Coinage Act 1672

IV. Money to be kept distinct, and paid monthly in London, and quarterly in the Out Ports to Receiver General.;

to whom to be paid where no. Receiver General.; Duty of Receiver General, or such other Person.

And it is hereby further enacted by the authority aforesaid That the moneys collected in the respective Ports by vertue of this Act shall be by the respective Officers who shall collect the same distinguished and kept apart from all other moneys by them collected upon the same Coo[m]odities, or upon any other Commodity or Merchandize whatsoever, and shall be by them respectively soe answered and paid monethly at least from the Officers of the Port of London, and quarterly at X1 least from the Officers of the Outports to the Receiver-Generall of the Customes for the time being; And when there shall be noe such Receiver Generall to such other person as shall be appointed as aforesaid to receive the same from them; and that such Receiver Generall or other person who shall receive the said moneys from the Officers of the respective Ports shall alsoe keepe the same distinct from all other moneys whatsoever, and soe pay the same once in every moneth at least into the Receipt of the Exchequer, there alsoe to be kept distinct and apart from all other moneys ariseing by the Customes, or by any otherway or Revenue whatsoever.

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: the O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]