AN EXACT Abridgment Of all the STATUTES OF King WILLIAM AND Queen MARY Now in Force and Vse By J. Washington Esq LONDON Printed by the Assigns of the Kings Printers And by the Assigns of R. Atkins and E. Atkins Esquires And are to be sold by M. Gilliflower S. Keble D. Brown W. Rogers T. Goodwin A. Churchill and J. Walthoe 1694. THE TITLES Of all the STATUTES Contained in this ABRIDGMENT Now in Force and Vse 1. AN Act for removing and preventing all Questions and Disputes concerning the assembling and sitting of this present Parliament 2. An Act for reviving of Actions and Process lately depending in the Courts at Westminster and discontinued by the not holding of Hillary-Term and for supplying other Defects relating to Proceedings at Law 3. An Act for establishing the Coronation Oath 4. An Act for the abrogating of the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths 5. An Act for the removing Papists and reputed Papists from the Cities of London and Westminster and ten Miles distance from the same 6. An Act for the taking away the Revenue arising by Hearth-Mony 7. An Act for the explaining and making effectual a Statute made in the first Year of King James II. concerning the Haven and Piers of Great Yarmouth 8. An Act for the encouraging the Exportation of Corn. 9. An Act for preventing Doubts and Questions concerning the collecting the Publick Revenue 10. An Act for the better securing the Government by disarming Papists and reputed Papists 11. An Act That the Simoniacal Promotion of one Person may not projudice another 12. An Act for rectifying a Mistake in a certain Act of this present Parliament For the amoving Papists from the Cities of London and Westminster 13. An Act for exempting their Majesties Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws 14. An Act for enabling Lords Commissioners for the Great Seal to execute the Office of Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper 15. An Act for the Exportation of Beer Ale Syder and Mum. 16. An Act for reviving two former Acts for exporting of Leather 17. An Act to regulate the Administration of the Oaths required to be taken by Commission or Warrant Officers employed in their Majesties Service by Land by virtue of an Act made this present Session of Parliament Entituled An Act for the abrogating of the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths 18. An Act to vest in the two Universities the Presentations of Benefices belonging to Papists 19. An Act for taking away the Court holden before the President and Council of the Marches of Wales 20. An Act for appropriating certain Duties for paying the States General of the United Provinces their Charges for his Majesties Expedition into this Kingdom and for other Uses 21. An Act for Relief of the Protestant Irish Clergy 22. An Act to repeal the Statute made in the fifth Year of King Henry IV. against the multiplying of Gold and Silver 23. An Act for the better preventing the Exportation of Wooll and encouraging the Woollen Manufactures of this Kingdom 24. An Act for explaining part of an Act made in the first Year of King James I. concerning Tanned Leather 25. An Act for prohibiting all Trade and Commerce with France 26. An Act declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and settling the Succession of the Crown 27. An Act for preventing all Doubts and Questions concerning the collecting the Publick Revenue 28. An Act for the charging and collecting the Duties upon Coffee Tea and Chocolate at the Custom-house 29. An Act for preventing venatious Suits against such as acted in order to the Bringing in their Majesties or for their Service 30. An Act for the better Security and Relief of their Majesties Protestant Subjects of Ireland 31. An Act for Recognizing King William and Queen Mary and for avoiding all Questions touching the Acts made in the Parliament assembled at Westminster the thirteenth day of February 1688. 32. An Act for granting to their Majesties for their Lives and the Life of the Survivor of Them certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors 33. An Act for granting to their Majesties a Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage and other Sums of Mony payable upon Merchandizes exported and imported 34. An Act for enabling the Sale of Goods distrained for Rent in case the Rent be not paid in a reasonable time 35. An Act for the Exercise of the Government by Her Majesty during his Majesty's Absence 36. An Act to declare the Right and Freedom of Election of Members to serve in Parliament for the Cinque Ports 37. An Act for reversing the Judgment in a Quo Warranto against the City of London and for restoring the City of London to its ancient Rights and Priviledges 38. An Act for the discouraging the Importation of Thrown-Silk 39. An Act for the King and Queens most Gracious General and Free Pardon 40. An Act concerning the Commissioners of the Admiralty 41. An Act for granting to their Majesties certain Impositions upon all East-India Goods and Manufactures and upon all Wrought Silks and several other Goods and Merchandize to be imported after the 25th day of December 1690. 42. An Act for the continuance of several former Acts therein mentioned for the laying several Duties upon Wines Vinegar and Tobacco 43. An Act for reviving a former Act for regulating the Measures and Prices of Coals 44. An Act for paving and cleansing the Streets in the Cities of London and Westminster and Suburbs and Liberties thereof and Out-Parishes in the County of Middlesex and in the Borough of Southwark and other Places within the Weekly Bills of Mortality in the County of Surry and for regulating the Markets therein mentioned 45. An Act for the encouraging the Distilling of Brandy and Spirits from Corn and for laying several Duties on Low-Wines or Spirits of the first Extraction 46. An Act for granting to their Majesties several additional Duties of excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for four Years from the time that an Act for doubling the Duty of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors during the space of one Year doth expire 47. An Act for preventing vexatious Suits against such as acted for their Majesties Service in Defence of the Kingdom 48. An Act for the more effectual putting in Execution an Act Entituled An Act for prohibiting all Trade and Commerce with France 49. An Act for Relief of poor Prisoners for Debt or Damages 50. An Act for abrogating the Oath of Supremacy in Ireland and appointing other Oaths 51. An Act for the better ascertaining the Tithes of Hemp and Flax. 52. An Act for the Encouragement of the Breeding and Feeding of Cattle 53. An Act to take away Clergy from some Offenders and to bring others to punishment 54. An Act for the more effectual discovery and Punishment of Deer-stealers 55. An Act for the better explanation and supplying the Defects of the former Laws for the
settlement of the Poor 56. An Act for the better repairing and amending the High-ways and for settling the Rates of Carriage of Goods 57. An Act against corresponding with their Majesties Enemies 58. An Act for the Relief of Creditors against fraudulent Devises 59. An Act for the better ordering and collecting the Duty upon Low-Wines and Strong-Waters and for preventing the Abuses therein 60. An Act that the Inhabitants in the Province of York may dispose of their Personal Estates by their Wills notwithstanding the Custom of that Province 61. An Act for granting to their Majesties certain Rates and Duties of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for securing certain Recompences and Advantages in the said Act mentioned to such Persons as shall voluntarily advance the Sum of ten hundred thousand Pounds towards carrying on the War against France 62. An Act for taking Special Bails in the Country upon Actions and Suits depending in the Courts of Kings-Bench Common-Pleas and Exchequer at Westminster 63. An Act for granting to their Majesties certain Additional Impositions upon several Goods and Merchandizes for the prosecuting the present War against France 64. An Act to prevent Abuses committed by the Traders in Butter and Cheese 65. An Act for encouraging the apprehending of High-way Men. 66. An Act for reviving two former Acts of Parliament for the repairing the High-ways in the County of Hertford 67. An Act for prohibiting the Importation of all Foreign Hair Buttons 68. An Act to make Parishioners of the Church United Contributors to the Repairs and Ornaments of the Church to whom the Union is made 69. An Act for punishing Officers and Souldiers who shall Mutiny or Desert their Majesties Service and for Punishing false Musters and for the Payment of Quarters 70. An Act for continuing certain Acts therein mentioned and for charging several Joynt-Stocks 71. An Act to prevent Frauds by Clandestine Mortgages 72. An Act for the regaining encouraging and settling the Greenland Trade 73. An Act to prevent malicious Informations in the Court of Kings-Bench and for the more easie reversal of Outlawries in the same Court 74. An Act for preventing Suits against such as acted for their Majesties Service in Defence of the Kingdom 75. An Act for the better Discovery of Judgments in the Courts of Kings-Bench Common-Pleas and Exchequer at Westminster 76. An Act for delivering Declarations to Prisoners 77. An Act for regulating the Proceedings in the Crown-Office of the Court of Kings-Bench at Westminster 78. An Act for the more easie discovery and conviction of such as shall destroy the Game of this Kingdom 79. An Act for reviving continuing and explaining several Laws therein mentioned which are expired and near expiring 80. An Act for continuing the Acts for prohibiting all Trade and Commerce with France and for the Encouragement of Privateers 81. An Act for repealing such parts of several former Act as prevent or prohibit the importation of Foreign Brandy Aqua Vitae and other Spirits and Bacon except from France 82. An Act for the importation of fine Italian Sicilian and Naples Thrown Silk 83. An Act to repeal a Clause in the Statute made in the four and thirtieth and five and thirtieth Years of King Henry the eighth by which Justices of Peace in Wales are limited to eight in each County 84. An Act to supply the Deficiency of the Mony raised by a former Act Entituled An Act for granting to their Majesties certain Rates and Duties of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for securing certain Recompences and Advantages in the said Act mentioned to such Persons as shall voluntarily advance the Sum of ten hundred thousand Pounds towards carrying on the War against France 85. An Act to prevent Disputes and Controversies concerning Royal Mines 86. An Act for granting to their Majesties certain Rates and Duties upon Salt and upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for securing certain Recompences and Advantages in the said Act mentioned to such Persons as shall voluntarily advance the Sum of ten hundred thousand Pounds towards carrying on the War against France 87. An Act for the explaining and for the more effectual Execution of a former Act for the Relief of poor Prisoners 88. An Act for repeal of a Clause in the Statute of the fifth Year of Queen Elizabeth containing divers Orders for Artificers and others which relates to Weavers of Cloath 89. An Act for Relief of the Orphans and other Creditors of the City of London 90. An Act to prevent Delays of Proceedings at the Quarter-Sessions of the Peace 91. An Act to take away the Process for the Capiatur Fine in the several Courts at Westminster 92. An Act to repeal the Statute made in the tenth Year of King Edward III. for finding Sureties for the good abearing by him or her that hath a Pardon of Felony 93. An Act for continuing the Act for punishing Officers and Souldiers who shall Mutiny or Desert their Majesties Service and for punishing false Musters and for the payment of Quarters for one Year longer 94. An Act for the importation of Salt-Petre for one Year 95. An Act for the exportation of Iron Copper and Mundick Metal 96. An Act for enabling their Majesties to make Grants Leases and Copies of Offices Lands and Hereditaments parcel of their Dutchy of Cornwal or annexed to the same and for confirmation of Leases and Grants already made 97. An Act for raising the Militia of this Kingdom for the Year 1694. although the Months Pay formerly advanced be not repaid 98. An Act for granting to their Majesties several Rates and Duties upon Tunnage of Ships and Vessels and upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for securing certain Recompences and Advantages in the said Act mentioned to such Persons as shall voluntarily Advance the Sum of fifteen hundred thousand pounds towards carrying on the War against France 99. An Act for granting to their Majesties several Duties upon Vellum Parchment and Paper for four Years towards carrying on the War against France 100. An Act for the licensing and regulating Hackney-Coaches and Stage-Coaches 101. An Act for appointing and enabling Commissioners to examine take and state the Publick Accounts of the Kingdom 102. An Act for building good and defensible Ships 103. An Act for the better Discipline of their Majesties Navy Royal. AN EXACT ABRIDGMENT Of all the STATUTES OF King William Queen Mary IN Force and Use until the 14th of March in the Fifth Year of Their Reign An. Dom. 1692 3. Accounts I. STat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. c. 9. Sir Robert Rich Sir Thomas Clarges Paul Foley Robert Austen Sir Matthew Andrews Sir Benjamin Newland Sir Samuel Barnardiston Sir Peter Colliton and Robert Harley or any Five or more of them shall be Commissioners for taking the Accounts of the Publick Revenues of the Crown which were in the Receipt of the Exchequer on the Fifth Day of November 1688. or since or shall be before the Power for taking these Accounts be determined and of all
Arrears thereof and of all Moneys then and before the determination of the said Power in the Hands of the Receiver General or Cashiers of the Customs Excise or Hearth-money and of the Sum of 412925 l. 14 s. 6 d. Granted by an Act of the First Session of the late Parliament Entituled An Act for the Granting a present Aid to Their Majesties and of the Money paid or payable by an Act Entituled An Act for raising Money by a Poll and otherwise towards the Reducing of Ireland and by one other Act Entituled An Act for preventing Doubts and Questions concerning the Collecting the Publick Revenue and by one other Act Entituled An Act for the Grant to Their Majesties of an Aid of 12 d. in the Pound for one Year for the necessary defence of the Realm and of one other Act Entituled An Act for an additional Duty of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors and one other Act For Appropriating certain Duties for paying the States General of the United Provinces their Charges for His Majesties Expedition into the Kingdom and for other Uses and of one other Act of the Second Session of the same Parliament Entituled An Act for preventing all Doubts and Questions concerning the Collecting the Publick Revenue and of one other Act Entituled An Act for a Grant to Their Majesties of an Aid of two Shillings in the Pound for One Year and of one other Act of the same Session Entituled An Act for a Grant to Their Majesties of an additional Aid of 12 d. in the Pound for One Year and of one Act Entituled An Act for Charging and Collecting the Duties upon Coffee Tea and Chocolate at the Custom-house and of one other Act Entituled An Ast for Review of the late Poll granted to Their Majesties and for an additional Poll towards the Reducing of Ireland and by one other Act Entituled An Act for Raising Money by a Poll and otherwise towards the Reducing of Ireland and Prosecuting the War against France and by one other Act Entituled An Act for Granting to Their Majesties for their Lives and the Life of the Survivor of them certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors and one other Act Entituled An Act for Granting to Their Majesties a Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage and other Sums of Money payable upon Merchandizes Exported and Imported and by one other of this Session Entituled An Act for Granting an Aid to Their Majesties of the Sum of 1651702 l. 18 s. and by one other Act Entituled An Act for doubling the Duty of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors during the space of One Year and by one other Act Entituled An Act for Granting to Their Majesties certain Impositions upon all East-India Goods and Manufactures and upon all wrought Silks and several other Goods and Merchandize to be Imported after the 25th Day of December 1690. and by one other Act Entituled An Act for the continuance of several former Acts therein mentioned for the Laying several Duties upon Wines Vinegar and Tobacco and of all Prizes taken since the said Fifth Day of November and of Money paid for the same to any Person Authorised to receive it or otherwise and of all the Crown-Lands First-fruits and Tenths of the Clergy Wine-licences Fines Forfeitures and of all other Branches of the Revenue and all Publick Money whatsoever that hath arisen since the said Fifth Day of November or shall arise before the determination of the Power hereby Granted and how and by and to whom the same hath been disposed or paid and for taking Accounts of all Their Majesties Stores Provisions and Habiliments of War by Land and Sea and to set down what numbers of Ships Yachts or Boats were on the said Fifth Day of November or at any time since and what Sums of Money Provisions Victuals Sâ—oes c. have been provided or paid since the said Fifth Day of November or shall be provided and paid towards the Payment or Maintenance of the Land Forces in England or Ireland or elsewhere or their Forces by Sea and the numbers of them respectively and towards the Building Repairs or Setting out of any Ships or Navies since the said Fifth Day of November and before the determination of the Power aforesaid II. The Auditor of the Receipt in the Exchequer and the Clerk of the Pells there and all other the Officers of the Exchequer and the Receipt thereof the Secretary and Treasurer at War Muster-master and Pay-master of the Land Forces in England and Ireland all Principal Officers and Commissioners of the Navy and Ordnance all Officers and Keepers of Their Majesties Stores and Yards and all Persons employed as Commissioners in and about the Treasury or the Management Ordering Paying or Receiving of Their Majesties Treasure Revenue Provisions or Stores of War and all Persons whatsoever whom the said Commissioners or any Five of them shall think fit to Examine are hereby required to observe such Orders as they or any Five of them shall by writing under their Hands Direct and Ordain for and touching the taking of the said Accounts III. The said Commissioners to sit in the Inner Court of Wards at Westminster or where they think fit with or without Adjournment and to send their Precepts for Persons Books Papers and Records and to Administer an Oath for the better discovery of the Truth of the Inquiries by them to be made and all Bayliffs Constables Sheriffs and other Officers are hereby required to obey and execute their Precepts and the said Commissioners or any Five of them may Employ such Clerks Messengers and Officers as they think fit and give them an Oath for their faithful Demeanour which Clerks and Officers shall take nothing for their Service but such Salary as the Commissioners shall direct IV. Two of the said Commissioners first named in this Act before they enter upon the Execution thereof shall take an Oath before the Chancellour of the Exchequer or the Master of the Rolls in these words viz. I A. B. do Swear that according to the best of my Skill and Knowledge I shall Faithfully Impartially and Truly demean my self in Examining and Taking the Accounts of all such Sum or Sums of Money and other things brought or to be brought before me in Execution of one Act Entituled An Act for Appointing and Enabling Commissioners to Examine Take and State the Publick Accounts of the Kingdom according to the Tenour and Purport of the said Act. V. And every other of the said Commissioners shall take the said Oath before the said two Commissioners VI. The Lords Commissioners of the Treasury shall cause to be paid such Sums of Money not exceeding 2000 l. to such Persons as the said Commissioners or any Five of them shall direct to be employed in the Payment of Clerks Messengers and other Officers and in defraying other necessary Charges the same to be Accounted for by him to whom it is paid according to the course of the Exchequer and the
and the said Act and all Clauses therein shall be of force until the said 24th of June 1696. LII And the Rates and Duties for all sorts of Tobacco granted by an Act made in the 1st year of the said K. James shall be continued in like manner And the said last mentioned Act shall be of force till then LIII Provided that this Act shall not extend to repeal or alter an Act made in the 1st year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for prohibiting all Trade and Commerce with France LIV. It shall be lawful to advance as well upon the security of this Act as upon the security of the said two former Acts from and after the payment of the Sum of 600000 l. to the States General of the United Provinces any Sum or Sums of Money at the Interest of 8 l. per Cent. LV. All Monies c. as in Paragraph 47. LVI If several Tallies c. as in Paragraph 48. LVII Nor shall it be c. as in Paragraph 49. LVIII Moneys due c. as in Paragraph 50. LIX Nothing in this Act shall extend to defeat or obstruct the Provision made by an Act in the 1st year of Their Majesties Reign for payment of Wages due to the Servants of the late K. Charles II. in such manner as by the said Act is directed LX. Stat. 4 5 W. M. c. 5. There shall be paid to Their Majesties over and above the Duties already payable LXI For every 100 l. value of Amber Beads imported after the 1st day of March 1692. and before the 1st of March 1696. 20 l. for Amber rough 10 l. for every 100 l. value for Amber-Oyl 10 l. for every 100 l. value LXII For Anchovies the little Barrel not exceeding sixteen pounds of Fish for every 100 l. value 5 l. LXIII For Wood Weed or Sope-Ashes 6 s. the Last LXIV For Barbers Aprons and Cheques 8 d. the Piece LXV For every 100 weight of Battery Bashrones or Kettles containing 112 pounds 5 s. LXVI For every such 100 weight of Mettle prepared for Battery 5 s. LXVII For every such 100 weight of Books unbound 4 s. LXVIII For Lamp-black 20 l. for every 100 l. value LXXIX For Boutel Reins 10 l. for every 100 l. value LXX For every Gross of Bracelets or Neck laces of Glass 2 s. 6 d. LXXI For Brass wrought 5 l. for every 100 l. value LXXII For Buckrums 5 l. for every 100 l. value LXXIII For Hair-buttons 10 l. for every 100 l. value LXXIV For Bristles drest and undrest 5 l. for every 100 l. value LXXV For every pound of Bacon 4 d. LXXVI For Calves Skins 5 l. for every 100 l. value LXXVII For Carpets 5 l. for every 100 l. value LXXVIII For every Gross of Catlings and Lutestrings 18 d. LXXIX For Scotch Coals 5 l. for every 100 l. value LXXX For every 1000 of walking Canes 25 s. LXXXI For Canes called Rattans 5 s. the 1000. LXXXII For every 100 weight of Cast-Copper containing 112 pounds 7 s. 6 d. LXXXIII For every 100 weight of Copper part wrought or raised containing 112 pounds 12 s. 6 d. LXXXIV For every such 100 weight of Copper fully wrought 17 s. 6 d. LXXXV For Coral Beads and all polish'd Coral 20 l. for every 100 l. value LXXXVI For all Manufactures of Cotton only Except Dimity not brought from East-India or China 5 l. for every 100 l. value LXXXVII For every 100 l. value of Couries 10 l. LXXXVIII For Elephants Teeth 10 l. for every 100 l. value LXXXIX For Flax rough 5 l. for every 100 l. value XC For Flax dressed or wrought 15 l. for every 100 l. value XCI For every 100 l. value of Tow 5 l. XCII For every Yard of Flannel 2 d. XCIII For every Yard of Frieze 3 d. 2 q. XCIV For every 100 l. value of Furs 5 l. XCV For Gold and Silver Thread and Wire 5 l. for every 100 l. value XCVI For every pound of Goats Hair called Carmenia Wooll 4 d. XCVII For every pound of Goats Hair of any other sort 2 d. XCVIII For Hides of all sorts drest and underst except Buff and Losh 5 l. for every 100 l. value XCIX For every Buff-hide 2 s. C. For every Losh-hide 1 s. CI. For Hemp rough 5 l. for every 100 l. value CII For Jewels and pretious Stones 20 s. for every 100 l. value upon the Importer's Oath in lieu of all Duties now payable for the same CIII For every pound of Indico of foreign Plantation not being of the Growth of any the Dominions or Plantations belonging to the Crown of England 4 d. CIV For every pound of Indico of the Growth of our own Plantations 2 d. CV For all Iron Iron-pots Kettles c. and all other Iron Wares imported from Ireland the same Duties as are laid on Iron and Iron Wares imported from any foreign Part by an Act of the Second Year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for granting to Their Majesties certain Impositions upon all East-India Goods and Manufactures c. CVI. For Latten shaven black Latten and round Bottoms 10 l. for every 100 l. value CVII For Leather of all sorts 5 l. for every 100 l. value CVIII For all Lime and Lemmon-Juice 20 l. for every 100 l. value CIX For Litmus 5 l. for every 100 l. value CX For all Lapis Calaminaris 20 s. for every Tun. CXI For Madder 5 l. for every 100 l. value CXII For Orchal 5 l. for every 100 l. value CXIII For Pintadoes not brought from East-India or China 5 l. for every 100 l. value CXIV For Pitch not being of the Product of the Dominions or Plantations of the Crown of England or Scotland one Moiety more then is charged in the Book of Rates CXV For all sorts of Plate of Silver gilt or ungilt 5 l. for every 100 l. value CXVI For Rice 5 l. for every 100 l. value CXVII For Rosin except French Rosin not being of the Product or Plantations belonging to the Crown of England or Scotland 10 l. for every 100 l. value CXVIII For every Weight of Salt except such as shall be used in curing Fish 5 s. CXIX For Silk thrown of all sorts in the Gum 5 l. for every 100 l. value CXX For every pound of Silk wrought other then Alamodes and Lutestrings 2 s. more then the same is already charged in the Book of Rates or by an Act in the Second year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for Granting to Their Majesties certain Impositions upon all East-India Goods c. CXXI For Silk-ferret or Floret one Moiety more then the same is charged with in the Book of Rates CXXII For Skins of all sorts 5 l. for every 100 l. value CXXIII For all Tarr not being of the Product of the Dominions or Plantations belonging to the Crown of England or Scotland one Moiety more then is charged in the Book of Rates CXXIV For Ticks and Tickings except Scottish 5
l. for every 100 l. value CXXV For every dozen pounds of Thread Outnel 4 s. CXXVI For all Tapistry and Dornix except such as are manufactured in or brought from the French Kings Dominions 10 l. for every 100 l. value CXXVII For unwrought Inkle one Moiety more then what is now paid for the same CXXVIII For all Pan-tiles 8 s. the 1000. CXXIX For Dying-wood except Red Wood from Guinea Drugs and Logwood 5 l. for every 100 l. value CXXX For Bees-wax 5 l. for every 100 l. value CXXXI For every Tun of French Wine 8 l. above all Duties already charged CXXXII Upon all French Goods and Merchandize except Wine Brandy Salt and Vinegar 25 l. for every 100 l. value CXXXIII For Alamodes and Lutestrings 15 l. for every 100 l. value CXXXIV For Latten Brass or Copper-wire 6 s. 6 d. the 100 Weight containing 112 pounds CXXXV For Goods not particularly rated in the Book of Rates paying Duty at value 5 l. for every 100 l. value upon the Importer's Oath according to the Direction of the Book of Rates except such Goods as are particularly charged by this Act or an Act of this Parliament Entituled An Act for Granting to Their Majâ—sties certain Impositions upon all East-India Goods c. CXXXVI For every Gallon of Strong Water Aqua vitae or Brandy commonly called Single Brandy to be paid by the Importer before landing 2 s. above the Duties at any time before the Second year of Their Majesties Reign payable for the same CXXXVII For every Gallon of Strong Waters Spirits or Brandy above Proof called Double Brandy to be paid as aforesaid 4 s. CXXXVIII Two Clauses in an Act made the Second year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for Granting to Their Majesties several Additional Duties upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for Four Years c. concerning Single Brandy Spirits or Aqua vitae and Brandy Spirits or Aqua vitae above Proof shall from the 1st day of March 1692. be repealed CXXXIX The Rates and Impositions hereby imposed to be raised except where it is otherwise hereby directed according to the Act of Tonnage and Poundage and the Directions thereunto annexed or any other Laws now in force relating to the Customs CXL The several Rates and Duties upon Single and Double Brandy shall be levied according to the Directions of an Act made in the 12th year of K. Charles II. Entituled An Act for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries c. and of another Act in the 15th year of His Reign Entituled An Additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Duty of Excise c. or of any other Law in force relating to the Excise CXLI The Importers giving Security at the Custom house shall have a Twelve Months time for paying the Additional Duties hereby imposed by 4 quarterly Payments and for ready Money shall have 10 l. per Cent. abated And if such Goods be again exported within a Twelve Month by any Merchant English or within 9 Months by Strangers the Duty shall be repaid or the Security vacated for what shall be exported all Brandy excepted CXLII The Duties hereby charged upon Amber-Beads Amber rough Coral-Beads and polished Coral and all Couries to be repaid to the Merchant exporting the same within 3 years after the Importation thereof CXLIII No Brandy shall be imported in any Vessel not containing 60 Gallons at the least on pain of forfeiting the same or the Value one half to Their Majesties and the other half to the Informer CXLIV The Officers concerned in levying the Duties arising by this Act shall keep a separate Account thereof and pay the same in specie into the Exchequer weekly and upon neglect or refusal shall forfeit their Places CXLV During the continuance of the said Act Entituled An Act for Granting to Their Majesties certain Impositions upon all East-India Goods c. the Sum of 5 l. only shall be paid for every 100 l. Value of Raisins above the Rates thereon charged in the Book of Rates and 50 s. for every 100 l. Value of Currans above the Rates in the Book of Rates any thing in the said Act to the contrary notwithstanding the same to be Collected as by the said Act is directed CXLVI No piece of Calico Imported during the continuance of the said last recited Act of the breadth of One yard and a quarter shall exceed in length Ten yards and no Piece above that breadth shall exceed Six yards and Pieces exceeding those lengths shall be Rated according to the length of Ten yards and Six yards for each Piece and pay in that proportion according to the Sum rated in the Book of Rates and the Subsidy and additional Duty shall be Collected and Paid according to that Admeasurement CXLVII Linen of Prussia Polonia or any part of the East Countrey except Russia above the breadth of three quarters and half a quarter of a yard shall pay as broad Germany Linen and whited Hinderlands from the same Countries under that breadth shall pay as narrow East Countrey Linen CXLVIII During the continuance of an Act made in the First year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for charging and Collecting the Duties upon Coffee c. at the Custom-house there shall be paid to Their Majesties for every 100 Weight of Coffee Imported 56 s. and no more and for every Pound of Cocao Nuts Imported from any of our own Plantations 6 d. and no more and from any other Countries 8 d. and for every pound of Tea Imported from whence it Lawfully may 1 s. and no more and for every pound of Chocolate 1 s. and no more any thing in the said recited Act to the contrary notwithstanding CLXIX The Duties hereby charged upon Coffee Cocao Nuts Tea and Chocolate to be paid over and above the Duties Charged upon them in the Book of Rates CL. No Foreign Alamodes and Lutestrings shall be Imported after the 25 day of March 1693. but upon notice first given to the Commissioners or Farmers of the Customs of the Quality and Quantity Marks Numbers and Package thereof with the Name of the Ship and Master and the Place where they intend to import the same and taking a licence from the said Commissioners or Farmers or any Three of them for the Lading and Importing thereof which Licence shall be Granted without Fee the said Goods Imported without such Notice and Licence shall be Forfeited one Moiety to Their Majesties and the other Moiety to him that will seize or sue for the same CLI Officers of the Customs for passing any Debenture for Repayment of the Duties to be paid back on Exportation according to this or any other Act shall only receive such Fees as were payable for Debentures for the Repayment of the half Subsidy according to the Book of Rates and no more nor shall any Fee be taken for any Oath to be Administred at the Custom-house upon this Act. CLII. The Act made in the 3d Year
of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for Granting to Their Majesties certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for one year so far as it relates to Elections of Members to serve in Parliament and leaving true Notes in Writing of the last Gauges with the Penalties relating thereunto shall from the First Day of March next be revived and continue during the continuance of this Act and from thence to the End of the next Session of Parliament CLIII It shall be Lawful to Lend and Advance to Their Majesties upon the Credit of this Act any Sum or Sums not exceeding in the whole 510000 l. and to receive for forbearance 8 l. per Cent. per Aanum CLIV. Officers concerned in Levying the Duties arising by this Act shall keep a separate account thereof and pay the same in specie into the Exchequer every Wednesday unless it be a Holyday and then the day after and upon neglect or refusal shall incur the Penalties c. that other Officers of the Exchequer before mentioned shall be liable to which Moneys shall be applied to the Uses mentioned in this Act. CLV Out of the Money which shall be paid into the Exchequer upon Loan or otherwise by Virtue of this or any other Act of this Session of Parliament for Granting Aids and Supplies c. other then an Act Entituled An Act for Granting to Their Majesties an Aid of Four Shillings in the Pound c. the Sum of 1226516 l. shall be Appropriated for the payment of Officers and Seamen and for Stores Provisions and Victuals for the Navy and to the Expences of the Ordnance in respect to Naval Affairs and other necessary Uses for the Navy And if any Officer belonging to the Revenue Exchequer Navy or Ordnance wittingly divert any Part of the Money hereby Appropriated to any other purpose he shall lose his Place and be disabled to execute any Office whatsoever CLVI The additional Duties imposed by this Act shall not affect such Foreign Stores as have been sold to the use of the Navy by Contract with the Navy-board before the First of January 1692. so as a Certificate be given by the Commissioners of the Navy that such Stores have been so Contracted for and so as the Importer make Oath of the Truth of the Contract and that he will deliver them into their Majesties Stores accordingly CLVII Commissioners and Patent-Officers their Deputies Clerks and Servants who have or shall have any Imployment about the Customs shall before the 19th Day of April next or at their admissions hereafter take their Oaths for the true Execution to the best of their Knowledge and Power of their several Trusts and Employments and that they will take no Reward or Gratuity but their respective Salaries and what is or shall be allow'd them by the Crown or the Regular Fees Established by Law for any Service done or to be done in the Execution of their Employments CLVIII Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 15. The several Impositions and Duties upon Wines and Vinegar Granted by an Act made the First year of the late King James 2d Entituled An Act for Granting His Majesty an Imposition upon all Wines and Vinegar Imported between the 24th of June 1685. and the 24th of June 1693. Which by an Act of this present Parliament was continued from the said 24th of June 1693. to the 24th of June 1696. shall be farther continued until the 24th of June 1698. CLIX. The Rates Duties and Impositions for Tobacco Granted by an Act in the 1st Year of the Reign of the said late King James 2d Entituled An Act for Granting to His Majesty an Imposition upon all Tobacco and Sugar Imported between the 24th day of June 1685. and the 24th day of June 1693. which said Act as concerning Impositions upon Tobacco only by an Act of this present Parliament was farther continued unto the 24th day of June 1696. shall be continued from the said 24th day of June 1696. to the 24th of June 1698. CLX The Additional and other Impositions and Duties upon several sorts of Goods and Merchandize Granted by an Act of this present Parliament in the Second year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for Granting to Their Majesties certain Impositions upon all East India Goods and Manufactures and upon all wrought Silks c. to be Imported after the 25th day of Decemb. 1690. and which were to have continuance to the 10th day of Novemb. 1695. shall be continued from the 9th day of November 1695. to the 10th day of November 1697. CLXI Any Persons may advance Moneys upon the Security of this Act not exceeding in the whole 500000. l. and to have any Sum for forbearance nor exceeding 8 l. per Cent. per Annum CLXII There shall likewise be paid to Their Majesties 5 l. for every 100 l. of the Joynt-Stock of the East-India Company the said Stock being valued at 744000 l. The same to be paid by the Governour and Treasurer of the Company by Four Quarterly Payments the First on the 25 of March 1693. and to be deducted upon the next Dividend CLXIII And for every Share in the Joynt-Stock of the African Company as the Number of Shares are now reckoned there shall be paid to Their Majesties the Sum of 20 s. by the Governour and Treasurer of that Company by Four Quarterly Payments the First to be made on the said 25th of March 1693. and to be deducted as aforesaid CLXIV And for every Share in the Joynt-Stock of the Hudson's Bay Company as the number of Shares are now reckon'd there shall be paid the Sum of 5 l. by the Governour and Treasurer of that Company ut supra And for default of Payment at the Days and Times aforesaid the Charter of such Company respectively shall be void CLXV From and after the Sixth Day of April 1693. none shall be admitted to swear to a Debanture for any Duties to be drawn back upon Re-exportation but he who is the true Exporter as being either Interested in the Goods or Employed by Commission CLXVI All Persons who by way of Insurance or otherwise shall undertake to deliver any Goods Imported from beyond Sea without paying the Duties payable for the same or any Prohibited Goods and shall deliver or cause to be delivered the same as aforesaid knowing thereof and all their Abbettors shall for every such offence forfeit 500 l. above the Forfeitures to which they are already liable CLXVII And all who shall agree to pay any Money for the Insuring or Conveying any Goods Imported without paying the Duties or any Prohibited Goods or shall receive such prohibited Gods or such other Goods before the Duties are paid knowing thereof shall also Forseit for every offence 500 l. the one Moiety of the said Forfeitures to Their Majesties and the other to the Informer CLXVIII And if the Insurer or Manager of such Fraud be the Discoverer he shall not only keep the Insurance Money given him and be discharged of
the Penalties to which he is liable but shall have one half of the Penalties imposed upon the Parties making such Insurance or Receiving the Goods as aforesaid and in Case no Discovery be made by the Insurer and the Party Insured shall make discovery thereof he shall recover back his Praenium and have One Moiety of the Forfeitures imposed upon the Insurer and be discharged of the imposed upon himself CLXIX The said Penalties and Forseitures to be Recoverable according to the Course of the Court of Exchequer as other Penalties in like Cases are Recoverable CLXX No Penalty hereby inflicted to be recoverable unless presented within Twelve Months after the Fact Committed CLXXI. All Duties whatsoever that shall accrue to Their Majesties at the Custom-house after the 25th day of March 1693. for Prize-Goods shall be applied entirely to the Credit of an Act of Parliament made this Session Entituled An Act for Granting to Their Majesties certain Additional Impositions upon several Goods and Merchandize for the Prosecuting the present War against France Any other Act to the contrary notwithstanding Deer Stealers I. Stat. 3. 4. W. M. cap. 10. If any Persons shall unlawfully Course Hunt Take in Toyles Kill Wound or take away any Red or Fallow Deer in any Forest Chase Purlieu Paddock Wood Park or other Ground inclosed where Deer are or shall be usually kept without the consent of the Owner or Person entrusted with the Custody thereof or be aiding therein and shall be Convicted by Confession or the Oath of one Witness before a Justice of Peace of the County where the Offence shall be Committed or the Party Apprehended within a Twelve-month after the Offence done they shall Forseit for every such Offence 20 l. and for every Deer wounded taken or killed 30 l. to be Levied by Distress and Sale of Goods by Warrant from the Justice before whom the Conviction shall be made the One third Part to the Informer the other third Part to the Poor of the Parish where the Offence shall be Committed and the other third to the Owner of the Deer And for want of a Distress they shall be Imprisoned a year and set in the Pillory an hour on some Market-Day in the Town next adjoyning to the Place where the Offence was Committed by the Chief Officer of such Market Town or his under Officers II. Constables Head-boroughs and Tythingmen by a Justices Warrant may Enter and Search as for Stolen Goods the Houses and other Places of suspected Persons and if any Venison or Skins of Deer or Toyles be found shall carry such Offender before a Justice of Peace and if he do not give a good Account how he came by them and in some convenient time produce the Party of whom he bought them or prove such Sale upon Oath he shall be Convicted of such Offence and be subject to the Penalties hereby inflicted for killing a Deer III. The Constable or other Officer or Persons prosecuting may detain such Offenders in Custody if they do not presently pay the Moneys due by the Conviction till a Return may be made of the Warrant for Distress such Detainer not exceeding Two days IV. Owners of any such Deer or any acting under them may resist such Offenders and be Indemnified as if such Fact had been Committed in an ancient Chase or Park V. No Certiorari shall be allowed to remove any Conviction or other proceeding upon this Act unless the Party Convicted shall before it be Allowed become bound to the Prosecutors in 50 l. with Sureties to be approved by the said Justice to pay within a Month after the Conviction confirm'd or a procedendo Granted their full Costs to be ascertain'd upon Oath VI. No Offender Punished by Virtue of this Act shall incur the Penalty of any other Law for the same Offence VII Persons prosecuted for any thing done in pursuance of this Act may Plead the general Issue and give the special Matter in Evidence VIII If any Person shall in the night time pull down or destroy or cause to be pull'd down or destroyed the Pails or Walls of any Park Forest c. or other Ground inclosed where Red or Fallow-Deer shall be kept such Persons being Convicted by Oath of one Witness before a Justice of Peace shall by such Justices Warrant suffer Imprisonment for Three Months Distresses I. Sat. 2. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 5. After the First Day of June 1690. where any Goods or Chattels shall be distrained for Rent reserved and due upon any Demise Lease or Contract and the Tenant or Owner of the Goods shall not within Five days after such Distress and Notice thereof with the cause of such taking left at the Mansion-house or other most notorious Place of the Premisses charged with the Rent Replevy the same the Person distraining may with the Sheriff or Under-Sheriff of the County or with the Constable of the Hundred Parish or Place where c. who are hereby required to assist cause the Distress to be appraised by Two sworn Appraisers whom such Sheriff c. shall swear to Appraise them truly according to the best of their Understanding and after such Appraisement may Sell the same towards the satisfaction of the Rent and the Charges of the Distress and Appraisement leaving the Overplus if any be in the hands of the said Sheriff c. for the Owners Use II. It shall be Lawful to Distrain for Rent arrear as aforesaid any Sheaves or Cocks of Corn or Corn loose or in the Straw or Hay in any Barn or Granary or upon any Hovel Stack or Rick or otherwise and to lock up and detain the same in the Place where it shall be found till it be Replevied as aforesaid and in default thereof within the time aforesaid to Sell the same after Appraisement as aforesaid so nevertheless that it be not removed to the damage of the Owner but kept where it shall be found and seiz'd as Impounded till it be Replevied or Sold. III. Upon any Pound-breach or Rescous of Goods Distrained for Rent the Person grieved shall have a special Action upon the Case and Recover treble Damages and Costs of Suit against the Offenders or against the Owners of the Goods if they come to his Use or Possession IV. If any such Distress and Sale as aforesaid shall be made where there is no Rent due the Owner of the Goods Distrained may by Action of Trespass or upon the Case against the Persons distraining Recover double the Value of the Goods Distrained with full Costs of Suit Excise I. STat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 24. From the 24th day of July 1689. there shall be paid to Their Majesties for Three years for Beer Ale Cyder and other Liquors herein after mentioned by way of Excise over and above the Duties already Charged That is to say For every Barrel of Beer or Ale above 6 s. price 9 d. For every Barrel of Beer or Ale of 6 s. or under 3
concerning which it is otherwise provided by any Act of the last Parliament shall be paid to Their Majesties during Their Lives and the Life of the longer Liver of Them in such Manner and by such Rules and under such Penalties as are directed by the said Act and by another Act in the 15th year of the said late Kings Reign Entituled An Additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Duty of Excise and preventing Abuses therein or any other Law now in force relating to the Excise XX. And whereas Their Majesties are pleased that the Duties and Impositions hereby granted shall be a Fond of Credit for the raising a Sum not exceeding 250000 l. Be it Enacted That if Their Majesties should die before the 24th day of December 1693. the said several Duties and Impositions shall continue to be paid until the said 24th day of December subject to and chargeable with the Sum to be borrow'd as aforesaid XXI Any Persons may advance Money upon the Credit of this Act not exceeding 250000 l. in the whole at Interest for Money lent before the 10th of June of 8 l. per Cent. and for Money lent after 7 l. per Cent. XXII After the 1st day of Novemb. 1690. till the said 24th day of Decemb. 1693. the Commissioners of Excise shall separate and keep apart 3 Parts the whole in 4 Parts to be divided of the moneys arising by this Act And the Auditor and Comptroller of the Excise shall keep a distinct Account of the said 3 Parts to which Persons concerned may have access without Fee and the Commissioners and Governours of the Excise shall pay the same weekly into the Exchequer every Wednesday if it be not a Holy-day and then the next day after that is not a Holy-day distinct from other moneys XXIII And there shall be provided in the Exchequer in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipts one Book in which such moneys shall be entred apart and all Persons lending money upon the Credit of this Act shall have a Tally of Loan struck and an Order for repayment bearing date with the Tally in which shall be a Warrant for payment of Interest according to the Rates aforesaid to be paid every Three Months such Orders to be registred in course without Preference and all Persons shall be paid in course as their Orders stand entred and the said money not to be divertible to any other Use or Purpose and if the Commissioners or Governours of the Excise do not pay in the said moneys as aforesaid or misapply any Part thereof they shall forfeit their Offices and be uncapable of any Office or Place of Trust and pay the full Value of the Sum misapplied to him that will sue for the same No Fee Reward or Gratuity shall be demanded or taken for providing or making any such Registers Entries View or Search in or for payment of money lent or the Interest by any of Their Majesties Officers their Clerks or Deputies on Pain of Payment of Treble Damages to the Party grieved and Costs of Suit and the Officer taking such Fee c. shall lose his Place And if any undue Preference be made in point of Registry or Payment the Party offending shall be liable by Action of Debt or of the Case to pay the value of the Debt Damages and Costs to the Party grieved and shall be forejudged his Place if an Officer If a Deputy or Clerk only he shall for ever after be uncapable thereof And in case the Auditor shall not direct the Order or the Clerk of the Pells record or the Teller make payment according to each Persons Order they shall be adjudged to forfeit and their Deputies and Clerks offending to be liable to such Action Damages and Costs as aforesaid All which Penalties and Forfeitures to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information c. XXIV If several Tallies of Loan or Orders for payment bear date or be brought the same day it shall be no undue Preference which is entred first so as all be entred the same day Nor shall it be any undue Preference to direct order and pay subsequent Orders of Persons that come and demand their moneys and bring their Orders before others that do not come to demand theirs so as there be so much money left as will satisfie precedent Orders Interest upon Loan being to cease from the time that the money is kept in Bank for them XXV Moneys due by Virtue of this Act after Order entred in the Register may by Endorsement be transferr'd and the Assignee may in like manner assign in toties quoties but such Endorsement must be notified in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipt and an Entry or Memorandum made thereof in the Book of the Register for Orders XXVI Nevertheless an Act made in the 1st year of the Reign of the late K. James Entituled An Act for settling the Revenue on His Majesty for his Life which was settled on His late Majesty for his Life is hereby repealed XXVII Their Majesties by Letters Patents under the Great Seal may grant to Princess Anne of Denmark the yearly Sum of 20000 l. to be issuing out of the Duties hereby granted during Their Majesties Lives and the Life of the Survivor of them freed from the Loans by this Act to be made payable quarterly at the Four most usual Feasts XXVIII If the said Princess shall depart this life in the life-time of Their Majesties or either of them Their Majesties may grant the said yearly Sum to the Prince of Denmark and the Issue of the Princess respectively in such proportions as Their Majesties shall think fit to be paid quarterly XXIX Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 3. An Act for doubling the Duty of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors during the space of one Year EXP. XXX Sat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 9. From the 24th day of Decemb. 1690. until the 25th day of Decemb. 1695. there shall be paid by way of Excise for Low-wines or Spirits of the first Extraction the Rates following viz. XXXI For every Gallon of Low-wines drawn from Foreign or Imported Materials 8 d. XXXII For every such Gallon drawn from English Materials other then from Drink prepared from any sort of Malted Corn or from Perry or Cyder 12 d. XXXIII For every such Gallon drawn only from Drink brewed and made or any sort of malted Corn 1 d. XXXIV And for every such Gallon drawn from Cyder or Perry 3 d. XXXV Such as make Low-wines Spirits or Brandy from Corn shall cause their Corn to be made into wholsom Drink and from such drink without any mixture shall draw their Low-wines and the Gaugers of Excise may gauge and keep an Account of Liquors Worts and Drink made for the making Low-wines c. and see that they be made from Drink made of malted Corn entirely And if Distillers or others mix other Materials the Gaugers shall charge the
Low-wines drawn from Drink so mixed with 12 d. a Gallon XXXVI No Distillers or others drawing Low-wines or Spirits from Corn prepared as aforesaid shall prepare any wash from Molossus or other Materials from any other Person until he has drawn off and distilled all the Liquors made or prepared from Corn as aforesaid on pain to forfeit for every Barrel of such Liquors made of Corn found undistilled 5 l. XXXVII If any Gauger or other Officer of the Excise shall wittingly make a false Charge by returning any quantity of Low-wines not made from malted Corn as made from malted Corn he shall lose his Employment and forfeit for every Gallon so falsly charged 10 s. XXXVIII Distillers and others upon Oath made before two Commissioners of Excise or Justices of the Peace That any Brandy or Strong waters intended to be Exported was drawn from Drink brewed from malted Corn without any mixture and that the same is not mix'd with any Low-wines nor drawn a second time nor with any other Spirits or Brandy made from any other Materials and that the Duties of the same are entred and paid and that the same are Exported for Merchandise may Export such Spirits or Brandy and upon a Certificate from the Officer of Excise for the Place where they were shipt off of the quantity and the same were shipt in the presence of such Officers such Exporter shall be paid by the Commissioners for such Port or Place 3 d. for every Gallon shipt off XXXIX The Gaugers shall take an Account of all Wash and other Materials prepared for making Low-wines and of all Low-wines Spirits and Strong-waters found in the Houses c. or in any Wash-back Cask or other Vessel used by any Maker of Low-wines or Spirits and if they miss any Liquor brewed which they sound gauged the last time they were there not exceeding 24 hours before and shall not receive Satisfaction what is become of it they shall charge the Distiller with so much Low-wines as such Liquor missing would have made XL. From the said 24th day of Decemb. no Maker of Low-wines c. shall set their Stills at work or deliver or carry out any Low-wines c. to their Customers in Cask or by the Gallon without Notice given to the Officer of Excise for the Place where he lives unless from the 29th day of Septemb. to the 25th of March yearly between 5 in the Morning and 8 at Night and from the 25th of March to the 29th of Septemb. between 3 in the Morning and 9 at Night on pain to forfeit for every such Offence 10 l. XLI The Duties hereby imposed shall be levyed in such manner and under such Penalties as are directed by an Act of Parliament made in the 12th year of K. Charles II. Entituled An Act for taking away the Court of wards and Liveries c. And by another Act in the 15th year of his Reign Entituled An Additional Act for the better Ordering and collecting the Duties of Excise and Preventing the Abuses therein or by any other Law now in force relating to the Excise XLII Fines Penalties and Forfeitures hereby imposed shall be recovered as by any Law of Excise is directed or by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any Their Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster one Moiety to Their Majesties and the other to the Prosecutor XLIII Any Persons during the continuance of this Act may distil for Sale any Low-wines or Spirits from Drink brewed from malted Corn only paying the Duties and being subject to the Penalties as other Distillers XLIV Strong-waters Brandy Aqua vitae or Spirits brought from Guernsey Jersey Sark or Alderney shall be charged with 8 s. a Gallon to be paid to the Collector upon Entry before landing and other Exciseable Liquors brought from thence except Beer Ale and Mum shall be chargeable with the like Duties as are charged upon the like Liquors made in this Kingdom And before the landing of any such Liquor the Importer or owner shall make oath before the Collector or principal Officer of the Customs of the Port where they are to be landed That they are of the Growth and Manufacture of the said Islands and not mix'd with any foreign Materials and if they be Imported before due Entry such Oath made and the Duties paid they shall be destroyed and Persons concerned in their Importation shall incur the Penalties mentioned in an Act made in the 1st year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for prohibiting all Trade and Commerce with France XLV All Letters Patents made or to be made for the sole making of Brandy c. from Corn of any sorts as a new Invention are hereby declared void XLVI Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 10. From the 17th day of November 1691. there shall be paid during 4 Years for the Liquors hereafter-mentioned over and above Impositions already set as followeth viz. For a Barrel of Beer or Ale above 6 s. the Barrel 1 s. 6 d. For every such Barrel of 6 s. or under 6 d. For every Barrel of Vinegar or Vinegar-beer made with English Materials 3 s. For every Barrel of Vinegar or Liquor prepared for Vinegar made with Foreign Materials 8 s. For every barrel of Beer Ale or Mum Imported 6 s. For every Tun of Cyder or Perry Imported 8 l. For every Gallon of Single Brandy Spirits or Aqua vitae Imported 4 s. For every such Gallon above Proof Imported 8 s. For every Hogshead of Cyder and Perry made and sold by retail 2 s. 6 d. For all Metheglin and Mead made for sale 6 d. a Gallon XLVII The said Rates and Duties to be levied in such manner and under such Penalties as are mentioned in an Act of Parliament made in the 1st year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for an Additional Duty of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors or by any Law in force relating to the Excise XLVIII Nothing in this Act shall be construed to continue the Duties granted by an Act in the 1st year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for an Additional Duty of Excise c. or any other Duties of Excise for any longer time then they are granted by the said Act or Acts. XLIX Victuallers Retailers or Common Brewers who within a year before the 17th of November last have not brewed their own Beer and Ale may brew and make the Beer and Ale spent or sold in their Houses c. paying the Excise and on their entring the same at the Excise-Office and paying the Duty they shall not be liable to the Penalty of 100 l. imposed by an Act of this Parliament Entituled An Act for doubling the Duty of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for the space of One Year L. All Moneys which shall become payable to Their Majesties by Virtue of the said Act Entituled An Act for an Additional Duty of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors after the Sum of
600000 l. shall be paid to the States General of the United Provinces and all moneys to be levied by Virtue of this Act shall be applied to the Uses following viz. 570000 l. to the building and furnishing 27 Ships of War whereof 17 to be of the Third Rate and to contain 1100 Tuns and carry 80 Guns apiece and 10 to be of the Fourth Rate and to contain 900 Tuns and carry 60 Guns apiece The said Ships to be built and furnished with all convenient Expedition and the whole number to be compleat within 4 years from the 25th day of March 1691. LI. And that the said Sum of 570000 l. may be applied accordingly and Their Majesties be enabled to borrow upon the Credit of this Act any Sum not exceeding 1000000 l. for the Uses of the War Be it Enacted That after the payment of the said 600000 l. to the States General until the 18th day of Novemb. 1695. the Commissioners of Excise shall keep apart the Moneys arising by the said Act Entituled An Act for an Additional Duty of Excise c. and the Moneys arising by this Act and the Auditor or Comptroller of the Excise or their Deputies shall keep a distinct Account of the said Moneys to which all persons may have access without Fee and the said Commissioners of Excise shall pay the said moneys weekly into the Receipt of the Exchequer apart from other moneys LII And the Officers of the Receipt of the Exchequer shall keep the moneys paid in by Virtue of this Act or of the said former Act and the Account thereof apart and a particular Account of the building and furnishing the said Ships LIII Out of the moneys so from time to time paid in one third Part shall yearly be paid out towards the building and furnishing the said Ships and the Commissioners of the Treasury shall sign no Warrant for issuing out any Part of the said third Part to any but the Treasurer of the Navy or Treasurer or Paymaster of the Ordnance expressing therein that the same is for building and furnishing the said 27 Ships of War nor shall the Auditor of the Receipt draw any Order for issuing any Part thereof otherwise then as aforesaid nor shall he direct or the Clerk of the Pells record or the Teller pay any part thereof by Virtue of any Warrant or Order otherwise then as aforesaid LIV. The Treasurer of the Navy and Treasurer or Paymaster of the Ordnance may transfer any part thereof payable to them upon any Order by Endorsement upon such Order and such Assignee may assign toties quoties LV. The Treasurer of the Navy and Treasurer or Paymaster of the Ordnance shall keep such moneys apart and issue the same by Warrant from the principal Officers and Commissioners of the Navy or Ordnance respectively or any three or more of them mentioning that it is for building and furnishing the said Ships Nor shall the said principal Officers and Commissioners sign any Warrant for paying any of the said money to any other Use or Purpose LVI Any Persons may lend moneys upon the Credit of two third Parts of the moneys to be brought in by Virtue of this Act not exceeding 1000000 l. and have Interest at the rate of 7 l. per Cent. LVII And if the Commissioners or Governours of the Excise refuse or neglect to pay in the said moneys as aforesaid or misapply any part thereof and if any Officer belonging to the Exchequer Navy or Ordnance shall offend against any Clause of this Act or misapply any money contrary to the intent thereof they shall lose their Places and be disabled to execute any Office or Place of Trust and shall pay the full Value of any Sum so misapplied to any person who will sue for the same in any of Their Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster LVIII And no Stay of Prosecution shall be admitted by any Court in any Proceeding for the Recovery of any the Penalties by this Act inflicted or for or in order to the Conviction or disability of any person offending against this Act. LIX After the 25th Day of December 1690. during the continuance of the Act made this Session Entituled An Act for Granting to Their Majesties certain Impositions upon all East-India Goods and Manufactures and upon all wrought Silks c. and of one other Act Entituled An Act for the continuance of several former Acts therein mentioned for the laying several Duties upon Wines Vinegar and Tobacco there shall be within London an Office for the Receipt of the Moneys payable to Their Majesties by virtue of the said Acts In which such Moneys shall be paid to the Receivers General of the Customs to be appointed by Their Majesties who shall keep apart the Moneys payable by virtue of the said first mentioned Act and shall likewise keep apart the Moneys payable by the said Act next recited which Moneys shall remain from time to time after the Payments which shall be made thereout by any Laws in force upon Debentures for Goods that shall be Reshipt or for Corn Exported or upon Discounts upon Bonds and of such Allowances of damaged Goods and of Bills of Portage as have usually been made And the Comptroller General of the Accounts of the Customs shall keep distinct Accounts of the said respective Sums of Moneys to which all Persons may have resort without Fee and the said Receiver or Receivers General shall weekly pay the same into the Receipt of the Exchequer apart from other Moneys and if they neglect so to do or misapply the same they shall Forfeit their Office and be incapable of any Place of Trust and shall Pay the value of the Sum misapplied to him that will Sue for the same LX. Out of the Money which shall be paid by virtue of this Act into the Exchequer 700000 l. shall be Appropriated to the Payment of Seamen that shall serve in the Navy the Year 1691. and to the building of Three Ships of the Third Rate to contain each 1050 Tuns and for providing them Furniture and to the Paying for Stores and Victuals for the Navy and to the Expence of the Office of Ordnance with respect to Naval Affairs and to other necessary Uses of the Navy in the Time aforesaid And out of all other Money that shall be Paid into the Exchequer upon Loan or otherwise by virtue of this or any other Act of this Session for Granting Aids or Supplies for reducing Ireland or Prosecuting the War against France other then what is Appropriated by this Act and the Act For Granting an Aid to Their Majesties of the Sum of 751702 l. 18 s. for the Payment of Seamen c. the Sum of 1500000 l. shall be Appropriated to the payment of the Land Forces and other Charges relating thereunto And all other Moneys payable into the Exchequer by virtue of any of the said Acts shall be Applyed to the Prosecution of the War against France and Reducing of Ireland and the
Payment of Debts that shall be incurred by reason of the War LXI The Three Ships afore mentioned to be built within a year from the Twentieth Day of March next LXII Their Majesties may use any Sum or Sums not exceeding 500000 l. in the whole Granted in this Session and not particularly Appropriated so as it be Repaid and Applied to the Carrying on the present War out of such Moneys as shall arise from Their Maieslies Revenue before the 24th Day of March 1691. LXIII Stat. 3. u. M. cap. 1. An Act for Granting to Their Majesties certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for One Year EXP. LXIV Stat. 3. W. M. cap. 15. No Corn Distiller or Maker of Low-wines Spirits or Strong-waters for Sale shall at any Time after the 1st Day of March 1691 Set up Use or Alter any Tun Cask or other brewing Vessel for brewing or making any Worts Wash Low-wines Spirits or Strongwaters for Sale or use any private or conceal'd Ware-house or other place for laying of any Wash Low-wines c. without giving Notice thereof to the next Office of Excise within the Limits where he inhabits on Pain to Forfeit 20 l. for every Tun c. so Set up Used or Altered and for every private Ware-house c. and every other Person in whose Occupation any House or other Place shall be where any such private Tun c. shall be found shall Forfeit 20 l. one Moiety to Their Majesties and the other Moiety to the Informer LXV If any such Corn Distiller c. shall Conceal or Convey away any Low-wines Spirits c. from the Sight or View of the Gaugers he shall Forfeit for every Gallon so Conceal'd or Convey'd 5 s. All which Penalties shall be Sued for and Recovered as by an Act made in the 12th Year of the Reign of the late King Charles 2 d Entituled An Act for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries c. and another Act made in the Fifteenth Year of his Reign Entituled An Additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Duties of Excise c. or by any other Law in force Relating to the Revenue of Excise on Beer and Ale is directed LXVI Stat. 4. W. M. cap. 3. From and after the 25th Day of January 1692. there shall be paid to Their Majesties Their Heirs c. during the space of Ninety nine years for the Liquors herein after Expressed over and above all Duties now Chargeable upon the same For every Barrel of Beer or Ale above 6 s. the Barrel 9 d. For every Barrel of Beer or Ale of 6 s. or under 3 d. For every Barrel of English Vinegar 1 s. and 6 d. For every Barrel of Vinegar made with or passing through Foreign Materials or any mixture with Foreign Materials 4 s. For every Barrel of Beer Ale and Mum Imported 3 s. For every Tun of Cyder or Perry Imported 4 l. For every Gallon of Single-Brandy Imported 6 d. For every Gallon of Double Brandy 1 s. For all Cyder and Perry made and sold by Retail upon every Hogshead 1 s. and 3 d. For all Metheglin or Mead made for Sale by Retail or otherwise for every Gallon 3 d. LXVII The said Impositions to be paid to Their Majesties c. in the same Manner and Form and by such Rules and under such Penalties as are mentioned in the Act of 12 Car. 2. Entituled An Act for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries c. and in another Act made in the same year Entituled A Grant of certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for the Increase of His Majesties Revenue during his Life and in another Act made in the 15th year of the same Kings Reign Entituled An Additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Duty of Excise c. or by any other Law in Force relating to the Revenue of Excise LXVIII The Commissioners and Governours for the management of the Excise at the Head Office in London shall keep apart the moneys arising by the Duties hereby granted as the same shall be paid in and shall pay weekly every Wednesday if it be not a Holy-day and then the day after into the Exchequer all the said moneys distinct from the other moneys which they shall receive for Their Majesties Use LXIX There shall be kept in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipts one Book in which all the said weekly moneys shall be entred apart from other moneys LXX If the said Commissioners and Governours neglect or refuse to pay the said weekly Sums as aforesaid or misapply any of the same they shall forfeit their Offices and be incapable of any Office or Place of Trust and shall pay the full Value of any Sum or Sums so misapplied to any that will sue for the same LXXI The Sums appointed to be paid in weekly as aforesaid shall be the yearly Fond for the purposes hereafter mentioned LXXII Any persons Natives or Foreigners may contribute toward the advancing the said Sum of 1000000 l. at any time before the 1st day of May 1693. Sum or Sums and upon such Terms as are hereafter expressed viz. That out of the moneys arising by this Act the Sum of 100000 l. yearly till the 24th day of June 1700. be kept apart as the yearly Fond to be divided amongst the Persons so contributing and from and after that day 70000 l. shall be yearly kept apart as the yearly Fond to be divided as herein-after is mentioned That every Contributor shall advance 100 l. at least for which he is to name his own or some other life during which life he shall receive a Share of the said Fond as is hereafter expressed That every Contributor may advance as many Sums of 100 l. as he please for which he is to name one or more life or lives so as no more lives be named then there are distinct Hundred Pounds advanced during which life or lives he shall receive so many Shares of the said Fond as he shall have advanced Hundred Pounds all the said lives to be named within 14 days after the 24th of June 1692. That in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipts and of the Clerk of the Pells there be kept one or more Book or Books in which shall be entred the Contributors Names and the Names of those by whose hands they pay in the said moneys and the Sums paid and the time when and the Names of the Nominees To which the Contributors c. may have resort and inspect the same without Fee or Reward The Contributors and Nominees to be described by their Christian and Sirnames Additions Places of Abode c. Every Contributor shall have a Talley levied importing the Receipt of the money and an Order for payment bearing date with the Tally signed by the Commissioners of the Treasury or any three or more of them or by the Treasurer of the Exchequer which shall be valid notwithstanding the
Defendant Costs unless the Judge before whom it shall be Tryed shall at the Tryal in open Court certifie upon Record that there was a reasonable Cause for such Information And in case the Costs be nor paid within Three Months after they are Taxed the Defendants shall have the Benefit of the said Recognizance to compel the payment thereof II. No persons who are or shall be outlaw'd in the said Court for any thing except Treason or Felony shall be compelled to appear in Person to Reverse the same but may appear by Attorney and Reverse the same without Bail except where Special Bail shall be Ordered by the Court. III. And if any person so Outlaw'd be taken upon a Cap. Utlagatum the Sheriff who hath taken him in all Cases where Special Bail is not required by the said Court may take an Attorneys Engagement under his Hand to appear for him and to Reverse the Outlawry and thereupon may discharge the Defendant and where Special Bail is required the Sheriff may take Security of the Defendant by Bond with one or more Sureties in double the Sum for which Special Bail is required and no more for his Appearance at the Return of the Writ and to do and perform such things as shall be required by the Court and after such Bond taken may discharge him IV. If any person so Outlaw'd and Taken upon a Cap. Utlagatum shall not be able within the return of the said Writ to give Security whensoever such Prisoner shall find Surety for his Appearance by Attorney at some return in the Term then next following to Reverse the Outlawry c. the Sheriff may discharge him V This Act shall not extend to Informations in the Name of Their Majesties Coroner or Attorney commonly called the Master of the Crown-Office VI. Upon the Demise of any King or Queen of this Realm all Pleas to Informations shall stand without calling the Defendants to plead anew unless the Defendants request the Court for that purpose within Five Months after such Demise Ireland and Irish-men I. Stat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 29. No Ecclesiastical person Promoted or Beneficed in Ireland and who hath been forced to forsake that Kingdom being of the Protestant Religion who is or shall be presented c. to any Benefice or Promotion in England shall by acceptance thereof lose any Benefice or Promotion in Ireland but may hold the same till he may and shall be restored to his Promotion or Benefice in Ireland so as he may enjoy the same as before the troubles II. Provided that if such Ecclesiastical person so promoted here shall not within Three Months after the Courts of Justice in Ireland shall be open and furnished with Protestant Judges resign his Benefices and Preferments here and give notice thereof to the Patrons the same shall be void and the Patrons may Present or Collate again III. Such Ecclesiastical person so Promoted to any Benefice c. here shall be exempted from First-Fruits and Tenths IV. Stat. 1. W. M. Sess 2. cap. 9. The persons now or of late Assembled at Dublin without any Authority derived from Their Majesties calling themselves a Parliament were not nor are a Parliament but an Unlawful and Rebellious Assembly and all Acts and Proceedings whatsoever Made Done or Passed in the said pretended Parliament shall be adjudged null and void and no Act Statute Judgment Outlawry Decree Sentence Order or other Proceedings since the 13th Day of February 1688. Had Made Passed Pronounced or Done or to be Had Made Passed Pronounced or Done by any persons whatsoever by colour of any Commission Writ Power or Authority in Ireland other then such as have been or shall be given by or derived from Their Majesties shall be of any Force or Effect V. All Cities Boroughs and Towns and all Bodies Corporate Ecclesiastical or Temporal in Ireland are hereby declared to be Restored to all Intents and Purposes as they were upon the 24th Day of June 1683. any Proceedings against them by Quo warranto Scire facias c. on any Proceedings Judgments or Executions thereon or any New Charter Grant Commission or any Surrender or other Acts since that time to the contrary notwithstanding All which Writs Suits Proceedings Judgments Seizures Executions Charters Grants Commissions and Surrenders are hereby declared Void VI. No persons whatsoever of the Protestant Religion shall be liable to any Loss Forseiture or Prejudice in Estate Office Person or otherwise by reason of their absence out of Ireland at any time since the 25th of December 1685. or for Non-payment of Rent or any other Duty due to Their Majesties or the Crown out or by reason of any Lands Tenements Rectories Tythes or Church Livings since the 25th of December 1688. till such time as the said Kingdom shall be declared by Their Majesties to be Reduced to Their Obedience VII The Protestants of Ireland shall be and are hereby Restored to all their Possessions Ecclesiastical and Temporal in such manner as they or those under whom they Claim had the same on the 25th Day of December 1688. and Pesons detaining such Possessions after a Demand by the Party grieved may be proceeded against as in a Case of a forcible Detainer VIII Stat. 3. 4. W. M. cap. 2. No person Residing in Ireland shall be obliged to take the Oath of Supremacy by virtue of the Statute of primo Eliz. but the Statute and every other Statute for so much as concerns the said Oath are hereby Repealed IX The Oaths Required by this Act to be taken after the 1st Day of January next 1691. shall be taken by the Persons herein after mentioned and such others as were Required by the said Act or any other Statute made in Ireland to take the said Abrogated Oath before such Persons and in such Court as is hereafter expressed viz. Archbishops and Bishops and others of or above the Degree of a Baron of Parliament there and others having any Promotion Office or Employment Ecclesiastical Civil or Military or receiving any Pay Salary Fee or Wages by reason of any Grant from the Crown or being Master Governor Head or Fellow of the University of Dublin or Master of any Hospital or School or Barrister at Law Clerk in Chancery Attorny or Professor of Law Physick or other Science residing in Dublin or within thirty Miles thereof in Hillary-Term next in the Court of Chancery or Kings Bench there between 9 and 12 in the Forenoon and all the said Persons inhabiting at a greater distance at the General Quarter-Sessions where they reside between 9 and 12 before the 25th of July next and shall make subscribe and repeat the Declaration herein after mentioned all which to be put upon Record paying 1 s. And Archbishops Bishops and others having any Ecclesiastical Promotion or being a Lecturer or Curate neglecting so to do shall be ipso facto deprived and be incapable to be Lecturer or Curate any where and others having any Office
XVII This Act shall give no ease to Papists or Popish Recusants nor to any that in preaching or writing shall deny the Trinity XVIII If any persons after the 10th day of June come into any Church Chappel or Congregation permitted by this Act and disturb the same or misuse the Teacher upon proof thereof by two Witnesses before a Justice of Peace they shall find two Sureties to be bound by Recognizance in 50 l. and in default thereof be committed to prison till the next Quarter-Sessions and upon conviction of such Offence at the General or Quarter-Sessions shall forfeit 20 l. XIX No Assembly for Religious Worship shall be allowed by this Act till the place of meeting be certified to the Bishop of the Diocess or the Arch-deacon or to the Justices of Peace at the General or Quarter-Sessions and registred or recorded there respectively and a Certificate thereof given without Fee c. Revenue I. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 14. The Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage and other Sums of Mony payable upon Merchandise and the several Impositions Duties and Charges upon Liquors Manufactures and other Things and all and singular the Revenue and Revenues except Hearth-mony other than the Duties thereby arising at or before the 25th of March 1689. granted and payable to the two late Kings or either of them which remained and had continuance on the 5th day of November last and all Arrears of the same shall be answered and paid to their Majesties until the 25th day of December 1689. II. All persons who have received or collected any part of the publick Revenue since the said 5th day of November are hereby indemnified against all persons of whom they received or collected the same to be answerable nevertheless to their Majesties III. Seizures and Distresses made or to be made by any persons authorized and all Forfeitures and Penalties for any Offence against any Law concerning the Customs or Excise or relating to the Transportation of Wool or importation or exportation of prohibited Goods incurred since the 11th day of December and before the 13th of February 1688. shall be prosecuted as well by any Informer for the King and Queen and himself as by the Attorny General in manner and form as if such Seisures Distresses and Offences had been made and committed after the said 13th day of Febr. IV. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 28. Part of the Mony accruing to their Majesties by one Act of Parliament made in the first year of the Reign of the late King James II. Entituled An Act for granting to his Majesty an Imposition upon all Tobacco and Sugar imported between the 24th day of June 1685. and the 24th day of June 1693. not exceeding in the whole 60000 l. shall be applyed to the payment of the Wages due to the Servants of the late King Charles II. which were his Servants at the time of his decease to be paid them within three years from the 24th day of Dec. 1689. by three equal payments and in such manner and proportion and to such of them as his Majesty shall direct and the residue of the Mony arising by the said Act and the Mony arising by two other Acts of the said first year of the said late King James the one entituled An Act for granting his Majesty an imposition upon all Wines and Vinegar imported between the 24th day of June 1685. and the 24th of June 1693. and the other An Act for granting an aid to his Majesty by an imposition on all French Linnens and all East-India Linnen and several other Manufactures of India and on all French wrought Silks and Stuffs and on all other wrought Silks and on all Brandies imported after the first day of July 1685. and before the first day of July 1690. and by one other Act of this Parliament Entituled An Act for an additional Duty of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors shall be applied from the 29th of September 1689. during the continuance of the said Acts in the first place towards the payment of 600000 l. to the States of the United Provinces for their assistance to his Majesty in coming into this Nation in such manner as his Majesty shall direct and the residue towards the subduing the Rebellion of Ireland and other Charges of the War against France V. Accounts of the said Monies to be kept apart from other Monies payable to their Majesties that such as the States of the United Provinces shall appoint and other persons concerned may see how the said additional Duty and other Impositions are from time to time paid into the Exchequer VI. No Mony shall be paid to any of the late King Charles II's Servants but to such as before the first day of February next shall have taken the Oaths and made and subscribed the Declaration mentioned in an Act of this present Parliament Entituled An Act for abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths at the General Quarter-Sessions of the County or Place where they reside and shall produce a Certificate thereof attested by the Clerk of the Peace VII Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 3. An Act for preventing all Doubts and Questions concerning the collecting the publick Revenue Exp. Rights and Liberties I. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 2. Whereas the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons assembled at Westminster lawfully fully and freely representing all the Estates of the People of this Realm did upon the thirteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred eighty eight present unto their Majesties then called and known by the Names and Stile of William and Mary Prince and Princess of Orange being present in their proper Persons a certain Declaration in Writing made by the said Lords and Commons in the Words following viz. Whereas the late King James II. by the assistance of divers evil Councellors Judges and Ministers employed by him did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant Religion and the Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom By assuming and exercising a Power of dispensing with and sus-spending of Laws and the Execution of Laws without consent of Parliament By committing and prosecuting divers worthy Prelates for humbly petitioning to be excused from concurring to the said assumed Power By issuing and causing to be executed a Commission under the Great Seal for erecting a Court called The Court of Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Causes By levying Mony for and to the use of the Crown by pretence of Prerogative for other time and in other manner than the same was granted by Parliament By raising and keeping a standing Army within this Kingdom in time of Peace without consent of Parliament and quartering Souldiers contrary to Law By causing several good Subjects being Protestants to be disarmed at the same time when Papists were both armed and employed contrary to Law By violating the freedom of Election of Members to serve in Parliament By
shall for so neglecting or refusing forfeit to their Majesties such Sum as the said Commissioners or the major part of them shall think fit not exceeding 20 l. nor under 10 l. to be levied by distress and sale of the Offenders Goods and Chattels in like manner as is appointed for levying the several Rates herein mentioned in case of refusal of payment And every Assessor as afore appointed before he take upon him the execution of the said Employment shall take the Oaths required to be taken in an Act made in the first Year of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for the abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths Oath to be taken and also take the Oath following You shall swear well and truly to execute the Duty of an Assessor and to cause the Rates and Duties imposed by an Act Entituled An Act for granting to their Majesties an Aid of 4 s. in the Pound for one year for carrying on a vigorous War against France to be duly and impartially assessed according to the best of your skill and knowledge and therein you shall spare no Person for Favour or Affection nor any Person grieve for Hatred or Ill-will So help you God VI. Certificates to be return'd to the Commissioners by the 5th of March 1693. The Rates and Assessments upon all ready Monies Debts Goods Chattels Personal Estates and Publick Offices and Employments of Profit charged by this Act shall be ascertained and the Certificates thereof returned to the Commissioners upon or before the 5th of March 1693. unless the Commissioners shall think fit to give farther time And also the Assessments of 4 s. in the Pound of the yearly value of all Manors Messuages Tenements Hereditaments and Premises charged by this Act shall be ascertained and the Certificates returned in to the Commissioners on or upon the 5th day of March aforesaid unless the Commissioners shall think fit to give farther time and upon return of such Certificate any three or more of the Commissioners may examine the Presenters thereof if they see cause Commissioners to examine suspected Returns And if at the return of the Certificates or within twenty days after they shall have cause to suspect that any Person or any Manors Lands or other the Premises which ought to be charged is omitted or that any Person is of a greater Estate or any the Lands or other Premises are of greater yearly value the said Commissioners or any three of them may summon such Person or the Owners of such Manors or other Premises to appear before them and if they neglect to appear not having a reasonable excuse every Person so making default Penalty of the Persons not appearing shall pay to their Majesties double the Sum he should have been rated at And the said Commissioners or the major part of them shall have power to examine into the Estate of such person and the value of such Premises chargeable by this Act and to set such Rates thereon as shall be chargeable by this Act. VII And the said Commissioners Collecting the Duty at 4 quarterly Payments and when to begin or any two of them shall issue out their Warrants for the collecting the Rates and Assessments in respect of the Personal Estates Offices and Imployments and also of the Pound Rate to be charged upon Lands Tenements and other the Premisses as aforesaid at four quarterly Payments the first to be on the 26th of March 1694. or within twenty days after paid into their Majesties Exchequer The second Payment by the 20th day of June next ensuing or within twenty days after The third on the 20th day of September next ensuing or within twenty days after And the last Payment to be on the 20th of December or within twenty days after VIII The Sub-collector may retain 3 d. Sub-collectors and Receiver Generals Fee for each 20 s. he collects as a Reward for his Pains and shall not travel above ten miles for payment of any Monies by him received And the Head-collector shall be nominated by the Receiver General of the County which Receiver General shall be answerable for all Monies received by the Collectors of the said County And the Receiver General shall have 2 d. in the Pound for all Monies paid by him into the Exchequer on or before the times prefixt in this Act. IX Commissioners Clerks Fees The Commissioners Clerks shall for writing Warrants Certificates and Duplicates by Warrant under two or more of the Commissioners Hands receive from the respective Receivers General 1 d. in the Pound for such Monies as they shall have received X. Penalty of refusing payment Upon refusal to pay as by Act assessed it shall be lawfull to distrain and the Distress to sell within four days And moreover it shall be lawful to break open in the day-time any House and upon Warrant under the Hands and Seals of two or more of the said Commissioners any Chest Trunk Box or other things where any such Goods are calling the Constables or Headboroughs to their assistance where any refusal or resistance shall be made Tenants to deduct out of their Rents The several Tenants which shall be rated by virtue of this Act are hereby required to pay such Monies as shall be rated upon such Houses and Premises and deduct out of the Rents so much of the said Rates as in respect of the said Rents of every such House or Lands the Landlord ought to bear and all Landlords are hereby required to allow such Deductions upon receipt of the residue of their Rents XI Within what time to appeal If any Person by this Act sessed do find himself grieved by such assessing and do within ten days after demand of the same complain to the Commissioners the said Commissioners or any three or more of them so as the major part of the Commissioners who signed the Rates be present shall have power within ten days after such complaint to examine any Persons upon Oath of their real or personal Estate and upon examination and knowledge thereof to abate or enlarge the same Assessment and the same so abated or enlarged shall be estreated into the Exchequer as aforesaid Appeals to be final Collector neglecting or refusing his Penalty And Appeals once determined to be final XII If any Collector shall neglect or refuse to pay any Mony by him received as by this Act is directed or shall detain any Mony and not pay the same at such time as is hereby directed the Commissioners of each County or any two or more of them are hereby impowred to imprison the Person and seize the Estate both real and personal of such Collector to him belonging or which shall descend or come to his Heirs or Executors and to give notice and appoint a time for the sale thereof and to satisfie and pay into the Hands of the Receiver General so much as shall be detained by the
Annuities upon the said Act and the said Orders not to be determinable revocable or countermandable as touching the afore-mentioned Orders in the said Act is enacted which said Orders shall be assignable and transferrable in such and the same manmer as is mentioned in the said Act touching Orders given to the Contributors in the said Act mentioned and all the Rates and Duties by the said Act granted over and beside so much as shall bear proportion at the Rates in the said Act mentioned to the whole Sum of 881493 l. 14 s. 2 d. already advanced by the Contributors upon the said Act are and shall be appropriated and applied and are hereby appropriated to and for the payment of the said Annuities yearly Rents or Sums after the rate of 14 l. per Cent. per Annum for every 100 l. to be advanced as aforesaid according to the true intent and meaning of this Act and shall not be diverted or divertible to any other use intent or purpose whatsoever under the like Penalties Forfeitures and Disabilities Penalty for misapplying the Monies given by this Act. Books and Registers to be kept in respect to all and every the Officers in the said Act mentioned as are in the said Act appointed in case of diverting or misapplying any part of the Monies which ought to be paid to the Contributors upon the said Act. And the said Officers are hereby required to keep Books and Registers and make Entries of the Names of all Persons who shall advance any Monies before the said first of May and of the several Sums so advanced and the times of paying in the same respectively and the Names of such Persons for whose Lives the several Annuities or yearly Payments are to be payable without Fee or Reward as in the said Act mentioned And every Person who shall advance or pay any such Sum as asoresaid Interest of 10 l. per Cent. from 1st of May to the 24th of June before the first of May as aforesaid shall receive out of the Mony granted by the said Act for all Mony so advanced by him and paid from the respective days of payment unto the 24th of June as aforesaid Interest at the rate of 10 l. per Cent. per Annum II. Mony payable to any Person by this Act to be free from Duties Surplus to be to the use of their Majesties Any Monies payable to any Person or Persons by virtue of this Act shall not be chargeable with any Rates Duties or Impositions whatsoever and in case there shall be any Surplus or Remainder of the Monies arising by the said Rates and Duties of Excise at the end of any year during the term of ninety and nine years granted therein by the said former Act after making all the Payments which by this or the said former Act are appointed to be paid within the same year or reserving Mony for the same such Surplus or Remainder shall be to the use of their Majesties their Heirs and Successors III. Upon demand of their shares a Certificate of the Life of the Nominee shall be produced Every Contributor upon this or the former Act his or her Executors Administrators or Assigns upon their demanding any half-yearly or quarterly Payment of their respective shares of either of the said Funds unless the Nominee appear in Person at the said Receipt shall produce a Certificate of the Life of his her or their respective Nominee signed by the Minister and Church-wardens of the Parish where such Nominee shall be then living as by the said Act is appointed or otherwise it shall and may be lawful to and for every Contributor his or her Executors Administrators or Assigns at his her or their Election to make Oath of the truth of his her or their respective Nominees Life on the day when the said Payments shall become due before any one or more Justices of the Peace of the respective County Riding City Town or Place wherein such Person at the time of the making the said Oath shall reside and the said Justice or Justices shall make a Certificate thereof without Fee the which shall be filed in the said Office or Receipt of Exchequer And if any Person shall be guilty of a false Oath Penalty of forging a Certificate or forging any Certificate touching the Premises and be thereof lawfully convicted he shall incur the Pains and Penalties to be inflicted upon Persons who commit wilful Perjury or Forgery And in case any Nominee shall at the time of such demand be resident in Scotland or beyond the Seas and any one or more of the Barons of the Exchequer for the time being shall certifie that upon proof to him or them made which proof is to be taken in a Summary way it doth seem probable to him or them that the said Nominee is living the said Certificate being filed as aforesaid shall be a sufficient Warrant for making the said quarterly Payment to the respective Contributors their Executors Administrators or Assigns And if any Person shall receive one or more quarterly Payments upon his her or their Annuity or Annuities for any time beyond the death of his her or their Nominee when the same ought to cease such Person shall forfeit treble the value of the Monies so received IV. And whereas several Persons who did contribute or pay several of the Sums of Mony which have been contributed upon the said recited Act for Shares Dividends Annuities or other Benefits in the said Act mentioned as well upon the benefit of Survivorship as upon the yearly Annuities of 14 l. per Cent. did not name to the Auditor of the Receipt or Clerk of the Pells in the Receipt of the Exchequer within the respective times by the said Act appointed the respective Lives during which such Dividends Shares Annuities or other Benefits respectively were to continue It is hereby enacted Benefit of Survivorship within what time the Lives to be named That if such Persons shall at any time before the first of March next nominate to the Auditor of the Receipt of Clerk of the Pells in the Exchequer the respective Lives their own or others during which such Dividends Shares Annuities or other Benefits should continue respectively that then his her or their Nominees shall be entred in the Books kept in the Receipt for the Nominees And every such Contributor his or her Executors Administrators and Assigns shall have receive and enjoy such and the like Dividends Shares and Annuities and other Benefits in respect of the Monies so contributed as he or she might have had received and enjoyed if the respective Lives for the same had been named within the respective times by the said Act prescribed V. The Surplus to their Majesties not to be charged with any Gift c. Provided that the Surplus or Remainder of the Monies arising by the said Rates and Duties appointed by the said Act be to the use of their Majesties their
the Duties payable for the same 00 00 09 Excise upon Liquors Every Barrel of Beer or Ale at or under 6 s. the Barrel by the Common Brewer or Seller over the Duties payable for the same 00 00 03 Every Barrel of Vinegar or Vinegar Beer brewed or made of English Materials for sale over and above the Duties payable for the same 00 01 06 Every Barrel of Vinegar or Liquor prepared for Vinegar made or mixed with Foreign Materials made for sale 00 04 00 Every Barrel of Beer Ale or Mum imported from beyond Sea or from Guernsey or Jersey and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity 00 03 00 Every Tun of Cyder or Perry and so proportionably imported from beyond Sea to be paid before landing over and above the Duties payable for the same 04 00 00 Every Gallon of single Brandy Spirits or Aqua-vitae imported from beyond Sea to be paid before landing 00 02 00 Every Gallon of double Brandy Spirits or Aqua-vitae above proof imported from beyond Sea 00 04 00 Every Hogshead of Cyder or Perry made and sold by Retail by the Retailer 00 01 00 Every Gallon of Metheglin or Mead made for sale by retail or otherwise 00 00 03 XXV The said several Rates and Duties to be levied Duties how to be collected collected and paid over and above the Duties payable for the same and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity for sixteen years in the same manner and form and under such Penalties as are mentioned in an Act of 12 Car. 2. Entituled An Act for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries and Tenures in Capite c. and by another Act in the same year Entituled A Grant of certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors c. and by another Act made 15 Car. 2. Entituled An additional Act for the better ordering and collecting the Duty of Excise c. And that the said Acts as to the Impositions upon Beer Ale c. by this Act granted shall be of full force to all intents during the said Term of sixteen years as if the same were particularly set down in the Body of this Act. XXVI The Commissioners for Receipt of Excise and the Duties upon Salt Commissioners of Excise to manage theDuty upon Salt paid weekly shall at the Head-Office in London keep the Mony hereby raised apart by it self and shall pay the same weekly viz. on Wednesday in every Week if it be not a Holiday and if it be then the next day after that is not a Holiday into the Exchequer distinct and apart from other Mony A Book for entring the same And there shall be a Book kept in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipt wherein the Weekly Mony paid into the Exchequer shall be entred apart and distinct XXVII The Commissioners refusing or neglecting to pay the said Weekly Sums Penalty upon the Commissioners for neglecting c. Salaries Charges how to be paid or misapplying them shall forfeit their Offices and be made incapable of any Office of Trust whatsoever and shall be liable to pay such Sums misapplied to any Person who will sue for the same The Salaries and incident Charges to be paid by the King out of the Duties upon Salt XXVIII The Head Office of Excise established by this Act shall be continued in London Head Office of Excise where to be kept or within ten Miles of it to be executed by a sufficient number of Commissioners by their Majesties to be appointed And also a Comptroller who shall keep a distinct Account in Books fairly written of all the Monies arising by this Act as shall be brought into the said Office Resort to the Books gratis to which Books all Persons shall have free access gratis Nor shall the Commissioners receive any other Salary or Fee than by this Act appointed XXIX The yearly Sum of 140000 l. out of Duties hereby granted shall be the yearly Fond The yearly Fond what and how much it shall be reckoning the first year to commence from the 25th of March 1694. to be brought in Weekly into the Exchequer And if the Weekly Payments will not amount to 140000 l. per Annum yet so far as it will extend shall be part of it towards the answering the purposes herein mentioned If deficient how to be supplied And if the Weekly Payments fall short of satisfying the said 140000 l. or to discharge the Annuities or other Benefits hereby charged that then the Commissioners of the Treasury or Under-Treasurer of the Exchequer shall apply so much of their Majesties Revenue not being appropriated to any particular use by Act of Parliament to supply the defect of the said Recompences of Annuities XXX Foreigners as well as Natives may contribute towards advancing the Sum of 1000000 l. Adventurers when to pay in their Mony by paying at or before the 10th of September 1694. to any Receiver hereby appointed the Sum of 10 l. each or divers intire Sums of 10 l. each and for every 10 l. to receive a Share or Dividend of the said yearly Fond for sixteen years XXXI Their Majesties under their Broad Seal shall appoint Managers of the Tickets or Lots who shall meet from time to time at some publick Office in London or Westminster for the execution of their Powers and Trusts The Books and Columns how to be ordered and shall prepare Books wherein every Leaf shall be divided into three Columns and upon the innermost of the said Columns shall be printed 100000 Tickets numbred 1 2 3 c. Upon the middle Column shall be printed 100000 Tickets of the same length breadth and form and numbred in like manner And in the extream Column of the said Book shall be printed a third Rank of Tickets of the same number and the several Tickets shall be of an oblong Figure joined within oblique Lines and every Ticket in the third or extream Column shall have these Words written or imprinted thereon or this effect viz. Inscriptions on the Tickets This Ticket Entitles the Bearer to an Annuity of one Pound or by chance to a greater yearly Sum for sixteen years XXXII The Commissioners of the Treasury Commissioners to appoint Receivers or any three of them to appoint Receivers taking reasonable Securities of them to pay the Monies received into the Exchequer And that the Managers shall carefully examine the Books with the Tickets therein Managers to examine the Books and Tickets and deliver the same to the Receivers taking from each a Writing acknowledging the Receipt of such Books and Tickets that so the Receiver may be answerable for every 10 l. for every Ticket in the extream Column or for so many of them as he shall not return back Tickets how to be ordered upon receipt of the Mony and the Receiver upon receiving of every 10 l. of every Adventurer shall cut out of the Book through the
such Penalties and Forfeitures as in the Acts made in the 12th year of King Charles II. and the 15th of the same King are mentioned or by another Law in force relating to the said Revenue of Excise and the Clauses in the said Acts to be of force for and concerning the Duties hereby granted as if particularly recited in the Body of this Act. IX The Commissioners of the Excise Monies arising by these Duties to be kept apart and the Commissioners and other Officers of the Customs at the Head-Office in London shall separate and keep apart all the Monies arising by these Duties as the same shall from time to time arise or be paid into the said Office of Excise or unto the Receiver-General of the Customs and the Comptroller of the Excise and of the Customs or their respective Deputies shall keep a distinct account in Books fairly written of all those Rates and Duties to which all Persons shall have free access at all reasonable times gratis Holidays no pay-days And the Commissioners of the Excise and Customs are to pay weekly upon every Week if it be not a Holiday and then the next day after that is not a Holiday Monies how to be paid these Monies into the Receipt of the Exchequer distinct and apart from other Monies they shall receive and in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipt one Book shall be kept in which all the said Weekly Monies shall be entred apart Commissioners neglecting or misapplying their Forfeiture And if the Commissioners shall refuse or neglect to pay into the Exchequer all or any of the said Weekly Sums in such manner as hereby required or shall divert or misapply any part of the same or if such Comptroller shall neglect his Duty in keeping such Accounts then he or they shall forfeit their respective Places and be incapable of any Place of Trust or Office whatsoever and such Commissioner shall be liable to pay the full value of any Sum diverted or misapplied to any Person that shall sue for the same in any of their Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster Necessary Charges to be deducted Their Majesties out of the Duties may allow Salaries and incident Charges as shall be necessary for receiving collecting and managing the same Duties Head-Office to continue in London or within ten miles The Head-Office of Excise now in London shall be continued there for ever or within ten miles thereof And likewise for ever shall be continued there or within the same distance a Comptroller of the Excise the Commissioners of Excise and Comptroller to be appointed by their Majesties their Heirs and Successors X. What shall be the yearly Fond. That yearly and every year reckoning the first year to begin from the 1st of June 1694. the full Sum of 140000 l. out of these Monies by the said Duties of Tunnage and Excise and to be brought into the Receipt of the Exchequer by weekly payments in case the weekly payments shall extend thereunto shall be the whole and intire yearly Fond. In case of deficiency how to be supplied And in case the said weekly payments shall not amount to so much then as far as they will extend shall be part of the yearly Fond for and towards the answering and paying of the Annuities and other Purposes in this Act after mentioned And in case of deficiency by the said Duties of Tunnage and Excise to discharge and satisfie the Annuities and other Benefits and Advantages by this Act appointed or intended to be paid within any one year to be reckoned as aforesaid or if they shall not amount in their weekly payments to so much as 140000 l. within such time then the deficiency shall be made good out of any Treasure or Revenue belonging to their Majesties their Heirs or Successors not being appropriated to any particular Uses by any Act of Parliament and that to be issued and paid without any farther or other Warrant but to be done by virtue of this Act towards the discharging and paying of the said Annuities and Benefits as together with the Monies brought into the said Receipt for the Duties hereby granted shall compleatly pay off the same within the year respectively grown due And the yearly Sum of 140000 l. arising by and out of the said Impositions and Duties hereby granted shall be kept separate and apart in the Receipt of the Exchequer to be paid from time to time unto such Person or Persons and in such manner proportion and form as is herein after directed XI Their Majesties to appoint Commissioners to take Subscriptions Their Majesties by Commission under the Great Seal of England may authorize and appoint any number of Persons to take and receive all such voluntary Subscriptions as shall be made on or before the first day of August 1694. by any Person or Persons Natives or Foreigners Bodies Politick or Corporate for and towards the raising and paying into the Receipt of the Exchequer the Sum of 1200000 l. part of the Sum of 1500000 l. And that the yearly Sum of 100000 l. part of the said yearly Sum of 140000 l. rising by the said Duties and Impositions shall be applied issued and directed and is hereby appropriated to the use of such Persons and Bodies Politick as shall make such voluntary Subscriptions and Payments their Heirs Successors or Assigns in the proportion hereafter mentioned that is to say The Monies how to be divided and proportioned That each weekly or other payment rising out of the Duties and Impositions by this Act granted shall by the Auditor of the Receipt of Exchequer from time to time as the same shall be paid in be separated and divided into five seventh parts and two seventh parts which is according to the proportion of the said yearly Sum of 100000 l. to the said yearly Sum of 140000 l. which five seventh parts of the said several payments arising by the Duties of this Act and so set apart are appropriated towards the payment of the said yearly Sum of 100000 l. and shall from time to time be issued and paid to the uses of the Subscribers and Contributors towards the raising and paying into the Receipt of Exchequer the Sum of 1200000 l. XII The 200000 l. and 100000 l. to be assigned or transferred Their Majesties by Letters Patents under the Great Seal may limit direct and appoint in what manner and proportions and under what Rules and Directions the said Sum of 200000 l. and the said yearly Sum of 100000 l. and every or any part or proportion thereof may be assignable or transferrable assigned or transferred to such Person or Persons only as shall freely and voluntarily accept of the same and not otherwise The Contributors to be incorporated and to incorporate all and every such Subscribers and Contributors their Heirs Successors and Assigns to be one Body Corporate and Politick by the Name of Governor and
And in case they be not sufficient then the Loans which shall remain unsatisfied and their Interest shall be repaid out of the next Aids or Supplies granted in Parliament and shall be transferred thereunto as soon as any such Aid or Supply shall be granted to their Majesties For want of such Aids to be supplied out of the Treasury And if no such Aids or Supplies be granted before the 2d of February 1694. then the Sums so borrowed and their Interest shall be paid out of their Majesties Treasure not appropriated to any particular use by Act of Parliament before this time made XXX That out of the Mony to be levied by this Act or another Act of this present Session of Parliament Entituled An Act for granting to their Majesties certain Rates and Duties upon Salt and upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for securing certain Recompences and Advantages in the said Act mentioned to such Persons as shall voluntarily advance the Sum of 1000000 l. towards carrying on the War against France or any other Act of this present Session of Parliament by which any Aids shall be granted to their Majesties towards the carrying on the said War and which shall be paid into the Exchequer as well upon Loans as otherwise except only the Mony appropriated to pay the Recompences in this and the before recited Act the Sum of 1500000 l. over and above the Sum of 1000000 l. appropriated by an Act of this present Session of Parliament Entituled An Act for granting to their Majesties an Aid of 4 s. in the Pound for one Year for carrying on a vigorous War against France Monies appropriated to the use of the Navy and Ordnance and Land Forces is appropriated for the Services of the Navy and Ordnance performed and to be performed And that all other Monies to be paid by this or any other Act of this present Session of Parliament not appropriated to the use of the Navy or to pay the Recompences aforesaid into the Receipt of the Exchequer as well upon Loans as otherwise shall be appropriated to the payment of their Majesties Land Forces and Armies Ordnance Ammunition and other Charges incident to the War and not otherwise XXXI Mony to be applied to the use of the Navy The half of the Mony paid into the Receipt of the Exchequer by this Act or any other of this present Session of Parliament except the Act for granting an Aid of 4 s. in the pound for one year c. and except what is appropriated to pay the Recompences aforesaid and except also one other Act Entituled An Act to supply the deficiency of the Menies raised by a former Act Entituled An Act for granting to their Majesties certain Rates and Duties of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for securing certain Recompences and Advantages in the said Act mentioned c. shall be applied to answer the said Sum of 1500000 l. hereby appropriated to the use of the Navy until the same shall be paid XXXII Mony to pay Seamens Wages That out of the Sum of 1500000 l. and out of the Sum of 1000000 l. appropriated for the use of the Navy the Sum of eleven hundred fifty six thousand nine hundred ninety four pounds shall be applied to pay Wages to Officers and Seamen and other Services belonging according to the course of the Navy to the Head of Wages Marine Regiment and to pay the Officers and Souldiers of the two Marine Regiments And that twelve hundred fifty seven thousand two hundred sixty and six pounds be applied to pay for Victuals Victuals and Stores necessary Provisions and Stores and other extraordinary Services of the Navy and Ordnance eighty five thousand seven hundred and forty pounds to pay the Wages of the Yards Yards c. and other ordinary Services of the Navy XXXIII The Rules and Directions appointed in one Act made in the first Year of their Majesties Reign Entituled Former Act revived for the better executing this Act. An Act for a Grant to their Majesties of an Aid of 2 s. in the Pound for one Year for the speedy payment of Mony thereby granted into the Receipt of the Exchequer by the Collectors and Receivers and for distribution and application thereof and keeping distinct Accounts of the same and all the Penalties and Forfeitures in case of diversion of any Mony thereby appropriated are hereby revived and enacted to be executed and put in ure concerning the distribution and application of the said Sums hereby appropriated as fully and effectually as if the same were here particularly repeated and re-enacted XXXIV The Commissioners of the Customs from and after the end of this Session of Parliament shall mark and seal Lustrings and Alamodes c. to be markt and sealed by the Commissioners of the Customs or cause to be markt and sealed all Lustrings and Alamodes which are now imported and in the Hands of any Person or Persons whatsoever and also of all the said Stuffs so called which shall be hereafter imported and keep an Entry and Registry thereof in the Custom-House in a Book for that purpose provided Those imported already to be so markt sealed or registred within twenty days of the said time for which there shall be no Fee or Reward paid and those hereafter imported from the time aforesaid to be so markt sealed and registred without any Fee before they be delivered out of the Custom-House Ware-House And all Lustrings and Alamodes imported after the 15th day of May 1694. Penalty of unsealed Goods and not so sealed and markt shall be forfeited and the Importers or Possessors thereof subject to such and the like Penalties and Forfeitures as Importers of French Goods by one Act made in the first Year of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for prohibiting all Commerce and Trade with France to be recovered as therein directed Counterfeiting Mark or Seal 500 l. And if any Person or Persons shall alter or counterfeit the Marks or Seals used for that purpose the Offender shall forfeit 500 l. to any that will sue for the same in any of their Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster XXXV Whereas it is enacted in one Act of this present Session of Parliament Entituled An Act for granting to their Majesties an Aid of 4 s. in the Pound for one Year c. that over and above the Ships of War for the Line of Battail and for Convoys to remote Parts at the least four Ships of the third Rate and sixteen of the fourth Rate thirteen of the fifth Rate and ten of the sixth Rate shall be from time to time directed and appointed by the Lord High-Admiral or the Commissioners for executing that Office Commissioners of the Admiralty to certifie at the next Sessions of Parliament what Ships have been set out and the Places where to such proper Stations as they shall deem meet to cruise for securing Merchants Ships in their going
Courts of Equity shall be written or ingrossed 6 d. XV. Licenses Ecclesiastical For every Skin c. on which any Institution or Licence under Seal of any Archbishop Bishop Chancellor or other Ordinary or any Ecclesiastical Court shall be written or engrossed 5 s. XVI Writs of Error c. For every Skin c. on which any Writs of Error Certioraries Habeas Corpus's or Appeals except to the Delegates shall be written or ingrossed 5 s. XVII Significavit pro Corp. c. For every Skin c. on which any Significavit pro Corporis deliberatione shall be written or ingrossed 5 s. XVIII Sentences c. in the Admiralty c. For every Skin c. on which any Sentence in the Court of the Lord High Admiral or Cinque-Ports exercising Admiralty Jurisdiction Attachments out of the said Court of Admiralty or any Relaxation of any such Attachment shall be ingrossed or written 5 s. XIX Licenses of Marriage c. For every Skin c. on which any Licence or Certificates of Marriage or Letters of Mart shall be ingrossed or written 5 s. XX. Probate of Wills c. For every Skin c. on which any Probate of Wills or Letters of Administration for any Estate above 20 l. value shall be written or ingrossed 5 s. XXI Recognizances Statutes For every Skin c. on which any Recognizance Statute-Staple or Merchant shall be ingrossed or written or entred of Record in any Court or Office 5 s. XXII Nisi prius Posteas For every Skin c. on which any Record of Nisi Prius or Postea shall be ingrossed or written 2 s. 6 d. XXIII Judgments For every Skin c. on which are ingrossed or written any Judgment which shall be signed by any Member of the Office or Prothonotaries their Deputies Secondaries or Clerks or others belonging to any the Courts of Westminster who have Power or usually do or shall sign Judgments 2 s. 6 d. XXIV Commissions Ecclesiastical For every Skin c. on which any Commission out of any Ecclesiastical Court not herein otherwise particularly charged shall be written or ingrossed 2 s. 6 d. XXV Warrants Decrees in Admiralty or Cinque-Ports For every Skin c. on which are ingrossed or written any Warrant Monition or personal Decree in any Courrt of Admiralty or Cinque-Ports any beneficial Warrant or Order under their Majesties Sign Manual except Warrant or Orders for the Navy Arms and Ordnance 2 s. 6 d. XXVI Special Bail For every Piece c. on which are ingrossed or written any Special Bail in any of the Courts at Westminster or before a Judge which shall be filed in the Court and also Appearances thereof 1 s. XXVII Bills Answers c. For every Skin c. on which shall be ingrossed or written any Bill Answer Replication Rejoinder Interrogatories Depositions taken by Commission or any other Pleadings whatsoever in the Chancery Exchequer Dutchy and County Palatine Courts or other Courts of Equity 1 s. XXVIII Admission into Corporations c. For every Skin c. on which any Admission into a Corporation or Company Matriculation in either University Admission into any of the Inns of Court or Chancery shall be written or ingrossed 1 s. XXIX Affidavits For every Piece c. on which any Affidavit shall be ingrossed or written except for burying in Woollen and such Affidavits as shall be taken before the Officers of the Customs or any Justice of Peace or any Commissioner appointed or to be appointed by any Act of Parliament for the assessing and levying any Duties or Aids granted or to be granted to their Majesties which Affidavits shall be taken by the said Persons by virtue of their Authorities respectively 6 d. XXX Copies of Affidavits For every Piece c. on which are ingrossed or written Copies of Affidavits herein charged that shall be read or filed in any Court 6 d. XXXI Indentures Leases c. For every Skin c. on which are ingrossed or written any Indenture Lease or Deed Poll not hereby otherwise charged 6 d. XXXII Original Writs For every Piece c. on which any Original Writ except such on which a Capias issues Subpoena Bill of Middlesex Latitat Writ of Capias Quo minus Dedimus Potestatem to take Answers examine Witnesses or appoint Guardians or any other Writ Process or Mandate that shall issue out or pass under the Seals in any Court at Westminster Quarter Sessions in Wales Counties Palatine or any other Court whatsoever holding Plea where the Debt or Damage amounts to 40 s. or above or the demand is of the value shall be ingrossed or written 6 d. XXXIII Entry of Actions in Inferior Courts For every Piece c. on which any entry of any Action in the Mayors or Sheriffs Courts London and in all other Courts or Corporations out of which no Writs Process or Mandate issue holding Plea for Debts or Damages amounting to 40 s. or above shall be ingrossed or written 6 d. XXXIV Common Bail Appearance For every Piece c. on which are ingrossed or written any Common Bail to be filed in any Court and any Appearance that shall be made upon such Bail 6 d. which Appearance or Common Bail the Defendant shall cause to be entred or filed within eight days after the Return of the Process on which the Defendant was to be arrested on Penalty of 5 l. to be paid to the Plaintiff for which the Court shall immedately award Judgment and the Plaintiff may take out Execution XXXV Rule of Court For every Piece c. on which any Rule or Order made in any of the Courts at Westminster either Courts of Law or Equity shall be ingrossed or written 6 d. XXXVI Copies of Rules of Court and of Records For every Piece c. on which any Copy of such Rules and Orders entred or the Copies of any other Records or Proceedings in any of the Courts at Westminster not hereby otherwise charged shall be ingrossed or written 6 d. XXXVII Citations Monitions c. For every Skin c. on which any Citation or Monition made in any Ecclesiastical Court any Libel or Allegation Deposition or Signal Decree or any Inventory exhibited in any Ecclesiastical Court Courts of Admiralty or Cinque-Ports or Copies of them respectively shall be ingrossed or written 6 d. XXXVIII Charter-parties Policies c. For every Skin c. on which any Charter-party Policy of Assurance Pass-port Bond Release Contract or other Obligatory Instrument any Protest Procuration Letter of Attorny or any other Notarial Act whatsoever shall be ingrossed or written 6 d. XXXIX Declarations Pleas c. For every Skin c. on which any Declaration Plea Replication Rejoinder Demurrer or other Pleadings whatsoever in any Court of Law shall be ingrossed or written 1 d. XL. Copies thereof For every Skin c.
shall utter or sell any Vellum Parchment or Paper with such counterfeit Mark or Impression knowing such Mark or Impression to be counterfeit then every such Person so offending being thereof legally convict shall suffer Death as a Felon without benefit of Clergy LII Person to be appointed to inspect Vellum c. The Commissioners to appoint a fit Person to attend in any Court or Office to take notice of the Vellum Parchment or Paper upon which any thing aforesaid shall be ingrossed or written and of the Marks and Stamps thereupon and all other things tending to secure the Duties arising by this Act And the Judges in the several Courts to make good Orders for securing the said Duties And all Persons commissionated by this Act and every Person imployed under them for the marking or stamping of Vellum Parchment or Paper as aforesaid before his acting in marking or stamping of the same shall take the Oath following viz I A. B. do swear Commissioners and Offieers Oath That I will faithfully execute the Trust reposed in me pursuant to an Act of Parliament Entituled An Act for granting to their Majesties several Duties upon Vellum Parchment and Paper for four years towards carrying on the War against France without Fraud or Concealment and shall from time to time true Account make of my doing therein and deliver the same to such Person or Persons as their Majesties their Heirs or Successors shall appoint to receive such Account and shall take no Fee Reward or Profit for the execution or performance of the said Trust or the Business relating thereunto from any Persons other than such as shall be paid or allowed by their Majesties their Heirs or Successors or by the Commissioners of their Majesties Treasury or three of them now being or by the Treasurer of the Exchequer or three or more of the Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being LIII All Parts of the Kingdom to be furnished with Vellum Stamps c. The Commissioners are to take special care that the several Parts of this Kingdom Wales and Berwick shall be furnished with Vellum Parchment and Paper stampt so as Persons may have their Election either to buy the same of the Officers or Persons to be employed by the Commissioners or to bring their own Vellum Parchment or Paper to be stampt LIV. All Deeds Writs c. to be writ as usually All Records Writs Pleadings and other Proceedings in Courts of Law and Equity and all Deeds Instruments and Writings whatsoever hereby charged shall be ingrossed and written in such manner as they have been usually accustomed to be written or are now written LV. Alteration of Stamp to be by Proclamation As often as their Majesties shall think fit to alter or renew the said Marks or Stamps then they unto whom any Blank Vellum Parchment or Paper inrolled with the old Stamp within sixty days after such intention of altering shall be published by Proclamation may bring it to the respective Officers to be appointed as aforesaid who shall deliver the like quantity of Vellum Parchment or Paper and as good stampt with the new Stamp without Fee under the Penalty of 100 l. And that which shall not be brought in in the time aforesaid the same shall be of no other effect than if it had been never stampt And all Persons who shall ingross or write any Matters chargable by the Act on such Vellum Parchment or Paper after that time shall forfeit as those that write or ingross on Vellum c. uâ—stampt at all LVI Time of notice of alteration of the Stamp The Proclamation for giving notice for the altering the Stamps shall within twenty days after the date thereof be sent to the Mayor Chief Magistrate or other Head-Officer of every City Corporation Borough or Market-Town which Officers shall cause the same to be published to the respective Inhabitants either on the next Market-day or the next Sunday in the Church immediately after Divine Service under the Penalty of 200 l. LVII And it shall be lawful for any Person Native or Foreigner Body Politick or Corporate to lend to their Majesties upon the Credit of this Act any Sum not exceeding the Sum of 330000 l. and to receive Interest for the same not exceeding the Rate of 8 l. per Cent. per Annum An Abstract of what Things are chargable by the ACT for granting Duties upon Vellum Parchment and Paper Grants of Honours Dignities Promotions Franchises Liberties or Priviledges under the Great Seal or D. Lancaster   Pardons Reprieve or Relaxation from Fines Corporal Punishments or Forfeitures  Grants of Mony above 100 l.  Grants of Offices or Employments above 50 l. per An. Lands in Fee or Leases for Years under the Great Seal  Grants of Exchequer D. Lancaster or Privy Seal 40 s. For each Skin Sheet or piece of Parchment or Paper  Donations Dignities and Promotions Ecclesiastical above 10 l. per Ann. in the Kings Books   Degrees in Universities   Dispensations and Faculties for two Benefices  Admittance of every Physitian in Col. Med. London  Admittance of every Attorny Clerk Advocate Proctor Notary and other Officer in any Court  Appeals from Courts of Admiralty Arches and Prerogative  Inrolments of Conveyances Surrenders of Grants or Offices Releases or Deeds inrolled  Writs of Covenant for levying Fines  Writs of Entry for Common Recoveries   Exemplifications under Seal of any Court whatsoever   Institutions Licenses to preach or serve Cures  Writs of Error Certiorari or Habeas Corpus 5 s. For each Skin Sheet or piece of Parchment or Paper  Appeals except to Delegates   Significavits pro Corporis deliberat   Sentences Attachments   Relaxations in Admiralty and Cinque Ports   Licenses or Certificates of Marriage   Letters of Mart.   Probate of Wills   Administrations above 20 l.   Statutes or Recognizances  Records of Nisi Prius or Postea  Records of Judgments signed in any Courts of Westminster   Commissions in Ecclesiast Courts   Warrants Monitions and Personal Decrees in Courts of Admiralty and Cinque Ports 2 s. 6 d. For each Skin Sheet or piece of Parchment or Paper   Beneficial Warrants or Orders under Sign Manual except for Navy Army and Ordnance   Special Bails and Appearances  Ingrossments of Bills Answers Replications Rejoinders Interrogatories Depositions and other Pleadings in Chancery Exchequer and other Courts of Equity 1 s. For each Skin Sheet or piece of Parchment or Paper Admissions into Corporations Companies Universities Inns of Courts and Inns of Chancery  Decrees and Dismissions In Chancery Exchequer D. Lancaster Chester Durham   Common Bails and Appearances Rules or Orders at Westminster  Copies of Rules Orders or Records  Copies of Citations Monitions Libels Allegations Depositions Answers Sentences Decrees
Inrolled and had the same allowed by the Court of King's-Bench shall be compelled to Plead the same to any Inquisition returned by any Coroner And if any Corporations Lords of Manors or others have or shall have such Grants from the Crown for Felons Goods Deodands and other Forfeitures they shall not be compelled to enrol their whole Charters or Grants but such part thereof as may express the Grants of such Felons Goods Deodands and Forfeitures and no more for doing whereof the Clerk of the Crown shall receive 20 s. for his Fee and no more and from and after such Enrolment they shall not be compelled to Plead the same to any inquisition II. If any Clerk of the Crown shall hereafter issue out any Process against such Grantees after such Enrolment he shall forfelt for every such Offence to the Party grieved the Sum of 5. l. III. But the Clerk of the Crown shall incur no Penalty mentioned in this Act for issuing Process against any persons who shall not upon every purchase of the Title of such Felons Goods c. Inrol and Plead the said Purchase in the said Court nor against any Devisee who shall not Enrol or Plead such Devise nor against any Heir who shall not Inrol his or her Right by descent and till after such Pleas have been allowed of by the said Court nor where by any Inquest of any Coroner the Goods of any Felon or Felons or Decodands shall not be found to be in the Hands of such Purchaser Devisee or Heir IV. Upon issuing of any Exigent for any Criminal Matter before Conviction there shall issue a Writ of Proclamation bearing the same Teste and Return to the Sheriff of the County City or Town where the persons in the Record of the said Proceedings are mentioned to inhabit according to the form of the Statute made Anno. 31 Eliz. which Writ shall be delivered to the Sheriff Three Months before the return thereof V. This Act to continue for Three years from the 25th Day of March 1693. and to the end of the then next Session of Parliament Customs I. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 6. After the 29th Day of September 1689. so much of every Act of Parliament as requires the Levying the Duties arising by those Acts by way of Excise upon Coffee Chocolate and Tea shall cease and determine and is hereby Repealed II. And be it farther Enacted that after the 25th Day of December 1689. the Duties and Charges hereafter mentioned shall be Collected and Received at the Custom-house upon Coffee-berries Tea in the Leaf and Cacao-nuts and upon Chocolate ready made and according to the Proportions herein after mentioned besides what is now payable for the same at the Custom house viz. Upon every 100 Weight of Coffee Imported containing One hundred and twelve pound 5 l. 12 s. Upon every 100 Weight of Cacao Nuts containing as aforesaid 8 l. 8 s. Upon every pound weight of Tea 5 s. and upon every pound Weight of Chocolate 5 s. and so proportionably III. If any of the said Commodities shall be unshipt or laid on Land the Duties not paid or lawfully tendred to the Collector or his Deputy with the consent and agreement of the Comtroller and Surveyor there nor agreed with for the same in the Custom-house they shall be forfeited the one Moiety to Their Majesties the other to the Informer This Act to continue for Five years and no longer IV. Merchants and others having paid the Duties and Impositions by this Act appointed who shall within Six Months after Importation again transport the said Goods or any part thereof shall be repaid Two thirds of the Duties by them paid of so much of the said Goods as they shall export V. It shall be lawful to Import Nutmegs Cinnamon Cloves and Mace in any English Ships One third part of the Mariners whereof to be English from any parts beyond the Seas paying double the Sums the same are charged with in the Book of Rates so as notice be first given to the Commissioners or Farmers of the Customs of the Quality and Quantity thereof with the Name of the Ship and Master and the place where they intend to Import the same and taking a Licence under their Hands or of any Three of them for the Lading and Importing thereof as aforesaid which Licence shall be given without Fee or Reward I. Stat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 4. The Commons assembled in Parliament do hereby Give and Grant to your Majesties the Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage and other Sums of Money Granted to the late K. Charles 2. in the Twelfth year of his Reign by an Act Entituled A Subsidy granted to the King of Tonnage and Poundage c. according to the Rates therein mention'd and the Rules and Orders thereunto annexed other then such concerning which it is otherwise provided by any Act made in the last Parliament and pray that it may be Enacted and be it Enacted that the said Subsidy and other Sums of Money be paid to Their Majesties for Four years from the 24th Day of December 1690. and that the aforesaid Act and an Order of the House of Commons made in pursuance of the Rules and Orders annexed thereunto for settling Officers Fees Dated the 17 of May 1662. ans Signed by Sir Edward Turnor then Speaker shall be of force during the said Four years VII An Act made in the 12th year of the said K. Charles 2. Entituled An Act to prevent Frauds and Concealments of His Majesties Customs and Susidies and an Act made in the 14th year of his Reign Entituled An Act for preventing Frands and regulating Abuses in His Majesties Customs and an Act made in the 22d year of His Reign Entituled An Act for Improvement of Tillage and the breed of Battel and another Act made in the 25th year of His Reign Entituled An Act for taking off Aliens Duties upon Commodities of the Growth Product and Manufacture of the Nation and another Act made in the said 25th year of his Reign Entituled An Act for the encouragement of the Greenland and East-land Trades and for the better securing the Plantation Trade and one other Act made in the First year of the late King James 2. Entituled An additional Act for the Improvement of Tillage shall be in force during the said Term of Four years VIII Nothing herein shall be Construed to determine any Clauses in the said Acts which were intended to be perpetual IX It shall be lawful for any persons to advance upon the Credit of this Act any Sums of Money not exceeding 500000 l. in the whole at the Interest for such Money as shall be lent before the 10th of June 1690. of 8 l. per Cent. and for Money lent after 7 l. per Cent. X. After the First Day of Novemb. 1690. during the continuance of this Act there shall be continued within London an Office for the Receipt of the Subsidies and other Sums hereby
d. For every Barrel of Vinegar or Vinegar-Beer made of English Materials 1 s. 6 d. For every Barrel of Vinegar or Liquor prepared for Vinegar made for Sale of Foreign Materials 4 s. For every Barrel of Beer Ale or Mum Imported 3 s. For every Tun of Cyder or Perry Imported 4 l. For every Gallon of Single Brandy Spirits or Aqua vitae Imported 2 s. For every Gallon of Brandy Spirits or Aqua vitae above Proof Imported 4 s. For all Cyder and Perry made and sold by Retail to be paid by the Retailer for every Hogshead 1 s. and 3d. For Metheglin and Mead made for Sale to be paid by the Maker for every Gallon 3 d. II. If any Distiller or Maker of Low Wines shall after the 20th Day of July 1689. after an Account taken by the Gauger of the Quantity of his Wines dispose of the same without drawing them off a second time he shall Forfeit for every Gallon so disposed of 5 s. III. The Duties hereby Imposed shall be Raised in Manner and Form and under such Penalties as are mentioned in one Act of Parliament made in the 12th year of the Reign of the late King Charles 2d Entituled An Act for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries c. and by one other Act made in the 15th year of the said King's Reign Entituled An Additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Duties of Excise c. or by any other Law now in force relating to the Excise not otherwise herein and hereby altered and provided against IV. Every Thirty four Gallons of Beer or Ale according to the Standard of the Ale-Quart Four whereof shall make the Gallon shall be reckon'd a Barrel of Beer or Ale And the Allowances appointed to be made within the Weekly Bills of Mortality for waste by filling and leakage shall be Two Barrels and a half upon every Twenty three Barrels and no more V. When it shall appear to the Gauger that any Worts are missing or not let fairly down into the Tun and the Gauger cannot find the same the Gauger shall charge the Brewer c. with so much Beer or Ale as the Worts missing would reasonably make VI. Gaugers may make their Returns and Charges upon warm Worts and make Allowance of a Tenth part thereof for Wash and Waste such Worts not to be afterwards charged with any Duty of Excise VII No Retailer of Beer or Ale shall during the continuance of this Act or of the Duties hereby imposed be impleaded for uttering Beer or Ale at any higher Prices then the Price heretofore appointed VIII In case any Distiller or Maker of Strong Waters Aquâ—vitae or Spirits shall upon request or demand made by the Gauger in the Day-time or the Night-time in the presence of a Constable refuse to permit the Gauger to enter his House c. he shall incur the Penalties by the said former Acts inflicted and the Prosecutor shall not be obliged to prove that such Offenders delivered out part of their Commodities before they had cleared the Duties IX Whereas it is Enacted by the said Act of the 15th of K. Charles II. That no common Brewer shall be prosecuted for any Misentry if within one Week after the delivery of the Copy of the Gauger's Return he certifie his Entry made for the Week for which such Copy is delivered according to such Return or otherwise discharge himself Be it Enacted That no Brewer shall have any benefit of that Proviso upon any Information if it shall appear upon Evidence that he did not bona fide shew to the Gauger all the Beer Ale and Worts of every Guile for such time for which such Copy of the Return was given Or if any apparent Fraud was acted to defraud Their Majesties of Their Duty X. Common Brewers and Retailers of Beer and Ale who contrary to the said Act made in the 15th year of K. Charles II. shall use any private Cellar c. shall forfeit 50 l. for every such Offence and for mixing concealing or conveying away any Worts contrary to the said Act shall forfeit 20 l. a Barrel XI True Notes in Writing of the last Gauges taken shall be left by the Gaugers with all Brewers c. containing the Quantity and Quality of the Liquors gauged on pain to forfeit 40 s. for every Neglect XII The Commissioners of Excise or Appeals or Justices of Peace upon Complaint made to them on behalf of the Brewers c. of any Overcharge return'd by the Gaugers shall hear and determâ—ne the same and examine Witnesses upon Oath on both sides XIII For the ease of the Inhabitants in the County of Anglesey living remote from the Market-Town there shall be Offices kept for making Entries and Payments in Holy-head Newborough and Llanerchthmeth as well as in Beaumaris XIV No Commissioner or other Person employed about the Excise shall demand or receive any Money or other Reward from any Person but Their Majesties on Pain to forfeit their Offices and being uncapable of executing any Office in the Excise XV. No Information shall be brought against any Brewer or other for any Misentry made after the 24th day of July 1689. but within 3 Months after the Offence committed and notice thereof shall be given to the Defendants in Writing or left at their Dwelling-houses within a Week after the Information entred XVI From the 1st day of September 1689. no Brewer or Retailer of Beer or Ale shall use in working any Beer or Ale any Molossus course Sugar Hony or Composition or Extract of Sugar on Pain to forfeit all such Liquors and the Sum of 100 l. one Moiety to Their Majesties and the other to the Informer so as the Suit be commenced within 6 Months after the Forfeiture incurred XVII When Malt or Barley shall be at 24 s. a Quarter or under and Rye at 32 s. or under and Wheat at 48 s. or under in Berwick Merchants and others who shall export the same in English Shipping the Master and two Thirds of the Mariners at least being English and shall pursue the Methods and Things prescribed in that behalf in an Act made this Session Entituled An Act for the Encouraging the Exportation of Corn shall have the benefit and Advantage of the said Act as if the said Corn had been shipp'd from any Port of England or Wales XVIII If any Merchant or other Person put on Ship-board any Scotch Corn at Berwick it shall be forfeited one Third part to Their Majesties another Third part to the Informer and a Third part to the Poor of the Town of Berwick XIX Stat. 2. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 3. The several Rates Duties and Impositions upon Beer Ale Cyder and other Liquors mentioned in an Act of Parliament made in the 12th year of the Reign of K. Charles II. Entituled A Grant of certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for the Encrease of His Majesties Revenue during His Life except such of them
the Fourth It was Enacted That none from thenceforth should use to multiply Gold or Silver or use the Craft of Multiplication and if any the same do they should incur the pain of Felony Be it Enacted that the said Branch Article or Sentence be Repealed II. Provided that all Gold and Silver that shall be Extracted by the Art of Melting and Refining Metals and otherwise Improving them and their Ores shall be employed for the encrease of Moneys and no otherwise and that the Place hereby Appointed for the disposal thereof shall be the Mint in the Tower of London where they shall receive the Value of their Gold and Silver so Extracted III. No Mine of Copper Tin Iron or Lead shall hereafter be adjudged to be a Royal Mine though Gold or Silver may be Extracted out of the same Government I. Stat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 2. An Act for Impowring His Majesty to Apprehend and Detain such Persons as he shall find just cause to suspect are Conspiring against the Government EXP. II. Stat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 7. An Act for Impowring His Majesty to Apprehend and Detain such Persons as he shall find just Cause to suspect are Conspiring against the Government III. Stat. Ann. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap 19. All Persons that shall be in Prison the 25th Day of May 1689. or after by Warrant of Their Majesties Privy Council Signed by Six of the Council for Suspicion of High Treason or Treasonable Practices may be detained in Custody without Bail or Main-prize till the 23d Day of October 1689. And no Judge or Court of Justice shall Bail or Try any such Persons without Order from Their Majesties Privy Council Signed by Six till the said 23d of October IV. From and after the said 23d of October such Persons shall have the Benefit of the Habeas Corpus Act and of all other Statutes providing for the Liberty of the Subjects V. Nothing in this Act shall extend to Prejudice the Ancient Rights and Priviledges of Parliament VI. A true Copy of every Warrant for such Commitment shall be Entred and Kept by the Clerks of the Privy Council in a Book apart and Signed by such of the Privy Council as shall Grant the Warrant and no Warrant not so Entred and Signed and Kept shall be adjudged to be a Warrant by Virtue of this Act. VII Stat. 2. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 6. Whensoever and as often as His Majesty shall be absent out of England It shall be Lawful for the Queen to Exercise and Administer the Regal Power and Government in the Names of both Their Majesties for such time only during Their Joint Lives as His Majesty shall be absent out of England VIII Nothing in this Act shall debar His Majesty during such absence from the Exercise of Administration of any Act or Acts of Regal Power or Government and neither the passing this Act nor His Majesties Royal Voyage or Absence shall Dissolve this present Parliament or determine any Commissions Granted by His Majesty nor avoid any other Act of Government executed or to be execured by him IX Provided That as often as His Majesty shall return into England the sole Administration of the Regal Power and Government shall be in His Majesty only Hair-Buttons I. STat. 4. 5. W. M. cap. 10. No Foreign Buttons made of Hair nor other Foreign Buttons whatsoever shall be Imported or Bartered Sold or Exchanged on pain to Forfeit the Buttons so Imported Bartered Sold or Exchanged and under such farther Penalties as are expressed in an Act made in the 14th year of the Reign of the late King Charles 2d Entituled An Act Prohibiting the Importation of Foreign Bone lace Cut-work Imbroidery c. One Moiety to Their Majesties and the other to the Informer II. The Justices of Peace within their respective Divisions shall have the same Authority and Power to issue their Warrants to seize all Foreign Buttons whatsoever that by the said Act is given them to seize Foreign Buttons made of Thread and Silk Hearth-Doney I. Stat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 10. An Act made in the Parliament begun at Westminster the 8th of May in the 13th year of King Charles 2d Entituled An Act for the Establishing an Additional Revenue upon His Majesty His Heirs and Successors for the better Support of His and Their Crown and Dignity And another Act made in the Second Session of the said Parliament in the 15th year of the said King's Reign Entituled An Additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Revenue arising by Hearth-Money And another Act made in the 16th year of the said King's Reign Entituled An Act for Collecting the Duty arising by Hearth-Money by the Officers to be Appointed by His Majesty are hereby Repealed and made Void II. Nothing in this Act shall hinder or prejudice the Levying the said Revenue arising by Hearth-money which shall grow due on the 25th of March 1689. and all Arrears of the said Duty now due and payable by the said Acts. High-ways I. Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 12. The Laws and Statutes in force touching the High ways not hereby altered or repealed shall be put in Execution II. Upon the 26th day of Decemb. yearly unless that day be Sunday and then on the 27th day the Constables Headboroughs Tything-men Churchwardens Surveyors of the High-ways and Inhabitants in every Parish shall assemble and the major Part of the Assembly shall make a List of the Names of a competent Number of the Inhabitants who have an Estate in Land in their own Right or their Wives of 10 l. per annum or a personal Estate of 100 l. or are Occupiers of Houses Lands c. of the yearly value of 30 l. if such there be and if not then a List of the most sufficient Inhabitants and return it to Two or more Justices of the Peace at a Special Sessions to be held for that purpose on the third day of January next following or within Fifteen days after For which purpose the Justices are required to hold a Special Sessions and to give notice to the Constables Headboroughs c. of every Parish within the Division Ten days before the holding of the same and out of the said Lists by Warrant under their Hands and Seals they shall nominate One Two or more to be Surveyor or Surveyors of the High-ways of every Parish within the Division or for any Hamlet Precinct Town c. of and in the same for the year ensuing Which Nomination shall by the Constables c. be notified to the persons nominated within six days by serving them with the Warrants or leaving the same or a Copy thereof at their Houses And if the Persons so nominated shall refuse or neglect to take upon them the said Office they shall forfeit 5 l. to be on their Goods by Distress and Sale thereof by Warrant of Two Justices of the Peace which Warrant the Justices are
nominate any person that shall then have any Benefice with cure of Souls but that such Presentation shall be void XIX Provided that if any person so presented c. to any Benefice with cure shall be absent from the same above sixty days in one year that such Benefices shall be void XX. Provided nevertheless That if any such person shall at the General Quarter-Sessions where his Name is recorded repeat and subscribe the said Declaration and take the Oaths contained in an Act of this Parliament Entituled An Act for the abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance c. he shall be discharged from the said Disability and be enabled to make such Presentation c. as if this Act had not been made Pardon I. Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 10. All Subjects of this Realm of England Wales and the Town of Berwick All Bodies Politick and Corporate Cities Burroughs Shires Ridings Hundreds c. shall be pardoned and discharged of and from all Treasons Felonies Misprisions of Treason Treasonable or Seditious Words or Libels Misprisions of Felony seditious and unlawful Meetings Offences of Premunire Ryots Routs Offences Contempts Trespasses Entries Wrongs Deceits Misdemeanors Forfeitures Penalties and Sums of Mony pains of Death pains Corporal and Pecuniary and of and from all Things Causes Quarrels Suits Judgments and Executions not hereafter excepted which by their Majesties in any wise can be pardoned before the 16th day of May 1690. II. All their Majesties Subjects and Bodies Corporate may by themselves their Deputies or Attornies plead this for any thing hereby pardoned or discharged without any Fee or other Thing paying to any person for writing or entry of the Judgments or other Cause concerning such Plea Writing or Entry but only 16 d. to the Officer or Clerk that shall enter the same III. This Pardon to be expounded most beneficial and available to the Subject IV. If any Officer or Clerk of any of their Majesties Courts shall after Easter-Term next make out any Process whereby any of the Subjects or Bodies Corporate aforesaid may be inquieted for any thing hereby pardoned or if any Sheriff Escheator or their under Officers levy or with-hold any thing discharged by this Act they shall pay to the party grieved treble Damages and Costs of Suit and forfeit to their Majesties 10 l. for every such Offence and such Process to be void V. Except Treasons and other Offences against the King and Queens persons or either of them and all Conspiracies and Confederacies against their Majesties most Royal Persons And all Treasons committed in Ireland or any Parts beyond the Seas since the 13th day of Febr. 1688. And all Offences in forging and counterfeiting the Great or Privy Seal Sign Manuel or Privy Signet or of Monies and all Offences of unlawful diminishing Monies and all Misprisions and Concealments of the Treasons above excepted and abetting aiding comforting and procuring the same VI. And except all Murthers Petit Treasons and wilful Poysonings and the Accessaries thereunto VII And except Robberies and Pyracies upon the Seas procuring and abetting such Offenders and receiving them or Goods taken by Pyracy VIII And except all Burglaries and breaking into and stealing out of any Dwelling-houses in the day and Accessaries thereunto IX And except Robberies of Churches and Robberies committed on the High-way X. And except Buggery with Mankind or Beast and Rapes of Women XI And except the wilful taking away or marrying any Maid Widow or Damsel against her will or the assent of her Parents or Guardians and Accessaries thereunto XII And except all Offences of Perjury and Subornation of Witnesses and of forging and counterfeiting Deeds Writings or Records or Examinations of Witnesses tending to bring any Persons in danger of Life and all procuring or counselling the same XIII And except all Offences committed in any Forest since the 13th day of Febr. 1688. XIV And except Forfeitures now due or which may be be due to their Majesties by reason of any Offence c. contrary to any Statute other than using a Trade without serving seven years or contrary to the Common Law and whereof any Action Bill Plaint or Information within six days next before the day of holding this present Parliament viz. the 20th day of March 1689. hath been commenced in any of their Majesties Courts at Westminster and is there depending or whereupon any Verdict Judgment or Decree is already given or entred or whereof their Majesties have made any Assignment before the said 16 day of May. XV. And except all Proceedings concerning High-ways and Bridges and Issues return'd upon any such Process since the 20th day of March 1679. XVI And except all Offences in imbezeling and purloining their Majesties Goods Monies Chattels Jewels Armor Munition Stores Naval Provisions Shipping Ordinance and other Habiliments of War and all Offences in conveying to the French King any Naval Stores or contraband Goods XVII And except all Conditions and Covenants and all Penalties Titles c. accrued to their Majesties by the breach of them XVIII And except all Offences of Incest Simony and Dilapidations for which any Suit is or was depending the first day of this Parliament XIX And except Adultery and other Enormous Crimes by Persons in Holy Orders punishable in Ecclesiastical Courts XX. And except First-fruits and Tenths Pensions Procurations Synodals and other Payments out of any Ecclesiastical Benefice other than Tenths due out of small Livings not worth 30 l. a year improved value and which shall be so certified by the Bishop or Guardian of the Spiritualties before the last of Michaelmas-Term but this Act shall not discharge Bishops from answering any of the said Arrears by them received XXI And except the Monies and Duties following and Concealments thereof viz. of any Custom or Subsidy Excise Hearth-mony Imposition upon Wine or other Liquors Duties arising by Wine-licences or the Post-office or any other Duty due to their Majesties by Act of Parliament and Forfeitures for non-payment thereof and Misdemeanors in Ministers concerning the same XXII And except all taking from their Majesties or the late King Charles II. or King James II. Goods forfeited for Treason Petit Treason Murder or Felony or the Issues and Profits of Lands of Traitors or Felons attainted or of the Possessions of any Bishoprick the Temporalties whereof upon the 20th day of March 1679. were or ought to have been in their Hands and except all Arrears of Rent due from any Farmer of any part of the Revenue and of Fee-farms and other Rents XXIII And except the accounts of Collectors Commissioners or Receivers of any Subsidy Custom Tunnage and Poundage additional Duty Prize Goods or other things grown due since the 25th of March 1673. and of all other Accountants to their Majesties in respect of any receit or other charge grown since the said 25th day of March and all untrue Accounts made since then XXIV And except Recognizances and other Securities given by any Accountant in the
such Lights within the City and Liberties for one and twenty years from the 24th day of June 1694. at the Rent of six hundred pounds yearly to be reserved to be appropriated towards raising such a Fond and payment of the said Interest-mony And after that Term expired the Profits whatsoever that shall be made by granting Licenses to lighten the Streets shall be appropriated and applied to the uses aforesaid V. Every Apprentice after 24th of June 1694 to pay 2 s. 6 d. at his being bound to be transmitted to the Chamberlain on penalty of 5 l. 5 s. to be paid by every one admitted a Freeman 4 s. ê™ Tun on Wine imported The Collector to be appointed by the Mayor and Aldermen For the increase of the Fond every Apprentice after the 24th day of June 1694. when he is bound shall pay two shillings and six pence to the Master or Wardens of such Company as his Master is Member of to be by the said Master and Wardens transmitted to the Chamberlain of the City to be employed for the uses aforesaid upon the Penalty of five pounds for every Sum not so transmitted to be recovered in the Name of the Chamberlain And Books of Vellum or Parchment to be kept in the Common Halls of such Payments for any Person to inspect gratis VI. And every Person after the said 24th day of June 1694. when he is admitted a Freeman shall pay the Sum of five shillings the said several Sums of two shillings and six pence and five shillings to be paid over and above the usual Fees VII Also every Importer shall pay a Duty of four shillings per Tun upon all sorts of Wine imported after the said 24th day of June 1694. into the Port of the City of London or the Members thereof by way of Merchandize over and above the present Duties and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity The Collector to be appointed by the Mayor and Court of Aldermen And the said Imposition to be paid in the same manner and by such Rules and under such Penalties as are provided in an Act of Parliament made in the 12th year of King Charles II. Entituled A Subsidy granted to the King of Tonnage and Poundage c. VIII 4 d. for meetage of every Chaldron of Coals after the 29th of June 1694 After the 29th of Sept. 1700 6 d. ê™ Chaldron or Tun to continue for 50 years To be paid by the Owner of the Vessel There shall be paid for all such sort of Coals or Culm as are usually sold by the Chaldron imported into the Port of London or Members thereof after the 24th day of June 1694. for every Chaldron thereof the Sum of four pence Meetage for ever over and above what is now paid to be paid as the present Duty of Meetage is And after the 29th day of September 1700. the farther Sum of six pence And for such Coals as are sold by the Tun for every Tun thereof containing two thousand Weight the like Sum of six pence which shall continue from the said 29th day of September for fifty year and no longer to be paid by the Master or Owner of the Ship or Vessel whereupon they are laden before they shall break Bulk or have a Meeter assigned at such place as the Mayor and Court of Aldermen shall appoint within the City or Liberties for Receipt thereof upon receipt whereof the Party appointed to receive the same shall without delay gratis deliver a Receipt which shall be a sufficient Discharge How to be collected And the same Imposition of six pence per Chaldron shall be collected and levied in such manner and in every respect as in and by one Act made in the 19th year of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for the rebuilding the City of London the Imposition of Coals thereby granted was to be collected and levied And the Powers and Directions for that Act shall be exercised for the collecting of the said Duty of six pence as if particularly expressed in this during all the time it is payable The Monies to be paid into the receipt of the Chamber Collectors to give reasonable security All Sums of Mony as part of the said Fond are to be paid into the Receipt of the Chamber and are hereby appropriated for the raising the said Fond and applied towards the discharge of the said Debts And every Person that shall be concerned in the Receipt of any of the Sums so appropriate before he take upon him the execution of such Office shall find Sureties in such reasonable Sum as by the Mayor and Court of Aldermen shall be thought fitting for the faithful execution of such Office IX After the expiration of 6 d. per Chaldron the City revenues liable for 6000 l. ê™ ann besides the 8000 l. per ann The Mony raised by this Act to be applied for the payment of 4 l. per Cent. due the 25th of Dec. 1693 And also for the payment of 4 l. per Cent. from between the 25th of Dec. 1655 and the 25th of Dec. 1693 The payments to be made twice a year at St. Thomas and St. John Baptist or within 14 days after The perpetual Interest to be in full satisfaction of the principal Debt After the said Imposition of six pence shall determine all the Revenues of the City of London in possession or reverson shall stand and be charged with the full yearly Sum of six thousand pounds over and above the said yearly Sum of eight thousand pounds in like manner appropriated as the yearly Sum of eight thousand pound was X. And all the Rents Impositions and Sums of Mony by this Act applied to be charged raised or paid after reasonable Salaries and Allowances deducted for ever shall be applied for the payment of the Annual Sum of four pounds for the Interest of every hundred pound and proportionably for a greater or lesser Sum of the above-mentioned respective Debts and all the Interest thereof due on the 25th day of December 1693. to any Orphan of the City or the Executors c. of such Orphan And also for the payment of the like yearly Interest of four pounds for every hundred pound principal Mony and the Interest thereof to be computed as aforesaid due at any time between the said 25th day of December 1655. and the said 25th day of December 1693. upon Bond Bill or Note liable to pay Interest from the said City unto any Person or Persons or to so much thereof only as the Monies appointed by this Act to be raised and paid shall yearly amount unto to satisfie and pay towards the Interest to the said Orphans and Creditors equally in proportion to their respective Interests The Payments to be made twice in every year upon St. Thomas Day and St. John Baptists or within fourteen days after The first payment to be made on St. Thomas Day 1694. or within fourteen days after The said Monies to be
Heirs and Successors and shall not be charged or chargeable with any Gift Grant or Pension whatsoever The Lottery Act. I. Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 1. From and after the 25th day of March 1694. there shall be raised levied collected and paid unto their Majesties until the 17th day of May which shall be in the year 1697. and no longer for Salt the Rates and Duties following viz. II. Foreign Salt 3 d. per Gallon Three pence shall be paid by the Importer for every Gallon of Salt not being of the Product or Manufacture of this Kingdom that shall be imported after the said 25th of March over and above the present Duties now payable for Salt imported III. Forfeiture and how to be racovered The Duty hereby set on all foreign and imported Salt shall be paid in ready Mony upon Entry made before the landing and if any be landed before due entry with the Collector or before the Duty satisfied or without a Warrant for the landing the same first signed by the Collector in the Port the same or the value to be forfeited and to be recovered in such manner as any Forfeiture is to be recovered mentioned in an Act of 12 Car. 2. Entituled An Act for the taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries and Tenures in Capite Allowance for payment in ready Mony c. or by any other Statute now in force relating to the Revenue of Excise Nevertheless such Importer of Foreign Salt shall have six months time for the payment giving security to the Collector but if he pay ready Mony he shall have 10 l. per Cent. abated IV. Inland Salt 1 d ob per Gallon Every Gallon of Salt and Rock-Salt made within this Kingdom shall pay one peny half-peny and after that rate for a greater or lesser quantity V. Duties by whom to be managed The Duties upon Salt shall be managed by the Commissioners of the Excise and the Collectors shall be appointed under their Hands and Seals VI. All Makers and Proprietors of Salt and Rock-Salt shall make true Entries with the Officers hereby appointed of the Quantities of Salt by them made or taken out of the Pits and shall have a Warrant gratis under the Hand and Seal of the Officer impowering such Maker or Proprietor to carry away the same before it shall be removed Allowance for present payment of Inlandy Salt the said Warrant to be given upon payment or security of payment within six months after such entry Provided if any Person at the time of entry and delivery shall pay down the Duty hereby imposed he shall be allowed at the rate of 10 l. per Cent. VII It shall be lawful for the Officers by this Act appointed to seize all such Salt which shall be conveyed away before entry made without Warrant of the Commissioners or other Collectors And the Salt that shall be so seized Seizure for default of Entry shall be brought to the Office next the place where such Salt shall be so seized and there detained And if the same be not claimed by the true Owner within ten days after seizure it shall be forfeited and sold by the next general day of Sale to be appointed by the Commissioners or their Officers one moiety to the use of their Majesties the other to him that seized the same And if the Owner shall claim the same within ten days and shall not make it appear before the next Justice of Peace in the County where such seizure was by the Oath of one or more Witnesses that the Salt was duly entred and that there was a Warrant for carrying away the same then it shall be forfeited and disposed as aforesaid and he that carried or caused it to be conveyed away shall forfeit double the value VIII Retailer shipping off Salt No Retailer shall be permitted to ship off any Salt to be sent to any Port in England or Wales or to Berwick before he hath made it appear by Oath or otherwise before the Commissioners or their Officers or some or one of them that the Duty of such Salt is paid or secured or that it was bought of some other Retailer or Shop-keeper that hath paid the Duty IX Masters of Ships Duty for transporting Salt from one Port to another in this Kingdom The Master and Commander of any Ship or Vessel that shall after the 25th day of March aforesaid transport any Salt from one Port to another in England Wales or Berwick shall before landing it deliver to the Collector of this Duty in the said Port a true particular of the quantity thereof signed by the Collectors of this Duty and the Officers of the Customs in that Port from whence the Vessel came and that then the Master or his Mate or the Boat-swain of such Ship or Vessel shall make Oath before the Commissioners or their Officers or one of them that to his knowledge there hath not been taken into the said Ship any Salt since he or they came from such Port and if such Ship be to deliver her Salt part at one Port and part at another then the Collectors of this Duty and the Officers of the Customs where such part shall be delivered shall gratis certifie on the Cocket Transire or other Warrant or by Certificate under Hand and Seal of the Officer what quantity of the Salt mentioned in the Cocket whence such Ship came hath been there landed upon forfeiture of double the value of the Salt that shall be otherwise delivered X. For all such Fish hereafter mentioned as shall be exported during the continuance of the Duty upon Salt by this Act from any Port or Place in England Wales and Berwick into Parts beyond the Seas shall be paid these Rates viz. Â l. s. s. Every Vessel of Pilchards or Scads containing 50 Gallons 00 12 00 Duties upon Fish exported beyond Sea Every Barrel of White Herrings 00 02 06 Every Barrel of Red Herrings 00 02 00 Every Barrel of Salmon 00 05 00 Every Hundred of Cod-fish Ling Conger or Hake 00 15 00 And so proportionably for a greater or smaller number or quantity How and by whom to be paid shall be paid by the Officer appointed to collect the Duties upon Salt payable by this Act in the same Port from whence any such Fish shall be exported within thirty days after demand thereof on a Debenture to be prepared by the Collector of the Customs where such Fish shall be exported and verified by the Searcher there as to the quantity of Fish actually shipped and the Oath of the Exporter shall be first taken before the principal Officer of the said Port The Exporters Oath to be taken before the Debenture be allowed that the Fish in really exported to Parts beyond Seas and not intended to be relanded in England Wales or Berwick And if the Officer have not Mony in his Hands to pay the same then upon
repay the value received for the same XXXVI Taking other Fees than by this Act forfeiture of Office If the Officers of the Exchequer shall take any other Fee or Reward than by this Act appointed for executing their respective Trusts and Offices they shall forfeit their Office and pay treble Damages with Costs of Suit to any Adventurer that will sue for the same without Essoign Protection or Priviledge of Parliament c. XXXVII Officer not liable though Ticket be forged unless he knew it If any Officer of the Transfer Office shall pass any Ticket for payment or any Officer of the Exchequer shall make any payment of any Shares of the said Fonds upon such Tickets as are above directed such Officer shall not incur any Penalty or be liable to any Action of the Adventurers though such Ticket be forged except he knew it to be so XXXVIII Mony lent to be free from Taxes Mony lent by or payable to any Persons by virtue of this Act shall not be chargeable with any Rates Duties or Impositions whatsoever XXXIX And to be imployed as the Act directs All Grants or Dispositions of Mony arising by this Act hereafter to be made by their Majesties to any other Person or in any other manner or for any longer Term or Interest than by this Act appointed shall hereby be made null XL. A distinct Office in the Exchequer for payment of Annuities There shall be in the said receipt of the Exchequer a distinct Office for paying the Annuities the said Office shall continue till all the Payments to grow due by this Act during the said Term of sixteen years shall be satisfied And an Officer or Officers shall be appointed hereunto by the Commissioners or the Treasurer of the Exchequer Officers to give security who shall take security of the Officers for the due paying and accounting the Monies they shall receive and for the faithful performance of their Office And the Monies which shall be brought into the Receipt of the Exchequer shall by the Commissioners of the Treasury or the Under-Treasurer of the Exchequer without any farther or other Warrant and such proportions from time to time Monies how to be issued Officers to be liable to account and be inspected as shall be necessary and sufficient to answer the respective Payments which shall grow due be issued or paid over from time to time to the Officers by way of Imprest and upon Account to and for the payment of the said Annuities by this Act appointed And such particular Officers shall be liable and subject to such Inspection Examination Comptrol and Audit and to such Rules as the Commissioners of the Treasury or the Treasurer and Under-Treasurer of the Exchequer shall think fit XLI All Officers to observe the Commissioners directions The Managers Directors Commissioner and Officer of the Transfer Office Receivers and the particular Officer in the Exchequer and all the Clerks Ministers and Servants shall for the better execution of their Trusts observe and perform such Rules Methods and Orders as they shall from time to time receive from the Commissioners of the Treasury c. so as such Rules Methods and Orders be conducible to the ends and purposes in this Act. XLII The King enabled to borrow Mony upon this Act. If the whole Sum of 1000000 l. be not paid into the Exchequer upon this Act before the 24th of June 1694. then it shall be lawful for their Majesties by way of Loan to borrow so much as to make it up to be paid with Interest at 8 l. per Cent. out of the Monies after to be brought in by this Act And if the Monies shall not all come in then out of the next Supply granted by Parliament How the same to be repaid and if no such Supply shall be before the 2d of February 1694. then to be paid out of the Treasury If the 1000000 l. shall not be advanced then the Overplus of the Fond shall be disposed as hereafter shall be directed by Act of Parliament XLIII When the Receivers of the Salt Mony are to deliver in their Accompts The Receivers of the Salt Duty shall between the 25th of March 1695. and the 29th of September following and so yearly during the continuance of this Act deliver in their Accounts to the Auditors of the Imprest who shall examine them upon Oath what Sum was raised and what part paid into the Exchequer or by virtue of any Warrant of Privy Seal or Warrant of the Commissioners of the Treasury and to whom and for what Service and such Account so taken by the said Auditor to be declared before the Lord Treasurer or Lords Commissioners of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer XLIV No Member of the House of Commons to be concerned in the farming or managing those Duties except c. No Member of the House of Commons shall directly or indirectly be concerned in the farming collecting or managing any Duties granted by this Act or that shall be granted by any other Act except the Commissioners of the Treasury the Officers of the Customs and Excise and those appointed Commissioners for the Act of 4 s. in the Pound for one year as to their executing only the Authority of the said Act by which they are appointed Commissioners And also excepting Thomas Neale Esquire The Act upon Tunnage I. Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 14. It is enacted That for the Term of four Years commencing from the first day of June 1694. Duties upon Tunnage from the 1st of June 1694. there shall be throughout England Wales and the Town of Berwick levied and paid into and for the use of their Majesties their Heirs and Successors upon the Tunnage of all Ships and Vessels whereon during that time there shall be imported any Goods or Merchandize from the Places in the Act after mentioned or shall be carried Coast-wise from Port to Port within England Wales or the Town of Berwick these Duties and Impositions that is to say For every Tun of the Burthen or Contents of any Ship or Vessel importing Goods oâ— Merchandizes from the East-Indies or any Ports Southwards or Eastward of Cabo bona Speranza The several Rates the Sum of 30 s. From any Ports or Places in Italy or Turky 15 s. From any Ports or Places in Portugal or Spain 10 s. From any the Plantation Lands or Places in the West-Indies 10 s. From Holland or any the United Provinces Netherlands or Flanders 3 s. From Norway Hamborough or the Baltick Sea Enstland Gountries or any other Ports or Places North of Holland 5 s. From Ireland or Scotland 2 s. From any Port or Place in the Mediterranean Sea not otherwise charged in this Act 15 s. From the Ports or Coasts of Guinea or Africa without the Streights 20 s. From Hudsons Bay or any Place within the Limits of that Companies Charter 20 s. From the
Ganaries Maderas or any the Western Islands 10 s. From any Ports or Places in Greenland Muscovia or Russia 10 s. For every Tun of the Burthen of any Ship or Vessel in the Coasting Trade from Port to Port in England Wales or Berwick 6 d. II. Contents of Ships to be taken by the Officers in the Ports where they arrive Ships to be entred and Duties paid before the unlading or Security given Rebate where Duties paid down Forfeiture for not paying Duties The several Duties imposed shall be accounted and paid according to the Measure of such Ships or Vessels which shall be made by their Majesties Officers in the respective Ports or Places where they shall arrive And the Masters Owners or Freighters at the Port or Place of the discharge or unlading of their Ships or Vessels shall cause them to be entred in the Custom-house belonging to such Port or Place and at the time of the entry or before any unlading shall pay down in ready Mony to their Majesties Officers of the Customs the said Duties or give Security by Bond to their Majesties with Sureties to be approved by the said Officers of the Customs to pay the Duties within the space of one Month next after clearing of the Ship Where the Duties shall be paid down there shall be a rebate or deduction out of the same after the rate of 10 l. per Cent. per Annum for every hundred pound the Duty shall amount unto And where any Goods shall be unshipped to be laid on Land before the Duty paid or Security given the Ship or Vessel out of which they shall be unladen together with the Guns Tackle Ammunition and Apparel shall be forfeited and lost one moiety to their Majesties and the other to the Party that will sue or seize for the same to be recovered in any of their Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster And over and besides the Owner Master or Freighters shall be chargeable with the said Duties of Tunnage III. Duties by whom to be paid and how The Duties upon the Tunnage of Ships importing Goods or Merchandizes from Parts beyond the Seas or Scotland shall be paid and born by the Merchant-Freighters and by the Master and Owners of such Ships by way of Average amongst themselves two third parts by the Merchants and Freighters according to their Shares in the Freight and the other third part by the Masters or Owners And the Duties upon Ships employed in the Coasting Trade shall be paid and born by the Master or Owners of such Ships IV. Greenland and New-found-land Ships to pay for their lading not Tunnage What French Goods are to pay if Peace be made during this Act. Ships belonging to the Company of Merchants of London trading to Greenland shall pay 10 s. per Tun only for their own Blubber Whale-Fins or any other Merchandize and not be obliged to pay according to the Shipping And so likewise Ships trading to New-found-land shall pay only for their Train-Oyl and other Merchandize 10 s. per Tun and not for their measure of their Shipping V. If Peace be made betwixt their Majesties and the French King during the continuance of this Duty of Tunnage then all Ships importing Goods and Merchandizes from any of the French Kings Territories in Europe without the Streights shall pay the like Duty as any Ships importing Goods from Portugal are charged with by this Act over and above all Duties payable for such Ships VI. Barges c. not chargeable This Act shall not extend to charge or lay any Duty uponany Barges imployed in carrying Sand Lime or Slate-Stone from Port to Port within England or Wales for and in respect of such lading only VII Ships and Vessels how to be measured All Ships and Vessels liable to these Duties shall be gauged and measured by the length of the Keel taken within Board so much as she treads upon the Ground And the breadth to be taken within Board by the Midship Beam from Plank to Plank And the depth of the Hold to be taken from the Plank below the Kelsey to the under part of the Upper Deck Plank and the length and breadth as before Then multiply the length by the breadth and the Product thereof by the depth and divide the whole by 94 and the Quotient will give the true Contents of the Tunnage And the Duties of Tunnage thereby shall be computed and collected VIII The several Duties of Excise upon Liquors after 17 of May 1697 After the 17th of May 1697. there shall be throughout England Wales and the Town of Berwick raised collected and paid unto their Majesties their Heirs and Successors by way of Excise over and above all Impositions by any former Act then unexpired For every Barrel of Beer or Ale above 6 s. the Barrel exclusive of the Duty of Excise brewed by the common Brewer or any other Person who doth sell or tap out Beer or Ale publickly or privately to be paid by the common Brewer or any such other Person and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity over and above the Duties payable for the same 9 d. For every Barrel of Beer or Ale of 6 s. the Barrel or under brewed or sold as aforesaid and so proportionably to be paid by such common Brewer or other Person respectively 3 d. For every Barrel of Vinegar or Vinegar Beer brewed or made of any English Materials by any common Brewer or any other Person for sale to be paid by the Maker thereof and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity over and above the Duties of Excise payable for the same 1 s. 6 d. If it run through Rape or be made with or passing through Foreign Materials or any mixture with them 4 s. per Barrel and so proportionably For every Barrel of Beer Ale or Mum imported from beyond the Seas or Islands of Guernsy to be paid by the Importers before landing and so proportionably for the quantity over and above for the Duties payable for the same 3 s. For every Tun of Cyder or Perry imported from beyond the Seas and so proportionably to be paid by the Importer before landing over and above the Duties payable for the same 4 l. For every Gallon of single Brandy Spirits or Aqua-vitae imported from beyond the Seas to be paid by the Importer before landing over and above the Duties payable for the same 6 d. and of double above proof 1 s. For every Hogshead of Cyder and Perry made and sold by retail to be paid by the Retailer and so proportionably for a greater or lesser Measure over and above the Duties payable for the same 1 s. 3 d. For every Gallon of Metheglin or Mead made for sale whether by retail or otherwise to be paid by the Maker 3 d. And these Duties shall be levied The several Duties how to be collected collected and paid in the same manner and form and by such Rules and under
out and returning home The Lord High-Admiral or Commissioners for executing that Office shall exhibit to the Commons assembled in Parliament at the next Session of this or any other Parliament which shall happen after the first of August 1694. a Certificate in Writing under his or their Hands respectively of the Ships set out in pursuance of the said recited Clause expressing therein the Name and Rates of the Ships set out the times when ordered as also the Stations to which they were directed and the times how long they were continued at Sea in that Service XXXVI Fees of the Officers of the Exchequer 1 d in the Pound The Officers of the Receipt of the Exchequer may receive and take for their Fees one peny in the pound and no more for all or any the Sums of Mony to be issued or paid to any their Majesties Garrisons Land-Forces and Armies and other Charges incident to the same out of the Mony arising by this or any other Act and Grant of this Session or any other Session of Parliament during this present War to be distributed in such proportion as the Lord Treasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury shall appoint XXXVII No Collector Gauger or Officer of Excise shall give his Vote for Parliament Man After the first day of May 1694. no Collector Supervisor Gauger or other Officer or Person whatsoever concerned in the Excise or any Branch or Part thereof shall by Word Message or Writing or in any other manner whatsoever endeavour to perswade any Elector to give or disswade any from giving his Vote for the Choice of any Person to be a Knight of the Shire Citizen Burgess or Baron of any City Borough or Cinque-Port to serve in Parliament and every Officer or other Person offending shall forfeit 100 l. one moiety to the Informer The Penalty for offending the other to the Poor of the Parish where such Offence shall be committed to be recovered by any Person that shall sue for the same in any of their Majesties Courts at Westminster and every Person convict on any such Suit of the said Offence shall be disabled and incapable of ever executing any Office relating to the Duty of Excise or other Office or Place of Trust whatsoever under their Majesties their Heirs or successors XXXVIII Gaugers to leave Notes in Writing True Notes in Writing of the last Gauges made or taken by the Gaugers shall be left by them with Brewers Makers or Retailers of Beer Ale or other Excisable Liquors or some of their Servants at the times of taking their said Gauges Penalty for neglecting containing the quantity and quality of the Liquors so gauged upon the Penalty of 5 l. for every Offence or Neglect to be recovered by any Person that shall sue for the same in any of their Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster An Act upon Parchment c. I. Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 15. The Act when to commence From the 28th of June 1694. shall be paid the several Duties upon Vellum Parchment and Paper for four Years thence ensuing viz. For every Skin or piece of Vellum or Parchment Letters Patents on which any Grants or Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England or the Seal of the Dutchy or County Palatine of Lancaster or of any Honour Dignity Promotion Franchise Liberty or Priviledge to any Person or Persons Bodies Politick or Corporate or Exemplifications of the same shall be ingrossed or written the Sum of 40 s. II. Pardons Reprieves Relaxations For every Skin or piece of Vellum Parchment or Sheet of Paper on which are ingrossed or written any Pardon of any Crime or of any Mony or Forfeiture or of any Warrant or Reprieve or Relaxation from any Fines Corporal Punishments or other Forfeiture shall pay 40 s. III. Grants of Mony by their Majesties For every Skin c. upon which any Grant from their Majesties of any Sum of Mony exceeding 100 l. which shall pass the Great Seal or Privy not directed to the Great Seal shall be engrossed or written 40 s. IV. Offices above 50 l. per Ann. For every Skin c. upon which any Grant of any Office or Imployment which shall be above the value of 50 l. per Annum shall be ingrossed or written 40 s. V. Grants of Lands in Fee for years c. For every Skin c. upon which any Grant of Lands in Fee Lease for Years or other Grant of Profit not herein particularly charged that shall pass the Great Seal Exchequer Seal Seal of the Dutchy or County Palatine of Lancaster or Privy Seal not directed to the Great Seal shall be ingrossed or written 40 s. VI. Ecclesiastical Promotions For every Skin c. upon which any Presentation or Donation under the Great Seal Collation by Archbishop or Bishop Presentation or Donation by any Patron to any Benefice Dignity or Spiritual Promotion such Benefice Dignity or Spiritual Promotion being 10 l. value or above in the Kings Books shall be ingrossed or written 40 s. VII Register Entry Testimonial c. For every Skin c. on which any Register Entry Testimonial or Certificate of any Degree taken in the Universities or Inns of Court shall be engrossed or written 40 s. VIII Dispensations Ecclesiastical For every Skin c. on which any Dispensation to hold two Ecclesiastical Dignities or Benefices or both a Dignity and a Benefice or any other Dispensation or Faculty from the Archbishop of Canterbury or the Master of the Faculties shall be ingrossed or written 40 s. IX Admittance of a Fellow of the Colledge c. For every Skin c. on which an Admittance of any Fellow of the Colledge of Physitians or of any Attorny Clerk Advocate Proctor Notary or other Officers in any Court whatsoever shall be ingrossed or written 40 s. X. Appeals from the Admiralty c. For every Skin c. on which any Appeals from the Court of Admiralty Arches Prerogative Court of Canterbury or York shall be ingrossed or written 40 s. XI Deeds inrolled For every Skin c. on which any Conveyances Surrenders of Grants or Offices Release or other Deed whatsoever enrolled in any Court of Westminster or other Court of Record or by any Custos Rotulorum or Clerk of the Peace shall be ingrossed or written 5 s. XII Writs of Covenant and Entry For every piece c. on which any Writ of Covenant for levying of Fines or Writs of Entry for suffering Recoveries shall be ingrossed or written 5 s. XIII Exemplifications For every Skin c. on which any Exemplification of whatever nature that shall pass the Seal of any Court whatsoever shall be ingrossed or written 5 s. XIV Decrees Dismissions For every Skin c. on which any Decree or Dismission made by or in the Chancery Exchequer Dutchy-Court or Courts of Lancaster Chester Durham or other
on which any Copies thereof shall be ingrossed or written 1 d. XLI Depositions Copies of Bills c. For every Skin c. on which any Depositions taken in the Court of Chancery or other Court of Equity except the Paper-draughts taken by the Commissioners before they are ingrossed which are not herein before charged or upon which any Copy of any Bill Answer Plea Demurrer Replication Rejoinder Interrogatories Depositions or other Proceedings whatsoever in any Court of Equity shall be ingrossed or written 1 d. XLII Copies of Wills For every Skin c. on which a Copy of any Will shall be ingrossed or written 1 d. XLIII Officers to mark the Writs Memorandums From and after the 28th of June 1694. every Officer or Clerk belonging to the Kings-Bench Common-Pleas or Exchequer who shall sign any Warrant or Process before Judgment to arrest any Person thereupon shall at the signing thereof set down upon such Writ or Process the Day and Year of his signing the same which shall be entred upon the Remembrance or in the Book where the Abstract of such Writ or Process shall be entred upon the Forfeiture of 10 l. XLIV Not to extend to single Bills This Act shall not charge any Bills of Exchange Accompts Bills of Parcels Bills of Fees or any Bills or Notes not sealed for payment of Mony at sight or upon demand or at the end of certain days of payment XLV Nor Seamen or Soldiers Will. Neither shall it charge the Probate of any Will or Letters of Administration of any common Seaman or Souldier who shall be slain or die in their Majesties Service upon Certificate made thereof XLVI Nor to Paupers None of the Rates or Impositions in this Act expressed shall be paid or payable to their Majesties by any Person or Persons that shall be admitted to sue or defend in Forma Pauperis XLVII Their Majesties to appoint Commissioners and they to appoint Under-Officers Their Majesties may under the Great Seal of England appoint Commissioners and Officers for the executing of this Act who are to keep their Head-Office in some convenient Place within the Cities of London or Westminster which said Commissioners or the major part are also impowered under their Hands and Seals to appoint Inferior Officers for the marking or stamping of Vellum Parchment and Paper and for levying and collecting the Duties Stamps to be made And the said Commissioners shall before the 28th day of June 1694. provide six several Marks or Stamps differing from each other with which all Vellum Paper and Parchment herein before charged shall be ingrossed or written shall be stampt or ingrossed viz. One Stamp for the Vellum Parchment and Paper charged with the payment of 40 s. for every Skin Piece or Sheet shall be stampt or markt One other Stamp or Mark with which all Vellum Parchment and Paper herein before charged with the payment of 5 s. for every Skin Sheet or Piece as aforesaid shall be markt or stampt and so respectively a different Mark or Stamp with which all Vellunâ— Paper and Parchment herein before charged with the several Duties of 2 s. 6 d. 1 s. 6 d. and 1 d. shall be severally and differently markt and stampt Published by Proclamation which said several Marks and Stamps shall be published by Proclamation under the Great Seal a convenient time before the said 28th day of June to the end all Persons may have due notice thereof And the said Marks and Stamps may be altered or renewed as their Majesties shall think fit publick notice being given thereof by Proclamation XLVIII The Vellum c. to be stamped before written All Vellum Parchment and Paper hereby intended to be charged with the several and respective Duties aforesaid shall before any thing ingrossed or written thereon be brought to the Head-Office or some other Sub-Commissioner or Officer to be appointed for the same to be stamped and marked who upon demand shall stamp or mark it upon payment of the respective Duties without other Fee which Stamp or Mark shall be a sufficient discharge for the respective Duties aforesaid XLIX Penalty of stamping before Duty paid If any Commissioner or Officer shall fix the Mark or Stamp before the respective Duties thereon charged shall be duly paid or secured he shall forfeit for every such Offence 100 l. L. Penalty of writing before it be stampt If any Person shall ingross or write or cause to be ingrossed or written upon any Vellum Parchment or Paper any thing for which the said Vellum c. is hereby charged before it shall be marked or stampt as aforesaid or upon which there shall not be some Stamp or Mark resembling the same Or shall ingross or write upon any Vellum Parchment or Paper that shall be marked or stamped for any lower Duty than the Duty by this Act payable the Offender for every such Offence shall forfeit 500 l. LI. Penalty on Officers Clerks or Attornies for fraudulent Practice Any Clerk or Officer who in respect of his publick Office or Imployment is or shall be entituled or intrusted to make ingross or write any Records Deeds Instruments or Writings by this Act chargable as aforesaid shall be guilty of any Fraud or Practice by making ingrossing or writing any such Record Deed Instrument or Writing upon Vellum Parchment or Paper not marked or upon which there shall not be some Stamp or Mark resembling the same or upon Vellum Parchment or Paper stamped with this Mark or Stamp which he shall know to be counterfeited or upon Vellum Parchment or Paper that shall be markt or stampt for a lower Duty as aforesaid every such Officer c. so guilty and thereof lawfully convicted shall over and above the Penalty aforesaid forfeit his Office Place or Imployment And if any Attorny shall be guilty thereof and convicted he shall be disabled for the future to practice as an Attorny And if any Deed Instrument or Writing shall be written or ingrossed by any Person not being a known Officer or of publick Imployment intituled to write or ingross the same upon Vellum Parchment or Paper not marked or stamped according to this Act or of a lower Duty as aforesaid Penalty of forging a Stamp in every such case there shall be due to their Majesties over and above the Duties aforesaid the Sum of 5 l. for every such Deed and no such Deed or Record shall be pleaded or given in Evidence in any Court either of Law or Equity till the said 5 l. be paid and the said Vellum Parchment or Paper be stampt with a lawful Mark which the Officer is to do upon payment of the said 5 l. And if any Person shall counterfeit or form any Stamp or Mark to resemble any Stamp provided by this Act or shall counterfeit or resemble the Impression of the same upon any Vellum Parchment or Paper to defraud their Majesties of the Duties hereby granted or
 Copies of Inventories in Courts of Admiralty Cinque Ports and Ecclesiastical Courts   Affidavits and Copies Indentures Leases Deed Polls 6 d. For each Skin Sheet or piece of Parchment or Paper Writs Original Latitats Capias Subpoena Bill of Middlesex Quominus Ded. Potestatem and other Writs   Processes and Mandates in all Courts where Debt is above 40 s.   Actions in London and other Corporations above 40 s.   Charter Parties Pollicies of Assurance Pasports Bonds Releases Contracts Obligatory Instruments Protests Procurations Letters of Attorny or other Notarial Acts.  Copies of Declarations Pleas Replications Rejoinders Demurrers and other Pleadings in all Courts of Law and for Copies thereof 1 d. For each Skin Sheet or piece of Parchment or Paper Copies of Depositions Bills Answers Pleas Demurrers Replications Rejoinders Interrogatories and other Proceedings in any Court of Equity Copies of Wills  Things Excepted Draughts of Depositions taken by Commissioners before they are ingrossed Seamens and Souldiers Wills and Administrations Paupers Bills of Exchange Accounts Bills of Parcels Bills of Fees Bills or Notes not sealed for Payment of Mony at sight or on demand or at the end of certain days of payment Trade I. Stat. 5 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 2. An Act for repealing such parts of several former Acts as prevent or prohibit the Importation of Foreign Brandy Aqua-vitae and other Spirits and Bacon except from France I. Importation of fine Thrown Silk Stat. 5 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 3. It shall be lawful to or for any Person or Persons residing within their Majesties Dominions to import within this Kingdom from any Port whatsoever excepting the Ports of France during the present War with France and three Months after fine Thrown-Silk of the growth or production of Italy Sicily or Naples II. Provided that this Act nor any thing herein contained What sorts to be imported shall extend to give liberty to bring over Land and import any Italian Thrown Silk courser than a sort thereof known and distinguished by the name of Third Bolonia nor any Sicilian Thrown Silk courser than a sort thereof known and distinguished by the name of Second Orsay nor any sorts of Silks commonly called Frams of the growth of Italy Sicily or Naples nor any other Thrown Silk of the growth or production of Turky Persia East-India or China The penalty under the Penalty and Forfeiture of all such Thrown Silk as shall be brought over land and imported contrary to the intent of this Act. III. And that all such fine Italian To be brought to the Custom-house Sicilian and Naples Thrown Silks as are allowed to be imported by this Act wheresoever landed shall be brought to their Majesties Custom-house London to the intent that no other sort may be imported over-land than those only allowed by this Act under the Penalties before-mentioned any thing to the contrary hereof notwithstanding I. Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 3. Whereas by an Act made in the 5th year of Q. Elizabeth Entituled An Act containing divers Orders for Artificers Labourers Servants in Husbandry and Apprentices It is enacted in these words following Provided always and be it farther enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Person or Persons using or exercising the Art or Mystery of a Woollen Cloath-Weaver other than such as be inhabiting within the Counties of Cumberland Westmorland Lancaster and Wales weaving Frizes Cottons or Houswifes Cloath only making and weaving Woollen-Cloath commonly sold or to be sold by any Cloathman or Clothier shall take and have any Apprentice or shall teach or in any-wise instruct any Person or Persons in the Science Art or Occupation of Weaving aforesaid in any Village Town or Place Cities Towns-Corporate and Market-Towns only excepted unless such Person be his Son or else that the Father or Mother of such Apprentice or Servant shall at the time of the taking of such Person or Persous to be an Apprentice or Servant or to be instructed have Lands or Tenements or other Hereditaments to the clear yearly value of 3 l. at the least of an Estate of Inheritance or Freehold to be certified under the Hands and Seals of three Justices of the Peace of the Shire or Shires where the said Lands Tenements or other Hereditaments do or shall lie The effect of the Indenture to be registred within three months in the Parish where such Master shall dwell and to pay for such registring 4 d. upon pain of forfeiture of 20 s. for every month that Person shall otherwise take any Apprentice or set any such Person on Work contrary to the meaning of this Article II. St. 5 Eliz. concerning Apprentices in Woollen Manufafacture repealed Now forasmuch as such part of the said Act before recited hath been found prejudicial to the Clothing-Trade It is hereby enacted That so much of the said Act as is before recited is hereby declared to be repeald and made void as if the same had never been made I. Salt-petre to be brought in for one year Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 10. It shall be lawful for any of their Majesties Subjects to import and bring Salt-petre into this Kingdom from any Place or Country now in Amity with their Majesties for the space of one year to be computed from and after the 25th day of March 1694. II. In what Ships Provided that such Salt-petre be brought in only in such Ships or Vessels as are English built and no other III. At what rate to be sold Provided that no Person importing Salt-petre by virtute of this Act nor any Retailer shall sell any part of the Salt-petre so to be imported at above the price of 70 l. per Tun not exceeding 18 per Cent. Refraction upon the Penalty of 50 l. per Tun. IV. Their Majesties Duty Provided that the Salt-petre which shall be imported by virtue of this Act shall pay to their Majesties the same Duty as if the same were directly imported from the East-Indies V. Salt-petre imported and mingled not to be sold at above 70 l. per Tun. If any Person shall mingle any Salt-petre imported by virtue of this Act with any other Salt-petre and sell the same so mingled at above the rate of 70 l. per Tun or shall by way of Barter or Exchange take or agree to take any other Commodity for Salt-petre imported by virtue of this Act whether by it self or mingled with other Salt-petre in any manner so as to have or receive for the same more than the rate of 70 l. per Tun accounting the Commodity so taken in exchange at the then currant Price That the sale of such Salt-petre so mingled and also such Barter or Exchange shall be construed and taken to be a Sale contrary to this Act. I. Iron Copper c. may be transported except to France during the War Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 11. It shall and may be lawful to and for any Person whatsoever Bodies Politick or Corporate to ship and export all and all manner of Iron Copper or Mundick Metal out of this Realm of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed except unto or for the use of the French King or any of his Subjects residing within his Dominions or in to or for any Port or Place within his said Dominions during the present War between their Majesties and the French King paying the Duties and Customs by Law payable for the same II. Excepting Port-Metal Gun-Metal c. Provided this Act shall not extend to the exportation of Port-Metal Gun-Metal or Shruff-Metal or any old Metal or any mixture therewith or any Copper or other Metal than what is made c. of English Ore only FINIS
suffer a Discontinuance or if a Verdict pass against him the Defendant shall recover his double Costs II. Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 13. All personal Actions Suits Indictments Informations and other Prosecutions for apprehending and imprisoning suspected Persons and seizing and using Horses and Arms and causing the greatest part of the Militia of this Kingdom to be raised and maintained otherwise than is authorized by the Acts made in the Reign of the late King Charles II. and to march and be quartered in divers places for their Majesties Service and the Safety of the Kingdom in pursuance of Orders from the Privy Council in this present year 1690. about the time that the Coasts of this Kingdom were invaded by the French be and are hereby discharged and made void and if any Suit hath been or shall be prosecuted the Defendant may plead the General Issue and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence and if the Plaintiff become non-suit or forbear Prosecution or suffer a Discontinuance or a Verdict pass against him the Defendant shall recover his double Costs III. Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 19. Whereas in this present year 1692. there were great Preparations for an Invasion intended from France the Lords of the Council and others by their Authority having imprisoned several suspected Persons and seized Horses and Arms and caused some part of the Militia to be raised continued and maintained otherwise than is authorized by the Acts made in the Reign of King Charles II. and to march and be quartered in divers places that the Parties concerned in those Proceedings in that extraodinary juncture may be indemnified Be it enacted That all Prosecutions whatsoever by reason of the Premisses be discharged and made void And if any Action or Suit hath been or shall be commenced or prosecuted for the same the Person so sued may plead the General Issue and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence and if the Plaintiff shall be non-suit or forbear Prosecution or suffer a Discontinuance or that a Verdict pass against him the Defendant shall recover his double Costs Taxes I. STat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 3. An Act for granting a present Aid to their Majesties Exp. II. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 13. An Act for raising Mony by a Poll and otherwise towards the reducing of Ireland III. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 20. An Act for a Grant to their Majesties of an Aid of 12 d. in the pound for one year for the necessary defence of their Realms IV. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 31. An additional Act for the appointing Commissioners for the executing an Act of this present Parliament Entituled An Act for a Grant to their Majesties of an Aid of twelve pence in the pound for one year for the necessary defence of their Realms V. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 1. An Act for granting to their Majesties an Aid of one shilling in the pound for one year VI. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 5. An Act for a Grant to their Majesties of an additional Aid of twelve pence in the pound for one year VII Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 7. An Act for review of the late Poll granted to their Majesties and for an additional Poll towards the reducing of Ireland VIII Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 2. An Act for raising Mony by a Poll and otherwise towards the reducing of Ireland and prosecuting the War against France IX Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 1. Aâ— Act for granting an Aid to their Majesties of the Sum of 1651702 l. 18 s. Exp. X. Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 5. An Act for granting an Aid to their Majesties of the Sum of sixteen hundred fifty one thousand seven hundred and two pounds eighteen shillings towards the carrying on a vigorous War against France XI Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 6. An Act for raising Mony by a Poll payable quarterly for one year for the carrying on a vigorous War against France XII Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 1. An Act for granting to their Majesties an Aid of four shillings in the pound for one year for carrying on a vigorous War against France XIII Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 14. All Persons who were not at all or not fully and duly assessed according to the intent of an Act made the last Session of this present Parliament Entituled An Act for raising Mony by a Poll c. shall be assessed and taxed as they ought to have been by the same XIV In order whereunto such as are or shall be qualified to act as Commissioners for putting in execution an Act of this Session of Parliament Entituled An Act for granting to their Majesties an Aid of 4 s. in the pound c. shall be Commissioners for executing this Act within their several Divisions and shall have and execute the like Powers Rules and Directions as the Commissioners had or ought to have executed by virtue of the said poll-Poll-Act And all Persons concerned in the assessing collecting receiving or paying any Monies by virtue of this Act shall have the like Benesits and be subject to the like Penalties in case of neglect or resusal to pay the Sums assessed or to perform their Duties as in such case any Person by virtue of the said Poll-Act ought to have or be subject to XV. Deputy-Lieutenants and other Officers of the Militia having Estates of such value as ought to find or contribute to a Horse shall pay for such Estates although they be not actually charged to find or contriâ—ute to find a Horse c. And all who at the time of the Execution of the said Poll-Act were or had been Justices of Peace Sheriffs or Deputy-Lieutenants or who were appointed Commissioners by virtue of the said Act being worth 300 l. and were not assessed 20 s. quarterly shall pay after that rate or so much as with what they have paid will make up 20 s. quarterly In like manner Clergy-men having in Estate Ecclesiastical or Temporal or both 60 l. per annum shall pay after the same rate and in all other things the said Act shall be fully executed XVI The respective Commissioners shall meet on the 4th of April 1693. and the said Sums shall be assessed and paid to the Receivers of the Counties on or before the 24th day of June 1693. and answered into their Majesties Exchequer on or before the 12th day of July 1693. XVII If upon the return of the Duplicates it shall appear that the said Sums of Mony do not amount to 300000 l. their Majesties may borrow by way of Loan any Sum or Sums which together with the amount of what shall be levied by virtue of this Act shall not exceed in the whole 300000 l. which Sum or Sums shall be charged upon the credit of their Majesties Exchequer in General and
such Agreement c. shall be void XLIV Vessels employed by the said Company for catching Whales and truly belonging to England Wales or Berwick whereof the Masters shall be English-men and inhabiting within the said Places until the first of Octob. 1697. if navigated during their Voyages with one third of English Mariners at the least shall pay no other Custom for Oyl Blubber and Fins imported than if they had been navigated with three fourths of Mariners English provided such Vessels proceed on their Voyage from England Wales or Berwick and were victualled for the same in some of those Places to be attested by the Collectors of the Ports where they were victualled XLV The said Joint-Stock to continue and the said Company to have and enjoy the said Trade from the first day of October 1693. for fourteen years and no longer XLVI This Act declared to be a Publick Act and that it shall be taken notice of in their Majesties Courts accordingly XLVII Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 25. An Act made in the first year of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for prohibiting all Trade and Commerce with France and another Act made in the second year of their Reign Entituled An Act for the more effectual putting in execution An Act Entituled An Act for prohibiting all Trade and Commerce with France shall continue in force during three years from the end of this Sesfion of Parliament and from the expiration of those three years to the end of the next Session of Parliament if this War with France shall so long last XLVIII All Vessels with their Ladings and all Goods and Merchandizes that shall be taken or seized as Prize shall be brought into some Port of this Kingdom and before breaking of Bulk put into the possession of the Commissioners for Prizes their Officers or Agents who with two or more such Persons as the Officers or Mariners of the respective Ships shall intrust and such as shall be appointed by the Commissioners of the Customs are to preserve the same till they be adjudged Prize except where it shall appear to the Judge of the Admiralty that the Goods are perishable in which case the Judge shall take Bail for them yet so as to be subject to sale and distribution as is provided by this Act. XLIX Notwithstanding any thing in the said Acts or either of them if any Goods prohibited to be imported shall bona fide be taken as Prize and so adjudged the Commissioners for Prizes c. shall cause them to be entred and landed and brought into their Majesties Ware-house to be safely kept till they be sold as is hereafter directed L. After such Goods c. shall be adjudged Prize they shall as soon as conveniently may be be sold by the Commissioners for Prizes c. in the presence of such as shall be entrusted by the Commissioners of the Customs and the Owners Officers and Mariners of such Ship of War publickly by Inch of Candle publick notice being given fourteen days before of the quantity and quality of the Things to be sold and of the time and place of Sale LI. Out of the proceed of such Sale their Majesties Duties being deducted the neat proceed in case such Prize were taken by a Private Man of War shall be divided into five parts four parts to be answered to the Persons interested in the Privateer and the fifth to their Majesties and the Ship or Vessel with its Furniture shall be enjoyed by the Persons interested in the Privateer and in case such Prize be taken by any of their Majesties Ships the neat proceed shall be divided into three parts one third whereof to be answered to the Commander Mariners and Seamen taking the same according to the Custom of the Sea for sharing Prizes or to such Orders as have or shall be made by their Majesties LII Provided that one third part thereof be distributed among the Ships Crew one third part to be paid to the Treasurer of the Navy for the Relief of sick and wounâ—â—â— Mariners and the Widows Children and impotent Pare◠〈◊〉 of Persons slain at Sea in their Majesties Service 〈◊〉 the other third part to the use of their Majesties a 〈◊〉 case such Prize be taken by any Merchant Ship en 〈◊〉 in their Majesties Service the proceed thereof shâ—◠〈◊〉 vided into three parts one third part to the Câ—◠〈…〉 ficers and Mariners taking the same one third 〈…〉 use of their Majesties and one third to the Treasurer of the Navy for the purposes aforesaid LIII If any who shall take such Prize or Prizes imbezil or conceal any part of such Goods or Merchandize or put the same on Shore in any other place than their Majesties Ware-houses they shall lose their share thereof upon proof made by one or more Witnesses upon Oath before the Commissioners of the Customs in the Port of London if such Offence be committed within the said Port or within the view and knowledge of any Officer of the Customs belonging thereunto and before the Chief Magistrate of the Place in the presence of the Chief Officer of the Port in any other Port one moiety of such Wares to be to the use of the Informer and the other part to the use of their Majesties LIV. Seamen and others concerned in any Prize shall be permitted to see and puruse the Accounts of any Prize without paying any other Fee than 1 s. for one Account at one time LV. If any Ship or Goods of the Product or Manufacture of the Dominions of the French King shall be taken by any Privateer by Collusion upon proof made thereof in the Court of Exchequer or Commission of Admiralty they shall be adjudged lawful Prize one moiety thereof to their Majesties and the other moiety to him that shall discover the same and the Bond given by the Captain of such Privateer is hereby adjudged to be forfeited If such Ships or Goods shall be taken by Collusion by any Man of War the Commander shall forfeit 1000 l. one moiety to their Majesties and the other to the Discoverer and such Commander shall forfeit his Command or Imployment and be uncapable of any Office under their Majesties during seven years and such Vessel and Goods shall be adjudged good Prize to their Majesties LVI In all cases where such Prize shall not be taken by any Private Man of War one tenth part thereof after deduction of their Majesties Customs and before any division of the proceed thereof shall be paid to the Treasurer of the Navy and by him kept apart to be disposed of by Warrant from the Commissioners of the Admiralty or Lord High Admiral for Medals and other Rewards for Officers and Seamen who shall do any extraordinary Service LVII In case any Man of War or Privateer take or destroy any French Man of War or Privateer they shall receive for every Piece of Ordinance in any Ship so taken or destroyed 10 l. to be paid by
the Commissioners for the Prizes out of their Majesties share of Prizes LVIII Provided that if the Commissioners do not pay the same or give a Bill payable out of the first Monies that shall come to their Hands by three days after the same ought to be paid and demand thereof made free of all Charges and Deductions such Commissioners shall be uncapable of any Office in their Majesties Service for the future LIX The shares proportions and rewards given by this Act to Commanders Officers and Seamen shall be in lieu of all Shares in Prizes taken in Fight and otherwise during this War any thing in an Act made in the 13th Car. 2. Entituled Articles and Ordinances for the regulating and Government of their Majesties Navy Ships of War and Forces by Sea or any Declaration or Order of their Majesties to the contrary notwithstanding LX. If any Person shall imbezil any thing whatsoever upon or above the Gun-Deck or in any other place in any Ship taken or seiz'd on as Prize or retaken from the Enemy he shall forfeit his share and reward hereby allowed him and if he be an Officer he shall forfeit for every such Offence 500 l. one moiety to their Majesties the other to him that will sue for the same and shall be uncapable of any Office or Employment under their Majesties for seven years LXI Ships taken as Prize within the Streights of Gibraltar may be carryed into Cadiz or Alicant or Messma or Naplet and be put into the possession of such as shall be authorized by their Majesties to receive and preserve the same till by the Court of Admiralty of England they be adjudged lawful Prize or otherwise legally disposed of the Captors being hereby required to transmit with all speed the Papers taken therein or attested Copies thereof to the said Court LXII Ships taken as Prize in America may be carried into any of their Majesties Ports there and put into the possession of the Chief Governor to be kept as aforesaid till they be disposed of by such as shall be lawfully commissioned in that behalf LXIII Ships taken in any place beyond the Cape of Good Hope may be carried into the Port or Place where any English Factory is established and put into the possession of the Chief Person of the Factory to be kept as aforesaid till condemnation by such as shall be commissioned in that behalf LIV. Where any Vessel shall be taken as Prize by a Privateer in which Vessel there shall be no Goods of the growth or manufacture of the Dominions of the French King then after condemnation and payment of Customs and other Duties the Persons interested in such Privateer shall have the whole to their own use without deduction for Tenths or any other part to their Majesties or the Lord High Admiral LXV Where any Vessel shall be taken within any of their Majesties Ports Rivers or Havens by any Privateer such Prize shall belong to their Majesties as a Perquisite of the Admiralty of England and the Captors to have such part thereof as their Majesties shall think fit to allow LXVI If any Vessel taken as Prize or any Goods therein shall appear to belong to any of their Majasties Subjects continuing under their Majesties Protection and Obedience which were before taken by their Majesties Enemies and retaken such Vessels and Goods and every such part thereof belonging to their Majesties Subjects shall be restored by Decree of the Court of Admiralty to the former Owners they paying in lieu of Salvage if retaken by a Man of War an eighth part of the value which Salvage shall be answered to the Captains Officers and Seamen in the said Man of War to be divided as in this Act is directed touching the share of Prizes belonging to them where Prizes are taken by any of their Majesties Ships of War and if taken by a Privateer or other Vessel after having been in possession of the Enemy twenty four hours an eighth part of the value if above twenty four hours and under forty eight a fifth part if above forty eight hours and under ninety six a third part if above ninety six hours a moiety all which Payments to any Privateer or other Vessel to be made without deduction and if such retaken Ship shall appear to have been set forth by the Enemy as a Man of War the former Proprietors shall pay the full moiety of the true value for Salvage LXVII If any Vessel whereupon Wool is laden to be transported contrary to Law be taken by any Privateer on proof thereof in the Exchequer the Persons interested in the Privateer shall have a moiety of the Vessels and Goods and their Majesties the other moiety LXVIII The Lord High Admiral or Commissioners of the Admiralty shall express all things by this Act directed to be observed concerning Prizes c. in the Instructions by them to be given to Captains and Commanders of their Majesties Ships of War and to Commanders of Privateers LXIX All Goods of the growth or manufacture of France imported and seized shall be sued for and prosecuted in the Exchequer in manner and form as is provided by an Act made in the 14th year of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for preventing Frauds in his Majesties Customs two thirds thereof to be to the use of their Majesties c. they defraying the Charges of the Prosecution and one third to the Prosecutor and no composition to be made for their Majesties part such Goods to be secured and sold as Prize Goods are appointed by this Act to be secured and sold LXX If the Commissioners of the Prizes or of the Customs shall detain the Shares belonging to Persons interested in Privateers two days after the same ought to be paid and demand thereof made free from all Deductions except for Ware-house-room and 2 l. per Cent. for all other Charges they shall forfeit double the Sum so detained Treason I. Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 13. If during the present War with France any Persons shall send load transport or deliver or cause to be sent loaden c. to or for the Use of the French King or any of his Subjects residing in his Dominions any Arms Ordinance Powder Bullets Pitch Tar Hemp Masts Cordage Iron Coals Lead or Salt-Peter such Offenders shall be adjudged Traytors II. If any during this War shall send load c. to the use of the French King or any of his Subjects residing c. any Goods or Merchandizes whatsoever other than the Goods herein before particularly mentioned they shall incur a Premunire III. If any of their Majesties Subjects shall after the 10th of March 1691. without their Majesties Licence voluntarily go or imbark in any Vessel with an intent to go into any the Dominions of the French King he shall be adjudged to be guilty of High-Treason IV. If any of their Majesties Subjects shall after the 25th of March 1692. voluntarily come or return from any of the
every Person and Persons Bodies Politick and Corporate Guilds and Fraternities having any Estate in ready Monies or in any Debts owing to them within this Realm or without or having any Estate in Goods Wares Merchandizes or other Chattels or Personal Estate within this Realm or without belonging to or in trust for them except out of the Premises such Monies as he or they do bona fide owe and such Debts owing to them as shall be adjudged desperate by the Commissioners appointed by this Act and also the Stock upon Lands and such Goods as are used for Houshold-stuff shall pay unto their Majesties 4 s in the Pound according to the true yearly value thereof for one year viz. for every 100 l. of such ready Mony and Debts and for every 100. l. worth of such Goods Wares Merchandizes or other Chattels or other Personal Estate the Sum of 24 s. and so after that rate for every greater or lesser Sum or quantity II. All and every Person and Persons All publick Officers their Agents except Officers in the Army to pay 4 s. in the Pound Commissioner or Commissioners having or exercising any Publick Office or Employment of Profit such Military Officers who are or shall be in Muster by the Muster-Master General of the Army or in Pay in their Majesties Army or Navy in respect of such Offices only excepted other than Governors Deputy or Lieutenant-Governors of any of their Majesties Garrisons Forts or Castles for their Salaries or Pay for the same Governments And also except such Persons in their Majesties Ordnance whose Salaries do not exceed 100 l. per Ann. and all and every their Agents Clerks Secondaries Substitutes and other inferiour Ministers whatsoever shall pay unto their Majesties the Sum of 4 s. for every 20 s. which he or they receive in one year by virtue of any Salaries Gratuity Bounty-mony Reward Fees or Profits to him or them accruing by reason or occasion of their several Offices or Imployments III. All real Estates chargeable as aforesaid All Manors Messuages Lands and Tenements as also Quarries Mines of Coal Tin or Lead Copper Mundick-Iron or other Mines Iron-works Salt-springs and Salt-works all Allom Mines or Works all Parks Chases Warrens Woods Under-woods Coppices and all Fishings Tithes Tolls Annuities and all other yearly Profits and Hereditaments of what nature or kind soever they be as well within ancient Demesn and other Liberties and priviledged Places as without shall be charged at 4 s. for every 20 s. by the year which the said Manors Messuages Lands Tenements Hereditaments and other the Premises are now worth to be leased if the same were truly and bona fide leased or demised at a Rack Rent and according to the full true yearly value thereof without any respect had to the present Rents reserved for the same if such Rents have been reserved upon such Leases or Estates made for which any Fine or Income hath been paid or secured or have been lessened or abated upon consideration of Mony laid out or to be laid out in Improvements and without any respect had to any former Rates or Taxes thereupon imposed or making any abatement in respect of Reparations Taxes Parish-Duties or any other Charges whatsoever To be paid quarterly to be paid by four quarterly Payments the first thereof to be made upon the 26th of March which shall be in the year 1694. IV. Deductions to be allowed And whereas many of the Manors Messuages Lands Tenements Tithes Hereditaments and Premisses intended by this Act to be charged with the Pound Rates as aforesaid stand incumbred with or are subject and liable to the payment of several Rent-charges or Annuities issuing out of the same or to the payment of divers Fee-farm Rents Rent-service or other Rents thereupon reserved or charged by reason whereof the true Owners of such Manors c. do not receive to their own use the true yearly value of the same for which nevertheless they are by this Act charged It is therefore hereby enacted That it shall be lawful for the Landlords and Proprietors of such Manors c. as are charged with the Pound Rate as aforesaid to deduct and keep in their Hands 4 s. in the Pound for every Fee-farm Rent c. charged upon or issuing out of the Premises or any part thereof And all Persons who are intituled to such Rents c. are hereby required to allow such Deductions upon receipt of the residue of such Monies as shall be due to them for such Rents or Annual Payments reserved as aforesaid V. Commissioners to make Assessors who are to return the Names of Persons and value of their Estates As also Collectors Penalty of neglect or refusal The Commissioners after their general Meeting and Charge given shall issue their Warrants to two at the least of the most sufficient Inhabitants of each Parish or Township within the respective Divisions requiring them to be Assessors of every the Rates and Duties by this Act imposed and shall prefix a certain day and place for the Assessors to appear before them and to bring in their Certificates in Writing of the Names and Sirnames of every Person dwelling within the Limits of those Places with which they shall be charged and of the value of every of them in ready Mony Debts Goods Chattels or other Personal Estate except before excepted or in publick Offices or Imployments And the same Assessors are also hereby required to inform themselves by all lawful ways of the full yearly value of all Manors Messuages Lands and Tenements as also of all Quarries Mines of Coal Tin or Lead Copper Mundick or other Mines Iron-works Salt-springs and Salt-works Allom-mines and Works Parks Chases Warrens Woods Under-woods and Coppices and all Fishings Tithes Tolls Annuities and other yearly Profits And of all Hereditaments of what nature soever lying or being in the Limits with which they shall be charged And being so thereof ascertained they are to assess the said Manors Lands and Premises before appointed to be charged after the rate of 4 s. for every 20 s. of the full yearly value as aforesaid and to bring with them a Certificate in Writing of their said Assessment And shall then also return the Names of two or more able Persons living within the Limits of those Parishes or Places where they shall be chargeable to be Collectors of the Monies to be paid to their Majesties by this Act for whose paying to the Head-Collector such Monies as they shall be chargeable withal the Parish wherein they are so imployed shall be answerable Penalty of Assessors for neglecting their Duty And if any of the Assessors as aforesaid appointed refuse to serve or make default at the time appointed for his Appearance not having a lawfull excuse to be witnessed by the Oaths of two credible Witnesses which two or more of the said Commissioners have power to administer or shall not perform his Duty every such Assessor
his Certificate the principal Commissioners of Excise shall pay it and if the Officer refuse to pay or give such Certificate he shall forfeit double the Sum. XI If any Person shall export beyond the Seas any Salt Mony repaid for Salt exported upon Certificate of the Officer as well Foreign as English or any Rock-Salt the Officer where the Salt was made taken out of the Pit or imported and the Duty thereof paid or secured shall upon demand gratis deliver a Certificate under his Hand and Seal that the Duty imposed by this Act on such Salt hath been duly paid or secured and then the Officer where the Salt is exported upon producing the Certificate and Oath made of the shipping of the said Salt and of it s not being relanded in England or Wales shall give a Debenture under his Hand for repayment of the said Duty which being produced to the Officer of the Place where the Duty on the said Salt shall have been paid or secured such Security shall be discharged and the Mony for the Duty of the said Salt shall be repaid upon demand by the said Officer without Fee XII All Salt imported by Sea or Land into England What shall be charged as Foreign Salt Scotch Salt where to be entred Wales or Berwick and not of the Product of any of the said Places shall be adjudged Foreign Salt and so chargeable And all Scotch Salt brought by Land into England shall be entred at Carlisle or Berwick under forfeiture of double the value XIII The Justices of Peace not concerned in making or selling Salt at every Easter and Michaelmas Sessions Justices of Peace to settle the Prices of Salt shall set the Prizes of Salt to be sold by the first Seller for the next half year and none to sell above those Prices under the Penalty of 5 l. and forfeiture of double the value to be levied by distress and sale of the Offenders Goods one half to the King and the other to the Informer XIV No Person shall be capable of acting as chief Commissioner for collecting the said Duties till he hath taken before one of the Barons of the Exchequer the Oaths appointed in the first year of K. William and Q. Mary Entituled Oaths of the Commissioners and other Officers An Act for abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and the Oath following You shall swear to execute your Office truly and faithfully without Favour or Affection and shall from time to time true Account make and deliver to such Person and Persons as their Majesties shall appoint to receive the same and shall take no Fee or Reward for the Execution of the said Office from any other Person than from their Majesties or those whom their Majesties shall appoint on that behalf The like to be taken by other Officers before two of the chief Commissioners or two Justices of Peace of the Place where he shall be appointed Officer mutatis mutandis XV. The General Issue may be pleaded by the Defendant on Suit General Issue to be pleaded and the Special Matter given in Evidence and if the Verdict pass for the Defendant or the Plaintiff be non-suit he shall have double Costs XVI No Certiorari to supersede No Certiorari shall supersede Execution or other Proceedings upon any Orders made by the said chief Commissioners or Justices of Peace in pursuance of this Act. XVII All Salt shall be measured by a Bushel of eight Gallons Winchester Measure Measures of Salt by fit Measurers sworn and admitted by some neighbouring Justice without Fee upon Forfeiture of double the value of Salt not so measured XVIII No Salt shall be delivered from any Salt-Works or Pits without notice to the Officer Salt not to be delivered without notice to the Officer upon forfeiture of the Salt so delivered and upon forfeiture of 20 l. by the Owner of the Salt-Works one half to the King and the other to the Informer XIX If any of the Salt for which the Duty shall have been repaid and discharged upon the Exportation thereof The penalty of relanding in England by Fraud shall by Fraud or otherwise be landed in England Wales or Berwick before the Duty be again paid and such Entry and all other things performed as are herein before required in case where any Foreign Salt is imported the Offender shall forfeit double the value of such Salt so landed and such other Penalties as are herein inflicted upon any Person landing Foreign Salt contrary to the intent of this Act. XX. If any Merchant being a Subject of this Realm Vessel lost or taken he may buy the like quantity without paying Duty shall ship any Salt that hath paid the Duty to convey it by Sea to any part of England and the Vessel shall happen to be lost or taken he shall upon proof before the Justices at Quarter-Sessions of such loss have a Certificate of it and upon producing the same to any Collector of this Duty the Officer shall let him buy the like quantity without paying any Duty for the same XXI The Owners of any Rock-Salt may remove the same into Ware-houses When the Owner of Rock-Salt shall pay or secure after due entry thereof made and a Warrant or Ticket taken for the same from the Officer next to the Salt-Pits and the Owner shall not be obliged to pay or secure the payment of the said Duty till the said Rock-Salt shall be sold and delivered XXII No Person shall be obliged by Contract before the first of December 1693. Buyer not to deliver till payment secured to deliver any Salt or Rock-Salt unless the Buyer at the time of the delivery pay to the Seller such Mony as he hath paid or secured for the Duty XXIII All Salt made in Cheshire shall be entred by Weight only Salt made in Cheshire how to be entred Pit-Salt how to be entred Refiner of Rock-Salt his allowance 56 l. weight shall be taken to be a Winchester Bushel of eight Gallons Winchester Measure and shall be entred and taxed accordingly And all Salt taken out of the Pits shall be entred by weight only and that six-score pounds weight thereof shall be deemed a Winchester Bushel of eight Gallons Winchester Measure and entred accordingly And where any Rock-Salt shall be melted and resined which had before paid the Duty the Refiner shall have allowance after the rate of 12 d. per Bushel Oath being first made before some Justice of the Peace of the particular quantity by him so imployed XXIV This Branch of the Act concerning Excise upon Beer Ale Cyder and other Liquors herein after expressed over and above all Duties and Impositions by any former Act unexpired commenceth from the 17th of May 1697. and continues for sixteen years and no longer in manner following viz. Â l. s. d. Every Barrel of Beer or Ale above 6 s. the Barrel by the Common Brewer or Seller over and above
the said Corporation their respective Heirs Executors or Administrators in proportion to their respective Shares or Subscriptions wherein Judgment may be recovered as if Security were given in their private Capacities any Condition Covenant or Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding And if any such shall be made to the contrary it is hereby declared void XIX Corporation not to Trade The Corporation to be made shall not Trade or suffer any Person in Trust for them to trade with any of the Stock-Monies or Effects of the Corporation in the buying or selling of any Merchandizes or Goods whatsoever Penalty for Trading And every Person so trading or by whose Order such Trading shall be made shall forfeit treble the value of the Goods and Merchandizes so traded for to such Person as will sue for the same in any of their Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster Bills of Exchange Mortgages c. excepted But the Corporation may deal in Bills of Exchange and in buying or selling Bullion Gold or Silver or in selling Goods mortgaged to them and not redeemed at the time agreed on or within three months after or such Goods as shall be the produce of Lands purchased by the Corporation XX. All Bills obligatory and of credit Bills under Seal of the Corporation shall transfer the Property under the Seal of the said Corporation made to any Person or Persons shall and may by Endorsement thereon under the Hand of such Person or Persons be assigned and so toties quoties and such Assignment shall transfer the Property and Right to the Bill and Monies due upon the same and the Assignee may sue in his own Name XXI Governor not to lend more to their Majesties than by Parliament directed If the Governor or other Members of the Corporation to be established shall upon the Account of the Corporation at any time or times purchase any Lands or Revenues belonging to the Crown or lend to their Majesties their Heirs or Successors any Sum of Mony by way of Loan or Anticipation on any part of the Revenue now granted or hereafter to be granted other than such part only on which a Credit of Loan is or shall be granted by Parliament Then the said Governor or Members so consenting to lend being thereof lawfully convict shall for every such Offence forfeit treble the value of such Sum so lent whereof one fifth part shall be to the Informer to be recovered in any of their Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster and the residue to be disposed of towards Publick Uses as shall be directed by Parliament and not otherwise XXII All Amerciaments Fines and Amerciaments not to be pardoned After Estreatment may detain so much Fines and Issues against the said Corporation upon Account of any Suits or Action to be brought against them shall not be pardoned or discharged by any Letters of Signet Privy Seal or Great Seal or otherwise And if such be estreated into their Majesties Exchequer against the said Corporation then the Officers of the Exchequer who are to pay the yearly Sum of 100000 l. to the said Corporation may out of that detain so much as the said Amerciaments Fines or Issues amount unto XXIII Officers of the Exchequer may satisfie the execution of a Judgment against the Corporation If any Person shall obtain a Judgment in any Court of Law against the said Corporation for any Debt or Sum of Mony and shall bring Execution thereupon unto the said Officers of the Exchequer Then the said Officers may pay and are required to pay the Sum in the Execution mentioned to the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs therein named or their Assigns whose Receipt shall be a Discharge for the same And the said Officers may detain so much of the yearly Sum of 100000 l. as the Debt shall amount unto XXIV Members of the House c. Any Member of the House of Commons may be a Member of this Corporation XXV Any Person Native or Foreigner may contribute towards the advancing of the Sum of 300000 l. by paying into the Receipt of the Exchequer before the 29th of September 1694. any Sum not exceeding the Sum of 300000 l. upon the Terms following Every such Person his Executors Administrators or Assigns out of the Rates and Duties granted by this Act shall have and receive for every Sum of 100 l. so advanced and paid such yearly Annuity and Payment as herein after is directed 14 l. per Ann. upon a single life 12 l. upon 2 and 10 l. upon 3 Lives for each 100 l. advanced If such Contributor shall advance and pay his Mony upon one Life only then he shall have and receive a yearly Annuity or Payment of 14 l. for every 100 l. If upon two Lives then of 12 l. If upon three Lives then of 10 l. and so proportionably for a greater Sum during the Life or Lives or Life of the Survivor the Life or Lives to be nominated by the Person or Persons so paying the same And that the Lives be nominated by the several Contributors The Lives to be nominated within 30 days after the 29th of Sept 1694 their Executors or Administrators or such as shall be employed by them to pay in the said Sums within thirty days after the 29th of the said September 1694. which yearly Annuity shall commence from the said 29th of September and shall be paid quarterly at the four most usual Feasts of the year by equal Portions And every Person on payment of such Sum or Sums as aforesaid The Annities to be paid quarterly Tallies for the payment of the same shall immediately have one or more Tally or Tallies importing the Receipt of the Consideration Mony and Orders for the payment of the said Annuities bearing the same date with the Tally The said Tallies to be levied and the said Orders to be signed in the same manner as in and by an Act of this present Parliament Entituled An Act for the granting to their Majesties certain Rates and Duties of Excise upon Salt and upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for securing certain Recompences and Advantages in the said Act mentioned to such Persons as shall voluntarily advance the Sum of 1000000 l. towards carrying on the War against France is mentioned and directed touching Tallies and Orders to be given to Contributors for Annuities upon the said Act And the said Orders not to be determinable Orders not to be countermanded revocable or countermandable as touching the aforementioned Orders in the said recited Act is enacted which said Orders shall be assignable in such and the same manner as is mentioned in the said recited Act touching Orders given to the Contributors in the said Act mentioned And all the Rates and Duties by this Act granted or so much thereof as shall be sufficient are and shall be appropriated for the payment of the said Annuities after the several and respective Rates aforesaid and not to be