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Section XIX Treasury once a Year to set the Prices on stamped Vellum, &c.

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The Price to be stamped thereon; Allowance on prompt Payment, where Stamps amount to £10 and upwards.

And for the better Distribution of the said Velum Parchment and Paper and that the Subjects may have the same with more Conveniency and X1att an easie Rate Be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Lord High Treasurer of England or Commissioners of His Majestys for the time being shall once in every Year at least set the Prices of all Sorts of stamped Velum Parchment and Paper that it shall be sold at and that the said Commissioners for the said Duties upon Velum Parchment and Paper shall stamp the said Price soe set upon every Skin or Piece of Velum or Parchment or Sheet or Piece of Paper so by them to be sold and that the said Commissioners shall likewise allow and pay to every Person that shall bring Velum Parchment or Paper to be stamped (the Duty whereof shall amount to the Sum of Ten Pounds or upwards) after the Rate of Six Pounds in the Hundred Pounds per Annum for Three Months upon present Payment of the said Duty upon the said Velum Parchment and Paper so by them bought over and above the like Allowance upon the same Quantitie by the said former Acts and that any Persons that shall by of the said Commissioners or their Agents Velum Parchment or Paper the Duty whereof amounts to the like Su[m]me of Ten Pounds or upwards shall have the same Allowance.

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