Bank of England Act 1696

XV. Duties on Houses, by 7 & 8 W. III. c. 18. continued until 1st Aug. 1706.

How levied; and the said Act continued.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Rates Duties Impositions and Su[m]ms of Money granted by an Act passed in the Seventh and Eighth Yeares of His Majesties Reigne intituled An Act for granting to His Majesty several Rates or Duties on Houses for making good the Deficiency of the clipped Money and which were thereby to continue for and dureing the Terme of Seven Yeares from the Five and twentieth Day of March One thousand six hundred ninety six shall be and are hereby continued from and after the Expiration of the said Terme of Seven 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 Means and under such Penalties and Forfeitures as are mentioned in the same Act for raising collecting levying answering and paying the same and which were thereby prescribed for the Six last Yeares of the Terme thereby granted and that the same Act and all Powers Provisions Penalties Articles and Clauses therein contained 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 & paying the said Duties tthereby continued according to the Tenour and Intent of this present Act as fully to all intents and purposes as if all and every the Clauses Matters and Things in the said Act contained had been again repeated in this Act & p[ar]ticularly enacted.