Use And the Orders for repayment of Loans to be Assignable CXVI All Hammer'd Moneys brought into any of the Mints not being Base or Counterfeit such being to be cut in pieces and return'd shall be Received at 5 s. 4 d. per oz. and duly Entred and a Receipt thereof given in Writing and shall be Recoin'd into Mill'd Money and the Produce thereof with the help of such Moneys as shall be Raised or Imprested by this Act Charges deducted shall be paid back to the bringers in of such Hammer'd Moneys CXVII All such Hammer'd Moneys brought in upon Taxes at 5 s. 8 d. per oz. shall in like manner be Received Entred Specified Essayed and New Coined and Charges deducted deliver'd back to the respective Receivers and Collectors who brought in the same to be by them paid into the Exchequer with an Allowance of the Deficiency in Recoining CXVIII The Moneys so brought in at 5 s 4 d. per oz. or for Taxes or Revenues shall be repay'd in course and not diverted or misapplied under the penalty of loss of Place to the Officer so offending and forfeiting treble Damages to the party grieved CXIX The clear Moneys arising by this Act shall be applied to the making good the said Allowance of 5 s. 4 d. per oz. for Hammer'd Moneys and the deficiencies of the said Loans made in Hammer'd Moneys and the Encouragement for bringing in Wrought Plate to be Coin'd and the Charge of Recoining and shall not be diverted to any other Use CXX Provided That if this Act raise more than 125000 l. clear then the Overplus shall be brought into the Exchequer and not disposed of but by Authority of Parliament CXXI After 25 Mar. 1697. no persons shall use any White Linen Rags for making of Brown or Course Paper but only for Writing or Printing Paper under the penalty of 5 l. CXXII Stat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 20. Enacted That the Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage c. granted anno 12. Car. 2. to the said King for Life and continued anno 6 W. 3. for Five Years from 26 Decemb. 1694. be continued to 1 Aug. 1706. And that the Acts made anno 12 14 Car. 2. relating to the Customs and the Act ann 22. Car. 2. relating to Tillage and Breed of Cattel and the Acts anno 25 Car. 2. for taking off Aliens Duties and relating to the Greenland Eastland and Plantation Trades and the Act anno 1 Jac. 2. for improvement of Tillage and all the Clauses therein or in the Act anno 6 W. 3. relating to the Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage be of full Force and Effect till the said 1 Aug. 1706. CXXIII That the Duties upon Wines and Vinegar granted 1 Jam. 2. for Eight Years and since continued by several Acts to 29 Septemb. 1701. be further continued till 1 Aug. 1706. CXXIV That the Duties on Tobacco granted anno 1 Jac. 2. for eight Years and since continued by several Acts to 29 Septemb. 1701. be further continued till the said 1 Aug. 1706. under the Rules and Directions relating thereunto in the Act anno 7 8 W. 3. CXXV That the Additional Impositions upon East-India and other Goods granted anno 2 W. M. and since continued by several Acts to 29 Sep. 1701. be further continued till the said 1 Aug. 1706. under the Directions of the said Act ann 2 W. M. not otherwise altered or provided for by any subsequent Acts now in being CXXVI That the Additional Impositions on several Goods and Merchandizes granted ann 4 5 W. M. for four years be continued to the said 1 Aug. 1706. under the Rules of the said Act subject to the Exceptions and Provisions in this present Act viz. That the Additional Duty of 20 s. per Tun for Lapis Calaminaris exported be only 2 s. And that Barr-Iron unwrought or Slit or Hammered Rod-Iron imported from Ireland other than Swedish or Foreign Iron be discharged of the Impositions laid on the same by this or the said Act 4 5 W. M. And that the Alterations made by any other Acts in being touching the said Impositions be observed CXXVII That the Duties on Vellum Parchment and Paper Granted ann 5. 6 W. M. for four years from 28 Jun. 1694. be continued till 1 Aug. 1706. under the Rules of the said Act except where altered by any other Act. CXXVIII That the Duties on Marriages Births and Burials c. granted ann 6 7 W. 3. for 5 years from 1 May 1695. be continued till the said 1 Aug. 1706. under the Rules of the said Act. CXXIX And that the Duties on Houses granted 7 8 W. 3. for seven years from 25 March 1696. be continued till the said 1 Aug. 1706. under the Rules of the said Act. CXXX His Majesty may constitute Surveyors or Inspectors of the said Duties on Marriages Births and Burials and upon Houses and Windows who shall certifie the Neglects or Failures in the Assessments of those Duties to the Commissioners that so all persons may be duly Assessed accordingly CXXXI That the Duties on Batchelors and Widowers who are Servants in Husbandry be paid by the Master or Mistress and deducted out of their Wages That Houses inhabited by two or more Families be charged as if Inhabited by one Family only That every Edifice in the Inns of Court or Chancery be charged as an intire House according to their several Tenures or Occupations And that every House left to the care of any Person or Servant be charged as an Inhabited House CXXXII And for restoring of Credit c. Enacted That the present Stock of the Bank of England be enlarged by new Subscriptions of Natives Foreigners or others But that before such Enlargement and before the Twenty fourth of July 1697. the said Stock shall be computed by seven of the present Members and seven of the new Subscribers or in Default thereof by the Lord-Keeper at any time before 24 Aug. 1697. And if the clear Stock amount not to 1200000 l. the old Members to make it up in Talleys Orders Bank Bills or Notes but if it exceed 1200000 l. then the Surplus to be divided among the said old Members CXXXIII Seven or more of the Commissioners appointed by his Majesty for that purpose shall take such new Subscriptions before 24 Jun. 1697. in Books to be provided before 2 Apr. 1697. and in such convenient House or Houses in London and Westminster as they shall provide and give publick notice of CXXXIV Four Fifths of each particular Subscription shall be at the time of Subscribing answered by Talleys or Orders upon the first third or fourth Aids of 4 s. per pound the Quarterly Poll three fourths of the Customs the Salt Act two thirds of the Additional Excise the Additional Impositions the Parchment Act the 300000 l. per ann on Tunnage and Poundage the Duties on Marriages Births and Burials c. on Wines Vinegar and Tobacco c. on Joint Stocks c. on Low
the Action shall not abate if such Action might be originally Prosecuted against his Executors or Administrators and the Executors or Administrators of such Plaintiff after such Interlocutory Judgment may have a Scire facias against the Defendant if Living or if Dead against his Executors or Administrators to shew cause why Damages should not be Assest and Recovered against him or them and if he or they do not appear at the Return and shew sufficient Cause to Arrest the Final Judgment or being Returned Warned or upon Two Writs of Scire facias it being Return'd that the Defendant had nothing whereby to be Summon'd or could not be found a Writ of Enquiry of Damages shall be Awarded which being Executed and Return'd Judgment final shall be given for the said Plaintiff his Executors or Administrators VII If there be Two or more Plaintiffs or Defendants and one dye if the cause of Action survive to the surviving Plaintiff or against the surviving Defendant the Writ or Action shall not abate but such Death being suggested upon the Record the Action shall proceed VIII In all Actions after the said 25 day of March Prosecuted in any of the Kings Courts of Record upon any Bond or Penal Sum for Non-performance of Covenants the Plaintiff may Assign as many Breaches as he shall think fit and the Jury at the Tryal shall and may Assess Damages for such of the said Breaches so Assigned as the Plaintiff at the Tryal shall prove Broken and the like Judgment shall be Entred on such Verdict as hath been usually done in such Actions And if Judgment be given for the Plaintiff upon Demurrer Confession or Nihil dicit the Plaintiff upon the Roll may suggest as many Breaches as he shall think fit upon which shall Issue a Writ to Summon a Jury to Appear at the Assizes of that respective County to inquire of the truth of every one of those Breaches and to Assess Damages accordingly and the Justices of Assize shall make a Return thereof to the Court from whence the same Issued In case the Defendant after such Judgment Entred and before Execution Executed shall pay into Court such Damages so Assessed and Costs of Suit a stay of Execution shall be Entred upon Record Or if by reason of Execution Executed the Plaintiff or his Executors or Administrators shall be fully paid all such Damages together with his Costs and reasonable Charges the Body Lands and Goods of the Defendant shall be forthwith discharg'd and the Satisfaction enter'd upon Record Yet shall such Iudgment stand and be as a further Security to Answer to the Plaintiff his Executors c. such Damages as shall or may be sustain'd for further Breach of any Covenant in the same Deed or Writing contain'd upon which the Plaintiff c. may have a Scire facias upon the said Judgment against the Defendant his Heir Terre-Tenants Executors or Administrators suggesting other Breaches and to Summon them to shew Cause why Execution shall not be Awarded upon the said Judgment upon which there shall be the like Proceedings as aforesaid and upon payment of Damages and Costs Proceedings to be again stay'd and so toties quoties and the Defendant discharg'd out of Execution Taxes I. STat. 8 W. 3. cap. 6. All persons of what estate degree age sex or condition soever within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed not receiving Alms shall pay unto his Majesty his Heirs and Successors within the space of One Year from 25 Jan. 1696. the sum of 4 s. 4 d. by Monthly payments of 4 d. per Month reckoning 28 days to each Month the first payment to be 22 Feb. 1696. II. Over and above which Duty of 4 d. per Month all Servants and Journeymen except Day-Labourers having 4 l. per ann Wages or upwards and not exceeding 8 l. per ann shall pay for the same 13 d. per l. for One Year by like Monthly payments of 1 d. per l. And for more than 8 l. per annum Wages and not exceeding 16 l. per ann the sum of 2 s. 2 d. per l. by like Monthly payment of 2 d. per l. And for more than 16 l. per ann Wages the sum of 4 s. 4 d. per l. by like Monthly payments of 4 d. per l. III. All persons having or claiming any Pension Annuity Stipend or other yearly payment out of the Exchequer or any Branch of his Majesties Revenue except Rents issuing out of Lands Tenements or Hereditaments or charged upon the same and such Annuities as are or shall be exempted by Act of Parliament shall pay for the same 4 s. 4 d. per l. for One Year by like Monthly payments of 4 d. per l. IV. All persons that have or are to have receive or enjoy any Salary Fee or Wages or any Perquisites Allowances Poundage Gratuities Rewards Emoluments Income or Profits whatsoever arising by any Commissions Offices or Imployments Ecclesiastical Civil or Military under his Majesty his Heirs or Successors or under the Queen Dowager the Prince or Princess of Denmark or under Lords of Manors or any other persons and all their Clerks Deputies Assistants and Substitutes except Military Officers in Muster in the Army Navy or Ordnance shall pay for the same 4 s. 4 d. per l. for One Year by like Monthly payments of 4 d. per l. V. All Sergeants at Law Barristers Attorneys Sollicitors Publick Notaries Scriveners Chancellors Commissaries Officials Registers Advocates Proctors Apparitors or practising as such Brokers to Merchants Factors and other persons acting by Commission from Merchants All Practicers in Physick and Chirurgery Apothecaries and all other Professions not charged by the last foregoing Clause shall pay 4 s. 4 d. for One Year for every 20 s arising by their Practices or Professions by like Monthly payments of 4 d. per l. VI. All persons having any Estate in Ready Money or in Debts at Interest within or without the Realm or owing upon Mortgages Judgments Statutes Recognizances Bonds Bills Notes or other Securities for Money at Interest except Loans and Debts from his Majesty and Arrears of Rent shall pay 25 s. for One Year for every such 100 l. by Twelve Monthly payments of 2 s. 1 d. for every 100 l. and so proportionably for a greater or lesser Sum a Farthing per l. each Month the first payment to be 25 Febr. 1696. And thenceforth the 25th day of each Kalendary Month deducting only such Debts as are really and bona fide owing from such person or persons at Interest VII All persons using or exercising any Trade Mystery Occupation or business of Merchandising Shopkeeping or other Buying or Selling by wholesale or Retail shall pay 50 s. for One Year for every 100 l. value in Goods Wares Merchandizes Commodities Manufactures or Vendible Stock and proportionably for a greater or lesser Value by Twelve like Kalendary Monthly payments of a Halfpeny for every Pound value or 4 s. 2 d. for every
Policy Contract Bargain or Agreement which is to be performed after the 1st day of May 1697. upon which any Pramium is or shall be given or paid for Liberty to deliver receive accept or refuse any share in any Joint-stock Talleys Orders Exchequer Bills or Bank Bills other than such Policies and Contracts as are to be performed within three days from the time of making the same shall be utterly null and void and every such Praemium shall be paid back XII If any Praemium shall be given contrary to the intent and meaning of this Act with the privity of a sworn Broker or if any person shall Act or Trade as a Broker not being Admitted according to this Act and the same shall come to the knowledge of a sworn Broker in every such Case such sworn Broker shall forthwith discover the same and in case he shall not so do the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen shall displace such sworn Broker who shall for ever be incapable to use or exercise the Trade of a Broker XIII All penalties and forfeitures given by this Act shall be recovered by Action of Debt c. in any of the Kings Courts of Record at Westminster in which no Essoin c. one Moiety to the King the other to him that shall sue for the same XIV This Act to continue from the 1st of May 1697. for the space of three years and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament XV. No person buying or selling of Cattle Corn or any other Provision or Coal shall be esteemed a Broker within this Act. XVI No Broker Admitted by this Act shall after the time aforesaid till the end of next Session of Parliament act or deal or drive any Bargain to buy or sell Talleys or other Securities upon Parliamentary Funds unless Licensed so to do by the Lords of the Treasury or three of them under the penalty of 500 l. I. Stat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 29. For Repair of the Peers of Bridlington alias Burlington in the East-Riding of Yorkshire It is Enacted That after 1 May 1697 and until 1 May 1704 there shall be paid for the repairing and amending the said Peer one farthing for every Chalder of Coals that shall be loaden on Board any Ship or other Vessel at or in the Port of Newcastle upon Tyne or at Sunderland Blythe Suton Sluce Culler Coats or any place reputed a Member of the Port of Newcastle Which said Duties during the term aforesaid shall be answered and paid unto Arthur Lord Viscount Irwin Sir Griffith Boynton Sir Charles Hotham Sir William Strickland Sir William St. Quintin Baronets Sir Michael Wharton Sir Matthew Peirson Sir William Hustler Sir Richard Osbaldeston Knights Ralph Wharton John Buck Robert Monckton Hugh Bethell Robert Byerly Charles Osborn Esquires and to the Wardens of Trinity-House at Hull for the time being the Survivors and Survivor of them and the Executors and Administrators of such Survivor or to their Deputy or Deputies thereunto appointed by some Writing under their or the major part of their Hands and Seals by the Master of the Vessel whereupon such Coals shall be loaden The said Duties to be paid at such place or places as shall be appointed in or near the place of Loading II. No Officer of the Customs within the Ports Harbours Creeks or places aforesaid shall during the time aforesaid take any Entries or give any Cocket or other Discharge for any Ship or other Vessel so loaden with Coals as aforesaid till the Duties hereby granted shall be paid to the respective Deputies appointed to receive the same as aforesaid and that the Master of such Ship or Vessel do produce an Acquittance testifying the Receipt thereof And every Officer of the Customs making default in any of the Premisses shall forfeit the Sum of 50 l. to the said A. Lord Viscount J. Sir G. B. c. to be recovered with Costs in any of the Kings Courts of Record by Action of Debt c. wherein no Essoin c. shall be allow'd III. Any person or persons by Warrant under the Hands and Seals of the said A. Lord Viscount J. Sir G. B. c. or the major part of them may go on Board any Ship or other Vessel loaden with Coals at any the foresaid places to inspect and take an account of the lading of such Coals IV. All such Sums of Money which shall be raised by the Duties aforesaid and recovered for any Forfeitures in this Act appointed other than what shall be laid out or allow'd for Collecting the said Duty not exceeding 6 d. in the pound shall be by the said A. Lord Viscount J. Sir G. B c. applyed to the rebuilding repairing and amending the said Port or Peer of Bridlington alias Burlington and there shall be provided and kept by the said persons their Deputy or Deputies one or more Books in which all Receipts and Payments by virtue of this Act shall be entred expressing the time when and persons from and to whom the same were made And once yearly the Justices of the Peace for the East-Riding of the County of York at their Quarter-Sessions may order the said Books to be brought before them to inspect the same and upon any mis-imployment of the said Duties to make such Orders for the better management of the same according to the intent of this Act as they shall think most fit Which Orders shall be observed by all persons concerned upon such Penalties not exceeding 100 l. as they shall set to be levyed upon the Goods of the Offenders by Warrant from the said Justices V. The said A. Lord Viscount J. Sir G. B c. or the greatest number of them that shall be then living may by Indenture under their Hands and Seals convey and assure the Duties granted by this Act or any part thereof as a Security for Money to be borrowed for the ends and purposes of this Act. VI. If any person shall be sued for any thing done by virtue of this Act he may plead the General Issue and give the special Matter in Evidence and upon Nonsuit or Verdict for the Defendant he shall recover double Costs VII After 1 May 1697 the said A. Lord Viscount J. Sir G B c. or any three or more of them may from time to time survey and inspect the sufficient Building and Repairs of the Peer aforesaid with all Walls Jetteys Sluces Sockers and Locks thereof and certifie the State and Condition of the same in Writing to the said Justices at their Quarter Sessions who are hereby impowered to charge the Lands formerly granted by K. James I. 20 Sept. in the 21st year of his Reign to John Earl of Holdernesse his Heirs and Assigns with such equal assesment as they shall judge sufficient and necessary for repair of the same and in default of Payment of the said assesment the Defaulter to be distrained by Warrant of three of such Justices and after
Parliament XCVI Every Receiver General is to Enter in Books all the Sums he receives the Names of each Collector the days when and Sums paid how much in Hammer'd and how much in Mill'd Money or Gold and all Bills by him paid in pursuance of this Act. Which Books are to lye constantly open at one certain place within his Receipt to which all persons are to have access And every Receiver neglecting to keep such Book or to Enter his Receipts by the space of three days or refusing any person to inspect the same shall forfeit 100 l. XCVII A Proviso That 200000 l. out of the first Bills to be issued or the first Moneys arising by this Act Except the 3 s. Aid and Loans thereupon shall be Appropriated for payment of Soldiers Quarters in England between 1 Jan. 1694. and 1 Jan. 1696 not otherwise satisfied before 1 Feb. 1696. if the said Quarters amount to so much It shall be Felony to Counterfeit the said Exchequer Bills without Benefit of Clergy XCVIII A Proviso That this Act shall not Charge the 50000 l. per An. Granted in Trust for the Prince and Princess of Denmark with the Duty of 4 s. 4 d. per Pound XCIX Persons not Charged over and above the 4 d. per Month with the Duties on Wages Pensions Salaries Offices or Imployments of the yearly Value of 8 l. or for their own Lands or Tenements of the yearly Value of 40 s. or for Money or Stock of the Value of 5 l. shall not be Charged with the 4 d. per Month for their Children under the Age of Sixteen Years C. Also Poor Housekeepers who by reason of their poverty do not contribute to Church or Poor shall not be charged by this Act Nor shall it extend to charge Houses not cover'd or made habitable CI. A Proviso That Hammer'd Money shall be Current at 5 s. 2 d. per oz. after 1 Feb. 1696. in all payments except where it is directed to be Received at a greater value CII Stat. 8 9. W. 3. cap. 7. During the term of two years from 1 March 1696 a Duty of 20 per Cent. of the true value for all Paper Vellum and Parchment of what kind soever made within this Kingdom shall be paid by the Makers thereof And for all Paper Pastboard Vellum and Parchment either in Rolls Reams Quires Books printed or not printed or otherwise Imported during the said Term 25 per Cent. over and above all Customs and Duties already payable for the same CIII Which Duties on Importations shall be paid by the Importers upon making their Entries of the same or shall be secured to be paid within three Months after such Entry with a Discount of 10 per Cent. per Ann. for payment in ready Money with a Clause of forfeiture upon Landing any such Imported Commodities before Entry be made thereof CIV The said Duties on Importations to be Collected by the Officers of the Customs according to the true value to be esteemed upon the Oath of the Importer And the Duties upon the said Commodities made within the Realm shall be ascertained by Commissioners thereunto appointed their Substitutes or Deputies under the direction of the Commissioners of the Treasury CV In case of Controversie the value of such Goods made within the Realm shall be esteemed by Affidavit of the Makers thereof in Writing with Liberty to his Majesties Officers to take such Goods at the value specified in the said Affidavits paying down ready Money for the same CVI. The makers of the said Manufactures shall before 25 Mar. 1697. give notice in Writing of the place where such Manufactures are usually made or intended to be made and the Names and places of abode of the makers thereof under the penalty of 20 l. And shall not make the same but in such common places whereof they shall first have given Notice and shall permit the respective Officers of the said Duties to take notice of the stock of Materials for making the same And shall within five days after such Commodities are made so as to be fit for use and before the removal thereof make true Entries of the same with his Majesties Officers and shall then or within six Months after pay the said Duties and thereupon shall have a permission gratis for carrying the same away with an Allowance of 10 per Cent. per An for prompt payment CVII It shall be Lawful for the said Officers to search and see what quantities of the said Commodities are making who are not to be refused Entrance under the penalty of 10 l. And if any persons shall endeavour to Defraud his Majesty of his just Dues for the same they shall Forfeit 50 l. and the Commodities concealed not entred or unlawfully removed shall be also forfeited CVIII All Merchants Stationers Wholesale-sellers Retailers Paper-makers and others having on 1 Mar. 1696. any stock of Paper Parchment Vellum or Pastboard for sale shall pay a Duty of 17 l. 10 s. per Cent. of the true value thereof within ten days after the said 1 Mar. 1696. CIX The persons aforesaid shall deliver to the proper Officer a Particular in Writing Signed of the Quantities Kinds and Values of the said Goods which Officers are Impowred to take an Account of and view the said Goods and shall be permitted so to do under the penalty of 20 l. And if the said Duties be not paid by 11 Mar. 1696. nor secured to be paid within three Months the said Officers may Levy the same by Distress of the Goods and Chattels of the persons liable thereunto CX Provided that the persons paying the said Duties by 11 Mar. 1696. shall be allowed 10 per Cent per An. for prompt payment And the valuation of the said Stock shall be esteemed by the Oath of the Owner taken in Writing with liberty to the Kings Officer to take such Goods at the value specified in the said Affidavit paying down ready Money for the same CXI Upon neglect to give in such particulars before 5 Mar. 1696. or not giving in the full of the said Stock or carrying away or concealing any part thereof before the Duty shall be paid or secured to forfeit 50 l. and the Goods so not given in or carried away or concealed shall be forseited CXII In case of Seizure and Information or Complaint thereupon within eight days two of the next Justices of the Peace are to hear and determin the matter and upon Appeals the Justices of the next Quarter Sessions are to hear and determin the same finally CXIII All Entries Accounts and Permissions aforesaid are to be made gratis CXIV Provided that upon Exportations beyond the Seas the Duties so paid or secured shall be repaid or discharged CXV Any persons may Lend on the Credit of this Act 125000 l. at 8 per Cent. Interest free from Taxes to be paid every three Months till repayment of their Principal which shall be repaid in course and the Money not diverted to any other
Annuities Incurred between 17 May 1696. and 17 May 1697. on the late Duty of Tunnage on Ships and the Duties on Salt shall be Transferred and paid out of this Act without Interest CCCII The Orders for the said Annuities shall be Registred in the name of the Pay-masters thereof that are or shall be appointed by the Commissioners of the Treasury CCCIII. Any Persons Natives or Foreigners may lend his Majesty on the Credit of this Act any Sums which together with the Transferrences aforesaid shall not exceed 1400000 l. of which 250000 l. shall be applied towards Disbanding the Army with Interest at 8 per Cent. per An. and the Money so lent on this Act shall not be Taxed and the Orders upon such Loans shall be Registred and paid in course CCCIV. And the Moneys arising by this Act shall be applied to the Paying off the said Loans and not to be diverted to any other use CCCV No Fee shall be taken for Entring any such Orders or for Searches on pain of treble Damages nor any undue Preserence on pain of paying the value of the Debt with Damages and Costs and loss of place CCCVI All Orders for Loans on this Act may be Assigned CCCVII The Loans upon this Act may be made either in Money or in Exchequer-Bills which Bills except so much as shall be sufficient to compleat 250000 l. for the Disbanding of the Army shall be immediately cancelled CCCVIII If any Loans be made in Money the Commissioners of the Treasury shall dispose thereof in buying Exchequer Bills and shall cause the Bills so purchased to be forthwith Caucelled CCCIX Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 13. That for five years from 15 May 1698. there shall be levied and paid to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors for all Coal and Culm except Charcoal made of Wood and Cinders made of Pitcoal the Duties aster mentioned over and above what are already payable for the same viz. CCCX For all Coals Imported into this Kingdom from Scotland or any part beyond Sea usually Sold by Weight 5 s per Tun each Tun being 20 Hundred and each Hundred 112 Pounds Averdupois and after that Rate for a greater or lesser Quantity And for the like Imported Coals usually Sold by measure the Sum of 7 s. 6 d. per Chalder each Chalder being 36 Bushels Winchester Measure and after that Rate for a greater or lesser quantity to be paid by the Importer CCCXI. For all Coals Shipped or Water-born in order to be Shipped or laid on Board any Ship or Vessel to be carried by Sea and which shall be so carried by Sea from any Port of this Kingdom to any other Port thereof the Sum of 5 s. per Chalder if usually sold by Measure and 3 s. 4 d per Tun if usually sold by Weight to be paid at the Importation or Landing by the Owner Master or other Person having the charge of the Ship or Vessel or of the Coals so Imported CCCXII For all Culm Water-born in order to be Shipped within this Kingdom or brought into the same the Sum of 1 s. per Chalder to be paid where Imported by the Owner or Master as aforesaid CCCXIII. The Duties upon the said Coals and Culm so Imported or Water-born shall be under the Management of the Commissioners of the Customs and shall be collected and paid into the Exchequer distinct from all other Moneys the necessary charges of Management only excepted CCCXIV The said Duties shall be paid to His Majesty His Heirs or Successors or to such Collector or Person as His Majesty His Heirs or Successors or the Commissioners of the Customs or any four or more of them shall Appoint under their Hands and Seals before Bulk of the Ship or Vessel shall be broken or any the Coals or Culm unladen measured or weighed And due Entries shall be made of all such Imported Coals and Culm at the Custom-house where they are so Imported if any be there or else in the Custom-house of the next Port to the place of Importation And if any such Coals or Culm be unshipped before the said Duties be paid or secured the said Coals and Culm and the Ship or Vessel with all her Guns Tackle Furniture and Ammunition shall be forfeited one Moiety to the King the other to the Seizer Prosecutor or Informer CCCXV. His Majesty His Heirs or Successors or any four or more of the Commissioners of the Customs under their Hands and Seals may Appoint in every Port within this Kingdom Meeters Weighers or Measurers of the said Coals and Culm who upon the Unlading of any such Ship or Vessel shall deliver a Certificate to the Collector of the said Duties of the Sorts and Quantity of Coals and Culm Measured or Weighed and Delivered from any such Ship or Vessel under the Penalty of 100 l. CCCXVI. And in case there was on Board a greater number of Chalders or Tuns of Coals and Culm than for which the Duty had been answered and paid There shall be paid for every Chalder or Tun so concealed over and above the Duty the Sum of 10 s. under Penalty of Attaching and Detaining such Ship or Vessel till payment thereof and of selling the said Ship or Vessel in case all the said Duties for such concealed Coals and Culm be not paid with costs and charges for such Attaching or Selling Rendring the Overplus CCCXVII Provided That if the Importer shall within six days after the delivery of such Ship or Vessel and before her departure out of Port give in his Post Entry and pay the whole Duty for the Surplusage the said Penalty shall be Discharged CCCXVIII The Officers for Receiving the said Duties and for Weighing and Measuring such Coals and Culm shall in every such Port and Place Enter down in Books an Account of the Duties so paid or received and of the Payments and Disbursements of the same and the number of Chalders and Tuns so Imported Landed and Unladen CCCXIX. There shall be allowed to every Master or Owner of any such Ship or Vessel Three months time for payment of the said Duty giving such Security for the same as the Collector or Chief Officer of the Port or Place shall approve of with an allowance after the Rate of 10 per Cent. per An. for prompt Payment And if any of the Coals or Culm for which the Duty shall be once paid or secured be again Exported to any other place of this Kingdom there shall be no further Duty paid for the same And if any of the Coals for which the Duty shall be so once paid or secured be afterwards carried beyond Sea an allowance out of the Over sea Duties or Repayment shall be made of so much as was before paid for the same Coals and Culm CCCXX Provided That if any Person be Prosecuted for any thing done in Execution of this Act he may plead the general Issue and give this Act in Evidence And if a Verdict pass for the Defendant or the Plaintiff
and shall not be delivered to the Buyers without Security by Bond in double the value to Export the same within Six Months and not to Import the same into England Scotland or Ireland or His Majesties Dominions in America or elsewhere Which Obligation upon Certificate of the proper Officer and Oath of the Buyer that the said Goods were Exported accordingly and not Landed or intended to be Landed again in any of His Majesties Dominions shall be Vacated But the said Goods not being so Exported the Persons in whose Custody the said Goods shall be found shall be again liable to all the Forfeitures in this or any other Act as if the same had never been seized XII If any Bone-lace c. be seized and carried to any Custom-house as Foreign which the Seizer shall after believe to be English He may take off his Seizure affixing publick notice in Writing at the Custom-house Door and the Guild hall or other most publick place of the quantity and kind so seized And if no other person shall within Ten days after undertake to prosecute for the same it shall be delivered back to the Proprietor Oath being first made by him or some known Person on his behalf that the said Goods are to the best of his knowledge and belief English made and Oath made before some Justice of Peace of the place where and of whom the said Goods were bought who shall certifie the same at the next General Quarter Sessions and the Persons wilfully Forswearing themselves therein shall suffer as for Perjury XIII The Officers of the Customs shall be Aiding in the Execution of this Act and upon conniving at the Importation Delivery or Selling of any such Foreign Bone-lace c. shall forfeit 20 pounds and be ever uncapable of serving his Majesty in any Office XIV The proof that such Bone-lace c. so found or seized was made and Manufactured in England Wales or Berwick shall be only upon the Importer Keeper Seller Retailer Barterer or those in whose Hands or Custody the same shall be found and not upon the Informer Seizer or Prosecutor that they were made beyond Sea XV. The Penalties and Forfeitures incurred by this Act may be recovered over and above any Penalties in any former Act in any the Courts of Record at Westminster and the said Penalties the Prosecutor having been allowed his reasonable Charges shall be one Moiety to the King the other to the Person that will Sue for the same XVI Persons sued for any thing done in pursuance of this Act may plead the General Issue and give this Act and the special matter in Evidence And if a Verdict pass for the Defendant or the Plaintiff discontinue be Nonsuited or have Judgment against him upon Demurrer the Defendant shall have treble Costs XVII All Informations against this Act shall be brought within Twelve Months after the discovery of the Offence XVIII Before any Person shall be admitted to Enter a Claim to any such Goods seized he shall be obliged to give Security by Recognizance before a Baron of the Exchequer in Twenty pounds penalty to pay the Prosecutor full Costs of Suit in case a Verdict shall pass or Judgment be entred for the Plaintiff and in default of such Security in due time the said Goods shall be adjudged forfeited XIX This Act shall not impower any Persons to enter into any House Shop Cellar Ware house or other Room or Place or to break open the same or any Door Chest Trunk or other Package not belonging to a Dealer in Lace XX. Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 17. Enacted That after 24 June 1698. All Bills of Exchange Drawn in or Dated at and from any place in this Kingdom of the Sum of 5 l. Sterling or upwards upon any Person in London or any other Trading City Town or Place in which Bills the value shall be expressed to be received Drawn Payable at a certain time after the Date thereof may after Acceptance in Writing and the expiration of Three days after the same shall be due be protested by a Notary publick or in default of such Notary publick by any other substantial person of the place before Two Witnesses Refusal or Neglect being first made of due payment which Protest shall be made under a Copy of the Bill in the form prescribed by the Act and shall be notified within Fourteen days after to the Party from whom the Bills were received who upon producing such Protest is to Repay the said Bills with Interest and Charges from the Protesting For which Protest there shall not be paid above 6 d And in default of such Protest or due Notice thereof the Person so failing shall be liable to all Costs Damages and Interest thereupon Provided that if any such Inland Bills be lost or miscarry within the time limited for payment of the same the Drawer of the said Bills shall give other Bills of the same tenour Security being given to indempnifie him in case the said Bills so lost or miscarried be found again XXI Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 26. After 24 Jun. 1698. The Royal African Company shall maintain all such Forts and Castles as they now have in their Possession or shall hereafter Purchase or Erect for the preservation of the Trade to Africa And shall supply them with Men Artillery Ammunition and Provision and all other necessaries as occasion shall require XXII Any of the Subjects of this Realm as well as the said Company may after the said 24 June Trade from England and after 1 Aug. 1698 from any of his Majesties Plantations in America to the Coast of Africa between Cape Mount and the Cape of Good Hope the said Company and all others answering a Duty of 10 per Cent. ad Valorem for the Goods and Merchandize Exported thither from England or from his Majesties Plantations in America for maintaining the said Castles and Forts and preserving the said Trade XXIII The Master Owner or Freighter of every Ship intending to Sail or Trade between Cape Mount and the Cape of Good Hope shall at one of the chief Custom houses in England or the Plantations from whence such Ship is to Sail Enter the name of the Master and Ship and the Burthen thereof so Freighted 15 days before clearing thereof And the Owner or Exporter shall there also enter upon Oath the quantity quality and value of the Goods and Merchandize so to be Shipped and Sign such Entry And thereupon pay the said Duty to the Collector or chief Officer of the Custom there who is to demand and receive the same for the use of the said Company And all such Goods and Merchandize Exported from England to the Plantations and thence to Africa shall be valued at no more than what they cost in England XXIV The Collector or other Chief Officer in or near the Ports whence such Ships are to be cleared shall before the clearing thereof administer the Oaths following whereof the Master shall
make Oath thus I A. B do Swear That the manifest or particular now by me given in and signed to the best of my knowledge and belief doth contain specifie and express all the Goods Wares and Merchandizes which are Laden or intended to be Laden or put on Board the Ship or Vessel called the _____ whereof I A. B. am Master for this Voyage to Africa So help me God XXV Every Owner or Exporter of such Goods upon Entry thereof shall make this Oath I A. B. do Swear That the Entry by me now made and signed doth contain and specifie all the particular quantities quality and true and full value of all the Goods Wares and Merchandizes therein expressed to be Shipped on Board the Ship or Vessel called the _____ whereof _____ _____ _____ is Master for the Voyage She is now to preceed on to Africa So Help me God XXVI Upon Exporting any Goods or Merchandize from the Plantations to Africa that were there Imported from England the Owner or Exporter shall also Swear That to the best of his Knowledge and Belief such Goods and Merchandize so Entred were Imported from England into that Colony or Plantation and that the true and real value thereof as Cost in England is fully expressed in the said Entry And the said Master and one of the Owners or Freighters before such Ship be cleared shall give Bond to his Majesty to the value of such Ship and Lading that the said Ship not unavoidably hindred shall Sail directly to Africa between the Capes aforesaid and thence directly return to and unlade in England or one of the Plantations aforesaid And the Collector or chief Officer aforesaid is to take such Bond and keep a distinct Book of all such Entries and Duties payable for the use of the said Company and to deliver to the said Company on Demand a Duplicate of such Entries and Oaths and Bonds given and Moneys paid And shall pay to the said Company the Moneys so Received deducting 5 per Cent for his or their trouble XXVII After 24 June 1698. Any of the Subjects of this Realm as well as the said Company may Trade from England or any of his Majesties Plantations in America to the Coast of Africa between Cape Blancho and Cape Mount paying 10 per Cent. ad Valorem for the Goods and Merchandize so Exported to the said Coast and paying a further Sum of 10 per Cent ad Valorem Redwood excepted which is to pay 5 per Cent only at the place of Importation upon all Goods and Merchandize Negroes excepted Imported into England or the Plantations from Africa between Cape Blancho and Cape Mount aforesaid And every Master and Trader Trading from England or the Plantations between the said Capes shall make like Entries and Oath and give like Bonds as is directed for Masters and Traders between Cape Mount and Cape Good Hope and upon such Entry and Oath shall pay the Duty aforesaid payable by Traders between Cape Mount and Cape Good Hope And the Collector or Chief Officer of the Chief Custom-houses in England or the Plantations from whence such Ship shall be dispatcht are to take such Entries and Bonds and give such Oaths and receive such Duties and pay the same to the said Company on Demand for the Uses before directed and to do every other thing mutatis mutandis as is directed touching Traders between Cape Mount and Cape Good Hope And that all Goods and Merchandize Negroes excepted that shall be Shipped on the Coast of Africa between Cape Blancho and Cape Mount and shall be Imported into England or the Plantations shall pay the Duties aforesaid And the Master or Chief Officer of every such Ship that shall take on Board any Goods or Merchandize Negroes excepted between Cape Blancho and Cape Mount shall upon making Entry thereof and before Landing the same deliver in a Particular of his Cargo and take the following Oath XXVIII I A. B. de Swear That the Manifest or Particular now by me given in and signed to the best of my knowledge and belief doth contain signifie and express all the Goods Wares and Merchandizes Negroes excepted which were Laden or put on Board the said Ship called the _____ during her stay and continuing on the Coast of Africa between Cape Blancho and Cape Mount whereof I A. B. am Master XXIX And that the Owner or Importer of all Goods and Merchandizes Negroes excepted which shall be brought to England or the Plantations from between Cape Blancho and Cape Mount shall make Entry thereof at one of the Chief Custom-houses in England or the Plantations where Imported with the Collector or Chief Officer of the Cussoms upon Oath and Sign the same of the quantity quality and value of such Goods and Merchandize as worth to be sold at ths place of Importation and pay the Duty for the same as aforesaid And such Collector or Chief Officer where such Ship shall Arrive is to take the Entries and Manifests give the Oaths and Receive the Duties aforesaid and pay the same to the said Company on Demand for the uses afore-directed and deliver to the said Company a Duplicate of all such Entries and Oaths made and signed as aforesaid XXX The said Collector or Officer may deduct for his or their trouble 5 per Cent. for the Duties arising by this Act except from the Exports and Imports of the said Royal African Company And the said Company shall give an Account in Writing of the Moneys by them received and by their Exports and Imports for the Duties aforesaid and how they have laid out the same yearly within Three months after the end of every year to the Cursitor Baron of the Exchequer who may examine Persons thereupon on Oath And all such Goods and Merchandizes brought from between Cape Blancho and Cape Mount as shall be Landed before Entry made and Signed and Oath of the value thereof made and the Duty paid shall be forfeited or the value thereof XXXI Every Ship which contrary to this Act shall Sail from England or the Plantations for the Coast of Africa without being duly Entred Oath made and Bonds given as before directed shall be forefeited or the value thereof And all Goods and Merchandize Shipped from England or the Plantations for the Coast of Africa as aforesaid contrary to this Act before due Entry made thereof and of the value and the Duties paid for the same shall be forfeited or the value thereof And every Ship and all the Goods and Merchandizes therein belonging to his Majesties Subjects Sailing from any other part than from England or the Plantations to the Coast of Africa as aforesaid shall be forfeited XXXII One third part of the said Forfeitures shall be to his Majesty one other third part to the said Company towards maintenance of the said Forts and Castles and the other third part to the Informer and Prosecutor XXXIII Any Persons whatsoever may Sue for the said Forfeitures in any his Majesties