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A74389 An act appointing commissioners for the excize England and Wales. Parliament. 1650 (1650) Thomason E1061_19; ESTC R209253 1,370 4

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AN ACT Appointing COMMISSIONERS FOR THE EXCIZE WHereas by sundry Acts Ordinances and Orders of Parliament several Rates Charges by way of New-Impost or Excize for discharging of publique Debts and defraying of the Charge of the Commonwealth have been and are imposed upon divers Commodities Merchandizes and Manufactures imported made or growing or put to sale or consumed within England and Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed as in the said Acts Ordinances and Orders of Parliament is expressed and doth more largely appear The Parliament have thought fit to Enact and Ordain and be it Enacted and Ordained by this present Parliament and by the Authority thereof That from and after the Nine and twentieth day of September One thousand six hundred and fifty George Snelling Esq Thomas Bulstrode Esq Thomas Foot Lord Major of the City of London William Parker Doctor of Physick Maurice Thompson and Richard Downs Esqs and no others are and shall be and are hereby declared constituted and appointed Commissioners and Governors of the Excize or New-Impost and are hereby authorized and required by themselves or their Subcommissioners Deputies and other Officers to be by them authorized and appointed under their Hands and Seals to collect and receive all such Sum and Sums of Money which shall at any time hereafter from and after the said Nine and twentieth day of September One thousand six hundred and fifty become due and payable for the Excize of any Goods Wares Merchandizes and Manufactures imported or made or growing or put to sale or consumed within England and Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed in such sort as the said Duties have been or ought to have been collected by vertue of any Act Ordinance or Order of Parliament or any other Instructions from the Parliament or by Authority of Parliament which are now in force And it is hereby Enacted and Declared That the said George Snelling Thomas Bulstrode Thomas Foot William Parker Maurice Thompson and Richard Downs shall have the same Power and Authority to do all and every act and acts thing and things that John Towse Esq deceased John Langham Thomas Foot John Kenrick Thomas Cullum Esqs Aldermen of London Simon Edmonds John Lamot and Edward Claxton Citizens of London or any of them by vertue of any Acts Ordinances or Orders of Parliament or otherwise might or could lawfully do And it is further Enacted and Declared That the said Commissioners of Excize appointed by this Act shall have power to let out and to Farm the Excize or New-Impost of all Commodities or any part thereof charged to pay Excize by Authority of Parliament within this Commonwealth according to such Rules and Instructions as the Parliament or Committee of Parliament appointed for Regulating of Excize shall from time to time give unto them And the said Committee are hereby impowered to give Rules and Instructions accordingly And be it further Enacted and Ordained That the said Commissioners shall have and take to themselves for their care and pains Three pence in the pound for all and every such Sum and Sums of Money respectively as shall be raised collected and gathered for Excize or New-Impost and for all such Fines Forfeitures and Amerciaments which shall be imposed assessed and collected to the use of the State for or by reason of the same And be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That all Subcommissioners and other Officers and persons now imployed in the Service of the Excize under the late Commissioners for the Excize shall remain and continue in their respective Imployments until such time as the Commissioners herein named shall by and with the consent and approbation of the Committee for Regulating the Excize otherwise Order and Appoint Any thing in this Acts contained to the contrary notwithstanding Die Jovis 26 Septembr 1650. ORdered by the Parliament That the Act appointing Commissioners for the Excize be forthwith printed and published Hen Scobell Cleric Parliamenti London Printed by Edward Husband and John Field Printers to the Parliament of England 1650.