Taxation (Rock Salt) Act 1698

XIII. Recital of Stat. 8 & 9 W.III. c.28. § 2.

Treasury may direct Tellers to receive Bank Bills in Payment of Taxes, until the End of the next Session; but not, if at a Discount.

And whereas by an Act made and passed in the Session of Parliament held in the Eighth and Ninth Yeares of His Majesties Reigne intituled An Act for the better Observation of the Course anciently used in the Receipt of Exchequer it is (amongst other things) enacted and declared That from and after the Twentieth Day of Aprill One thousand six hunred ninety seaven no Teller in the said Receipt of Exchequer should charge himselfe by his Bill with the Receipt of any Moneys in the Exchequer but at such times as the Officers of the Talley Court their Deputies or Substitutes should be there present to levy a Talley or Talleys for the same nor should any Teller or other Person imployed by him throw down or cause to be thrown down into the said Court any Bill or Bills owning or purporting the receiving any Sum or Sums of Money from any Lender of Money Receiver or any other Person or Persons whatsoever upon which Bill or Bills a Talley or Talleys are to levied according to the Course of the said Receipt unless such Teller respectively or his Clerks or Persons imployed by him should have actually received and have then in his Office the very Money which should be specified in such Bill or Bills respectively (except as therein is excepted) under the Penalties therein mentioned Be it enacted by the Authourity aforesaid That it shall and may be lawfull for the Lord High Treasurer or any Three or more of the Commissioners of His Majesties Treasury for the time being (if he or they shall think fit and it be found safe and expedient for His Majesties Service) to permit and direct the Tellers of the said Receipt of Exchequer or their Clerks from and after the First Day of May One thousand six hundred ninety nine to receive from Commissioners Receivers Collectors or other Persons making any Payments to His Majesty at the said Receipt of His Exchequer upon any Account whatsoever or for Loans Bills under the Seale of the Governour and Company of the Bank of England commonly called Bank Bills as shall be tendred in Payment for any Aids Taxes Revenues or Loans whatsoever unto the end of the next Session of Parliament and no longer Any thing in the said recited Act or in any other Act or Acts of Parliament or any Custom or Usage to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Provided that none of the said Bank Bills shall be so taken in the Exchequer when the same are at any Discount