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Taxation Act 1692

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VIII.Recital of 2 W. & M. Sess. 2. c. 4.

Additional Duty on Raisins and Currants imported.

And whereas by the said Act entituled An Act for granting to their Majesties certain Impositions on all East India Goods and Merchandize and upon all wrought Silks and upon several other Goods and Merchandize to be imported after the Five and twentieth day of December One thousand six hundred and ninety the Sum of Ten Pounds is imposed on every Hundred Pounds value of Grocery Ware and Druggs wherein the several sorts of Raisins mentioned in the said Book of Rates, are included, and likewise the Sum of Five Pounds for every Hundred Pounds value of Currants which is found by experience to lessen the Importation thereof Wherefore for remedy thereof and the incouragement of Merchants to import the said Goods Be it enacted That from and after the Five and twentieth day of March One thousand six hundred ninety and three and thenceforth dureing the continuance of the said Act the Sum of Five Pounds only shall be paid for every Hundred Pounds value of Raisins of any sort to be imported after the said time over and above the Rates thereon charged in the said Book of Rates And Fifty Shillings and no more for every Hundred Pounds value of Currants imported after the said time and thenceforth dureing the continuance of the last mentioned Act over and above the Rates charged thereon in the said Book of Rates (the said Act or any thing therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding the same to be collected as in and by the said Act is directed and appointed

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