# Taxation (No. 5) Act 1694, Section XIV: Officers to keep a Book of Accounts, and to return the Money to the Receivers of the Customs, who are to return it into the Exchequer.


And for the manifestation of the truth and certainty in the premisses Bee it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid that the Officers to bee appointed in each Port and Place for the receiving of the said Impositions or Duties and for the weighing and measuring of the said Coals and Culm shall respectively keep one or more Book or Books for every such Port or Place wherein they shall respectively enter downe a true account of all such su[m]ms of money which shall bee paid or received for or upon account of the said Impositions or Duties and of all the payments and disbursements of the same And alsoe a true account of the numbers of Chaldrons and Tuns of Coals and Culme soe imported and unladen in any such Port or Place and of the respective sorts thereof And the moneys ariseing by the Impositions and Duties aforesaid are to bee paid unto the Receiver or Receivers Generall of the Customs for the time being and by them to bee paid and returned into the Receipt of his Majesties Exchequer for his Majesties use where the same shall bee kept and entred in Books distinct and a part from any other branch of his Majesties Revenue.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMar/6-7/18/section/XIV (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-5-act-1694/section-XIV
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