A. D. 1697.' Anno od?avo & nono GuLiELMi III. C. 25, 26. 671 repaul. Wrought Silks imported not charged with additional Duty. Tobacco of the jEw^/^/?; Plantations, or Wines of the Growth of Franci;, Gennany, isfc. the Duties to he levied by Officers of the Cuftoms, and paid into the Exchequer. Duties on Sugar from ylmerica to be- drawn back 'on Exportation. Ginger to pay 2 J. pur loo wt. After i ALiy 1697, cut Whalebone imported to be forfeited, and double the Value. Goods imported, and exported again in twelve Months, whole Duties tn be repaid without Fee. No Drawback to be allowed on exporting foreign wrought Silks, ts't. unlefs exported in Time; and then the whole Duties to be repaid. Naval Stores for the King's Ui'e nut to be charged, [i j. in the Pound.] CAP. XXV. An Ai5t for licensing Hawkers and Pedlars, for a further Provifion for the Payment of the Incereft of the Tranfport Debt for the reducing of Ireland. 61-7W. vc.7. Tor iIk l^ofili- Whereas an Aft of Parliament was made in the fixth and feventh Years of His Majcfty's im.incc of iiicfc
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' Reign, intituled, Jn A^ for ^rant'tn^ to Hh Majrjly fevcral arlditioval Duties upon Coffee, Tea, I>uii« l"" 9 '^' ' Chocolate, and Spree,, toivnrds SatisfaSlion of the Dehti due for Travfliort Service for the Reduflion of Ireland, |° ^'?'yj^^' ' in which Provifion was made for the Payment of Intcrcft: of five i'ounds per'Centcm for three Years, for c. n. ' ^' ' the Principal Sum of three hundred and thirty thoufand feven hundred and fixty-nine Pounds ten Shil- 3 & 4 Ann. c.4., ' lings feven Pence, then allowed to be due for the laid Tranfpoit Service for the reducing of Ireland, 1; Ann;E, 0. 19. ' which Duties have proved very deficient to anfwer fuch Intereft :' We Your Majelty's, is'c. EXP. 6 Annjc, c. 5.
I Geo. i.ftat. r. " From 23 June 1697, till 25 June 1698, every Hawker, fsV. to pay a Duty of 4/. Hawkers to certify •'*• ^•*' " the Commiflioners how they will trade, and pay down one Moiety of the Duty, and give Bond for the r)&7W.3.c.7.' " other at ftx Months End. Two Shillings in the Pound allowed for prompt Payment. Penalty on Hawk- 7 •'^"i- <=■ '^%- " er, fsV. trading v/ithout Licence, or refufing to produce it. Commiflioners for 'l^ranfportation to grant •*^°- '• ^•^' " Licences to Hawkers, bV. A diliinft Account to be kept, and Duties paid into the Exche^/uer v/cddy, " to be applied as directed by 6 & 7 W. 3. c. 7. This Aft not to prohibit the felling of News-Papers, is'c. " nor Goods or Wares by the Makers thereof, nor Tinkfers, Coopers, &c. Not to hinder the Sale of " Goods in any publick Market. Owners of Ships, feV. to deliver an Account of their Shares, (s'c, " This Aft not to give any new Powers to Hawkers, i^c. to fell Goods in Cities." CAP. XXVI. An A& for the better preventing the counterfeiting the current Coin of this Kingdom. ' Whereas notwithflianding the good Laws ftill in Force againfl: the counterfeiting of the Monies i Afar, fcjj'.z. ' and Coins of this Realm, yet the faid Offence, doth and is like daily to increafe, to the manifefl c. 6. ' Wrong and Injury both of His Majefty and all His loving Subjects, being very much occafioned for want '+-^ '- 3« ' of a due and condign Punifhment to be infliiSted upon fuch Artificeis and others, who without any lawful ' Authority do make or ufe Puncheons, Stamps, Dyes, and other Engines and Inilruments, which are
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great and growing a Mifchief, be it cnadled by the King's mod Excellent Majefty, by and with the Ad- V^- vice and Confent of the Lords Spiiitual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament aflem- blcd, and by the Authority of the fame, 1,'hat from and after the fifteenth Day of May one thoufand fix NoSmiih, !.-e. hundred nincty-feven, no Smith, Engraver, Founder, or other Perfon or Perfons whatfoever (other than except cmploycil and except the Perfons employed or to be employed in or for His Majelly's Mint or Mints in the Tower of '" '.'"^ '^""' "^• London, or elfewhere, and for the Ufe and Service of the faid Mints only, or Perfons lawfully authorized ,r,c„j".,„ n'^ . by the Lords Commiflioners of the Trcafury, or Lord High Treafurer of E)igla>id for the time being) &c. to 1^™^' {hall knowingly make or mend, or begin or proceed to make or mend, or aflift in the making or mending any current of any Puncheon, Counter Puncheon, Matrix, Stamp, Dye, Pattern, or Mould of Steel, Iron, Silver, S°'" "'^"^ " or other Metal or Metals, or of Spaud, or fine Founders Earth, or Sand, or of any other Materials v/hat- ^'Z[' ^°, ■ foever, in or upon which there fliall be, or be made or imprefled, or which will make or imprefs the Figure, ^of^[ &c '^n^'"^ Stamp, Refemblance or Similitude of both or either of the Sides or Flats of any Gold or Silver Coin, cur- coining I'id's rent within this Kingdom, not fhall knowingly make or mend, or begin or proceed to make or mend, or nor cutting fn- alfiif in the making or mending of any Edger or Edging Tool, Inftrument, or Engine, not of common F'"^' ."" •'"'= Ufe in any Trade, but contrived for making of Money round the Edges with Letters, Grainings, or other '""•"'CunoJy Marks or Figures reicmbling thofe on the Edges of Money coined in His Aiajefty's Mint, nor any Prefs "" "" for Coinat,e, nor any cutting Engine, for catting round Blanks by Force of a Sciew out of flatted Bars of Gold, Silver, or other Metal, nor fliall knowingly buy or fell, hide or conceal, or without lawful /Autho- rity or i'ufllclent Excufe for that Purpofe, knowingly have in his, her or their Houfes, Cuftody or Pofief- fion, any fuch Puncheon, Counter Puncheon, Matrix, Stamp, Dye, Edger, cutting Engine, or other ' Tool or Inftrument before mentioned ; and if anv Smith, Engraver, Founder, or other Perfon or Perfons Oft'enders, .i-c. whatfoever, (other than and except as aforefaid) fhall offend in any the Matters or '/"hings aforefaid, then eylty "f Hii^li all and every fuch Offender and Offenders, their Connfellors, Procurers, Aiders and Abettors, fliall be, i, ";'[.'•'",'. "" and is and are hereby adjudged to be guilty of High Treafon, and being of the faid Offences, or any of Ugj^),"" " them, convifted or attainted, according to the Order and Courfe of the Laws of this Realm, fhall fuffcr Death as in cafe of High Treafon. II. And be it further enatSted by the Authority aforefaid. That if any Perfon or Perfons whatf.evcr, fiom Perfons conveyJ and after the faid fifteenth Day of May, fliall without lawful Authority for that Purpofe, wittingly or know- i"s™tof the ■inelv convey or afTifl in the conveying out of His Majefly's Mint in the Tower of London, fi' out of any "^^'"^ ""V ""- other ^™"' '"^^•="'
