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Stamps Act 1697
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XIII.Commissioners, &c. to observe the Directions of the Treasury; and furnish the several Parts of the Kingdom with stamped Vellum, &c.
And be it enacted That the Chief Commissioners or Officers [X1so] to be appointed and all Sub-Commissioners and Officers to be imployed [X1or intrusted] by or under them as aforesaid in relation to the said Duties on Parchment Velum and Paper shall from time to time in and for the better Execution of their several Places and Trusts observe and performe such Rules Methods and Orders as they respectively shall from time to time receive from the said Commissioners of the Treasury now being or from the Treasurer of the Exchequer or the Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being or any Three or more of them and that the Chief Commissioners so to be appointed shall take especial Care that the several Parts of this Kingdom and the Dominion of Wales and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed shall from time to time be sufficiently furnished with Velum Parchment and Paper stamped and marked as aforesaid so as the Subjects of His Majesty His Heirs and Successors may have it in their Election to buy the same of the Officers or Persons to be imployed by the said Commissioners at the usual or most common Rates above the said Duty or to bring their own Velum Parchment or Paper to be stamped as aforesaid or to furnish themselves or others that shall have done the same.
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X1Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: the O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]
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