Section VI Makers to give Three Days Notice of kindling their Fires, Penalty £10;
and to make Entries of Quantities within Twenty-four Hours after Goods made; Duties to be paid within Three Months; Removing Goods without Permit (to be signed by Officer gratis;) Penalty; £10 per Cent. for present Payment.
And it is hereby further enacted by the authority aforesaid That all and every the maker or makers of the said manufactures of glasse earth or stone or any of them before hee she or they doe kindle any fire or fires for the makeing or working of the said manufactures shall give notice thereof to some of his Majesties Officers within three days before such fire shall bee kindled under the penalty of Tenne pounds for every default in not giving such notice to bee forfeited the one moiety thereof to the use of his Majesty and the other moiety thereof to him or them that shall sue for the same as aforesaid And that the respective makers or proprietors of the said glasse wares and of the said stone and earthen bottles whilst their several fires are burning and as often as they shall make any of the manufactures of X1stone glasse or earth as aforesaid shall from time to time within twenty foure houres after the drawing or perfect makeing of any such manufactures as aforesaid make true entries with his Majesties officer or officers as shall bee appointed to attend such works respectively or give them true accounts in writing daily of the several quantities of such manufactures as shall bee soe by them respectively made setting downe fully and truely the several quantities of such goods that shall bee made every day distinctly by their several kinds as they ought to pay by this Act And shall upon the drawing or perfect makeing of any such commodities as aforesaid or within three months after pay his Majesties duties by this Act payable for the same And shall likewise have a permission signed by some one of the said Officers to carry away every or any parcel of such commodities before such time as the same shall bee removed or carried away from the warehouse or other place where such goods shall bee first putt after their being drawne under the several penalties and forfeitures herein after mentioned Which warrants the said Officers are hereby required to give gratis unto the said makers or proprietors of such glasse stone or earthen commodities upon paying the said duties hereby granted or secureing the same to bee paid within the said three months And if any such maker or makers att the time of such entry shall pay downe the duty hereby imposed hee or they shall bee allowed for such prompt payment after the rate of Tenne pounds per Centum per Annum upon every su[m]m soe to bee paid for the said time of Three months.
Annotations
Editorial notes
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Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: glasse stone O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]