# Excise (No. 3) Act 1660, Section XIX: Fines and Forfeitures may be mitigated by Commissioners, &c.; Such Mitigation a Discharge.


Proviso.
Provided neverthelesse that it shall and may be lawfull to and for the said respective Justices of Peace Commissioners for Excise or any two of them or their Sub Commissioners respectively from time to time. where they shall see cause to mittigate compound or lessen such forfeiture penalty or fine as in their discretion they shall thinke fitt, And that every such mitigation and payment thereupon accordingly made shall be a sufficient discharge of the said penaltyes and forfeitures to the persons soe offending soe as by such mitigation the same be not made lesse then double the value of the duty of Excise which should or ought to have beene paid besides the reasonable costs and charges of such Officer or Officers or others as were imployed therein to them allowed by the said Justices Any thing in this Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding,

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/12/23/section/XIX (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/excise-no-3-act-1660/section-XIX
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