this Act in execution may plead the General Issue c. and if the Plaintiffs discontinue or delay prosecution or become non-suit or a Verdict or Judgment pass against them the Defendants shall recover their treble Costs XV. After the first day of September 1690. none of the Commodities hereby prohibited shall be imported from Guernesey Jersey Alderney Sark or Man into England Ireland Wales or Berwick under the Penalties and Forfeitures contain'd in this Act. XVI None shall sell at or demand a greater price for any French Wines or so reputed or other Wines mixt with French Wines after the 10th day of September 1689. to the 10th day of September 1690. than 12 d. by the Quart and after the 10th of September 1690. 6 d. by the Quart and no more on pain to forfeit for every Quart 5 l. for the first Offence to the Informer and 10 l. for the second and every other Offence to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information c. XVII After the 10th of Sept. 1689. no Retailer of Wines shall utter them other than in Measures made of Pewter and sealed according to the Statute on pain to forfeit 5 l. for every such Offence to the Informer to be recovered as aforesaid XVIII If any Merchant Vintner Wine-cooper or other Persons selling Wines by whole-sale or retail shall corrupt or adulterate any Wine or shall utter Wine corrupted or adulterated they shall forfeit 300 l. for every such Offence the one moiety to their Majesties and the other to him that will sue for the same by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information c. and shall suffer three months Imprisonment XIX Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 14. If any Officer of the Customs or Prizes shall knowingly suffer any Goods or Manufactures imported as Prizes or otherwise contrary to an Act made in the first year of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for prohibiting all Trade and commerce with France to be admitted to an Entry or to be embezil'd and not stav'd spilt burnt or destroy'd as the said Act directs he shall forfeit 500 l. one moiety to their Majesties the other to the Informer and shall be uncapable of executing any Office in their Majesties Revenue XX. If any Persons after the first of February 1690. shall utter by retail by Glass-Bottles or by any other Retail-measure not made of Pewter and seal'd according to Law any Wines or other Liquor or shall sell the same for a greater price than by the said Act is appointed and shall be convicted by confession or the Oath of two Witnesses before a Justice of Peace being prosecuted within thirty days after the Offence committed they shall forfeit 5 s. for every such Offence which if not paid upon demand shall be levied by distress and tale of Goods by such Justices Warrant to the Constable Headborough c. the Mony so levied to be given to the Informer and for want of a distress the Offender to be committed to the common Gaol till payment of the penalty and all necessary Costs to be taxed by the Justice or Justices before whom the Conviction was XXI Offenders punished by virtue of this Act shall not incur the Penalty of any former Law for the same Offence and no Writs of Certiorari shall supersede or remove any Proceedings by virtue of this Act. XXII Persons resisting abusing beating or wounding an Officer Informer or other Person impowred hereby or such as shall act in their Aid shall by the next Justice of Peace or other Magistrate be committed to prison till the next Quarter-Sessions where they shall be punished by Fine not exceeding 5 l. and the Offender to remain in prison till he be discharged of his Fine and Imprisonment by Order of the Justices or any two of them XXIII Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 17. A joint Stock of 40000 l. at least shall be raised by Subscriptions by Sir W.S. H.B. R.H. J.S. G.B. F.G. E.P. E.H. J.J. E.B. B.S. M.A. R.M. J.G. J.K. T.S. W.B. R.B. R.H. J.B. J.B. P.P. T.P. C.M. S.H. S.N. B.S. N.C. T.C. P.G. J.B. T.K. H.S. R.M. J.P. R.C. P.G. A.B. A.M. J.O. J.P. and T.G. on or before the first day of May next and shall be paid to the use of the Company established by this Act. XXIV And be it enacted That the said Sir W.S. H.B. and the rest of the Persons afore-named and all and every other Person and Persons subjects born or naturalized or endenizend who shall have any share in the said Joint-Stock shall be incorporated by the Name of the Company of Merchants of London trading to Greenland and shall have a common Seal and Ability to purchase Lands and Tenements in Succession so as the same exceed nor the yearly value of 100 l. and to do and execute all Matters and Things which any other Body Corporate may lawfully do or execute XXV The said Company during the continuance of the said Joynt-Stock shall freely use the Trade and Merchandize of catching Whales into and from Green land and the Green-land Seas and in all Seas and Places whatsoever except in the Seas belonging to their Majesties Colonies and Plantations in America without interruption or disturbance any Law Statute or other thing to the contrary notwithstanding XXVI A Governor Deputy-Governor and sixteen Committees shall be elected as followeth who shall have the management and direction of the said Trade XXVII A Book for Subscriptions shall be provided within ten days after the passing of this Act by the first five of the said Persons or any three of them in which shall be subscribed on or before the first day of May next by the Persons above-named or the Survivors of them the said Joint-Stock which shall not be less then 40000 l. no Subscriber to subscribe less than 500 l. nor more than 2000 l. XXVIII All Persons subscribing shall on or before the said first day of May pay down to such as the Persons before-named or the major-part of them shall appoint one fourth part of the Sums they subscribe and the remainder at such times and in such manner as shall be appointed by the Governor or Deputy-Governor and Court of Committees so as the whole Sum subscribed be paid within four years after the said first day of May. XXIX Defaulters in payment shall after such default have no other advantage by such Subscription than in proportion to such Sums as they shall have actually paid and farther shall forfeit to the use of the Adventurers in the said Joint-Stock 10 l. for every hundred pounds of such Sum as they shall omit to pay in to be deducted out of the Mony by them paid in XXX Before the 25th day of May next any thirteen of the said Persons before-named shall call a Court of all the Subscribers and others who shall then have any share in the said Joint-Stock who shall meet and chuse one fit Person having subscribed 1000 l. or upwards and paid in one
and reserving the ancient Rent or such as hath been paid for the greater part of twenty years next before the Year 1660. to those that have the Inheritance or else a reasonable Rent not being under the twentieth part of the clear yearly value III. All Covenants Covenants good against them to whom the Interest shall afterward come Conditions and Agreements in every Lease made as aforesaid shall be good in Law according to the contents of the same not only against them to whom the Reversion of the said Lands shall come but against them to whom the Interest of the said Leases shall come as if their Majesties at the making such Covenants and Conditions were actually seized in Fee-simple of the same IV. Saving to all Persons and Bodies Politick Saving of Rights their Heirs and Successors saving the King and Queen and their Heirs the Dukes of Cornwal for the time being and their Heirs or whosoever shall enjoy the Dukedom by force of any Act of Parliament all such Rights and Demands whatsoever of in to or out of the said Offices or Lands or any of them as they had before the making this Act any thing herein notwithstanding V. Fees for passing Leases The Fees and Charges to be paid for passing and perfecting Leases of Tenements of small value where the Fine or Value of such Lease or Grant to be made or renewed shall not exceed 80 l. shall not exceed the Sum of 10 l. for every Lease and 4 l. for every Copy besides the said Fine or Value the said 10 l. and 4 l. to be divided among the Officers of the Exchequer imployed for the preparing and passing such Lease or Grant and if any Officer exceed the same he shall forfeit to the Party grieved so much as is exceeded by this Act and also 20 l. one moiety whereof shall be forfeited to the King and the other to the Party grieved Militia I. STat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 13. An Act for raising the Militia of this Kingdom for the year 1694. although the Months Pay formerly advanced be not repaid Mines I. Lawful to dig in Mines notwithstanding pretended to be Royal. Stat. 5 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 6. All Persons Subjects of the Crown of England Bodies Politick or Corporate having or that shall have any Mine or Mines within the Kingdom of England or Wales wherein any Ore now is or shall be discovered or wrought in which there is Copper Tin Iron or Lead shall and may enjoy the same Mine or Mines and Ore and dig and work the said Mine or Mines or Ore notwithstanding they shall be pretended or claimed to be a Royal Mine or Mines II. Rates to be paid for Ore where Mines are pretended to be Royal Provided that their Majesties their Heirs and Successors and all claiming any Royal Mines under them may have the Ore of such Mines in any part of England or Wales other than in the Counties of Devon and Cornwal paying to the Owners of the said Mines wherein such Ore is or shall be found within thirty days after the said Ore is or shall be laid upon the Banks of the said Mines and before the same be removed thence the Rates following viz. For all Ore washt made clean and merchantable wherein is Copper 16 l. per Tun For all Ore washt made clean and merchantable wherein is Tin 40 s. per Tun And for all Ore washt made clean and merchantable wherein is Iron 40 s. per Tun And for all Ore washt made clean and merchantable wherein is Lead 9 l. per Tun and in default of payment of such respective Sums as aforesaid it shall be lawful for the Owners of the said Mines wherein such Ore shall be found to dispose of the said Ore to their own uses Orphans I. STat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 4. Perpetual Fond to pay the Interest of 4 l. per Gent. unto Dec. 25th 1693. From the time first due to Dec. 25th 1683 at 5 l. per Cent. And from thence to Dec. 25th 1693. at 3 l. per Cent. 4 l. per Cent. from the 25th of Dec. 1655 to the 25 of Dec. 1693 and so proportionably The City Lands c. excepting the Revenues of the Hospitals and Repairs of London-Bridge for ever chargeable after the 24th of June 1694. for raising the Annual Sum of 8000 l. It is enacted That for the raising a perpetual Fond to pay the yearly Interest of four pounds for every hundred pound principal Mony and of all the Interest thereof due to any Orphan of the City or the Executors Administrators or Assigns of such Orphan unto the 25th day of December 1693. The Interest to be computed from the time first payable unto the 25th day of December 1683. at five pounds for the Interest of every hundred pounds for one year And from that time to the 25th day of December 1693. at three pounds and so proportionably for any greater or lesser Sum the Interest already received for such principal Mony to be deducted and to pay the like yearly Interest of four pounds for every hundred pounds of the principal Mony and Interest thereof to be computed as aforesaid due upon Bond Bill or Note liable to pay Interest between the 25th day of December 1655. and the same day of December 1693. or any other the Creditor of the same City or the Executors Administrators or Assigns of such Creditor on the said 25th day of December 1693. from the Chamber of the said City or from the Mayor Commonalty or Citizens thereof and so proportionably for any greater or lesser Sum the Manners Messuages Lands Markets and Fairs and other the Hereditaments and Revenues belonging to the same City in possession or reversion and the Improvements that shall be made thereof except such the Lands and Revenues belonging to the Hospitals of the same City or Borough of Southwark or such as are chargeable with the Repairs of London Bridge shall be yearly charged for ever after the 24th day of June 1694. for the raising the Annual Sum of eight thousand pounds to be appropriated for the raising such a perpetual Fond and be applied as aforesaid II. The Aqueducts belonging to the City The City Aqueducts liable and their Rents except the Profits of such Water as shall be for the Supply of the publick Conduits Hospitals Halls and Prisons shall be for ever appropriated and applied towards payment of the said Interest III. 2000 l. annually out of Personal Estates And for the raising such a perpertual Fond the Common Council may every year raise and assess the Sum of two thousand pounds upon the Personal Estates of the several Inhabitants within the City and Liberties and to distrain for default of payment IV. Leases of the Convex Lights for 21 years from June 24th 1694 600 l. per ann The City may Lease to the Persons concerned in the Convex Lights the sole use of
every Person and Persons Bodies Politick and Corporate Guilds and Fraternities having any Estate in ready Monies or in any Debts owing to them within this Realm or without or having any Estate in Goods Wares Merchandizes or other Chattels or Personal Estate within this Realm or without belonging to or in trust for them except out of the Premises such Monies as he or they do bona fide owe and such Debts owing to them as shall be adjudged desperate by the Commissioners appointed by this Act and also the Stock upon Lands and such Goods as are used for Houshold-stuff shall pay unto their Majesties 4 s in the Pound according to the true yearly value thereof for one year viz. for every 100 l. of such ready Mony and Debts and for every 100. l. worth of such Goods Wares Merchandizes or other Chattels or other Personal Estate the Sum of 24 s. and so after that rate for every greater or lesser Sum or quantity II. All and every Person and Persons All publick Officers their Agents except Officers in the Army to pay 4 s. in the Pound Commissioner or Commissioners having or exercising any Publick Office or Employment of Profit such Military Officers who are or shall be in Muster by the Muster-Master General of the Army or in Pay in their Majesties Army or Navy in respect of such Offices only excepted other than Governors Deputy or Lieutenant-Governors of any of their Majesties Garrisons Forts or Castles for their Salaries or Pay for the same Governments And also except such Persons in their Majesties Ordnance whose Salaries do not exceed 100 l. per Ann. and all and every their Agents Clerks Secondaries Substitutes and other inferiour Ministers whatsoever shall pay unto their Majesties the Sum of 4 s. for every 20 s. which he or they receive in one year by virtue of any Salaries Gratuity Bounty-mony Reward Fees or Profits to him or them accruing by reason or occasion of their several Offices or Imployments III. All real Estates chargeable as aforesaid All Manors Messuages Lands and Tenements as also Quarries Mines of Coal Tin or Lead Copper Mundick-Iron or other Mines Iron-works Salt-springs and Salt-works all Allom Mines or Works all Parks Chases Warrens Woods Under-woods Coppices and all Fishings Tithes Tolls Annuities and all other yearly Profits and Hereditaments of what nature or kind soever they be as well within ancient Demesn and other Liberties and priviledged Places as without shall be charged at 4 s. for every 20 s. by the year which the said Manors Messuages Lands Tenements Hereditaments and other the Premises are now worth to be leased if the same were truly and bona fide leased or demised at a Rack Rent and according to the full true yearly value thereof without any respect had to the present Rents reserved for the same if such Rents have been reserved upon such Leases or Estates made for which any Fine or Income hath been paid or secured or have been lessened or abated upon consideration of Mony laid out or to be laid out in Improvements and without any respect had to any former Rates or Taxes thereupon imposed or making any abatement in respect of Reparations Taxes Parish-Duties or any other Charges whatsoever To be paid quarterly to be paid by four quarterly Payments the first thereof to be made upon the 26th of March which shall be in the year 1694. IV. Deductions to be allowed And whereas many of the Manors Messuages Lands Tenements Tithes Hereditaments and Premisses intended by this Act to be charged with the Pound Rates as aforesaid stand incumbred with or are subject and liable to the payment of several Rent-charges or Annuities issuing out of the same or to the payment of divers Fee-farm Rents Rent-service or other Rents thereupon reserved or charged by reason whereof the true Owners of such Manors c. do not receive to their own use the true yearly value of the same for which nevertheless they are by this Act charged It is therefore hereby enacted That it shall be lawful for the Landlords and Proprietors of such Manors c. as are charged with the Pound Rate as aforesaid to deduct and keep in their Hands 4 s. in the Pound for every Fee-farm Rent c. charged upon or issuing out of the Premises or any part thereof And all Persons who are intituled to such Rents c. are hereby required to allow such Deductions upon receipt of the residue of such Monies as shall be due to them for such Rents or Annual Payments reserved as aforesaid V. Commissioners to make Assessors who are to return the Names of Persons and value of their Estates As also Collectors Penalty of neglect or refusal The Commissioners after their general Meeting and Charge given shall issue their Warrants to two at the least of the most sufficient Inhabitants of each Parish or Township within the respective Divisions requiring them to be Assessors of every the Rates and Duties by this Act imposed and shall prefix a certain day and place for the Assessors to appear before them and to bring in their Certificates in Writing of the Names and Sirnames of every Person dwelling within the Limits of those Places with which they shall be charged and of the value of every of them in ready Mony Debts Goods Chattels or other Personal Estate except before excepted or in publick Offices or Imployments And the same Assessors are also hereby required to inform themselves by all lawful ways of the full yearly value of all Manors Messuages Lands and Tenements as also of all Quarries Mines of Coal Tin or Lead Copper Mundick or other Mines Iron-works Salt-springs and Salt-works Allom-mines and Works Parks Chases Warrens Woods Under-woods and Coppices and all Fishings Tithes Tolls Annuities and other yearly Profits And of all Hereditaments of what nature soever lying or being in the Limits with which they shall be charged And being so thereof ascertained they are to assess the said Manors Lands and Premises before appointed to be charged after the rate of 4 s. for every 20 s. of the full yearly value as aforesaid and to bring with them a Certificate in Writing of their said Assessment And shall then also return the Names of two or more able Persons living within the Limits of those Parishes or Places where they shall be chargeable to be Collectors of the Monies to be paid to their Majesties by this Act for whose paying to the Head-Collector such Monies as they shall be chargeable withal the Parish wherein they are so imployed shall be answerable Penalty of Assessors for neglecting their Duty And if any of the Assessors as aforesaid appointed refuse to serve or make default at the time appointed for his Appearance not having a lawfull excuse to be witnessed by the Oaths of two credible Witnesses which two or more of the said Commissioners have power to administer or shall not perform his Duty every such Assessor
shall for so neglecting or refusing forfeit to their Majesties such Sum as the said Commissioners or the major part of them shall think fit not exceeding 20 l. nor under 10 l. to be levied by distress and sale of the Offenders Goods and Chattels in like manner as is appointed for levying the several Rates herein mentioned in case of refusal of payment And every Assessor as afore appointed before he take upon him the execution of the said Employment shall take the Oaths required to be taken in an Act made in the first Year of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for the abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths Oath to be taken and also take the Oath following You shall swear well and truly to execute the Duty of an Assessor and to cause the Rates and Duties imposed by an Act Entituled An Act for granting to their Majesties an Aid of 4 s. in the Pound for one year for carrying on a vigorous War against France to be duly and impartially assessed according to the best of your skill and knowledge and therein you shall spare no Person for Favour or Affection nor any Person grieve for Hatred or Ill-will So help you God VI. Certificates to be return'd to the Commissioners by the 5th of March 1693. The Rates and Assessments upon all ready Monies Debts Goods Chattels Personal Estates and Publick Offices and Employments of Profit charged by this Act shall be ascertained and the Certificates thereof returned to the Commissioners upon or before the 5th of March 1693. unless the Commissioners shall think fit to give farther time And also the Assessments of 4 s. in the Pound of the yearly value of all Manors Messuages Tenements Hereditaments and Premises charged by this Act shall be ascertained and the Certificates returned in to the Commissioners on or upon the 5th day of March aforesaid unless the Commissioners shall think fit to give farther time and upon return of such Certificate any three or more of the Commissioners may examine the Presenters thereof if they see cause Commissioners to examine suspected Returns And if at the return of the Certificates or within twenty days after they shall have cause to suspect that any Person or any Manors Lands or other the Premises which ought to be charged is omitted or that any Person is of a greater Estate or any the Lands or other Premises are of greater yearly value the said Commissioners or any three of them may summon such Person or the Owners of such Manors or other Premises to appear before them and if they neglect to appear not having a reasonable excuse every Person so making default Penalty of the Persons not appearing shall pay to their Majesties double the Sum he should have been rated at And the said Commissioners or the major part of them shall have power to examine into the Estate of such person and the value of such Premises chargeable by this Act and to set such Rates thereon as shall be chargeable by this Act. VII And the said Commissioners Collecting the Duty at 4 quarterly Payments and when to begin or any two of them shall issue out their Warrants for the collecting the Rates and Assessments in respect of the Personal Estates Offices and Imployments and also of the Pound Rate to be charged upon Lands Tenements and other the Premisses as aforesaid at four quarterly Payments the first to be on the 26th of March 1694. or within twenty days after paid into their Majesties Exchequer The second Payment by the 20th day of June next ensuing or within twenty days after The third on the 20th day of September next ensuing or within twenty days after And the last Payment to be on the 20th of December or within twenty days after VIII The Sub-collector may retain 3 d. Sub-collectors and Receiver Generals Fee for each 20 s. he collects as a Reward for his Pains and shall not travel above ten miles for payment of any Monies by him received And the Head-collector shall be nominated by the Receiver General of the County which Receiver General shall be answerable for all Monies received by the Collectors of the said County And the Receiver General shall have 2 d. in the Pound for all Monies paid by him into the Exchequer on or before the times prefixt in this Act. IX Commissioners Clerks Fees The Commissioners Clerks shall for writing Warrants Certificates and Duplicates by Warrant under two or more of the Commissioners Hands receive from the respective Receivers General 1 d. in the Pound for such Monies as they shall have received X. Penalty of refusing payment Upon refusal to pay as by Act assessed it shall be lawfull to distrain and the Distress to sell within four days And moreover it shall be lawful to break open in the day-time any House and upon Warrant under the Hands and Seals of two or more of the said Commissioners any Chest Trunk Box or other things where any such Goods are calling the Constables or Headboroughs to their assistance where any refusal or resistance shall be made Tenants to deduct out of their Rents The several Tenants which shall be rated by virtue of this Act are hereby required to pay such Monies as shall be rated upon such Houses and Premises and deduct out of the Rents so much of the said Rates as in respect of the said Rents of every such House or Lands the Landlord ought to bear and all Landlords are hereby required to allow such Deductions upon receipt of the residue of their Rents XI Within what time to appeal If any Person by this Act sessed do find himself grieved by such assessing and do within ten days after demand of the same complain to the Commissioners the said Commissioners or any three or more of them so as the major part of the Commissioners who signed the Rates be present shall have power within ten days after such complaint to examine any Persons upon Oath of their real or personal Estate and upon examination and knowledge thereof to abate or enlarge the same Assessment and the same so abated or enlarged shall be estreated into the Exchequer as aforesaid Appeals to be final Collector neglecting or refusing his Penalty And Appeals once determined to be final XII If any Collector shall neglect or refuse to pay any Mony by him received as by this Act is directed or shall detain any Mony and not pay the same at such time as is hereby directed the Commissioners of each County or any two or more of them are hereby impowred to imprison the Person and seize the Estate both real and personal of such Collector to him belonging or which shall descend or come to his Heirs or Executors and to give notice and appoint a time for the sale thereof and to satisfie and pay into the Hands of the Receiver General so much as shall be detained by the
said Collector his Heirs or Executors XIII Controversies among Commissioners how to be determined If any Controversie arising concerning the assessment or payment thereof which concerns any of the Commissioners by this Act appointed the Commissioners so concerned in the said Controversie shall have no Voice but shall with-draw at the time of the Debate until it be determined by the rest and in default thereof that the Commissioners present may impose upon such Commissioners so refusing to with-draw what to them seems fit not exceeding 20 l. the same to be paid as other Fines in this Act. XIV Colledges Halls and Persons c. excepted No Colledge or Hall in either of the two Universities or the Colledges of Windsor Eaton Winchester or Westminster or the Corporation of the Governors of the Charity for Relief of poor Widows and Children of Clergy-men or the Colledge of Bromley or any Hospital for or in respect of the Scites of the said Colledges Halls or Hospitals or any Master Fellow or Scholar of any such Colledge or Hall or any Reader Officer or Minister of the said Universities Colledges or Halls or any Master or Usher of any School for or in respect of any Stipend Wages or Profits whatsoever arising or growing due to them in respect of the said several Places or Imployments in the said Universities Colledges Halls or Schools shall be assessed by this Nor shall any the Houses or Lands belonging to Christs Hospital St. Bartholomews Bridewel St. Thomas or Bethlehem in the City of London and Borough of Southwark or the Corporation of the Governors of the Charity for Relief of poor Widows and Children of Clergy-men or the Colledge of Bromley be assessed by virtue of this Act. No Alms-men or Alms-women or other poor Person inhabiting within any other Hospital or Alms-House for or in respect of any Rents or Revenues payable to them for their immediate use and relief and whose annual Maintenance and Profits doth not exceed in the whole the Sum of 20 l. But nevertheless all the Houses and Lands which are held by Lease or Grant from the said Corporation or any of the said Hospitals or Alms-houses for so much as they are yearly worth over and above the Rents reserved and payable to the said Corporation or to the said Hospitals or Alms-houses to be received and disbursed for the immediate support and relief of the Poor in the said Hospitals or Alms-houses are liable to be assessed by this Act. XV. No Covenants hereby avoided Provided that nothing in this Act contained shall change or make void any Covenants or Agreements whatsoever between Landlord and Tenant or any others touching the payment of Taxes any thing herein mentioned to the contrary notwithstanding XVI Guardians and Parents liable for Infants Where any Persons chargeable with any Rates by this Act shall be under the Age of twenty one years in such case the Parents Guardians and Tutors of such Infants upon default of payment by such Infants shall be hereby liable to and charged with the Payments which such Infants ought to have made and upon default or neglect of such Parents Guardians or Tutors as aforesaid they shall be proceeded against as any other Persons making default in this Act. XVII Where a Person shall be taxed in respect of Employment Every Person rated or assessed for his Office or Imployment shall pay for the same in the place where such Office is executed And every Person rated in respect of his personal Estate shall be rated at such place where he shall be resident at the time of the execution of this Act. And if any Person who ought to be taxed by this Act for his personal Estate shall at the time of his Assessment be out of the Realm such Person shall be rated therefore in such place where he was last abiding within the Realm XVIII Where in respect of his Estate Shifting his Residence the Penalty If any Person having several Mansion-houses shall be doubly charged by this Act in respect of his personal Estate then upon Certificate under the Hands and Seals of two or more Commissioners for that place of the Sum charged upon him and upon Oath made before a Justice of Peace of such Certificate the Person so doubly charged shall for so much as shall be so certified be discharged in every other place And if any that ought to be taxed by this Act for his personal Estate shall by changing his place of Residence or any other fraud escape from being taxed and the same be proved before any two of the Commissioners or a Justice of Peace of the place where such Person resideth at any time within one year after such Tax every Person so escaping shall be charged at the double value of so much as he should be taxed by this Act the same to be certified into the Exchequer and levied upon his Lands and Goods XIX Housholder to give Account of his Lodgers Commissioners to assess each other New River Water Thames Water-works c. excepted Every Housholder shall upon demand of the Assessors give an Account of the Names and Qualities of all Lodgers in their Houses under penalty of forfeiting 20 l. to their Majesties XX. The Commissioners in their several Limits shall assess each other for their personal Estates and Imployments respectively and also shall assess each Assessor within their several Divisions No Persons shall be assessed for having any share or interest in the New-River Water brought to the North-parts of London commonly called the New-River or in the Thames Water-works or in the Hide-Park or Marybone Waters or any Rents or Profits arising thereby Nor any Person having any share or interest in the Stock for printing of Books in the Kings Printing-house nor any Companies of Merchants in London for their respective Shares aforesaid and the aforesaid Stock XXI Scotland Ireland c. excepted Provided this Act shall not extend to the Inhabitants of Scotland Ireland Jersey or Guernsey for and concerning any such personal Estate which they or any to their use have within the places aforesaid XXII Exemptions from Taxes void No Letters Patents granted to any Persons or Corporations of any manner of Liberties or Exemptions from Taxes or Aids shall be construed to exempt them from the Sums of Mony granted by this Act. XXIII No Commissioner shall act by virtue of this Act before he hath taken the Oaths appointed by an Act made in the first year of their Majesties Reign Entituled Commissioners Oath An Act for the abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and appointing other Oaths upon the pain of 500 l. XXIV Every Papist or reputed Papist Papist not swearing to be doubly charged being of the Age of sixteen years or upwards who hath not taken the Oaths in the last Act mentioned to be taken as there expressed shall be doubly charged the Rates above mentioned XXV Penalty of any Person refusing the Oath Every
Person of the Age of sixteen years or upwards and being now withing this Realm who hath not taken the Oaths mentioned and upon Summons under the Hand and Seal of any two or more of the said Commissioners appointed by the first above-mentioned Act shall refuse to take the said Oaths at the time appointed in such Warrant or shall neglect to appear at such times before the Commissioners in order to take the said Oaths shall doubly be assessed the Rates above-mentioned XXVI Gentlemen to be taxed by a former Act and not paying the Penalty Every Gentleman or so reputed or owning or writing himself such or being above that Quality who by virtue of an Act made in the third year of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for raising Mony by a Poll payable quarterly for one year for carrying on a vigorous War against France did pay or ought to have paid double the Sums charged by the said Act or were or ought to have been returned into the Exchequer for non-payment thereof who shall not voluntarily appear before the said Commissioners or any two or more of them within ten days after the first Meeting of the said Commissioners and take the said Oaths appointed by the said Act made the first year of their Majesties Reign shall be doubly assessed as above XXVII Quakers to subscribe the Declaration Provided nevertheless that whereas certain Persons called Quakers and now known to be such do scruple the taking of any Oath It shall be sufficient for every such Person to subscribe the Declaration of Fidelity contained in an Act of Parliament held in the first year of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for exempting their Majesties Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws and every Person so doing shall not be chargeable with any of the double Rates aforesaid XXVIII Lands to be above 20 s per ann No Person shall be liable to the Pound-rate imposed by this Act upon Lands Tenements or Hereditaments whose Lands Tenements or Hereditaments are not of the yearly value of 20 s. in the whole XXIX Master of the Rolls c. where to be charged The Master of the Rolls Masters in Chancery Six Clerks Clerks of the Petty Bag Examiners Registers Clerks of the Inrolment Clerks of the Affidavits and Subpoena Office or any other the Officers of the High-Court of Chancery that execute their Offices in the Liberty of the Rolls are to be assessed there and not elsewhere XXX Penalty of Collectors detaining Mony If any Collector shall keep in his Hands any part of the Mony by him collected for any longer time than by this Act directed or pay any part thereof to any other Person than the Head-Collector or Receiver-General of such place every such Collector shall forfeit 10 l. And if any Head-Collector shall detain in his Hands or pay any Mony to any other than the Receiver-General of such Place every such Head-Collector shall forfeit 40 l. And if any Receiver-General or his Deputy shall pay such Monies or any part thereof paid to him by this Act to any Person whatsoever other than the Receipt of their Majesties Exchequer within the times limited by this Act such Receiver General or his Deputy shall forfeit the Sum of 1000 l. XXXI Changing Abode after Assessment If after Assessments on personal Estates according to this Act any Person shall remove to any place where such Person was not taxed the Commissioners acting within such place are hereby impowred to summon such Person before them and unless he or she shall produce a Certificate made according to the Directions of this Act whereby it may appear that he or she have paid all their precedent quarterly Payments the said Commissioners are hereby required to cause such Persons to be assessed for such quarterly Payments as remain unassessed to be assessed and paid according to the true intent of this Act. XXXII The King may borrow upon this Act at 7 l. per Cent. It shall and may be lawful for any Person Native or Foreigner Bodies Politick or Corporate to lend to their Majesties upon the security of this Act any Sums of Mony and to receive for the forbearance thereof any Sum not exceeding 7 l. per Cent. for one whole year and that no Mony so lent shall be rated by virtue of this Act. XXXIII No Rector or Vicar chargeable except above 30 l. per Ann. No Rector or Vicar who has the Cure of Souls and actually resides upon his Rectory or Vicaridge upon the account of such his Rectory and Vicaridge only shall be charged by this Act unless his Rectory or Vicaridge does really and truly exceed the value of 30 l. per annum or unless he hath more than one Rectory or Vicaridge Additional Supply for 118506 l. 5 s. 10 d. I. Stat. 5 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 5. That it shall and may be lawful for any Persons Natives or Foreigners to contribute towards the advancing the Sum of 118506 l. 5 s. 10 d. to make up the whole Sum of 1000000 l. granted to their Majesties by an Act made this present Parliament intended to be advanced by paying into their Majesties Exchequer at any time before the first day of May 1694. any Sum or Sums of Mony not exceeding in the whole the Sum of 118506 l. 5 s. 10 d. as followeth viz. That every Person out of the Rates and Duties of Excise granted by the said Act of 1000000 l. 14 l. per Cent. for own Life or Nominees shall have and receive for every Sum of 100 l. by them respectively advanced and paid a quarterly Annuity Rent or Payment of 14 l. and proportionably for a greater Sum for and during the life of such Person so advancing or paying the same or during any other life to be nominated by the Person advancing or paying any such Sum as aforesaid Within what time to be nominated the same to be nominated within six days after payment of such Sum which yearly Annuities Rents or Payments shall commence from the 24th of June next ensuing and shall be paid and payable at the four most usual Feasts of the year viz. The Annuntiation of the Blessed Virgin Mary the Nativity of St. John Baptist the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel and the Feast of the Birth of our Lord Christ and every Person on payment of such Sum or Sums as aforesaid Tallies to be given on receipt of the Monies and Orders thereon which may be transferred or assigned and not to be revoked shall immediately have one or more Tally or Tallies importing the receipt of the Consideration Mony and Orders for the Payment of the said Annuities bearing the same date with the Tally the said Tallies to be levied and the said Orders to be signed in the same manner as in the said Act is mentioned touching Tallies and Orders to be given to the Contributors for
 Copies of Inventories in Courts of Admiralty Cinque Ports and Ecclesiastical Courts   Affidavits and Copies Indentures Leases Deed Polls 6 d. For each Skin Sheet or piece of Parchment or Paper Writs Original Latitats Capias Subpoena Bill of Middlesex Quominus Ded. Potestatem and other Writs   Processes and Mandates in all Courts where Debt is above 40 s.   Actions in London and other Corporations above 40 s.   Charter Parties Pollicies of Assurance Pasports Bonds Releases Contracts Obligatory Instruments Protests Procurations Letters of Attorny or other Notarial Acts.  Copies of Declarations Pleas Replications Rejoinders Demurrers and other Pleadings in all Courts of Law and for Copies thereof 1 d. For each Skin Sheet or piece of Parchment or Paper Copies of Depositions Bills Answers Pleas Demurrers Replications Rejoinders Interrogatories and other Proceedings in any Court of Equity Copies of Wills  Things Excepted Draughts of Depositions taken by Commissioners before they are ingrossed Seamens and Souldiers Wills and Administrations Paupers Bills of Exchange Accounts Bills of Parcels Bills of Fees Bills or Notes not sealed for Payment of Mony at sight or on demand or at the end of certain days of payment Trade I. Stat. 5 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 2. An Act for repealing such parts of several former Acts as prevent or prohibit the Importation of Foreign Brandy Aqua-vitae and other Spirits and Bacon except from France I. Importation of fine Thrown Silk Stat. 5 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 3. It shall be lawful to or for any Person or Persons residing within their Majesties Dominions to import within this Kingdom from any Port whatsoever excepting the Ports of France during the present War with France and three Months after fine Thrown-Silk of the growth or production of Italy Sicily or Naples II. Provided that this Act nor any thing herein contained What sorts to be imported shall extend to give liberty to bring over Land and import any Italian Thrown Silk courser than a sort thereof known and distinguished by the name of Third Bolonia nor any Sicilian Thrown Silk courser than a sort thereof known and distinguished by the name of Second Orsay nor any sorts of Silks commonly called Frams of the growth of Italy Sicily or Naples nor any other Thrown Silk of the growth or production of Turky Persia East-India or China The penalty under the Penalty and Forfeiture of all such Thrown Silk as shall be brought over land and imported contrary to the intent of this Act. III. And that all such fine Italian To be brought to the Custom-house Sicilian and Naples Thrown Silks as are allowed to be imported by this Act wheresoever landed shall be brought to their Majesties Custom-house London to the intent that no other sort may be imported over-land than those only allowed by this Act under the Penalties before-mentioned any thing to the contrary hereof notwithstanding I. Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 3. Whereas by an Act made in the 5th year of Q. Elizabeth Entituled An Act containing divers Orders for Artificers Labourers Servants in Husbandry and Apprentices It is enacted in these words following Provided always and be it farther enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Person or Persons using or exercising the Art or Mystery of a Woollen Cloath-Weaver other than such as be inhabiting within the Counties of Cumberland Westmorland Lancaster and Wales weaving Frizes Cottons or Houswifes Cloath only making and weaving Woollen-Cloath commonly sold or to be sold by any Cloathman or Clothier shall take and have any Apprentice or shall teach or in any-wise instruct any Person or Persons in the Science Art or Occupation of Weaving aforesaid in any Village Town or Place Cities Towns-Corporate and Market-Towns only excepted unless such Person be his Son or else that the Father or Mother of such Apprentice or Servant shall at the time of the taking of such Person or Persous to be an Apprentice or Servant or to be instructed have Lands or Tenements or other Hereditaments to the clear yearly value of 3 l. at the least of an Estate of Inheritance or Freehold to be certified under the Hands and Seals of three Justices of the Peace of the Shire or Shires where the said Lands Tenements or other Hereditaments do or shall lie The effect of the Indenture to be registred within three months in the Parish where such Master shall dwell and to pay for such registring 4 d. upon pain of forfeiture of 20 s. for every month that Person shall otherwise take any Apprentice or set any such Person on Work contrary to the meaning of this Article II. St. 5 Eliz. concerning Apprentices in Woollen Manufafacture repealed Now forasmuch as such part of the said Act before recited hath been found prejudicial to the Clothing-Trade It is hereby enacted That so much of the said Act as is before recited is hereby declared to be repeald and made void as if the same had never been made I. Salt-petre to be brought in for one year Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 10. It shall be lawful for any of their Majesties Subjects to import and bring Salt-petre into this Kingdom from any Place or Country now in Amity with their Majesties for the space of one year to be computed from and after the 25th day of March 1694. II. In what Ships Provided that such Salt-petre be brought in only in such Ships or Vessels as are English built and no other III. At what rate to be sold Provided that no Person importing Salt-petre by virtute of this Act nor any Retailer shall sell any part of the Salt-petre so to be imported at above the price of 70 l. per Tun not exceeding 18 per Cent. Refraction upon the Penalty of 50 l. per Tun. IV. Their Majesties Duty Provided that the Salt-petre which shall be imported by virtue of this Act shall pay to their Majesties the same Duty as if the same were directly imported from the East-Indies V. Salt-petre imported and mingled not to be sold at above 70 l. per Tun. If any Person shall mingle any Salt-petre imported by virtue of this Act with any other Salt-petre and sell the same so mingled at above the rate of 70 l. per Tun or shall by way of Barter or Exchange take or agree to take any other Commodity for Salt-petre imported by virtue of this Act whether by it self or mingled with other Salt-petre in any manner so as to have or receive for the same more than the rate of 70 l. per Tun accounting the Commodity so taken in exchange at the then currant Price That the sale of such Salt-petre so mingled and also such Barter or Exchange shall be construed and taken to be a Sale contrary to this Act. I. Iron Copper c. may be transported except to France during the War Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 11. It shall and may be lawful to and for any Person whatsoever Bodies Politick or Corporate to ship and export all and all manner of Iron Copper or Mundick Metal out of this Realm of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed except unto or for the use of the French King or any of his Subjects residing within his Dominions or in to or for any Port or Place within his said Dominions during the present War between their Majesties and the French King paying the Duties and Customs by Law payable for the same II. Excepting Port-Metal Gun-Metal c. Provided this Act shall not extend to the exportation of Port-Metal Gun-Metal or Shruff-Metal or any old Metal or any mixture therewith or any Copper or other Metal than what is made c. of English Ore only FINIS
Inrolled and had the same allowed by the Court of King's-Bench shall be compelled to Plead the same to any Inquisition returned by any Coroner And if any Corporations Lords of Manors or others have or shall have such Grants from the Crown for Felons Goods Deodands and other Forfeitures they shall not be compelled to enrol their whole Charters or Grants but such part thereof as may express the Grants of such Felons Goods Deodands and Forfeitures and no more for doing whereof the Clerk of the Crown shall receive 20 s. for his Fee and no more and from and after such Enrolment they shall not be compelled to Plead the same to any inquisition II. If any Clerk of the Crown shall hereafter issue out any Process against such Grantees after such Enrolment he shall forfelt for every such Offence to the Party grieved the Sum of 5. l. III. But the Clerk of the Crown shall incur no Penalty mentioned in this Act for issuing Process against any persons who shall not upon every purchase of the Title of such Felons Goods c. Inrol and Plead the said Purchase in the said Court nor against any Devisee who shall not Enrol or Plead such Devise nor against any Heir who shall not Inrol his or her Right by descent and till after such Pleas have been allowed of by the said Court nor where by any Inquest of any Coroner the Goods of any Felon or Felons or Decodands shall not be found to be in the Hands of such Purchaser Devisee or Heir IV. Upon issuing of any Exigent for any Criminal Matter before Conviction there shall issue a Writ of Proclamation bearing the same Teste and Return to the Sheriff of the County City or Town where the persons in the Record of the said Proceedings are mentioned to inhabit according to the form of the Statute made Anno. 31 Eliz. which Writ shall be delivered to the Sheriff Three Months before the return thereof V. This Act to continue for Three years from the 25th Day of March 1693. and to the end of the then next Session of Parliament Customs I. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 6. After the 29th Day of September 1689. so much of every Act of Parliament as requires the Levying the Duties arising by those Acts by way of Excise upon Coffee Chocolate and Tea shall cease and determine and is hereby Repealed II. And be it farther Enacted that after the 25th Day of December 1689. the Duties and Charges hereafter mentioned shall be Collected and Received at the Custom-house upon Coffee-berries Tea in the Leaf and Cacao-nuts and upon Chocolate ready made and according to the Proportions herein after mentioned besides what is now payable for the same at the Custom house viz. Upon every 100 Weight of Coffee Imported containing One hundred and twelve pound 5 l. 12 s. Upon every 100 Weight of Cacao Nuts containing as aforesaid 8 l. 8 s. Upon every pound weight of Tea 5 s. and upon every pound Weight of Chocolate 5 s. and so proportionably III. If any of the said Commodities shall be unshipt or laid on Land the Duties not paid or lawfully tendred to the Collector or his Deputy with the consent and agreement of the Comtroller and Surveyor there nor agreed with for the same in the Custom-house they shall be forfeited the one Moiety to Their Majesties the other to the Informer This Act to continue for Five years and no longer IV. Merchants and others having paid the Duties and Impositions by this Act appointed who shall within Six Months after Importation again transport the said Goods or any part thereof shall be repaid Two thirds of the Duties by them paid of so much of the said Goods as they shall export V. It shall be lawful to Import Nutmegs Cinnamon Cloves and Mace in any English Ships One third part of the Mariners whereof to be English from any parts beyond the Seas paying double the Sums the same are charged with in the Book of Rates so as notice be first given to the Commissioners or Farmers of the Customs of the Quality and Quantity thereof with the Name of the Ship and Master and the place where they intend to Import the same and taking a Licence under their Hands or of any Three of them for the Lading and Importing thereof as aforesaid which Licence shall be given without Fee or Reward I. Stat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 4. The Commons assembled in Parliament do hereby Give and Grant to your Majesties the Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage and other Sums of Money Granted to the late K. Charles 2. in the Twelfth year of his Reign by an Act Entituled A Subsidy granted to the King of Tonnage and Poundage c. according to the Rates therein mention'd and the Rules and Orders thereunto annexed other then such concerning which it is otherwise provided by any Act made in the last Parliament and pray that it may be Enacted and be it Enacted that the said Subsidy and other Sums of Money be paid to Their Majesties for Four years from the 24th Day of December 1690. and that the aforesaid Act and an Order of the House of Commons made in pursuance of the Rules and Orders annexed thereunto for settling Officers Fees Dated the 17 of May 1662. ans Signed by Sir Edward Turnor then Speaker shall be of force during the said Four years VII An Act made in the 12th year of the said K. Charles 2. Entituled An Act to prevent Frauds and Concealments of His Majesties Customs and Susidies and an Act made in the 14th year of his Reign Entituled An Act for preventing Frands and regulating Abuses in His Majesties Customs and an Act made in the 22d year of His Reign Entituled An Act for Improvement of Tillage and the breed of Battel and another Act made in the 25th year of His Reign Entituled An Act for taking off Aliens Duties upon Commodities of the Growth Product and Manufacture of the Nation and another Act made in the said 25th year of his Reign Entituled An Act for the encouragement of the Greenland and East-land Trades and for the better securing the Plantation Trade and one other Act made in the First year of the late King James 2. Entituled An additional Act for the Improvement of Tillage shall be in force during the said Term of Four years VIII Nothing herein shall be Construed to determine any Clauses in the said Acts which were intended to be perpetual IX It shall be lawful for any persons to advance upon the Credit of this Act any Sums of Money not exceeding 500000 l. in the whole at the Interest for such Money as shall be lent before the 10th of June 1690. of 8 l. per Cent. and for Money lent after 7 l. per Cent. X. After the First Day of Novemb. 1690. during the continuance of this Act there shall be continued within London an Office for the Receipt of the Subsidies and other Sums hereby
the Fourth It was Enacted That none from thenceforth should use to multiply Gold or Silver or use the Craft of Multiplication and if any the same do they should incur the pain of Felony Be it Enacted that the said Branch Article or Sentence be Repealed II. Provided that all Gold and Silver that shall be Extracted by the Art of Melting and Refining Metals and otherwise Improving them and their Ores shall be employed for the encrease of Moneys and no otherwise and that the Place hereby Appointed for the disposal thereof shall be the Mint in the Tower of London where they shall receive the Value of their Gold and Silver so Extracted III. No Mine of Copper Tin Iron or Lead shall hereafter be adjudged to be a Royal Mine though Gold or Silver may be Extracted out of the same Government I. Stat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 2. An Act for Impowring His Majesty to Apprehend and Detain such Persons as he shall find just cause to suspect are Conspiring against the Government EXP. II. Stat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 7. An Act for Impowring His Majesty to Apprehend and Detain such Persons as he shall find just Cause to suspect are Conspiring against the Government III. Stat. Ann. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap 19. All Persons that shall be in Prison the 25th Day of May 1689. or after by Warrant of Their Majesties Privy Council Signed by Six of the Council for Suspicion of High Treason or Treasonable Practices may be detained in Custody without Bail or Main-prize till the 23d Day of October 1689. And no Judge or Court of Justice shall Bail or Try any such Persons without Order from Their Majesties Privy Council Signed by Six till the said 23d of October IV. From and after the said 23d of October such Persons shall have the Benefit of the Habeas Corpus Act and of all other Statutes providing for the Liberty of the Subjects V. Nothing in this Act shall extend to Prejudice the Ancient Rights and Priviledges of Parliament VI. A true Copy of every Warrant for such Commitment shall be Entred and Kept by the Clerks of the Privy Council in a Book apart and Signed by such of the Privy Council as shall Grant the Warrant and no Warrant not so Entred and Signed and Kept shall be adjudged to be a Warrant by Virtue of this Act. VII Stat. 2. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 6. Whensoever and as often as His Majesty shall be absent out of England It shall be Lawful for the Queen to Exercise and Administer the Regal Power and Government in the Names of both Their Majesties for such time only during Their Joint Lives as His Majesty shall be absent out of England VIII Nothing in this Act shall debar His Majesty during such absence from the Exercise of Administration of any Act or Acts of Regal Power or Government and neither the passing this Act nor His Majesties Royal Voyage or Absence shall Dissolve this present Parliament or determine any Commissions Granted by His Majesty nor avoid any other Act of Government executed or to be execured by him IX Provided That as often as His Majesty shall return into England the sole Administration of the Regal Power and Government shall be in His Majesty only Hair-Buttons I. STat. 4. 5. W. M. cap. 10. No Foreign Buttons made of Hair nor other Foreign Buttons whatsoever shall be Imported or Bartered Sold or Exchanged on pain to Forfeit the Buttons so Imported Bartered Sold or Exchanged and under such farther Penalties as are expressed in an Act made in the 14th year of the Reign of the late King Charles 2d Entituled An Act Prohibiting the Importation of Foreign Bone lace Cut-work Imbroidery c. One Moiety to Their Majesties and the other to the Informer II. The Justices of Peace within their respective Divisions shall have the same Authority and Power to issue their Warrants to seize all Foreign Buttons whatsoever that by the said Act is given them to seize Foreign Buttons made of Thread and Silk Hearth-Doney I. Stat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 10. An Act made in the Parliament begun at Westminster the 8th of May in the 13th year of King Charles 2d Entituled An Act for the Establishing an Additional Revenue upon His Majesty His Heirs and Successors for the better Support of His and Their Crown and Dignity And another Act made in the Second Session of the said Parliament in the 15th year of the said King's Reign Entituled An Additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Revenue arising by Hearth-Money And another Act made in the 16th year of the said King's Reign Entituled An Act for Collecting the Duty arising by Hearth-Money by the Officers to be Appointed by His Majesty are hereby Repealed and made Void II. Nothing in this Act shall hinder or prejudice the Levying the said Revenue arising by Hearth-money which shall grow due on the 25th of March 1689. and all Arrears of the said Duty now due and payable by the said Acts. High-ways I. Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 12. The Laws and Statutes in force touching the High ways not hereby altered or repealed shall be put in Execution II. Upon the 26th day of Decemb. yearly unless that day be Sunday and then on the 27th day the Constables Headboroughs Tything-men Churchwardens Surveyors of the High-ways and Inhabitants in every Parish shall assemble and the major Part of the Assembly shall make a List of the Names of a competent Number of the Inhabitants who have an Estate in Land in their own Right or their Wives of 10 l. per annum or a personal Estate of 100 l. or are Occupiers of Houses Lands c. of the yearly value of 30 l. if such there be and if not then a List of the most sufficient Inhabitants and return it to Two or more Justices of the Peace at a Special Sessions to be held for that purpose on the third day of January next following or within Fifteen days after For which purpose the Justices are required to hold a Special Sessions and to give notice to the Constables Headboroughs c. of every Parish within the Division Ten days before the holding of the same and out of the said Lists by Warrant under their Hands and Seals they shall nominate One Two or more to be Surveyor or Surveyors of the High-ways of every Parish within the Division or for any Hamlet Precinct Town c. of and in the same for the year ensuing Which Nomination shall by the Constables c. be notified to the persons nominated within six days by serving them with the Warrants or leaving the same or a Copy thereof at their Houses And if the Persons so nominated shall refuse or neglect to take upon them the said Office they shall forfeit 5 l. to be on their Goods by Distress and Sale thereof by Warrant of Two Justices of the Peace which Warrant the Justices are
years and from thence to the end of the Session of Parliament then next ensuing II. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 33. Every Hide Skin or Piece of tanned Leather shaved or liquored and well curried according to the Statute of 1 Jac. 1. shall be adjudged to be the made Ware and Manufacture of the Currier and subject to the view search and seizure of the Master of the several Mysteries of the Cordwainers Curriers Girdlers and Sadlers of the City of London or the major part of them as by the said Statute is provided and shall be liable to be seiz'd and subject to the same Penalties as other Wares insufficiently made of tanned Leather are liable and subject by the said Statute III. Nothing in this Act shall give any Power to the Master and Wardens of the Company of Curriers to search or seize any Leather Hide or Skin but such as shall be curried in London or within three Miles thereof by some Members of their own Company nor in any other Place but the open Market-place or in the Shops Houses or Ware-houses of such Curriers IV. All Persons whatsoever dealing or working in Leather may buy all sorts of Red tann'd Leather in any open Fair or Market curried or uncurried the same being first search't and seal'd according to Law and may sell the same again in their Shops or convert it into other made Ware V. Any Persons may buy or sell Leather Hides or Skins by weight London I. Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 8. Whereas a Judgment was given in the Kings Bench in Trinity-Term in the 35th Year of King Charles II. in a Quo Warranto against the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of London that the Franchise of the said City should be seiz'd into the Kings Hands as forfeited which Proceedings were illegal and arbitrary Be it enacted That the said Judgment and every other Judgment given or recorded in the said Court for seizing the Franchise of the said City into the Kings Hands be revers'd and made void and Vacats entred upon the Rolls II. The Mayor Commonalty and Citizens of London to remain a Body Politick by the Name of Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London c. without any Seizure or Forejudger of the said Franchise c. upon pretence of any Forfeiture or Misdemeanor done or to be done and to have and enjoy all their Rights Charters c. which they lawfully had at the time of the recording or giving the said Judgment III. All Charters Letters Patents c. for incorporating the Citizens and Commonalty of the said City or any of them and all Charters c. concerning any of their Liberties c. Lands and Tenements c. Rights Title or Estates made since the said Judgment by the late King Charles II. or King James II. are hereby declared void IV. Yet no Recoveries Verdicts Judgments Statutes Recognizances Inquisitions Indictments Presentments Informations Decrees Sentences Executions nor any Plaints Process or Proceedings in Law or Equity had in any Court within the said City or Liberties thereof since the said Judgment shall be avoided for want of any legal Power in such as acted as Judges or Officers belonging to the same V. This Act shall not extend to discharge any Persons from any Penalties for not duly qualifying themselves to act upon such Charters Grants or Commissions VI. All Officers and Ministers of the City that rightfully held any Office or Place therein or in Southwark when such Judgment was given are hereby confirmed as fully as they held them then except such as have voluntarily surrendred or been removed for just cause and Persons admitted since the said Judgment into any Office or Employment within the said City upon the death surrender or removal as aforesaid of the former Officers are hereby confirmed as if they had been admitted therein according to ancient Custom VII Leases and Grants of Lands and other things before the said Judgment belonging to the City made since the said Judgment by the said late King Charles II. or King James II. or any taking upon them to be Trustees for the City upon pretence of any Commission from either of the said late Kings being made for a just and valuable consideration and whereupon the accustom'd yearly Rent or more hath been reserved shall be good upon the Terms therein contained and the Commonalty and Citizens shall have all benefit and advantage thereof VIII All Judgments Decrees and Sentences obtain'd by any Persons taking upon them to be Trustees as aforesaid concerning any Interests belonging to the City shall stand in force and be prosecuted and executed by and to the use of the City and all Persons natural-born Subjects or Denizens that have been admitted into the Freedom of the City since the said Judgment shall be free thereof as if admitted before IX The present Mayor Sheriffs Chamberlain and Common Council shall continue till new Elections and the Persons to be elected sworn the Election of a Mayor Sheriffs and Chamberlain to be on the 26th day of May 1690 and of the Common Council on the 10th day of June 1690. Persons so elected to continue till the usual time of electing such Officers according to usage and from thence to continue for the year ensuing X. If the Mayor Sheriffs Chamberlain and Common Council shall not be elected as aforesaid the Mayor Sheriffs Chamberlain and Common Council which were in being at the time of the said Judgment shall be and continue in those respective Offices till new Elections be made according to ancient usage XI All Persons so to be restored and continued shall take the Oaths appointed by an Act made in the first year of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for the abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths the next Term after such restitution under the Penalties and Disabilities in the said Act provided XII The Mayor Sheriffs and Chamberlain so to be elected shall be sworn in usual manner on or before the 20th day of June next XIII The several Companies and Corporations of the City shall stand and be incorporated by such Names and in such manner as they were at the time of such Judgment given and are hereby restored to the Lands c. Rights and Liberties which they lawfully had then And all Surrenders and Charters for new incorporating any of them and concerning any of their Liberties granted by either of the said late Kings since the said Judgment shall be void but no Person shall be prosecuted for any thing by him lawfully done in pursuance of such Charters c. XIV Provided that all Leases Terms and Estates granted by any of the said Companies since the said Judgment for just and valuable considerations and whereupon the accustomed yearly Rents or more are reserved shall be of force as if they had been granted by the said several Companies as hereby restored and the said Companies shall have all
Tax made by virtue of this Act or by the determination of the Justices c. may have recourse to the General Quarter-Sessions whose determination therein shall be final XXVIII And whereas there are many common High-ways in the said Parishes which cannot be sufficiently supported without the help of this Act Be it enacted That one or more Assessment or Assessments upon the Inhabitants and Occupiers of Lands c. and Persons usually ratable to the Poor shall from time to time be made and allowed by such Persons as the Justices at their Quarter-Sessions shall direct and the Mony thereby raised to be employed and accounted for according to their direction towards the supporting such High-ways such Assessments to be levied by distress and sale of goods in case of non-payment within fourteen days after demand rendring the overplus Charges deducted XXIX No such Assessments to be made in any one Year shall exceed 4 d. in the Pound of the yearly value of Lands c. nor 8 d. for every twenty pound in personal Estate XXX New Sewers made since the 12th Year of King Charles II. in any the said Parishes shall be subject to the Commissioners of Sewers and the said Commissioners may direct the making of new Sewers and alter or take away any Nusances therein and any cross Gutters and Channels in any of the Streets and Lanes in the said Parishes XXXI Housholders within the Weekly Bills of Mortality whose Houses adjoyn to the Street from Michaelmas to Lady-day yearly shall hang out Candles or Lights from the time that it grows dark till twelve a Clock at night on pain to forfeit 2 s. for every default except such as shall agree to make use of Lamps to be placed at such distances as shall be approved of by two or more Justices of the Peace XXXII Every Truss of old Hay bought or offered to sale within the Weekly Bills of Mortality between the last of August and the first of June shall weigh 56 pounds at least and between the first of June and the last of August being new Hay of that Summers growth shall weigh 60 pounds and being old Hay of any former years growth shall weigh 56 pounds the Person offering any Hay to be sold of less weight to forfeit for every Truss 18 d. XXXIII No Persons shall suffer their Waggons Carts c. to stand in any place within the Weekly Bills of Mortality loaden with Hay or Straw to be sold from Michaelmas to Lady-day after two a Clock in the Afternoon nor from Lady-day to Michaelmas after three a Clock on pain to forfeit 5 s. for every such Offence XXXIV Justices of Peace in the Places aforesaid within their respective Limits may upon their own View Confession of the Party or proof of one credible Witness upon Oath convict Persons of the said Offences one moiety of the Forfeitures to the Poor and the other to the Prosecutor and in case of a Conviction by the View of a Justice of Peace one half to the relief of the Poor and the other half if for a default of payment towards the repairing and cleansing the Streets to be paid to the Scavengers to be imployed to that use or otherwise to the relief of the Poor as aforesaid all the said Penalties to be levied by distress and sale of Goods by a Justices Warrant to the Constable c. and for want of a distress or in case of non-payment within six days after demand or notice in Writing left at the Offenders House by the Constable c. the Offender not being a Peer shall be committed to the Common Gaol till payment XXXV The Wheels of Carts Carriages or Drays within the said Places where the Streets are paved shall contain six Inches in the Felley and shall not be wrought about with any Iron-work nor drawn with above two Horses after they are up the Hills by the Water-side Owners of Carts c. the Wheels whereof shall not be of that breadth or shod with Iron or drawn with above two Horses as aforesaid shall forfeit 40 s. for every time such Cart c. shall be used for the Uses and to be levied as aforesaid XXXVI This shall not extend to Country Carriages bringing Goods to the said Places or carrying any Goods half a Mile beyond the paved Streets XXXVII No Persons shall keep Swine within the Houses or Back-sides of the paved Streets where the Houses are contiguous upon pain of forfeiting the same to the use of the Poor of the Parish And Church-wardens Overseers of the Poor Constables Beadles Headboroughs and Tythingmen may in the day-time by Warrant from the Lord Mayor of London or any Justice of Peace of the place search for Swine and drive them away to sell the Mony to be delivered to the Church-wardens or Overseers of the Poor of the Parish for the use of the Poor XXXVIII The cleansing the Streets Lanes and Passages within London and the Liberties thereof shall be managed according to the ancient usage of the City XXXIX The Lord Mayor or any Alderman may upon his own knowledge or view in the General Quarter-Sessions make presentment of any such Offence within the City and Liberties thereof and the Lord Mayor and Justices of the City shall at the same Sessions assess Fines for the same not exceeding 20 s. for every Offence to be paid to the Chamberlain of London for the use of the City XL. In Actions c. commenced for what any Person shall do in pursuance of an Act made in the 22 and 23 Years of King Charles II Entituled An Act for the better paving and cleansing the Streets and Sewers in and about the City of London or this Act the Defendant may plead the General Issue and give the said Act and the Special Matter in Evidence and if the Plaintiff or Prosecutor become Non-suit or suffer a Discontinuance or a Verdict pass against him the Defendant shall recover treble Costs XLI The High-way leading from the East-side of Clerkenwell-Green to St. Johns Street shall be pav'd according to the direction of this Act. Militia I. Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. c. 12. An Act for the raising the Militia of this Kingdom for the Year 1691. though the Months Pay formerly advanced be not paid II. Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 7. An Act for raising the Militia of this Kingdom for the Year 1692. although the Months Pay formerly advanced be not repaid III. Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 6. If at any time before the 25th day of March 1694. their Majesties shall think it necessary for the safety of this Kingdom to draw out the Militia into actual Service and the same be signified to the Lieutenants Deputy-Lieutenants and Warden of the Cinque-Ports It shall be lawful for them notwithstanding that one or more Months Pay before that time advanced be not reimbursed to draw out the Souldiers of the Militia into actual Service and to cause the Persons charged to
all Sheriffs Mayors Bailiffs Constables and other Officers are required to be aiding in the execution of this Act No Officer whatsoever relating to the Customs shall sign suffer or allow of any Warrant or Order for delivering of any Goods prohibited by this Act to any Person or into any Place other than into one of their Majesties Ware-houses there to remain till Judgment pass according to this Act nor shall any Person whatsoever relating to the Customs by virtue or colour of any Warrant or Order take up or deliver any the said Goods or suffer them to be carried to any other place than one of the Kings Ware-Houses there to remain as aforesaid And such Goods brought into the Kings Ware-houses shall be forthwith viewed in the presence of two or more principal Officers of that Port whereof the Collector Customer or Customers Deputy to be one and the marks and numbers of each Vessel or Package and the quality and quantity of the said Goods and the time when brought in and of their delivery out of the said Ware-houses shall by special direction of the Commissioners or other Chief Officers of the Customs be registred in a Book to be kept for that purpose and for entry of Claims which examination shall be repeated and entred as aforesaid after condemnation at the delivery of them out to be destroyed and compared with the first Entry to prevent Fraud or Imbezilment and if any such be found the same to be entred and subscribed in the said Book by the principal Officer of the Port not having charge of the Ware-house and Copies of the Entries Examinations and Claims and a true Certificate of the deduction of the said Goods shall be transmitted to the Commissioners of the Customs with monthly Abstracts of the said Ports of which a distinct account shall be kept by the Officers of the Seizures in the Port of London IV. Such Goods shall not be delivered out of any the said Ware-houses till a Judgment or Condemnation have passed upon them otherwise than to be produced at a Trial to be had touching the unlawful importing the same or for the recovery of any Penalty incurred thereby V. If any Person not being a known Merchant Vintner or Shop-keeper shall after the first day of September 1689. sell or expose to sale any of the Commodities hereby prohibited they shall over and above the Penalties aforesaid suffer twelve months Imprisonment VI. Vessels with all their Guns and Furniture in which any such Commodities shall after the said 24th day of August be imported and every Bark Lighter or other Vessel out of which they shall be put on Shore shall be forfeited and the Master or other Person taking care of such Vessel for the Voyage or out of which any of the said Commodities shall be unshipt into any Hoy c. to be put on Shore shall forfeit 500 l. and also being apprehended by a Justice of Peace's Warrant and the Fact proved before one or more Justices by the Oath of two Witnesses shall be committed to the next Gaol for twelve months and Seamen Watermen Carmen and other Persons assisting in the landing or conveying any of the said Commodities by Land or Water shall upon examination and proof as aforesaid be subject to like Imprisonment or be publickly whipt at the Justices discretion and the Carts Teams Carriages Horses and Oxen made use of in such Carriages or Conveyance may be seiz'd and stay'd and upon proof before Justice of Peace by the Oaths of two Witnesses that they were made use of in moving or conveying any Goods hereby prohibited to be imported they shall be forfeited the one half to the use of the Poor of the Parish the other to his use that shall seize the same and if the Master or other Person belonging to any Vessel laden or part laden with any the said Commodities shall after the said 24th day of August unship or wittingly suffer to be unshipt any the said prohibited Goods either at Sea or in any Harbor Creek or Bay of the Kingdoms aforesaid he shall forfeit 500 l. and suffer Imprisonment as aforesaid VII No Brandy Aqua-vita Spirits or distilled Waters of any place whatsoever shall after the said 24th of August be imported in England or Ireland or any the said Islands on pain to forfeit the fame and the Ship or Vessel in which it shall be imported VIII The values and prices of the said Goods shall be reckoned as followeth viz. A Tun of Wines 30 l. a Tun of Brandy 40 l. and so proportionably Other Commodities aforesaid that are valued in the Book of Rates shall be esteemed according to their value there and the Prices of Commodities not rated there shall be determin'd by the Jury that shall try the cause or shall be empannelled to enquire whether the Goods were of the Product or Manufacture of the French Kings Dominions and in case of Condemnation by default the value to be determin'd by a Jury return'd before the Mayor or Bailiff of the City or Town Corporate or before the next Justice of Peace where the Goods shall be brought IX Persons prosecuting shall be rewarded with one third part of the value of the Goods prosecuted to condemnation and destruction to be Owners X. And the residue of the Forfeitures and Penalties before mentioned and not before disposed of shall be divided into three parts two thirds to their Majesties and one third to such as shall seize or sue for the same the Charge of such Prosecution to be born by their Majesties and issued by the Receiver General of the Customs by Warrant from the Commissioners XI No Foreigner or other Person shall be admitted to claim any of the said Goods till security given to the satisfaction of the Collector to answer to such Penalties as shall be incurred by him as the Importer or which the Owner Importer or Possessor thereof is shall or may be liable to by this Act. XII If any Person belonging to the Customs shall connive at the Importation of any the said Commodities he shall not only forfeit 500 l. to be recovered as aforesaid but be made incapable of any Office or Imployment under their Majesties and forfeit the Penalties of their Bonds for true performance of their Trust XIII Any Persons by Writ of Assistance under the Seal of the Exchequer may take a Constable or other publick Officer and in the day-time enter into any House Shop Cellar Ware-house c. and in case of resistance may break open Doors Trunks or other Package to seize and bring to their Majesties Ware-house any of the said Commodities XIV The Attorny General and other Persons seizing and prosecuting as aforesaid may use such method and course of proceeding as may be used about the seizing trying and prosecuting any Goods or Commodities for non-payment of Customs or other Duties or any Persons for offending against the Laws relating to Customs and Persons prosecuted for any thing done about the putting
to ply on Sundays XII The Commissioners for the better discovery of Offenders herein shall publish a List or Account of all the particular Numbers of such Hackney-Coaches as shall be appointed for every Lords-Day successively through the Year Fines I. STat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 6. Six shillings and eight pence shall be paid upon signing Judgment to the proper Officer who signeth the same in full satisfaction of the Capiatur Fine and all Fees due for or concerning the same which said Officer shall make an increase to the Plaintiff of so much in his Costs to be taxed against the Defendant Iustices of Peace I. Justices of Peace in Wales limited to eight in each County repealed STat. 5 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 4. Whereas by a Statute made the 34th and 35th of H. 8. Entituled An Act for certain Ordinances in the Kings Majesties Dominion and Principality of Wales there is a Clause contained in these Words viz. That there shall not exceed the number of eight Justices of the Peace in any of the said Shires over and above the President Council and Justices aforesaid and the Kings Attorny and Solicitor which President Council Justices and the Kings Attorny and Solicitor shall be put in every Commission of Peace in every of the said twelve Shires And whereas this Clause is found inconvenient Be it enacted That the said Clause be repealed And that it may be lawful to and for the King and Queen by Commission under the Great Seal to constitute nominate and appoint any such number of Persons to be Justices of Peace in any of the said Counties of Wales as they shall think fitting according to such Ways and Methods as are commonly used for the constituting nominating and appointing of Justices of Peace for any County of England And that the Persons so constituted nominated and appointed shall have power and authority to act and do any thing appertaining to the Office of a Justice of Peace in as large and ample manner as any Justice of Peace within the Dominion of Wales might or ought to have done before the making of this Act any Law c. to the contrary notwithstanding I. Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 5. Certiorari to remove Indictment That in Term-time no Certiorari at the Prosecution of any Party indicted shall be granted out of the Court of Kings Bench to remove any Indictment before Trial had and from before the Justices of the General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace unless such Certiorari shall be granted upon Motion of Council and Rule of Court in open Court and that the Parties indicted prosecuting such Certiorari shall find two Manucaptors before one or two Justices of the County in 20 l. to plead to the said Indictment in the Kings Bench and at their own Charges to procure the Issue that shall be joyned upon the said Indictment to be tried at the next Assizes held for the County where the said Indictment was found after such Certiorari shall be returnable if not in London Westminster or Middlesex and if in the said Cities or County then to cause it to be tried the next Term after such Certiorari shall be granted or at the sitting after the said Term if the Kings Bench shall not appoint any other time and if any other time then notice to be given to the Prosecutor and the said Recognizance and Certiorari to be certified into the Kings Bench and there filed and the name of the Prosecutor to be indorsed and if the Party prosecuting such Certiorari being the Defendant shall not before allowance thereof procure such Manucaptors to be bound in a Recognizance the Justices of Peace may try the said Indictment at the said Sessions notwithstanding such Certiorari so delivered II. Costs against Prosecutor of a Certiorari And if the Defendant prosecuting such Certiorari be convicted then the Kings Bench shall give reasonable Costs to the Prosecutor to be taxed according to the course of the said Court and within ten days after demand upon Oath and refusal thereof he shall have an Attachment against the said Defendant by the Court for his Contempt and the Recognizance not to be discharged till the Costs so taxed shall be paid III. Certioraries grantable in vacation Nevertheless in the Vacation Writs of Certiorari may be granted by any of the Justices of the Kings Bench whose Names shall be endorsed and the Name of the Party at whose instance it is granted and before the allowance of such Writ the Party indicted prosecuting such Certiorari shall find such Sureties as before-mentioned in this Act. IV. Certioraries in Cheshire Lancaster and Durham And also upon every Certiorari granted within Chester Lancaster and Durham to remove Indictments as aforesaid the Parties indicted prosecuting such Certiorari shall find Sureties to try the said Indictments at the next Assizes or General Gaol-delivery and if convicted shall be liable to like Costs to be taxed as by this Act provided where the same are granted out of the Kings Bench. V. For repairing High-ways c. Provided if any Indictment be against any Person for not repairing High-ways Cawsies Pavements or Bridges and the Title to repair the same may come in question upon such Suggestion and an Affidavit made thereof a Certiorari may be granted to remove the same into the Kings Bench any Law to the contrary notwithstanding VI. Sureties Provided that the Parties prosecuting such Certiorari shall find two Manucaptors to be bound in a Recognizance with Condition as aforesaid Leases I. Leases of Lands part of the Dutchy of Cornwal STat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 16. All Leases and Grants made by the late King Charles II. or by the late King James or by their present Majesties or to be made within seven years next ensuing by Letters Patents or Indentures under the Great Seal of England or Seal of the Court of Exchequer or Copy of Court-Roll according to the Custom of the respective Manors of the said Dutchy or thereunto annexed of any Offices Messuages Parks Lands Tenements or Hereditaments parcel of the said Dutchy of Cornwal or annexed to the same other than of Honours Lordships or Manors shall be effectual in Law according to the purport of the same Copies Leases and Grants against the present King and Queen their Heirs and Successors and against every Person that shall have or enjoy the said Dutchy by force of any Act of Parliament or by any other Limitation II. Provided For one two or three lives or thirty one years that such Lease be not for more than one two or three Lives or thirty one Years or for some Term determinable upon one two or three Lives and not above And if such Leases be made in Reversion that then the same with the Estate in possession do not exceed three Lives or thirty one Years not dispunishable of Waste
his Certificate the principal Commissioners of Excise shall pay it and if the Officer refuse to pay or give such Certificate he shall forfeit double the Sum. XI If any Person shall export beyond the Seas any Salt Mony repaid for Salt exported upon Certificate of the Officer as well Foreign as English or any Rock-Salt the Officer where the Salt was made taken out of the Pit or imported and the Duty thereof paid or secured shall upon demand gratis deliver a Certificate under his Hand and Seal that the Duty imposed by this Act on such Salt hath been duly paid or secured and then the Officer where the Salt is exported upon producing the Certificate and Oath made of the shipping of the said Salt and of it s not being relanded in England or Wales shall give a Debenture under his Hand for repayment of the said Duty which being produced to the Officer of the Place where the Duty on the said Salt shall have been paid or secured such Security shall be discharged and the Mony for the Duty of the said Salt shall be repaid upon demand by the said Officer without Fee XII All Salt imported by Sea or Land into England What shall be charged as Foreign Salt Scotch Salt where to be entred Wales or Berwick and not of the Product of any of the said Places shall be adjudged Foreign Salt and so chargeable And all Scotch Salt brought by Land into England shall be entred at Carlisle or Berwick under forfeiture of double the value XIII The Justices of Peace not concerned in making or selling Salt at every Easter and Michaelmas Sessions Justices of Peace to settle the Prices of Salt shall set the Prizes of Salt to be sold by the first Seller for the next half year and none to sell above those Prices under the Penalty of 5 l. and forfeiture of double the value to be levied by distress and sale of the Offenders Goods one half to the King and the other to the Informer XIV No Person shall be capable of acting as chief Commissioner for collecting the said Duties till he hath taken before one of the Barons of the Exchequer the Oaths appointed in the first year of K. William and Q. Mary Entituled Oaths of the Commissioners and other Officers An Act for abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and the Oath following You shall swear to execute your Office truly and faithfully without Favour or Affection and shall from time to time true Account make and deliver to such Person and Persons as their Majesties shall appoint to receive the same and shall take no Fee or Reward for the Execution of the said Office from any other Person than from their Majesties or those whom their Majesties shall appoint on that behalf The like to be taken by other Officers before two of the chief Commissioners or two Justices of Peace of the Place where he shall be appointed Officer mutatis mutandis XV. The General Issue may be pleaded by the Defendant on Suit General Issue to be pleaded and the Special Matter given in Evidence and if the Verdict pass for the Defendant or the Plaintiff be non-suit he shall have double Costs XVI No Certiorari to supersede No Certiorari shall supersede Execution or other Proceedings upon any Orders made by the said chief Commissioners or Justices of Peace in pursuance of this Act. XVII All Salt shall be measured by a Bushel of eight Gallons Winchester Measure Measures of Salt by fit Measurers sworn and admitted by some neighbouring Justice without Fee upon Forfeiture of double the value of Salt not so measured XVIII No Salt shall be delivered from any Salt-Works or Pits without notice to the Officer Salt not to be delivered without notice to the Officer upon forfeiture of the Salt so delivered and upon forfeiture of 20 l. by the Owner of the Salt-Works one half to the King and the other to the Informer XIX If any of the Salt for which the Duty shall have been repaid and discharged upon the Exportation thereof The penalty of relanding in England by Fraud shall by Fraud or otherwise be landed in England Wales or Berwick before the Duty be again paid and such Entry and all other things performed as are herein before required in case where any Foreign Salt is imported the Offender shall forfeit double the value of such Salt so landed and such other Penalties as are herein inflicted upon any Person landing Foreign Salt contrary to the intent of this Act. XX. If any Merchant being a Subject of this Realm Vessel lost or taken he may buy the like quantity without paying Duty shall ship any Salt that hath paid the Duty to convey it by Sea to any part of England and the Vessel shall happen to be lost or taken he shall upon proof before the Justices at Quarter-Sessions of such loss have a Certificate of it and upon producing the same to any Collector of this Duty the Officer shall let him buy the like quantity without paying any Duty for the same XXI The Owners of any Rock-Salt may remove the same into Ware-houses When the Owner of Rock-Salt shall pay or secure after due entry thereof made and a Warrant or Ticket taken for the same from the Officer next to the Salt-Pits and the Owner shall not be obliged to pay or secure the payment of the said Duty till the said Rock-Salt shall be sold and delivered XXII No Person shall be obliged by Contract before the first of December 1693. Buyer not to deliver till payment secured to deliver any Salt or Rock-Salt unless the Buyer at the time of the delivery pay to the Seller such Mony as he hath paid or secured for the Duty XXIII All Salt made in Cheshire shall be entred by Weight only Salt made in Cheshire how to be entred Pit-Salt how to be entred Refiner of Rock-Salt his allowance 56 l. weight shall be taken to be a Winchester Bushel of eight Gallons Winchester Measure and shall be entred and taxed accordingly And all Salt taken out of the Pits shall be entred by weight only and that six-score pounds weight thereof shall be deemed a Winchester Bushel of eight Gallons Winchester Measure and entred accordingly And where any Rock-Salt shall be melted and resined which had before paid the Duty the Refiner shall have allowance after the rate of 12 d. per Bushel Oath being first made before some Justice of the Peace of the particular quantity by him so imployed XXIV This Branch of the Act concerning Excise upon Beer Ale Cyder and other Liquors herein after expressed over and above all Duties and Impositions by any former Act unexpired commenceth from the 17th of May 1697. and continues for sixteen years and no longer in manner following viz. Â l. s. d. Every Barrel of Beer or Ale above 6 s. the Barrel by the Common Brewer or Seller over and above