Taxation, etc. (No. 2) Act 1695

LXXXV. Lord Mayor, &c. of London to ascertain and publish Prices of Salt within the Bills of Mortality.

Justices in General Sessions to do the like in other Parts of the Kingdom; and the said Lord Mayor, &c. and Justices in General Sessions, may alter and correct the Prices of Salt, and publish the same; Selling at higher Prices, or refusing to sell at the Price set; Penalty £5; and in Default of, Distress; Imprisonment.

And for the preventing of Exactions upon Sale of Salt in this Kingdome and to have the Rates and Prices thereof ascertained Be it further enacted and declared by the Authority aforesaid That the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of the Citty of London shall and may and are hereby required in the Court of Aldermen within the Citty of London upon or before the First day of May in the Yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety & six sett ascertaine and publish in Writeing certaine reasonable Rates and Prices upon all Salt to be sold or exposed to sale after the said First Day of May in the City of London and Precincts thereof and the Bills of Mortality And that the respective Justices of Peace for the respective Counties Cities and Places within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Towne of Berwick upon Tweed shall and may and are hereby required upon or before the First Day of August in the Yeare of oure Lord One thousand six hundred ninety six att the several & respective General Sessions of the Peace for the said several and respective Counties Cities and Places wherein they are or shall be Justices of the Peace sett ascertaine and duely publish in Writing certaine reasonable Rates and Prices upon all Salt to be sold or exposed to Sale after the said First Day of August within the said several and respective Counties Cities and Places wherein they are or shall be Justices of the Peace And that the Lord Mayor of London and the said Court of Aldermen in the Court of Aldermen and that the said respective Justices of the Peace of the several & respective Counties Cities and Places aforesaid as aforesaid att the several and respective General Sessions of the Peace for the said several and respective Counties Cities and Places wherein they are or shall be Justices of the Peace shall and may and are hereby required from time to time (if necessary) att the several and respective General Sessions of the Peace for the said several and respective Counties Cities and Places from and after the said First Day of August by Writing duely made and published alter and correct the Rates and Prices of all Salt to be sold and exposed to Sale in the said several and respective Places which Rates and Prices which shall be so sett ascertained altered and corrected are hereby enacted and required to be observed accepted received and taken by all and every Person and Persons selling or exposing to Sale any Salt within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Towne of Berwick upon Tweed And if any Person or Persons shall sell any Salt att any higher Price or Rate or refuse to sell any Salt att the Prices and Rates aforesaid such Person and Persons so offending shall for every such Offence forfeit and pay the Su[m]m of Five Pounds to be levied out of the Goods and Chattells of such Offender or Offenders by Distresse and Sale thereof by Warrant under the Hand and Seale of the Lord Mayor of the Citty of London or of any Justice or Justices of the Peace for the Place or Places wherein such Offence shall be co[m]mitted or Distresse shall be to be made And in default of sufficient Distresse for the same it shall and may be lawfull by Warrant under Hand and Seale from the Lord Mayor of the Citty of London or from any such Justice of the Peace as aforesaid to imprison the said Offender or Offenders until such Offender or Offenders shall pay the said Su[m]m of Five Pounds one Moiety of which Su[m]m of Five Pounds is hereby enacted to be paid to the Use of our Sovereigne Lord the King and the other Moiety thereof to be paid to such Person or Persons as shall informe and prosecute for the same before the said Lord Mayor of London or the said respective Justices of the Peace as aforesaid.