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Hawkers Act 1697
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IV.Two Commissioners may grant Licence.
Fee; Commissioners to keep distinct Account of Duties, and pay into Exchequer weekly; Penalty; Application of Money paid in.
And be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners to be appointed pursuant to this Act or any Two or more of them and they are hereby directed appointed and required upon the Terms aforesaid and upon the Receipt and Security given as aforesaid to grant a Licence to be by them subscribed to every Hawker Pedlar Petty Chapman or any other Trading Person for him or her self [X1or for him or her selfe] with One or more Horses Asses or Mules or other Beast which he or she shall travel with as the Case shall require for which Licence there shall be taken only Shilling unless such Hawker Pedlar or Petty Chapman shall travel with Horse Ass or Mule or other Beast of Burthen and in that Case there shall be paid for such Licence only. Two Shillings over and above the Duties aforesaid and no more And that, the said Co[m]missioners to be appointed pursuant to this Act shall keep a seperate and distinct Account of the Duties granted by this Act and pay the Money ariseing thereby into His Majesties Exchequer upon Wednesday in every Week (unless a Holy day) and if it be a Holiday then on the Day next after that is not a Holiday and upon Neglect or Refusall of the same shall incur the Penalties Forfeitures Damages and Costs as other the Officers of the Exchequer herein after mentioned shall be liable unto which Money so paid in shall be applied to the Uses herein after mentioned by this Act that is to say to pay Interest for the said Transport Debt after the Rate of Five Pounds per Centum for one whole Year and so proportionable for any greater or lesser Sum.
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