Taxation (No. 6) Act 1696

IV. Commissioners for Transportation to grant Licences to Hawkers, &c.

Fee.; A distinct Account to be kept, and Duties paid into the Exchequer Weekly.; Penalty.; Money to be applied as by 6 & 7 W. III. c. 7.

And be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawfull for the said Co[m]missioners for Transportation or any Two or more of them and they are hereby directed appointed and required upon the Terms aforesaid and upon the Receipt and Security given as aforesaid to grant a Licence to be by them subscribed to every Hawker Pedlar Petty Chapman or any other trading Person for him or herselfe or for him or herselfe with One or more Horses Asses Mules or other Beasts which hee or she shall travel with as the Case shall require for which Licence there shall be taken onely One shilling unlesse such Hawker Pedlar or Petty Chapman shall travel with Horse Asse or Mule or other Beast of Burthen and in that Case there shall be paid for such Licence Two shillings onely over & above the Duties aforesaid and no more and that the said Co[m]missioners shall keep a separate and distinct Account of the Duties granted by this Act and pay the Money ariseing thereby into his Majesties Exchequer upon Wednesday in every Week (unlesse a Holyday) and if it be a Holyday then on the next Day after that is not a Holyday and upon Neglect or Refusal of the same shall incurr the Penalties Forfeitures Damages and Costs as other the Officers of the Exchequer herein after mentioned shall be liable unto which Money so paid in shall be applied to the Uses herein after menc[i]oned by this Act that is to say for the paying the Interest of the said Three hundred and thirty thousand seven hundred sixty nine pounds ten shillings seven pence in such Sort & Manner and in such Proportions as the Duties ariseing by virtue of the said recited Act made in the Sixth and Seventh Yeare of his Majesties Reigne are appointed to be paid and applied and not otherwise.