Section III The Duties to be managed by Commissioners of Excise; and Officers appointed by them.
How Penalties sued for, &c.; 12 Car. II. c. 24.
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all the said Duties on Salt shall from time to time for ever be within the Receipt Management and Government of the Chief Commissioners and Governors of the Receipt of Excise for the time being And that all Collectors and other Officers necessary for the ascertaining collecting X1and receiveing of the said Duties upon Salt shall be constituted and appointed under the Hands and Seals of the said Commissioners and Governors of the Receipt of Excise for the time being or the major part of them And that all Penalties and Forfeitures by this Act imposed concerning the said Duties upon Salt shall be sued for recovered levyed and received or mitigated by the same Means Rules Ways and Methods as any Penalty or Forfeiture is to be sued for or recovered as is mentioned expressed or directed to be recovered in and by one Act of Parliament made in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of the late King Charles the Second intituled An Act for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries and Tenures in Capite and by Knights Service and Purveyance and settling a Revenue on His Majesty in lieu thereof or by any other Law or Statute now in Force relating to the Revenue of Excise and that as fully and amply to all Intents as if the several Clauses in the said Acts or any of them contained were herein reenacted or repeated.
Annotations
Editorial notes
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Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: or O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]