Taxation Act 1692

XXII. An Oath to be taken by the Commissioners and Officers of the Customs.

And as well that the Revenue of the Customs may be more duly and regularly answered as to render the several Imposts granted by this present Act a more effectual supply to Their Majesties be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That as well the Commissioners as the Patent Officers and any of their Deputies Clerks or Servants who have or shall have any imployment in or about Their Majesties Customs shall before the Nineteenth day of April next or att their respective admissions hereafter to such imployment take their Corporal Oaths for the true and faithfull execution to the best of their knowledge and power of their several Trusts and Imployments comitted to their charge and inspection and that they will not take or receive any Reward or Gratuity directly or indirectly other then their respective Salaries and what is or shall be allowed them from the Crowne or the regular Fees established by Law for any service done or to be done in the execution of their imployment in the Customs upon any account whatsoever.