East India Company Act 1697

XXIX. Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of London, to ascertain and publish the Price of Salt within the City of London and Bills of Mortality

And Justices of Peace, in their General Sessions, for other Places; And the said Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Justices in Sessions, by Writing, may alter and correct Rates;which Rates are to be observed; Selling for higher Prices,; Penalty £5.; Distress.; In Default of Distress,; Imprisonment until Penalty paid.

And for the preventing of Exactions upon Sale of Salt in this Kingdom and to have the Rates and Prices thereof ascertained Be it further enacted and declared by the Authority aforesaid That the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of the City of London shall and may (and are hereby required in the Court of Aldermen within the City of London upon or before the Tenth Day of July in the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety eight) set ascertain and publish in Writing certain reasonable Rates and Prices upon all Salt to be sold or exposed to sale after the said Tenth Day of July in the City of London and Precincts thereof and the Bills of Mortality And that the respective Justices of the Peace for the respective Counties Ridings Divisions Cities and Places within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed shall and may (and are hereby required upon or before the First Day of August in the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety eight at the several and respective General Sessions of the Peace for the said several and respective Counties Ridings Divisions Cities and Places wherein they are or shall be Justices of the Peace) set ascertain and duly publish in Writing certain reasonable Rates and Prices upon all Salt to be sold or exposed to sale after the said First Day of August One thousand six hundred ninety eight within the said several and respective Counties Ridings Divisions Cities and Places wherein they are or shal be Justices of the Peace And that the Lord Mayor of London and the said Court of Aldermen in the Court of Aldermen and that the said respective Justices of the Peace of the several and respective Counties Ridings Divisions Cities and Places aforesaid as aforesaid at the several and respective General Sessions of the Peace for the said several and respective Counties Ridings Divisions Cities and Places wherein they are or shall be Justices of the Peace shall and may and are hereby required from time to time (if necessary) at the several and respective General Sessions of the Peace for the said severall and respective Counties Ridings Divisions Cities and Places from and after the said First Day of August One thousand six hundred ninety eight by Writing duly made and published alter and correct the Rates and Prices of all Salt to be sold and exposed to Sale in the said several and respective Places which Rates and Prices which shall be so set ascertained altered and corrected are hereby enacted and required to be observed accepted received and taken by all and every Person and Persons selling or exposing to sale any Salt within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed And if any Person or Persons shall sell any Salt at any higher Price or Rate or refuse to sell any Salt at the Prices and Rates aforesaid such Person and Persons so offending shall for every such Offence forfeit and pay the Sum of Five Pounds to be levied out of the Goods and Chattells of such Offender or Offenders by Distress and Sale thereof by Warrant under the Hand and Seal of the Lord Mayor of the City of London or of any Justice or Justices or the Peace for the Place or Places wherein such Offence shall be committed or Distress shall be to be made And in default of sufficient Distress for the same It shall and may be lawful by Warrant under the Hand and Seal from the Lord Mayor of the City of London or from any X1 Justice of the Peace as aforesaid to imprison the said Offender or Offenders until such Offender or Offenders shall pay the said Sum of Five Pounds one Moiety of which Sum of Five Pounds is hereby enacted to be paid to the Use of our Soveraign Lord the King and the other Moiety thereof to be paid to such Person or Persons as shall inform and prosecute for the same before the said Lord Mayor of London or the said respective Justices as aforesaid.

Editorial Information

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