Taxation Act 1696

VII. Places for drying, &c. not to be used before Notice.

Makers to permit Officers to take Notice of Stock of Rags, &c; Entry to be made of Paper, &c. within Five Days after drying, &c. and before Removal, and Duty paid within Six Months.; Penalty.; Permit for Removal gratis.; Allowance of £10 per Cent. on prompt Payment.

And the better to prevent any Frauds or Concealments whereby His Majesty His Heires or Successors may be injured or deprived of His or their Dues according to the true Meanyng of this Act Be it further enacted That the several Makers of Paper which shall be made dureing the Terme aforesaid shall use no Place for drying the same or making it fitt for Use other than such Co[m]mon Place or Places whereof hee she or they first shall have given Notice to the proper Officer of the said Duties to be the Place or Places for his her or their drying or finishing the same And that the several Makers of Parchment or Vellum which shall be made dureing the Terme aforesaid shall use no Pitts or Places for the preparing making drying or finishing the same other then such Pitts or Places whereof hee shee or they shall first have given the like Notice to the proper Officer of the said Duties to be the Pitts or Places for his her or their preparing making drying or finishing the same And that the respective Makers of the said Paper Parchment or Vellum shall from time to time permitt & suffer the respective Officers of the said Duties who shall be thereunto appointed to take Notice of the Stock or Quantities of their Skins Rags Stuffs or other Mat[er]ials for making of the said Vellum Parchment or Paper and of such Vellum Parchment or Paper as they shall so make and of their Proceedings in making [X1 and] converting the same into Paper Parchment or Vellum and shall from time to time within Five Days after such Parchment Paper or Vellum shall be dryed so as to be fitt for Use and before the Removal thereof make true Entry with His Majesties Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to attend such Mills or Works respectively or give them true Accounts in Writing of the several Quantities and Kinds of Parchment Paper or Vellum as shall be so by them respectively made and att the time of making such Entries or within Six Months after shall pay His Majesties Duties by this Act payable for the same and shall likewise have a Permission signed by some one of the said Officers to carry away every or any Parcel of such Co[m]modities before such time as the same shall be removed or carryed away from the Worke-house or other Place where such Goods shall be first putt after their being dryed and fitt for Use under the several Penalties and Forfeitures herein after mentioned which Permitts the said Officers are hereby required to give gratis unto the said Makers of such Paper Parchment or Vellum upon paying the said Duty, hereby granted or securing the same to be paid within the said Six Months. And if any such Maker or Makers att the time of such Entry shall pay down the Duty hereby, imposed hee she or they shall be allowed for such Prompt Payment after the Rate of Ten Pounds per Cents per Annum upon every Su[m]m so to be paid for the said time of Six Months.

Editorial Information

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