Taxation, etc. (No. 2) Act 1695

LIV. Notice of usual Place of Baking, &c. to be given to Officer;

and also of change of Workhouse, Names, and Places of Abode, &c; Penalty £20.

And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Person and Persons who are now the Maker or Makers of the said Manufactures of Pipes Stone or Earthen Wares or any of them shall before the Twentieth day of May One thousand six hundred ninety six give Notice in Writing to some one or more of the Co[m]missioners or Officers appointed or to be appointed to manage or collect the said Duties or cause such Notice to be left where such Co[m]missioners or Officers shall usually reside or execute his or their Trust of the Place or Places where every such Person or Persons do usually make bake or burn the Manufactures aforesaid with their Names and Places of Abode respectively And that all and every such Person and Persons as often as hee she or they shall change their Work-house or Places of Abode or shall make any such Pipes or Wares in any other Place or Places and all and every such Person and Persons who shall att any time or times hereafter be the Maker or Makers of any such Pipes and Wares as aforesaid or any of them shall give or leave the like Notice of their respective Names & Places of abode and the Places where they shall make or intend to make any such Pipes or Wares before they or any of them do P[re]sume to make bake or burne the same in any such new place or places to the end the said Co[m]missioners and other Officers may have due knowledge of all the places where the said Goods shall be made and be the better enabled to secure the Duties hereby granted And if any such Maker or Makers shall neglect to give or leave such Notice as is required by this Act hee she or they shall for every such Offence forfeit the Su[m]m of Twenty Pounds the one Moiety to His Majesty His Heires and Successors and the other Moiety to him or them that will sue for the same as aforesaid.