Civil List Act 1697

X. Proviso for Repayment of Duties on Exportation of Foreign Goods charged with Tunnage and Poundage. (Exception.) On Certificate of Entry and Payment of Duty; and Oath of Importer and Exporter;

Proviso respecting the above excepted Goods.

Provided always and it is hereby enacted and declared by the Authority aforesaid That in all Cases where any the Foreign Goods or Merchandizes by this Act charged with the Subsidy of Tunnage or Poundage hereby granted (other than and except Foreign Wrought Silk Tobacco Sugars and refined Sugars touching which other Provisions are hereby made) shall at any time or times be again exported by any Merchant English within Twelve Calendary Months or Stranger within Nine Calendary Months after the Importation thereof and that due Proof be first made by Certificate from the proper Officers of the due Entry and Payment of the Subsidy hereby granted of any such X1 Goods Wines or Merchandies inward together with the Oath of the Merchant importing and exporting the same affiring the truth thereof and that all other Requisites shall be performed which are by Law required to be performed in Cases where the half Subsidy is repaid by the said former Act the whole Subsidy by this Act granted and which shall have been actually paid for such Goods Wines or Merchandizes shall without any Delay or Reward be repaid unto such Merchant or Merchants who do export the the same within One Month after Demand thereof or the Security for the said Subsidy by this Act charged shall be vacated as to soe much as shall be so exported And that as to the said Foreign Wrought Silks Tobacco Sugars and refined Sugars no Repayment or Draw back of or for the Subsidy by this Act shall be made or allowed for the same unless they respectively be again exported within the times hereby lymitted for other Goods. And that the like due Proof be made and other Requisites performed for the said Silks Tobacco Sugar and refined Sugar as are hereby directed in the like Case for other Goods or Merchandizes exported And that upon such Exportation of Foreign Wrought Silks and such due Proof made and other Requisites performed for the same not only the Two thirds of the Subsidies by this Act directed to be repaid for such Silks as aforesaid but also the remaining One third of the same Subsidy shall be entirely repaid at the Custome-house. Any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

Editorial Information

X1 foreign O. & King's Printer's Copy.