Taxation (No. 4) Act 1695

Duties on

Wee Your Majesties most dutifull and loyall Subjects the Commons assembled in Parliament have cheerfully and unanimously given and granted and doe hereby give and grant unto Your Majesty the additionall and other Rates Impositions Dutyes and Charges upon the severall sorts of Goods and Merchandize to bee imported into the Kingdome of England Dominion of Wales or Towne of Berwick upon Tweed during such Tyme and in such Manner and Forme as herein after followeth And doe humbly pray Your Majesty that it may bee enacted And bee itt enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That there shall bee answered and paid to His Majesty and His Heires and Successors for the severall Goods and Merchandizes hereafter menc[i]oned over and above all Impositions Dutyes and Charges already imposed and payable upon and for the same in the Booke of Rates of Merchandize by Act of Parliament established and the Direction therein contained or otherwise the further Rates and Duties following (that is to say)

French Wine imported.

For every Tun of French Wine imported from and after the Twenty eighth Day of February One thousand six hundred ninety six for the Terme of One and twenty Yeares and from thence to the End of the next Session of Parliament and noe longer Five and twenty Pounds above the Duties already charged thereupon without any Deduction and soe proportionably for a greater or lesser Quantity.

French Brandy of Single Proof; Double Proof.

For every Tun of French Brandy of Single Proofe imported after the Twenty eighth day of February One thousand six hundred ninety six for the Terme of One and twenty Yeares and from thence to the End of the next Session of Parliament and noe longer Thirty Pounds And for every Tun of French Brandy of Double Proofe imported as aforesaid Sixty Pounds over and above the Dutyes already charged thereupon without any Deduction and soe proportionably for a greater or lesser Quantity.

French Vinegar imported.

For every Tun of French Vinegar imported after the said Twenty eighth Day of February One thousand six hundred ninety six for the Terme of One and twenty Yeares and from thence to the End of the next Session of Parliament and noe longer Fifteene Pounds over and above the Duties already charged thereupon without any Deduction and soe proportionably for any greater or lesser Quantity.

Other French Goods imported.

For all other Goods of the Growth Product or Manufacture of France imported after the said Twenty eighth Day of February One thousand six hundred ninety six for the Terme of One and twenty Yeares and from thence to the End of the next Session of Parliament and noe longer Five and twenty Pounds per Centum ad Valorem over and above the Duties already charged thereupon without any Deduction and soe proportionably for a greater or lesser Quantity.