Taxation Act 1696

VI. Before 25th March 1697 Makers to give Notice to Commissioner or Officer, of Manufactory, and Name and Place of Abode.

The like on Change of Manufactory. Penalty £20.

And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the Maker or Makers of the said Manufactures of Paper Parchment and other the said Co[m]modities or any of them shall before the Five and twentieth Day of March One thousand six hundred ninety seven give Notice in Writing to some one or more of the Co[m]missioners or Officers to be appoynted to manage or collect the said Duties or cause such Notice to be left where such Co[m]missioners or Officers shall usually reside or execute his or their Trust of the Place or Places where every such Person or Persons do usually make the Manufactures aforesaid with their Names and Places of Abode respectively And that all and every such Maker or Makers as often as hee she or they shall change their Places of working or making of Vellum Parchment or Paper and all and every Person & Persons who shall att any time or times hereafter be the Maker or Makers of any such Co[m]modities as aforesaid or any of them shall give or leave the like Notice of their respective Names and Places of Abode and the Places where they shall make or intend to make any such Parchment Paper or other the Co[m]modities, aforesaid before they or any of them do presume to make the same in any such New Place or Places to the End the said Co[m]missioners or other OfficersX1 from time to time have due Knowledge of all the Places where the said Goods shall be made and be the better enabled to secure the Duties hereby granted thereupon And if any such Maker or Makers shall neglect to give or leave such Notice as is required by this Act hee she or they shall for every such Offence forfeit the Su[m]m of Twenty Pounds the one Moiety to His Majesty His Heires and Successors and the other Moiety to him or them that shall sue for the same as aforesaid.

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: may O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]