Taxation (No. 3) Act 1696

XXIV. Shipping Leather Ware for Exportation, and giving Security not to reland, &c.

Officer to give Exporter a Certificate of Ware exported.

And to the end that all & every Person and Persons who shall export any Leather in Backs Butts or Hides or Leather converted into Boots and Shoes or other made Ware for which Leather His Majesties Duties by this Act imposed were duely satisfied may upon the Exportation of such Leather Boots and Shooes or other made Ware be repaid a proportionable Allowance for the same be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That upon the Shipping of any such Leather Boots or Shoes or other made Ware for Exportation into Foreigne Parts and upon sufficient Security to be first given to the Customer or Collector of the Customes of the Port from whence such such Exportation shall be made (which Security they have hereby power to take in His Majesties Name and to His Majesties Use) That the Leather Boots or Shoes or other made Ware so shipped or any part thereof shall not be relanded or brought on Shore again in [X1 any Part or Parts of] this Kingdome of England Dominion of Wales or Towne of Berwick upon Tweed the said Customer or Collector shall give to the Exporter thereof a Certificate or Debenture in Writing of the Kinds and Quantities of Leather Boots and Shoes or other made Ware so exported for which such Security shall have been given as aforesaid.

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