Taxation Act 1685

X. Reciting cap. 4; ante.§2; Security to be in Double Value of Duties

And whereas by a Clause in an Act made in this present Parliament Intituled An Act for Granting to His Majestie an Imposition upon all Tobacco and Sugar Imported betweene the Foure and Twentyeth Day of June One thousand six hundred eighty and five and the Foure and twentyeth Day of June One thousand six hundred ninety and three It was among other things Enacted That every Merchant or Importer that is not a Retailer Consumptioner or Shop-keeper dealing in the said Commodities (after Entry of his or their Goods by Bill under his or their Hands or the Hand of such Person for whome he or they shall engage to be answerable presently before he or they be admitted or permitted to have any Warrant to receive his or their Goods out of the Shipp or from the Water-side) shall become bound unto His Majestie with one or more sufficient Sureties or procure two other Persons to become bound to His Majestie in such Summes of Money as shall amount to the value of the Duties by the said Act Imposed upon his or their Goods with Condition for the Purposes in the said Act mentioned Bee it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That such Person and Persons aforementioned shall become bound unto His Majestie for the Purposes aforesaid in such Summes of Money as shall amount to double the value of the said Duties Imposed on the said Goods by the said Act Any thing therein contained to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.