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 A. D. 1696.' Anno feptimo 6c o^avo GuLiELMi 111. C. 19. 605 ment, and eftreat it into the Exchequer. Juftices of Peace to be Commiflioners for the laft fix Years. Colle£tors for preceding Years to deliver Copies of their Afieflinciits, and alfo the Names of two able Pcrfons to be Colledtors for the enfuing Year, to the Tuftices in ten Days after the Year's End. [By 6 Geo, I. c. 21. §. 61, Juftices of Peace may appoint CoiletSors and make Re-afTcffinents.] Houfes or Windows omitted, or not duly charged, Commiflioners examine Inhabitants. On Default of Appear- ance, to pay Double. Letters Patents no Exemption from Payment. Non olijlante's to be void. Parents or Guardians to pay for Perfons under twenty-one Years of Age. Colleftors not paying the Money re- ceived, to be imprifoned, and their Eftates fcized. The Commiflioners to fell fuch Eftate, and pay the Sum detained to the Receiver General. Commiflioners not liable to the Penalties in the A£t of 25 Car. 2. c. 2. Occupiers of Houfes who pay not to Church and Poor, excepted. Houfes built in (Varivick fine© the late Fire, not to be charged. 1,200,000/. may be lent on this Aft. Intereit for 600,000/. atji.pir Cent. And for the Remainder 8 /. per Cent. Money lent not to be taxed. A Regifter to be kept of all Monies paid in, and entred apart. Perfons lending Monies to have a Talley, and an Order for Repay- ment with Intereft every three Months. Orders to be regiftred, and paid in Courfe, without undue Pre- ference. No Fee to be taken for Books or Searches. Orders entred may be afligned. Aflignee may affign again, and fo toties quoties. Monies coming in by Loans on this Act, other than what is appointed ^ ■^^r_ ^ j_ for batisfailion of the fame, iyV. to be applied for making good Deficiency of the dipt Money. Conimiflio- ners of the Treafury to take an Account of the Deficiencies, and apply the Money arifing by this Aft. Monies placed to the Account of fuch Deficiency, to be paid out fo far as it will extend, and not diver- tible. [Thefe Duties were made Part of the Aggregate Fund by 3 Geo. i. c. 8.] CAP. XIX. An Aft to encourage the bringing Plate into tlie Mint tp be coined, and for the Remedying the ill State of the Coin of xhi Kingdom. ■&- in. A ND be it further enafted by the Authority aforefaid, That from and after the fourth Day of May, No Retailers of x which fliall be in the Year of our Lord one thoufand fix hundred ninety-fix, no Perfon keeping Liquors to ufe qc an Inn, Tavern, Alehoufe or Viftualling-houfe, or felling Wine, Ale, Beer, or any other Liquors by "P°fe wrought S.etail, fhall publickly ufe or expofe to be ufed in fuch his or her Houfe, any wrought or manufactured g'"^jj'jj"*^"^^^^ Plate whatfoever, or any Utenfil or Veffel thereof (except Spoons) under the Penalty of forfeiting the fame, Penalty. or the full Value thereof, together with full Cofts of Suit, to him, her or them, who fhall fue for the n & ii W. 3, fame in any of His Maje{ty's Courts of Record at Wejiminfter, by Bill, Plaint, or Information, wherein no '• 's- §• »• Eflbin, Protection, Wager of Law, or Imparlance, fhall be allowed. " All Coining Prefles not brought into the Mint before i March 1695, to be feized. Duties of Excife and EXP. " PoftOfEce received in dipt Monies by 7 W. 3. c. i. to be recoined, for Payment of Tallies in Courfe. " Account to be kept of the Weight and Tale. Charges excepted. New Monies to be iffued for Payment " of Tallies and Intereft. Account to be kept of the dipt and new Monies." VI. And for the more effeCtual prohibiting the melting down the Coin of this Kingdom, and Silver Plate No Perfba to- wrought within this Realm, and the Elxportation of the molten Silver and Bullion of this Kingdom, be it ""P mo'tenSiU enadted by the Authority aforefaid. That from and after the laflrDay of March one thoufand fix hundred ^^;^|°o^fcer°r ninety-fix, no Perfon or Perfons whatfoever fhall fhip or caufe to be (hipped or put on board any VefTel or ficue and Oath- Ship whatfoever, any molten Silver or Bullion whatfoever, either in Bars, Ingots, Wedges, Cakes, Pinas, thatthefame is or in any other Form whatfoever, unlefs a Certificate be firft had and obtained from the Court of the Lord Foreign Bullion^ Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London, Oath having been made before the faid Court, by the Ov/ner ^"'^ ■"" comeJ, ©r Owners of fuch molten Silver or Bullion, and likewife by two or more credible Witnefles, that the fame E^f'/g^l" '" molten Silver and Bullion, and every Part and Parcel thereof, was and is foreign Bullion, and that no Part By 9 aVo w. j, thereof was (before the fame was molten) the Coin of this Realm, or Clippings thereof, nor Plate wrought c. zS. Watches, ■within this Kingdom ; which Oath the faid Court of the faid Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Sword Hilts, London are hereby required and authorized to adminifter, and to examine flriCtly all and every fuch Per- ^'■^"fht Plate, fons as fhall make fuch Oath concerning the Premifles, and likewife to make and grant a Certificate thereof, por'ted"&J ^*" as aforefaid, without Fee or Reward ; which Certificate fhall alfo contain and exprefs the Name and Names _ -r' ' of the Owner or Owners of fuch molten Silver or Bullion, and of the Witnefs or WitnefiTes, and the true exprcfs'theOwn- Weight of fuch molten Silver or Bullion ; an Entry of which Certificate fhall be duly made by the faid er's Name, Court, in a Book to be kept for that purpofe; which Certificate fhall be fhewn to the Commiilioners of the Weight of the Cuftoms for the time being, or four of them, before any Cocket be granted for the exporting fuch molten '^"Hiofi to be Silver or Bullion ; and an Entry thereof fhall be alfo duly made by the faid CommilTioners of the Cu- "''ff """^ ^iveii- 'ftoms, in a Book to be kept by them for that Purpofe. g"-is. VII. And be it further enabled. That if any Perfon or Perfons whatfoever fhall fhip, or caufe to be i^olff^n silver {hipped or put on board any Vefiel or Ship, any molten Silver or Bullion whatfoever, as aforefaid, with- °.^"'°" '^P' out Oath, Certificate, and Entry, firft made and obtained, as is before provided; in every fuch Cafe it &r' Office^ fhall and may be lawful to and for any Officer or OflScers of His Majefty's Cuftoms, or any other Perfon Ceize. ' ™^* or Perfons, to feize fuch molten Silver and Bullion fo fhipped and put on board, as forfeited; one Moiety One Moiety to whereof fhall be to His Majefly, His Heirs, and Succeflbrs, and the other Moiety to the OfRcer and t"« K.'"?- the Officers, or Perfons fo feizing the fame; and the Owner or Owners, Proprietor or Proprietors of 2'^" "'* °*^" fuch molten Silver or Bullion, fhall forfeit double the Value of fuch molten Silver or Bullion ; one Mole- '^"' ty v.rhereof fliall be to His Majefty, and the other Moiety to the Perfon that ffiall fue or inform for the Penalty on the fawie, to be recovered with Cofls of Suit, by Adion of Debt, Bill, Plaint, 01 Information, wherein no*^*™':'^'