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Section II Mingling Saltpetre and selling at above £70 per Ton;

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or bartering for above that rate; ; taken to be an undue Sale.

And for preventing all Frauds which may bee used in selling any Salt-Petre imported by virtue of this Act att above the rate of Seventy pounds per Tun Bee it enacted That if any person or persons shall mingle any Salt-Petre imported by virtue of this Act with any other Salt-Petre and sell the same soe mingled att above the rate of Seventy pounds per Tun or shall by way of barter or exchange take or agree to take any other Co[m]modity for Salt-Petre imported by virtue of this Act (whether by it selfe or mingled with other Salt Petre) in any manner soe as to have or receive for the same more then the rate of Seventy pounds per Tu[n]n accounting the Co[m]modity so taken in exchange att the then current price that the sale of such Salt-Petre soe mingled and alsoe such barter or exchange shall each of them bee construed and taken to bee a sale contrary to this Act.