East India Company Act 1697

We Your Majesties most dutiful and loyal Subjects the Commons in Parliament assembled considering Your Majesties extraordinary Occasions and being desirous to supply the same in such manner as may be least grievous to Your Majesties Subjects do humbly present Your Majesty with the further Gift of the Impositions Rates and Duties herein after mentioned and do beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted 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 Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by Authority of the same That there shall be throughout the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed raised levied collected and paid unto His Majesty His Heirs and Successors for Salt the several additional Rates and Duties herein after mentioned (over and above all other Duties already payable for the same by any Act or Acts of Parliament before this time made and now in force) that is to say.

An additional Duty of 5d. per Gallon on Salt imported, from 1st July 1698 to 25th Dec. 1699;

For every Gallon of Salt that from and after the First Day of July One thousand six hundred ninety eight and before [X1 the] Five and twentieth Day of December which shal be in the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety nine shall be imported into the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed the Sum of Five Pence of lawful English Money to be paid by the Importer and Importers thereof and after that Rate for a greater or lesser Quantity.

and from 24th Dec. 1699 for ever, 7d. per Gallon.

And for every Gallon of Salt that from and after the Four and twentieth Day of December which shall be in the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety and nine and in all times coming from thenceforth for ever shall be imported as aforesaid there shall be paid to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors as a perpetual Duty the Sum of Seven Pence of like Money to be paid by the Importer and Importers thereof and after that Rate for a greater or lesser Quantity.

For Home-made Salt, from 1st July 1698 to 25th Dec. 1699, 2½d. per Gallon.

And for every Gallon of Salt and Rock Salt that from and after the said First Day of July One thousand six hundred ninety eight and before the Five and twentieth Day of December [X2 which shall be in the Year of our Lord] One thousand six hundred ninety nine shall be made at the Salt Works or taken out of any Salt Pitt or Pitts within the said Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed or sold or delivered from the same there shall be paid to His Majesty the Sum of Two Pence Halfe peny of like Money and after that Rate for a greater or lesser Quantity.

And from 24th Dec. 1699 for ever, 3½d. per Gallon; subject nevertheless to Redemption.

And for every Gallon of Salt and Rock Salt that from and after the Four and twentieth Day of December One thousand six hundred ninety nine and in all times coming from thenceforth for ever shall be made at the Salt Works or be taken out of any Pitt or Pitts within the Kingdom Dominion or Town aforesaid there shall be paid to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors as a perpectual Duty the Sum of Three Pence Halfe peny of like Money and after that Rate for a greater or lesser Quantity which said Duties upon Salt hereby granted shall nevertheless be subject to such Condition and Power of Redemption as are hereafter in this Act conteined.

Editorial Information

X1 interlined on the Roll.

X2 interlined on the Roll.