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A39465	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.; Laws, etc.	England and Wales.; Washington, Joseph, d. 1694.	1699 (1699)	Wing E901; ESTC R10134	164,075	204

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

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

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

the Act An. 7 8 W. 3. to do their utmost that the Acts relating to Shipping Navigation Trade and the Plantations made An 12 15 Car. 2. and 7 8 W. 3. be punctually observed CLXXI. The Sum of 3280 l. 8 s. 9 d. Received in Hammer'd Money by Ralph Williamson Receiver General of the 4 s. Aid in the Counties of York Durham and Northumberland and by him deposited in the Exchequer shall be received by the Tellers there and a Discharge passed for the same CLXXII After 1 May 1697. any Tobacco Pipe Maker upon Drawing his Tobacco Pipes finding then unfit for Sale may on Notice to the Officer in that behalf reburn the same and then pay the Duty thereon Established by the Act An. 7 8 W. 3. CLXXIII Stat. 8 9 W. 3 cap. 21. For three years from 20 Apr. 1697. there shall be paid to his Majesty for all Leather Tanned Tawed Dressed or Made in this Kingdom or Imported over and above all Duties already payable a Duty of 15 l. per Cent. of the true value of such Leather made of any Hides Skins or pieces of Hides or Skins of any Beasts or Creatures whatsoever to be answered by the Tanners Makers Dressers or Importers CLXXIV The Duties on Foreign Imported Leather Hides c. Manufactured or not shall be paid by the Importers in ready Money at the Entry and before the Landing of the same under penalty of forfeiting such Leather c. or the value thereof CLXXV The said Duty shall be under the Management of the Commissioners of the Customs and the Moneys arising thereby shall be paid into the Exchequer distinct from all other Moneys The value of such Leather or Commodities shall be esteemed upon the Oath of the Merchant or Importer in such manner as in Goods ad valorem CLXXVI All chief Magistrates of Cities and Towns Lords of Liberties Fairs and Markets Masters and Wardens of Companies concern'd and all Tanners Curriers Shoemakers and other Artificers and persons concern'd in the Act Anno 1 Jac. 1. touching the true and well Tanning Currying and Working of Leather and the buying and selling the same c. shall duly execute the said Statute under the penalties thereof CLXXVII His Majesty or the Treasury may appoint Commissioners or Surveyors for the said Duties who may substitute Deputies or Inferior Officers under them CLXXVIII The value of all Imported Leather shall be so much as the same is worth to be sold for in London without any Allowance for the Duties charged thereupon CLXXIX And the value of all Leather Tanned Tawed Made or Dressed shall be what the same is worth to be sold for at the next Market without respect to the Duty CLXXX All Tanners Bazil-Tanners Curriers Tawers Makers or Dressers of Leather shall before 20 May 1697. give Notice in Writing to the proper Officer at the next Market Town of every Tan-house Work-house or Place by them used and the Number of Pits or Fat 's therein And from time to time during the continuance of this Act shall give like Notice of their respective Names and Places of Abode Yards and Work-houses used or intended to be used by them before they make use thereof under penalty of 50 l. CLXXXI And no place is to be made use of for Drying of Leather or making it fit for Sale but such as shall have been so notified to the proper Officer to be the usual place for the same CLXXXII And the said Officers are to be permitted to take an Account of the Number and Quality of all Hides Skins or Pieces which after 20 Apr. 1697. shall be taken out of the Wooze Mill or Liquor to be Dryed c. And the Tanners c. are within three days after the taking out thereof and before the carrying away of the same from the place of Drying to make a true Entry thereof with the proper Officer and shall not carry the same away without a Permission in Writing from such Officer or giving him three days Notice Which Permission to be gratis and such Notice not to be sent further than to the next Market CLXXXIII The proper Officers are Impowred at seasonable times to enter into any Tan-yard Work-house Ware-house c. to take Notice of the quantities of Leather taken out of the Woozes c. and not to be refused such entrance under penalty of 5 l. CLXXXIV If any Tanner c. endeavour to defraud his Majesty of any of the said Duty by using any private Tan-yard c. or not making due Entries or carrying away without such Permission or Notice or shall fraudulently hide or conceal any Leather c. he shall forfeit 20 l. and the Leather so concealed not entred or unlawfully carried away shall be forfeited also But no Fee or Reward shall be taken for such Entries Accounts Permissions or Certificates CLXXXV After 20 Apr. 1697. No Leather for which the Duty ought to be paid shall be sold exchanged or parted with but in some open Fair or Market where the same shall be Entred particularly and the true value thereof with the proper Officer before its Delivery CLXXXVI And the Duty shall thereupon be paid in ready Money to the Collector who shall deliver back a Copy of such Entry with an Acquittance for the Moneys so received CLXXXVII Upon controversie touching the value of any such Leather c. so sold or agreed for The said Officer if he think his Majesty apparently defrauded in the value so Registred may take it at the Price for his Majesties Use paying down ready Money and 2 s. per l. over CLXXXVIII No Buyer or Contractor for such Leather shall carry away the same before it be so Entred and the Duties paid CLXXXIX If any Tanner c. shall sell exchange or part with any Leather otherwise than according to this Act or if any Buyer or Contractor shall carry away the same before the value be Registred and the Duty satisfied they shall forfeit 40 l. respectively and the said Leather shall be also forfeited and seiz'd CXC In case of Seizing any such Leather and an Information Laid or Complaint made within Fifteen days before two of the Justices of the Peace such Justices may hear and determine the same upon Oath Reserving an Appeal to the Justices at the next General Quarter Sessions to hear and determin the same finally CXCI. Every Tanner c. shall once in three Months Account with the proper Officer for all the Hides c. taken out of the Wooze c. according to the Entries thereof and Discharge the same by Leather sold and paid for or by Leather remaining not carried out or by Leather carried to Market by Permission and unsold Which Account every such Tanner c. is to make upon Demand under penalty of 20 l. subject to the examination of the proper Officer and the penalties of defrauding CXCII Provided that Foreign Raw Hides or Skins of Negro Dress shall not pay the Duty till

shall keep their Head Office in London or Westminster for Stamping of Velum c. and Collecting the Duties and providing proper Marks or Stamps accordingly CCCLXVI For applying the Duties on this and the former Acts as they are severally appropriated all Velum Parchment and Paper where the Duties are doubled till 1 Aug. 1706. shall after 1 Aug. 1698. be Stampt with two Marks to denote both the Duties except such things as by the former Acts still remain liable to the single Duty only namely every Skin c. on which there shall be Ingrossed or Written CCCLXVII Any general Circuit or Newgate Pardon 40 s. only CCCLXVIII Any Register Entry Testimonial or Certificate of Degrees in the Universities or Inns of Court Batchelor of Arts excepted 40 s. only CCCLXIX Any Conveyance Surrender of Grants or Offices Release or other Deed Enrolled 5 s. only CCCLXX Any Licence or Certificate for Marriage 5 s. only CCCLXXI Any Writy for Levying Fines or Suffering Recoveries or Habeat Corpus 5 s. only CCCLXXII All which till 1 Aug. 1706. shall be Stampt with one mark only according to the former Acts. CCCLXXIII All things herein before charged shall after the last of July 1706. before the Ingrossing or Writing thereof be brought to the head Office to be Stampt with one Mark CCCLXXIV The Commissioners for the said Duties are impow and required to Stamp any Quantities of Velum c. for any persons paying the Duties And if any person Ingross or Write any thing as aforesaid before it be so Stampt or Stampt with a Lower Duty than is payable by this and the former Acts he shall forfeit 10 l. and any Clerk Officer or Person in publick Office who shall Make Ingross or Write any Records Deeds Instruments or Writings charged as aforesaid without being Stampt or with a counterfeit Stamp or Stampt with a lower duty shall besides the 10 l. forfeit his Office and if an Attorney he shall be disabled to Practice and any other person offending therein shall forfeit for every such Deed or Writing 10 l. over and above the Duty And no such Record c. shall be pleaded or given in Evidence till the Duty and Penalty be paid and then to be Stampt with the proper Marks CCCLXXV Any person who shall Counterfeit any of the said Stamps or Marks or the impression of the same or shall vend any Velum c. with such Counterfeit Marks shall be guilty of Felony without benefit of Clergy and suffer Death accordingly CCCLXXVI The Commissioners may appoint a person in any Court to take notice of the things Stampt and the Judges of Courts shall make such Orders for securing the Duties as the Commissioners shall reasonably desire CCCLXXVII Every of the Commissioners and persons imployed under them for Stamping of Velum c. shall take the Oath prescribed for the faithful Execution of their Trust c. CCCLXXVIII The Commissioners and their Officers shall observe the directions of the Commissioners of the Treasury and shall take care that the several parts of the Kingdom be sufficiently furnished with Stampt Velum c. That all persons at their Election may buy the same at the usual Rates above the Duty CCCLXXIX Persons admitted to sue or defend in Forma Pauperis shall not be liable to the said Duties CCCLXXX All things whatsoever hereby charged shall be Ingrossed and Written as usually CCCLXXXI Upon altering or renewing the said Stamps all things Stampt and not Written may within 60 days after Proclamation of such renewing or altering be sent to the Head Office to be changed without any further charge on the penalty of 100 l. But not being so sent to be void and subject to the like Penalties if Ingrossed or Written upon as if not Stampt CCCLXXXII Provided that the King or Commissioners of the Treasury may on Stampt Parchment or Paper order payment of the Salaries and Incident Charges in managing this Duty out of the said Duties CCCLXXXIII Provided that within 20 days after alteration of the said Stamps the Proclamation aforesaid shall be sent to the chief Magistrates of Cities Boroughs and Market-towns throughout England to be published the next market day or Sunday on penalty of 200 l. CCCLXXXIV The Commissioners of the Treasury shall once every year set the prices that all Stampt Velum Parchment or Paper shall be sold at which shall be Stampt upon the same accordingly and an allowance shall be made for every 10 l. after 6 per Cent. per Ann. for three Months for Prompt payment over and above the like allowance on the former Acts. CCCLXXXV This Act shall not extend to charge any Letters Patents for Collecting Charitable Briefs nor shall such Briefs be doubly Stampt CCCLXXXVI Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 27. The Act made 8 and 9 W. 3. Intituled An Act for Licensing Hawkers and Pedlars for a further provision of Interest for the Transport Debt for Reducing of Ireland being to continue only to 24 June 1698. It is Enacted That from the said 24 June 1698. to 24 June 1701. There shall be paid to his Majesty by every Hawker Pedlar Petry-Chapman or other trading person going from Town to Town or to other Mens Houses and Travelling either on Foot or with Horse Horses or otherwise within this Kingdom except as herein excepted carrying to Sell or exposing to Sale any Goods Wares or Merchandises a Duty of 4 l. for each year And that every Person so Travelling with a Horse Ass or Mule or other Beast bearing or drawing burthen shall over and above pay 4 l. for each year CCCLXXXVII Every Pedlar c. so Travelling as aforesaid upon receiving a Licence shall pay to the Commissioners for Licensing Hawkers c. One Moiety of the said Duty and give Bond for the true payment of the other Moiety at the end of 6 Kalendar Months with an allowance of 2 s. in the pound for Prompt payment of the last Moiety CCCLXXXVIII Such Hawker c. As after the said 24 Jun. 1698. shall be sound Trading as aforesaid without or contrary to such Licence shall for every such offence forfeit 12 l. one Moiety to the Informer and the other to the poor of the Parish wherein such offender shall be discovered And if any persons so Trading upon demand made by any Justice of Peace Mayor Constable or other Officer of the Peace refuse to shew their Licence they shall forfeit 5 l. to the use of the poor of the Parish where such demand shall be made and for Non-payment shall suffer as a Common Vagrant and be sent so the House of Correction CCCLXXXIX The said Commissioners upon the Terms aforesaid are to grant a Licence to be by them subscribed to every Hawker c. for him or herself for which there shall be taken only one shilling unless such Hawker c. Travel with a Beast of Burthen and then there shall be paid for such Licence only 2 s. over and above the Duties aforesaid The