Taxation (No. 3) Act 1696

XIII. Selling otherwise than in open Market, or not making Entry, or Buyer removing Goods before Entry made, &c.;

Penalty £40; and Leather forfeited.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Tanner Tawer Currier Maker or Dresser of Leather or other Person or Persons whatsoever shall putt or cause to be putt to Sale Exchange or otherwise depart with any Leather (for which the Duties are to be paid) in any place other than in open Fair or Markett as aforesaid or shall make Default in entring or regiftring the Price or Value thereof att such Faire or Markett as is by this Act required or in paying the Duties hereby appointed to be paid thereupon as is hereby directed or if any Buyer or Contractor for any such Leather shall carry or cause the same to be carried away from the Fair or Markett before the Prize and Value be registred and the Duty paid or satisfied as aforesaid That then and in every such case all and every such Tanners Tawers Curriers Dressers Makers Buyers Contractors or other Persons respectively shall for every such Offence forfeit and lose the Su[m]m of Fourty Pounds to witt One third part thereof to the King and the other Two thirds to him or them that will informe and sue for the same to be recovered as aforesaid and moreover that the Leather so unlawfully putt to Sale sold exchanged or contracted for or whereof the Price or Value shall not be registred or for which the said Duties shall not be so paid in the Manner and Forme by this Act prescribed shall be forfeited and shall and may be seized and carried away by any of His Majesties Officers for His Majesties Use.