Exportation (Beer and Cider) Act 1688

Ale, &c. may be exported.; Paying Duty of Custom.; Gauger, &c. to certify Quantity.; Excise to be repaid.

For the Advancement of Trade and Encouragement of Tillage and Manufacture of this Realme Bee it enacted by the King and Queens most excellent Majestyes, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons in Parlyament assembled and by the authoritie of the same That from and after the twenty fourth of June in the yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred eighty nine It shall and may be lawfull for any person in any Seaport or upon any Navigable River to export and shipp off as Merchandize within any of the usuall and allowed Ports by Law and at the common Keyes for Exportation and ladeing on Board of Merchandize or Keyes to be appointed for that purpose and within the usuall houres of Excize for accompt of himselfe or any other (to be exported into Forreigne parts) in the presence of a sworne Gauger or other sworne Officer to be appointed by the Farmers Commissioners or Sub Com[m]issioners of their Majestyes Excise upon Notice thereof to them given at the Office of Excise within the Limitts whereof the said Ale Beere Sider and Mum was brewed or made of the respective Port or Place whence the same shall be shipped any sort of strong Ale strong Beere Sider or Mum to be spent beyond the Seas paying Custome for the same after the Rate of one shilling for every Tunn which shall be exported in any English or Forreigne Vessell and noe more or other Duty whatsoever Which said Gauger or Officer aforesaid shall certifie the quantity of the said Beere Ale Syde or Mum shipped off to the Commissioners and Officers of Excise where the Entry thereof shall be made who are hereby required to make allowance or repay the Excise of the Beere Ale Syder or Mum soe exported unto the Brewer or Maker thereof within one month after such Exportation deducting three pence per Tunn for the Charges of their Officers and noe more