Taxation (No. 2) Act 1694

VII. Debentures, &c. due since 24th Dec. to be paid.

And least any doubt should arise by the intermission or discontinuance of the duties hereby granted whether Debentures for any Goods and Merchandize exported or any Allowances or Abatements for any damage or defects upon any Goods or Merchandize imported or for Over-entries which according to the ordinary course of the Customes ought to have been made or paid shall bee due and payable out of the duties hereby granted It is hereby further enacted That all such Debentures Allowances and Abatements as have incurred or growne due according to the co[m]mon Rules and Course of the Customs since the Foure and twentieth day of December in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred and ninety shall still remaine due and payable and bee allowed in their ordinary course as if noe such intermission or discontinuance had been made.