Taxation (No. 4) Act 1696

III. Duties under Management of Commissioners of Excise.

Inferior Officers for Duties upon Beer, &c. to be so for collecting, &c. the said Duties; Who may be made, altered, or dismissed by the Commissioners.

And for the better ascertaining chargeing levying and collecting of the said several and respective Duties hereby granted be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the said Duties and Impositions by this Act granted or imposed as well upon Malt as upon Mum Sweets Cyder and Perry shall from time to time during the continuance of this Act be within the Receipt Management & Government of the Chief Co[m]missioners and Governors of the Receipt of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for the time being and that all inferior Officers whether they be Sub co[m]missioners Collectors Supvisors Gaugers or others that are or shall be constituted or appointed for levying receiving collecting or answering of His Majesties Duties of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors shall within the respective Limits or Districts or in the several Places or Stations to which they are or shall be appointed be also the Sub-co[m]missioners Collectors Supervisors Gaugers or other Officers respectively for the several Duties by this Act granted neverthelesse under the Government and Direction of the said Chief Co[m]missioners of Excise for the time being or the major Part of them who have hereby power to dismisse or alter them or any of them and to make and constitute from time to time such and so many inferiour Officers for the said Duties hereby granted and every or any of them as to the said Chief Co[m]missioners for the time being or the major Part of them shall seem meet.