100 l. value VIII All persons having in their Tenure Possession or Occupation any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments whereupon there shall be any Horses Mares Geldings Colts Bulls Oxen Cows Calves Sheep Lambs Swine or other Cattle great or small or other Quick Stock whether the same belong to such persons respectively or to others shall pay for one Year after the Rate of 12 s. for every 100 l. of the true value thereof by Twelve like Kalendary Monthly payments of 12 d. for every 100 l. and so proportionably for a greater or lesser value IX A Proviso That the Wives and Children under the Age of Sixteen Years of such persons who are chargeable only with the first mentioned Duty of 4 d. per Month shall be Exempted from the said 4 d. per Month. X. All Manors Messuages Lands Tenements Quarries Mines Iron-Works Salt-Works and Allom-Works Parks Chaces Warrens Woods Under-Woods Coppices Fishings Tythes and Tolls Annuities Rents-charge and yearly Profits whatsoever shall be charged for one Year with the Sum of 3 s. for every 20 s. of the true and full yearly value without respect to the present Rents reserved or to any other Rates or Taxes thereupon or making any Abatement for Reparations or any other Charges and shall be paid by Twelve equal Monthly payments the first payment to be made on the said 25 Febr. 1696. and so on the 25th day of every subsequent Kalendary Month. XI The Owners of any of the said Lands Tenements and Hereditaments which are liable to any Rent-charges Annuities Fee-farm Rents Rents-Service or other Rents may deduct 3 s. in the Pound thereout and be allowed it by the persons Intituled to the said Rents XII His Majesty may appoint Commissioners under the Great Seal of England for the more effectual Execution of this Act who shall Meet together at the usual places upon or before 20 Feb. 1696. and may then Subdivide themselves so as there be Three or more to each Hundred or other Division And shall then give an Account in Writing to the Receiver General of the Commissioners appointed for each Division And the said Commissioners shall Issue their Precepts to such as they think fit to be Presenters or Assessors to appear before them within Five days and then to read the Rates and Charge them with the Execution of the Act And the persons to whom any Precepts are directed absenting without Excuse or refusing to Serve shall Forfeit a Sum not exceeding 5 l. nor less than 40 s. XIII The Commissioners shall appoint Two at the least of the most sufficient Inhabitants of each Parish c. to be Assessors who by a day prefixed shall bring in Certificates of the Names of the persons within their Division containing in several Columes The Tax payable by persons Chargeable with the 4 d. per Month The value of the Wages to be Rated The Pensions Stipends or other yearly payments The Nature and Value of Offices Imployments and Professions The Ready Money and Debts at Interest The Stock in Trade The Stock upon Land and the Monthly Rates of the Premisses respectively XIV And the Assessors are Injoyned to Inform themselves of the full yearly Value of all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whatsoever above the Reserved Rent and to Assess the same at the Rate of 3 s. for every 20 s. of the full yearly Value and to Describe the Lands c. in their Books so as may best Ascertain the Rates intended by the Act to be Imposed XV. The Assessors shall be the Collectors of the Moneys payable by this Act and the Parish c. to be answerable for their paying it to the Head Collectors And if any Assessor refuse to Serve or make Default without a Lawful Excuse he shall Forfeit a Sum not exceeding 20 l. nor less than 10 l. XVI Every Assessor shall before the Execution of the said Imployment take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and an Oath for the faithful Execution of his Duty as an Assessor And shall make the Assessments and return the Certificates thereof to the Commissioners by the Fifth Day of March 1696. who may then Examine the same or within Twenty days after And if the Commissioners suspect any of the Lands c. to be under Charged they may examine the Owners thereof who for neglecting to appear without Lawful Excuse shall Forfeit double the Sum Chargeable thereupon XVII The Commissioners shall Inform themselves upon Oath of any Omissions or Under Assessments and set such Rates as shall be according to the Meaning of the Act And deliver back Duplicates of the Assessments to Collect by and to the Receivers General and their Head Collectors And return Extracts of the said Assessments into the Exchequer on or before the Tenth of March 1696. or within Forty days after And the Kings Remembrancer is within Three Months after the Duplicates of the last payment return'd to transmit Copies to the Auditor of the Receipt XVIII The Assessments shall be Collected Monthly or within Fourteen days after they become due and Collectors are to pay what they receive to the Head Collectors within Fourteen days after the times prefixt for Demanding the same XIX The Commissioners may appoint other Collectors in the Rooms of such as dye are sick fail or are overburdened XX. The Head Collectors shall hasten the Subcollectors and in case of neglect or failure shall Distrain upon the Subcollectors And the Head Collector shall make payment to the Receiver General within Seven days after the time for payment by the Subcollectors And the Receiver General is to hasten the Head Collectors and to pay what he receives from the Head Collector into the Exchequer within Seven days after the times prefixt for payment by the Head Collector And all persons concerned in the Execution of this Act are to use Diligence XXI The Head Collectors Receipt shall be a Discharge to the Subcollector Which Subcollector is to have 4 d. in the Pound for what he Receives and not forced to Travel above Ten Miles XXII The Head Collector is to be appointed by the Receiver General who is to be answerable for the Money so Collected or Received and whose Acquittance shall be a Discharge to the Head Collector Which Receiver General is to have 2 d. in the Pound for what he shall pay into the Exchequer And the Commissioners Clerks to have 3 Half-pence in the Pound for Writing the Warrants Certificates Estreats and Duplicates XXIII In case of Non-payment the Subcollectors to Distrain and the Distress having been kept Four days at the Owners Charge then to be Appraised and Sold and the Overplus returned XXIV It shall be lawful to break open Houses in the day time and by Warrant from the Commissioners any Chest c. Calling to Assistance the Constables c. And where no Distress can be found the person to be Imprisoned till payment XXV Parents or Guardians are to pay the Rates Imposed on Infants and to be allowed the same on
Parliament XCVI Every Receiver General is to Enter in Books all the Sums he receives the Names of each Collector the days when and Sums paid how much in Hammer'd and how much in Mill'd Money or Gold and all Bills by him paid in pursuance of this Act. Which Books are to lye constantly open at one certain place within his Receipt to which all persons are to have access And every Receiver neglecting to keep such Book or to Enter his Receipts by the space of three days or refusing any person to inspect the same shall forfeit 100 l. XCVII A Proviso That 200000 l. out of the first Bills to be issued or the first Moneys arising by this Act Except the 3 s. Aid and Loans thereupon shall be Appropriated for payment of Soldiers Quarters in England between 1 Jan. 1694. and 1 Jan. 1696 not otherwise satisfied before 1 Feb. 1696. if the said Quarters amount to so much It shall be Felony to Counterfeit the said Exchequer Bills without Benefit of Clergy XCVIII A Proviso That this Act shall not Charge the 50000 l. per An. Granted in Trust for the Prince and Princess of Denmark with the Duty of 4 s. 4 d. per Pound XCIX Persons not Charged over and above the 4 d. per Month with the Duties on Wages Pensions Salaries Offices or Imployments of the yearly Value of 8 l. or for their own Lands or Tenements of the yearly Value of 40 s. or for Money or Stock of the Value of 5 l. shall not be Charged with the 4 d. per Month for their Children under the Age of Sixteen Years C. Also Poor Housekeepers who by reason of their poverty do not contribute to Church or Poor shall not be charged by this Act Nor shall it extend to charge Houses not cover'd or made habitable CI. A Proviso That Hammer'd Money shall be Current at 5 s. 2 d. per oz. after 1 Feb. 1696. in all payments except where it is directed to be Received at a greater value CII Stat. 8 9. W. 3. cap. 7. During the term of two years from 1 March 1696 a Duty of 20 per Cent. of the true value for all Paper Vellum and Parchment of what kind soever made within this Kingdom shall be paid by the Makers thereof And for all Paper Pastboard Vellum and Parchment either in Rolls Reams Quires Books printed or not printed or otherwise Imported during the said Term 25 per Cent. over and above all Customs and Duties already payable for the same CIII Which Duties on Importations shall be paid by the Importers upon making their Entries of the same or shall be secured to be paid within three Months after such Entry with a Discount of 10 per Cent. per Ann. for payment in ready Money with a Clause of forfeiture upon Landing any such Imported Commodities before Entry be made thereof CIV The said Duties on Importations to be Collected by the Officers of the Customs according to the true value to be esteemed upon the Oath of the Importer And the Duties upon the said Commodities made within the Realm shall be ascertained by Commissioners thereunto appointed their Substitutes or Deputies under the direction of the Commissioners of the Treasury CV In case of Controversie the value of such Goods made within the Realm shall be esteemed by Affidavit of the Makers thereof in Writing with Liberty to his Majesties Officers to take such Goods at the value specified in the said Affidavits paying down ready Money for the same CVI. The makers of the said Manufactures shall before 25 Mar. 1697. give notice in Writing of the place where such Manufactures are usually made or intended to be made and the Names and places of abode of the makers thereof under the penalty of 20 l. And shall not make the same but in such common places whereof they shall first have given Notice and shall permit the respective Officers of the said Duties to take notice of the stock of Materials for making the same And shall within five days after such Commodities are made so as to be fit for use and before the removal thereof make true Entries of the same with his Majesties Officers and shall then or within six Months after pay the said Duties and thereupon shall have a permission gratis for carrying the same away with an Allowance of 10 per Cent. per An for prompt payment CVII It shall be Lawful for the said Officers to search and see what quantities of the said Commodities are making who are not to be refused Entrance under the penalty of 10 l. And if any persons shall endeavour to Defraud his Majesty of his just Dues for the same they shall Forfeit 50 l. and the Commodities concealed not entred or unlawfully removed shall be also forfeited CVIII All Merchants Stationers Wholesale-sellers Retailers Paper-makers and others having on 1 Mar. 1696. any stock of Paper Parchment Vellum or Pastboard for sale shall pay a Duty of 17 l. 10 s. per Cent. of the true value thereof within ten days after the said 1 Mar. 1696. CIX The persons aforesaid shall deliver to the proper Officer a Particular in Writing Signed of the Quantities Kinds and Values of the said Goods which Officers are Impowred to take an Account of and view the said Goods and shall be permitted so to do under the penalty of 20 l. And if the said Duties be not paid by 11 Mar. 1696. nor secured to be paid within three Months the said Officers may Levy the same by Distress of the Goods and Chattels of the persons liable thereunto CX Provided that the persons paying the said Duties by 11 Mar. 1696. shall be allowed 10 per Cent per An. for prompt payment And the valuation of the said Stock shall be esteemed by the Oath of the Owner taken in Writing with liberty to the Kings Officer to take such Goods at the value specified in the said Affidavit paying down ready Money for the same CXI Upon neglect to give in such particulars before 5 Mar. 1696. or not giving in the full of the said Stock or carrying away or concealing any part thereof before the Duty shall be paid or secured to forfeit 50 l. and the Goods so not given in or carried away or concealed shall be forseited CXII In case of Seizure and Information or Complaint thereupon within eight days two of the next Justices of the Peace are to hear and determin the matter and upon Appeals the Justices of the next Quarter Sessions are to hear and determin the same finally CXIII All Entries Accounts and Permissions aforesaid are to be made gratis CXIV Provided that upon Exportations beyond the Seas the Duties so paid or secured shall be repaid or discharged CXV Any persons may Lend on the Credit of this Act 125000 l. at 8 per Cent. Interest free from Taxes to be paid every three Months till repayment of their Principal which shall be repaid in course and the Money not diverted to any other
the Parish of St. Giles in Colchester XV. Provided That all Goods c. unloaden out of any Ship or Vessel at Wivenhoe and not brought to Colchester or within the Liberties thereof or Laden at Wivenhoe and not first Carried from or through Colchester or the Liberties thereof shall not be liable to the said Duties Oath being made thereof if required before such Collector or any Custom-house Officer XVI The said Mayor and Commonalty by Indenture under their Common Seal with consent of the Commissioners may engage the Profits arising as aforesaid for any Term not exceeding 21 Years to any persons that will upon such Security advance Money for Carrying on the said Work for securing the Repayment thereof with Interest not exceeding 6 per Cent. XVII Provided That if before the end of 21 Years sufficient Moneys shall be raised for the purposes aforesaid and so adjudged by the Commissioners that then after Repayment of the Money so borrowed with Interest the said Duties shall cease XVIII Provided That upon Dispute touching the Weight and Quantity of the Goods liable to the said Duties the Collector may weigh the same and if they prove more than the Collector did insist upon the Owner shall bear the charges of weighing XIX If any persons be proseeuted for Acting in pursuance of this Act they may plead the General Issue and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence And if the Prosecutor be Nonsuit or Discontinue or a Verdict or Judgment pass against him the Defendant shall recover Costs XX. Provided That if a New Cut be made through the said Earl of Kents Land called gravel-pit-Gravel-Pit-Land it shall be at the Election of the said Earl to have the Value of the Land so severed or to keep the same And if the said Earl shall within Twelve Months after such severance signifie his Election to keep the same the Right thereof shall be Vested in the said Earl and the said Mayor and Commonalty c. shall make a Wall and Bank cross the present Old Chanel at both ends thereof which said Old Chanel shall also be Vested in the said Earl XXI Provided That this Act take not away any Persons Right of Fishing in the said River Salt I. Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 6. After 25 Mar. 1698. No Badger Retailer or other person making or dealing in Salt or buying Salt to sell again shall sell or dispose of any Salt in England or Wales and Town of Berwick otherwise than by Weight after the Rate of 56 Pound Weight to the Bushel and not by measure or any other manner upon Forfeiture of Five Pounds to the Informer who shall prosecute for the same II. The Forfeitures and Offences against this Act shall be determined by any two or more Justices of Peace residing near the place where such Offence was committed But persons agrieved may appeal to the Justices at the next General Quarter Sessions whose Judgment therein shall be final III. All Justices of Peace upon complaint of Offences contrary to this Act are to Summon the Party accused and upon proof of the Matter of Fact by Oath of two or more Witnesses or Confession of the Party to give Judgment and issue out Warrants for Levying such Forfeitures on the Goods and Chattels of the Offender to be sold if not redeemed in six days rendring the Overplus and for want of Distress to Imprison the Offender till satisfaction be made IV. When any Salt shall be Entred to be put on Board any Boat Ship or Vessel or carried by Land and the Duty paid or secured together with all Moneys then or before due and payable by Bond or otherwise on Account of Salt delivered the proper Officer shall upon due Notice by himself or Deputy in the Day time between Sun-rising and Sun-setting attend the Weighing out such Salt without loss of time to the persons that shall Ship off or carry the same upon Forfeiture of 40 s. to be recovered as other Penalties in this Act are directed Seamen I. Stat. 8 9. W. 3. cap. 23. All such persons who by virtue of the Act made the last Session of this Parliament For the Increase and Incouragement of Seamen 7 8. W. 3. cap. 21. are Intituled to the Provisions and Advantages in the Hospital in the said Act mentioned and out of the Revenues thereof shall from time to time be placed in the said Hospital upon Certificates to be produced as by the said Act is directed in succession as the person registred shall be in Course and Order of time upon the Registry Book and the Widows and Children of the persons longest registred before others II. Every Seaman or Mariner who have Liberty and shall be willing to register themselves as by the said Act directed after the 10th of April next bringing such Certificate as the said Act directs under the hand of any one Justice of Peace of the County where he lives may and shall be registred and himself Wife Widow and Children be Intituled to all Advantages given by the said Act as if the Certificate were under the hands of two Justices according to the said Act. The Justice or Justices giving such Certificate are required diligently to enquire into the truth of the same and if occasion be to examine the party upon Oath and if any fraud or deceit appears to certify the Admiralty thereof III. Any persons already registred or who shall hereafter be registred and who then were or shall after be raised to the degree of a Masters Mate in any of the Kings Ships their Wives Widows and Children are declared and enabled to enjoy all and every the Benefits and Advantages given to any other person so registred by the said recited Act. IV. After the said 10th of April all Seamen above the Age of 50 years and who shall appear by the Books of the Navy Office to have served on Board any of the Kings Ships for seven years last past without wilful Disserting shall upon producing Certificates as aforesaid under the hands of one or more Justices of Peace be registred and have and enjoy the several Privileges in the said Act mentioned V. Provided that after the 10th day of April 1699. No Seaman above the Age of 50 years shall be admitted to register himself without giving such Reasons for his omitting to do it during the time of such Service on Board as shall be approved by the Admiralty or Navy or by the persons appointed for keeping the said Register VI. It shall be Lawful for the Commissioners appointed for Registring Seamen by Warrant under their Hands and Seals to cause all Masters and Commanders of Ships not in his Majesties Service to appear before them and discover upon Oath the Number Rates Salaries Wages and Times of Service of all and every persons or person serving in such Ships or Vessels and which by the foresaid Act are obliged to pay 6 d. per mensem out of their Salaries and Wages And if any
than sufficient to pay the Interest at 5 per Cent. for the said Principal Sum of 330769 l. 10 s. 7 d. then the Surplus shall remain in the Exchequer and not be disposed of otherwise than by Act of Parliament CCXXV. The Commissioners of the Treasury or Lord Treasurer for the time being may out of the Money so raised pay to the said Commissioners their Clerks or other persons such Moneys as they shall reasonably deserve for their Service in relation to this or the foresaid Act. CCXXVI This Act shall not extend or be construed to give any Power to any Hawker c. to sell or expose any Wares or Merchandizes in any City Town Corporate or Market Town within this Realm otherwise than might have been done before the making of this Act. CCXXVII Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 8. All the Duties which have been or hereafter shall be paid into the Exchequer by virtue of the Act made the last Sessions of Parliament Intituled An Act for Granting to His Majesty certain Duties upon Malt Mum Sweets Cyder and Perry as well towards Carrying on the War against France as for the necessary Expences of His Majesties Houshold shall be applied to the Payment of the Loan of 200000 l. Borrowed thereupon with Interest for the same or so much as remains due and unpaid thereof and to the Discharge of certain Bills and Tickets issued thereupon with Interest in the first Place in such Course and Order as the said Act directs and to no other use whatsoever until the said Loan and the said Bills and Tickets with Interest shall be fully paid CCXXVIII The Rules and Directions in an Act made 1 W. M. Intituled An Act for a Grant to their Majesties of an Aid of Two Shillings in the Pound for One year for the speedy Payment of Moneys thereby Granted into the Exchequer by the Collectors and Receivers thereof and for the Distribution and Application thereof and keeping distinct Accounts of the same and the Penalties in case of Diversion of any Money thereby Appropriated are hereby revived touching the Distribution of the Duties hereby Appropriated CCXXIX Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 10. Enacted That the Sum of One Million four hundred eighty four thousand and fifteen Pounds One Shilling Eleven Pence three Farthings be Levied and Paid to his Majesty within the space of One Year from 2 Febr. 1697. according to the Proportions on the several Cities Towns and Counties in the Act mention'd CCXXX Towards the raising whereof all persons having any Estate in ready Money or Debts Wares Merchandizes or other Chattels except such Debts as they do bona fide owe and desperate Debts owing to them and except Stock upon Land and Houshold Goods and Loans to his Majesty shall pay 3 s. in the Pound of the true yearly value for One year that is to say For every Hundred Pounds the Sum of 18 s. and so for a greater or lesser Sum. CCXXXI All persons having any publick Office or Imployment of Profit Military Officers in Muster or Pay in his Majesties Guards Garisons or Navy excepted and their Agents Clerks and Inferiour Ministers shall pay 3 s. in the Pound for One year out of the Fees or Profits of their Offices or Imployments CCXXXII All Manors Messuages Lands and Tenements and all Quarries Mines Iron-works Salt-works Allom-works all Parks Chaces Warrens Woods Under-woods Coppices all Fishings Tithes Tolls Annuities and other yearly Profits and Hereditaments and all Persons Bodies Politick and Corporate Guilds and Fraternities having any such Lands Tenements or Hereditaments shall be Charged with as much equality as possible towards the Sums by this Act imposed which shall be Paid into the Exchequer by Four Quarterly Payments the first whereof to be upon 2 May 1698. CCXXXIII The Landlords Owners and Proprietors of such Lands Tenements and Hereditaments may abate out of every Fee-farm Rent or other Annual Rent or Payment so much as the same shall by a just proportion amount unto CCXXXIV For the more effectual putting this Act in execution the several Persons in the Act named shall be Commissioners who shall meet together in their several Districts on or before 20 April 1698. and afterwards as often as shall be necessary and shall set down in Writing the Proportions to be paid by every Division for making up the whole Sum and may subdivide themselves so as Two or more be appointed for each Division but not to restrain the Commissioners from Acting in any other part of the County or Place for which they are nominated Commissioners CCXXXV Which Commissioners at their General Meeting shall give Lists to the Receiver General of those who are to act in each Division which Commissioners in their several Divisions shall cause the Proportions to be equally Assessed and shall direct their Precepts to such Inhabitants c. as they shall think convenient to be Presenters and Assessors requiring them to appear at a place and time not exceeding Ten days and shall then charge them with the Execution of this Act And if any persons to whom such Precept is directed shall absent themselves without lawful Excuse or shall refuse to serve they shall forfeit a Sum not exceeding 5 l. CCXXXVI The Commissioners shall appoint Two or more of the most sufficient Inhabitants of each Parish c. to be Assessors and shall prefix them a day and place to bring in their Assessments who are to Assess the full Sum given them in Charge and bring in a Certificate thereof with the Names of Two or more able persons living within the respective limits to be Collectors for whom the Parish or Place shall be answerable CCXXXVII Every Assessor before he acts shall take the Oaths appointed 1 W. M. to be Administred to them by Two or more of the Commissioners and shall deliver one Copy of their Assessment to the Commissioners who shall Sign and Seal Two Duplicates thereof one to be delivered to the Collectors the other in Parchment to the Receiver General containing the full Sum Assessed on each Parish or Place and shall transmit a like Duplicate to the Kings Remembrancers Office on or before 24 June 1698. or within 20 days after all Appeals being first determined CCXXXVIII The Collectors shall Levy the Rates so Assessed and shall demand the same of the Parties themselves or at the place of their last abode or upon the premisses charged and shall pay the same to the Receiver General or his Deputy at such time and place as the Commissioners shall appoint so as the whole Sum for each Quarterly Payment be made according to the Act. CCXXXIX And the Receiver General is to give Notice of his Deputies to the Commissioners within Ten days after the first General Meeting and so within Ten days after the death or removal of any Deputy and the Receipt of such Receiver General or his Deputies shall be a Discharge to the Collectors who shall not be obliged to travel above Ten
A CONTINUATION OF THE ABRIDGMENT Of all the STATUTES OF K. William and Q. Mary AND OF King William the Third In Force and Use Begun by J. Washington of the Midd. Temple Esq Revised and Continued after his Death to the end of the Session of Parliament 27 April 1696. And now further Continued from the beginning of the Second Session of the Third Parliament 20 October 1696. to the end of the Third and last Session of the said Third Parliament 5 July 1698. With Two New Tables LONDON Printed by Charles Bill and the Executrix of Tho. Newcomb deceased Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty And by W. Rawlins and S. Roycroft Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins Esquires MDCXCIX THE TITLES OF THE STATUTES Contained in this ABRIDGMENT WITH THE HEADS Under which they Stand. Anno. 8. W. 3. Part. 3. Sess 2. 1. AN Act for Importing and Coining Guineas and Half-Guineas Coin 2. An Act for the further Remedying the ill State of the Coin of the Kingdom Coin 3. An Act to Explain that part of the Act passed the last Session of Parliament for Laying several Duties on Low Wines and Spirits of the first Extraction and for Preventing the Frauds and Abuses of Brewers Distillers and other Persons chargeable with the Duties of Excise which Relates to the Payment of Tallies and the Interest thereof Excise 4. An Act to Attaint Sir John Fenwick Baronet of High Treason Treason 5. An Act to Attaint such of the Persons concerned in the late Horrid Conspiracy to Assassinate his Majesties Royal Person who are fled from Justice unless they render themselves to Justice and for continuing several others of the said Conspirators in Custody Treason 6. An Act for Granting an Aid to his Majesty as well by a Land Tax as by several Subsidies and other Duties payable for One Year Taxes Anno 8 9 W. 3. 7. An Act for Granting to his Majesty several Duties upon Paper Vellum and Parchment to Encourage the bringing of Plate and Hammered Money into the Mints to be Coined Taxes 8. An Act for Incouraging the bringing in Wrought Plate to be Coined Coin 9. An Act to Restore the Market at Blackwell Hall to the Clothiers and for Regulating the Factors there Blackwell-Hall 10. An Act to Enable the Returns of Juries as formerly until the first day of November One thousand six hundred ninety seven Iuries 11. An Act for the better preventing Frivolous and Vexatious Suits Snits 12. An Act for continuing certain Additional Impositions upon several Goods and Merchandizes Customs 13. An Act for continuing several former Acts for Punishing Officers and Soldiers who shall Mutiny or Desert his Majesties Service and for Punishing False Musters and for Payment of Quarters for One year longer Soldiers 14. An Act for the Compleating the Building and Adorning the Cathedral Charch of St. Paul London and for Repairing the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster Churches 15. An Act for Repairing the Highway between Ryegate in the County of Surrey and Crawley in the County of Sussex High-ways 16. An Act for Enlarging Common High-ways High-ways 17. An Act for Paving and Regulating the Hay-Market in the Parishes of St. Martins in the Fields and St. James within the Liberty of Westminster Hay-Market 18. An Act for Relief of Creditors by making Compositions with their Debtors in Case Two thirds in Number and Value do Agree Creditors 19. An Act for Repealing a Clause in a former Act relating to Party Guiles and for the better preventing Frauds and Abuses of Brewers and others Chargeable with the Duties of Excise Excise 20. An Act for making good the Deficiences of several Funds therein mentioned and for Enlarging the Capital stock of the Bank of England and for Raising the Publick Credit Taxes 21. An Act for Laying a Duty upon Leather for the Term of Three years and making other Provision for Answering the Deficiences as well of the late Duties upon Coals and Culm as for Paying the Annuities upon the Lottery and for Lives charged on the Tunnage of Ships and the Duties upon Salt Taxes 22. An Act for Granting to his Majesty certain Duties upon Malt Mum Sweets Cyder and Perry as well towards Carrying on the War against France as for the necessary Expence of his Majesties Houshold and other Occasions Excise 23. An Act to enforce the Act for the Increase and Incouragement of Seamen Seamen 24. An Act for Granting to his Majesty a further Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage upon Merchandizes Imported for the Term of Two years and Three quarters and an Additional Land Tax for One year for Carrying on the War against France Customs 25. An Act for Licensing Hawkers and Pedlars for a further Provision for payment of the Interest of the Transport Debt for the Reducing of Ireland Taxes 26. An Act for the better Preventing the Counterfeiting the Current Coin of this Kingdom Coin 27. An Act for the more effectual Relief of Creditors in Cases of Escapes and for preventing Abuses in Prisons and pretended Privileged Places Prisons c. 28. An Act for the better Observation of the Course Anciently Used in the Receipt of Exchequer Exchequer 29. An Act for the Repair of the Peers of Bridlington alias Burlington in the East-Riding of the County of York Burlington 30. An Act for supplying some Defects in the Laws for the Relief of the Poor of this Kingdom Poor 31. An Act for the easier obtaining Partitions of Lands in Coparcenary Joynt Tenancy and Tenancy in Common Partitions 32. An Act to restrain the number and ill Practices of Brokers and Stock-Jobbers Brokers 33. An Act to make perpetual and more effectual an Act Intituled An Act to prevent delays at the Quarter Sessions of the Peace Iustices of Peace 34. An Act for the Lessening the Duty upon Tin and Pewter Exported and Granting an Equivalent for the same by a Duty upon Drugs Customs 35. An Act for Raising the Militia for the Year One thousand six hundred ninety seven although the Months Pay formerly advanced be not repaid Militia 36. An Act for the further Encouragement of the Manufacture of Lustrings and Alamodes within this Realm and for the better preventing the Importation of the same Trade 37. An Act for Explaining and Enforcing the Act for Paving and Cleansing the Streets within the Cities of London and Westminster and Borough of Southwark and Weekly Bills of Mortality and Streets adjoyning thereunto And for Widening the Street at the South end of London-Bridge London Anno 9 W. 3. Part. 3. Sess 3. 1. An Act against Corresponding with the late King James and his Adherents Treason 2. An Act to prevent the further Currency of any Hammered Silver Coin of this Kingdom and for recoining such as is now in being and for the making out new Exchequer Bills where the former Bills are or shall be filled up by Indorsements Coin 3. An Act to give further time for the Administring of Oaths relating to Talleys and Orders and for the easier
the Uses aforesaid as there shall be cause And the Mayor of the said Borough is to Administer an Oath to the Collectors and persons imployed for the faithful Executing their Offices in and about the Premisses V. The said Collectors shall be allowed for their pains in Executing the said Office out of the Money by them received so much as the said Mayor c. in Common Council assembled shall think fit not exceeding one Shilling in the Pound VI. The said Collectors may at seasonable times Enter into any Ship or Vessel within the said Port of Bridgwater to see what Goods shall be in the same Unlading And in case the sums of Money appointed to be paid as aforesaid shall not be paid by the Master or other person having the Command of any Ship or Vessel Unlading as aforesaid then the said Collectors may by Warrant from the Mayor or Aldermen of the said Borough or one of them Distrain such Ship or Vessel and all Tackle Apparel and Furniture thereunto belonging and keep the same till they be satisfied and paid the sums Imposed by this Act which if not paid within Ten days next after such Distress then the said Collectors may sell the said Distress and therewith satisfie themselves for the Duty so unpaid and also for keeping such Distress rendring the Overplus VII The said Mayor c. in Common Council assembled may by Indenture under their Common Seal Convey the Duties Granted by this Act or heretofore payable as a security for any sums of Money by them to be borrowed for the ends and purposes of this Act to any persons that have advanced or shall advance any Moneys upon such security All which Money to be borrowed shall be imployed towards the Inlarging Preserving and Repairing the said Bridge or Key of Bridgwater aforesaid VIII The Keys or Wharfs now standing on each side of the River below the Bridge of Bridgwater aforesaid or that shall be Inlarged or Repaired not exceeding in length on each side of the said River 150 Yards are and shall be taken for lawful Keys or Wharss for the Landing or Laying on Shore any sort of Goods and Merchandizes whatsoever IX From and after the Expiration of the Years hereby Granted the ancient Duties of Keyage Pontage and Cranage shall be demanded and paid as heretofore Brokers I. Stat. 8 9. W. 3. cap. 32. For Restraining the III practice of Brokers and Stock-jobbers It is Enacted That after 1 May. 1697. No person whatsoever shall use or exercise the Office or Imployment of a Broker or deal as such in London Westminster or Southwark or the Limits of the Weekly Bills of Mortality in making or concluding Bargains between Merchant and Merchant or others concerning Wares and Merchandizes or Moneys to be taken up by Exchange or concerning any Talleys or Orders Bills of Credit or Tickets payable at the Exchequer or any publick Office or concerning any of the Bank-Bills or Notes or Stock of the Bank or Stock of any Company or Society that is or shall be Incorporated until such person shall be admitted and licensed by the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of London II. Upon admittance of any such Broker he shall take an Oath to the effect following viz. That he will truly and faithfully execute and perform the Office and Imployment of a Broker between party and party in all things appertaining to the Duty of the said Office and Imployment without Fraud or Collusion to the best of his skill or knowledge and according to the Tenour and Purport of the Act Intituled An Act to Restrain the Number and Ill practice c. III. And every such person within Three Months after such Admittance shall in the Court of Chancery or Kings-Bench or Quarter Sessions take the Oaths appointed in the Act 1 W. M. cap. 8. and Subscribe the Association appointed by the Act made 7 W. 3. cap. 27. And every such person shall at his Admittance give Bond to the Lord Mayor Citizens and Commonalty of London in the Penalty of 500 l. with Condition That if he do and shall well and truly Vse Execute and Perform the Office and Imployment of a Broker between Party and Party without Fraud Covin or any Corrupt or Crafty Devices according to the Purport true Intent and Meaning of the Statute in that case lately made and provided then the Obligation to be void IV. The Number of such Brokers shall not at one time exceed 100. and the Fees upon Admittance into the said Imployment shall not exceed 40 s. V. The Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen shall cause the Names of such Brokers as shall be Admitted by Virtue of this Act and their places of habitation to be publickly affixt on the Royal Exchange in Guildhall and in such other publick places in London as they shall think fit VI. If any person shall act as a Broker after the time aforesaid not being admitted according to this Act he shall forfeit 500 l. over and above such other Forfeitures as he shall any ways incur by virtue of this Act and if any person after the time aforesaid shall knowingly Imploy any person to deal for him as a Broker or Stock-jobber not being admitted and sworn as aforesaid such person shall forfeit the sum of 50 l. and if any person after the time aforesaid not being a sworn Broker according to this Act shall act and deal as a Broker in Discounting Talleys or Bills or in Stock-jobbing in selling Bank-stock or any other Securities upon any Fund granted by Parliament such person shall Forfeit 500 l. and stand in the Pillory in some publick place in London three several Days for the space of one Hour in the Morning VII After the time aforesaid every sworn Broker shall keep a Book or Register in which he shall enter all Contracts and Bargains that he shall make between any persons within three days after the Contract with the parties Names and for omitting so to do he shall forfeit 50 l. VIII If any such Broker after the time aforesaid shall directly or indirectly take above 10 s. per Cent. for Brokage he shall for every such Offence forfeit 10 l. IX Every sworn Broker after his Admittance as aforesaid shall carry about him a Silver Medal having the Kings Arms on one side and the Arms of the City of London with his own Name on the other side which he shall produce at the concluding of every Bargain to the Parties concern'd upon pain to forfeit 40 s. for every Omission X. If any such Broker after the time aforesaid shall deal for himself in the Exchange or Remittance of Moneys or Buy any Talleys Orders Bills or Shares in any Joint-stock for his own use or buy Goods or Merchandizes to sell again or make any profit in buying or selling any Goods more than the Brokage allowed by this Act he shall forfeit the sum of 200 l. and be for ever incapable to act as a Broker XI Every
Policy Contract Bargain or Agreement which is to be performed after the 1st day of May 1697. upon which any Pramium is or shall be given or paid for Liberty to deliver receive accept or refuse any share in any Joint-stock Talleys Orders Exchequer Bills or Bank Bills other than such Policies and Contracts as are to be performed within three days from the time of making the same shall be utterly null and void and every such Praemium shall be paid back XII If any Praemium shall be given contrary to the intent and meaning of this Act with the privity of a sworn Broker or if any person shall Act or Trade as a Broker not being Admitted according to this Act and the same shall come to the knowledge of a sworn Broker in every such Case such sworn Broker shall forthwith discover the same and in case he shall not so do the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen shall displace such sworn Broker who shall for ever be incapable to use or exercise the Trade of a Broker XIII All penalties and forfeitures given by this Act shall be recovered by Action of Debt c. in any of the Kings Courts of Record at Westminster in which no Essoin c. one Moiety to the King the other to him that shall sue for the same XIV This Act to continue from the 1st of May 1697. for the space of three years and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament XV. No person buying or selling of Cattle Corn or any other Provision or Coal shall be esteemed a Broker within this Act. XVI No Broker Admitted by this Act shall after the time aforesaid till the end of next Session of Parliament act or deal or drive any Bargain to buy or sell Talleys or other Securities upon Parliamentary Funds unless Licensed so to do by the Lords of the Treasury or three of them under the penalty of 500 l. I. Stat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 29. For Repair of the Peers of Bridlington alias Burlington in the East-Riding of Yorkshire It is Enacted That after 1 May 1697 and until 1 May 1704 there shall be paid for the repairing and amending the said Peer one farthing for every Chalder of Coals that shall be loaden on Board any Ship or other Vessel at or in the Port of Newcastle upon Tyne or at Sunderland Blythe Suton Sluce Culler Coats or any place reputed a Member of the Port of Newcastle Which said Duties during the term aforesaid shall be answered and paid unto Arthur Lord Viscount Irwin Sir Griffith Boynton Sir Charles Hotham Sir William Strickland Sir William St. Quintin Baronets Sir Michael Wharton Sir Matthew Peirson Sir William Hustler Sir Richard Osbaldeston Knights Ralph Wharton John Buck Robert Monckton Hugh Bethell Robert Byerly Charles Osborn Esquires and to the Wardens of Trinity-House at Hull for the time being the Survivors and Survivor of them and the Executors and Administrators of such Survivor or to their Deputy or Deputies thereunto appointed by some Writing under their or the major part of their Hands and Seals by the Master of the Vessel whereupon such Coals shall be loaden The said Duties to be paid at such place or places as shall be appointed in or near the place of Loading II. No Officer of the Customs within the Ports Harbours Creeks or places aforesaid shall during the time aforesaid take any Entries or give any Cocket or other Discharge for any Ship or other Vessel so loaden with Coals as aforesaid till the Duties hereby granted shall be paid to the respective Deputies appointed to receive the same as aforesaid and that the Master of such Ship or Vessel do produce an Acquittance testifying the Receipt thereof And every Officer of the Customs making default in any of the Premisses shall forfeit the Sum of 50 l. to the said A. Lord Viscount J. Sir G. B. c. to be recovered with Costs in any of the Kings Courts of Record by Action of Debt c. wherein no Essoin c. shall be allow'd III. Any person or persons by Warrant under the Hands and Seals of the said A. Lord Viscount J. Sir G. B. c. or the major part of them may go on Board any Ship or other Vessel loaden with Coals at any the foresaid places to inspect and take an account of the lading of such Coals IV. All such Sums of Money which shall be raised by the Duties aforesaid and recovered for any Forfeitures in this Act appointed other than what shall be laid out or allow'd for Collecting the said Duty not exceeding 6 d. in the pound shall be by the said A. Lord Viscount J. Sir G. B c. applyed to the rebuilding repairing and amending the said Port or Peer of Bridlington alias Burlington and there shall be provided and kept by the said persons their Deputy or Deputies one or more Books in which all Receipts and Payments by virtue of this Act shall be entred expressing the time when and persons from and to whom the same were made And once yearly the Justices of the Peace for the East-Riding of the County of York at their Quarter-Sessions may order the said Books to be brought before them to inspect the same and upon any mis-imployment of the said Duties to make such Orders for the better management of the same according to the intent of this Act as they shall think most fit Which Orders shall be observed by all persons concerned upon such Penalties not exceeding 100 l. as they shall set to be levyed upon the Goods of the Offenders by Warrant from the said Justices V. The said A. Lord Viscount J. Sir G. B c. or the greatest number of them that shall be then living may by Indenture under their Hands and Seals convey and assure the Duties granted by this Act or any part thereof as a Security for Money to be borrowed for the ends and purposes of this Act. VI. If any person shall be sued for any thing done by virtue of this Act he may plead the General Issue and give the special Matter in Evidence and upon Nonsuit or Verdict for the Defendant he shall recover double Costs VII After 1 May 1697 the said A. Lord Viscount J. Sir G B c. or any three or more of them may from time to time survey and inspect the sufficient Building and Repairs of the Peer aforesaid with all Walls Jetteys Sluces Sockers and Locks thereof and certifie the State and Condition of the same in Writing to the said Justices at their Quarter Sessions who are hereby impowered to charge the Lands formerly granted by K. James I. 20 Sept. in the 21st year of his Reign to John Earl of Holdernesse his Heirs and Assigns with such equal assesment as they shall judge sufficient and necessary for repair of the same and in default of Payment of the said assesment the Defaulter to be distrained by Warrant of three of such Justices and after
by twelve equal monthly Payments the first Payment to be made 25 Febr. 1696. And that every Papist or reputed Papist of the Age of Sixteen Years who had not taken the Oaths required Ann. 1 W. M. should pay double unless such Papist did take the same within ten days after the first Meeting of the Commissioners And that every person of the Age of Sixteen Years who not having taken the Oaths did not upon Summons take the same should also pay double And that every Gentleman or so reputed who ought to have paid double to the Quarterly Poll Ann. 3. W. M. and did not voluntarily take the same before the Commissioners within ten days after their first Meeting should likewise pay double And that the Commissioners should upon information or suspicion Summon every suspected person to take the said Oaths but that Quakers making and subscribing the Declaration of Fidelity appointed Ann. 1 W. M. should not be liable to pay double XXVIII For a further supply it is now Enacted That all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whatsoever charged by the other Act with 3 s. in the pound shall now be charged for one Year from 25 Jan. 1696. with the further Sum of 1 s. in the pound viz. 4 s. per pound in the whole XXIX And all persons who by the other Act ought to pay double or 6 s. per pound shall pay 2 s. in the pound over and above the said 6 s. XXX The Commissioners appointed for the 3 s. in the pound shall be Commissioners for this present Act of 1 s. per pound and the said double Rates with all the Powers and Authorities of the said other Act. And the Assessors and Collectors of the 3 s. shall be the Assessors and Collectors of the 1 s. and the said double Rates XXXI For the avoiding repeated Assessments the Assessors and Collectors shall charge collect and levy One third part of the Duty of the 3 s. and double rates for and in satisfaction of the said rate of 1 s. and the double rates by Kalendary Months the first payment for three months to be on 25 Apr. 1697. or within 14 days after and afterwards each Kalendary Month successively in such manner as they are required by the said other Act of 3 s. per l. and shall pay the same to the Head Collectors accordingly to be answered by the Receivers General into the Excheqner according to the directions of the said other Act. And all persons concerned or imployed by virtue of this Act shall be subject to the Penalties and have the Benefits of the said other Act. And all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments subject by Distress or otherwise to the rates of 3 s. per l. shall in like manner be subject to the rates of 1 s. per pound XXXII And whereas by the said other Act of 3 s. in the pound c. the Commissioners of the Treasury may issue Exchequer Bills not exceeding the Sum of 1500000 l. for the use of the War and by the Act for making good the deficiencies of Funds c. the said Bills are to be Current to the Receivers or Collectors of any Tax or Supply granted this Session for the War or otherwise and also at the Exchequer with 5 d. per Day Interest for each Hundred Pounds It is further Enacted That the Commissioners of the Treasury may issue Exchequer Bills not exceeding 1200000 l. over and above the said 1500000 l. so as there be not at any one time above 2000000 l. standing out in such Bills which Bills to have like Currency and Interest as the said Bills for 1500000 l. XXXIII The persons contracting with the Treasury to advance Money for Circulating the said Bills for 1500000 l. shall be discharged of their Contracts as soon as the Sums by them agreed to be advanced shall be called for and paid or so soon as Bills for 1500000 l. issued by the former or this present Act shall be Cancelled or that the Funds for the War for this present Year shall have produced sufficient to take up and Cancel the same XXXIV The Commissioners of the Treasury may in like manner agree for the Advancing any further Sums for Exchanging such Bills of the said 1200000 l. as may be refused at the Rate of 10 l. per Cent. per Ann. XXXV The Bills issued for the said 1500000 l. and 1200000 l. which shall not be Cancelled by the Produce of those Funds by the 25th of March 1698. shall be taken up and Cancelled by the Arrears of those Funds or by the Moneys Granted next Session of Parliament And the persons advancing Moneys for Exchanging such Bills of the 1200000 l. as shall be refused shall be discharged of their Contracts as soon as the Sums Contracted for shall be paid by them and if the same be not called for by the 25th of March 1698. they shall thenceforth be absolutely discharged of their Contracts XXXVI Till it shall be published by Proclamation that the Treasury hath made Provision that the said Bills may be Exchanged for ready Money such Bills for the 1200000 l. shall be Current only in the Supplies Granted for the War this present Year 1697. except the 3 s. in the Pound XXXVII It shall be Felony without benefit of Clergy to Forge or Counterfeit any of the said Bills or Demand Money thereon knowing the same to be Counterfeited XXXVIII Out of the Moneys arising by this Act by Bills of Credit or otherwise 672197 l. is Appropriated for the Navy and for the Sea-Service in the Office of the Ordnance the Ordinary of the Navy the Payment of Marine-Officers and Charge of Registring Seamen to compleat the Sum of 2372197 l. for those Services and the remainder for the Land Forces Ordnance Ammunition and Incidents of War XXXIX The Rules and Directions in the Act Ann. 1 W. M. for Granting an Aid of 2 s. per. Pound touching the Payment thereof and Management in the Exchequer with the Penalties in case of Diversion shall be revived and applied to the Sums hereby Appropriated XL. Stat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 34. For lessening the Duty on Tin and Pewter Exported It is Enacted That after the 10th of May 1697 there shall be paid on any Entry of Tin to be Exported for every Hundred Weight containing 112 Pounds of Tin unwrought 3 s. and for every hundred Weight of wrought Tin commonly called Pewter 2 s. and so proportionably and no more XLI After the said 10th of May till 1 Aug. 1706. the Subsidy to be received for all Drugs Imported directly from the place of their Growth in English Built Ships shall be according to the full Value of the respective Species enumerated in the Book of Rates and for all Drugs otherwise Imported treble such Value XLII Nothing in this Act shall extend to the laying a further Duty on any sort of Drugs used in Dying XLIII Stat. 9 10 W. 3 cap 23. Over and above all Subsidies of Tunnage and
all the Inferiour Officers in the Excise shall be the Officers for the said Duties under the direction of the said Commissioners who may dismiss or alter them and make such others as to them shall seem meet XVII And all such Malsters c. having on 20 April 1697. any quantity of Malt whatsoever shall before 10 May 1697. enter the same particularly at the next Office of Excise under Penalty of 50 l. and to Forfeit the Malt not Entred and within six days after shall either pay down the Duties for the same to the proper Officer or give Security to pay the said Duties within six months with an allowance of 10 l. per Cent. per ann for the said six months if paid within the said six days XVIII And the said Officers are Authorized to take an Account of all such Malt as any Malsters c. shall be so possess'd of 20 April 1697. and to that end are to be permitted at their request to enter in the day-time into the Dwelling-House c. of any such Malster c. under the Penalty of 10 l. XIX And such Officers are further to be permitted at their request to enter in the day-time into the House Malt house or other place of any person whatsoever who after the said 20 April 1697. till 20 July 1699. shall make any Malt for sale or not for sale to Gauge the Vessels used for the Steeping of Barley or other Grain for making of Malt and to take an account of the Quantity of Barley and other Grain steeping or steeped therein and report the same to the Commissioners leaving a Copy of such Report with the Malster or maker of Malt for a Charge XX. And no such maker of Malt for Sale or private Use shall refuse Entrance to such Officer for the purposes aforesaid under Penalty of 5 l. XXI After the said 20 April 1697. Every maker of Malt for sale or not for sale shall every month make an Entry at the said Excise-Office of all the Malt so made under Penalty of 10 l. and shall within three months after pay the Duties for the same respectively XXII And upon neglecting or refusing to make such Payment to Forfeit for every such Offence double the Duty And after such default shall not sell deliver or carry out any Malt until the said Duty be clear'd on pain to Forfeit double the value of such Malt. XXIII The Bushel in this Act is meant to be the Winchester Bushel and the Barley or Grain in steeping or steeped shall be returned as so many Bushels of Malt according to such Bushel XXIV After 20 April 1697. No maker of Malt shall alter his Vessel for steeping of Barley or Grain for Malt without first giving Notice thereof to the next Office of Excise nor keep any private Vessel for that purpose under penalty of 50 l. XXV After 20 Aril 1697. no Sweet-maker shall set up any Vessel for making of Sweets without first giving Notice thereof at the next Office of Excise on pain of Forfeiting 50 l. XXVI The Directions and Rules Established by the Act An. 12. Car. 2. for setling the Revenue of Excise or by any other Law now in force relating to that Revenue not otherwise provided for by this Act shall be put in Execution for Levying the said Duties on Malt Mum Sweets Cyder and Perry hereby granted XXVII All Penalties and Forfeitures in this Act shall be recover'd as any Forfeiture or Penalty may be by the Laws of Excise or by Action of Debt c. at Westminster XXVIII The Commissioners of Excise or such persons as they shall appoint or else the Collector or Supervisor of the District may compound with any person for the said Duties on Malt not made for sale at the rate of 5 s. per Ann. for every Head in the Family and take Security for paying the same Quarterly and then their Malt-houses and other places shall not be liable to the said Duty or to the Survey of the Officer of Excise XXIX But if such person after Composition sell or deliver out any Malt to others or sell any Beer Ale or other Liquors made of Malt then to Forfeit 50 l. and lose the benefit of such Composition XXX Out of every 20 Bushels of Malt so charg'd by the Gauger there shall be an allowance of Four Bushels in Consideration of the difference between Corn wet and swollen and the same converted into dry Malt. XXXI Any person may export Malt for which the Duty hath been paid to any Foreign Parts except Scotland giving Security not to Reland the same in this Kingdom but if the same should nevertheless be Relanded then besides the Penalty of the Bond the Malt or the Value thereof to be Forfeited XXXII The Exporter of any Malt shall produce a Certificate from the proper Officer That the Duty thereof hath been paid or secured to be paid which must be proved upon Oath and that it is the same Malt mention'd in the Certificate whereupon the said Duty of 6 d. per Bushel is to be repaid to the Exporter by the Collector or Commissioners XXXIII Provided That all Malt sold before 20 April 1697. and not delivered to the Buyer or Contracted so to be the Buyer shall pay the Seller 6 d. per Bushel upon delivery or the Contract to be void XXXIV Rent payable in Malt or in Money to be ascertained by the price of Malt the Tenant to deduct so much as amounts to 2 s. for every Quarter of Malt which is to be allowed accordingly XXXV After 20 April 1697. no Malt to be imported into this Kingdom from beyond the Seas on pain of Forfeiting such Malt or the value thereof XXXVI Out of the Money arising by Loans or Bills upon the Aid of 3 s. per l. and other Duties 1200000 l. shall be appropriated to the Navy and Ordnance c. And the Remainder arising by that Act other than the Loans upon the Act 7. W. 3. for Purchasing Annuities and 23006 l. 17 s. 8 d. ½ lent on the Exchequer in general both transferred to the said Act shall be appropriated to the Land Forces c. XXXVII Out of the Moneys arising by this Act the first 200000 l. shall be appropriated for the Expences of his Majesties Houshold and other his necessary Occasions and one Moiety of the remainder to the same Service and the other Moiety to the Navy and Army equally till the said Sum of 515000 l. be fully paid and the Surplus to the Navy and Land Forces equally XXXVIII The Rules in the Act An. 1. W. M. for an Aid of 2 s. per l. shall be applied to the distribution and application of the Sums hereby appropriated XXXIX The Moneys arising by the Duties on Malt shall be appropriated to the payment of the Moneys due upon Bills and Tickets hereafter mention'd And if by 20 April 1698. the Produce thereof brought into the Exchequer in Specie be not 800000 l. the Deficiency to be made
for the Defendant he shall have double Costs XII Persons passing the Place where Toll is taken and returning the same day shall not Pay Toll twice nor shall Persons pay who pass with Carriages from any next adjoyning Parish going to Market or in Matters of Husbandry nor Soldiers upon their March nor Persons Riding Post XIII Persons Chargeable by Law towards Repairing of the said High-ways shall still remain so XIV This Act shall be of force no longer than for Twenty years and if the said Lanes shall be sooner amended and so adjudged by the Justices at their Quarter Sessions then after payment of the Money Borrowed the aforesaid Toll shall cease XV. The Justices of Surrey and also the Justices of Sussex shall yearly at the Epiphany Quarter Sessions if they think fit appoint Three Persons of each County to view the said Lanes and examine the Surveyors Accounts and in case they find any misapplication of the Moneys Levied by this Act to certifie the same to the Judges at the next Assizes for the County of Surrey who are to hear and finally determine the same XVI Stat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 16. For enlarging Common High-ways It is Enacted that the Justices of Peace of any County City c. or the major Part of them Five at least at their Quarter Sessions may enlarge or widen any High-ways in their respective Counties c. So that the Ground to be taken into the said High-ways do not exceed Eight Yards in Breadth and that they do not pull down any House nor take away any Ground from Garden Orchard Court or Yard XVII For Satisfaction of the Owners the said Justices shall Impannel a Jury and Administer an Oath to them that they will Assess such Damages and Recompence to the Owners or others Interested in the Ground not exceeding 25 Years Purchase as they shall think reasonable c. And upon payment of the said Money so Awarded or leaving it in the Hands of the Clerk of the Peace of the County for the Use of the Owner the Interest of the said Owner shall be divested out of him and the said Ground shall be esteemed a Publick High-way to all Intents whatsoever XVIII And the said Justices shall order Assessments to be made and Levied upon all such persons that ought to Repair the said High-way and the Money thereby Raised shall be Imploy'd towards Purchasing the Land to enlarge the said High-ways and making Ditches and Fences The said Assessments to be Levied by the Overseers of the High-ways by Distress and Sale of Goods if not paid within Ten Days after Demand XIX No such Assessment shall in one Year exceed the Rate of 6 d. in the Pound for Lands nor 6 d. in the Pound for personal Estates XX. The said Justices at the Request of any Person for enlarging High-ways shall at their Quarter Sessions Issue out their Precepts to the Owners of Ground to be Laid to the said High ways to Appear and shew Cause why the said High-ways should not be enlarged XXI After an Order or Decree is made for the Laying out of Ground for enlarging High-ways the Owner hath Liberty in Eight Months after to Cut down any Wood or Timber growing upon the said Ground or upon neglect the Justices shall Sell it and deliver to the Owner the Value XXII Persons Agrieved by Order of the Justices may Appeal to the Judges of Assize at the next Assize only who may Affirm or Reverse the same and if they see cause to affirm to Award Costs against the Appellant XXIII Where any Common High-way shall be enclosed after a Writ of Ad quod Damnum Issued and Executed any person Injured or Agrieved by such Inclosure may Complain to the Justices at the Quarter Sessions next after such Inquisition who may hear and finally determine the same c. But if no such Appeal be made then the said Inquisition and Return Recorded by the Clerk of the Peace to be for ever Binding XXIV Justices of Peace at their respective special Sessions to be held by Virtue of the Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 12. in such Cases as they shall think necessary shall direct their Precepts to the Surveyors of the High-ways where Two or more Cross High-ways meet requiring them to erect where such Ways joyn a Stone or Post with an Inscription directing to the next Market Town to which each of the said Cross Ways lead And in case the Surveyor or Surveyors neglect or refuse so to do for the space of Three Months every such Offender shall Forfeit 10 s. to be Levied by Warrant of one Justice directed to the Constable requiring him to Distrain and Sell the Goods of such Offender and Imploy the Money to the said Purpose XXV Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 18. The Justices of Peace at the Quarter Sessions for the County of Gloucester or any Five of them next after 1 May 1698. may then and every Year nominate and appoint Surveyors of the ruinous High-way and Road from the Town of Birdlipp and the Top of Crickley-Hill in the County of Gloucester to the City of Gloucester for the Year ensuing out of the Inhabitants of the adjacent Parishes who within one Week after Notice given them of their Election are to meet in their several Divisions to Survey the same and consider the best Method for Repair thereof and Certifie the same to the Justices at the next Quarter Sessions who thereupon shall make such Orders about the same as to them shall seem good which shall be observed by the said Surveyors and all others concerned in putting this Act in Execution XXVI The said Surveyors may appoint such Carts and Persons within the said adjacent Parishes to come and Work in the said respective Places as they shall think needful for which the Surveyors shall pay the usual Rate of the Countrey in case they shall be required to Work beyond the times limited by the Statutes XXVII Where there is not sufficient Gravel Sand or Stones in any Parish or Hamlet where the said ruinous places lye to Repair the same the said Surveyors and such as they shall appoint may dig and carry away any Gravel Sand or Stones out of the Waste or Common of any Neighbouring Parish or Hamlet without paying for the same and in Default thereof may dig the same in any persons Grounds not being an House Garden Orchard Yard or Meadow or Avenue to an House making only such reasonable satisfaction to the Owner or Occupier of such Ground as the Damage sustained thereby XXVIII The said Justices at the Quarter Sessions may appoint Receivers or Collectors of the Toll to be paid towards the said Work viz. For every Horse One Peny Every Stage Coach or Hackney Coach One Shilling Every other Coach Calash or Chariot One Shilling Every Wagon Six Pence Every Cart Six Pence Every Score of Hogs or Pigs Three Pence and so proportionably for a greater or lesser Quantity not under
Five Every Score of Oxen or Neat Cattle Eight Pence and so proportionably for every greater or lesser Number To be paid from the passing of the Act by all persons who shall Travel with Horse Coach Cart or Wagon or shall lead or drive any Oxen or other Cattle beforementioned in and through the High-way aforesaid to the said Collectors or Receivers at some convenient place on the said High-way between the Top of Birdlipp and City of Gloucester where a Turn-pike or Gate may be set up as the Justices shall appoint XXIX Every Receiver or Collector shall if Required give in a weekly Account upon Oath to one or more of the Justices to be returned to the Justices at the Quarter Sessions to Examine and make such Order therein as to them shall seem meet XXX Any person refusing or neglecting to pay the said Toll on Demand the Collector or Receiver may Distrain and Detain such Horse Cart Coach Calash Chariot Wagon Oxen Hogs and other Cattle till the Toll be paid with Damages in making the Distress Which Money so received shall be paid to the Surveyors towards mending the said Ruinous Places in the said High-ways and not elsewhere XXXI The said Surveyors at the Quarter Sessions next after the end of their Year shall give an Account to the Justices of their Receipts and Disbursments that the Overplus of the Money if any may be paid to the succeeding Surveyors towards amending the said High-ways or Repaying the Money Lent before hand And such Allowances shall be made by the Justices to the Surveyors and others assisting in the said amending or advancing Moneys thereto as to them shall seem meet XXXII If the Collector or Receiver shall not duly pay the Surveyors or if the Surveyors shall not make the payments Ordered by the Justices then the Justices at the Quarter Sessions shall enquire thereinto upon Oath and Commit the persons Convicted thereof to Goal till they have made a true Account and Payment XXXIII The said Surveyors for the time being by Order of the Justices or any Five of them may Ingage the Profits arising by the said Toll and by a Levy upon the respective Parishes pursuant to the Act made 3 4 W. M. for the better Repairing and Amending the High-ways and for Settling the Rates of Carriage of Goods or by any other Act for the Moneys by them borrowed for that purpose and may under their Hands and Seals Transfer the said Profits for any Term not exceeding Fifteen Years to such as will upon that Security Advance the Money so Lent with Interest And the Justices shall Distribute the said Money to any persons giving Security to Repair and Amend the said High way in the proportions aforesaid XXXIV Any person without Lawful excuse neglecting or refusing to take upon him the Office of Surveyor being thereunto chosen or to do his Duty therein may be Fined by the Justices not exceeding 5 l. And in such case or in case of Death some other person shall be appointed Surveyor by the Justices or two of them Which Fines and Forfeitures shall be paid to the Surveyors towards Repairing the said High-ways XXXV If a Suit be Commenced for any thing done in pursuance of this Act the Action shall be laid in the County of Gloucester only and the Defendant may Plead the General Issue and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence and if the Action be laid elsewhere or the Plaintiff be Non Suit or Discontinue his Action or have Judgment against him upon Demurrer the Defendant shall have Double Costs and Charges XXXVI No person passing where the Toll is taken and returning the same day shall pay a second time and persons passing through the said place from any adjoyning Parish may carry Stones Lime Gravel Dung Mould or Compost and Carts with Hay not sold or going to Market or Corn in the Straw at Hay time or Harvest Ploughs Harrows and other Implements of Husbandry and Stock of Cattle belonging to the Lands of the respective Parishes shall pass the said place without paying as also all Soldiers on their March and the Carts Wagons and Coaches attending them and all persons riding Post XXXVII All persons Chargeable by Law towards Repairing the said High-ways shall still remain so XXXVIII This Act shall not be in Force longer than Twenty Years from 24 Jun. 1698. And if before the Expiration of the said Term the said High-ways shall be sufficiently amended and so adjudged by the Justices at their Quarter Sessions then upon repayment of the Moneys borrowed the said Toll shall cease XXXIX No Turnpike shall be Erected nor Toll Demanded till Security given to the Justices at the Quarter Sessions that the said High-way shall within Five Years be sufficiently Repaired XL. The persons so giving Security shall have full power to Levy for Twenty Years after 24 Jun. 1698. Six Pence in the Pound with the Arrears thereof on all the Parishes adjoyning to the said High-way towards the Repairing thereof and shall cause to be done by the Parishioners within the said Parishes all that is required by the forementioned Act of 3 4 W. M. for the better Repairing the High-ways or by any other Act And if the Toll Granted by this Act with the Sum Charged on the said Parishes be not sufficient to Repair the said High-way within the time limited the persons so giving Security shall Levy and Collect Two Pence in the Pound on the Hundred and Hundreds in which the said High-way or any part thereof doth lye to be Levied by Distress and Sale of Goods if not paid within Ten days after Demand And if the persons so giving Security shall not do what is required of them by this Act they shall forfeit 100 l. per Ann. to such person as shall sue for the same XLI The persons so having given Security in case the said High-way shall not be sufficiently Repaired or Certified so to be by the Justices of the Peace for Herefordshire or Ten of them by the time limited in their Security shall over and above the Sums they shall be bound for Forfeit 500 l. One moiety to the Repairing the said High-way the other to such person as shall Sue for the same XLII The Toll shall not be Demanded by virtue of this Act unless the Security given to the Justices of Peace of Gloucestershire at the Quarter Sessions shall be approved of by Five Justices of Peace for Herefordshire under their Hands and Seals Imprisonment I. STat. 9 W. 3 cap. 4. Enacted That Counter John Bernardi Robert Cassells Robert Meldrum James Chambers and Robert Blackburne being in Newgate for a Traiterous Conspiracy to Assassinate his Majesty together with such other persons as shall hereafter render themselves or be apprehended and against whom Oath shall be made of their being concerned in the said Conspiracy shall be Detained and Kept in Custody without Bail or Mainprize till 1 Jan. 1698. and to the end of the next
Distraining and keep the same till the said Duties be satisfied and if not paid within Ten days then to sell the same IV. The said Mayor and Aldermen or their Assignees may by the 25th of Decemb. 1698. Design and Lay out where such Chanel or River shall be made enlarged opened and continued between Wivenhoe and the New Hithe and what points or parcels of Land are fit to be Cut and Laid out for making or enlarging such Chanel as to them their Deputies and Workmen with the allowance of the Commissioners hereafter mentioned or any Five of them shall seem meet so as such Land so to be laid out exceed not One hundred Foot in breadth in any place V. It shall be lawful for the said Mayor and Commonalty their Assignees and Workmen to Cut and Dig the Land so laid out and make new or larger all the passages for Water through such Land being the Ground or Soil of any person whatsoever between Wivenhoe aforesaid and the New Hithe and to remove all Gravel Beds of Ouze or any other Impediment to the Navigation and lay the Earth Soil and Stuff thence digged on any side of the Bank of such Chanel and have free passage for Cutting Cleansing or Amending the same and to do all other necessary Matters for carrying on the said Undertaking VI. But not to make any new Cut through any Land belonging to Anthony Earl of Kent other than one piece called Gravel-Pit-Land the Cut through the same not exceeding 40 Perches or Poles in length and other than two other pieces called Forelands belonging to the said Earl the Cut through the same not exceeding 45 Perches in length in either of them Nor shall the Cut be made on the Land-side of the Wall or Bank there nor so near as to prejudice such Wall or Bank Nor to make any Cut through any Land belonging to Nicholas Corsellis Esq other than one piece called The Reede Point the Cut through the same not exceeding 45 Perches or Poles in length And in case any Wall Sluce or Bank for the defence or benefit of the Lands of the said Earl of Kent or Nicholas Corsellis or any other person or persons be damnified in Cutting or Cleansing the said Chanel the said Mayor and Commonalty shall make good the same And that no part of the Ground or Soil so dug shall be thrown on the Land-side of any persons Ground without the Licence of the respective Owners thereof but only upon the Walls or Banks or the Border of the said Chanel or some place between the Walls and Chanel And for such points of Land as shall be severed from the main Land by making a new Cut the like satisfaction shall be made as to the Owners of such Land through which such Chanel shall be made or enlarged And upon payment of the Money agreed on for the said Points so severed the said Points or Parcels of Land shall be together with the New Chanel vested in the said Mayor and Commonalty and their Successors for ever VII Provided That if the said Mayor and Commonalty shall not repair and make good the Premisses so damnified they shall answer double Damages besides Costs of Suit to the Owner or Proprietor of such Lands or Premisses to be recovered by Action of Trespass or upon the Case VIII Provided That the said Mayor and Commonalty shall make satisfaction to the Owners of such Land or such as may sustain any Damage thereby and proportion the satisfaction in respect thereof and what Share any Tenant or other person shall have for the same And in case any person refuse to Agree or through Disability by Nonage or otherwise cannot the said Commissioners shall issue their Warrants to the Sheriff of Essex for Impanelling and Returning a Jury or Juries who being Sworn shall enquire of and assess such Damages as they shall judge fit And the said Commissioners shall give Judgment for such sums so assessed by the Juries and by Examination upon Oath c. shall hear and determine all Controversies touching the Premisses IX Which said Judgments pronounced by the Commissioners Notice in Writing being first given of their Meeting to every Party concerned or left for them shall be Binding And being in Writing under the Hands and Seals of such Commissioners shall be kept among the Records of the Sessions of Peace for Colchester for all persons to resort to without Fee or Reward and shall be taken as Evidence in any Court of Record X. Upon payment of the Mony so agreed on or decreed or tender thereof or refusing to receive the same so tendred then upon payment thereof to such persons as the Commissioners shall appoint for the use of the persons interested therein and not before the said Mayor and Commonalty their Workmen Agents and Servants may Dig and Cut any such Land as aforesaid or do any such further Act for making the said Chanel and River Navigable And the said Mayor and Commonalty Commissioners and Persons Authorized by them shall be Indempnified against the Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns of such Owners as if such Land had been sold or conveyed from them to the said Mayor and Commonalty and their Successors XI The said Mayor Aldermen c. may from time to time during the said 21 Years nominate and choose Collectors of the Money payable as aforesaid who shall pay the same to the Receiver General for the Use of the said Mayor and Commonalty for the purposes aforesaid and no other XII The Mayor of Colchester for the time being and the Justices of Peace for the East Division of Essex for the time being shall be Commissioners for the purposes aforesaid and take the Accounts of the Receipts and Disbursements of the Money Collected and Levyed during the said Term and shall and may call before them such Collectors or Receivers and all other persons Intrusted with the Collection or management thereof who shall give an Account thereof in Writing upon Oath And the said Commissioners may Order the Moneys remaining upon such Account to be laid out for the purposes aforesaid And if any such Collectors Receivers or others refuse to give such Account or pay the Moneys then due as the said Commissioners shall direct they or any five of them may commit such persons to the Common Goal of the said Town till they shall give such Account and pay the Money due thereupon XIII Every such Collector and Receiver shall before the Execution of such Office take an Oath for the true Executing the same before the said Mayor XIV After 1 May 1698. no Goods Wares or Merchandizes except Wood or Timber shall be laden or unladen at any Key or Wharf in the said River or Chanel but only at Wivenhoe and the New Hithe aforesaid on pain of Forfeiting to the said Mayor c. 5 l. for the uses aforesaid But not to prohibit the lading or unlading of any Goods at or from the late erected Wharf of Giles Sayer in
their Accounts Servants or Journeymen making Default of payment their Masters and Mistresses are to be Chargeable therewith and to deduct the same out of their Wages And Tenants to pay the Rates on the Houses Lands Tenements and Hereditaments which they hold and to deduct the same out of the Rents XXVI All persons Taxable for Wages Ready Money or Debts are to be Assessed where Resident at the time of Execution of this Act Annuities Stipends or yearly payments at the Exchequer or out of any Branch of the Revenue to be Assessed where payable And all other Pensions or yearly payments not Charged on Land are to be Assessed where the persons Intituled thereto do Reside XXVII And all Offices Imployments and Professions are to be Rated where they are Exercised And all persons not being Housholders are to be Taxed at the place where they Reside at the time of Executing the Act. XXVIII The Rates on Pensions Salaries or other Allowances or Profits payable at the Exchequer or by the Cofferer or out of any other publick Office or by any of his Majesties Receivers or Paymasters are in case of Non-payment to be stopt out of the same XXIX Stock in Trade and Quick Stock upon Land is to be Rated in such County or Place where it is at the time of the Execution of the Act And all persons having any such Stock in their Custody for the use of others are to pay for the same and to be allowed it upon their Accounts or be satisfied out of the Goods XXX Persons out of the Realm Taxable by this Act are to be Assessed in the place of their last Abode in the Realm And persons Ratable for any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments are to be Assessed in the places where the Premisses lye and not elsewhere XXXI A Proviso That any person who in respect of several Places of Residence is doubly Charged shall upon Certificate by two or more Commissioners and Oath thereof before one Justice of Peace where the Certificate is made be Discharged for so much XXXII All persons who by changing their Residence or by shifting their Goods or Stock or altering the Securities of Money or by other Frauds shall escape being fully Taxed shall upon proof thereof be doubly Charged XXXIII All Housholders shall give an Account of their Lodgers and Servants and their full Wages respectively under the Penalty of 5 l. XXXIV The Officers of the Exchequer and other Publick Officers are to deliver to the Assessors Lists of all Pensions Fees and Allowances payable by them XXXV All persons having any Moneys at Interest are to deliver to the Assessors before they return their Certificates a Note of the Gross Sum of Principal Money owing to them which the Assessors are to Tax according to the said Notes But if no Notes be delivered or that there be sufficient Ground to believe they do not contain all the persons Money at Interest then the Assessors are to Tax such persons according to the best of their Judgment XXXVI And all persons intituled to Debts at Interest are to deliver to the Commissioners before they deliver their Estreats to the Subcollectors a Specification or particular in Writing of the said Debts Signed And also of the persons or some of them who borrowed or are liable to the same or of something engaged for the said Debts or the nature of the Securities with the Dates thereof and the Names of the Witnesses thereunto Whereupon the Commissioners shall deliver back to the Parties Copies of such Specifications under their Hands and Seals attested by two or more Witnesses to justify their being duly Charged Which Copies shall be allowed as Evidence in all Courts And upon neglect or refusal to give in such Specifications to Forfeit over and above the Duties intended to be Charged twice as much to be Sued for at any time before 25 Mar. 1699. Whereof one moiety to the King the other to the Prosecutor And the Debts not contained in the said Specifications shall not be Recoverable nor the Securities for the same Pleadable in any Courts of Law or Equity before the said 25 Mar. 1699. Unless the said Duty and Penalty be first satisfied viz. If no Action be Commenced by any Informer then the Duty and Penalty shall be paid to the King But if an Action be depending then the Duty and one moiety of the Penalty shall go to the King and the other moiety to the Informer XXXVII The Assessors are to Enter and View upon the Places where any Stock upon Land shall be and to Value and Charge the same according to the Act And if upon such View the Assessors find any Fraud hath been used to avoid the Taxation they are to give Notice to the Commissioners to the end the persons may be doubly Taxed And the persons refusing to permit such View shall Forfeit 10 l. one moiety to the King the other to the Prosecutor XXXVIII All Traders shall deliver to the Assessors within ten days after the Commissioners Issue their Warrant to the Assessors a Particular in Writing Signed of the Quantities Kinds and Value of their Stocks as the same are then Worth bona fide to be sold And the Assessors are Impowered where they shall think it necessary for their Information to Enter in the day time into any Shops Warehouses c. to View and Value the Goods And the persons refusing such Entrance shall Forfeit 40 l. one moiety to the King the other to the Prosecutor And if the Assessors are satisfied in the truth of the Particulars delivered to them they are to Assess the same accordingly But if the particulars are not delivered to them within the time prefixt or if they suspect the said Particulars to be fraudulent then they are to Assess such Stock in Trade according to the best of their judgment XXXIX All which Assessments shall nevertheless be subject to the Examination of the Commissioners who may allow abate or increase the same as they see cause upon Information or Appeals XL. And if any Steward Bayliff or Tenant of Houses Lands or Hereditaments do not discover to the Assessors when required the true Rents payable for the same he shall Forfeit so much as such Rent bona fide shall amount unto for Two Years XLI Any persons Assessed finding themselves agrieved may Appeal within the days after the Money demanded and any three or more of the Commissioners who Signed the Rate shall within ten days after such Appeal Examine the person upon Oath and abate or increase the Assessment and to that end shall meet together for Determining Appeals and shall Express the time and place in their Warrants to the Collectors and upon Complaints shall Summon the Assessors to attend and such Appeals being once heard are to be final XLII Assessor Collector or Receiver wilfully neglecting or refusing to do his Duty may be Fined not exceeding 30 l. nor under 15 l. for every Offence which Fines shall not be taken off
not of the Yearly Value of 20 s. in the whole LXVIII A Proviso that the Chancery Officers within the Liberty of the Rolls shall be there Assessed LXIX Collectors keeping any Moneys in their Hands or not paying the same as the Act directs are to forfeit 10 l. and the Head Collectors for the like offence 40 l. LXX If after the Assessment any Persons remove to a Place where they were not Rated the Commissioners are to Summon such Persons before them and cause them to be duly Rated and to pay the same or such part as shall be unpaid unless the party produces a Certificate that he hath been Rated and Paid elsewhere LXXI The Kings Bench Prison with the Lands c. and the Rents and Profits of the Marshal thereof and the Prison House Lands c. of the Marshalsea Prison and Offices and Perquisites of the Marshals Court shall be Assessed in the Parish of St. George in Southwark LXXII Any person acting as a Commissioner before he hath taken the Oaths forfeits 500 l. to the King LXXIII The Water-works in Southwark are to be Rated by the Commissioners and Assessors of Surrey and those in Westminster by the Commissioners and Affessors for Westminsler LXXIV Receivers General neglecting or refusing to return Duplicates of the Assessments into the Exchequer by the times prefixt shall forfeit 50 l. and be incapable of any Trust from his Majesty LXXV All Auditors and Receivers are to allow 3 s. in the Pound out of any Fee Farm or other Chief Rents payable to his Majesty or the Queen Dowager or any others by Grant or Purchase from the Crown under the Penalty of 10 l. LXXVI A Proviso that Rectories Vicaridges or Curacies under 40 l. per Annum shall not be Taxed if the Rector Vicar or Curate resides upon the Place or personally serves the Cure LXXVII No Tenant of Houses or Lands belonging to Colleges Halls Hospitals Alms-houses or Schools who by their Contracts are obliged to pay all Taxes shall be Discharged LXXVIII The Allowance of Three Half-pence in the Pound to the Commissioners Clerks is not to be paid till they have transmitted the Duplicates into the Remembrancers Office and have a Certificate thereof LXXIX Members of Parliament are to be Assessed for their Personal Tax of 4 d. per Month and for their ready Money and Debts where they usually reside in the Intervals of Palriament Provided that if their usual Residence be not within the Cities of London and Westminster or 20 Miles of the same they shall not be Assessed for their Money Debts Stock in Trade or upon Lands until 20 Days after the rising of the Parliament And Servants attending the said Members are not to be Assessed for their Wages until the time aforesaid LXXX A Proviso That upon Oath before the Commissioners that any Debts contained in the Specifications required by this Act are desperate the Commissioners are to inform themselves and to Charge or Discharge the same as they see cause which Discharge is to be noted upon the said Specification and Duplicates thereof LXXXI Persons giving an Account in their Specifications of the Money they owe at Interest the Commissioners being satisfied therewith by Oath or otherwise shall make a proportionable Allowance or Deduction out of the Tax LXXXII Provided That where Lands c. are and from 29 Sept. 1696. have been in the actual possession of any Person for Debts to which the same were liable such Debts are not to be charged by this Act. LXXXIII All or any part of the Monthly payments in this Act may be paid for the whole year or any Months thereof before hand in Hammer'd Silver Money at 5 s. 8 d. per oz. at any time before 1 June 1697. LXXXIV If the Assessors neglect the Commissioners are to take care That Papists and persons not taking the Oaths be doubly charged LXXXV Persons beyond Sea and Minors having Moneys at Interest in this Kingdom their Trustees or Guardians are to pay the Duties LXXXVI Receivers General are to keep a distinct Account of the 3 s. in the Pound upon Lands Tenements Hereditaments c. And every such Receiver General or his Deputy misapplying any part of the Moneys arising by the said Pound Rate of 3 s. in the Pound shall Forfeit 500 l. LXXXVII The Commissioners of the Treasury or Lord Treasurer are not to direct any Warrant for payment of any Moneys arising by the said Pound Rate of 3 s. otherwise than into the Exchequer nor to the Officers of the Exchequer for striking any Talleys of Pro or Anticipation upon the same nor shall any Teller charge himself with any of the said Moneys till he has actually received it LXXXVIII No stay of Process shall be made for any of the Penalties by this Act inflicted LXXXIX Loans on Credit of Contributions for Annuities pursuant to an Act 7 W. 3. remaining unsatisfied to be in the first place Transferred to the Register appointed for the Tax of 3 s. in the Pound And in the next place all Moneys lent upon Credit of the Exchequer in general between 1 July 1696. and 1 Febr. 1696. which Transferred Orders of Loan shall be Assignable XC Any persons Natives or Foreigners may lend his Majesty any Sums not exceeding 1500000 l. including the Sums Transferred at the rate of 8 l. per Cent. on Credit of the Tax of 3 s. in the Pound and the Moneys so lent on this Act are not to be Taxed XCI A distinct Register is to be kept in the Exchequer of the produce of the 3 s in the Pound And the Interest for Moneys lent thereon shall be paid in course every three Months without any undue preference by the Officers of the Exchequer as they will avoid the Penalties inflicted by the Act. XCII Orders of Loan by Virtue of this Act being Entred are made assignable XCIII The Commissioners of the Treasury or High Treasurer may issue Bills at the Exchequer for any Sums not exceeding 1500000 l. for the use of the War Which Bills shall be Current in all Payments for any Aids or Supplies for the War for the year 1697 except in the 3 s. in the Pound XCIV And the Receivers and Collectors out of the Mill'd Money or Gold in their Hands are to pay such Bills as shall be brought to them under Penalty of forfeiting double the Sum. Which Receivers upon Payment of any of the said Bills into the Exchequer are to have Talleys for their Discharge And the Bills so paid in to be immediately Cancelled XCV And the Money paid into the Exchequer for any Supplies for the Year 1697. Except for the 3 s. Aid shall be applied to the taking up and cancelling such Bills But if the Supplies for the Year 1697. Except for the 3 s. Aid be Deficient of 1500000 l. Authorized to be Issued in Bills such Deficiency is to be in the first place made Good out of any Moneys that shall be Raised by any Act of next Session of
Miles from their Habitations CCXL The Sum of 371003 l. 15 s. 6 d. for the first Quarterly Payment shall be paid to the Receivers General on or before 2 May 1698. And the like Sum for the second Quarterly Payment on or before 2 Aug. 1698. The like Sum for the third Quarterly Payment on or before 2 Nov. 1698. And the Sum of 371003 l. 15 s. 5 d. three Farthings for the last Quarterly Payment on or before 2 Feb. 1698. CCXLI. Every Receiver General within a Month after he shall have received the full Sum charged on any Division for each particular Payment shall give the Commissioners a Receipt which shall be a full Discharge for such particular Payment Which Receivers General shall within Twenty days after their Receipt pay the same into the Exchequer and shall be Allow'd 2 d. in the Pound for what they shall so pay in CCXLII. The Collectors shall have 3 d. in the Pound for what they Collect and Pay pursuant to the Act And the Commissioners Clerks shall be allow'd Three Half-pence in the Pound for Writing the Assessments Duplicates c. CCXLIII Persons refusing or neglecting to pay the Collectors are to Levy the Sum Assess'd by Distress and having kept the same Four Days at the Owners Charge then to be Appraised and Sold and the Overplus return'd And it shall be Lawful to break open Houses in the day time and by Warrant from Two Commissioners any Chest c. calling to assistance the Constables c. and all Questions concerning Distresses shall be Determin'd by the Commissioners CCXLIV Persons refusing to pay their Assessment by the space of four days after demand or conveying away their Goods except a Peer or Peeress shall be committed to Goal till Payment be made CCXLV The Tenants are to pay the Tax and deduct the same out of their Rents which the Landlords are requir'd to allow CCXLVI Tenants paying the Assessments shall be discharg'd for so much and the Commissioners shall have power to settle Differences between Landlord and Tenant or others concerning the Tax CCXLVII. Persons over-rated complaining to the Commissioners within six days after Demand may be relieved within ten days after Demand of the said Assesment and Appeals once determin'd to be final CCXLVIII In case the Proportions set by this Act on any County c. shall not be duly answer'd as first laid the Commissioners are to cause new Assessments to be made CCXLIX Any person neglecting or refusing to do his Duty in the execution of the Act may be fined as the Commissioners shall think fit not exceeding 20 l. which Fine shall not be taken off but by consent of the Commissioners who Impos'd the same but shall be paid into the Exchequer and inserted in the Duplicates CCL Collectors not paying the Money they receive as the Act directs are to be imprison'd and their Estates Real and Personal seiz'd and sold for satisfaction CCLI The Commissioners are to examine whether the Money Assess'd be duly Collected and Returned to the Receivers General and by them paid into the Exchequer and in case of failure to cause the same to be forthwith levied and paid CCLII In case any Controversie arise about the Assesments which concerns any Commissioners the Commissioners concern'd are to withdraw during the Debate and in default the Commissioners present may set a Fine not exceeding 20 l. CCLIII No Priviledged Place or person shall be Exempt from the Assessment but they and also all Fee-Farm and other Rents and Payments issuing out of Land shall be Taxed and paid by the Tenants who shall thereupon be kept harmless CCLIV This Act shall not extend to charge any College or Hall in the Universities the Colleges of Windsor Eaton Winton and Westminster the Corporation of Clergymens Sons Bromley Colledge or any Hospital for the Sites thereof nor any Master Fellow Scholar Reader Officer or Minister of the Universities c. nor Masters or Ushers of Schools for their Stipends nor the Houses or Lands of Christs Hospital St. Bartholomews Bridewell St. Thomas or Bethlehem Hospital or Mr. Askes Hospital at Hoxton or the Charity of Zechariah Jepson at Rippon or of the said Corporation of Clergy-mens Sons or Bromley College nor any other Hospital or Alms house in respect only of Rents for the immediate relief of the Poor therein CCLV. Nevertheless the Tenants of Lands or Houses belonging to Hospitals shall be rated for what such Houses and Lands are worth above the Rents reserved and the Tenants to Colleges c who by their Leases or Contracts are to pay Taxes shall not be discharged CCLVI. All Auditors and Receivers of Rents due to the King or Queen Dowager shall allow a Rate to be abated in proportion to the Tax on the Lands c. out of which they are payable CCLVII Persons inhabiting in London or any other City or Town Corporate shall be Taxed in the Parish or ward where they dwell CCLVIII. No Clause or Proviso in this Act shall lessen the Sum appointed to be levied by the Act. Nothing in this Act shall make void any Contracts between Landlord or Tenant or others touching payment of Taxes CCLIX All places shall be Assess'd in such County Division or Place where usually assess'd Provided that West-Barnfeild Hundred shall be Assess'd in the Lath of Scray in Kent Northmore Tything in the Hundred of Bampton in Oxfordshire Charthbury Faller and Finstock Tythings in the Hundred of Chadlington the Town and Parish of Leeds in Yorkshire in the Hundred of Skyrack and the Forest of Chute where the same was Assess'd to the first 4 s. Aid CCLX If any Action be brought for any thing done in pursuance of this Act the Defendant may plead the General Issue and give this Act and the special Matter in Evidence and if the Plaintiff be Nonsuit c. the Defendant shall recover treble Costs CCLXI Where Lands or Houses are unoccupied and no Distress found Distress may be made at any time after by the Collectors Constable or Tything Man and unless redeem'd in four days may be sold rendring the Overplus to the Owner and distributed proportionably to the Parties who contributed to the Tax of the said unoccupied Lands CCLXII Where Wood-Lands are Assess'd and no Distress can be had the Collectors c. by Warrant from the Commissioners at seasonable times of the year may cut down and sell so much Wood Timber Trees excepted as will pay the Assessment CCLXIII Where Tythes Tolls Profits of Markets c. are Taxed and the same not paid in fifteen days after demand the Collectors c. by Warrant of the Commissioners may seize so much of the said Tythes c. as will pay the Tax CCLXIV Receivers General returning any Persons into the Exchequer who have paid the Tax shall forfeit treble Damages to the Party grieved and to his Majesty double the Sum returned CCLXV. The Commissioners shall Assess each other for personal Estates and Offices so as such personal Estate and
of the Customs shall knowingly connive at the Importation or Disposing of such Alamodes and Lustrings or if any Persons taking upon them to Seize or Prosecute in pursuance of this or any other Act shall by Collusion desist or delay Prosecution to Condemnation of the said Silks they shall forfeit 500 l. and be incapable of any Office or Imployment LXI Such Persons Convicted for any Offence against this or any other Act relating to Alamodes or Lustrings as shall afterwards offend a second time or oftner shall so often as they offend forfeit double the sum inflicted by this Act. LXII All Persons offending contrary to this or any other Act relating to Alamodes or Lustrings shall be prosecuted in any Action Suit or Information and thereupon a Capias in the first Process specifying the Penalties sued for may Issue and sufficient Bail and Security shall be given by Natural born Subjects or Denizens to answer such Suit and at the time of Appearance sufficient Bail and Security in Court to answer the Penalties in case of Conviction or to suffer Imprisonment LXIII All the Penalties and Forfeitures imposed hereby or by any former Law relating to Alamodes or Lustrings shall be two third parts to his Majesty and one third to the Prosecutor the charge of which Suit shall be born by his Majesty out of his Majesties part of the Forfeitures Which Penalties and Forfeitures shall be recoverable by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any the Courts of Record at Westminster wherein no Essoign c. shall be allowed nor more than one Imparlance All which Informations or Actions may be laid and tried in such places and with the like proceedings as are used about the Scizing Condemning or Prosecuting any Goods for Non payment of Customs or other Duties or any Persons offending against the Laws relating to the Customs LXIV No claim shall be entred to any such Silks seized as aforesaid till Security given by Recognizance before a Judge to answer the Penalties and Forfeitures with full cosis of Suit where a Verdict shall pass or Judgment be entred for the Plaintiff And in default of such Security within the limited time the Goods to be forfeited and Judgment entred accordingly LXV This Act and every thing therein contained shall be taken to be a general Law and not needful to be set forth in Heading and shall be construed most beneficially for the Prosecutor and for preventing the mischiefs hereby provided against And Persons sued for any thing done by virtue hereof may plead the General Issue and give this Act and the Special matter in Evidence And upon a Verdict for the Defendants or if the Plaintiff Discontinue be Non-suit or suffer Judgment by Demurrer the Defendants shall have treble Costs LXVI All Actions brought by an Informer against this Act shall be Commenced within two years after the offence committed LXVII The Royal Lustring Company having been first Erected by the late King James by Letters Patents bearing date 23 Novemb. 4. Jac. 2. for the Term of 14 years and afterwards by the Letters Patents of his present Majesty and the late Queen of Blessed Memory bearing date 15 Octob. 4 W. M. Incorporated with perpetual Succession for the making and dressing of Alamodes Renforcez and Lustrings in England And having brought the said Manufacture to perfection but by reason of the fraudulent Importation of Alamodes and Lustrings and in contesting with many difficulties and obstructions have not enjoyed the benefit intended them by the said Charter It is Enacted That the foresaid Company and their Successors shall from henceforth be a Body Politick and Corporate by the Name of the Royal Lustring Company and Enjoy all the Privileges and Authorities granted them in the said Charter of Incorporation as fully as if the same were recited in this Act. LXVIII The said Royal Lestring Company and their Successors shall have the sole exercise and benefit of Making Dressing and Lustrating of plain Black Alamodes Renforcez and Lustrings within this Realm for 14 years from 24 Jun. 1698 and from thence to the end of the next Sessions of Parliament any thing to the contrary notwithstanding LXIX The said Company having 17 Bails of Fine Italian Thrown Silk in Amsterdam brought thither over Land before the Conclusion of the Peace and designed to be Imported and used here in the Manufacture of Alamodes and Lustrings but could not be Imported within the time limited by Law It is Enacted That the said Company may Import into this Kingdom the said 17 Bails of Silk before 29 Sept. next paying the legal Duties to his Majesty LXX Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 44. Enacted That there shall be through England and Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed Levied and paid to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors for Salt over and above all other Duties already payable these Additional Rates viz. 5 d. per Gallon for all Salt Imported from 1 July 1698. to 25 December 1699. And from 24 December 1699. for ever 7 d. per Gallon and so for a greater or lesser Quantity LXXI For all Salt and Rock-Salt Home made from the said 1 July 1698. to 25 December 1699. 2 d. Half-peny per Gallon and from 24 December 1699. for ever 3 d. Half peny per Gallon subject to the Redemption hereafter mentioned LXXII Which Duties on Foreign Salt shall be paid by the Importer before landing and if Landed before due Entry thereof or before the Duties be paid or a Warrant for the Landing thereof then to be Forfeited and also 10 s. for every Bushel so Landed LXXIII Provided that the Importers of Salt giving Security for payment of these Duties shall have Six Months time for Payment with a Discount after 10 l. per Centum per Aunum for prompt Payment LXXIV The said Duties on Salt to be Managed by the Commissioners of Excile who are to Appoint the necessary Officers and the Penalties and Forfeitures hereby Imposed to be Sued for and Recovered by the same Ways as Directed by the Act 12 Car. 2. For taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries and Tenures in Capite and by Knights Service and Purveyance and Setling a Revenue on His Majesty in lieu thereof or by any Law now in Force relating to the Excise LXXV All Makers and Proprietors of Salt and Rock-Salt within the Kingdom shall make true Entries with the Officers so appointed and shall have their Warrant gratis for Carrying the same away upon Payment or Security to pay the Duties within Six Months after such Entry with a Discount after 10 l. per Cent. per Annum for Ready Money LXXVI The Officers so Appointed may seize all such Salt as after 1 July 1698 shall be Conveying away before due Entry made or Warrant obtain'd for Conveying thereof And if not Claim'd within Ten Days then to be absolutely Forseited and Sold One Moiety of the Preceed thereof to go to the King the other to the Seizer And if Claim'd without