Taxation (Rock Salt) Act 1698

VII. Duties to be levied as by former Acts, (Exception).

How Penalties recovered,; and distributed; How the said Duties to be brought in and applied.

And be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Duties upon Rock-Salt and Salt-Rock which shall be charged in pursuance of this Act shall be raised levied and recovered by such Waies and Meanes and in such Manner and Forme in all Cases (unless in such where other Methods or Directions are hereby prescribed) as the Duties upon Salt or Rock-Salt chargeable by the said former Acts or any of them were thereby appointed to be raised levied and recovered And that all Fines Penalties and Forfeitures by this Act imposed shall and may be sued for levied and recovered in such Manner and Form and with such Power of Mitigation as any Fine Forfeiture or Penalty is or may be recovered by any Law or Laws of Excise or by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of His Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster And that one Moiety of every such Fine Forfeiture or Penalty shall be to His Majesty His Heires and Successors and the other Moiety to him or them that shall informe or sue for the same And that all the Duties which shall be charged by virtue of this Act as aforesaid shall be brought in applied issued and disposed of to the same uses and purposes and in the same proportions as the Duties upon Salt and Rock-Salt charged by the said former Acts respectively are appointed to be brought in issued and applied and under the same Penalties for delaying diverting or misapplying any part of the Moneys ariseing for the said Duties to be charged by this Act as in and by the said former Acts or any of them in the like Case and Cases are prescribed Any thing in this or the said former Acts contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.