shall be charged upon the Credit of the Exchequer in General and Tallies of Loan and Orders of Repayment levied which Orders shall be assignable LXXXV All Sums of Money so to be borrowed with Interest for the same not exceeding 7 l. per Cent. or so much thereof as shall not be repaid out of the Money that shall be advanced upon the Terms herein mentioned at or after the 24th day of June 1693. and before the 29th of September following all which Moneys to be advanced between the said 24th of June and 29th of September shall be appropriated for the discharging the Loans made upon this Act shall be satisfied to the Lenders out of any of the next Aids to be granted in Parliament and shall be transferrable as soon as such Aid shall be granted And in case no Aid be granted before the 2d of February 1693. the said Sums shall be satisfied out of any of Their Majesties Treasure not already appropriated by Act of Parliament LXXXVI And if the Sum of 500000 l. part of the said Sum of 1000000 l. be not advanced before the 1st of May 1693. Their Majesties may borrow upon Interest as aforesaid any Sum not exceeding 500000 l. to be paid out of such Moneys as shall be advanced upon this Act between the said 1st day of May and the said 29th day of September in case the Money so advanced be sufficient or otherwise so much thereof as the same shall extend to pay and the residue of the said Sum of 500000 l. shall be reckoned as part of the said Sum before directed to be paid out of the next Aids to be granted in Parliament LXXXVII If the whole Sum of 1000000 l. be not advanced before the said 1st day of May any persons after that day and before the 29th of September next following may advance any Sums not exceeding in the whole with what shall have been advanced before the said 1st day of May the Sum of 1000000 l. upon the Terms following viz. That every such Person out of the Duties arising by this Act shall have for every 100 l. a yearly Annuity of 14 l. for his own or any other Life to be by him nominated as aforesaid within 6 days after Payment which Annuities shall commence from the 29th of September 1693. and be paid at the Four most usual Feasts in the year And upon Payment of any such Sums the Persons paying the same shall have one or more Tallies importing the Receipt thereof and Orders for Payment c. to be sign'd as aforesaid and not to be revocable and to be assignable And the Moneys arising by the Duties hereby granted besides so much as shall bear proportion as aforesaid to the Sum which shall be advanced before the 1st day of May 1693. shall be appropriated to the Payment of the said Annuities and not be diverted under the like Penalties as are before appointed in case of misapplying c. The said Officers shall keep Books and make Entries of their Names who shall advance Money after the said 1st day of May and of the Sums advanced and the times of paying in and the Names of the Nominees without Reward to which Books all Persons concern'd shall have access under the Penalties and Disabilities aforesaid and they that shall advance any Sum after the said 1st of May shall have Interest for it till the 29th of Septem 1693. at the rate of 10 l. per Cent. LXXXVIII If any Contributor who shall have advanced any Sum before the said 1st of May shall before the said 29th of September be desirous in lieu of his Share in the Fonds to have an Annuity of 14 l. a year for any Sum of 100 l. by him advanced during the Life of his Nominee a Memorial thereof shall be entred in a Book for that purpose to be kept in the Receipt and the said Entry being sign'd by such Contributor he shall receive such Annuity as if the Moneys by him advanced had been paid in after the 1st day of May And such Contributors Share in the Fonds shall determine for Their Majesties Benefit LXXXIX The Surplus of any Money arising by this Act after the several Proportions of the Fonds and the Annuities and Interest paid shall be to the Use of Their Majesties XC No Moneys lent or payable by Virtue of this Act shall be charged with any Impositions whatsoever XCI Grants or Dispositions of any Money arising by this Act to be made by Their Majesties Their Heirs c. otherwise then by this Act is appointed shall be null and void Frauds I. STat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 14. All Wills concerning Lands or any Rents Profits Term or Charge out of the same whereof the Devisors shall be seiz'd in Fee-simple in Possession Reversion or Remainder or have power to dispose thereof after the 25th day of March 1692. shall be deemed only as against Creditors upon Bonds or other Specialties their Executors c. to be fraudulent and void II. And such Creditors shall have their Actions of Debt against the Heirs at Law and such Devisees joyntly and such Devisees shall be chargeable for a false Plea as any Heir should have been III. Where there shall have been any Devises of Lands for Payment of just Debts or Childrens Portions other then the Heir at Law in pursuance of any Marriage Agreement made in Writing bona fide before such Marriage they shall be in force IV. Where any Heir at Law shall be liable to pay the Debt of his Ancestor in regard of any Lands descending to him and shall make over the same before any Action brought such Heir shall be answerable for such Debts to the Value of the Land made over in which Cases all Creditors shall be preferred as in Actions against Executors and Administrators and Execution upon any Judgment so obtained shall be taken out against such Heir to the Value of the Land as if they were his own Debts saving that Lands bona fide aliened before the Action brought shall not be liable to such Execution V. Where any Action of Debt upon a Specialty is brought against an Heir he may Plead Riens per discent at the time of the Original Writ brought and the Plaintiff may Reply that he had Lands from his Ancestor before the Original Writ brought and if upon Issue joyn'd thereon it be found for the Plaintiff the Jury shall enquire of the Value of the Lands descended and thereupon Judgment shall be given and Execution awarded as aforesaid but if Judgment be given against such Heir by Confession without Confessing the Assets descended or upon demurier or nihil dicit it shall be for the Debt and Damages without any Writ to enquire of the Lands VI. Devisees made liable by this Act shall be Chargeable as the Heir at Law by force of this Act though the Lands Devised be Aliened before the Action brought VII This Act to continue for Three Years and to the End of the then
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
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
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
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 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
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-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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
for every 100 weight of Steel containing as aforesaid 5 s. 6 d. and so in proportion for every 100 weight of Anvils containing as aforesaid 9 s. 3 d. and so in proportion for every hundred of single white or black Plates 4 s. 4 d. and so in proportion For every hundred of double white or black Plates 8 s. 8 d. and so in proportion for every Harnessplate or Iron double 1 s. 4 d. for every 100 weight of Iron drawn or hammered less then three quarters of an Inch square and all other Iron Ware manufactured containing as aforesaid 5 s. Provided that no manufactured Iron Ware hereby charged to pay by the Piece or Hundred weight shall be liable to pay by the Tun. And for every 100 weight of Brass Latten or Copper-Wire containing as aforesaid 15 s. and so in proportion XXIV For every Last of Hemp-seed Cole-seed and Rape-seed 4 l. XXV For all Yarn of Flax or Hemp other then Cable-Yarn an additional Duty of as much as is now charged in the Book of Rates for every 100 weight of Cable-Yarn 5 s. and so in proportion XXVI For all manufactures of Glass except Rhenish and Muscovia Window-glass 3 s. for every 20 s. value above what is already charged XXVII For every 100 weight of Molosses containing as aforesaid imported from any other place then the English Plantations in America 8 s. XXVIII For every 100 weight of Tallow containing as aforesaid 5 s. and so in proportion for every 100 weight of Tallow-Candles containing as aforesaid 10 s. and so in proportion XXIX For every pound of Bever-wooll cut and comb'd except Wooll comb'd in Russia and imported thence in English Vessels 15 s. XXX For every Barrel of Pot-ashes containing 200 weight neat 8 s. and so in proportion XXXI For every 100 weight of Cordage ready wrought containing as aforesaid 5 s. and so in proportion XXXII For every Tun of Olive-Oyl imported 4 s. and so in proportion XXXIII For every Ream of Royal Paper 2 s. of Blue Paper Demy Paper and painted Paper 1 s. 6 d. for every Bundle of Brown Paper 2 d. and for all other Paper as much more as is now charged in the Book of Rates XXXIV For every 100 weight of Liquorice containing 112 pounds 18 s. and so in proportion for every such 100 weight of Liquorice Powder 1 l. 17 s. 4 d. for every pound weight of Juice of Liquorice 1 s. and so in proportion XXXV For every 100 weight of Barilla or Saphora containing 112 pound 2 s. 6 d. and so in proportion XXXVI For every 100 weight of Sope containing as aforesaid 10 s. and so in proportion XXXVII For all Earthen Ware not mentioned in the Book of Rates 2 s. 6 d. for every 20 s. value XXXVIII For every 100 weight of Starch containing ut supra 20 s. and so in proportion XXXIX For every 100 weight of Allom containing ut supra 2 s. 6 d. and so in proportion XL. For every 100 weight of Brimstone containing ut supra 4 s. 8 d. and so in proportion XLI For every 100 weight of Tin containing ut supra 30 s. and so in proportion XLII Where any Duties upon Goods and Merchandize hereby granted are to be levied according to the value the value shall be taken according to the Books of Rates if such Goods are particularly there rated if not the value shall be taken by the Importers Oath the Duties hereby imposed not to be reckon'd into the value XLIII For all additional Duties hereby imposed the Importer giving security shall have 12 Months time where the same is not otherwise limited for payment thereof by four quarterly payments or upon present payment shall have 10 l. per Cent. abated him And if such Goods or Merchandize be again exported within a Twelve Month the additional Duty shall be repaid and Security vacated XLIV The Duties hereby imposed shall not affect such foreign Stores as have been sold for the use of the Navy by Contract with the Navy-board or Commissioners for the victualling before the 15th day of November 1690. XLV The Duties hereby imposed shall be raised collected and paid in manner and form and by such Rules and under such Penalties and Forfeitures as are mentioned in the Act of Tonnage and Poundage Anno 12 Car. 2. and the Rules and Orders thereunto annexed XLVI Any persons may advance Money to Their Majesties upon the Security of this Act at 8 l. per Cent. for forbearance and no more XLVII All Moneys that shall be paid into the Exchequer by virtue of this Act shall be registred apart and distinct from all other Moneys payable upon any other Branch of the Revenue And they that lend Money on the Credit of this Act shall have Tallies of Loan struck for the same and Orders for repayment bearing date with their Tallies in which Orders there shall be Warrants for payment of Interest at the Rate of 8 l. per Cent. per Annum to be paid every Three Months such Orders to be registred in course without preference And all persons shall be paid in course according as their Orders stand entred No Fee Reward or Gratuity shall be 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 with Costs of Suit and the Officer demanding any such Fee 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 fore-judged his Place or Office XLVIII If several Tallies of Loan or Orders for payment bear date or be brought the same day to the Auditor of the Receipt it shall be no undue preference which he enters first so he enters all the same day XLIX Nor shall it be interpreted any undue preference if the Auditor direct and the Clerk of the Pells record and Tellers pay subsequent Orders of persons that come and demand their money 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 L. Moneys due by virtue of this Act After Order entred in the Register may by Endorsement of the Order be assigned and transferred and the Assignee may in like manner assign and so toties quoties But such Endorsement must be notified in the Office of the Auditor of Receipt and an Entry or Memorandum made thereof in the Book of Register for Orders LI. Sat. 2. W. M. Sess 2. cap 5. The several Impositions and Duties upon Wines and Vinegar granted by an Act made in the 1st year of the late King James II. shall be continued from the 23th of June 1693. until the 24th of June 1696.
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
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
required to make upon the Information of One Credible Witness upon Oath the Moiety of such Forfeiture to the Informer the other to go towards the Repairing of the High-ways and in such case the Justices shall nominate some other fit Persons to perform the Office who shall upon like notice take upon them the Office under the same Penalty And Constables Headboroughs c. or some of them who shall not return such Lists of Names every one of them so neglecting shall forfeit 20 s. to be levied in the manner and imployed to the Uses aforesaid III. No Persons shall lay in any High-way not 20 Foot broad any matter whereby the same may be obstructed or annoyed on pain to forfeit 5 s. to be levied and disposed as aforesaid IV. If any Timber Stone Hay Straw Stubble or other Matter for making Dung or on any other Preâ—ence shall be laid in any such High-way the Possessors of the Lands next adjoyning shall remove and dispose of the same to their own Use And if they neglect to clear the way or to cleanse their Ditches c. adjoyning thereunto or to cause the earth taken thereout to be carried away and to lay sufficient Trunks or Bridges where there are Cart-ways into the said Grounds by the space of Ten days after notice given by any of the Surveyors they shall sorfeit 5 s. for every such Offence to be levied and disposed as aforesaid V. No tree Bush or Shrub shall be permitted to grow in any High way not 20 Foot-broad but shall be cut down by the Owner of the Land where it stands within Ten days after notice given by any of the Surveyors on pain to forfeit 5 s. to be levied and disposed as aforesaid VI. The Possessors of Lands adjoyning to High-ways not 20 Foot broad shall keep their Hedges pruned right up from the Roots VII Surveyors appointed as aforesaid shall within Fourteen days after their Acceptance of this Office and so from time to time every Four Months view the Roads Water-courses Bridges Cawseys c. within the Parish c. where he is a Surveyor that are to be repair'd by the Parish c. and present upon Oath in what Condition they find them to some Justice of Peace or to incur the same Penalty as if they had refused to execute the Office unless they have some reasonable Excuse to be allowed of by Two Justices of the Peace And what Defaults they shall find they shall the next Sunday after Sermon ended give publick notice of in the Parish-Church and if the same be not amended within Thirty days after such Surveyors shall within Thirty days amend the same and dispose of the Annoyances for the Repair of the High-ways and shall be reimbursed their Charges by the party who should have done the same And in case of refusal by the Party to pay such Charges the Surveyors shall apply themselves to a Justice of Peace and upon Oath before him made of notice to the Defaulter given as aforesaid the Surveyors shall be repaid such Charges as the Justice of Peace shall think reasonable to be levied as aforesaid VIII The Justices of Peace shall once in Four Months hold a Special Sessions and summon thereunto all the Surveyors of the High-ways and declare to them what they are obliged to do by Virtue of this or any former Act After which the Surveyors shall make a Presentment to them upon Oath of the state of the High-ways within their respective Parishes c. and what Offences and Neglects any are guilty of And before any Surveyor be discharged of his Office he shall at some such Special Sessions give an Account upon Oath of all Money that has come to his hands which ought to be imployed in amending the High-ways and how it has been disposed and if any remain in his hands he shall deliver it to the next Surveyors or in case of Failure shall forfeit double the Value to be levied and disposed as aforesaid IX Surveyors neglecting their Duty in any thing required by this Act shall forseit for every Ofence 40 s. to be levied and disposed as aforesaid X. If any Justice of Peace shall neglect or refuse to do what this Act requires he shall forfeit 5 l. one Moiety to the Prosecutor the other to be imployed for the Amendment of the High-ways where the Person who sues shall inhabit to be recovered in any of Their Majesties Courts of Record by Action of Debt c. XI Surveyors of the High-ways where the Ditches and Drains already made are not sufficient to carry off the water may make new ones through the Lands adjoyning and keep them open and come upon the Grounds with Workmen for so doing XII Upon notice given by the Surveyors to the Justices at their Special Sessions and Oath made of what Sums they have expended in Repairing the High-ways the Justices or any Two of them may by Warrant cause an equal Rate to be made to reimburse them where they are forced to lay out their Money according to the Methods prescribed in an Act made the 43 of Eliz. Entituled An Act for the better Relief of the Poor of this Ringdom and if any refuse to pay what shall be assessed on him the Surveyors shall levy the same by Distress or Sale of Goods XIII No Fine Issue Penalty or Forfeiture for not amending High-ways shall be returned into the Exchequer or other Court but shall be levied into the hands of the Surveyors to be applied towards the Amendment of such High-ways And if any such Fine c. imposed on any Parish c. for not repairing the High-ways shall be levied on one or more of the Inhabitants upon Complaint to the Justices of the Peace at their Special Sessions they or any two of them may by Warrant cause a Rate to be made to reimburse them which the Surveyors shall levy and pay within a Month after the making thereof XIV The Surveyors shall make every Cart-way leading to any Market-Town Eight Foot wide at least and as near as may be level XV. Inhabitants within the Weekly Bills of Mortality Brewers Scavengers and others imployed in carrying away the Dirt and Soil of the Streets c. may use any Cart Carr or Dray with Wheels shod with Iron and narrower then 6 Inches in the Fellies and drawn with more then Two Horses any Act Law or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding XVI Where the Justices of Peace at their General Quarter-Sessions shall be satisfied that the High-ways c. cannot be sufficiently amended without the help of this Act Assessments upon Persons usually rateable to the Poor shall be made and levied by such Persons and in such manner as the Justices at such Sessions shall direct and appoint the Money to be raised to be imployed according to their Orders for repairing the High-ways c. The said Assessments if not paid within Ten days after Demand to be levied by Distress and Sale of Goods rendring 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
any Ecclesiastical Court for not conforming to the Church of England IV. Provided always that if any Assembly of Persons dissenting from the Church of England shall be had in any place for Religious Worship with the Doors locked barred or bolted the persons that shall be at such Meetings shall receive no benefit from this Law V. Nothing herein contained shall exempt any Persons from paying Tithes or other Parochial Duties to the Church or Minister nor from any prosecution in any Ecclesiastical Court or elsewhere for the same VI. If any person dissenting from the Church of England shall be chosen or appointed to any Parochial or Ward-Office and shall scruple to take it upon him in regard of the said Oaths or any other thing required by Law such person may execute his Office by a Deputy that shall comply with the Laws in that behalf such Deputy to be allowed and approved as such Officer himself should have been VII No person dissenting from the Church of England in Orders or pretended Orders nor any Preacher or Teacher in any Congregation of Dissenting Protestants that shall make and subscribe the Declaration and take the Oaths aforesaid at the General Quarter-Sessions held for the Parts where he lives and shall declare his approbation of and subscribe the Articles of Religion mentioned in a Statute made in the 13th year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth except the 34th 35th and 36th Articles and these words of the 20th Article viz. The Church hath power to decree Rites and Ceremonies and Authority in Controversies of Faith and yet shall be liable to any of the Pains or Penalties mentioned in an Act made in the 17th year of the Reign of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for restraining Non-conformists from inhabiting in Corporations nor the Penalties mentioned in the said Act of the 22th of the said Kings Reign for preaching at any Meeting for exercise of Religion nor to the penalty of 100 l. mentioned in an Act made in the 13th and 14th of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for the uniformity of Publick Prayers and administration of Sacraments c. for officiating in any Congregation allowed by this Act. VIII The making and subscribing the said Declaration and taking the said Oaths and making the Declaration of approbation and subscription to the said Articles shall be recorded at such Quarter-Sessions for which 6 d. shall be paid and no more IX Such persons shall not preach in any place but with Doors not locked barred or bolted X. And whereas some dissenting Protestants scruple the Baptizing of Infants Be it enacted That every person pretending to Holy Orders who shall subscribe the said Articles of Religion except before excepted and also except part of 27th ARticle touching Infant-Baptism and shall take the Oaths and make and subscribe the Declaration aforesaid as aforesaid shall enjoy all the Priviledges Benefits and Advantages which any other dissenting Minister might enjoy by virtue of this Act. XI Ministers Preachers or Teachers of Congregations that shall take the Oaths and make and subscribe the Declaration aforesaid and subscribe such of the Articles of the Church as are hereby required shall be exempt from serving upon Juries or from being chosen or appointed to any Parochial or Ward-Office or any other Office in any Hundred Shire City Town c. XII Every Justice of Peace may require any person that goes to any Meeting for exercise of Religion to make and subscribe the said Declaration and take the said Oaths or Declaration of Fidelity hereafter mentioned in case such person Scruple the taking an Oath and upon refusal shall commit such person to prison and certifie his Name at the next General or Quarter-Sessions and if upon a second tender at next General or Quarter-Sessions he refuse as aforesaid he shall be recorded and taken for a Popish Recusant convict XIII And whereas there are other Dissenters who scruple the taking any Oath such persons shall make and subscribe the said Declaration and this Declaration of Fidelity viz. I A. B. do sincerely promise and solemnly declare before God and the World That I will be ture and faithful to King William and Queen Mary And I do solemnly promise and declare That I do from my Heart abhor detest and renounce as Impious and Heretical that damnable Doctrin and Position That Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope or any Authority of the See of Rome may be deposed or murthered by their Subjects or any other what soever And I do declare That no Foreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Power Jurisdiction Superiority Preheminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm and shall subscribe a profession of their Christian Belief in these Words viz. I A. B. profess Faith in God the Father and in Jesus Christ his eternal Son the true God and in the Holy Spirit one God blessed for evermore and do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine Inspiration which Declarations and Subscriptions shall be recorded at the General Quarter-Sessions and Persons making and subscribing the two Declarations and Profession aforesaid shall be exempted from the penalties of the Laws against Popish Recusants or Protestant Non-conformists and from the penalties of an Act made in the 5th year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Entituled An Act for the assurance of the Queens Royal Power over all Estates and Subjects within her Dominions by reason of their refusing to take the Oath mentioned in the said Act and from the penalties of an Act made in the 13th and 14th years of King Charles II. Entitutled An Act for preventing Mischiefs that may arise by certain Persons called Quakers refusing to take lawful Oaths and enjoy the Benefits Priviledges and Advantages which other Dissenters ought to enjoy by virtue of this Act. XIV Persons refusing to take the said Oaths when tendred shall not be admitted to make and subscribe the said two Declarations though required by a Justice of Peace at a General oâ— Quarter-Sessions unless within 31 days after such tender of the Declarations to them they produce two Protestant Witnesses to testifie upon Oath that they believe him to be a Protestant Dissenter or a Certificate under the Hands of four Protestants who are conformable to the Church of England or have taken the Oaths and subscribed the Declaration aforesaid and a Certificate under the Hands and Seals of six or more of the Congregation to which he belongs owning him to be one of them XV. Till such Certificate or Witnesses be produced the Justice of Peace shall take a Recognizance with two Sureties in 50 l. for producing the same and for want of security shall commit him to prison till he produces the same XVI All the Laws made for frequenting Divine Service on the Lords-day shall be still in force against all persons except they come to some Assembly of Religious Worship allowed by this Act.
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
all Sheriffs Mayors Bailiffs Constables and other Officers are required to be aiding in the execution of this Act No Officer whatsoever relating to the Customs shall sign suffer or allow of any Warrant or Order for delivering of any Goods prohibited by this Act to any Person or into any Place other than into one of their Majesties Ware-houses there to remain till Judgment pass according to this Act nor shall any Person whatsoever relating to the Customs by virtue or colour of any Warrant or Order take up or deliver any the said Goods or suffer them to be carried to any other place than one of the Kings Ware-Houses there to remain as aforesaid And such Goods brought into the Kings Ware-houses shall be forthwith viewed in the presence of two or more principal Officers of that Port whereof the Collector Customer or Customers Deputy to be one and the marks and numbers of each Vessel or Package and the quality and quantity of the said Goods and the time when brought in and of their delivery out of the said Ware-houses shall by special direction of the Commissioners or other Chief Officers of the Customs be registred in a Book to be kept for that purpose and for entry of Claims which examination shall be repeated and entred as aforesaid after condemnation at the delivery of them out to be destroyed and compared with the first Entry to prevent Fraud or Imbezilment and if any such be found the same to be entred and subscribed in the said Book by the principal Officer of the Port not having charge of the Ware-house and Copies of the Entries Examinations and Claims and a true Certificate of the deduction of the said Goods shall be transmitted to the Commissioners of the Customs with monthly Abstracts of the said Ports of which a distinct account shall be kept by the Officers of the Seizures in the Port of London IV. Such Goods shall not be delivered out of any the said Ware-houses till a Judgment or Condemnation have passed upon them otherwise than to be produced at a Trial to be had touching the unlawful importing the same or for the recovery of any Penalty incurred thereby V. If any Person not being a known Merchant Vintner or Shop-keeper shall after the first day of September 1689. sell or expose to sale any of the Commodities hereby prohibited they shall over and above the Penalties aforesaid suffer twelve months Imprisonment VI. Vessels with all their Guns and Furniture in which any such Commodities shall after the said 24th day of August be imported and every Bark Lighter or other Vessel out of which they shall be put on Shore shall be forfeited and the Master or other Person taking care of such Vessel for the Voyage or out of which any of the said Commodities shall be unshipt into any Hoy c. to be put on Shore shall forfeit 500 l. and also being apprehended by a Justice of Peace's Warrant and the Fact proved before one or more Justices by the Oath of two Witnesses shall be committed to the next Gaol for twelve months and Seamen Watermen Carmen and other Persons assisting in the landing or conveying any of the said Commodities by Land or Water shall upon examination and proof as aforesaid be subject to like Imprisonment or be publickly whipt at the Justices discretion and the Carts Teams Carriages Horses and Oxen made use of in such Carriages or Conveyance may be seiz'd and stay'd and upon proof before Justice of Peace by the Oaths of two Witnesses that they were made use of in moving or conveying any Goods hereby prohibited to be imported they shall be forfeited the one half to the use of the Poor of the Parish the other to his use that shall seize the same and if the Master or other Person belonging to any Vessel laden or part laden with any the said Commodities shall after the said 24th day of August unship or wittingly suffer to be unshipt any the said prohibited Goods either at Sea or in any Harbor Creek or Bay of the Kingdoms aforesaid he shall forfeit 500 l. and suffer Imprisonment as aforesaid VII No Brandy Aqua-vita Spirits or distilled Waters of any place whatsoever shall after the said 24th of August be imported in England or Ireland or any the said Islands on pain to forfeit the fame and the Ship or Vessel in which it shall be imported VIII The values and prices of the said Goods shall be reckoned as followeth viz. A Tun of Wines 30 l. a Tun of Brandy 40 l. and so proportionably Other Commodities aforesaid that are valued in the Book of Rates shall be esteemed according to their value there and the Prices of Commodities not rated there shall be determin'd by the Jury that shall try the cause or shall be empannelled to enquire whether the Goods were of the Product or Manufacture of the French Kings Dominions and in case of Condemnation by default the value to be determin'd by a Jury return'd before the Mayor or Bailiff of the City or Town Corporate or before the next Justice of Peace where the Goods shall be brought IX Persons prosecuting shall be rewarded with one third part of the value of the Goods prosecuted to condemnation and destruction to be Owners X. And the residue of the Forfeitures and Penalties before mentioned and not before disposed of shall be divided into three parts two thirds to their Majesties and one third to such as shall seize or sue for the same the Charge of such Prosecution to be born by their Majesties and issued by the Receiver General of the Customs by Warrant from the Commissioners XI No Foreigner or other Person shall be admitted to claim any of the said Goods till security given to the satisfaction of the Collector to answer to such Penalties as shall be incurred by him as the Importer or which the Owner Importer or Possessor thereof is shall or may be liable to by this Act. XII If any Person belonging to the Customs shall connive at the Importation of any the said Commodities he shall not only forfeit 500 l. to be recovered as aforesaid but be made incapable of any Office or Imployment under their Majesties and forfeit the Penalties of their Bonds for true performance of their Trust XIII Any Persons by Writ of Assistance under the Seal of the Exchequer may take a Constable or other publick Officer and in the day-time enter into any House Shop Cellar Ware-house c. and in case of resistance may break open Doors Trunks or other Package to seize and bring to their Majesties Ware-house any of the said Commodities XIV The Attorny General and other Persons seizing and prosecuting as aforesaid may use such method and course of proceeding as may be used about the seizing trying and prosecuting any Goods or Commodities for non-payment of Customs or other Duties or any Persons for offending against the Laws relating to Customs and Persons prosecuted for any thing done about the putting
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
Person of the Age of sixteen years or upwards and being now withing this Realm who hath not taken the Oaths mentioned and upon Summons under the Hand and Seal of any two or more of the said Commissioners appointed by the first above-mentioned Act shall refuse to take the said Oaths at the time appointed in such Warrant or shall neglect to appear at such times before the Commissioners in order to take the said Oaths shall doubly be assessed the Rates above-mentioned XXVI Gentlemen to be taxed by a former Act and not paying the Penalty Every Gentleman or so reputed or owning or writing himself such or being above that Quality who by virtue of an Act made in the third year of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for raising Mony by a Poll payable quarterly for one year for carrying on a vigorous War against France did pay or ought to have paid double the Sums charged by the said Act or were or ought to have been returned into the Exchequer for non-payment thereof who shall not voluntarily appear before the said Commissioners or any two or more of them within ten days after the first Meeting of the said Commissioners and take the said Oaths appointed by the said Act made the first year of their Majesties Reign shall be doubly assessed as above XXVII Quakers to subscribe the Declaration Provided nevertheless that whereas certain Persons called Quakers and now known to be such do scruple the taking of any Oath It shall be sufficient for every such Person to subscribe the Declaration of Fidelity contained in an Act of Parliament held in the first year of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for exempting their Majesties Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws and every Person so doing shall not be chargeable with any of the double Rates aforesaid XXVIII Lands to be above 20 s per ann No Person shall be liable to the Pound-rate imposed by this Act upon Lands Tenements or Hereditaments whose Lands Tenements or Hereditaments are not of the yearly value of 20 s. in the whole XXIX Master of the Rolls c. where to be charged The Master of the Rolls Masters in Chancery Six Clerks Clerks of the Petty Bag Examiners Registers Clerks of the Inrolment Clerks of the Affidavits and Subpoena Office or any other the Officers of the High-Court of Chancery that execute their Offices in the Liberty of the Rolls are to be assessed there and not elsewhere XXX Penalty of Collectors detaining Mony If any Collector shall keep in his Hands any part of the Mony by him collected for any longer time than by this Act directed or pay any part thereof to any other Person than the Head-Collector or Receiver-General of such place every such Collector shall forfeit 10 l. And if any Head-Collector shall detain in his Hands or pay any Mony to any other than the Receiver-General of such Place every such Head-Collector shall forfeit 40 l. And if any Receiver-General or his Deputy shall pay such Monies or any part thereof paid to him by this Act to any Person whatsoever other than the Receipt of their Majesties Exchequer within the times limited by this Act such Receiver General or his Deputy shall forfeit the Sum of 1000 l. XXXI Changing Abode after Assessment If after Assessments on personal Estates according to this Act any Person shall remove to any place where such Person was not taxed the Commissioners acting within such place are hereby impowred to summon such Person before them and unless he or she shall produce a Certificate made according to the Directions of this Act whereby it may appear that he or she have paid all their precedent quarterly Payments the said Commissioners are hereby required to cause such Persons to be assessed for such quarterly Payments as remain unassessed to be assessed and paid according to the true intent of this Act. XXXII The King may borrow upon this Act at 7 l. per Cent. It shall and may be lawful for any Person Native or Foreigner Bodies Politick or Corporate to lend to their Majesties upon the security of this Act any Sums of Mony and to receive for the forbearance thereof any Sum not exceeding 7 l. per Cent. for one whole year and that no Mony so lent shall be rated by virtue of this Act. XXXIII No Rector or Vicar chargeable except above 30 l. per Ann. No Rector or Vicar who has the Cure of Souls and actually resides upon his Rectory or Vicaridge upon the account of such his Rectory and Vicaridge only shall be charged by this Act unless his Rectory or Vicaridge does really and truly exceed the value of 30 l. per annum or unless he hath more than one Rectory or Vicaridge Additional Supply for 118506 l. 5 s. 10 d. I. Stat. 5 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 5. That it shall and may be lawful for any Persons Natives or Foreigners to contribute towards the advancing the Sum of 118506 l. 5 s. 10 d. to make up the whole Sum of 1000000 l. granted to their Majesties by an Act made this present Parliament intended to be advanced by paying into their Majesties Exchequer at any time before the first day of May 1694. any Sum or Sums of Mony not exceeding in the whole the Sum of 118506 l. 5 s. 10 d. as followeth viz. That every Person out of the Rates and Duties of Excise granted by the said Act of 1000000 l. 14 l. per Cent. for own Life or Nominees shall have and receive for every Sum of 100 l. by them respectively advanced and paid a quarterly Annuity Rent or Payment of 14 l. and proportionably for a greater Sum for and during the life of such Person so advancing or paying the same or during any other life to be nominated by the Person advancing or paying any such Sum as aforesaid Within what time to be nominated the same to be nominated within six days after payment of such Sum which yearly Annuities Rents or Payments shall commence from the 24th of June next ensuing and shall be paid and payable at the four most usual Feasts of the year viz. The Annuntiation of the Blessed Virgin Mary the Nativity of St. John Baptist the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel and the Feast of the Birth of our Lord Christ and every Person on payment of such Sum or Sums as aforesaid Tallies to be given on receipt of the Monies and Orders thereon which may be transferred or assigned and not to be revoked 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 the said Act is mentioned touching Tallies and Orders to be given to the Contributors for
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
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
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.
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
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