Coinage (No. 2) Act 1696

IV. Broad hammered Money received before 18th Nov. 1696, by Tale for Taxes, &c.

Collector, &c. on Oath may pay the same by Tale till 18th Dec. 1696; Commissioners, &c, to have till 10th Jan. 1696 to pay the said hammered Monies into the Exchequer, and make Oath the same was received by Tale, &c; Affidavits to be filed.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all such hammered Money consisting onely of Pieces having both the Rings or the greatest part of the Letters remaining on them or being Sixpences of Sterling Silver not clipt within the innermost Ring as have been before the Eighteenth Day of November One thousand six hundred ninety six actually received or collected by any Co[m]missioners Receiver General or other Receiver or Collector or the Deputies of any of them by tale for any publick Tax Aid Imposition or Revenue whatsoever shall and may in like manner be paid by and received from them upon their respective Accompts by way of tale and not by weight within the times and in such manner as are hereafter limittd nd ppointed and not otherwise that is to say Every particular Receiver or Collector who by Law is to make his Payments to any Co[m]missioners Receiver General or Head Collector shall have time for doeing thereof till the Eighteenth Day of December One thousand six hundred ninety six making Oath (when he tenders such Payment before such Co[m]missioners Receiver General or Head Collector or their respective Deputies who have hereby power to administer the same) that the hammered Money then brought or tendred by such particular Receiver or Collector was actually and bona fide received by him by tale before the said Eighteenth Day of November One thousand six hundred ninety six for the resp[ecti]ve Tax and Imposition or Revenue upon which hee offers to pay the same and that hee hath not directly nor indirectly made any Profitt thereby other than what is allowed by Act of Parliament which Oath shall be taken in writing and brought together with the Money to which it relates into the Receipt of the Exchequer as is herein after mentioned and the respective Co[m]missioners Receivers General or Head Collectors of any the said Taxes Aids Impositions or Revenues shall have time until the Tenth Day of January One thousand six hundred ninety six for paying the said hammered Moneys consisting of such Pieces as aforesaid into the Receipt of his Majesties Exchequer so as they respectively or their respective Deputies or Persons intrusted in their Receipts do att the same time of making such Payments make Oath before the Auditor of the Receipt or Clerk of the Pells in the said Exchequer who have hereby Power to administer the same that the Money so by them tendred or brought to the said Receipt was actually and bona fide received by them by tale respectively before the said Eighteenth Day of December One thousand six hundred ninety six on Accompt of such Tax Aid Imposition or Revenue as aforesaid or was brought to them by such particular Receivers or Collectors as aforesaid within the time limitted and that they have not directly nor indirectly made any Profitt thereby other than what is allowed by Act of Parliament and so as the said Co[m]missioners Receiver General or Head Collectors or their Deputies or Persons intrusted in their Receipts as aforesaid do produce the said Affidavitts of particular Receivers or Collectors with their Money (all which said Oaths or Affidavitts in writing shall be duely filed in the said Receipt of Exchequer by the said Clerk of the Pells.)