Taxation (Tobacco and Sugar) Act 1685

IV. Buyer with design to export to certify Quantity, &c. and give Security, so to do within Four Months.

Certificate of such Bond given by Chief Officer; Oath that Goods not relanded; No Fee.

Provided alwayes That where the first Buyer or Receiver of the said Goods in Trucke Barter or Exchange does buy or receive the said Goods with Intent to Export the same in such case the Importer shall certifie in writeing the Quantity and Quality and Weight of the Goods Sold or Bartered with the Name of the Buyer or Barterer who bringing and delivereing of the same unto the Chiefe Officer or Officers in the next Office appointed for the Collection of this Duty shall then and there enter into Bond with Sureties and Penalty of double Duties as aforesaid to Export the same bona fide within the space of Foure months who thereupon shall give him a Certificate of such Bond Entred into the which Certificate he shall deliver to the Merchant Importer and by vertue of the same recieve Possession of the Goods and such Certificate being produced by the Importer shall Discharge his Account for soe much as-if the Dutyes had beene paid the which Bond for the Exportation of the Goods soe Entred into shall againe be discharged and vacated by the Certificate of His Majestyes Searcher or Under-Searcher in the Port of London and of the Searcher of any other of the Out Ports certifying the Shipping of the same and the Merchant or Merchants' Oath that the same have not againe been relanded in England or Wales or Towne of Berwicke upon Tweede For which Oath and Certificate noe Fee is to be taken.