shall serve in the Navy Royal And out of the first Moneys arising by this Act 250000 l. shall be Appropriated for payment of Quarters due from the Land Forces in England since 1 Jan. 1696. CCCCLXVI The Rules and Directions in the Act 1 W. M. For a Grant to Their Majesties of an Aid of Two shillings in the Pound for One Year for the speedy payment of the Money thereby Granted and Application thereof and all other Provisions therein are hereby Revived touching the Distribution and Application of the Sums hereby Appropriated CCCCLXVII Any Persons Natives or Foreigners Bodies Politick or Corporate may Advance and Lend upon the Security of this Act any Sums of Money not exceeding 500000 l. at 7 per Cent. per Ann. Interest for the first 250000 l. and 8 per Cent. per Ann. for the Remaining 250000 l. CCCCLXVIII And may also Lend upon the Security of the Moneys arising upon Coals and Culm after 24 Jun. 1698. any Sum not exceeding 500000 l. at 7 per Cent. per Ann. Interest for the first 100000 l. and 8 per Cent. per Ann. for the remaining 400000 l. And no Money so lent or advanced shall be Assessed CCCCLXIX There shall be kept in the Exchequer in the Auditors Office Two Books for Registring all Moneys that shall be paid in upon the Quarterly Poll hereby granted and on Coals and Culm distinct from all other Money And all persons lending Money thereon shall have a Talley and Order for Repayment with Interest payable every Three Months which Orders shall be Registred and paid in Course without preference of one before another and without taking any Fee or Reward for such Registers Entries Views or Search under Penalty of double Damages to the Party agrieved with costs of Suit and if it be by the Officer himself loss of place also And under Penalty of paying the value of the Debt Damages and Costs and loss of place in case of undue preference CCCCLXX Provided That it shall be no undue preference where several Orders are brought to the Auditor the same day which of those he Enters first Nor shall it be any undue preference if the Auditor Direct the Clerk of the Pells Record and the Tellers pay Subsequent Orders where persons demand not their Money in Course provided so much Money be reserved as will satisfie precedent Orders Interest ceasing from the time of such reservation CCCCLXXI All which Orders being Entred may by Indorsement and Entry thereof in the said Register Book be Assigned and Tranferred toties quoties CCCCLXXII His Majesty may make use of any Sums not exceeding 600000 l. in the whole arising by any the Aids or Supplies granted or to be granted this Session of Parliament and not particularly Appropriated towards discharging the Talleys of Pro or Assignment or other Talleys remaining unsatisfied on the Hereditary and Temporary Excise or on the Weekly Sum of 6000 l. issuing out of the same or on the Post-Office and Weekly Sum of 600 l. issuing out of the same and for other His Majesties necessary Occasions or for satisfying such Moneys as have been or shall be borrowed to supply the same CCCCLXXIII All Auditors Reeves or Receivers and their Deputies shall upon the Act of this present Session for granting to His Majesty 1484015 l. 1 s. 11 d. 3 q. For Disbanding Forces paying Seamen and other Uses therein mentioned allow 3 s. for every Pound Rent due for any Fee farm Rent or other chief Rents due to His Majesty or the Queen Dowager or to any person or persons Claiming by any Grant or Purchase from or under the Crown and proportionably for any greater or lesser Sum to the parties so paying the same without Fee upon Penalty of 20 l. And if any such Auditor or his Deputy set insuper any Tenant or other person or make their Estate liable to Distress or Vexation for any Money which ought to be allowed after the said Rate of 3 s. in the Pound or refuse or neglect to allow the same he shall forfeit 100 l. to the Party grieved and be incapable of his Office or Place or any other Office or Place of Trust or Profit under His Majesty or the Queen Dowager CCCCLXXIV Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 45. Enacted That after 1 Aug. 1698. One half of the several Rates and Duties Charged by several Acts made in 6 7 W. 3. on Glass and Glass wares and the whole Duties charged by the said Acts on Stone and Earthen Bottles Stone and Earthen Wares and on Tobacco Pipes shall cease and be no longer payable CCCCLXXV And that in lieu thereof from 10 July 1698. there shall be paid to his Majesty for 8 years for all Whale-Fins and Scotch Linens Imported into England Wales or Barwick over and above all Duties already payable the further Rates following viz. CCCCLXXVI For all Whale-Fins caught and Imported in any Ships belonging to the Greenland Company 3 d. per pound weight And for all Whale Fins Caught or Imported by Foreigners or by Ships not belonging to the said Company 6 d. per pound Weight to be paid by the Importers CCCCLXXVII For all Linen of the Manufacture of Scotland called Twill Imported or Brought in as aforesaid Ten shillings for every hundred containing 120 Ells. And for all Scotch Linen called Ticking Six shillings 8 d. per hundred containing 120 Ells to be paid by the Importers CCCCLXXVIII The Importer giving Security at the Custom-House shall have 12 Months to pay the Duty by 4 equal quarterly payments And in case he pays Ready Money shall be abated after 10 per Cent. per Ann. If the Goods aforementioned after the Duties paid or secured be again Exported by any English Merchant within 12 Months or by Strangers in 9 Months the said Duty to be wholly Repaid or the Security vacated for what shall be so exported CCCCLXXIX Provided That this Act shall not make void any payments of Money due to his Majesty for any Glass Wares Stone or Earthen Wares or Tobacco Pipes actually made before the said 1 Aug. And that all matters and things contained in the said two former Acts for Securing to His Majesty the Duties on Glass Wares shall be applied for securing the moiety of the said Duty on Glass Wares not hereby taken away CCCCLXXX And for all Glass Wares which shall be Exported before 1 Decemb. 1698. for which the whole Duties have been paid or secured the same shall be repaid or the security vacated And for all Glass Wares exported after the said 1 Decemb. 1698. only one Moiety of the said former Duties shall be drawn back CCCCLXXXI No Makers of Glass or Glass Wares after the said 1 Aug. 1698. shall draw or remove from their Kins or Surrores any Glass or Glass-Wares unless the Officer appointed to attend such Glass-house be present or have Notice of it on Forfeiture of 10 l. one Moiety to the King the other to the Prosecutor CCCCLXXXII All Bottles and Glass Vessels
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
Courts of Record of this Kingdom or in any of his Majesties Plantations or Colonies in America XXXIV If any Ship Trading to Africa and the Goods therein be Cast away or Lest before she arrive at her Port The Proprietors or Exporters shall upon their sending any other Ship to Africa be allowed so much as was paid to the said Company for the Goods so lost XXXV All the Natural born Subjects of England Trading to Africa and paying the Duties by this Act imposed shall have the same Protection for their Persons Ships and Goods from the said Forts and Castles and the like freedom for their Trade as the said Company and their Ships and Goods have And all Persons Trading to Africa and paying the Duties as aforesaid may at their own charge settle Factories on any part of Africa within the limits aforesaid without let of the said Company And all Persons not Members of the said Company so Trading and paying the said Duties shall with their Ships and Goods be free from all Molestation Penalties or Impositions from the said Company by reason of their so Trading XXXVI If any Goods exported for Africa having paid the Duties on this Act shall be brought back to England or the Plantations they may be exported again to Africa without paying any Duty Oath being first made by two Persons not interested in such Goods that the Duty was paid upon their first Exportation A Copy of the Entry of such Goods upon their former Exportation being first preduced and attested upon Oath of two Persons XXXVII All the Duties arising by this Act are hereby appropriated wholly to the maintenance of the Forts and Castles on the Coasts of Africa in the Possession of the said Royal African Company and for keeping them well repaired and providing them with Ammunition and Warlike Stores and Soldiers to defend them and paying the Officers and Soldiers and no other uses whatsoever And a true account of the said Duties and laying out the same shall be kept in a Book for that purpose which shall lie open at the African-House in London to be perused by all Persons Trading to Africa And that an Account be made up yearly at Michaelmas or within 20 days after and Recorded in the Exchequer XXXVIII No Duty imposed by this Act shall be required in England or the Colenies aforesaid for any Gold or Silver imported from Africa but the same may be Landed without Entry or Declaration thereof XXXIX This Act shall not hinder any Persons from Trading to that part of Africa called Barbary extending Southerly as for as Cape Blancho XL. Any of his Majesties Subjects notwithstanding the Act of 5 6. W. M. that no other Copper than what is made of English Ore should be exported may Export from England all such Copper Bars as have been Imported thither from Foreign Parts and upon Exportation shall draw back all Duties or Vacate the Securities saving the half of the old subsidy as is usual in other Commodities XLI No Governor or Deputy Governor of any his Majesties Colonies or Plantations in America or the Judges there or any other for their use shall after 29 Sept. 1698 be a Factor or Agent for the said Company or others for the Sale or Disposal of Negroes but every Person offending herein shall serselt 500 l. to the uses aforesaid to be recovered in any of the Courts of Record at Westminster XLII This Act shall be in force only 13 years and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament XLIII Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 28. After 24 June 1698. It shall be lawful to Export such Watches Sword Hilts Wrought-Plare and other Silver Manufactures made within this Kingdom being of the fineness of Eleven ounces and Ten peny weight to every pound Troy and so proportionably for a greater or lesser weight according to the Rules prescribed in the Act made 8 9 W. 3. Intituled An Act for the Incouraging the bringing in of Wrought-Plate to be Coined as shall be yearly allowed by the Commissioners of the Customs or any three of them XLIV No Person shall after the said 24 of June Export or send or Indeavour to Export or send out or this Kingdom any outward or inward Box Case or Dyal plate of Gold Silver Brass or other Metal for Clock or Watch without the movement in or with every such Box Case or Dyal-plate made up fit for use with the Clock or Watchmakers name Ingraven thereon Nor shall any Persons after the said 24 of June 〈…〉 to be made up any Clock or Watch without ingraving or putting their own Name and place of Aboad or Freedom and no other Name or Place on every Clock or Watch they shall so make up on the forfeiting every such Empty box Case and 〈◊〉 Clock and Watch not made up and Ingraven as aforesaid and for every such offence 20 l. one Moiety to the King the other to them that shall Sue for the same in any of his Majesties Courts of Record XLV Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 39. After 24 July 1698 All Silver Wire to be drawn for the making of Gold and Silver Thread shall hold at the least 11 oz. 16 penny weight of Fine Silver to the pound Troy and all Silver to be guilt for that use shall be of the same fineness and shall not have loss than four peny weight of Fine Gold laid upon each pound weight of Silver on forfeiture of five shillngs per Ounce to be paid by the Refiner or Maker XLVI After the said 24 of July no Gilt Wire shall be coloured with Verdigrease or Dead-head or any other forced Colour on forfeiture of 2 s. 6 d. per Ounce And for all Gold and Silver so prepared and reduced into Plate there shall be allowed at least six Ounces to cover four Ounces of Silk the finest of which Silk shall not run above sixteen Yards to the penny weight Troy And six Ounces to cover three Ounces and a half of Silk not running above thirty six Yards to the penny weight Troy And six Ounces to cover three Ounces of Silk not running above ninety Yards to the penny weight Troy And for all Gold and Silver Thread made finer six Ounces of Plate to cover two Ounces and a half of Silk And shall be Spun close upon well Boiled and Light Dyed Silk only except Frost-work on forfeiture of 2 s. 6 d. per Ounce And every Spinner of Gold and Silver Thread that shall lay Gold or Silver Plate upon Silk in other proportions shall forfeit for every Ounce so spun two shillings XLVII After the said 24 of July Copper Brass and every other inferior Metal than Silver shall be Spun upon Thread Yarn or Incle only and not upon Silk on forfeiture of five shillings per Ounce XLVIII After the said 24 of July No Gold or Silver Thread Lace Fringe or other Work made thereof nor any Thread made of Copper Brass or any Inferior Metal
of this Act which Comptrollers shall keep distinct Accounts of the said Duties and in Case of neglect shall lose their Places be incapacitated as aforesaid and forfeit 100 l. CIV Collectors of either of the said Duties detaining any part thereof shall be Dismissed pay Interest at 12 per Cent. and treble Damages And for misapplying any part thereof shall be Dismissed and Incapacitated and shall forfeit double the Sum. CV From 29 Sept. 1698. 160000 l. out of the said Additional Duties on Salt and Stampt Paper shall be the yearly Fund for answering the Annuities of 8 per Cent. to the Subscribers of 2000000 l. And if the Duties shall not amount to so much then to be part of the said Fund so sar as they will extend Which said Duties or so much as will make up the said 160000 l. per Ann. shall be Appropriated towards making good the said yearly Fund And the Officers of the Exchequer not duly issuing or Misapplying the Money contrary to this Act shall be forejudged from their Offices incapacitated and pay double the Sum delayed or misapplied CVI. His Majesty may appoint Commissioners for taking Subscriptions till 29 Sept. 1698. from any Persons except the Bank of England for any Sum not less than 100 l. towards the raising Two Millions in some convenient House in London or Westminster which Commissioners are to provide Books for the said Subscriptions to lie open every day except Sundays till 29 Sept. 1698. unless the Two Millions be sooner compleated And his Majesty may appoint a Cashier to receive the Money Subscribed CVII Any Sums may be Subscribed not less than 100 l. to be answered by Ten equal Payments the First Payment to be made at the time of Subscribing and each subsequent Payment shall be made at the end of every Two Months or 60 Days till the whole be paid Nevertheless the last Payment shall be liable to make good any Desiciency which may happen before the time of making the last Payment in the Produce of the said Duties although the Kings intended supply be thereby lessened CVIII If the first Payment be not made at the time of Subscribing such Subscription shall be void And if default be made in any of the subsequent Payments the first tenth part shall be forfeited and the Annuity payable for such Subscription shall be reduced according to the Money actually paid after an abatement of the first tenth part CIX Talleys of Assignment or Anticipation may be Levied on the Commissioners or Receivers of the Money so subscribed with an Interest of 8 per Cent. per Ann. payable every Three Months out of such Subscription Moneys CX The sums subscribed are to be written in words at length as well as Figures and truly Dated and Attested under the Hands and Seals of Five or more Commissioners who immediately after 29 Sept. 1698. or sooner if the Two Millions be compleated shall deliver Duplicates of the Subscriptions into the Exchequer or at least before 20 Octob. 1698. And the Auditor of the Receipt and Clerk of the Pells shall Register and Record the said Duplicates that every Person concerned may have free access thereto and Copies of the Books Enrolled shall be delivered by the said Auditor and Clerk of the Pells to the Commissioners for the use of the Subscribers gratis CXI Each Subscriber shall have an Annuity after the Rate of 8 per Cent. per Ann. for the sum subscribed by him to commence from Michaelmas 1698. and to be paid Quarterly the First Payment to be made at Christmas 1698. subject nevertheless to Redemption and also to Reduction in case of failure in the payments of the Subscription Money CXII Every Person paying down one Tenth part of his subscription may desaulk after the Rate of 10 per Cent. per Ann. for his whole subscription from the time of making his First payment till Michaelmas 1698. CXIII The Commissioners or Cashier shall give Receipts to the Subscribers for the Money so received and shall enter the same and time of payment in a Book with the names of those that make such payments A true Account whereof in Parchment shall be delivered to the Auditor of the Receipt attested by Five or more of the Commissioners before 24 June 1700. And the Commissioners of the Treasury are to Issue the Sums necessary for incident Charges in Execution of the Commission CXIV The Commissioners may be Subscribers CXV His Majesty may by Letters Patents under the Great Seal Incorporate the Subscribers whose Tenth part shall be paid their Executors Administrators Successors or Assigns with perpetual succession and a Common Seal and with power to purchase Lands to Plead and be Impleaded and do all other things by the Name of their Corporation CXVI The sum total of all the subscriptions shall be called the principal Stock of the said Corporation and all Persons shall have a share therein in proportion to their subscription CXVII Subscribers of 500 l. and upwards having paid their Tenth part may meet at Guild-Hall London 10 Octob. 1698. or within 20 days after the subscription is compleated to Elect 24 Trustees by way of Balleting but no Elector to have more than one Vote nor any of the Trustees less than 2000 l. subscribed in their own Right and being so elected to be Inserted in the Charter of Incorporation as the First Trustees with Succession CXVIII If the Two Millions be not subscribed by 29 Sept. 1698. the Subscribers shall have only their proportionable part of the said yearly Fund CXIX After the Charter is passed the yearly Sum of 160000 l. or a proportionable part thereof shall be paid to the general Society or their Treasurer in Trust for the respective Members CXX If the Two Millions or a Moiety thereof be subscribed by 29 Sept. 1698. then the Subscribers their Executors Administrators Successors or Assings and all Persons Licensed by them in their stead may Trade to the East-Indies but none to Trade by himself or others in any one year from 29 Sept. 1698. for more than the Amount of his Stock CXXI If the Two Millions or a Moiety thereof be subscribed by 29 Sept. 1698. All or any Corporations or Persons Intituled to particular Shares in the Principal Stock may if willing and desirous be Incorporated into a Company to Trade with a Joint Stock in proportion to their Interests by such proper Name as his Majesty shall think fit with perpetual Succession a common Seal c. CXXII And after the Incorporating of any such Company the proportionalle part of the yearly Fund belonging to the Members thereof shall be paid to the said Company or their Treasurer in Trust for the said Members by Weekly Payments CXXIII Every Member of the general Society not in a Company shall before he be permitted to Trade take an Oath before Two or more of the Trustees to be faithful to the said General Society and not to Trade to the Indies for more than this Act allows CXXIV
A CONTINUATION OF THE ABRIDGMENT Of all the STATUTES OF K. William and Q. Mary AND OF King William the Third In Force and Use Begun by J. Washington of the Midd. Temple Esq Revised and Continued after his Death to the end of the Session of Parliament 27 April 1696. And now further Continued from the beginning of the Second Session of the Third Parliament 20 October 1696. to the end of the Third and last Session of the said Third Parliament 5 July 1698. With Two New Tables LONDON Printed by Charles Bill and the Executrix of Tho. Newcomb deceased Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty And by W. Rawlins and S. Roycroft Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins Esquires MDCXCIX THE TITLES OF THE STATUTES Contained in this ABRIDGMENT WITH THE HEADS Under which they Stand. Anno. 8. W. 3. Part. 3. Sess 2. 1. AN Act for Importing and Coining Guineas and Half-Guineas Coin 2. An Act for the further Remedying the ill State of the Coin of the Kingdom Coin 3. An Act to Explain that part of the Act passed the last Session of Parliament for Laying several Duties on Low Wines and Spirits of the first Extraction and for Preventing the Frauds and Abuses of Brewers Distillers and other Persons chargeable with the Duties of Excise which Relates to the Payment of Tallies and the Interest thereof Excise 4. An Act to Attaint Sir John Fenwick Baronet of High Treason Treason 5. An Act to Attaint such of the Persons concerned in the late Horrid Conspiracy to Assassinate his Majesties Royal Person who are fled from Justice unless they render themselves to Justice and for continuing several others of the said Conspirators in Custody Treason 6. An Act for Granting an Aid to his Majesty as well by a Land Tax as by several Subsidies and other Duties payable for One Year Taxes Anno 8 9 W. 3. 7. An Act for Granting to his Majesty several Duties upon Paper Vellum and Parchment to Encourage the bringing of Plate and Hammered Money into the Mints to be Coined Taxes 8. An Act for Incouraging the bringing in Wrought Plate to be Coined Coin 9. An Act to Restore the Market at Blackwell Hall to the Clothiers and for Regulating the Factors there Blackwell-Hall 10. An Act to Enable the Returns of Juries as formerly until the first day of November One thousand six hundred ninety seven Iuries 11. An Act for the better preventing Frivolous and Vexatious Suits Snits 12. An Act for continuing certain Additional Impositions upon several Goods and Merchandizes Customs 13. An Act for continuing several former Acts for Punishing Officers and Soldiers who shall Mutiny or Desert his Majesties Service and for Punishing False Musters and for Payment of Quarters for One year longer Soldiers 14. An Act for the Compleating the Building and Adorning the Cathedral Charch of St. Paul London and for Repairing the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster Churches 15. An Act for Repairing the Highway between Ryegate in the County of Surrey and Crawley in the County of Sussex High-ways 16. An Act for Enlarging Common High-ways High-ways 17. An Act for Paving and Regulating the Hay-Market in the Parishes of St. Martins in the Fields and St. James within the Liberty of Westminster Hay-Market 18. An Act for Relief of Creditors by making Compositions with their Debtors in Case Two thirds in Number and Value do Agree Creditors 19. An Act for Repealing a Clause in a former Act relating to Party Guiles and for the better preventing Frauds and Abuses of Brewers and others Chargeable with the Duties of Excise Excise 20. An Act for making good the Deficiences of several Funds therein mentioned and for Enlarging the Capital stock of the Bank of England and for Raising the Publick Credit Taxes 21. An Act for Laying a Duty upon Leather for the Term of Three years and making other Provision for Answering the Deficiences as well of the late Duties upon Coals and Culm as for Paying the Annuities upon the Lottery and for Lives charged on the Tunnage of Ships and the Duties upon Salt Taxes 22. An Act for Granting to his Majesty certain Duties upon Malt Mum Sweets Cyder and Perry as well towards Carrying on the War against France as for the necessary Expence of his Majesties Houshold and other Occasions Excise 23. An Act to enforce the Act for the Increase and Incouragement of Seamen Seamen 24. An Act for Granting to his Majesty a further Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage upon Merchandizes Imported for the Term of Two years and Three quarters and an Additional Land Tax for One year for Carrying on the War against France Customs 25. An Act for Licensing Hawkers and Pedlars for a further Provision for payment of the Interest of the Transport Debt for the Reducing of Ireland Taxes 26. An Act for the better Preventing the Counterfeiting the Current Coin of this Kingdom Coin 27. An Act for the more effectual Relief of Creditors in Cases of Escapes and for preventing Abuses in Prisons and pretended Privileged Places Prisons c. 28. An Act for the better Observation of the Course Anciently Used in the Receipt of Exchequer Exchequer 29. An Act for the Repair of the Peers of Bridlington alias Burlington in the East-Riding of the County of York Burlington 30. An Act for supplying some Defects in the Laws for the Relief of the Poor of this Kingdom Poor 31. An Act for the easier obtaining Partitions of Lands in Coparcenary Joynt Tenancy and Tenancy in Common Partitions 32. An Act to restrain the number and ill Practices of Brokers and Stock-Jobbers Brokers 33. An Act to make perpetual and more effectual an Act Intituled An Act to prevent delays at the Quarter Sessions of the Peace Iustices of Peace 34. An Act for the Lessening the Duty upon Tin and Pewter Exported and Granting an Equivalent for the same by a Duty upon Drugs Customs 35. An Act for Raising the Militia for the Year One thousand six hundred ninety seven although the Months Pay formerly advanced be not repaid Militia 36. An Act for the further Encouragement of the Manufacture of Lustrings and Alamodes within this Realm and for the better preventing the Importation of the same Trade 37. An Act for Explaining and Enforcing the Act for Paving and Cleansing the Streets within the Cities of London and Westminster and Borough of Southwark and Weekly Bills of Mortality and Streets adjoyning thereunto And for Widening the Street at the South end of London-Bridge London Anno 9 W. 3. Part. 3. Sess 3. 1. An Act against Corresponding with the late King James and his Adherents Treason 2. An Act to prevent the further Currency of any Hammered Silver Coin of this Kingdom and for recoining such as is now in being and for the making out new Exchequer Bills where the former Bills are or shall be filled up by Indorsements Coin 3. An Act to give further time for the Administring of Oaths relating to Talleys and Orders and for the easier
thereof Convicted upon any Indictment or Infomation shall be void Customs I. Stat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 12. The several Additional and other Rates Impositions Duties and Charges upon Goods and Merchandizes Imported and Exported Mentioned and Granted by an Act made the 4 5 W. M. Intituled An Act for Granting to Their Majesties certain Additional Impositions upon several Goods and Merchandizes for the Prosecuting the present War against France shall be continued from the First of March 1696. and be Levied and Paid till the Seventeenth day of May 1697. And the foresaid Act and all Articles and Clauses therein contained shall continue and be of force till the said Sevententh of May 1697. II. Stat. 8 9. W. 3. cap. 24. Over and above all Subsidies of Tunnage and Poundage and other Duties already payable for Wines Goods and Merchandizes there shall be paid for all Wines imported into this Kingdom from 1 May 1697. to 1 Feb. 1699. one other Subsidy called Tunnage viz. III. For every Tun of French Wine brought into the Port of London as Merchandize by Natural Born Subjects 4 l. 10 s. and by Aliens 6 l. And every Tun of Wine brought into any other Port of this Kingdom by Natural Born Subjects 3 l. and by Aliens 4 l. 10 s. IV. Every Butt or Pipe of Sweet Wines of the Growth of the Levant Spain or Portugal or elsewhere brought into the Port of London by Natural Born Subjects 45 s. and by Aliens 3 l. And every Butt or Pipe brought into any other Port by Natural Born Subjects 30 s. and by Strangers 25 s. V. Every Awm of Rhenish Wine or of the Growth of Germany imported by Natural Born Subjects 20 s. and by Aliens 25 s. VI. And Wines Landed in the Out Ports and afterwards brought to London by Certificate shall pay so much more as they paid short of the London Duty VII Which several Rates for Wines are the same as in the Book of Rates referred to by the Act Ann. 12. Car. 2. ch 4. VIII All manner of Goods and Merchandizes imported from the said 1 May 1697. to 1 Febr. 1699. shall pay one further Subsidy of Poundage of 12 d. per l. of the Value thereof according to the said Book of Rates IX And if any such Goods are not particularly Rated in the said Book the Duty shall be Levyed according to the Value affirmed upon the Oath of the Merchant X. Except all Wines before limited to pay Subsidy of Tunnage all Fish English taken and imported in English Bottoms all Fresh Fish and Bestial imported and all other Goods mentioned to be Custom-free in the said Book of Rates and such Goods as are commonly used in Dying XI Provided That all Drugs imported from the Place of their Growth in English Built Ships shall be rated to this Act but One Third Part charged in the said Book of Rates XII All Spicery except Pepper imported from the place of its Growth in English Built Shipping shall be rated to this Act but one Third Part charged in the said Book of Rates XIII Linen imported shall not pay the Additional Duty of one Moiety charged in the said Book of Rates XIV All Foreign Wrought Silk exported within one Year from the Importation shall have Two Thirds of the Rate hereby charged repaid at the Custom-house XV. Wrought Silks imported shall not be charged with the Additional Duty of One Moiety mentioned in the said Book of Rates Nor is Tobacco of the English Plantation to be charged with the Additional Duty of One peny per Pound over and above the Subsidy in the said Book of Rates Nor are the Wines of France Germany Portugal or Madera to be charged with the Additional Duty of 3 l. per Tun or any other Wines with 4 l. per Tun mentioned in the said former Acts or Book of Rates XVI For all Tobacco of the English Plantations exported within a Year from its importation the Subsidy of 1 d. per l. hereby granted shall be repaid at the Custom-house XVII Out of the Duties by this Act granted there shall be the like Allowances as are prescribed in the former Act or Book of Rates XVIII The Duties hereby granted shall be Levied by the Officers of the Customs under direction of the Commissioners of the Customs and paid into the Exchequer for the Uses in this Act mentioned And the Rules and Directions of the former Act of Tunnage and Poundage and Book of Rates shall be observed for Levying the Duty by this Act granted XIX The Additional Duty on French Goods and Merchandizes granted the last Session ch 24 shall not extend to such as shall be bona side seized or taken and condemned as Prize except such seizing be by Connivance or Collusion XX. The whole Duty charged by this Act on Sugars of the English Plantations in America shall be paid back upon Exportation XXI There shall be repaid at the Custom-house within one month after demand 3 s. for every Hundred VVeight of Sugar refined in England and exported Oath being made that it was produced from Brown and Muscavado Sugar charged by this Act imported from the English Plantations in America and for which the Duty was paid upon importation XXII For the Duty hereby granted on Tobacco of the English Plantations in America the Importer shall have Three Months time to pay the same with a Discount of 10 l. per Cent. per Ann. for Prompt Payment XXIII Ginger of the English Plantations in the West Indies valued in the Book of Rates at 16 d. per l. shall pay for the said former Subsidy 12 d. per Hundred VVeight and for this present Subsidy 12 d. also per Hundred VVeight and no more XXIV After 1 May 1697. no cut Whale-bone other than in Fins only shall be imported under the Penalty of Forfeiting the same and double the Value XXV Provided That the Goods and Merchandizes charged by this Act except Foreign Wrought Silk Tobacco Sugars and Refined Sugars Exported by any Merchant English within a year or by a Stranger within nine months after Importation for which the Duty hereby granted hath been paid Inward the whole Subsidy hereby granted and paid for such Goods Wines or Merchandizes shall be repaid within one month after Demand But that there be no Drawback for such Wrought Silks Tobacco and Sugars unless exported within the time limited for other Goods and all other Requisites performed and then not only the Two Thirds but the remaining One Third of the Subsidy hereby granted is to be repaid XXVI Provided That his Majesties Naval Stores bought before 25 Mar. 1697. shall not be charged with the Duty hereby granted XXVII And whereas by an Act of this present Parliament for granting a Supply of 3 s. in the Pound by a Land Tax c. It is thereby Enacted That all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whatsoever be charged for One Year with 3 s. in the Pound of the true Yearly Value to be paid
Poundage and all Additional Duties and Impositions already payable for any Wines Goods or Merchandizes Imported there shall be paid to his Majesty one other Subsidy called Tunnage for all Wines which after the last of January 1699. during his Majesties Life shall be Imported into this Kingdom viz. XLIV Of every Tun of French Wine that shall come into the Port of London by way of Merchandize by his Majesties Natural born Subjects 4 l. 10 s. and by Strangers and Aliens 6 l. Every Tun of like Wine brought into any other Port of this Kingdom by way of Merchandize by his Majesties Natural born Subjects 3 l. and by Aliens 4 l. 10 s. XLV Every Butt or Pipe of Muscadells Malmseys Cutes Tents Alicants Bastards Sacks Canaries Malaga's Madera's and other Sweet Wines of the Growth of the Levant Spain or Portugal brought into the Port of London by his Majesties Natural born Subjects 45 s. and by Strangers or Aliens 3 l. And every Butt or Pipe of the like Wine brought into any other Port of this Kingdom by way of Merchandize by his Majesties Natural born Subjects 30 s. and by Strangers 45 s. XLVI Every Awm of Rhenish Wine or of the Growth of Germany brought into this Realm by his Majesties Natural born Subjects 20 s. and by Strangers and Aliens 25 s. And such Wines landed in any the Out Ports and afterwards brought to London by Certificate shall pay so much more Subsidy by this Act as they paid short of the Duty due in the Port of London Which several Rates for Wines are the same as in the Book of Rates signed by Sir Harbottle Grimstone Baronet formerly Speaker of the House of Commons and referred to by the Act 12 Car. 2. Intituled A Subsidy Granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage and other Sums of Money payable upon Merchandizes Exported and Imported And one further Subsidy called Poundage viz. Of all manner of Goods and Merchandizes by whomsoever brought into this Realm after the said last of January 1699. during his Majesties Life by way of Merchandize Twelve Pence in the Pound of the Value of the same Goods and Merchandizes in the said Book of Rates And if any Goods so Imported shall not be particularly Rated in the said Book of Rates the Subsidy by this Act Granted shall be Levied according to the Value of such Goods upon Oath of the Merchant Except out of this Subsidy all Wines before limited to pay Tunnage and all Fish English taken and brought by English Bottoms into this Realm and all Fresh Fish and Bestial and all other Goods and Merchandizes which in the said Book of Rates are Custom Free and all Goods and Merchandizes commonly used in Dying XLVII All Drugs Chargeable by this Act Imported directly from the place of their Growth in English Built Shipping shall pay only one third part of what is Charged thereupon in the said Book of Rates And all Spicery except Pepper Imported directly from the place of its Growth in English Built Shipping shall pay by this Act but one third part of what is Charged in the said Book of Rates And this Act shall not Charge Linen Imported with the Additional Duty of one Moiety of the Rate mentioned in the said Book of Rates And all Foreign Wrought Silks Exported within one Year from the Importation shall have two thirds of the Rate hereby Charged Repaid at the Custome-house And this Act shall not Charge Wrought Silks Imported with the Additional Duty of one Moiety mentioned in the said Book of Rates Or Tobacco of the English Plantation with the Additional Duty of One Peny per Pound over and above the Subsidy in the said Book of Rates Or the Wines of France Germany Portugal or Madera with the Additional Duty of 3 l. per Tun or any other Wines with the Additional Duty of 4 l. per Tun mentioned in the said former Acts or Book of Rates And that for all Tobacco of the English Plantations Exported within one Year after its Importation the further Subsidy of one Peny per Pound hereby Granted shall be Repaid at the Custom-house XLVIII Out of the several Subsidies of Tunnage and Poundage by this Act Granted there shall be the like Allowances and Abatements as are prescribed by the said former Act or Book of Rates or the Rules thereunto annexed XLIX The said Subsidies of Tunnage and Poundage hereby Granted shall be Collected by the Officers of the Customs under the Management of the Commissioners of the Customs and shall be paid into the Exchequer for the Purposes in this Act mentioned the Charge of Management only excepted and all the Clauses in the said former Act of Tunnage and Poundage or in the Book of Rates or the Rules thereunto annexed or in any other Laws in Force touching the said Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage shall be put in Execution for Answering the Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage by this Act Granted as if particularly repeated in this Act. L. The whole further Subsidy laid by this Act upon all Sugars Imported from the English Plantations in America shall be paid back at the Exportation thereof LI. For every hundred Weight of Brown and Muscavado Sugars Refined in England Exported out of this Kingdom after the said last of January 1699. during the Continuance of this Act there shall be repaid at the Custom-house to the Exporter within a Month after Demand 3 s. Oath being made by the Refiner that the said Sugar was produced from Brown and Muscavado Sugar Charged by this Act and as he believes Imported from his Majesties Plantations in America and the Duty paid at Importation and duly Exported the Searcher also Certifying the Shipping and all other Requisites performed LII For the further Subsidy hereby Granted upon Tobacco of the English Plantations in America the Merchant giving Security shall have Three Months from the Importation to pay the same with a Discount after 10 per Cent. per Ann. for Prompt Payment if sooner paid LIII Ginger of the English Plantations in the West Indies Valued by the Book of Rates at 16 d. per Pound shall pay for the said former Subsidy 1 s. for every hundred Weight and for the Subsidy by this Act 1 s. for every hundred Weight and no more LIV. If any persons import or bring into this Kingdom any Cut Whalebone other than in Fins only they shall Forfeit the Goods and double the Value of the Cut Whalebone so Imported one moiety to the King the other to them that shall Seize or Sue for the same LV. Where any the Foreign Goods Wines or Merchandizes by this Act Charged with the Subsidy of Tunnage or Poundage Except Foreign Wrought Silk Tobacco Sugars and Refined Sugars touching which other Provisions are hereby made shall be again Exported by any Merchant English within a Twelve Month or by Strangers within Nine Kalendary Months after Importation and that Proof be made by Certificate from the proper Officer of the Entry and Payment
Executors Administrators and Assigns and all others claiming any Interest in the said Houses or Ground whereon they stand and shall be a full Authority for the said Commissioners or any 11 of them to cause the said Houses to be removed and pulled down IX None shall Act as a Commissioner to the purposes aforesaid till Sworn before the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper for the Due and Impartial execution of the Trust reposed in him Malt. I. STat. 9 10. W. 3. cap. 22. Whereas there hath been some doubt whether the Act made 39 Eliz. Intituled An Act to restrain the Excessive making of Malt be now in Force yet nevertheless several Justices of Peace at their Quarter Sessions have made Orders to Restrain Malsters from Buying of Barley for Malting and from Exercising the Imploy of Malting for a year to the lessening his Majesties Revenue by the Duty of 6 d. per Bushel laid on Malt and a Discouragement to Malsters Enacted That the said Act of A. 39 Eliz. be Repealed and all Orders made by Justices of Peace for Restraining Malsters from making of Malt since the said Duty of 6 d. per Bushel was laid on Malt are hereby Vacated Militia I. Stat. 8 9. W. 3. cap. 35. If at any time before 25 Apr. 1698. It shall be found by his Majesty to be necessary for the Defence of this Kingdom to draw out the Militia Soldiers into actual Service and the same shall be signified to the respective Lieutenants Deputy Lieutenants c. It shall be Lawful for the said Lieutenants c. notwithstanding that one or more Months Pay before that time advanced be not reimbursed to raise and draw out the said Soldiers into actual Service and to cause the persons charged to provide each their Soldier with Pay in hand not exceeding one months Pay II. Stat. 9 10. W. 3. cap. 31. If at any time before 24 June 1699. It shall be found necessary by his Majesty for the defence and safety of this Kingdom to draw out into actual Service the Soldiers mentioned and appointed in and by the Act made Anno 13 14 Car. 2. Intituled An Act for Ordering the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom and the same shall be declared and signified by his Majesty to the respective Lieutenants or Deputy-Lieutenants and the Warden of the Cinque-ports c. It shall be lawful for the said Lieutenants or their Deputies or any three or more of them and the Warden of the Cinque ports or his Lieutenant in pursuance of such Orders from his Majesty notwithstanding that one or more months Pay before that time advanced be not reimbursed to raise and draw out the said Soldiers into actual Service charged with Pay in hand not exceeding one months Pay III. Papists or reputed Papists and persons refusing to take the Oaths mentioned in the Act 1 W. M. Intituled An Act for abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths chargeable in respect of their Estates to the finding a Horse Horseman and Arms or a Foot Soldier and Arms the Lieutenants or Deputy-Lieutenants of the County or Division where such Estates do lye or three or more of them may appoint such person as they shall think meet to furnish one or more Horsemen or Foot-Soldiers and Arms for the said Estates and may charge the said Estates with 8 l for a Horse Horseman and Arms and 30 s. for every Foot-Soldier and Arms And if the persons so chargeable neglect or refuse to pay the same on demand the said Lieutenants or Deputy-Lieutenants may levy the same by Distress and Sale of Goods of such Papists c. or upon their Tenants and the Arrears for the like Services already performed to be determined by three or more Deputy-Lieutenants rendring the Overplus the charge in levying thereof being first deducted And the Tenants so distrain'd on may deduct the same out of their Rents IV. Where two or more persons are charged to find any Horse or Foot-Soldier and Arms three or more Deputy-Lieutenants of the County or Division may direct who shall find the Horse and Arms or Foot-Soldier and Arms and who shall be the Contributors and settle the Payments by every Contributor if not ascertained by the Parties And such Contributor or his Tenant not paying his proportion upon demand three or more of the Deputy-Lieutenants of the County or Division may levy the same by Distress and Sale of Goods of the person so neglecting or refusing to pay rendring the Overplus the charge in levying being first deducted And the Tenant may deduct the Sum so charged out of the Rent payable to his Landlord Oaths I. STat. 9. W. 3. cap. 3. All persons who since 10 June 1697. or before the said 10 June have bought any Orders or parts of Orders or Talleys and have or shall neglect to take Assignments and Register the same and to make an Oath thereupon concerning the Praemium or Allowance within the 10 days limited by the Act Ann. 8 9 W. 3. Intituled An Act for making good the Deficiencies of several Funds therein mentioned and for enlarging the Capital Stock of the Bank of England and for Raising the Publick Credit and their Executors Administrators Successors and Assigns shall have liberty for the doing thereof till 10 June 1698. And the Officers Impowered by the said former Act to Administer the said Oaths within the times thereby limited are to Administer the like Oaths within the times by this Act appointed II. Where Orders of Loan or Talleys were actually bought before 10 June 1697. and Oath there of shall be made by 10 June 1698. before the persons appointed by the said former Act for Administring the other Oaths concerning the Praemium or Allowance the persons claiming such Orders or Talleys by Assignments not Registred or by Indorsements only shall not be obliged to take the said other Oath concerning the Praemium And where the respective Oath shall be duly made pursuant to this Act touching such Orders or Talleys as aforesaid the Assignment thereof shall be as effectual as if the Oath had been made within the time limited by the said former Act. III. After 10 Jan. 1697. The Officers of the Exchequer may upon request of the persons Intituled to Orders and Talleys of Loan take in and cancel so many of the said Orders as follow successively in number and course and are of the same date and payable to one and the same person or Corporation and whereof the Interest has been paid to one and the same time together with the Talleys belonging to such Orders and to give them as few Orders and Talleys in lieu thereof and of the same value and course of payment as shall be desired no one such new Order containing above 5000 l. Upon which new Orders shall be Indorsed how far the Interest hath been satisfied and to whom last Assigned Which said new Orders and Talleys shall be valid to all intents and
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
Wines c. on the 6000 l. per Week out of the Excise or the 600 l. per Week out of the Post-Office and the other fifth part in Bank Bills or Notes CXXXV After 24 Jun. 1697. Interest of Eight per Cent. per Ann. shall be allowed for the Talleys and Orders so subscribed out of the Funds or Provisions granted by this Act. CXXXVI The Interest payable to the Bank upon so many Talleys or Orders as the Bank is already possessed of whereof the principal shall be equal to the said Fifth part subscribed in Bank Bills or Notes shall be likewise augmented to Eight per Cent. per ann after the said 24 June CXXXVII And the said new Subscribers shall after the said 24 June be Members of and united to the present Bank of England by the Name of the Governour and Company of the Bank of England with perpetual Succession and a Common Seal c. CXXXVIII Provided That upon twelve months notice after 1 Aug. 1710. upon repayment by Parliament to the said Bank the 1200000 l. mentioned in the Act for granting several Rates upon Tunnage c. and all Arrears of the 100000 l. per ann and all the Principal and Interest which shall be due to the said Bank upon Talleys c. then the said Bank to cease and determine But that during the continuance of this Bank no other Bank shall be crected or permitted by Act of Parliament CXXXIX The Interest due on Talleys and Orders subscribed into the Bank shall be accepted as so much Principal Money CXL The said Bank may borrow or give security for by Bills over and above the 1200000 l. to which they were at first limited any Sum not exceeding the Sum subscribed under an Obligation of paying the said Bills in Money upon demand and in default thereof the said Bills to be paid at the Exchequer out of the first Money due unto the Bank other than the Fund of 100000 l. per ann But that these Bills shall be distinguisht from the Debts contain'd within the said 1200000 l. CXLI The Capital Stock and Fund of the said Bank shall be exempt from Taxes CXLII After the compleating of the said Subscriptions the Interest of all Talleys and Orders subscribed together with the said 100000 l. per ann shall be applied to the use of the Bank proportionably to each Members Share therein CXLIII After 25 Mar. 1697 the Stock of the said Bank shall be accounted a Personal and not a Real Estate and descend accordingly And no Bank Stock shall be sold without Registring the Contract thereof at the Bank within seven days and actually transferring it within fourteen days CXLIV No Act of the Bank shall forfeit the Stock thereof provided they pay their Debts And it shall be Felony to counterfeit the common Seal of the said Bank or any seal'd Bank Bill or any Bank Note or alter or erase such Bills or Notes CXLV The Office of the Exchequer shall keep distinct Accounts of all Moneys appropriated or due to the said Bank either upon the Fund of 100000 l. per Annum or any other Parliamentary Funds or for Talleys belonging to the said Bank and shall duly Direct Record and make Payment thereof under Penalty of loss of Place c. CXLVI The Moneys arising by the continuation of the Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage c. by Wines Vinegar and Tobacco c. by the Additional Impositions on Goods and Merchandizes by Vellum Parchment and Paper by Marriages Births and Burials c. and by the Duties on Houses from the times the said Duties are severally continued as aforesaid till 1 Aug. 1706. And by the surplus of the said Duties on Wine Vinegar and Tobacco c. over and above the 1500000 l. Credit given thereupon and the Interest thereof arising by the Act continued till the said 29 Sept. 1701. And also on Houses after the repayment of 7382 l. 11 s. 4 d. borrowed thereon and the Interest thereof And after that the Bills Signed at the Mints for 6 d. per oz. upon Plate brought in between 4 May 1696. and 4 Nov. 1696 arising by the Act granted for seven years from 25 Mar. 1696. And upon Salt Glass-Wares c. after the repayment of 1724000 l. borrowed thereon and the Interest thereof arising by the Act Anno 7 8 W. 3. shall be the General Fund for making good the particular Funds or Deficiencies in this Act expressed and shall be appropriated and applied accordingly CXLVII And the Moneys arising by the said General Fund before 28 Jun. 1698. as well for the Duties on Houses after the said 7382 l. 11 s. 4 d. and the Interest thereof and the 6 d. per oz. for Silver is satisfied as for the said Additional Duties on Goods and Merchandizes continued from ult Febr. 1696. shall be applied towards Interest due to the Bank of England or others for Loans upon the First Third and Fourth 4 s. Aids the Quarterly Poll three Fourths of the Customs and two Thirds of the Additional Excise and upon the Additional Impositions ending 1 Mar. 1696. And out of the same Moneys the Bank shall receive so much as will make their part of the Interest 8 l. per Cent. for all their Talleys and Orders CXLVIII Provided That if the said Money fall short a proportionable part so far as it will extend shall be applied to the Interest upon each of those Funds And if there be an Overplus the same to go towards the principal Moneys upon each of those Funds proportionably CXLIX And the Moneys arising by the said General Fund after 28 Jun. 1698. as well by the said Duties on Houses and Additional Impositions as at any time or times for the said Duties on Vellum Parchment and Paper continued from 28 Jun. 1698. to 1 Aug. 1706. And for Tunnage and Poundage c. continued from 25 Dec. 1699 to 1 Aug. 1706. And for Marriages Births and Burials c. continued from 1 May 1700. to 1 Aug. 1706. And for Wines Vinegar and Tobacco c. continued from 28 Sept. 1701. to 1 Aug. 1706. And by the said surplus on Wines Vinegar and Tobacco c. and on Salt Glass Wares c. shall be applied towards Principal and Interest of the said First Third and Fourth Aids of 4 s. per pound the Quarterly Poll the three Fourths of the Customs the Duties on Salt c. the two Thirds of the Additional Excise the Additional Impositions the Duties on Vellum Paper and Parchment on Marriages Births and Burials c. on Wines Vinegar and Tobacco c. and the 300000 l. per Annum out of Tunnage and Poundage in proportion to the respective Deficiencies as computed in this Act. CL. And by 26 July 1698. and thenceforth every Twenty eight days an account shall be made up at the Treasury of all the Moneys brought in applicable to the said deficient Funds which shall be applied proportionably as aforesaid as well to the Bank of England as
l. CCXI. Every Pedlar Hawker or other Travelling person so Travelling as aforesaid shall before the 24th of June 1697. deliver to the Commissioners for Transportation or to the persons deputed by them a Note in Writing under his or her Hand or under the Hand of some person by him or her Authorized in what manner he or she will Travel and Trade whether on foot or with one or more Horse Ass c. for which the Party shall pay to the said Commissioners or Deputies one moiety of the Duty by this Act payable for the same and give Security by Bond with one or more Sureties to be taken in his Majesties Name for the payment of the other Moiety at the end of Six Kalendar Months unless the Party shall choose to pay it down in which case 2 s. in the Pound shall be allowed for Prompt Payment and thereupon a Licence shall be Granted to him or her so to Travel or Trade by two or more of the said Commissioners for Transportation CCXII. If any such Hawker c. after the 24th of June 1697. be found Trading as aforesaid without or contrary to such Licence such person shall for every such Offence Forfeit 12 l. one moiety to the Informer the other to the Poor of the Parish where such Offender shall be discovered And every person so Trading who upon demand shall refuse to shew to any Justice of the Peace Mayor Constable or other Officer of the Peace his or her Licence for so Trading shall Forfeit 5 l. to the Church-wardens for the Poor of the Parish where such demand shall be made and for Non-payment shall suffer as a Common Vagrant and be committed to the House of Correction CCXIII. The said Commissioners or any two of them upon the Terms and Receipt and Security given as aforesaid shall grant a Licence to every Hawker c. for him or her self alone or with one or more Horses Asses c. as the case shall require for which Licence they shall take 1 s. unless such Hawker c. travels with Horse Ass c. and then 2 s. and no more The said Commissioners shall keep a distinct Account of the Duties arising by this Act and pay the same into the Exchequer Weekly on the Wednesday unless a Holiday under the penalties which the Officers of the Exchequer herein after mentioned shall be liable unto Which Money so paid in shall be applied to the paying the Interest of the 330769 l. 10 s. 7 d. in such manner as by the Act 6 7 W. 3. cap. 7. is appointed CCXIV. Whoever shall Forge or Counterfeit any Licence or Travel with such shall Forfeit 50 l. one moiety to the King the other to the Prosecutor to be Recovered by Action of Debt c. in any of the Kings Courts of Record at Westminster in which no Essoin c. to be allowed and to be subject besides to the Pains and Penalty of Forgery CCXV Persons sued or troubled for putting this Act in Execution may plead the General Issue and give the Special Matter in Evidence and if the Plaintiff shall be Nonsuited or Judgment be given against him the Defendant shall have Treble Costs CCXVI Constables or other Officers refusing or neglecting upon due Notice to Aid or Assist in the Execution of this Act every such Officer being thereof Convicted before any Justice of Peace shall Forfeit 40 s. to be levied by Distress and Sale of Goods One moiety to the poor of the Parish the other to the Informer CCXVII Any person may seize and detain any Hawker c. till such time as he or she shall produce a Licence if they have any if not till they give Notice to the Constable or some other Parish Officer who shall carry such Offender before a Justice of Peace who upon Confession or due Proof of Trading and no Licence produced shall by Warrant under his Hand and Seal cause the said Sum of 12 l. to be levied out of the Offenders Goods and Wares with reasonable Charges for taking the Distress CCXVIII This Act shall not extend to prohibit any person from selling Acts of Parliament Forms of Prayer Proclamations Gazettes Licensed Almanacks or other Licensed Papers or Fish Fruit or Victuals or hinder the Makers of any Goods or Wares in England Wales or Town of Berwick their Children Servants or Agents from carrying abroad and selling the same in any publick Fair or Market or elsewhere nor any Tinker Cooper Glasier Plummer Harness-menders or other person Trading in mending household Goods from going about and Carrying with them proper Materials for mending the same CCXIX. There shall be kept in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipts in the Exchequer one Book in which all Moneys paid in by virtue of this Act shall be entred apart CCXX If any Officer of the Exchequer shall divert or misapply any Moneys given by this Act he shall Forfeit his Office be incapable of any place of Trust and pay the treble value of any Sum so misapplied to the Party grieved his Executors c. who will sue for the same by Action of Debt c. wherein no Essoin c. And all Orders and Warrants for payment of Money contrary to the intent and meaning of this Act shall be Void CCXXI Nothing herein contained shall extend to hinder any Persons from selling any sorts of Goods in any publick Market or Fair in England Wales or Town of Berwick but that they may do therein as they lawfully might have done before the making of this Act. CCXXII On or before the first of August 1697. the several Owners of the Ships mentioned in the foresaid Act 6 7 W. 3. cap 7. or such persons who have parts and shares in the same shall deliver in to the Commissioners for Transportation an Account of what Share Part or Interest in each Ship he or they under whom they Claim are possest of and if the same be not in the first Proprietor then the person claiming to give an Account how and by what means he came to the same and so from time to time upon the Death or Assignment of any person Intituled unto any part or Interest of the Money intended to be raised by this or the foresaid Act an Account shall be given thereof to the said Commissioners CCXXIII. A Register of every persons Claim and Interest shall be made and kept in a Book to be provided by the said Commissioners and for Registring each persons Title a Fee of 1 s. shall be paid to the Clerk and no more and no person shall receive any Moneys to be raised by this or the foresaid Act till he hath delivered in to the said Commissioners an Account of his Share and Interest which Register shall at all times be viewed without Fee CCXXIV. In case it happen that the Duties Granted upon Coffee Tea Chocolate and Spice by the foresaid Act with the Duties to be raised by this Act shall amount to more
pay subsequent Tickets when brought and demanded before such Tickets as were not brought in course provided there be Money reserved to satisfie such preceding Tickets CCCCIV The additional Duties of Excise granted by the said Act and which ought to come weekly into the Exchequer the Officers Salaries and incident Charges not exceeding 2500 l. per Ann. only excepted are hereby appropriated during the whole term of 16 years thereby granted to the payment of the said Annuities and Tickets for the same CCCCV. After 15 May 1698. No Officer appointed to pay the Annuities for one two or three Lives purchased for the respective Considerations mentioned in the Act of 5 6 W. and M. Intituled An Act for Granting to their Majesties several Rates and Duties upon Tunnage of Ships and Vessels and upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for securing certain Recompences and Advantages in the said Act mentioned to such persons as shall voluntarily advance the Sum of 1500000 l. towards carrying on the War against France payable quarterly out of two seventh parts of the several Duties thereby granted and the Reversions of the said Annuities or some of them or further interest therein purchased by several subsequent Acts shall pay off any quarterly payment of the said Annuities till the preceedent quarter be paid off or the Money ready in the Office for payment thereof whereof publick notice in Writing shall be affixed in the said Office under Penalty of forfeiting his place and 100 l. for every such offence to the Persons who shall Sue for the same to be recovered with costs of Suit as aforesaid CCCCVI Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 35. Enacted That all the Clauses in the Acts of the sixth seventh and eighth years of his Majesties Reign in relation to the Duties on Marriages Births Burials Batchelors and Widowers not otherwise hereby altered or explained shall be duly observed under the Penalties in the said Acts. CCCCVII The Commissioners for the Aid to his Majesty of 1484015 l. 1 s. 11 d. 3 f. shall be Commissioners for the said Acts for Marriages Births and Burials till 24 Jun. 1699. who with the Justices of Peace or a Quorum of them appointed by the former Acts shall have full power to Act in all things relating to the said Duties and after the 24 Jan. 1699. the Justices as aforesaid shall be the Commissioners CCCCVIII All persons required by the former Acts to keep a Register shall with the name of every person Married Buried Christened or Born express the Degree and Quality according to which the Duty ought to be paid and upon Burials the names of the Heirs Executors Administrators Fathers Mothers Guardians Churchwardens Overseers or others who are to pay for the same and where they dwell And in case of Births the names of the Fathers Mothers Guardians or Curators of such Children and where they live And in case of Marriages the Husbands abode under penalty of 20 l. one moiety to the King the other to the Informer And every person who ought to pay the said Duties shall give the Minister who performs the Office of such Marriage Burial or Christening a true relation of the Degree and Quality according to which the Duty ought to be paid and where the person lives who ought to pay the same to be inserted in the Register under penalty of 20 l. CCCCIX. The words Ecclesiastical Persons in this Act and Persons in Holy Orders in the former Acts are to comprehend Bishops where Marriages Christenings or Burials are performed by them CCCCX Upon any Persons removal or going away without payment of the Duties any two of the Commissioners certifying such default under their Hands and Seals the like number of Commissioners in any other place where the person shall be sound shall cause the said Duties to be paid and upon default may Levy the same by Distress and Sale of Goods CCCCXI All Penalties in this and the former Acts touching the said Duties except the Penalty of 100 l. for not duly keeping a Register shall be determined by two or more Justices or Commissioners near the place upon Oath and levied by distress and sole of Goods and for want of Distress the Offender to be Committed to Prison But the Commissioners may mitigate such Penalty so that it be not less than double the Duty CCCCXII The Commissioners in the respective Divisions shall meet together on or before the first of August 1698. and so once or oftner every three Months for the Execution of this and the former Acts and they or any two of them are to warn the Assessors Collectors Surveyors Inspectors and Receivers General and if need be any Parsons Vicars Curates Parish-Clerks and others concerned in the said Duties to bring in their Assessments Accounts and Registers and upon default may Fine the Offenders not exceeding 5 l. CCCCXIII And shall Examine the said Assessments Accounts and Registers and cause the persons omitted or not fully charged to be duly taxed and thereupon to sign the Assessments and cause Duplicates of the gross Sums to be Transmitted into the Exchequer CCCCXIV The Collectors shall render their Accounts upon Oath and in default thereof may be fined by the Commissioners not exceeding 20 l. CCCCXV. Every Collector duly discharging himself shall besides the 3 d. in the pound in the former Acts be allowed 2 d. in the pound for what he shall pay to the Receiver General and the Commissioners Clerks shall have an Additional allowance of 1 d. in the pound CCCCXVI After 1 Aug. 1698. every person who ought to pay any of the said Duties shall pay or tender the same to the proper Collector within twenty days after it shall become due on pain of paying double the said Duties CCCCXVII The Clause in the former Act An. 6. W. 3. for the Collectors delivering a Copy of the Assessment to the Minister of the place under penalty of 5 l. and for the Ministers reading the same in the Church under the like penalty is hereby Repealed CCCCXVIII The ten days allowed by the said former Act for Appealing shall be reckoned from the time of the Collectors demand CCCCXIX Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 38. Enacted That every person of what Age Sex or Condition soever in England and Wales shall pay to his Majesty one shilling on 24 Aug. 1698. one shilling 24 Novemb. 1698. one shilling 24 Febr. 1698. and one shilling 24 May 1699. Except such as receive Alms of the Parish and their Children under the age of 16 years and all poor House keepers not contributing to Church or Poor and their Children under 16 years and except all Children under 16 years of Day Labourers and Servants in Husbandry and of such who have 4 Children or more and are not worth in Lands Goods and Chattels 50 l. CCCCXX Every Gentleman or so Reputed having an Estate real or personal or in both of 300 l. or more and every person above that quality and not a Peer
pay the Assessment in ten days after demand where no sufficient Distress can be found three of the Commissioners may commit such Persons to Gaol till payment be made CCCCXXXVI Persons agrieved and complaining to the Commissioners within six days after demand the Commissioners or three of them whereof two who signed the Rate may within eight days after examine the Complainant upon Oath and thereupon abate or increase the same and the Commissioners are required to meet together for determining such Complaints and Appeals accordingly CCCCXXXVII All Persons shall be rated where Resident with their Families at the Execution of the Act and Persons not Housholders nor having a certain place of abode and all Servants shall be Taxed where Resident at the time The Tax on Servants to be paid by the Master or Mistress and Deducted out of their Wages CCCCXXXVIII Persons doubly charged for several Mansion Houses or Places of Residence upon Certificate of two of the Commissioners of their Personal Residence and of the Sums charged and Oath made of such Certificate before a Justice of Peace shall for so much as shall be certified be discharged in every other place CCCCXXXIX Persons at the time of the assessing being out of the Realm shall be rated where last abiding in the Realm CCCCXL. Persons escaping Taxation by Fraud or changing their Residence upon proof thereof before two of the Commissioners or Justices of the Peace shall at any time within twelve Months after be charged double CCCCXLI The Commissioners shall Tax one another and shall Assess the Assessors CCCCXLII Assessors Collectors Receivers or other persons wilfully neglecting or refusing to perform their Dury the Commissioners or two of them may Fine them not exceeding 20 l. CCCCXLIII The Commissioners or two of them shall call for an Account from the Receivers General of the Moneys received by them and paid into the Exchequer and in case of failure to cause the same to be forthwith levied CCCCXLIV Upon any Controversie between the Commissioners about the said Rates the Commissioners concerned are to withdraw under penalty of a Sum not exceeding 20 l. CCCCXLV All differences touching any of the said Rates and the Collecting thereof shall be finally determined by three or more Commissioners without further trouble CCCCXLVI The Receivers General shall give Acquittances to the Collectors gratis and the Collectors shall deliver to the Receivers General a Schedule in Parchment under their hands and seals signed by two or more Commissioners of the names and places of abode of every person making default of payment to be returned into the Exchequer from whence Precess shall be Issued against them for the same CCCCXLVII No Letters Patents shall exempt any persons or places from the Charge Granted by this Act. CCCCXLVIII All Constables Headboroughs Tything-men and other Officers shall be Aiding in the Execution of this Act and obey such Precepts as shall be directed to them by the Commissioners or any Two of them CCCCXLIX Persons Prosecuted for Acting in pursuance of this Act may plead the General Issue and give this Act and the special matter in Evidence and upon a Nonsuit Discontinuance or Verdict against the Prosecutor the Defendant shall recover Treble Costs CCCCL The Parents Guardians and Tutors of Persons under the Age of 21 Years shall upon Default pay the Duties for such Persons CCCCLI All Moneys payable by this Act shall be paid by the Collectors to the Receivers General Appointed by his Majesty or to their Deputies whereof notice shall be given to the Commissioners within Ten days after their General Meeting and so within Ten days after the Death or Removal of any Deputy and their Receipts shall be a Discharge to the Collectors CCCCLII The Collectors shall not be Obliged to travel above Ten Miles for payment of any Sums to the Receivers General CCCCLIII Every Receiver General within one Month after the Receipt of the whole Sum charged on any Hundred or Division for each Quarterly payment shall give the Commissioners of the Division a Receipt for the same under his Hand and Seal which shall be a full Discharge to such Hundred or Division CCCCLIV If any Receiver General Certifie into the Exchequer any Money in Arrear or Unpaid after the same hath been Received or cause any Person to be unjustly set Insuper he shall Forfeit to the Person Molested or Damaged thereby Treble Damages and to the King double the Sum so Unjustly Certified or set Insuper CCCCLV No Commissioner shall be Liable for his Execution of this Act to the Penalties in the Act Anno 25 Car. 2. For Preventing Dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants CCCCLVI All Penalties Incurred by this Act shall be Levied if not otherwise Prescribed by Warrant of Two or more of the Commissioners where the Offence was Committed by Distress and Sale of Goods CCCCLVII The Commissioners at a General Meeting All Appeals being first Determined shall cause Duplicates of the whole Sum Charged on each Division or Place Written in Parchment without Naming the persons and Signed by Three or more of the Commissioners to be Joyntly Delivered to the Sheriff of the County to be Transmitted to the Exchequer by 20 September 1698. CCCCLVIII No Person shall Act as a Commissioner before he Take the Oaths appointed 1 W. M. which any Two Commissioners may Administer under the Penalty of 200 l. Forfeiture to his Majesty CCCCLIX Persons chargeable to the Finding or Contributing to a Militia Horse shall be Assessed in such places where they ought so to Find or Contribute And if such Assessment be not Paid within the time Limitted and no Goods or Chattels of the Parties sufficient to be found then it shall be Lawful in case the Tenant of the Lands pay not the Assessment within Ten Days to Levy the same by Distress and Sale of the Tenants Goods which shall be allowed the Tenant on payment of his Rent CCCCLX Serjeants Inn in Fleet-street and Serjeants-Inn in Chancery Lane the four Inns of Court and the Inns of Chancery shall be Rated according to the proportion Imposed by this Act. CCCCLXI Persons coming to reside in any Division within London or Westminster or Five Miles thereof and not there Taxed shall be Summoned before the Commissioners and Assessed unless they produce Certificates of their being Assessed and having paid the preceding Quarterly payments CCCCLXII Every Housholder shall give the Assessors an Account of the Names and Qualities of their Lodgers under penalty of 5 l. CCCCLXIII Persons may pay all or any of the Quarterly payments to the Collectors beforehand for which the Collectors Acquittance shall be a good Discharge CCCCLXIV Members of Parliament shall be Assessed where their usual Residence is in the Intervals of Parliament CCCCLXV Out of the Moneys paid into the Exchequer upon the Act of this present Session for Granting to His Majesty several Duties upon Coals and Culm 250000 l. shall be Appropriated for payment of Seamen that have or
imported although filled with Liquor shall pay one Moiety of the Duties charged thereon by the former Acts. CCCCLXXXIII Upon the Importation of any Whale Fins Scotch Linen or Tickings as aforesaid Entry thereof shall be made in the Custom-house where imported And in case of Landing any such Goods before due Entry made and the Duties secured or without a Warrant from the Commissioners or proper Officers of the Customs for Landing the same such Goods shall be forfeited or the value thereof and be recovered of the importer or proprietor one Moiety to the King the other to the Seiser or Prosecutor CCCCLXXXIV The said Duties payable for Whale Fins and Scotch Linen as aforesaid shall be managed by the Commissioners of the Customs And the Receivers General of the Customs shall bring the Produce thereof necessary charges only excepted into the Receipt of the Exchequer And the Officers of the Exchequer shall apply the said Duties as also the half Duties on Glass Waies for the payment of such Principal and Interest Moneys whereunto the whole Duties on Glass and Earthen Wares and Tobacco Pipes ought to have been applied in the same Order and under the like Penalties and Forfeitures as in the said former Acts are prescribed Trade I. Stat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 36. Enacted That whosoever shall Import any Foreign Alamodes or Lustrings into England Wales or Town of Berwick without paying the Customs and Rates due for the same at such Importation or shall Import any Alamodes or Lustrings prohibited by Law or undertake or agree to deliver or shall deliver any such Goods or Merchandize or shall pay any Money Praemium or Reward for Insuring or Conveying any such Goods or knowingly receive or take the same into his or her House Custody or Possession such Person may be prosecuted for the same in any Action Suit or Information and thereupon a Capias specifying the Sum of the Penalties shall Issue and the Party obliged to give sufficient Bail to the Officer to appear in Court and shall at the time of appearance give sufficient Bail to pay the penalties for such Offences in case of Conviction or yield his Body to Prison II. It shall be lawful for any Person to Sue for and Recover the penalty of 500 l. imposed by the Stat. 4 5 W. M. upon Insuring to Import Prohibited Goods or Goods without paying Custom cap. 15 Customs 166. by Action of Debt c. in any of the Kings Courts of Record at Westminster wherein no Essoign c. shall be allowed III. All Black Alamodes and Lustrings wheresoever made which shall be found in the Possession of any Person not Markt and Seal'd by the Custom House or the Royal Lustring Company shall be forfeited and may be seized as forfeited whether the same hath been bought and sold or not and the Person in whose Custody they are found shall incur the penalties relating to Alamodes and Lustrings in an Act made 6 7 W. 3. cap. 18. Trade 84. IV. No Alamodes and Lustrings that after the 10 of April 1697 shall be seized and forfeited by virtue of any Law now in force shall be used in England but shall be exported again and to that end shall immediately on their Seizure be carried to the Custom-house Ware house in London and there sold by Inch of Candle on Condition to be exported and Security given for Exportation which Security may be discharged by Certificate from the Port where such Goods shall be Landed or Oath made that they were lost at Sea V. On Exportation of Foreign Lustrings or Alamodes the Exporter shall not be Intituled to Receive Draw back or be repaid the Customs or Impositions paid or secured on Importation of the same or any part thereof VI. Every Person that shall Imbezel Pawn Sell or Detain any of the Silk delivered to them as Agents Journeymen Warpers or Winders or after it is wrought up and every Receiver Buyer and Pawn-taker of any the said Goods shall be subject to all the Penalties and Punishments mentioned and provided in an Act made 13 14 Car. 2. chap. 15. and in another Act made 20 Car. 2. chap. 6. both for regulating the Trade of Silk throwing VII All such pieces of Alamodes and Lustrings as some Weavers have now by them unmarkt and shall appear upon Oath made in Writing before any Justice of Peace by one or more credible Witnesses to be Manufactured within this Realm before the 10 of April 1697 shall be brought to the Royal Lustring Companies Ware-house and the Evidence being there produced shall be Markt and Sealed gratis by the said Company before the 1 of May 1697 and then be lawful to be Sold as if manufactured by the said Company VIII The said Weavers shall give an Account weekly to the said Company to whom they have Sold such Goods so marked and sealed under the penalty of double the value of such Goods for every Omission to be recovered as other Penalties inflicted by this Act and the said Company shall keep a Register of the said Sales IX Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 9. All Persons who after 25 March 1698 shall Import or cause to be Imported into England or Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed or who shall after 24 December 1698 Sell Barter or offer to Sale or knowingly keep in their Custody for Sale or for the use of any Importer or Dealer in the Commodities aftermentioned any Foreign Bone-lace Loom-lace Needle-work Point or Cutwork shall forfeit 20 s. per Yard for all the said Foreign Bone-lace c. so Imported Sold Bartered offered to Sale or kept as aforesaid together with all the said Goods X. The Importation Selling Bartering offering to Sale or Barter or knowingly keeping for that purpose any Foreign Bone-lace c. is hereby declared a Common Nuisance And the said prohibited Goods or any part thereof may be seized and the Offenders prosecuted by any person whatsoever Any Persons with a Constable or Tythingman with a Warrant from a Justice of Peace in the day time may enter into any House Shop Cellar Ware-house or Room or other place whatsoever to Search for and Seize any of the prohibited Goods before mentioned and in case of Resistance to break open Doors Chests Trunks and other Package whatsoever to Seize the Goods prohibited by this Act And every Justice of Peace is to grant such Warrant to any credible Persons making Oath that they have reason to suspect there are such prohibited Goods where they intend to Search XI All Foreign Bone-lace c. Seized by virtue of this or any other Act shall be carried to the next Custom house not thence to be delivered unless to be produced at a Trial or otherwise discharged by Law The Goods so seized and condemned shall be sold publickly by Inch of Candle whereof publick notice in Writing to be affixed at the Custom-house Door and other publick place where the Goods are lodged Ten days before the Sale
or Wire or Plate ready wrought for the covering of Silk or Thread shall be Imported into this Kingdom on pain of being forfeited and burnt XLIX Of the several Penalties in this Act one Moiety shall be to the King the other to them that shall sue for the same in any the Courts of Record at Westminster L. If any Person be sued for what he shall do in Execution of this Act he may plead the General Issue and give the Special Matter in Evidence and upon a Non-suit Discontinuance or Verdict against the Plaintiff the Defendant shall have treble Costs LI. No Penalty shall be inflicted on any Person exposing to sale any Silver Wire or Silver or Gold Thread or Lace or Fringe on or before 29 Sept. 1699 though not made according to this Act provided it be proved by Oath before a Justice of Peace of the Place that such Goods were made on or before 24 July 1698. LII Every Prosecution upon this Act shall be commenced within Six months after the Offence committed LIII This Act shall continue for Three years and thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament LIV. Stat. 9 10 W. 3. Cap. 42. Whereas by an Act 7 8 W. 3. Intituled An Act for Preventing Frauds and Regulating Abuses in the Plantation Trade It is Enacted That after the 25th of March 1698. No Ship or Vessel shall pass as a Ship of the built of England Ireland Wales Berwick Guernsey Jersey or any His Majesties Plantations in America so as to Trade to or from the said Plantations till Registred as enacted by the said Act And yet several Merchants Trading to the Plantations have sent out several Ships and Vessels thither but through madvertency only have omitted to Register them It is Enacted That all Ships and Vessels of the Built of England Ireland Wales Berwick Guernsey Jersey or any His Majesties Plantations in America being English Property shall have Nine months longer from the said 25th of March 1698. for Registring such Ships which being Registred within the said Nine months shall have the advantage of the saie Act as if Registred before the said 25 Mar. 1698. LV. Stat. 9 10 W. 3. Cap. 43. After 1 July 1698. no Foreign Silks known by the name of Alamodes or Lustrings shall be Imported into this Kingdom but into the Port of London only and Notice shall be given to the Commissioners or Chief Managers of the Customs there of the Quality and Quantity with the Marks Numbers and Package of all such Silks intended to be Imported with the Name of the Importer and of the Ship and her Burthen and of the Master and Commander on which they are to be Laden and the Port where the same are to be taken on Board And a Licence shall be taken under the Hands of the said Commissioners or Chief Managers of the Customs or any three of them for the Importing of the same which Licence is to be granted without Fee or Reward LVI The said Commissioners or Chief Managers of the Customs shall cause to be marked and sealed all such Alamodes and Lustrings which shall be Imported after the said 1st of July according to this Act and cause a dissinct Registry thereof to be kept in the Custom-House to be made without Fee or Reward before the Goods be delivered out of the Custom House Warchouse And if any of the said Silks shall be Imported into this Realm other where than in the Port of Londen or Imported without such Notice and Licence and the Duties paid for the same or shall not be so sealed and marked such Silks or the sull value thereof shall be forfeited And the Silks which shall be seised and forfeited by virtue of this or any former Act shall be sold and exported pursuant to the Rules mentioned in an Act of 8 9 W. 3 Intituled An Act for the further Encouragement of the Manufacture of Lustrings and Alamedes within this Realm LVII All Persons who shall Import or bring into this Kingdom any Alamodes or Lustrings contrary to this Act or knowingly receive the same into their Custody or sell or offer to sale any such Foreign Silks so fraudulently Imported and their Aiders Abettors and Assistants knowing thereof shall forfeit 500 Pounds LVIII If any Commission or Warrant Officer or other Person in the Service of His Majesty and having the Command of any Ship or Vessel shall Import or Convey or procure or suffer to be Imported or take on Board any Alamodes or Lustrings in Order to be Imported into this Kingdom or shall Unship or suffer to be Unshipt into any Boat or Vessel any such Silks knowing thereof shall over and above the Forfeitures and Penalties in this or any other Act be ipso facto rendred uncapable of serving His Majesty by Sea or Land or of receiving any Advantage by virtue of such Service And if any Seaman Mariner or other belonging to any Ship or Vessel shall discover any Alamodes or Lustrings so Imported or Unshipt in order to be Imported contrary to this Act such Persons shall over and above their part of the Forfeitures by this Act be discharged from on Board such Ship or Vessel if they desire the same and the Captain or Master shall immediately give them a Ticket Intituling them to their Wages on Board such Ship or Vessel LIX If any Persons shall afterwards Counterfeit or Misapply any of the Seals or Marks now used at the Custom House for Sealing and Marking Alamodes and Lustrings according to this or any other Act or the Seals or Marks of the said Company for Marking and Sealing their Goods they their Aiders and Abettors shall for every such Offence forfeit 500 Pounds and stand in the Pillory two Hours And all Persons who shall buy or fell or have in their Possession any Alamodes or Lustrings with a Counterfeit Seal or Mark or with the Custom-House or Companies Seal or Mark not lawfully affixed thereto knowing thereof and not discovering the same shall forfeit the Goods and 100 Pounds Any Persons with a Writ of Assistance from the Exchequer or with a Constable or Officer and a Justice of Peace's Warrant may in the day time Enter into any House Shop Warehouse or other place to search for and seize any Alamodes or Lustrings Imported contrary to this or any other Act or Sealed or Marked as aforesaid And in case of Resistance to break open Doors Chests and other Package to bring thence to his Majesties Ware house any such Silks And the Justices of Peace are to grant such Warrants to Credible Persons making Oath they suspect there are such Silks where they intend to Search And upon Dispute whether such Silks were Manufactured beyond the Seas or Imported contrary to this Act the Proof shall lie upon the Importer or Owner and not upon the Prosecutor LX. All Officers of the Customs or in Corporations or elsewhere shall be assisting in the Execution of this Act and if any Officer
Dispatch of the Publick Business in the Exchequer and in the Bank of England Oaths 4. An Act for Continuing the Imprisonment of Counter and others for the late Horrid Conspiracy to Assassinate the Person of his sacred Majesty Imprisonment Anno 9 10 W. 3. 5 An Act for satisfying and discharging the Arrears of several Annuities which Incurred between the Seventeenth Day of May One thousand six hundred ninety six and the Seventeenth Day of May One thousand six hundred ninety seven Annuities 6. An Act that all Retailers of Salt shall sell by Weight Salt 7. An Act to prevent the Throwing or Firing of Squibs Serpents and other Fireworks Squibs 8. An Act for Explaining an Act made the last Session of Parliament for Granting to his Majesty certain Duties upon Malt Mum Sweets Cyder and Perry Taxes 9. An Act for Rendring the Laws more effectual for preventing the Importation of Foreign Bone-Lace Loom-Lace Needle-Work Point and Cut Work Trade 10. An Act for Granting to his Majesty the Sum of One million four hundred eighty four thousand and fifteen pounds One shiling Eleven pence three farthings for Disbanding Forces Paying Seamen and other Uses therein mentioned Taxes 11. An Act for Explaining an Act made the last Session of Parliament Entituled An Act for supplying some Defects in the Laws for the Relief of the Poor of this Kingdom Poor 12. An Act for the Inlarging Repairing and Preserving the Bridge and Key of the Borough of Bridgwater in the County of Somerset Bridgwater 13. An Act for Granting to his Majesty several Duties upon Coals and Culm Taxes 14. An Act for Continuing the Duties upon Coffee Tea and Chocolate and Spices towards satisfaction of the Debt due for Transport Service for the Reduction of Ireland Taxes 15. An Act for determining Differences by Arbitration Arbitration 16. An Act to Execute Judgments and Decrees saved in a Clause of an Act of the First year of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary Intituled An Act for taking away the Court holden before the President and Council of the Marches of Wales Iudicial Proceedings 17. An Act for the better Payment of Inland Bills of Exchange Trade 18. An Act for Repairing the High-ways from the Town of Birdlipp and the Top of Crickly-Hill in the County of Gloucester to the City of Gloucester High-ways 19. An Act for Cleansing and making Navigable the Channel from the Hithe at Colchester to Wivenhoe Rivers 20. An Act to Naturalize the Children of such Officers and Soldiers and others the Natural Born Subjects of this Realm who have been born abroad during the War the Parents of such Children having been in the Service of this Government Soldiers 21. An Act for the better Preventing the Counterfeiting Clipping and other Diminishing the Coin of this Kingdom Coin 22. An Act to Repeal an Act made in the Nine and thirtieth year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Intituled An Act to Restrain the Excessive making of Malt and to Discharge and Vacate Orders made by Justices of Peace by Virtue thereof for Restraining Maltsters from making Malt. Malt. 23. An Act for Granting to his Majesty a further Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage towards Raising the yearly Sum of Seven hundred thousand pounds for the Service of his Majesties Houshold and other uses therein mentioned during his Majesty Life Customs 24. An Act for Inlarging the time for Purchasing certain Estates or Interests in several Annuities therein mentioned Annuities 25. An Act for Granting to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors further Duties upon Stampt Vellum Parchment and Paper Taxes 26. An Act to Settle the Trade to Africa Trade 27. An Act for Licensing Hawkers and Pedlars for a further Provision of Interest for the Transport Debt for Reducing of Ireland Taxes 28. An Act for the Exporting Watches Sword-Hilts and other Manufactures of Silver Trade 29. An Act to Repeal the Act made the last Session of Parliament Intituled An Act for Relief of Creditors by making Composition with their Debtors in case Two thirds in number and value do Agree Creditors 30. An Act for Increasing his Majesties Duties upon Lustrings and Alamodes Customs 31. An Act for Raising the Militia for the year One thousand six hundred ninety eight although the Months pay formerly advanced be not Repaid Militia 32. An Act for the more effectual suppressing of Blasphemy and Prophaneness Religion 33. An Act to Stop the Coining Farthings and Halfpence for One year Coin 34. An Act for the better and more orderly payment of the Lottery Tickets now payable cut of certain Additional Duties of Excise and of other Annuities lately payable out of the Tunnage Duties Taxes 35. An Act for preventing Frauds and Abuses in the Charging Collecting and Paying the Duties upon Marriages Births Burials Batchclors and Widowers Taxes 36. An Act for the Increase and Preservation of Timber in the New Forest in the County of Southampton Ships and Shipping 37. An Act for applying to the use of his Majesties Navy and Ordinance the Overplus of the Money and Stores which were provided for the Building Seven and twenty Ships of War Ships c. 38. An Act for Granting to his Majesty an Aid by a Quarterly Poll for One year Taxes 39. An Act for Setling and Adjusting the Proportions of Fine Silver and Silk for the better making of Silver and Gold Thread and to prevent the Abuses of Wire-drawers Trade 40. An Act for the explanation and better Execution of former Acts made against Transportation of Wool Fullers-Earth and Scouring Clay Wool 41. An Act for the better preventing the Imbezlement of his Majesties Stores of War and Preventing Cheats Frauds and Abuses in paying Seamens Wages Stores of War 42. An Act for Enlarging the time for Registring of Ships pursuant to the Act for preventing Frauds and regulating Abuses in the Plantation Trade Trade 43. An Act for the better Incouragement of the Royal Lustring Company and the more effectual preventing the Fraudulent Importation of Lustrings and Alamodes Trade 44. An Act for Raising a Sum not exceeding Two Millions upon a Fund for payment of Annuities after the rate of Eight pounds per Cent. per Ann. and for setling the Trade to the East-Indies Trade 45. An Act for taking away half the Duties imposed on Glass Wares and the whole Duties lately laid on Stone and Earthen Wares and Tobacco Pipes And for Granting in lieu thereof New Duties upon Whale Fins and Scotch Linen Taxes A CONTINUATION OF THE ABRIDGMENT OF ALL THE STATUTES OF King WILLIAM and Queen MARY AND King William III. In Force and Use From October the 20th 1696. to July 5. 1698. Annuities I. STat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 5. For discharging the Sum of 255663 l. 5 s. 8 d. remaining unpaid upon the several Annuities which between 17 May 1696. and 17 May 1697. became due and ought to have been paid out of 5 seventh parts of the late Duties of Tunnage and 2 seventh parts of the same Duties as also out of certain
other persons intituled to Principal and Interest thereon And that out of the said General Fund the Interest due to the Bank shall be made up 8 l. per Cent. CLI Provided That where any Revenue is already appropriated by Parliament for repayments in course the same shall be paid accordingly But that the new Funds in this Act shall be applied as hereby prescribed CLII. And in case of Judgment of Forfeiture given against the said Bank the yearly Payments out of the Exchequer and all the Estate belonging to the said Bank shall be vested for three Years in twenty four persons or Trustees chosen by the Bank who shall have full power to receive the Moneys due unto the said Bank as if no such Judgment had been given and to pay and discharge the Debts due at the time of such Judgment After which the surplus shall be divided amongst the several Members And then the said yearly payments shall be vested in the particular Members their Executors Administrators and Assigns in proportion to a List thereof to be made up by the said Trustees and shall be Assignable CLIII The said Bank may imploy a Clerk to take Docquets of any Extents Judgments c. in any the Offices of Record at Westminster paying as for a Search only CLIV. No Member of the said bank shall be adjudged a Bankrupt by reason of his Stock in the said Bank nor the said Stock be subject to any Foreign Attachment CLV The Moneys received out of the Exchequer for the said Bank shall once in every four Months be divided among the Members proportionably for their particular use and behoof only CLVI Provided That the Debts of the said Bank shall never exceed their Capital Stock under Penalty of subjecting the Overplus of their particular Shares and Dividends so received to satisfie the said Debts CLVII If at the end of one year after 24 Jun. 1697. the said Funds for Interest shall appear insufficient they shall be made up out of such Aids c. as shall be granted the then next Session of Parliament and so in any succeeding Year CLVIII And if upon 1 Aug. 1706. or within three Months after the Produce of the several Aids c. shall not be sufficient to discharge the Principal and Interest intended to be discharged by this Act then the same shall be supplied out of such Aids c. as shall be granted the then next Session of Parliament CLIX. The present Governour Deputy Governour and Directors of the Bank shall continue till 24 June 1697. and till others be chosen which shall be before 24 July 1697. And those new Chosen to continue till 25 Mar. 1698. But in that and all future Elections not above Two Thirds of the Directors of the preceding Year to be chosen CLX After 25 Mar. 1697. and till 25 Dec. 1699. there shall be paid for Salt over and above all other Duties already payable the Rates following viz. for every Gallon of Salt imported 2 d. And for every Gallon of Salt or Rock Salt made at the Salt-Works 1 d. to be Collected and Answered pursuant to the Rules and Directions of the Act An 5 6 W. M. touching the Duty upon Salt and the Act An. 7 8 W. 3. for continuing the said Duty But with an Allowance upon Exportation for every Cask of Pilchards or Scads of 50 Gallons 8 s every Barrel of White Herrings 20 d. of Red Herrings 16 d. of Salmon 3 s. 4 d. and every hundred of Cod-fish Ling or Hake 10 s. over and above all former Allowances with a Drawback of the Duty for all Exported Salt CLXI This Duty upon Salt shall be appropriated with the said other Duties to payment of Interest due before 25 Decemb. 1699. to the Bank or others upon the deficient Funds and the overplus towards the Principal CLXII For Five Years after 10 June 1697. or before the end of the then next Session of Parliament no person shall give or take directly or indirectly for any Talley or Order above Six per Cent. more than the Interest thereof under Penalty of treble the value of the Principal and to suffer as an Extortioner CLXIII And after the said 10 June 1697. no Orders or Talleys shall be Transferred but by Writing Sign'd and Registred and Affidavit made if payable by Order at the Exchequer before the Auditor of the Exchequer or Clerk of the Pells or if payable by Talley of Pro at the Excise Office Post Office or other Publick Office then before one or more Commissioners of Excise or Postmasters General or other Chief Officers in such Publick Office that no Allowance whatsoever exceeding the Interest and Six per Cent. as aforesaid hath been taken or agreed to be taken for such Assignment Which Assignments and Affidavits shall be Made Registred Administred and Noted gratis CLXIV And every Broker or Sollicitor who shall after the said 10 June take above 2 s. 6 d. for the Brokage of One hundred pounds shall forfeit Twenty pounds and contracting for any Praemium contrary to this Act shall forfeit Five hundred pounds and suffer as an Extortioner CLXV But persons having actually bought Orders of Loan or Talleys before the said 10 June and shall make Oath thereof shall not be obliged to take the Oath touching Praemium CLXVI The Bills of Credit authorized to be issued this present Session of Parliament shall be received and taken not only by the Receivers or Collectors of Taxes granted or to be granted for the War this Year 1697. but be Current to the Commissioners Receivers or Collectors of any Tax or Supply granted or to be granted this present Session and also at the Exchequer And that there shall be an Allowance upon the said Bills of 5 d. a day for every hundred pounds till payment thereof at which time the person so answering the same to his Majesty shall put to his Name and Day of the Month. CLXVII And the said Bills are not to be Cancelled except by the Tellers of the Exchequer but as they are issued out are to be Signed and Dated toties quoties CLXVIII And in case any of the said Bills should be refused the Commissioners of the Treasury may Contract with any persons to advance ready Money for Exchanging and Circulating the said Bills upon such Security as shall be agreed on and a further Reward not exceeding Ten per Cent. per Ann. And the Interest Money shall be paid to such Contractors out of the Supplies granted for the War for Ann. 1697. CLXIX Provided That till the said Bills for 1500000 l. can be exchanged for Ready Money they shall be current only for the Taxes granted for the War for Ann. 1697. exclusive of the 3 s. Aid but afterwards for all Taxes or other Payments to his Majesty CLXX All the present Governours of any English Plantations shall before 25 March 1698. and the future Governours within six months after their Entrance upon their Governments take the Oath appointed in