Taxation (No. 6) Act 1690

XVIII. c. 4. ante, § 57.

c. 5 ante.; An Office of Receipt for Customs given formerly upon East India Goods and Tobacco, &c. to be in London.; Receiver General to keep apart the Duties of c. 4. and c. 5. ante; and so to remain after Payments thereout herein mentioned.; Comptroller General of the Customs to keep distinct Accounts.; Receiver General to pay into the Exchequer weekly.; Penalty.

And whereas by an Act made in this present Session of Parliament Entituled An Act for granting to Their Majesties certaine Impositions upon all East India Goods and Manufactures and upon all Wrought Silks and severall other Goods and Merchandize to be Imported after the Five and twentyeth day of December One thousand six hundred and ninety It is Enacted That it shall be lawfull for any person or persons to advance and lend to Their Majestyes any Summe or Summes of money upon the Security of the said Act and whereas by another Act made in this p[re]sent Session of Parlyament Entituled An Act for the Continuance of severall former Acts therein mentioned for the laying severall Duties upon Wines Vinegar and Tobacco It is Enacted That it shall be lawfull for any person or persons to advance and lend to Their Majestyes any Summe or Summes of money as well upon the Security of the same Act as upon the Security of two former Acts therein mentioned made in the Raigne of the late King James in such manner as in the said last mentioned Act made in this present Session of Parlyament is expressed Now to the end that it may appeare what moneys shall arise or become payable to Their Majesties by vertue of the said Acts whereby the moneys advanced to Their Majesties upon the Credit of the same may be the better secured Bee it Enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That from and after the Five and twentyeth day of December One thousand six hundred and ninety dureing the continuance of the said Acts respectively there shall be continued and be within the City of London an Office for the Receipt of all the Duties and Sum[m]s of Money granted or payable to Their Majesties by vertue of the X1 last mentioned Acts or either of them In which Office all the Moneys ariseing by the same within the Port of London or in the Out-Ports or elsewhere shall be well and truely answered and paid to the Reciever or Recievers Generall of Their Majestyes Customs to be appointed by Their Majesties Which said Reciever or Recievers Generall is and are hereby directed and required from time to time at the said Office to separate and keepe apart the whole Receipt of the said Moneys due and payable by vertue of the said Act Intituled An Act for granting to Their Majesties certaine. Impositions upon all East India Goods and Manufactures and upon all Wrought Silks and severall other Goods and Merchandize to be Imported after the Five and twentyeth day of December One thousand six hundred and ninety As alsoe to separate and keepe apart the whole Reciept of all Moneys granted to Their Majestyes by the said Act intituled An Act for the Continuance of severall former Acts therein mentioned for the laying severall Duties upon Wine Vinegar and Tobacco or thereby made a Fond of Credit as aforesaid as the same shall respectively become due and be paid into the said Office by the severall Recievers Collectors or any others who are or shall be imployed to pay the same and shall remaine from time to time after the payments which shall be made thereout by vertue of any Laws in force upon Debentures for Goods that shall be Reshipt or for Corne exported or for Discounts upon Bonds where Discounts are allowable by Law and of such allowances of 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 perfect and distinct Accounts in Books fairly written of the said severall and respective Duties and Summs of Money as the same shall respectively 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 Recievers Generall is and are hereby required and strictly enjoyned from time to time to pay weekly to witt on Wednesday in every Weeke unlesse it be an Holy-day and then the next Day after which shall not be an Holy-day the said severall and respective Sums as aforesaid into the Receipt of Their Majestyes Exchequer distinct and apart from all the other Moneys which he or they shall receive for Their Majestyes use And if the Reciever or Recievers Generall for the time being shall refuse or neglect to pay into the Receipt of the Exchequer the said Sums of Money ariseing as aforesaid in such manner as he or they are before required or enjoyned to doe or shall divert or misapply any part of the same then he or they for any such Offence shall forfeit his or their Office of Reciever or Recievers Generall and be incapable of any Office Employment or place of Trust whatsoever and shall be lyable to pay the full value of any Summe or Summes soe diverted or misapplyed to any person or persons who shall sue for the same by any Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of Their Majestyes Courts of Record at Westminster wherein noe Essoigne Protection Wager of Law or Priviledge or more than one Imparlance shall be granted or allowed

Editorial Information

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