Taxation, etc. (No. 2) Act 1695

LI. Duties on Goods imported under Management of Customs.

Regulation as to Duty ad valorem.

And it is hereby further enacted That the said Duties on such of the said Pipes Stone and Earthen Wares as shall be imported as aforesaid shall be from time to time under the Management and Government of the Co[m]mssioners of the Customs for the time being who shall cause the same from time to time to be raised levied collected and paid by the Officers of the Customs to the Hands of the Receiver or Receivers General of the Revenues of the Customs for the time being And such Receiver or Receivers General for the time being shall answer and pay the Money arising thereby (the necessary Charges of raiseing collecting and answering the same onely excepted) into the said Receipt of X1 Excheq[uer] distinct and apart from all other Branches within his or their Receipts for the Purposes in this Act mentioned And for the said Stone and Earthen Wares imported which are hereby appointed to pay the Duty ad valorem the respective Customer or Collector or other proper Officer or Officers of the Customes for the time being shall receive and levy such Duties hereby imposed according to the value and price of such Goods to be esteemed upon the Oath of the Merchant or Importer of the same and such Oath shall be administred and all other Matters done for ascertaining recovering and levying the said Duties hereby granted upon the value of the said imported Stone or Earthen Wares in the same manner and forme as are now lawfully used done & performed in Cases where Goods pay the Subsidy of Poundage or other Duties ad valorem upon the Importation thereof.

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X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: the O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]