Taxation (No. 3) Act 1696

VIII. Tanners, &c. to use no Place other than that mentioned in the Notice; and to suffer Commissioners or Officers to take Account of the Number and Quality of Hides &c. taken out of the Wooze, &c. and within Three Days after taking out of Wooze, and before carrying to drying Places, make Entry thereof.

Tanner, &c. not to remove Hides, &c. from Yards, &c. without Permit or Certificate of Account taken and Entry made, or without Notice to Officer; Permits gratis.; How far Tanner obliged to travel to give Notice.

And the better to prevent any Frauds or Concealments whereby His Majesty His Heires or Successors may be injured or deprived of His or Their Dues according to the true Meaning of this Act Be it further enacted That the several Tanners Curriers Tawers Dressers or Makers of Leather dureing the Continuance of this Act shall make use of no Place or Places for the drying or making the same fitt for Sale other than such Place or Places whereof hee she or they shall first have given Notice to the proper Officer of the said Duties to be the usual Place or Places for his her or their drying or making the same fitt for Sale and that the respective Tanners Tawers Curriers Makers or Dressers of Leather shall from Time to Time permitt and suffer the respective Co[m]missioners Surveyors or other Officers of the said Duty and they are hereby impowered to take an Account of the Number and Quality of all Hides and Skins or pieces thereof which any such Tanner Tawer Currier Maker or Dresser by or for [X1 himselfe or themselves or by or for] any other Person or Persons shall (att any Time or Times from and after the said Twentieth Day of April One thousand six hundred ninety seven dureing the said Terme of Three Yeares) take out of the Wooze Liquor or other Materials wherein the same shall have been tanned tawed steeped dressed or made in order to be dried or made fitt for Use or Sale And shall within Three Days after the taking out of the said Wooze Mill Liquor or other Materials aforesaid and before the carrying away the same from the usual Place or Places where such Leather is or shall be usually dried make true Entry with the proper Officer or Officers of the Number and Quality of the Hides Skins and Pieces of the Hides and Skins so taken out to be dried as aforesaid to the end His Majesty may be answered the Duties for the same when such Leather shall be sold att any Fare or Markett as is herein after directed And that no Tanner Tawer Currier Maker or Dresser of such Leather so taken out of the Wooze Mill Liquor or Materials aforesaid after the said Twentieth Day of April att any time or times dureing the Terme aforesaid shall remove carry or send away or suffer to be removed carried or sent away the same from their respective Yards Workhouses or other Places where they shall usually dresse or dry such Leather without a Permission or Certificate in Writing signed by some or one of the Officers for the said Duties signifying that an Account hath been taken and an Entry made thereof with such Officer or Officers or without giving to the proper Officer or Officers Three Days Notice att the least of his or their Intention to remove carry or send away the same that so the said Officer without his owne wilfull neglect or default may have time to take an Account as aforesaid And that the said Officer or Officers shall give such Permissions as aforesaid gratis and that no such Tanner Tawer Currier Maker or Dresser shall be obliged to goe or send further than the next Markett for the giving of any such Notice.

Editorial Information

X1 interlined on the Roll.