Taxation (No. 4) Act 1696

XLVI. Proviso respecting £1,400 in hammered Money paid into the Custom House at Exeter by Daniel Ivry and Henry Arthur.

c. 7. ante.

And whereas the Su[m]m of Foureteen hundred Pounds in hammered Money was actually and bona fide paid & deposited in the Custom House of the City of Exon by Daniel Ivry and Henry Arthur of the same City Merchants before the Fourth Day of May last past towards the Discharge of several Bonds and Accounts due to and depending between the King and the said Merchants which said Accounts were not inspected & adjusted time enough for the Customer or Collector of the Customs of the said Port of Exon to returne & pay the said Money to the Receiver General of His Majesties Customes so as to be paid into the Receipt of the Exchequer within the time limitted by the late Act of Parliament in that behalfe by reason whereof the said Su[m]m of Foureteen hundred Pounds hath ever since laine in the said Custome House and is uselesse to His Majesty be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Collector shall forthwith receive the said Money by Tale and apply the same to the Accounts of the said Merchants to which it properly belongs & shall pay over the same to the said Receiver General in like manner as if the said Money had been actually received paid and applied within the time or times limitted by the said Act And the said Receiver General of His Majesties Customes is hereby directed to receive the said Su[m]m and to carry the same to the Mint to be coined into milled Money for which the Officers of the Mint and the said Receiver General respectively shall be answerable and accountable in the like manner as is appointed concerning other ha[m]mered Money by an Act of this present Session of Parliament entituled An Act for granting to His Majesty several Duties upon Paper Velum and Parchment to encourage the bringing of Plate and hammered Money into the Mints to be coined.