{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/east-india-company-act-1697/section-LXX",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/east-india-company-act-1697/section-LXX.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Will3/9/44",
  "legislation_title": "East India Company Act 1697",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/east-india-company-act-1697",
  "path": "section/LXX",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "LXX",
  "heading": "Additional Duty of 1s. 10d. per Pound Weight upon all wrought Silks imported from the East Indies after 29th Sept. 1698.",
  "text": "And the said Commons of England in Parliament assembled as a further Supply for His Majesties extraordinary Occasions have moreover freely given and granted unto His Majesty His Heirs and Successors the further Rates and Duties herein after mentioned And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for and upon all Wrought Silks which from and after the said Nine and twentieth Day of September One thousand six hundred ninety eight at any time or times shall be imported or brought from the East-Indies or from Persia or from any other the Countries or Places within the Limits before mentioned into the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed there shall be yeilded and paid to His Majesty His Heires and Successors (over and above all other Duties payable for the same) the Sum of One Shilling and Ten Pence for every Pound Weight reckoning Sixteen Averdupoize Ounces to the Pound to be paid by the Importer or Importers thereof and to be raised levied collected and paid to the Use of His Majesty His Heirs & Successors by such Ways Rules and Methods and under such Penalties and Forfeitures and in such Manner and Forme as any other Duties upon Silks imported by the Act of Tunnage and Poundage made in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second or by any other subsequent Act for continuing the same or by any other Law made in Force relateing to the Customs are to be raised levyed collected and paid.",
  "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: now 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/Will3/9/44/section/LXX",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:22:41.996454+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."
}