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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coinage-act-1672/section-II",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coinage-act-1672/section-II.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Cha2/25/8",
  "legislation_title": "Coinage Act 1672",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coinage-act-1672",
  "path": "section/II",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "II",
  "heading": "Recital of 18 (18 & 19) C. II. c.5. ? 6. and of the Inconvenience thereof.",
  "text": "Regulation as to what Officers the Monies levied under this Act are to be paid.; Certificate from Comptroller General of the Customs.; Quietus.; Further like Regulations where the Customs farmed.; Certificate.; Quietus.\nProvided alwayes that whereas by the said Act it is enacted That the moneys leavyed, collected and paid by vertue thereof should be leavyed, collected and paid at the respective Custome-houses to the Collectors and other Officers of the Customes for the time being, and be by them respectively paid into the Receipt of the Exchequer, whereby each of the said Collectors are oblidged to passe a distinct accompt in the Exchequer for the moneyes received by them by vertue of the said Acts, although the summes received by many of them are very small and inconsiderable, and yet noe allowance to bee made unto them for the doeing thereof; For the avoiding of this unnecessary trouble and inconvenience to the said Collectors bee it enacted and it is hereby enacted by the authoritie aforesaid That during such time as the Customes shall be in Collection under the mannagement of Commissioners, the moneys collected, leavyed and paid by vertue of this Act shall be levyed, collected and paid to such Officers, as doe or shall from time to time collect and receive the Customes in the respective Ports upon the Commodities charged by this Act, and shall be by them respectively answered and paid to the Receiver Generall of the Customes now and for the time being, whose acquittance shall be to them and every of them a sufficient discharge for the moneys by them paid to him and a Certificate by them obtained, yearely or oftner from the Comptroller Generall of the Accompts of the customes now and for the time being with the allowance of the Commissioners of the Customes or any three or more of them, of their haveing soe paid all the moneys by them received shall be to them and every of them a Quietus and free them from all other accompts or trouble for the same. And in case the Customes shall be farmed that the moneys leavyed.; collected and paid by vertue of this Act dureing such time shall be collected leavyed and paid in the respective Ports to such person. as shall be appointed to the Lord Treasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being to leavy, collect and receive the same and be by them paid to such person as shall be in like manner appointed to receive the said moneys from them, whose acquittance shall be to them and every of them a sufficient discharge for the moneys by them paid to him, and a certificate by them obtained yearely or oftner from such person or persons as shall be in like manner appointed to give such Certificate of their haveing soe paid all the moneys by them received shall be to them and every of them a Quietus, and free them from all other accompts or trouble for the said moneys, Any thing in the said Act for the encouragement of Coynage, or any other Law, Statute or Usage to the contrary, in, any wise notwithstanding.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Persons O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]"
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X2",
      "text": "Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: by O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/25/8/section/II",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:27:30.192101+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}