Taxation (Liquor) Act 1689

42 Car. II. c. 23.; Rates upon Beer, &c. given by 12 Car. II. c. 23. now given to the King and Queen for their Lives; Manner of levying as by former Acts.

The Commons assembled in Parlyament duly considering how much it conduceth to the Safety Peace and Prosperity of a Kingdome that the publick Revenue thereof be in some Measure proportionable to the publicke Charges and with Thankfulnes and Admiration calling to remembrance his Majestyes glorious and successfull Undertakeing for the deliverance of the People of this Nation from Popery and Arbitrary Power have unanimously given and granted and doe hereby give and grant unto their Majestyes (whome God long preserve) the severall Rates Impositions Dutyes and Charges upon Beere Ale Cider and other Liquors mentioned in an Act of Parliament made in the twelfth yeare of the Raigne of his late Majestie King Charles the Second Entituled A Grant of certaine Impositions upon Beere Ale and other Liquors for the Increase of his Majestyes Revenue dureing his Life and thereby granted to the said King for his Life (except such and soe much of them concerning which it is otherwise provided or ordained by any Act made in the last Parlyament) and doe most humbly beseech their Majestyes that it may be enacted And 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 this present Parliament assembled and by the authoritie of the same That the severall Rates Duties and Impositions upon Beere. Ale Cider and other Liquors aforesaid be levyed collected and paid unto their Majestyes dureing their Lives and the Life of the Survivor of them in the same manner and forme and at such places and by such rules wayes and means and under such penalties and forfeitures as are mentioned expressed and directed in and by the said Act and alsoe in and by another Act of Parliament made in the fifteenth yeare of the Raigne of his said late Majestie Entituled An Additionall Act for the better ordering and collecting the Duty of Excise and preventing the Abuses therein or by any other Law now in force relateing to the said Revenue of Excise and that the aforesaid Acts and every Article Rule and Clause therein mentioned shall be of full force and effect to all intents and purposes dureing their Majestyes Lives and the Life of the Survivor of them in like Manner as if the same were particularly and at large recited and sett downe in the Body of this Act.