 l. appropriated by the present Poll Bill for paying of Talleys c. And also such Sums as may be necessary to satisfie the Praemiums for Circulating Exchequer Bills and the rest to be disposed for Land and Sea-Service and the Commissioners of the Treasury are to cause the same to be applied accordingly CXLVIII The Rules and Penalties contained