Bank of England Act 1696

XIV. Duties on Marriages, Births, and Burials, by 6 & 7 W. 3. c. 6. continued until 1st Aug. 1706.

How levied; and the said Act continued until 1st Aug. 1706.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Rates Duties Impositions and Su[m]ms of Money granted to His Majesty by an Act passed in the Sixth and Seventh Yeares of His Reigne intituled An Act for granting to His Majesty certaine Rates and Duties upon Marriages Births and Burials and upon Batchelors and Widdowers for the Terme of Five Yeares for carrying on the Warr against France with Vigour and which were thereby to co[m]mence from the First Day of May One thousand six hundred ninety five shall be and are hereby continued from and after the Expiration of the said Terme of Five Yeares until 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 shall be raised levied collected answered and paid unto His Majesty in the same manner and forme and by such Rules Ways and Meanes and under such Penalties and Forfeitures as are mentioned in the same Act for raising levying collecting answering and paying the same and which were thereby prescribed for the Foure last Yeares of the Terme thereby granted and that the said recited Act last mentioned and every Article Rule and Clause therein mentioned as for and concerning the said Rates Duties and Impositions shall continue and be in full Force to the said First Day of August One thousand seven hundred and six as fully and amply as if the same were particularly recited expressed and enacted in the Body of this Act.