{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-4-act-1696/section-II",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-4-act-1696/section-II.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Will3/8-9/24",
  "legislation_title": "Taxation (No. 4) Act 1696",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-4-act-1696",
  "path": "section/II",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "II",
  "heading": "Duties on Drugs imported, Spicery",
  "text": "Proviso for Linen,; and for Foreign wrought Silks exported within One Year from mportation; and for wrought Silks imported; and for Tobacco of the English Plantations; and for Wines of the Growth of France,&c.\nProvided always and it is hereby enacted That all Drugs chargeable by this Act which shall be imported directly from the Place of their Growth in English built Shipping shall be rated to pay by this Act One third Part of what is charged thereupon in the said Book of Rates and no more and that all Spicery except Pepper which shall be imported directly from the Place of its Growth in English built Shipping shall be rated to pay by this Act One third Part of what is charged in the said Book of Rates and no more and that this Act shall not extend to charge Linnen imported with the additional Duty of one Moiety of the Rate mentioned in the said Book of Rates and that all Forreigne wrought Silk exported within One Yeare from the Importation shall have Two thirds of the Rate hereby charged repaid att the Custome House and this Act shall not extend charge wrought Silks imported with the additional Duty of one Moiety mentioned in the said Book of Rates or to charge Tobacco of the English Plantation with the additional Duty of One penny per Pound over and above the Subsidy mentioned in the said Book of Rates or to charge Wines of the Growth of France Germany Portugal or Madera with the additional Duty of Three pounds per Tun or any other Wines with the additional Duty of Foure pounds per mentioned in the said former Acts or Book of Rates and that for all Tobacco of the English Plantations which shall be imported and exported againe within One Yeare after such Importation the further Subsidy of One penny per Pound hereby granted shall be repaid att the Custome House.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Tonn O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/8-9/24/section/II",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:23:13.760910+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}