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A83630 An Act of the Commons assembled in Parliament, establishing the present Commissioners for the Customes; Proceedings. 1650 England and Wales. Parliament. 1650 (1650) Wing E2503C; ESTC R232025 1,853 16

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AN ACT OF THE COMMONS Assembled In PARLIAMENT Establishing the present Commissioners for the CUSTOMES LONDON Printed for Laurence Blaiklock and are to be sold at his shop near Temple-Bar 1650. An ACT of the COMMONS assembled in Parliament WHereas by Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament of the sixteenth of December One thousand six hundred forty seven the payment of a Subsidie of Tonnage and Poundage is ordained to be paid upon all Goods and Merchandise to bee exported out of or imported into this Common-wealth of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Barwick in such sort as in the said Ordinance is expressed the said payments to continue from the six and twentieth of March One thousand six hundred forty eight inclusive unto the six and twentieth day of March which shall be in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred fifty one inclusive As by the said Ordinance more at large appeareth And whereas the Parliament have since That is to say upon the foure twentieth of April now last past nominated and appointed Edmund Harvy Robert Titchborne Marke Hildeslye Daniell Taylor and Edward Parks of London Merchants the present Commissioners and Collectors of the Customs It is now enacted and declared and be it by Authority of Parliament enacted and declared That the said Edmund Harvy Robert Titchborne Marke Hildeslye Daniell Taylor and Edward Parks the present Commissioners and Collectors of the Customes are and shall be Commissioners Collectors thereof And by this Act they the said Edmund Harvy Robert Titchborne Marke Hildeslye Daniell Taylor and Edward Parks and their Deputy and Deputies by them to be authorized under their Hands and Seales are inabled to collect and receive upon accompt all such summe and summes of money which from and after the one and twentieth day of Iuly one thousand six hundred forty nine shall by vertue of the said Ordinance or any Act or Declaration of Parliament made sithence be payable or paid for Customes or Subsidies or otherwise for or in respect of Goods or Merchandizes exported out of or imported into the Port of London and all other Ports in the Common-wealth of England Dominion of Wales and Towne of Barwicke in such sort as the duties of Tonnage and Poundage have been formerly collected by Samuell Avery Alderman of London and other the late Commissioners of the customes in such manner as by the said Ordinance or other Acts Declarations or Orders of Parliament and Instructions as the said late commissioners received Or that the said Edmund Harvy Robert Titchborn Marke Hildeslye Daniel Taylor and Edward Parks shall hereafter receive from Parliament or the Committee of Parliament appointed for the Navy and Customes or shall be by them ordered or directed And it is further enacted and ordained That the said Edmund Harvy Robert Titchborne Marke Hildeslye Daniell Taylor and Edward Parks shall have the same power and authority And to doe all act or acts thing or things whatsoever that Samuell Avery Christopher Packe Richard Bateman Charles Lloyd and Walter Boothby or any of them or any Customer or Collector for the Port of London or any the Out-Ports by Law by any Act or ordinance of Parliament or otherwise might lawfully doe And it is further enacted and ordained That the severall person and persons nominated and appointed since the three and twentieth of April now last past or to be nominated and appointed by Parliament or by the Authority thereof to keep a Checque in the Port of London or in any other Port Harbor or Creeke within this Common-wealth or to be Surveyor Searcher or Waiter within the said Port of London or in any other Port Harbor or Creeke within this Common-wealth shall respectively have the same power and authority And to doe all and every Act or Acts thing or things whatsoever that any former Comptroller Surveyor Searcher or Waiter of the Port of London or any other of the said Ports of this Common-wealth by Law by any Act or Ordinance of Parliament or otherwise might have lawfully done And it is further enacted and ordained That all Mayors Sheriffes Iustices of Peace Constables and other Officers All Admirals Vice-admirals Captaines and Commanders or other Officers of Ships All Officers of the Admiralty All Colonels Captaines and other Officers and Souldiers of the Army and of the Trained Bands of the Common-wealth and all other persons whatsoever be aiding and assisting to the said Commissioners their Deputies and Officers abovesaid in collecting securing and receiving the said Customes and Duties as abovesaid and in suppressing all Tumults Ryots and other force that is or shall be had or made against them and every or any of them in the execution of this present Act and all other persons in their aid and assistance And it is further enacted and ordained That from henceforth no Officer or Officers of the Customs shall take or receive from the Merchant or any other person any moneyes by way of Fee or gratuity for any Certificate Bill or Cocquet or any other thing whatsoever And in case they or any of them shall receive any Fee or gratuity contrary to this act upon proof therof they shall forfeit their places And it is further provided and enacted That the said Edmund Harvy the rest of the said Commissioners shall and may be removable from the said imployment as the Parliament shall thinke fit and order Hen Scobell Cler. Parliament FINIS