Standard of Silver Plate, etc. Act 1696

IX. Cap. 6. ante.

Collectors may receive the Land Tax in wrought Plate at 5s. 4d. an Ounce, &c. before 1st Jan. 1697. No Allowance for Solder, except in hollow Part of Plate.; Receipt of Collector a Discharge against the Crown.

And whereas several Persons, who are possessed of Plate who are or shall be assessed by an Act intituled An Act for granting an Aid to his Majesty as well by a Land Tax as by several Subsidies and other Duties payable for one Yeare for or in respect of their Manors Lands Tenements Rents Offices Persons Stocks Debts or other Matters or Things charged by the said Act or shall be charged by other Act or Acts that shall be passed this Sessions of Parliament and may be willing and desirous to pay or satisfie in wrought Plate having the Hall Marke att the Rate of Five shillings and foure pence an Ounce all or several of the Monthly Payments by the said Act intended to be satisfied by them and all other Payments that shall become due by any Act or Acts that shall be passed this Sessions of Parliament Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawfull to and for any Person or Persons att any time before the First Day of June One thousand six hundred ninety seven to satisfye & pay the respective Collector or Collectors in such wrought Plate att such Rate as aforesaid without and deduction for Soader unlesse for such Soader as shall be in any hollow Part of the said Plate all or any such other Monthly or other Payments assessed upon him her or them for the said whole Yeare or for any Months thereof before hand which said Collectors are hereby enjoyned and required upon every such Payment so made before hand to give the Party or Parties paying the same an Acquittance expressing the Su[m]m received for such Monthly or other Payments for the respective Ma[n]nors Lands Tenements Rents Offices Persons Stocks Debts or other Matters or Things for which such Payments shall be so made and every such Acquittance shall be a good Discharge against His Majesty His Heires and Successors as if the Su[m]ms chargeable by the said Act on such Mannors Lands Tenements Rents Offices Persons Stocks Debts or other Matters or Things were assessed or answered att such several and respective Monthly or other Payments as aforesaid Any thing in the said Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.