Taxation, etc. (No. 2) Act 1695

XLII. Recital of 5W. &M. c. 7. § I.

Certain Salt declared to be charged with the Duty of 1½. per Gallon.

And whereas in and by an Act of Parliament made in the Fifth and Sixth Yeares of the Reigne of His Majesty and the late Queen Mary of Blessed Memory entituled An Act for granting to Their Majesties certaine Rates and Duties upon Salt and 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 Su[m] of Ten hundred thousand Pounds towards carrying on the Warr against France Itt is provided and enacted that there should be raised levyed collected and paid to Their Majesties Their Heires and Successors until the Seventeenth of May One thousand six hundred ninety & seven for every Gallon of Salt and Rock Salt made att the Salt Works or taken out of any Pitts within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Towne of Berwick, upon Tweed One Penny Halfe-penny and after that Rate for a greater or lesser Quantity And whereas some Dispute hath since arisen whether Salt refined or Salt made from Salt either imported or made in England and hath paid the Duties by the said Act imposed and is since melted downe either in Sea Water or other Water and made into Salt again shall be charged with the Duty of One Penny Halfe-penny For the settling whereof itt is hereby declared and enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Salt made from Rock Salt (allowing the Draw-back for the same as in the said Act is mentioned) and all refined Salt or Salt made from Salt either imported or made in England was and is intended to be charged and chargeable with the said Duty of One Penny halfe-penny per Gallon Any thing in the said Act to the contrary notwithstanding.