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A66126 The declaration of His Highness the Prince of Orange, for the better collecting the publick revenue William III, King of England, 1650-1702.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary) 1689 (1689) Wing W2324; ESTC R19895 1,203 1

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THE DECLARATION OF His Highness the Prince of Orange FOR The better Collecting the Publick REVENUE WHEREAS since the Fifth day of November last divers Persons have intermeddled with and received the Publick Money arising by the Revenues of Customs Excise Hearths and other ways some by Commissions and Authorities from Us and others by Commissions from divers Peers and others who took up Arms and Declared for Us for the Support of those that had taken Arms under them and for other publick Uses By means whereof many Persons who Acted by Authority of the Commissioners of Customs Excise Hearth-Money and otherwise have been in many Parts of the Kingdom displaced and the Officers appointed by the said Commissioners have deserted their Duties and Imployments And by reason of the Justices of the Peace in most Parts forbearing to Act the Duty of the Customs have not been well answered the Brewers and Retailers of Excisable Liquors have neglected to make due Entries and Payments of their Duties and have refused to permit the Gaugers and other Officers thereto appointed to Survey and take Account of their Brewings contrary to the Laws establised And many Inhabitants and Persons chargable with the Payment of the Duty of Customs Hearth-Money and other Duties refuse to pay and the Constables refuse to assist the said Officers in the Levying hereof as by Law they are required by means whereof the Payment of all publick Money is generally stopp'd And forsmuch as We at the Request of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Knight Citizens and Burgesses heretofore Members of the Commons House of Parliament during the Reign of King CHARLES the Second residing in and about the City of London and the Aldermen and Members of the Common-Council of the said City assembled in this extraordinary Conjuncture have taken upon Us the Administration of the publick Affairs both Civil and Military and the Disposal of the publick Revenues of the Kingdom for the Uses the present Affairs require To which End it is necessary that all the publick Revenues should run in their proper Channel We do therefore hereby revoke and make void all Commissions and Authorities given by Us or by any others as aforesaid And We do hereby prohibit and forbid all and every Person and Persons under pretence of the said Commissions or any of them to intermeddle in any of the publick Revenues or receive any Money arising thereby And we do hereby require and command all Collectors Receivers and Officers not being Papists authorized and employed by the said Commissioners of the Customs Excise Hearth-Money or any other the Branches of the publick Revenue that they proceed in the Managing Receiving and Levying the said Revenues as formerly And we likewise require all Justices of the Peace to proceed in the Hearing and Determining all Matters relating to the said Revenues and every of them And that they and all other publick Officers and Magistrates Sheriffs Mayors Bayliffs Constables Headboroughs and other Officers of the Peace be Aiding and Assisting to all Officers employed and authorized by the said Commissioners in the Collecting Receiving and Levying the Duties arising by the said Revenues and every of them as by Law they are required and directed And all Persons concern'd in the payment of Customs new Imposts Excise and Hearth-Money are hereby required to pay the same as formerly according to Law. Given at St. James 's the Second Day of January 1688 9. W.H. Prince of Orange LONDON Printed by J. Starkey and A. and W. Churchill MDCLXXXIX