Trade with Africa Act 1697

IX. And deduct £5 Cent.

Company to give an Account yearly to the Cursitor Baron of the Exchequer of Monies received, &c; Goods (Negroes excepted) landed before Entry, forfeited.

Provided always The said Collector or Officer shall deduct for his or their Trouble Five Pounds for every Hundred Pounds for all the Duties ariseing and to be received by vertue of this Act excepting what, Duty shall arise from the Exports and Imports of the said Royal African Company which shall be exempted from the said Allowance Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding And that the said Company and their Successors shall give and render a particular Account in Writing of all the Moneys by them received and also by their Exports and Imports ariseing for the Duties aforesaid and how and in what manner they have disposed and laid out the same yearly within Three Months after the Expiration of every Year unto the Cursiter Baron of the Court of Exchequer and the said Cursiter Baron of the Court of Exchequer is for the better discovering the Truth of such Account hereby impowred to examine such Person or Persons as they judge necessary upon Oath touching the Articles or Particulars in such Account expressed or as many of them as the said Cursiter Baron of the Exchequer shall think fit and that all Goods or Merchandizes (Negroes excepted) which shall be brought from any Part of Africa between Cape Blancho and Cape Mount aforesaid which shall be unladen or landed before Entry made and signed and Oath of the true and real Value thereof made and the Duty paid as aforesaid shall be forfeited or the Value thereof.