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B05174 Act concerning the pre-emption and excise of salt. At Edinburgh, the 25. of November, 1673. Scotland. Parliament. Committee of Estates. 1673 (1673) Wing S1072; ESTC R183878 1,419 1

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I 7 R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE ACT Concerning the Pre-emption and Excise of SALT At EDINBURGH the 25. of November 1673. THe King 's most Excellent Majesty having from the constant affection and care which He hath alwayes had of the concerns of this His Ancient Kingdom Resolved further to gratifie His good Subjects by such Grants and publick Laws as He shall judge to conduce most for their good and advantage And understanding by the prosecution and management of the Pre-emption of Salt within this Kingdom that the same hath been occasion of trouble and burden to His Subjects His Majesty doth therefore Annull and Discharge the said Pre-emption and all Pre-emptions of Salt in time coming and Declares the same and all Acts Commissions or other warrands whatsomever authorizing it to be from and after the first day of December this presen● year one thousand six hundred and seventy three vacated void and ●ull And in order thereunto His Majesty with advice and consent of His Estates of Parliament Doth hereby Rescind and Annull all and sundry the Contracts which in prosecution of this Pre-emption were entred into by the Salt-masters and these persons who by warrand of the Commissioners of His Majesties Thesaurie contracted with them for the sale of their Salt And declares the saids Contracts and every of them to be void and null after the said first of December next to come It is alwayes hereby declared that these Contracts are to stand good to all intents and purposes therein contained for all the Salt that is or shall be made before the said first day of December Likeas the King's Majesty for the en-couragement of the Manufacture of Salt and for the further ease of His good Subjects Doth hereby declare all Salt made or to be made within this Kingdom to be henceforth free from payment of Excise And further His Majestie with advice foresaid allowes the importation of forraign Salt And Statutes and Ordains that ilk boll of forraign Salt of Linlithgov measure shall pay fourty shillings Scots of Excise whether the Salt be imployed on Fishes or not and that security shall be given at the entrie of the Salt that this Excise duty shall be compleatly payed within year and day after the importation thereof And in consideration of the Exemption which the forraign Salt employed on Fishes had from Excise formerly His Majesty Declares That all exported Fishes whether Herring Salmond or others shall be in time coming free from the paiment of Custom Likeas His Majesty with advice foresaid doth Inhibit and Discharge the Collectors and Farmers of Excise upon any pretext to give any ease or abatement of the said fourty shillings of Excise imposed upon ilk boll of Forraign Salt under the pain of deprivation if they be Collectors and the loss of the bneefit of their tack of the Excise if they be Farmers and of such further punishment as the Lords of Exchequer shall think fit to inflict And to the end it may be known what quantities of Forraign Salt are truely entred His Majesty with advice foresaid Ordains the severall Collectors of Excise from time to time to make patent to any of the Owners of Salt or these having their Warrand their Books in so far as concerns the entrie of Forraign Salt And if the Salt-owners or their Factors shall find any quantity conceal'd or imbezel'd or that there is abatement given of the duty that are hereby warranded to pursue the transgressours before the Lords of Exchequer And shall have for their own use the equal half of the seisure-concealment or abatement respective which shall be so discovered by them And His Majesty doth with advice foresaid Rescind and Annull any former Acts of Parliament or clauses therein relating to the Excise of Salt which are inconsistent with and prejudicial unto the intent of this Act And Declares that so long as the Excise continues this shall be the constant rule for regulating the Excise of Salt and the custom thereof to continue as it is in the Book of Rates EDINBURGH Printed by Andrew Anderson Printer to the King 's most Excellent MAJESTY Anno 1673.