Taxation, etc. (No. 2) Act 1695

Recital of 5 & 6 W. & M. c. 7. §I.

Duties upon Salt levied as by the said Act, and the said Act made perpetual.

Whereas by an Act made att the Parliament held in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reigne of His present Majesty and the late Queen Mary of blessed Memory intituled An Act for granting to Their Majesties certaine Rates and Duties upon Salt and upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for securing certaine Recompences and Advantages in the said Act mentioned to such Persons as shall voluntarily advance the Su[m]m of Ten hundred thousand Pounds towards carrying on the Warr against France Itt was enacted That from and after the Five and Twentieth day of March One thousand six hundred ninety foure there should be throughout the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Towne of Berwick upon Tweed raised levied collected and paid unto Their Majesties Their Heires and Successors until the Seventeenth day of May which shall be in the Yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety seven and no longer for Salt the several Rates and Duties therein mentioned Wee Your Majesties most loyal and dutiful Subjects the Co[m]mons in Parliament assembled being sensible of the great and necessary Expence in which Your Majesty is engaged for carrying on the present Warr against the French King and being desirous to supply the same in such manner as may be least grievous to Your Majesties Subjects therefore for the Encouragem^t. of such Persons who shall voluntarily contribute to the advancing and paying into Your Majesties Exchequer towards carrying on the said Warr any Su[m]m or Su[m]ms of Money not exceeding the Su[m]m of Five and twenty hundred and sixty foure thousand Pounds upon the respective Terms and Recompences herein after mentioned Wee Your Majesties said loyal and dutiful Subjects the Co[m]mons in Parliament assembled have given and granted and do hereby give and grant unto Your Majesty Your Heires and Successors Kings and Queens of England the several Rates and Duties herein after mentioned. And be it enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Co[m]mons in Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That all and every the Rates and Duties upon Salt granted by the said recited Act shall be raised levied collected answered and paid unto Your Majesty Your Heires and Successors Kings and Queens of England for ever in the same Manner and Forme and by such Rules Ways and Means and under such Penalties and Forfeitures as are mentioned in the said Act for raising levying collecting answering and paying the same for the Terme granted in the said Act And that the said recited Act and every Article Rule and Clause therein mentioned as for and concerning the Rates Duties and Impositions upon Salt shall continue and be in full force for ever as fully and amply to all Intents and Purposes as if the same were particularly recited expressed and enacted in the Body of this Act.