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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45971	An act for granting unto His Majesty, an aid or additional custom on the several goods and merchandizes therein mentioned; Public General Acts. 1695. 7 Wil.III.	Ireland.	1695 (1695)	Wing I307; ESTC R216030	1,814	6

AN ACT For prevention of FRAUDS and PERJURIES DVBLIN Printed by Andrew Crook Printer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty on Ormonde-Key 1695. An Act for Granting unto His Majesty An Aid or Additional Custom on the Several Goods and Merchandizes therein mentioned WE your Majesties Most Loyal Subjects the Commons of Ireland in Parliament Assembled being Convinced that the Supplies already Granted unto Your Majesty this Session of Parliament are not Sufficient to Answer Your Majesties Occasions And desiring to shew the sense we have of the great benefit we daily reap under your Most happy Government which we Resolve always to support with such Necessary Supplies of Money as your Majesties Affairs Require and the Condition of the Kingdom will bear Have Given and Granted unto Your Excellent Majesty An Aid or Additional Duty to be Raised and Levyed upon the Goods and Merchandizes following That is to say On Tobacco Old-Drapery New-Drapery Muslin Callicoes all sorts of Linnen Scotch-Cloth and Wine that shall be Imported into this Kingdom according to such Rates and during such time and in such Manner and Form as is herein after mentioned and Expressed And We humbly beseéch Your Majesty that it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the King 's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That all Tobacco Old-Drapery and New-Drapery Except such Old and New-Drapery that shall be of the Manufacture of England and Imported thence Muslin Callicoes All sorts of Linnen Scotch-Cloth and Wines Except Wines of the Growth of Spain and of the Dominions thereunto belonging that shall be Imported into this Kingdom at any time from and after the Day of the Royal Assent given to this Act unto the Twenty Fifth Day of December which will be in the Year of Our Lord God One Thousand Sir Hundred Ninety and Nine and no longer shal● Answer and Pay unto His Majesty His Heirs and Successors over and above all Rates and Duties Due or Payable for or out of the same by Vertue of any former Law or Laws in Force at the Making of this Act the Rates and Duties hereafter mentioned that is to say For every pound weight of Tobacco Imported within the time aforesaid one penny half peny sterl And for every Yard of Old-Drapery Imported within the time aforesaid Except as before Excepted Twelve-pence sterl And for every Yard of New-Drapery Imported within the time aforesaid Except as before Excepted Four-pence sterl And for every Ell of Muslin Callico and of all and of every other sorts of Linnen Imported within the time aforesaid Scotch-Cloth Excepted Six-pence sterl And for every yard of Scotch-Cloth Imported within the time aforesaid Six-pence sterl And for every Tun of Wine Except Wines of the Growth of Spain and of the Dominions thereunto belonging Imported within the time aforesaid Three Pounds sterl And so proportionably for a Greater or Lesser Quantity And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said several Duties shall be Raised Collected Levyed and paid unto Your Majesty Your Heirs and Successors during the time aforesaid at the same times and in the same manner and Places and by such Rules Means and Ways and under such Penalties and Forfeitures as are mentioned and Expressed in one Act of Parliament made in a Session of Parliament which began the Eighth day of May in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of the Late King Charles the Second Intituled An Act for Settling the Excise or New Impose upon the said Late King Charles the Second His Heirs and Successors the same to be paid upon Merchandizes Imported and Exported into or out of the Kingdom of Ireland according to the Book of Rates to the said Act Annexed And whereas some Doubt hath lately Arisen whether Tobacco Imported into this Kingdom ought to Pay or is Chargeable with unto His Majesty any Greater Duty upon any Account whatsoever then two pence half-penny for every Pound Weight by Vertue of any Law or Laws in Force before the Making of this Act. For the Settling whereof and for prevention of all Controversy for the Future touching the same ●e it Enacted and Declared by the Authority aforesaid That no more then Two-pence half-penny for Every Pound Weight of Tobacco Imported into this Kingdom was or is Payable or Do or Did of Right belong unto His Majesty or any of his Predecessors by Vertue aforesaid That any Person or Persons wh● shall before any Person or Persons Impowered by Vertue of this Act as aforesaid to take Bail or Bails Represent or Personate any other Person or Persons whereby the Person or Persons so Represented and Personated may be lyable to the Payment of any Summ or Summs of Money for Debt or Damages to be Recovered in the same Suit or Action wherein such Person or Persons are Represented and Personated as if they had Really Acknowledged and Entred into the same being Lawfully Convicted thereof shall be Adjudged Esteémed and Taken to be Felons and suffer the Pains of Death And Incurr such Forfeitures and Penalties as Felons in other Cases Convicted or Attainted do by the Law of this Realm Lose and Forfeit FINIS