upon all strangers (b) What strangers shall pay upon Native Commodities He is also to Collect five in the hundred over and above the five aforesaid upon the Merchant stranger for all Native Commodities or Manufactures made thereof and the Merchant Stranger for those Commodities for which he is to pay double Subsidy or Custome viz. for Lead Tin Woollen Cloth and all or any Manufactures made of Wooll or part Wooll is also to pay double Petty Custome and upon Woollen Cloth he is also to pay the old Custome of xiij d. upon every Cloth exported and proportionably upon now Draperies as they are reckoned for a Cloth in the instructions annexed to the Book of Rates (c) Lead All Lead exported whether by Merchant English or by Merchant Stranger is to pay over and above the Subsidy and Custome the old Custome viz. iij d. in the Sow which is two shillings upon the fodder (d) Snowt Towe That Snowte Tow be rated at forty shillings per cent as it payeth in London (e) Wines That all wines whatsoever be accounted of the growth of the Levant except Rhenish and French VVines and to pay Custome accordingly that (f) Prizage no wines whatsoever be exempted from payment of Custome under pretence of Prizage VVines or the duty called Prizage (g) Pan-tiles That all Pan-tiles from Holland or else-where shall pay after the Rate of five pound per thousand (h) Logwood That all Log-wood alias Block-wood or Campeachy wood do pay after the Rate of eighty pound per Tun. (i) Beer That all Beer exported by English do pay besides the two shillings Subsidy in the Book of Rates eight shillings six pence per Tun by an English man and ten shillings by a stranger per Statute (k) Tobaccoes That one penny per pound be leavied on all Tobaccoes of the English Plantations beyond Sea and upon all other Tobaccoes of what Plantation soever six pence in the pound And to the end every Collector may have a true inspection into this matter he is to take notice that he is to passe no Tobaccoes to be of the English Plantations but onely such as by sufficient persons shall be attested upon Oath so to be (l) Lead Oare That Lead Oare be rated and valued at vj. l. xiij s. iij. d. per Tun each Tun containing twenty hundred weight after which Rate and value the duties are to be lebied upon English-men it being an English Commodity strangers therefore upon exportation are to pay double Subsidy double petty custome that is to say every Merchant Stranger is to pay the duty for every Tunn of the said Lead after the Subsidy of xiij l. vj s. viij d. Besides double petty Custome which is vj. d. upon every xx s. value according to that rate (m) Bayes Whereas in many Ports Bayes have been and are entred in the name of Tanton (n) Cottons Cottons the difference of the Customes whereof is very great the Collectors and Officers in those Ports are to take care that for such as are Bayes in whatsoever Name the Merchant may enter them Custome be demanded and leavied as for Bayes (o) Slat-stones That care be likewise taken That Slate-stones which are rated in the book of Rates at 15. s. the Thousand passe not for Hilling-stones which are valued but at iij s. iiij d. per Thousand (p) Horses and live Cattell He is to take custom for all Horses live Cattell that shall be imported according to the book of Rates notwithstanding the exception of fresh fish and bestiall in the Act for Tunnage and Poundage for that by fresh fish is meant only fish unsalted and by bestiall fresh flesh for mans meat kild and brought in unsalted (r) Fish as Herrings and Pilchards In the shipping out of fish as Pilchards and Herrings these Rules are to be observed That all English-men shipping Fish English taken in English bottomes are to pay neither Subsidy nor Custome All Englishmen shipping Pilchards in strangers bottomes are to pay xi s. the Tunn and Herrings being shipped by English-men in Strangers bottomes are to pay according to the book of Rates All Strangers shipping Pichards in English bottomes are co pay twenty shillings per Tun Ssubsidy and five shillngs Petty Custome All Strangers shipping either Pilchards or Herrings in strangers bottomes are to pay the subsidy generall according to the book of Rates and the subsidy speciall called Strangers Subsidy they veing native Commodities and also the single Petty Custome In which as also in all other cases of like import is to be noted (s) Denizens to pay strangers Custome That all Strangers made Denizens are to pay all Customes and Subsidies as strangers (t) What ships to be reputed strangers and what English All ships wherein the major part of the Seamen are strangers are to be accounted strangers That all ship belonging to strangers are to be accounted strangers bottomes though English built That all ships of which any stranger is part owner are to reckoned strangers bottomes though all the rest of the owners are English That all ships wherein the moiety or Major part of Mariners are strangers are to be accounted strangers bottomes (n) Bullion and Forraign Coyn. In case of Bullion and forreign Coin for the importation whereof free liberty is granted by Act of Parliament he is to take notice that no seizure is to be made thereof so as the whole quantity be duely entred and care taken that the quantity entred be imported which entry is to be fairly registred in the Collectors books and upon signification given unto him by the Commissioners and not by others Coin is delivered into the Mint to be Coined then and not before the Merchant is to be permitted to ship out the other two thirds thereof and no more he paying one per Centum that is to say Twenty shillings upon every hundred pounds Sterling thereof being rated at sive shillings per ounce and so after that rate for every greater or letter quantity Upon all entries made for Bullyon or Forreign Coin he is to pass a warrant for landing thereof (w) Prize Goods and Ships That upon all ships brought in as prize whether taken by the States ships or other private men of war after condemuation thereof full custome is not only to be received for all goods therein as if they were imported by way of Merchandize but also for the ship Tackle Ordnance and other furniture belonging to the same after the rate of five per Centum as the same shall the invifferently appraised (x) Ships bought beyond the Seas As also the like custome is to be received for all other ships that are bought beyond the Seas as the proper goods of any person or Merchant residing in England (y) Goods not rared in the Book of Races Where any goods or Merchandizes shall be exported or imported and the same rated
or valued in the book of Kates there the Collector is to set value upon the goods in which he is to have regard unto the benefit that shall accrew unto the Tommon-wealth by the importation or exportation of any such goods and Merchandizes and accordingly to set the rate and value but in no case to set the rate and value of any goods below the intrinsicall value or worth thereof nor any Foreign Manufacture imported at lesse then double the intrinsick value thereof whether the same be imported by English or by strangers (z) No allowance upon prize Goods And as for goods brought in as a prize no defalcation or allowance from the quantity thereof or out of the summ of money due for custome and subsidy by way of abatement for being bad damaged or defective is to be made * Coleseed and Colleseed oyl He is to rate value all Cole-seed oyles imported as rape-seed oyls and all Cole-seed exported as Rape-leed is valued in the book of Ratâ—s and to leavy the Custome and other duties accordingly ‖ Wrappers That the Allowances to be made and given to Merchauts for wrappers upon shipping out of the old or new Draperies in places where wrappers are allowed are not to exceed the directions and Instructions annexed to the book of Kates * No allowance of five per Cent. outwards and that upon all goods exported there is no allowance of five per Centum which Merchants have upon goods inwards nor any allowance other then as is aforesaid to be made or given therein * Goods allowed for store c. to be rated All goods Merchandizes allowed for store portage or provision inwards or outwards shall be valued according to the book of Kates or in casenot there rated according to the directions before mentioned for valning goods not mentioned in the book of Kates Althought the same neither doth nor shall pay and Custome or subsidie and shall be entred in books distinctly and apart by themselves In the granting and passing thereof the following rules and directions are to be observed (x) Store and Portage That no bill of Store or portage be granted but that the name of the Ship upon which it is to be served and the Master thereof and the persons to whom be therein mentioned and none to be granted but to Mariners at their comming in and going out Except it be for Dammage Goods Mis-entries Over-entries or by speciall order from the Commissioners wherein all care is to be taken of good husbandry and moderation for the Common wealths interest That no bill of Store except as is before excepted be granted but with this following clause viz. to be void except it be served within four daies That all bils of Stores as well as Cocquets and other Warrants be delivered to the Watter and not to the person to whom they are granted That no bills of Stores be served upon goods of any person whatsoever other then the person to whom they are granted or out of or upon the same Ships mentioned in the said bill without the speciall directions of the Commissioners except such bills of Stores as are granted for Damage Goods Mis-entries or Over-entries or by speciall order as aforesaid * Goods to be cleared according to the Standard That no Merchant or other person cleare his goods in the Custome house otherwise then according to the standard of England as well that for measure mentioned in the Saints of IIo. Hen 7. Cap. 4o. as that for weights mentioned in severall other Statates And that the intentions of the Commissioners may be known herein the Collectors and other officers are enjoyned to peruse the Statute of 12o. Hen. 7o. Cap. 5o. and that they clears no goods otherwise then according to the Bushell in that Statute mentioned which containes eight Gallons and to all goods which by the book of Rates are to pay custome Weights that there be allowed and accounted to the hundred suttle but â—…ve score and to the hundred wight Grosse five score and twelve pounds and for other goods by the Tunn of weight but twenty hundred weight of one hundred and twelve pounds to each hundred Measures to the Tunn of measure but two hundred fifty two gallons and to the measure of ells and yards but according to the English Standart for an ell and a yard Only here is to be noted that all Butts and Pipes albeit by exact measure two of them may not containe a full Tunn yet are to pay Customs for a Tunn notwithstanding and fours Hogs heads and three Puncheons of all other Commodities are to passe and pay for a Tunn although the gage be not so much but all goods comming in uncertains and nausuall Cask which are to pay by the Tunn Hogs-head Pipe or Barrell are to be reduced unto the foresaid Number of gallons to make a tunn and not otherwise is use to be made for gageing or computing as to such Commodities and where the book of Rates doth direct that any commoditie is to pay by the sâ—…mish or other out landish measure there only is the Custome to be collected accordingly but upon all other Commodities the Customs are to be collected according to the aforesaid respective Standards of Weights and measures and in case any Goods or Merchandizes shall be landed or shipped out the Customs and other duties not being payd or compounded for according to the aforegoing Rules due seisure is to be made of all or the overplus and proceedings to be had thereupon and as by the Instructions concerning seisures is hereafter particularly amongst other things set down (a) Goods to be entred in their own denominations Especial care is to be taken that all Commodities be entred in their own denominations according to their true nature and quality To the end the Collectors and all other Officers and persons may know how to regulate themselves they are to take care that the following Order of the Commissioners made in pursuance of an Order of the Committee for preservation of the Customs be punctually observed viz. (b) (b) Goods to be entred in the Owners names All persons are enjoyned by Law that they do enter all Goods to be exported imported or trasported in the name or names of the proper Owner or Owners thereof not in the name or names of any other person or persons whatsoever upon pain of the forfeiture of all such Goods and Merchandize as shall be entered contrary unto the Law in that behalf And we do hereby charge and require all Officers of the Customs to make diligent search and enquiry as to the observance hereof and in case they shall finde any to transgresse by entering Goods and Merchandizes contrary unto the Law as is aforesaid that they do make seisure thereof and signiste the same unto us Given under our Hands and Seale of Office at the Custom-house London this third of August 1654. Robert Titchburn
thereof to leave the said sum deposited (m) The Officer to pay the States moyety for Goods condemned within twenty dayes That when any such Goods seized are condemned in the Exchequer the Officer to whom the benefit thereof doth accrew do within twenty daves after such condemnation inrolled in the Exchequer and certified unto him by the said Register pay unto the Collector the moyety due unto the State according as they are apprized and forthwith certifie the said Register of the payment thereof and do likewise forthwith return unto the said Register the charges expended in the Exchequer by reason of the said sure being made acquaninted by the said by the said Register what the said charges are (n) No Goods to be delivered by vertue of Writs of Delivery till Customs be payd That no Officer of the Customs deliver any Goods from under seizure by vertue of any Wait of delivery until the Customs be payd to the Collector of such Port for the same (o) Goods secured That all Goods seized by any Officer of the Customs in any of the out-Ports be brought into the States Ware-house belonging to such Port where there is any and is case there be none then into such other place as the Collector shall appoint for secuting thereof until they be condemned or otherwise legally discharged That the Collectors of the several Ports do take especial care that upon all apprizements made of Goods seized the same be truly valued and that they receive Custom in all cases of composition of any Goods And if they shall see it and judge it most for the Common-wealths advantage that then they take the moyety of such Goods in kind and forthwith acquaint the Commissioners there with to the end they may receive direction therein for the sale thereof and that all persons making seizure before dispesstion be by them made of any part of the Goods and Merchandizes by them seized do in the several out-ports acquaint the Collector of that Port where such seizure is made therewith to know whether they will take the Common-wealths moyety in kinde or not (p) How the Collector shall return monies received for seizures That having received any any monies for the Common-wealths part of any seizure before the delivery of any Goods or Merchandizes according to the Instructions aforesaid he do forthwith return the same by Bill of Exchange or otherwise to the Cashier General And that with the said Bill he send a Letter of advice signifying particularly whether the said sum or any part thereof by him returned be for a Composition or upon a recovery and to each expresse the name of the person seizing as also the person claiming if there be any Claimer And in all cases of sums of money received by composition he is in his Letters of advice to expresse whether the sum of money received upon such composition be depesited until the fine shall be rated or whether the same be received by him according to a fine already rated by the Barons of the Excheguer He is to take notice that he is not charge his quarter books or yearly Books with the receipt of any monies for fines or forfeitures but to send up yearly or oftner an accompt thereof apart by it siese Concerning the Collectors Accompts (q) Collectors Accompts EVery Collector is to keep a Book in the Custom-house where in he is to enter all Goods and Merchandizes as well imported into as exported out of the Port whereunto he is appointed with the vaine and Rates of Goods paying subsidy and with the product thereof and of all other duties Every Collector is within four dayes after the close of each Quarter to send up a Book of all Entries passed in the Port and Members thereof under his charge together with the subsidy Custom and petty Custom arising thereby or any other sums of money by him receiveable or received duly charged therein As also an accompt currant of his receipts and disbursements in which as also in all accompts he is especially to mention The name sir-name and Office of every Officer to whom he shall pay any salary as also the time of the service for which such Officer is payd The particular services for which he shall disburse any sums of money upon petty charges together with the name and sir-name of the party receiving the same upon payment whereof he is to task Acquittances endorsed for his discharge as well as for the Salaries and other payments of greater moment With this Accompt currant he is to send up all his Acquittances and Vouchers thereunto appertaining for the better passing his Accompt in the Commissioners generall Accompt with the Auditors of the Imprest and both theirs and the Collectors discharge thereupon He is to divide every quarter into three periods as from 25 Martij inclusive to 1. May exclusive form the 1. May inclusive to the 1. of June exclusive from the 1. to the 24 June exclusive And for the two first periods to send up an abstract of his Receipts for the said month signed by himself in order following viz. An Abstract of the monies collected for Customs and Subsidy in the said Port from the 25º Martij inclusive to the 1. May exclusive For Custom and Subsidy outwards For the like inwards For petty Customs For Coles And the particulars of such other Receipts as by Authority shall be from time to time setled and imposed In Toto Per A. B. Collectors And in regard the third moneth contains the close of the Quarter he is to make up his Quarter-Book and to cause the same to be transmitted to the Commissioners aforesaid and the remaining dayes of that moneth wherein is the termination of any Quarter are to be added to the subsequent moneth which Order is like wise to be observed in all the Member Ports who do account to the Collectors of the head-Port and to be timely by them transmitted to the Collectors to whom they account to be sent to the Commissioners aforesaid and may not be omitted by them for albeit their Receipt should not produce any thing in some of the said moneths yet most of their monethly Abstracts be returned with Nihil and attested as aforesaid That the Common-wealth may know what to except at the end of each moneth and neither the Commissioners nor Collectors be unduly charged He is in every Quarter-Book to mention what Bills of store or Portage he hath granted for that Quarter the quantity of the Goods the persons to whom and for what cause For the perfecting of this monethly Accompt with the Common-wealth and fréeing the Commissioners and himself from blame he is constantly to make use of all Good encounters offering for returns of such monies to the Commissioners as his Receipts shall from time to time afford so as all his monies received may be in readiness with the Commissioners here to make good his Ports Receipts within eight dayes after the close of
Edmo Harvey Mar Hildesley Daniel Taylor (c) Ships unlading part exporting the rest In case any Ship importing forraign Goods into any Ports shall discharge part of her Lading there and intend to transport the rest over Sea entry is to be made of the whole and Custom payd accordingly (d) Allowance of 12. per cent for leakage That allowance of twelve percent is to be made for leakage of Wines excepting Wines brought in as Prize to which neither this nor any other allowance is to be made to Merchants demanding the same by way of defalcation where no Wines are filled up on shipboard and care to be taken for preventing thereof Which twelve per Cent. is not to be taken or deducted out of the quantities of Wines but out of the monies received for the suvstdy (e) The Collector to receive the States part upon seizures He is to receive the moyeties of all seisures demises and Composstions for Custom Causes and to keep the money so received in one account particularly by it selfe and upon receipt thereof he is to remit the same to the Cashire Generall with a note expressing from whom and for what Goods seized compounded for or recovered such money was payd (f) Allowance of halfe subsidy Before allowance be made of the half subsidy for Goods exported formerly imported or any free Cocquet granted for the same these following Rules and directions are to be observed The Collector is to be assured that the Goods upon which the half subsidy is to be payd back it exported by or for a strangers account were imported within nine moneths and if by or for an English mans account within twelve moneths Then he is to make a Certificate under his own hand that such Goods were entred and payd Custom and all other duties upon the importation thereof In which Certificate he is to express the time when the same were imported by whom the quantity and quality of the said Goods in words at length and not in figures The computation of the nine moneths and twelve moneths above said is to be made from the day of the entry of the Goods inwards whether by sight or perfect warrant to the day of the shipping of tehm aboard outward and not to the date of the Collectors Certificate Upon the said Certificate the Merchant or some for him that can depose the same must make oath that the Goods which now be intendeth to export are the same which are mentioned in that Certificate and for which the full subsidie and other duties due upon the importation were payd and if the said Goods have been contracted for or sold he is to make oath to whom the same have been contracted and to whom sold as also for whose accompt the same shall be exported But if it appear unto him upon such examination and enquiry as be shall think fit to make upon oath in the matter that the quality property of the Goods have been altered from the first importer bepond the second buyer there is no half subsidy to be payd back but in all such cases the Merchant is to pay his Custom unles in case of Goods to be exported by the Importer thereof as is directed by the seventh Article of Instructions annexed to the Book of Rates upon oath made as aforesaid in pursnance of the second Article of Instructions annexed to the said Book And whereas the half subsidy is to be payd back he is to make out unto the Merchante a Certificate Cocquet and a Debentur the form of which are as followeth (g) The form of the Certificate and Oath thereupon In the May den-Head of Plâ—mouth James Lotton Master for Mallago John Green Ind Five bales containing twenty hundred ells net Linnen The subsidy inwards for twenty hundred ells net Linnen was payd by John Green Ind the sixth of Jan last past written 5 Martij 1651. A. B. Collector C. D. Checque Juravit John Green or A. B his Servant the Goods above mentioned in this Certificate to be shipped out are the same which payd Custom inwards and are to be transported and sold beyond the Seas for the proper account of the said John Green without any preContract for the same h Form of the Cocquet Know ye that John Green Ind. for five bales containing two hundred ells of Linnen Cloth net late in this Port unladen and now to be shipped in the Maiden-Head of Plimouth Masterr James Lutton for Mallago payd all duties at the first discharge the sirth day of January last past Dated 5º Martil 1651. (i) Form of the Debentur Plimouth John Green Ind. did enter with us the 5º day of March 1651. in the Maiden-Head of Plimouth Mr. James Lutton for Mallago five bales containing two hundred ells of Linnen Cloth net the subsidy whereof was payd inwards by the said John Green Ind. the sixth day of Ian. last past as it doth appear by the Certificate of the Collector inwards and for further manifestation of his just dealing herein he hath also taken oath before us for the same Custom-House Plimouth Die anno supradict Upon which Debentur is to be first certisted by the searcher that shipped off the said Goods the time when they were shipped and the name of the Ship in which they were shipped and after the Ship is departed the Coast of England or the Goods arrived in some Port beyond the Seas the Merchant himself and no other person upon the Debentur making oath that the Goods expressed in that Debentur and Certificate aforesaid being thereunto annexed are really shipped out for quality and quantity and are not nor any part thereof since they were last shipped out relanded in any Port or Croek of England Wales or Scotland that then within one moneth after such oath made the Collector is to pay back the half subsidy only and not part of any other duty whatsoever and upon the said Debentur to take the Receipt of the Merchant himself or of his known Factor or Agent for the sum aforesaid Note that the searcher have it in charge to examine and take care that the same Goods for quantity and quality be shipped out as is mentioned in the Cocquet And whereas by the seventh Article of Instructions annexed to the Book of Rates it is directed that if any Merchant having duly payd all duties inwards and in regard of bad sales shall be enforced to keep the said Goods or any part thereof in his hands without alteration of property after the space of a year shall be clapsed in which case be is to be permitted to ship the same out for the parts beyond the Seas if he so think fit without payment of any subsidie for the same outwards upon due proof that the same was duly entered subsidy payd inwards But before the Merchant have any froe Cocquet to that purpose a Certificate is to be made out and subscribed by the Collector of the time when
William Roberts John Stone George Bennerts John Bocket A. Baines (u) Horses to the English Plantations He is to permit Horses to be exported upon Licence from his Highnesse or Council to any of the English Plantations in America upon payment of twenty shillings custom for each horse according to an Ordinance of his Highnesse and Council dated the 30th of January 1653. Directions concerning the Levying the new Impost on Coals IN regard of many abuses in the measure and lading of ships with Coals at Newcastle and Sunderland Impost on Coals in both which Ports the measures are not onely altered from the first ostablishment but do also much differ the one from the other which ought to be of the same gage And that also the ships though some more and some lesse yet all do erceed and make on t more then the quantities which they do enter for which they take out Cocquets in relation to those measures now in use in the foresaid Ports and although the alterations of the seasons of the yeer and the wetnesse and drinesse of the coals cause some small difference in the measurs yet it isevident that these differences and uncertainties are made use of to the advantage of the traders in coals and losse to the Commonwelth in the Impost pf twp shillings per chalder lately imposed and in the custom of coals transported for prevention of which abuses and that the aforesaid Impost and Subsidy may be duly levied by the Collectors these following rules are to be observed That thirty sir bushels Winchester measure are allowed to a chalder A bushell containeth eight gallons and one quart filled with water and must be nineteen inches and a half broad at the top from the outsides thereof According to this bushell the measure used in that Port must be tustly computed and the Impost received upon the Certifficate of the chief Manistrate and the report of the sworn Meater if there be any according to the directions of the Act or by such other Inspection and survey of the discharge of the coals as may perfectly satisfie the Collector in the delivery of each ships lading (x) Coal-ships entring for the Coast and after arrived in some Port going over seas That if any Colliers from Newcastle Sunderland or any other place of this Nation do desire after arrived in Port to pay their customs for their coals and to go over seas he is to take their entries upon sight of their Cocquets and to receive custom due for the same as the same are rated in the book of Rates London measure viz. after the rate of eight pounds thirteen shillings and four pence the chalder and that according to the said rate he reckon and cause them to pay Custom for every chalder of Newcastle measure two of London and and he that will not pay after this rate and the two shillings per chalder Impost over and above according to the said London measure let him not go over but deliver his coals in the Port before departure and in case of refusall or resistance that the Collector call to his aid the civil or military Power and certifie his proceedings and their miscarriage from time to time unto the Commissioners That if any ships shall be forced over seas with their lading being first bound for the Coast and offer to make entry and to pay the Customs for the goods according to his Cocquet that he in no case to meddle therewith but certifie the same unto the Commissioners and having first obtained order from the Commissioners for the receiving chalder of Newcastle measure two of London besides two shillings Impost for every chalder of Sunderland measure three of London besides the two shillings Impost which he is to receive accordingly (y) The collectors of the Creeks to give bond to the Collector of the head Port about the Impost on coals The Commissioners do think sit further to order and direct that in all creeks belonging to any Port where any coals are imported and the Imposition thereupon due and payable the Collector of such Port is to come to the Collector or chief Officer of the respective créeks who is to receive the said duty to enter into bond with sufficient sureties to his Highnesse in such penalty as he shall think fit reasonable answerable to the moneys that shall come to their hands with conditions to pay unto him or such as the Commissioners shall appoint at the end of every four dayes all such moneys as shall come to their hands from time to time for the Imposition of such coals which be is to receive from them accordingly Rules and Instructions published by the Commissioners of the Customs to be observed by all their Officers in the ascertaining of the quantities of goods and merchandizes hereafter expressed and not to be deviated from in any case whatsoever without the speciall advice and consent of the Collector and Surveyor and in the absence of the Collector of the Surveyor alone and where there is no Surveyor of the Collector himself A ALlum in cask to be allowed for Tare twelve pound weight per cent Almods in cask to be allowed for Tare fourtéen pound weight per cent Anniseeds in searns and bags containing above thrée hundred and thrée quarters for tare eightéen pound weight onely Anniseeds from Smyrna with felts containing about thrée hundred and half for tare twenty pound weight onely Without felts for tare fourtéen pound weight onely Argall in cask to be allowed for tare twelve pound weight per cent Almods in bags to be allowed for tare four pound weight per vag In searns and bags containing two hundred weight for tare eighteen pound weight onely Ashes vocat Pot-ashes to be allowed for tare ten pound weight per cent B BAcks for chimneys of half a hundred weight and downwards to be accompted small and upwards above that weight to be accompted great Berrillia in double searns containing about thrée boundred weight for tare twenty eight pound weight onely In single searns for tare fourtéen pound weight onely Beaver-wooll in Hogsheads or brisles for tare seventy five pound weight only Beaver-wooll in crobyes let them be tared und allowance for Tare be made accordingly Benjamin to be tared and allowance for tare to be made accordingly Books in vaists each bail containing one hundred weight eight of them makes a maund C CApers one third part to be allowed for tare but then no allowance of five pound weight per cent it being included in the one third part for tare Casteil-Soap in double searns for tare twenty eight pound weight onely In single searns for tare fourtéen pound weight onely In chests containing about two hundred and anhalf twenty eight pound weight onely Cardamuans the bail for tare fourtéen pound weight onely Cochaneil in chests covered with skins containing about one hundred and half for tare fourty two pound weight only downwards proportionably Cochaneil in barrels about one
(o) Entries Inwards Every Merchant or other that shall enter Merchandise Inwards shal make entry thereof particularly and deliver a bill thereof at large under his hand or the hand of his Aâ—sâ—…nes to the Collectors with the name of the ship and of the Master the burthen of whence and from what place it was fraighted with the marks and numbers of the Fardels bulk and Package in the Margent and the true quantities and qualities of the goods therein contained and the said Collectors shall with all convenient speed cast up the value of the goods and Merchandize therein according to the book of Rates or otherwise if not therein rated as is by the said book directed and the custome and subsidie thereupon due and write it upon the said bill with the number and date of the bill according to which it shall be presently entred in the book Inwards to be kept by the said Collector and then by him delivered to the Checque to be likewise entred according to which bill another being subscribed by the said Collector and Checque numbred and dated as the former shall be to the Surveior or Searcher or waiter a warrant to suffer the wares and Merchandizes therein contained to be landed and discharged accordingly and the said originall bill the said Collectors shall receive back from the said Checque (p) Bills at sight All manner of wares and Merchandize that any Merchant entred at sight shall be taken up by a warrant for view dated the day of the entry thereof subscribed and delivered openly in the Custome-house to the Searcher or Surveior who shall see the same brought to the Custome-house key or wharf and give knowledge thereof to the said officers which officers shal suffer the said goods to be taken up in the presence of the Surveior or Searcher and viewed in some convenient place and the owner thereof shall forthwith make an entry thereof partivularly under his hand or the hand of his assignes with the Collector and Checque and thereupon a warrant shall be made for the clearing and passing the wares and Merchandize as aforesaid (q) The Collector to appoint Officers to the Ships In every Port where more then one whether Searcher Surveior or Waiters are appointed to attend there the Collectors of the same Port shall nominate and direct under his hand which of them and how many of them shall take charge of every respective ship going forth or comming into the same Port either from beyond Sea or from any other Port within this Nation to see the goods and Merchandize therein cleared and discharged according to such warrants as he or they shall receive from the Collector and Checque (r) Bonds of Imployment Every Merchant stranger that entreth any Merchandize brought from beyond the Seas shall enter into bond with the Collector for Imployment to be made according to the statute (s) The day of going out and comming in of ships to be entred Every Searcher and Surveior shall enter into a book the day of the going out and comming in of every ship by way of Merchandize or by certificate from another Port with the name of the ship and Master and the date of every mans Cocquet Warrant and Certificate as they in order of the daies of every month shall fall out (t) Officers making false warrants Every officer that makes any Cocquet or Warrant contrary to or disagreeing to the entry of any goods or Merchandize shall be fined and punished according to his offence (u) Strangers Goods entred in English-mens names Every Merchant English or Stranger that shall enter the goods of a stranger in the name of an English-man shall forfeit and lose the goods so entred and all his goods personall (w) Englishmen inhabiting in orraign parts English-men inhabiting beyond the Seas and sworn subjects to forreign Princes are to pay Custome and other duties as strangers so long as they so continue (x) Denizens to pay as strangers Every one born out of the Nation and afterwards made Denizen shall pay like Custome as before he was made Denizen except Merchants of the Still yard of London (y) Searchers conniving at exportation of Bullion c. If any Searcher shall give way to transportation of monies or unlawfull passengers he shall be fined and punished according to the nature of the offence (z) Goods Customable In passing of goods from Port to Port within this Nation the Collector and other Officers are to understand by goods customable all wares and commodities growing and wrought or manufactured within this Nation and all forreign Commodities Merchandizes which have been imported remained in this Nation viz. by an English-man above twelve months and by a stranger above nine months and the property altered by the sale thereof made by the first Importer And * Goods prohibited By goods prohibited to be exported monies Bullion otherwise then by speciall Order Warrants as in the compasition Trade c. Plate Iewels Woollen Yarne and Cloth undrest Horses Mares Geldings Oxen Rine Sheep Copper Brass Bell-metall Pannâ—…tall Gun-metall Shruffe white ashes Butter Cheese Wood Corne when it is above the price limited by Satute as also Leather Hides Tallow and all things made thereof skins of Sheep Pelts and skins of Stags Hinds Bucks Does or fawne Goats or Ridd wool worsted Yarke Woollen-Flocks Woelfells Fullers earth And Clay of what kind soever ‖ What is meant by Grocery and Saltery wares It is further to be noted that by Grocery and Saltery wares are meant forreign Commodities only which have been formerly brought from beyond the Seas and the duties payed Inwards and that no Merchandize or Manufacture of England or Wales are to passe under those generall names * Articles annexed to the book of Rates The Collectors and other officers of the Customes are likewise diligently to observe and performe the Articles Rules and directions annexed to the present book of rates and such others as are directed by an Ordinance of Parliament published the sixtenth of December one thousand six hundred forty and seaven or by a late Act made for the raising and leavying of money by way of Excise or by any other Statute Act or Ordinance of Parliament now inforce for or concerning the payment of the subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage or the importation or exportation or transportation of goods Prohibited and all other Acts and Orders for any other duty or Impost payable in the Commissioners of the Customes And to observe the severall things that respectively appertain to the duty of their places and to take care that in all things they proceed accordingly Rules and Directions for the Collector in levying the Customes (a) What Englishmen and strangers shall pay HE is to collect five in the hundred as a generall subsidy as well upon the Merchant English as the Merchant Stranger and the petty Customs of three pence in the pound more
such Goods were imported as also that the Customs thereof were by him received and that in the said Certificate be expressed the quantity and quality of Goods imported and desired to be exported as also upon the same the Dath or the party that payd the Custom is to be made that it was payd and the oath of the Bropriefor and no other person that the said Goods are not sold or contracted for nor altered in the quality since they were first imported but that they shall be exported upon his own proper account the form of which Certificate and Oath thereupon hereafter followeth viz. (k) Form of the Certificate and Oath In the Mary of Poole William Hammond Master for Rotterdam Iohn Green Ind. Two bales containing ten hundred ells of vittery Canvas The subsidy in wards for ten hundred ells vittery Canvas was payd by Iohn Green Ind. 6º Ian. 1649. written Martij 5o. 1651. Iuravit Iohn Green the Goods above mentioned have payd full Custom in ward and are to be transported on his own account without alteration of property or contract made for the same All which being respectively done and observed as aforesaid and executed accordingly upon importation of all Goods and Merchandts res he is in the former case viz. of the half subsidy to pay it back and the like being observed as aforeesaid in reference to Goods and Merchandizes to be exported after the same have been imported above nine moneths by strangers and twelve moneths by English to grant a free Cocquet where it is desired the form whereof hereafter followeth (l) Form of the free Cocquet Know ye that Iohn Green Ind. for two bales containing two hundrid ells of vittery Canvas ness payd all dutiee inwards the 6o. Iran 1649. and now to be shipped in the Mary of London Will Hammond Master for Rotterdam Dated 5º Martij 1651. (m) What meant by alteration of quality and property Mem. By alteration of quality is to be understood that if Flax or Hemp be imported and after wards exported the first be made into Cloth or the second into yarn or Kopes or that linnen Cloth being first imported and afterwards being cut out into shirts or sheets or any other necessaries or if Goods or Merchandizes shall after their importation be died dressed or further manufactured these and the like are alteration of quality and the selling and contracting for any Goods or Merchandize is an alteration of property (n) No halfe subsidy upon Wines c. He is like wise to take notice That he is not to allow the half subsidy upon the importation of any Wines Tobaccoes or forraign VVoolls (o) Goods perished or lost at Sea He is not to make any allowance for Goods perished or lost at Sea or for Goods or Merchandizes entred outwards or discharged in some Port of this Nation under the pretence of contrary Winds or leakage of the Wessell without order of the Commissioners (p) All entries to be daily registred He is not to omit any entries but duly and daily to register the same in the Record of the Port if any (q) Defalcations defalcation be although by Order that the same be signified neere the said entry with the reason why the same is not drawn up in the sum thereof and added up with the account of monies received (r) Post-entries He is to regulate himself and the rest of the Officers in point of post-entries by the following Order viz. 6º Martii 1649. Committee Navie The Petition of the Governours and Company of Merchants trading into the Levant seas being read IT is thereupon (f) Orders touching post-entries ordered by this Committee that in cases of short Entries of any foreign Goods inwards wherein upon examination to be taken before the Commissioners or Collectors for the Customs it shall appear that the Merchant had no intention of Irand to the Commonwealth and the goods unentred shall not exceed twenty per cent in the quantity thereof in proportion with the goods mentioned in the VVarrant whereof the five per cent allowed by the Parliament shall be accompted part that the Merchant shall be admitted to amend his entry without seizure but this Committee do expresly declare that they do not intend this Order shall be extended 1 To any entries of goods passing Outwards in any case whatsoever 2 Nor to any goods entred inwards which shall be landed at unlawfull time or place or without the presence of the Officer of the Customs properly concerned therein 3 Nor in any cates where upon examination intention of fraud to the Commonwealth shall be discovered or the goods landed and not entered shall exceed the quantity above written But in all such cases this Committee do require and expect that seisures be duly made and prosecuted according to the duties of the Commissioners and their officers and the Laws in that behalf established Ro. Brewster George Thomson Ben. Valentine Ri. Aldworth T. Harrison In the Case of Exportation of Calveskins the following Orders are to be observed Monday the second of October 1654. At the Committee for preservation of Customs (t) Calve-skins exported WHereas the Còmissioners of the Customs have presented unto this Committée the great difference between them the Merchants and traders in the severall Ports of this Nation arising from want of power to take their bonds for three shillings and four pence of the duties payable upon the Exportation of every dozen of Calveskins as heretofore they could have done and their enforcing the said Merchants and others to pay the whole duty of seven and four pence which is by them thought to be a greater duty then the nature of the commodity will bear and that hereby the said Commissioners conceive the Commonwealths Revenue hath in some measure been lessened the chief Merchants and traders therein having discontinued the Exportation thereof and although others of lesse value have undertaken the same yet have they endeavoured in a sculking underhand way to export the same in Creeks and upon Beaches and unusuall places on purpose to defrand the Common-wealth of the whole duty thereof notwithstanding all due care hath been taken to prevent the same all which this Committee having taken into consideration do think fit order That the Commissioners for the Customs do henceforth permit and suffer Calveskins not exceeding the weight limited in the book of Rates to be exported beyond the seas receiving onely subsidy from the English men four shillings per dozen until this Committee shall give further order who intend as soon as opportunity shall serve to report the same unto the Parliament And that in the mean time the said Commissioners for the Customs do take care that good bonds be given by the Merchants and others Exporters of such Calveskins for payment of three shillings four pence upon every dozen of such skins as shall be exported in case the Parliament shall think fit to continue the said duty
each moneth and quarter and in case of failer of encounters that he fail not to acquaint the Commissioners from time to time that they may timely provide returns for such monies or take order otherwise to dispose thereof for his discharge therein for whether the monies arive or not the Commissioners must make good the Receipts of each Collector to the State at the time appointed by them And for his satisfaction and discharge and avoiding of all prejudice which may perchance by some be imagined to arise unto them by parting with their Vouchers before their Accompts be determined the Commissioners do declare that as without sight of the Vouchers no demand can be allowed in Accompt so upon receipt thereof if he send duplicate of his Accompt currant or a List apart of such Vouchers as he sends up the Commissioners will direct their Accomptant Generall whose signature they will own whereby the Commissitoners will acknowledge the Receipt of the said Vouchers and charge themselves therewith Every Collector is to send up unto the Commissioners other and above the four Quarter-Books and the Accompts currant and all things relating thereunto as before mentioned one years Book containing all particulars mentioned in his four severall Quarter-Books which years Book is to determine every four and twentith of June And to the end the Collector in the Member-Ports who do accompt to the Collector of the head-Port may not be put to néedlesse troubles in coming up to London to take their Oaths upon their yearly Accompt The Commissioners do direct that the Collector of the head-Port upon receipt of their Accompts yearly do administer this ensuing Oath unto them viz. You shall swear The Collectors Oath That the Accompt by you made containeth the perfect Entries of all Goods and Merchandizes whatsoever with the Subsidy and Custom and all other sums of money thereupon due and payable by reason of exportation and importation thereof into the Port of a member of the Port of As also that the severall sum or sums of money mentioned in the said Accompt to be by you disbursed are all true And that there hath not been received or due any other sum or sums of money for Subsidy or Custom for or by reason of and Goods or Merchandize exported out of or imported into the said Port from the time of the commencement of the said Accompt to the time of the determination thereof then are contained therein And also that there hath been truly and really issued and payd within the time aforesaid all and every the sums therein inserted to the best of your skill and knowledge So help you God Which Dath is to be transcrihed at the foot of their Accompts in their Book of pearly accompt and to be attested by the Collector as taken in his presence which will be sufficient for his discharge as to that which relateth not to his own particular In case any Collector of any the head Ports cannot come up to London at Midsummer to take his Dath to the pearly Accompt he is in such case to depose the truth thereof before the Collector of the next Port adjoyning in form following viz. I sweare that the Accompt by me presented c as in the Oath of a Sub-Collector Which Oath is to be written subscribed and attested as before and sent up to the Commissioners as before Accompt for the Impert on Coals He is over and above the Quarter Books within six dayes after the twelveth of October in each year to send up to the Commissioners an accompt of all monies by him received by verfue of the new impost on Coles from the first of April to the said twelveth of October inclussve and the like for the subsequent half years receipt upon Coles from the 12th of October to the first of April exclusive FINIS The Table A. ARticles annexed to the Book of Rates Page 4. Collectors Accompts P. 27. B. Bonds of imployment p. 3. Beere p. 5. Bayes p. 6. Bullion p. 6. Books of Entries for the Coast bufinesse p. 22. C. The Collectors to appoint Officers to the ships p. 3. Cottons p. 6. Coal-seed and Coal-seed Oyle p. 7. No allowance of five per Cent. ourwards p. 8. Allowance of II 2 per Cent. for leakage p. 8. Form of the Certificate and Oath p. 10.12 Form of the Cocquet p. 11. 13. Calve-skins exported p. 14. Impost on Coals p. 15. Coal-ships entred for the Coast bound over Sea p. 15. The Collectors of the Creeks to give bond about Coals p. 16. The Officer to certifie the Collector what he compoundeth for p. 25. Forraign Coyne p. 6. D. Denizens to pay as strangers p. 4.6 Form of a Debentur p. 11. Defaulcationt p. 12. No Goods to be delivered by vertue of Writs of Delivery till Customs be payd p. 26. E. Entryes outwards p. 2. Entryes by Licence p 2. Goods outwards entred in one Ship but laden in another p. 2. Entries inwards p. 3. Englishmen inhabiting in the parts beyond the Seas p. 4. What Englishmen shall pay p. 4. All Entries to be daily registred p. 12. Fullers Earth c. p. 22. F. Fish as Herrings and Pilchards p. 6. Security for rating the Fine p. 25 G. Goods customable p. 4. Goods prohibited p. 4. Grocery Wares p. 4. Goods to be cleared according to the Standard p. 4. Goods to be entred in their own denominations p. 7. Goods to be entred in the owners names p. 7. Goods perished or lost at Sea p. 12. H. Horses and live Oattel p. 7. Horses to the English Plantations p. 12. I.  K.  L. Lead p. 5. Log-wood p. 5. Lead-oare p. 5. Licence to compound for Goods seized p. 25. Licence to be returned to the Register p. 25. M. The Master of Purser to deliver in the contents of their Lading upon Oath p. 1. The Master to forfeit 100 l. for Goods shipped at unlawfull time or place p. 2. Every Merchant to have Cocquet c. by himself p. 21. Measures p. 8. The Officer to pay the States moiety for Goods condemned within twenty dayes p. 26. N.  O. The Collectors Oath p. 27. P. Prizage p. 5. Pan Tiles p. 5. Prize Goods and Ships p. 5. No allowance upon Prize Goods p. 7. What meant by alteration of property p. 12. Post-Entries p. 13. Orders touching Post-Entries p. 13. Q. What meant by alteration of quality p. 12. R. Goods not rated in the Book of Rates p. 7. S. Notice to be given to the Collector of Ships coming in and going out p. 1. Ships to be entred within four dayes after arrival p. 2. Strangers Vessels not to trade from Port to Port. p. 2. Bills at sight p. 10. Strangers Goods entred in English-mens names p. 4. Searchers conniving at the Exportation of Bullion c. p. 4. Saltery Wares p. 4. What strangers shall pay p. 5. What strangers shall pay upon native Commodities p. 5. Snowt Towe p. 5. Slate stones p. 6. What Ships to be reputed strangers what English p. 6. Ships bought beyond the Seas p. 7. Goods allowed for store c. to be rated p. 7. Store and Portage p. 8. Ships unlading part exporting the rest p. 9. Directions touching Seizures and Demises p. 28. Allowance of half Subsidy p. 10. T. Tobaccoes p. 5. Tares p. 16. Tobacco-Pipe Clay p. 23. W. Warrants to be passed in Custom-house only p. 2. Warrants to be delivered to the Officers before Goods be landed or shipped p. 2. Officers making false Warrants p. 4. Wines p. 5. Wrappers p. 7. Weights p. 7. No half Subsidy upon Wines c p. 12.