Section V King may appoint Commissioners.

Place of Head Office; Commissioners may appoint Officers; Six several Marks to be provided by Commissioners; The Marks may be changed.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that for the better and more effectuall levying collecting and paying unto theire Majesties theire Heires and Successors the severall X1& respective duties hereby granted Itt shall and may be lawfull for theire Majesties theire Heires and Successors under the Greate Seale of England from time to time to nominate and appointe such persons as they shall thinke fitt to be Co[m]missioners or Officers for the severall purposes herein after menc[i]oned And that the Co[m]missioners soe to be appointed shall keepe theire Head Office in some convenient place within the Cityes of London or Westminster And the said Co[m]missioners or the major parte of them are hereby impowered under theire Hands and Seales to appointe such other inferior Officers for the markeing or stamping of Velum Parchment and Paper or for the better collecting and levying the dutyes hereby granted to theire Majesties as they in theire discrec[i]ons shall thinke fitt: And the said Co[m]missioners shall by the space of Thirty dayes before the said Eight and twentieth day of June which shall be in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety four provide Six severall Markes or Stamps differing from each other for the severall and respective dutyes hereby granted with which severall Markes or Stamps all Velum Paper and Parchment upon which any of the severall and respective things herein before charged shall be ingrossed or written shall be stampt and impressed (that is to say) One Stampe or Marke with which all Velum Paper and Parchment herein before charged with the payment of Forty shillings for every Skinn Peice or Sheete shall be stampt or markt: And one other Stampe or Marke with which all Vellum Parchment and Paper herein before charged with the payment of Five shillings for every Skinn Sheete or Peice as aforesaid shall be marked and stamped: One other Marke or Stampe with which all Vellum Parchment and Paper charged as aforesaid with the payment of Two shillings and Six pence for every Skinn Sheete or Peice shall be markt and stampt and soe respectively a different Marke or Stampe with which all Velum Paper and Parchment herein before charged with the payment of the severall dutyes of Twelve pence Six pence and One penny shall be severally and differently markt and stampt which said severall Markes and Stamps shall be published by Proclamac[i]on to be issued under the Greate Seale of England a convenient time before the said Eight and twentieth day of June to the end that all persons may have due notice thereof; And that the said Markes and Stamps or any of them shall or may be altered or renewed from time to time as theire Majesties theire Heires or Successors shall thinke fitt soe as publicke Notificac[i]on thereof be given by Proclamac[i]on as aforesaid:-