East India Company Act 1697

IV. Makers and Proprietors of Salt to make true Entries with the Officers; and to take Warrant for removing Salt, gratis; upon Payment of or Security for Duty within Six Months after Entry.

And be it enacted That all Makers and Proprietors of Salt and Rock Salt within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed shall from time to time make true Entryes with the said Officers so to be appointed as aforesaid some or one of them of the Quantities of Salt so by them made or taken out of any Pitt or Pitts and delivered or imported as aforesaid And shall likwise have a Warrant or Ticket under the Hand and Seal of some one of the X1 Officers impowring such Maker or Proprieter of Salt to carry away the same before such time as the said Salt made or taken out of any Pitt or Pitts within any the Places aforesaid or any part thereof shall be removed or carryed from the respective Salt Works or Pits under the several Penalties and Forfeitures herein after mentioned which said Warrant the said Officers are hereby required to give gratis and without Delay unto the said Makers or Proprietors of such Salt upon Payment or giving Security for the Payment of the Duties hereby granted within Six Months after such Entry made which Security the said Commissioners and Officers are hereby authorized and required to accept upon such Entry as aforesaid.

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: said O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]