Taxation (Whale Fins and Scotch Linen) Act 1697

Recital of 6 & 7 W.III. c.18. §1.; and of 7 & 8 W.III. c. 31. §1.;

§49; One Moiety of the Duties granted by the said Acts upon Glass and Glass Wares; and the whole of the Duties thereby granted upon Stone Bottles, &c. determined; and in lieu thereof the Duties following.

Whereas, in and by an Act made and passed in the Parliament holden at Westminster in the Sixth Year of His Majesties Reigne intituled An Act for granting to His Majesty certain Duties upon Glass Wares Stone and Earthen Bottles Coals and Culm for carrying on the Warr against France several Rates and Duties therein mentioned were laid upon all Glass and Glass Wares Stone and Earthen Bottles which at any time or times during the terme of Five Years from [X1 and after ] the Nine and twentieth Day of September which was in the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety five should be made within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and [X2 Town] of Berwick upon Tweed or imported or brought into the same And in by an other Act made and passed in the Parliament holden at Westminster in the Seventh Year of His Majesties Reign intituled An Act for continuing to His Majesty certain Duties upon Salt Glass Wares Stone and Earthen Wares and for granting several Duties upon Tobacco Pipes and other Earthen Wares for carrying on the Warr against France and for, establishing a National Land Bank and for taking off the Duties upon Tunnage of Shipps and upon Coals the aforesaid Rates and Duties upon Glass or Glass Wares Stone Bottles and Earthen Bottles are continued and granted to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors for ever And it was thereby further enacted That from and after the Seventeenth day of May One thousand six hundred ninety six there should be raised and paid to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors for ever for and upon all Sorts of Tobacco Pipes and for and upon all such Stone or Earthen Wares as are therein mentioned certain Rates and Duties therein expressed as by the said several Acts of Parliament relation being thereunto severally had may more fully appear And whereas it is found by experience that the said Rates and Duties upon Glass and Glass Wares are too great so that the Makers of those Manufactures in this Kingdom are thereby discouraged and that the said Duties upon Stone Bottles Earthen Bottles and other Stone and Earthen Wares and the said Duties upon Tobacco Pipes are vexatious and troublesome and very chargable in the levying and collecting of the same Be it therefore enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporall and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by Authority of the same That from and after the First Day of August One thousand six hundred ninety eight One moiety or halfe part of the several Rates and Duties by the aforesaid Acts or either of them chargeable and made payable for or upon the said Glass and Glass Wares and the whole Rates and Duties by the same Acts or either of them charged and made payable for or upon Stone Bottles Earthen Bottles Stone Wares and Earthen Wares and for or upon all Tobacco Pipes as aforesaid shall cease determine and be no longer payable to His Majesty His Heirs or Successors in any manner of wise Any thing in the said Acts or either of them contained to the contrary notwithstanding And in lieu and recompence thereof wee Your Majesties most dutiful and loyall Subjects the Commons in Parliament assembled do freely and unanimously give and grant unto Your Majesty the Impositions Rates and Duties herein after expressed.

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X1 O. omits.

X2 interlined on the Roll.