Section V Excise and Post Office Duties received under Proclamations and c. 1. ante, in clipt Monies, and applicable to Payment of Tallies, to be recoined, and new Monies brought back to the Exchequer, and Accounts kept thereof as prescribed by the said Act, and issued and applied to Satisfaction of Tallies in course.
Accounts to be kept of such clipt Monies and of new Monies received back for the same.
And whereas the Hereditary Branch of His Majesties Revenue of Excise upon Beere Ale and other Liquors and those Duties of Excise which are to continue during His Majesties Life (which God preserve) and His Majesties Revenue ariseing by the Generall Letter Office or Post Office are and may bee charged with severall Tallies of Pro or Assignement or other Tallies payable out of the same in course Bee itt further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That soe much of the said particular Duties or Branches of the Excise and of the said Revenue ariseing by the Generall Letter Office as are or in pursuance of His Majesties Royall Proclamations and an Act of this present Parliament intituled An Act for remedying the ill State of the Coyne of the Kingdome shall bee received levyed or collected in such clipt Moneys as aforesaid att any tyme or tymes before the Fourth day of May which shall bee in the Yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety six and which shall bee applicable to the Payment of the said Tallies in course and the Interest X1 shall by the Commissioners of Excise and His Majesties Receiver for the Generall Letter Office for the tyme being respectively bee brought from tyme to tyme into the X2said Receipt of Exchequer and shall from thence bee delivered out to bee melted and shall bee melted refyned reduced to sterling and recoyned into new Moneys And the said new Moneys proceeding therefrom shall bee brought back to the Exchequer and distinct Accounts of the Weight and Tale of the same shall bee kept in such manner as is prescribed by the said other Act last mentioned touching other clipt Moneys thereby appointed to be recoyned & that the new Moneys soe to bee brought back into the Exchequer as is last mentioned (except the Charges of makeing the same and melting and refyneing the Silver for makeing thereof as aforesaid) shall bee issued from tyme to tyme att the Receipt of His Majesties Exchequer to the Commissioners of Excise and the Receivers General for the Post Office for the tyme being respectively who are hereby strictly injoyned and required to pay and apply the same soe farr as itt will extend to the Satisfaction of the said Tallies in course and such Interest as shall bee due upon them or any of them and to keepe exact. Accounts of the clipt Moneys which they respectively shall pay into the Exchequer of the particular Branches or Revenues last mentioned and of the new Moneys which they shall receive back for the same to the end the Differences thereof may be knowne and the Deficiencies ariseing thereby may bee made good and supplyed att the Publick Charge.
Annotations
Editorial notes
- X1
Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: thereof O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]
- X2
interlined on the Roll.