Taxation Act 1667

XXI. The additional Duty to be accounted for once a Month upon Oath.

Provided alwaies and be it further enacted That the Commissioners Customers or such persons as shall be appointed by his Majesty to receive the said additional Duty of Four pounds per Tun shall once every moneth give in a true account under theire Hands and Seales upon theire corporal Oaths unto the Commissioners particularly before named or the major part of them that shall be then living of all the moneys so received or secured to be received upon the last mentioned additional Duty of Four pounds a Tun hereby charged upon all sorts of Wines and other Liquors aforesaid which Oath the said Commissioners particularly named or the major part of them have hereby power to administer) to the end that if the aforesaid Su[m]m so declared to be unpaid or unsecured on the Foure and twentieth of June which shall be in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred and seventy shall be raised or secured to be raised upon the aforesaid additional Duty of Four pounds per Tun in lesse time then one yeare then and from thenceforth the said additional Duty is to cease and no further to be collected or demanded or any part thereof by any person or persons whatsoever other then what shall be then secured and unpaid