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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45969	An act for granting an additional duty on tobacco and for continuing unto His Majesty, an aid, or additional custom on several goods and merchandizes : and also for continuing the additional duty on beer and ale, and other liquors, till the twenty fifth day of December, one thousand, seaven hundred and two.	Ireland.	1697 (1697)	Wing I305; ESTC R39284	8,118	17

His and their Uaults Store-house Ware-houses and other places or shall make a short Return of any Tobacco to him or them belonging or Conceal it from Uiew of the Officer or Officers appointed to Search for and Uiew the same shall for every such Offence Forfeit Five pounds Sterling over and above such Quantity or Quantities of Tobacco as shall be found to exceéd such His Account returned under His or Their Hand or Hands the one Moyety to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors and the other Moyety to the Informer the said Penalties and Forfeitures to be Prosecuted Recovered and Condemned in the same manner and according to the Methods prescribed in the said Act for Settleing the New Excise or Impost upon the said late King Charles the Second And be it further Enacted That whatsoever summ or summs of Money the said Aid or Additional Duty shall yeild unto His Majesty over and above the summ of Fifty thousand pounds Sterling immediatly and in the first place payable unto His Majesty be and shall be paid and applied to the several Uses following and to no other Use whatsoever That is to say The summ of Twenty five thousand pounds which shall be first Raised Levyed and Received out of the Aid aforesaid over and above the said summ of Fifty thousand pounds shall be Imployed in and applyed to the Building of Barracks for Soldiers in the most useful convenient and necessary parts and places in this Kingdom according to the Directions of the Chief Governor or Governors for the time being which Barracks shall be forthwith begun and carried on from time to time as fast as any part of the said summ of Twenty five thousand pounds allotted for the Building thereof shall come in and be received out of the said Additional Duties or Aid Granted to His Majesty by this present Act. And We humbly beseéch Your Majesty That Your Majesty will be Graciously pleased to accept of the further Summ of Twenty one thousand and Twenty seaven Pounds Threé shillings and Six pence half-penny to be Raised and Levyed out of the said Additional Customs or Duties by this present Act Granted unto Your Majesty in full Discharge of the Arrears of Quit-rent Crown-rent and Composition-rent due to Your Majesty out of the Houses and Lands that were returned to be waste from the Five and twentieth Day of March One thousand Six hundred and Ninety two to the Twenty fifth of March One thousand Six hundred Ninety five the Collection whereof was respited upon the Humble Application of Your Majesty's Subjects the Commons of Ireland in Parliament Assembled And be it further Enacted That the several Lands Tenements and Hereditaments returned to have beén waste from the Twenty fifth of March One thousand Six hundred Ninety two to the Twenty fifth of March One thousand Six hundred ninety five and respited as aforesaid shall be and always hereafter shall be taken deémed and adjudged to be Freé and Discharged of and from all Quit-rents Crown-rents and Composition-rents and of and from all Arrears thereof Contracted Incurred or become due between the said Twenty fifth Day of March One thousand Six hundred Ninety two to the Twenty fifth of March One thousand Six hundred Ninety five inclusive and that no person or persons whatsoever hereafter shall be Distrained or otherwise Sued Uexed Processed or Impleaded for or on Account for the same or any part whatsoever thereof and that no Officer or other person whatsoever do Distrain or Issue any Process for the same or any part thereof under the pain and penalty of paying to the person grieved thereby double Costs and double Damages for such unjust Sute Molestation or Uexation And to the End the Arrears of Quit-Rents Crown-rents and Composition-rents hereby intended to be Discharged may be ascertained Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Commissioners of His Majesty's Revenues from the Books and other Papers which have beén Transmitted to them from the Collectors and other Officers of His Majesty's Revenues before the One and twentieth Day of August One thousand Six hundred Ninety seaven wherein any such Rents are mentioned to be respited as being Charged upon any Houses or Lands that are wasted shall make a particular Account in Writing of all such Arrears so Respited for the time aforesaid in Case they do not exceed Twenty one thousand Twenty seaven Pounds Threé Shillings and Six pence Half-penny and if they do exceéd Twenty one thousand Twenty seaven Pounds Threé Shillings and Six Pence Half-penny then an Apportionment shall be made of the said Rents so that the said Account shall not exceéd in the whole Twenty one thousand Twenty seaven Pounds Threé Shillings and Six Pence Half-penny and that the said Commissioners shall Deliver the said Account into the Office of the Auditor-General before the Twenty fifth Day of March One thousand Six hundred Ninety eight to which all Persons concern'd shall have freé Access without Feé or Charge And it is hereby Provided and Enacted That nothing in this Act contained shall extend to Discharge any Arrears of Quit-Rents Crown-Rents or Composition-Rents Charged on any Houses or Lands for being wasted unless such particular Arrear be contained in the said Account of Arrears to be Discharged as aforesaid And in Case the said Commissioners shall refuse or neglect to Make and Deliver into the Auditor's Office the said Account within the time aforesaid they and every of them shall Forfeit Treble Damages to every Person who shall be Grieved by such Neglect or Refusal to be Recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record at Dublin in which no Essoyn Protection Wager of Law or more then one Imparlance shall be Allowed any thing herein Contained to the Contrary notwithstanding And if any Person or Persons shall be hereafter Impleaded or Molested contrary to the Scope or Intent of this Act that such Person or Persons shall not be obliged to Discharge himself by Plea or Record from such Charge but shall be admitted to Discharge himself by Motion in His Majesty's Court of Exchequer without any Charge Feé or Reward and by shewing unto the said Court this present Act and making it appear by Affidavit and Certificate of the Auditor-General that the Quit-Rent Crown-Rent or Composition-Rent for which he is Distrained Sued or Impleaded become Due betweén the Twenty fifth of March One thousand Six hundred Ninety two and the Twenty fifth of March One thousand Six hundred Ninety five Inclusive out of Houses or Lands Returned waste as aforesaid before mentioned and are mentioned and comprehended in such Account Transmitted to the Auditor-General to be Charged upon waste Lands and for that Reason Respited as aforesaid which Certificate the Auditor-General shall be obliged to give on Demand to the Person requiring the same without Feé or Reward And be it further Enacted That from and after the time that the said summs of Fifty thousand pounds and Twenty five thousand pounds and Twenty one thousand pounds and Twenty Seaven pounds Threé shilling and Six pence half-penny shall have beén Levyed and Paid unto His Majesty out of the present Aid or Additional Custom Granted unto His Majesty by this present Act that what other or further summs shall and may be Levyed and Collected by vertue thereof shall and may be paid and applyed to the use following That is to say Whereas Sir Audley Mervin Knight Prime Serjeant to His Majesty King Charles the Second was in his life-time Speaker of the House of Commons in the Parliament which began in this Kingdom in the Year One thousand Six hundred and Sixty one and Continued so till the Disolution of the said Parliament in the Year One thousand Six hundred and Sixty six During which time the said Sir Audley Mervin not only spent great part of his Fortune supporting the State and Dignity of that Honourable Imployment but wholly declined his Practice at the Bar which was very Considerable And whereas the said House of Commons humbly Addressed themselves to the Government in behalf of the said Sir Audley Mervin for the Summ of Six thousand pounds Sterling to be Bestowed on him for his great Services done to His Majesty and the English Interest of this Kingdom in that Station of which summ however he never received any part so as the said Sir Audley Mervin was forced to Charge his Real Estate with great summs of Money for Portions and otherwise and the same hath beén and still is greatly Incumbred with Debts That the summs that shall be Levyed as aforesaid after the payment of the said summs of Fifty thousand pounds Twenty five thousand pounds and Twenty one thousand Twenty seaven pounds Threé shillings Six pence half-penny be applyed and paid as followeth viz. Threé thousand pounds thereof to Audley Mervin Esquire eldest Son of Henry Mervin Esquire Son and Heir of the said Sir Audley Mervin and the other Threé thousand pounds to be equally divided betweén Hugh Mervin and George Mervin Esquires younger Sons of the said Sir Audley Mervin And also that after the payment of the said summ of Six thousand pounds that the further summ of Six hundred pounds Sterling shall and may be Levyed Collected and Paid over out of the said Aid or Additional Custom or Duties unto Richard Warburton of Garryhinch in the Queens-County Esquire being a summ due to the said Richard Warburton for Services by the said Richard Warburton performed during the said Parliament which began in this Kingdom in the Year of Our Lord god One thousand Six hundred Sixty and one FINIS

AN ACT For Granting an Additional Duty ON TOBACCO And for continuing unto His Majesty an Aid or Additional Custom on several Goods and Merchandizes AND ALSO For continuing the Additional Duty on Beer and Ale and other Liquors till the Twenty Fifth day of December One thousand Seaven hundred and Two DVBLIN Printed by Andrew Crook Printer to the King 's Most Excellent Majesty on Cork-Hill near Copper-Alley MDCXCVII An ACT for Granting an Additional Duty on Tobacco and for continuing unto His Majesty an Aid or Additional Custom on several Goods and Merchandizes And also for continuing the Additional Duty on Beer and Ale and other Liquors till the Twenty fifth Day of December One thousand Seaven hundred and Two Anno Regni Nono Guilielmi Tertii CHAP. XXIX WE Your Majesty's Obedient and Faithful Subjects the Commons of Ireland in Parliament Assembled being by Duty Obliged and always ready to the utmost of Our Abilities to Supply and Furnish Your Majesty with such Summs of Money as may Defray the necessary Charge of the Government of this Kingdom and to Provide for such Publick Works as may tend to the Quiet and Good of the same do with all Gratitude and Humility Express our Thankfulness to Your Majesty for having upon the Address of Commons in Parliament Assembled given Orders to Grant Respites from time to time to the Collecting of Quit-Rents Crown-Rents and Composition-Rents Due to Your Majesty out of the Houses and Lands which through the Calamites of the late Rebellion have beén waste from the Five and Twentieth of March One thousand Six hundred Ninety two to the Five and Twentieth of March One thousand Six hundred Ninety five and thereby have beén Disabled to pay the same and also for giving Orders and Directions for the due Regulation and Government of the Army in this Kingdom by which means the Soldiers have beén less Grievous and Burthensome to the same then formerly in their respective Garrisons and Quarters But forasmuch as it is found to be absolutely necessary as well for the good Discipline and Order of Your Majesty's Army as for the wellfare of Your Majesty's Liege People of this Realm that the said Army should be Disposed of and Lodged and Quartered in Barracks whereby they will not only be kept together under the Eye and Care of their several Officers but Your Majesty 's other Subjects of this Kingdom will thereby be Eased of Quartering in their Houses to which they have formerly for the necessity of Affairs submitted Therefore as a further Supply to Your Majesty and also towards the Building and Erecting Barracks in such convenient and necessary parts of this Kingdom for the use of the Army as to Your Majesty shall seém most proper for the same and that the said Respited Arrears of Quit-Rent Crown-Rent and Composition-Rent due out of waste Houses and Lands from the Five and Twentieth of March One thousand Six hundred Ninety two to the Five and twentieth of March One thousand Six hundred Ninety five may be effectually Answered unto Your Majesty's Exchequer and to Answer the other Uses hereafter in this Act provided for in Addition to the Supplies already Granted to Your Majesty this Session of Parliament We humbly beseéch Your Majesty that it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the King 's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That an Additional Duty of One Penny per Pound be Raised and Levyed upon all Tobacco that shall be found to be or to have beén in this Kingdom in the Hands of any Merchant or other Person whatsover the First Day of November One thousand Six hundred Ninety seaven whensoever the same was Imported Also upon all Tobacco that shall be Imported into this Kingdom after the First Day of November One thousand Six hundred Ninety seaven until the Five and twentieth of December which shall be in the Year of Our Lord One thousand Six hundred Ninety nine And whereas it is found Necessary to answer the Ends aforesaid That the Additional Custom Granted to His Majesty on several Goods and Merchandizes by several Acts made in this Session of Parliament shall be continued till the Five and twentieth of December One thousand Seaven hundred and Two Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Tobacco Muslin Callicoes and all sorts of Liunen Scotch-cloth and Wines except Wines of the Growth of Spain and of the Dominions thereunto belonging that shall be Imported into this Kingdom at any time from and after the Four and twentieth Day of December One thousand Six hundred Ninety nine unto the Five and twentieth Day of December which shall be in the Year One Seaven hundred and Two and no longer shall Answer and Pay unto His Majesty His Heirs and Successors over and above all Rates and Duties due or payable for or out of the same by Uertue of any former or other Law in Force in this Kingdom except only the several Statutes formerly made in this present Session of Parliament which laid several Additional Duties on the said Goods until the said Five and twentieth Day of December which will be in the Year One thousand Six hundred Ninety nine the several Rates and Duties hereafter mentioned That is to say For every Pound weight of Tobacco to be Imported within the time aforesaid Two pence Half-penny Sterling for every Ell of Muslin Callicoe and of all and every other sorts of Linnen Imported within the time aforesaid Scotch-Cloth Excepted Six pence Sterling and for every Yard of Scotch-Cloth Imported within the aforesaid time Six pence Sterling for every Tunn of Wine except Wines of the Growth of Spain and the Dominions thereunto belonging Imported within the time aforesaid Threé Pounds Sterling and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity Which several Duties shall and may be Raised Collected and Levyed and paid unto His Majesty His Heirs and Successors during the time aforesaid at the same times and in the same manner and place and by such Rules and Ways and Means and under such Penalties and Forfeitures as are mentioned and expressed in one Act of Parliament made in a Session of Parliament which began the Eighth day of May in the Thirteénth Year of the Reign of the late King Charles the Second Intituled An Act for Settling the Excise or New Impost upon the said late King Charles the Second His Heirs and Successors the same to be paid upon Merchandizes Imported and Exported into or out of the Kingdom of Ireland according to the Book of Rates to the said Act annexed Provided always and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Merchant or other Importer of any Tobacco so Charged as aforesaid which the said Additional Duty of One penny per Pound weight until the Twenty Fifth of December One Thousand Six Hundred and Ninety Nine and with the