Taxation, etc. Act 1695

XX. Recital of 5 & 6 W. & M. c. 20. §48.

Gauger within Three Days from the End of every Week to deliver to Brewer a Copy of Charge; Penalty £10.

And whereas in and by one Act of Parliament made in the Fifth and Sixth yeares of the Reigne of His Majesty and the late Queen Mary of blessed Memory intituled An Act for granting to Their Majesties several Rates and Duties upon Tunnage of Ships and Vessells & upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for securing certaine Recompences and Advantages in the said Act mentioned to such Persons as shall voluntarily advance the of Fifteen hundred thousand Pounds towards the carrying on the Warr against France, Itt is amongst other things enacted in the Words or to the Effect following (viz^t.:) That true Notes in Writing of the last Gauges made or taken by the Gaugers shall be left by them with all Brewers Makers or Retailers of Beer Ale or other Exciseable Liquors respectively or some of their Servants att the times of their taking their Gauges containing the Quantity and Quality of the Liquors so gauged upon [X1 certaine] Penalties in the said Acts mentioned And whereas it is X2 necessary for the securing His Majesties Duties upon the Liquors aforesaid that several Gauges be taken by one or more Officers of every Wort of one and the same Guile or Brewing by reason whereof the said Notes left by such Gaugers doe not sufficiently informe such Brewer or Retailer how much hee is charged in such respective Guile or Brewing Be it therefore enacted and declared by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the said Five and twentieth day of March every Gauger shall within Three days after the end of every Week deliver to or leave with such Brewer or Retailer or their respective Servants a true Copy under his Hand of each respective Charge by him made upon such Brewer or Retailer cotaining the Quantity and Quality of the Liquors by him charged in such Week respectively And if any such Gauger or Gaugers shall refuse or neglect to leave with such Brewer or Retailer or their respective Servants such Copy of his or their Charges as aforesaid or shall Charge such Brewer or Retailer more then such Copy contains such Gauger or Gaugers shall forfeit and lose for every such Offence or Neglect the Su[m]m of Ten Pounds to be recovered by any Person that shall sue for for the same by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of His Majesties Courts of Record att Westminster in which no Essoigne Protection Privelege or Wager of Law nor more then one Imparlance shall be allowed.

Editorial Information

X1 interlined on the Roll.

X2 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: friend O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]