House of Commons (Disqualification) Act 1693

III. Duty under Commissioners of Excise, Collectors, &c. how appointed. Penalties, &c. recovered as by 12 Car. II. c. 24. or any other Law in Force.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Dutyes on Salt shall from time to time be within the receipt management and government of the chief Comissioners and Governors of the receipt of Excise for the time being and that all Collectors and other Officers necessary for the ascertaining collecting or receiving of the said Duty upon Salt shall be constituted and appointed under the Hands and Seals of the said Commissioners and Governors of the receipt of Excise for the time being or the major part of them and that all Penalties and Forfeitures by this Act imposed shall be sued for recovered levied and received or mitigated by the same means rules ways and methods as any Penaltie or Forfeiture is to be sued for or recoverable or is menc[i]oned expressed or directed to be recovered in and by one Act of Parliament made in the twelfth yeare of the Reign of the late King Charles the Second entituled An Act for takeing away the Court of Wards and Liveries and Tenures in capite and by Knights Service and Purveyance and settling a Revenue on His Majesty in lieu thereof or by any other Law or Statute now in force relateing to the Revenue of Excise and that as fully and amply to all intents as if the several clauses in the said Acts or any of them contained were herein reenacted and repeated.