Bank of England Act 1696

VIII. Additional Impositions on Goods and Merchandizes, by 4 W. & M. c. 5. and the said Act, continued until 1st Aug. 1706.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the additional and other Rates Duties Impositions and Charges upon the several sorts of Goods and Merchandizes granted by an Act of Parliament made in the Fourth and Fifth Yeares of their said Majesties Reigne intituled An Act for granting to their Majesties certaine additional Imposic[i]ons upon several Goods and Merchandizes for prosecuting the present Warr against France and which were thereby to have Continuance from the First Day of March One thousand six hundred ninety two to the First Day of March One thousand six hundred ninety six shall be continued from the last Day of February. One thousand six hundred ninety six to the said First Day of August which shall be in the Yeare of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and six and no longer and that the said Act last mentioned & all Powers Provisions Penalties Articles and Clauses therein contained as herein after is excepted and provided as for and concerning the said Rates Duties and Impositions shall continue and be of full Force and Effect until the said First Day of August One thousand seven hundred and six and shall be applied practised and executed for the raising levying collecting answering and paying the said Duties hereby continued according to the Tenour and Intent of this present Act [X1 as fully to all Intents and p^rposes] as if the said last mentioned Act and all and every the Clauses Matters and Things therein contained had been again repeated and enacted in this Act particularly.

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X1 interlined on the Roll.