Taxation (Tonnage and Poundage) Act 1689

V. Office to be kept in London for Receipt of the said Duties. Receiver General to separate three Parts in Four after Debentures, &c. paid.

Distinct Accounts kept of the said Three Parts; Weekly Payment into the Exchequer.

And to the end that all moneys which shall be soe lent unto their Majestyes may be well and sufficiently secured out of the moneys ariseing and payable by this Act with Interest for the same not exceeding the respective Rates aforesaid Bee it further enacted by the authoritie aforesaid That from and after the first day of November one thousand six hundred and ninety dureing the continuance of this Act there shall be continued and be within the City of London an Office for the generall Receipt of all the Subsidies and other Sums by this Act granted into which Office all the moneys ariseing by the same either within the Port of London or in the Out-Ports or elsewhere shall be well and truely answered and paid unto the Hands of the Receiver or Receivers Generall for that purpose appointed or to be appointed by their Majestyes their Heires or Successors which said Receiver or Receivers Generall is and are hereby directed and required from time to time at the said Office to separate and keepe apart three parts (the whole in foure equall parts to be divided) of the whole Receipt of the said moneys (as the same shall from time to time become due and be paid into the said Office by the severall Receivers Collectors or any others who are or shall be employed to pay the same) which shall remaine from time to time after the Payments which shall be made thereout by vertue of any Laws now in force upon Debentures for Goods that are or shall be reshipt or for Corne exported or for Discounts upon Bonds where Discounts are allowable by Law and of such allowances for damaged Goods and of Bills of Portage as have usually beene made and the Comptroller Generall of the accounts of the Customs for the time being is hereby alsoe required and commanded to keepe a perfect and distinct account in Books fairly written of the said three parts as the same shall come in to which Books all persons concerned shall have free accesse at all seasonable times without Fee or Charge and the said Receiver or Receivers Generall is and are hereby required and strictly enjoyned from time X1 to pay weekly to witt on Wednesday in every Weeke unlesse it be a Holy-day and if it be then the next day after that is not a Holy-day the said three parts of all such moneys as aforesaid into the Receipt of their Majestyes Exchequer distinct and apart from the other moneys which he or they shall receive for their Majestyes use

Editorial Information

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