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B05695 A proclamation, for the better in bringing Their Majesties excise. Scotland. Privy Council.; Scotland. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary) 1693 (1693) Wing S1927; ESTC R183552 3,533 1

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A PROCLAMATION For the better In bringing Their Majestes Excise WILLIAM and MARY by the Grace of God King and Queen of Great-Britain France and Ireland Defenders of the Faith To Macers of Our Privy Council or Messengers at Arms Our Sheriff in that part conjunctly and severally specially constitute Greeting Forasmuch as by the third Act of the fourth Session of Our current Parliament We with Advice and Consent of the Estates of Parliament did Impose and Ordain an Additional Excise of Three pennies upon the Pint of Ale and Beer browen and to be vended and sold within this Kingdom and Two shilling upon the Pint of Aquavite and Strong-waters made of Malt or otherways as in the said Act and did set down and appoint certain Methods and Rules for Levying Raising and Uplifting the same in manner mentioned in the said Act And with Advice and Consent foresaid did Authorize and impower the Lords of Our privy Council to prescribe such other Methods and Orders as they should judge necessar for making the said Act effectual and We considering the great hinderance the Tacksmen of Our said Additional Excise meet with in the several Shires for uplifting the said Three pennies and two shilling of Excise imposed in manner foresaid by the not meeting of the Commissioners of Supply duely and frequently to determine all differences between the Brewers and Tacksmen their Sub-tracksmen Collectors and for want of orderly rimous Entries by the Brewers of all Liquors browen by them lyable to the said Excise wherethrow great Loss and Prejudice doth arise to that Branch of the Supply granted to Us thereby For Remeed whereof We with Advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council strictly Require and Command the whole Commissioners of Supply in all the Shires within this Kingdom qualified according to Law and who by the said Act of Parliament are appointed Commissioners of the said Additional Excise to meet at the Head burghs of their respective Shires at the days respective following viz These on this side of the River of Tay upon the second Tuesday of January next and these on the other side of the said River of Tay upon the Third Tuesday of the said Moneth and at their Meetings to settle and appoint places such as they shall find most convenient where publick Excise-offices shall be keeped for the Brewers to enter and give up the quantities of the Liquors browen by them lyable in payment of the said Excise And appoints the saids Commissioners Immediatly after designing the places for the saids Offices to cause make publick Intimation at all the Church-doors within the saids respective Shires of the particular Places designed by them for the several Excise-offices with Certification to the saids Ccmmissioners or any of them residing within the saids respective Shires who shall failȝie to meet at the said days respective above set down and to appoint and design the particular Places for Excise-offices in manner above exprest they shall be and are hereby Fined each of them in the Sum of One hundred pounds Scots for the said absence to be charged for upon a simple Charge of six days and uplifted by the Collectors of Supply of the respective Shires for which effect Letters are hereby Authorized to be directed at the instance of the saids Collectors against them and appoints the Clerk to the saids Commissioners to send a List of such of the saids Commissioners as shall be absent at the saids two Dyets immmediatly after elapsing of these Dyets duely subscribed by him to the said Collectors under the pain of Deprivation and the Collectors are to be comptable for the said Fines to the Justices of Peace in the several Shires to be applyed by them for the repairing of Bridges and High-ways within their respective Bounds as they shall see cause And We with Advice foresaid Require and Command the saids Commissioners to subdivide themselves so as there may be at least two who are hereby declared to be a Quorum to meet and be present at each Office upon the days respective following viz these upon this side of Tay upon the third Tuesday of the said Month of January next and these upon the other side of the said River the fourth Tuesday of the said Month for the first Dyet And We with Advice foresaid Require and Command the whole Brewers within the bounds alloted for the saids respective Offices to attend and wait upon the saids respective Commissioners at the offices particularly to be appointed by them upon the days above expressed without any farder Intimation Charge or Citation to be given to them by the saids Tacksmen Sub-tacksmen or Collectors of the said Additional Excise but the publication hereof allenarly in manner after-mentioned and there to give in and make and the Commissioners to receive from them faithful and full Entries of all Liquors browen within the saids Bounds lyable in payment of the said Additional Excise for the Months of June July August September October and November last and December current And because the Brewers for want of timous Intimation for the saids Months of June July and August may pretend that they cannot give their Oaths if required upon the precise quantity of their brewing the saids Months They are therefore hereby allowed to give their Oaths in these Terms that their said brewing hath not exceeded such a quantity which is hereby held as sufficient to make them lyable for the same And sicklike that the saids Commissioners meet and the saids Brewers attend them at the saids respective Offices without any further Intimation Charge or Citation but what is above exprest the first Tuesday of every Month during the continuance of the said Additional Excise for making and receiving in the Entries of all Liquor browen within the said Bounds lyable to the said Excise for the preceeding Month and to judge in all Matters relating either to the said Additional Excise or to the Excise imposed formerly upon Malt and annexed to our Crown betwixt the Brewers and our Tacksmen their Sub-Tacksmen and Collectors with Certfication to such of the saids Brewers who shall not compear and attend the saids Dyets respective above-mentioned they shall be holden as Confest and Decreets given against them for the quantities of Liquor lyable to the foresaid Additional Excise which shall be contained in the Claims or Complaints to be given in by the Tacksmen Sub-Tacksmen and Collectors against them and that at the first Meeting upon the subsequent Month after the respective Brewers their absence and failȝie to make a due Entry upon the first Tuesday of the preceding Month. And in case the Ent●… of any Brewer shall be disproven then they shall be lyable in payment of such a Fyne as the Commissioners or other Judges after named shall Impose not exceeding the Double of what Liquor shall be concealed and all Execution competent shall be made use of by our Tacksmen their Sub-Tacksmen or Collectors against the respective Brewers for the same And in case the saids Commissioners or at least two of them shall failȝe to meet and attend the saids respective Officer the saids third and fourth Tuesdays respective of January next or upon the first Tuesday of any subsequent Month during the continuance of the said Additional Excise the whole division and each of them shall be lyable in the Fyne of twenty Pound Scots a piece toties quoties to be uplifted and applyed in manner as the other Fynes above mentioned And after Instruments taken against them of their failȝie to meet and attend as said is We with Advice foresaid require and command the Sheriffs and their Deputes or such as the saids Sheriffs shall substitute at each particular Dyety for effect allenarly to repair to the saids respective Offices within twenty four Hours after they shall be desired by the Tacksmen either of Annexed or Additional Excise their Sub Tacksmen or Collectors there summarly to judge on what occurs within the Bounds of that Office in reference to the said Annexed or Additional Excise certifying the saids Sheriffs their Deputs or Subsitutes if they fail they shall be punished as the Lords of Our Privy Council shall think fit And further We with Advice foresaid Prohibit and Discharge any of the Commissioners of Supply or other inferior Judges or Officers of the Law within this Our Realm to stop or hinder either Quartering Poynding or any other lawful Execution that shall be used by Our Tacksmen their Sub-tacksmen and Collectors of the said annexed or Additional Excise against the respective Brewers conform to the Entries that shall be made by them or according to the quantities of Liquor whereupon they shall be holden as confest in manner and before the Judges above-mentioned under the pain of being not only lyable for the Charges and Damages Our saids Tacksmen their Sub-tacksmen and Collectors shall sustain and incur therethrough but also to such further Pains as the Lords of Our Privy Council shall think fit OUR WILL IS HEREFORE and We charge you strictly and Command that incontinent these Our Letters seen ye pass to the Mercat-cross of Edinburgh and to the Mercat-crosses of the Head burghs of the several Shires within this Kingdom and of the Stewartries of Kirkudbright Annandale and Orkneya and there in Our Name and Authority make Publication hereof that none may pretend Ignorance and Ordains Our Soliciter to cause send printed Copies hereof to the Sheriff of the several Shires and Stewarts of the Stewartries foresaids whom and their saids Clerks We ordain to see the samen published and Copies thereof affixed at the saids Mercat-Crosses and appoints them to send Doubles thereof to all the Ministers both in Churches and Meeting-houses within their respective Jurisdictions that upon the Lords day immediatly preceeding the saids third and fourth Tuesday of January next the same may be Intimate and read in every Paroch Church and Meeting-house and a Copy of the same affixed upon the most publick Door thereof And Ordains thir presents to be Printed Given under Our Signet at Edinburgh the twenty second day of December and of Our Reign the Fifth Year 1693. Per Actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii In Supplementum Signeti GILB ELIOT Cls. Sti. Concilii GOD save King VVilliam and Queen Mary Edinburgh Printed by the Successors of Andrew Anderson Printers to Their most Excellent Majesties Anno DOM. 1693.