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.
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
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
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-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
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
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
Payment of Debts that shall be incurred by reason of the War LXI The Three Ships afore mentioned to be built within a year from the Twentieth Day of March next LXII Their Majesties may use any Sum or Sums not exceeding 500000 l. in the whole Granted in this Session and not particularly Appropriated so as it be Repaid and Applied to the Carrying on the present War out of such Moneys as shall arise from Their Maieslies Revenue before the 24th Day of March 1691. LXIII Stat. 3. u. M. cap. 1. An Act for Granting to Their Majesties certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for One Year EXP. LXIV Stat. 3. W. M. cap. 15. No Corn Distiller or Maker of Low-wines Spirits or Strong-waters for Sale shall at any Time after the 1st Day of March 1691 Set up Use or Alter any Tun Cask or other brewing Vessel for brewing or making any Worts Wash Low-wines Spirits or Strongwaters for Sale or use any private or conceal'd Ware-house or other place for laying of any Wash Low-wines c. without giving Notice thereof to the next Office of Excise within the Limits where he inhabits on Pain to Forfeit 20 l. for every Tun c. so Set up Used or Altered and for every private Ware-house c. and every other Person in whose Occupation any House or other Place shall be where any such private Tun c. shall be found shall Forfeit 20 l. one Moiety to Their Majesties and the other Moiety to the Informer LXV If any such Corn Distiller c. shall Conceal or Convey away any Low-wines Spirits c. from the Sight or View of the Gaugers he shall Forfeit for every Gallon so Conceal'd or Convey'd 5 s. All which Penalties shall be Sued for and Recovered as by an Act made in the 12th Year of the Reign of the late King Charles 2 d Entituled An Act for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries c. and another Act made in the Fifteenth Year of his Reign Entituled An Additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Duties of Excise c. or by any other Law in force Relating to the Revenue of Excise on Beer and Ale is directed LXVI Stat. 4. W. M. cap. 3. From and after the 25th Day of January 1692. there shall be paid to Their Majesties Their Heirs c. during the space of Ninety nine years for the Liquors herein after Expressed over and above all Duties now Chargeable upon the same For every Barrel of Beer or Ale above 6 s. the Barrel 9 d. For every Barrel of Beer or Ale of 6 s. or under 3 d. For every Barrel of English Vinegar 1 s. and 6 d. For every Barrel of Vinegar made with or passing through Foreign Materials or any mixture with Foreign Materials 4 s. For every Barrel of Beer Ale and Mum Imported 3 s. For every Tun of Cyder or Perry Imported 4 l. For every Gallon of Single-Brandy Imported 6 d. For every Gallon of Double Brandy 1 s. For all Cyder and Perry made and sold by Retail upon every Hogshead 1 s. and 3 d. For all Metheglin or Mead made for Sale by Retail or otherwise for every Gallon 3 d. LXVII The said Impositions to be paid to Their Majesties c. in the same Manner and Form and by such Rules and under such Penalties as are mentioned in the Act of 12 Car. 2. Entituled An Act for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries c. and in another Act made in the same year Entituled A Grant of certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for the Increase of His Majesties Revenue during his Life and in another Act made in the 15th year of the same Kings Reign Entituled An Additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Duty of Excise c. or by any other Law in Force relating to the Revenue of Excise LXVIII The Commissioners and Governours for the management of the Excise at the Head Office in London shall keep apart the moneys arising by the Duties hereby granted as the same shall be paid in and shall pay weekly every Wednesday if it be not a Holy-day and then the day after into the Exchequer all the said moneys distinct from the other moneys which they shall receive for Their Majesties Use LXIX There shall be kept in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipts one Book in which all the said weekly moneys shall be entred apart from other moneys LXX If the said Commissioners and Governours neglect or refuse to pay the said weekly Sums as aforesaid or misapply any of the same they shall forfeit their Offices and be incapable of any Office or Place of Trust and shall pay the full Value of any Sum or Sums so misapplied to any that will sue for the same LXXI The Sums appointed to be paid in weekly as aforesaid shall be the yearly Fond for the purposes hereafter mentioned LXXII Any persons Natives or Foreigners may contribute toward the advancing the said Sum of 1000000 l. at any time before the 1st day of May 1693. Sum or Sums and upon such Terms as are hereafter expressed viz. That out of the moneys arising by this Act the Sum of 100000 l. yearly till the 24th day of June 1700. be kept apart as the yearly Fond to be divided amongst the Persons so contributing and from and after that day 70000 l. shall be yearly kept apart as the yearly Fond to be divided as herein-after is mentioned That every Contributor shall advance 100 l. at least for which he is to name his own or some other life during which life he shall receive a Share of the said Fond as is hereafter expressed That every Contributor may advance as many Sums of 100 l. as he please for which he is to name one or more life or lives so as no more lives be named then there are distinct Hundred Pounds advanced during which life or lives he shall receive so many Shares of the said Fond as he shall have advanced Hundred Pounds all the said lives to be named within 14 days after the 24th of June 1692. That in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipts and of the Clerk of the Pells there be kept one or more Book or Books in which shall be entred the Contributors Names and the Names of those by whose hands they pay in the said moneys and the Sums paid and the time when and the Names of the Nominees To which the Contributors c. may have resort and inspect the same without Fee or Reward The Contributors and Nominees to be described by their Christian and Sirnames Additions Places of Abode c. Every Contributor shall have a Talley levied importing the Receipt of the money and an Order for payment bearing date with the Tally signed by the Commissioners of the Treasury or any three or more of them or by the Treasurer of the Exchequer which shall be valid notwithstanding the
Defendant Costs unless the Judge before whom it shall be Tryed shall at the Tryal in open Court certifie upon Record that there was a reasonable Cause for such Information And in case the Costs be nor paid within Three Months after they are Taxed the Defendants shall have the Benefit of the said Recognizance to compel the payment thereof II. No persons who are or shall be outlaw'd in the said Court for any thing except Treason or Felony shall be compelled to appear in Person to Reverse the same but may appear by Attorney and Reverse the same without Bail except where Special Bail shall be Ordered by the Court. III. And if any person so Outlaw'd be taken upon a Cap. Utlagatum the Sheriff who hath taken him in all Cases where Special Bail is not required by the said Court may take an Attorneys Engagement under his Hand to appear for him and to Reverse the Outlawry and thereupon may discharge the Defendant and where Special Bail is required the Sheriff may take Security of the Defendant by Bond with one or more Sureties in double the Sum for which Special Bail is required and no more for his Appearance at the Return of the Writ and to do and perform such things as shall be required by the Court and after such Bond taken may discharge him IV. If any person so Outlaw'd and Taken upon a Cap. Utlagatum shall not be able within the return of the said Writ to give Security whensoever such Prisoner shall find Surety for his Appearance by Attorney at some return in the Term then next following to Reverse the Outlawry c. the Sheriff may discharge him V This Act shall not extend to Informations in the Name of Their Majesties Coroner or Attorney commonly called the Master of the Crown-Office VI. Upon the Demise of any King or Queen of this Realm all Pleas to Informations shall stand without calling the Defendants to plead anew unless the Defendants request the Court for that purpose within Five Months after such Demise Ireland and Irish-men I. Stat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 29. No Ecclesiastical person Promoted or Beneficed in Ireland and who hath been forced to forsake that Kingdom being of the Protestant Religion who is or shall be presented c. to any Benefice or Promotion in England shall by acceptance thereof lose any Benefice or Promotion in Ireland but may hold the same till he may and shall be restored to his Promotion or Benefice in Ireland so as he may enjoy the same as before the troubles II. Provided that if such Ecclesiastical person so promoted here shall not within Three Months after the Courts of Justice in Ireland shall be open and furnished with Protestant Judges resign his Benefices and Preferments here and give notice thereof to the Patrons the same shall be void and the Patrons may Present or Collate again III. Such Ecclesiastical person so Promoted to any Benefice c. here shall be exempted from First-Fruits and Tenths IV. Stat. 1. W. M. Sess 2. cap. 9. The persons now or of late Assembled at Dublin without any Authority derived from Their Majesties calling themselves a Parliament were not nor are a Parliament but an Unlawful and Rebellious Assembly and all Acts and Proceedings whatsoever Made Done or Passed in the said pretended Parliament shall be adjudged null and void and no Act Statute Judgment Outlawry Decree Sentence Order or other Proceedings since the 13th Day of February 1688. Had Made Passed Pronounced or Done or to be Had Made Passed Pronounced or Done by any persons whatsoever by colour of any Commission Writ Power or Authority in Ireland other then such as have been or shall be given by or derived from Their Majesties shall be of any Force or Effect V. All Cities Boroughs and Towns and all Bodies Corporate Ecclesiastical or Temporal in Ireland are hereby declared to be Restored to all Intents and Purposes as they were upon the 24th Day of June 1683. any Proceedings against them by Quo warranto Scire facias c. on any Proceedings Judgments or Executions thereon or any New Charter Grant Commission or any Surrender or other Acts since that time to the contrary notwithstanding All which Writs Suits Proceedings Judgments Seizures Executions Charters Grants Commissions and Surrenders are hereby declared Void VI. No persons whatsoever of the Protestant Religion shall be liable to any Loss Forseiture or Prejudice in Estate Office Person or otherwise by reason of their absence out of Ireland at any time since the 25th of December 1685. or for Non-payment of Rent or any other Duty due to Their Majesties or the Crown out or by reason of any Lands Tenements Rectories Tythes or Church Livings since the 25th of December 1688. till such time as the said Kingdom shall be declared by Their Majesties to be Reduced to Their Obedience VII The Protestants of Ireland shall be and are hereby Restored to all their Possessions Ecclesiastical and Temporal in such manner as they or those under whom they Claim had the same on the 25th Day of December 1688. and Pesons detaining such Possessions after a Demand by the Party grieved may be proceeded against as in a Case of a forcible Detainer VIII Stat. 3. 4. W. M. cap. 2. No person Residing in Ireland shall be obliged to take the Oath of Supremacy by virtue of the Statute of primo Eliz. but the Statute and every other Statute for so much as concerns the said Oath are hereby Repealed IX The Oaths Required by this Act to be taken after the 1st Day of January next 1691. shall be taken by the Persons herein after mentioned and such others as were Required by the said Act or any other Statute made in Ireland to take the said Abrogated Oath before such Persons and in such Court as is hereafter expressed viz. Archbishops and Bishops and others of or above the Degree of a Baron of Parliament there and others having any Promotion Office or Employment Ecclesiastical Civil or Military or receiving any Pay Salary Fee or Wages by reason of any Grant from the Crown or being Master Governor Head or Fellow of the University of Dublin or Master of any Hospital or School or Barrister at Law Clerk in Chancery Attorny or Professor of Law Physick or other Science residing in Dublin or within thirty Miles thereof in Hillary-Term next in the Court of Chancery or Kings Bench there between 9 and 12 in the Forenoon and all the said Persons inhabiting at a greater distance at the General Quarter-Sessions where they reside between 9 and 12 before the 25th of July next and shall make subscribe and repeat the Declaration herein after mentioned all which to be put upon Record paying 1 s. And Archbishops Bishops and others having any Ecclesiastical Promotion or being a Lecturer or Curate neglecting so to do shall be ipso facto deprived and be incapable to be Lecturer or Curate any where and others having any Office
next Justice of Peace by two Witnesses or upon Certificate under Hand of the Commissary of the Musters or Chief Magistrate as aforesaid made to such Justice shall be committed to the House of Correction for ten days and have his Ear cut off by the Gaoler or Keeper thereof If any Person lend a Horse to be mustered not belonging to the Troop such Horse shall be forfeited to the Informer if it belong to the Person lending if not the Lender shall forfeit 20 l. upon Oath made by two Witnesses before the next Justice of Peace XIV The said Forfeiture to be to the Informer to be paid out of the Arrears of such Officers Pay as shall so offend upon Conviction before a Court-Martial by Order of the said Court to the Pay-Master if such Officer have any Arrears and if there be no Arrear the Court-Martial shall give order to seize such Officers Goods and sell them rendring the overplus and if he have no Goods he shall be sent to the Common Gaol to remain there six months and the Court-Martial shall discharge such Informer if he be a Souldier from any farther Service if he demand it XV. If any Pay-Master Clerk or Agent of a Regiment Troop or Company shall for a month detain the Pay of any Officer or Souldier Cloaths and other Allowances deducted or if any Officers shall refuse to pay each Common Souldier their respective Pay when due if themselves have received it at the rate of 17 s. 6 d. a Week for a Corporal or light Horse 14 s. a Week for a Trumpeter and private Trooper 8 s. 2 d. a Week for a Dragoon 7 s. a Week to a Sergeant 5 s. a Week to each Corporal and Drummer and 4 s. a Week to each private Souldier of the two Regiments of Foot-guards and 6 s. a Week to each Sergeant 4 s. 6 d. a Week to each Corporal and Drummer and 3 s. a Week for each Foot Souldier in the Army and over and above the said 3 s. a Week shall at every two Months end account for 6 d. a Week to each Foot-Souldier upon proof thereof before a Court-Martial as aforesaid such Pay-Master c. shall be discharged from his Employment and forfeit 100 l. to the Informer to be raised as aforesaid and be disabled to hold any Civil or Military Office or Employment and the Informer if a Souldier shall be discharged of any farther Service if he demand it XVI The commanding Officer of every Troop or Company at Musters shall bring a Certificate of the Names of such as are sick or have leave to be absent of such as are dead or deserted since the last Muster and if such Certificate prove false the Officer signing it shall suffer the Penalties hereby inflicted for making false Musters XVII If any Officer shall Muster any Officers Servant or any Person by a wrong Name knowingly upon conviction thereof before a Court-Martial he shall suffer the Penalties hereby inflicted for making false Musters XVIII During the continuance of this Act Constables Tythingmen Headboroughs and other Chief Magistrates of Cities Towns and Villages may Quarter and Billet Officers and Souldiers in Inns Livery-Stables Ale-houses Victualling-houses Houses selling Brandy Strong-waters Sider or Metheglin by retail to be drunk in their Houses but in no private Houses Nor shall more Billets be ordered than there are effective Souldiers present to be quartered If any Magistrate shall Billet any Officer or Souldier in any private House without consent of the Occupier such Occupier shall have his Remedy at Law to recover his Damage sustained thereby And if any Military Officer shall take upon him to quarter Souldiers otherwise than is hereby allowed or shall use Menace or Compulsion upon any Civil Officers afore-mention'd to deter them from performing their Duty herein upon conviction by the Oaths of two Witnesses before two or more Justices of Peace and the said Justices Certificate thereof to the Judge Advocate who is hereby obliged to certifie the same to the next Court-Marshal such Officer shall be taken to the ipso facto cashiered and disabled to hold any Military Employment XIX Officers and Souldiers so billetted shall pay such reasonable prices as shall be appointed by the Justices of Peace in their Quarter-Sessions and the Justices of Peace are required to set Rates for Provisions for one or more Nights in their marching and for the first Night only in Places appointed for their Residence XX. Officers taking Mony for excusing quartering shall be cashiered and made incapable of any Military Employment XXI From and after the 10th of March 1692. no Pay-Master or other Officer shall receive any Fees or make any Deductions out of the Pay of any Officer or Souldier which shall grow due after the said 10th day of March other than the usual Deductions for Cloathing and the 12 d. in the pound to be disposed as their Majesties think fit and one days Pay in the Year for the use of Chelsey-Colledge XXII This Act shall be read at the Head of every Regiment Troop or Company at every Muster that no Souldier may pretend Ignorance XXIII Officers receiving Pay or Subsistence-Mony for Regiments Troops or Companies shall upon the receipt of every Sum give notice to all Inn-keepers and other Persons where Officers and Souldiers are quartered and appoint them to repair to their Quarters at such times as they shall appoint for distribution thereof which shall be within four days after they have received it and such Inn-keepers and other Persons shall be paid off what Debts are owing to them before any part of the said Pay or Subsistence be distributed to the Officers or Souldiers XXIV Provided such Debts exceed not for a Commission Officer of Horse under the Degree of a Captain for Dyet and small Beer Hay and Straw per diem 2 s. and for such a Commission Officer of Dragoons 1 s. and 6 d. nor for such a Commission Officer of Foot 1 s. and if such Officers shall have a Horse or Horses for each Horse 6 d. per diem nor for one Light-horse-mans Dyet and small Beer and Hay and Straw per diem 1 s. nor for one Dragoon 9 d. nor for a Foot Souldiers Dyet and small Beer 4 d. and if any Officer shall not give notice as aforesaid and upon producing such Accounts pay the same upon Oath made thereof by two Witnesses at the next Quarter-Sessions the Pay-masters of their Majesties Forces are hereby required upon Certificate of the said Justices of the Sums due upon such Accounts and the Persons to whom owing to satisfie them out of the Arrears due to such Officer on pain to lose their Places and to be disabled to hold them for the future And if there be no Arrear the Pay-masters shall deduct what they shall pay pursuant to such Certificate out of the next Pay or Subsistence-Mony of the Regiment to which such Officer belongs and such Officer shall be ipso facto cashiered and when the
such Penalties and Forfeitures as in the Acts made in the 12th year of King Charles II. and the 15th of the same King are mentioned or by another Law in force relating to the said Revenue of Excise and the Clauses in the said Acts to be of force for and concerning the Duties hereby granted as if particularly recited in the Body of this Act. IX The Commissioners of the Excise Monies arising by these Duties to be kept apart and the Commissioners and other Officers of the Customs at the Head-Office in London shall separate and keep apart all the Monies arising by these Duties as the same shall from time to time arise or be paid into the said Office of Excise or unto the Receiver-General of the Customs and the Comptroller of the Excise and of the Customs or their respective Deputies shall keep a distinct account in Books fairly written of all those Rates and Duties to which all Persons shall have free access at all reasonable times gratis Holidays no pay-days And the Commissioners of the Excise and Customs are to pay weekly upon every Week if it be not a Holiday and then the next day after that is not a Holiday Monies how to be paid these Monies into the Receipt of the Exchequer distinct and apart from other Monies they shall receive and in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipt one Book shall be kept in which all the said Weekly Monies shall be entred apart Commissioners neglecting or misapplying their Forfeiture And if the Commissioners shall refuse or neglect to pay into the Exchequer all or any of the said Weekly Sums in such manner as hereby required or shall divert or misapply any part of the same or if such Comptroller shall neglect his Duty in keeping such Accounts then he or they shall forfeit their respective Places and be incapable of any Place of Trust or Office whatsoever and such Commissioner shall be liable to pay the full value of any Sum diverted or misapplied to any Person that shall sue for the same in any of their Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster Necessary Charges to be deducted Their Majesties out of the Duties may allow Salaries and incident Charges as shall be necessary for receiving collecting and managing the same Duties Head-Office to continue in London or within ten miles The Head-Office of Excise now in London shall be continued there for ever or within ten miles thereof And likewise for ever shall be continued there or within the same distance a Comptroller of the Excise the Commissioners of Excise and Comptroller to be appointed by their Majesties their Heirs and Successors X. What shall be the yearly Fond. That yearly and every year reckoning the first year to begin from the 1st of June 1694. the full Sum of 140000 l. out of these Monies by the said Duties of Tunnage and Excise and to be brought into the Receipt of the Exchequer by weekly payments in case the weekly payments shall extend thereunto shall be the whole and intire yearly Fond. In case of deficiency how to be supplied And in case the said weekly payments shall not amount to so much then as far as they will extend shall be part of the yearly Fond for and towards the answering and paying of the Annuities and other Purposes in this Act after mentioned And in case of deficiency by the said Duties of Tunnage and Excise to discharge and satisfie the Annuities and other Benefits and Advantages by this Act appointed or intended to be paid within any one year to be reckoned as aforesaid or if they shall not amount in their weekly payments to so much as 140000 l. within such time then the deficiency shall be made good out of any Treasure or Revenue belonging to their Majesties their Heirs or Successors not being appropriated to any particular Uses by any Act of Parliament and that to be issued and paid without any farther or other Warrant but to be done by virtue of this Act towards the discharging and paying of the said Annuities and Benefits as together with the Monies brought into the said Receipt for the Duties hereby granted shall compleatly pay off the same within the year respectively grown due And the yearly Sum of 140000 l. arising by and out of the said Impositions and Duties hereby granted shall be kept separate and apart in the Receipt of the Exchequer to be paid from time to time unto such Person or Persons and in such manner proportion and form as is herein after directed XI Their Majesties to appoint Commissioners to take Subscriptions Their Majesties by Commission under the Great Seal of England may authorize and appoint any number of Persons to take and receive all such voluntary Subscriptions as shall be made on or before the first day of August 1694. by any Person or Persons Natives or Foreigners Bodies Politick or Corporate for and towards the raising and paying into the Receipt of the Exchequer the Sum of 1200000 l. part of the Sum of 1500000 l. And that the yearly Sum of 100000 l. part of the said yearly Sum of 140000 l. rising by the said Duties and Impositions shall be applied issued and directed and is hereby appropriated to the use of such Persons and Bodies Politick as shall make such voluntary Subscriptions and Payments their Heirs Successors or Assigns in the proportion hereafter mentioned that is to say The Monies how to be divided and proportioned That each weekly or other payment rising out of the Duties and Impositions by this Act granted shall by the Auditor of the Receipt of Exchequer from time to time as the same shall be paid in be separated and divided into five seventh parts and two seventh parts which is according to the proportion of the said yearly Sum of 100000 l. to the said yearly Sum of 140000 l. which five seventh parts of the said several payments arising by the Duties of this Act and so set apart are appropriated towards the payment of the said yearly Sum of 100000 l. and shall from time to time be issued and paid to the uses of the Subscribers and Contributors towards the raising and paying into the Receipt of Exchequer the Sum of 1200000 l. XII The 200000 l. and 100000 l. to be assigned or transferred Their Majesties by Letters Patents under the Great Seal may limit direct and appoint in what manner and proportions and under what Rules and Directions the said Sum of 200000 l. and the said yearly Sum of 100000 l. and every or any part or proportion thereof may be assignable or transferrable assigned or transferred to such Person or Persons only as shall freely and voluntarily accept of the same and not otherwise The Contributors to be incorporated and to incorporate all and every such Subscribers and Contributors their Heirs Successors and Assigns to be one Body Corporate and Politick by the Name of Governor and