Section XXVI Commissioner, Farmers, &c. to take the Oath of 12 Car. II. c.23.

Provided neverthelesse and it is hereby enacted That noe Commissioner Farmer Sub Commissioner or other person imployed or to be imployed in the farmeing collecting or takeing Accompts for the Duty of Excise doe after the First day of September next take upon him or them any such Office, or proceed in execution of any such Imployment untill he or they have first taken the Oathes appointed to be taken by the Act of Parliament Entituled A Grant of certaine Impositions on Beere Ale and other Liquors for the encrease of His Majesties Revenue dureing His life before the respective persons appointed in the said Act of Parliament, and have entred his Certificate for takeing the said Oathes with the Auditor for Excise under the Penaltie of Fifty pounds for every Moneth he or they shall soe negclect to take the same