Taxation (No. 3) Act 1696

IV. Recital of Stat. 1 Jac. I. c. 22. and that the due Execution thereof is necessary

Mayors, Lords of Liberties, &c. to execute and comply with the said Statute; Penalty.

And whereas in the First Yeare of the Reigne of King James the First of happy Memory a good and wholesome Statute was made concerning Tanners Curriers Shoemakers and other Artificers in Leather wherein ample Provision was made for the true and well tanning currying and working of Leather and for and concerning the buying and selling of the same in open Fayres and Marketts and for such other Matters and Things relating to Leather as in the said Statute are plainly and largely expressed the due Execution whereof hath been and is of great Importance to the publick Good and Service of this Realme and will very much contribute to the ascertaining charging & Collection of the Duties by this Act intended to be granted Be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Mayors Bayliffs & other Head Officers for the time being in the several Cities Borroughs & Markett Towns of this Realme and the respective Lords of Liberties Faires and Marketts & the Masters and Wardens of the several Companies in the said Act expressed and all Tanners Curriers Shoemakers & other Artificers and all and every other Person or Persons whatsoever who are or ought to be concerned in the Execution of the said Statute or to give Obedience thereunto shall (under such Pains Penalties and Forfeitures as are therein severally expressed) duely execute observe and comply with the same Statute and all the Clauses Matters and Things therein contained in relation to the tanning dressing making buying selling trying sealing registring or other Matters concerning Leather other than such as have been altered by any Law or Statute since that time made and now in force.