Taxation, etc. (No. 2) Act 1695

LXIV. Commissioners, &c. of Duties upon Glass to keep Account of Duty;

and pay weekly into the Exchequer; where distinct Account kept; Commissioners, &c. neglecting, &c. or misapplying Monies; Penalty.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Co[m]missioners Receiver or Receivers General for the time being who shall from time to time, have the Receipt of the said Duties upon Glass and Glasse Wares Stone Bottles and Earthen Bottles and upon Tobacco Pipes Stone Ware and Earthen Ware and every of them shall from time to time for ever hereafter keep true Accounts of the same to which Accounts all Persons concerned shall have free accesse att all seasonable times without Fee or Charge And the same Co[m]missioners Receiver or Receivers General for the time being shall from and after the said Seventeenth Day of May Weekly for ever to witt on Wednesday in every Week if it be not an Holy day and if it be then on the next day after that is not an Holy day pay all and every the Moneys arising by the same several Duties (the necessary Charges of levying collecting and answering the same onely excepted) into the Receipt of His Majesties Exchequer where a distinct and separate Account shall bee kept of the Moneys so coming in to which Persons concerned may have free access as aforesaid And if any such Co[m]missioners Receiver or Receivers General who shall have the Receipt of the Duties last mentioned or any of them shall refuse or neglect to keep such Accounts or make the said Payments into the Receipt of the Excheq[uer] as they are hereby required or shall divert or misapply any part of the Moneys so arising by the Duties last mentioned then they respectively for any such Offence shall forfeit their Places and be uncapable of any Office or Place of Trust whatsoever and shall be liable to pay the full Value of any Su[m]m or Su[m]ms so diverted or misapplied to any Person or p[er]sons grieved thereby and who will sue for the same by any Action of Debt or of the Case Bill Plaint or Information as aforesaid.