# Lustrings Act 1697, Section XV


The said Company empowered to import 17 Bales of Silk, before 29th Sept. next.
And whereas the said Royal Lustring Company have Seventeen Bails of Fine Italian Thrown Silk in Amsterdam which was bought thither over Land before Conclusion of the Peace and were designed to be imported into this Kingdom to be used in the Manufacture of Alamodes and Lustrings but by reason of several Difficulties and Obstructions which the said Company have mett with in the said Manufacture the said Silk could not be imported within the time limitted by Law for Importation thereof Be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawfull to and for the said Company to import into this Kingdom the aforesaid Seventeen Bails of Silk at any time before the Twenty ninth Day of September next they paying the Duties to His Majesty which by Law are to be paid for the same Any Law or Statute to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/9/43/section/XV (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/lustrings-act-1697/section-XV
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