# Taxation (Rock Salt) Act 1698, Section IX: Rock Salt shipped for Exportation, or Coastwise, to be weighed at Place of Loading.


Loading the same before weighing.; &c. and Permit obtained; Penalty; Officer not granting Permit gratis, Penalty.
And be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the said Fifteenth Day of May in the Yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety and nine all Rock-Salt and Salt-Rock and white Salt whatsoever that shall be shipped or taken on board any Ship Boat or Vessell whatsoever to be delivered as a Commodity either to be exported to Ireland or any other Place beyond the Seas or to be unladen in any Port Creek Haven or other Place on the Coasts of England or elsewhere shall be weighed at the Place or Creek where the said Salt is to be taken on Board by such Officer or Officers as the Commissioners of the Excise or the major part of them for the time being shall from time to time direct and appoint And that no such Salt shall be carried on board any Ship Boat or Vessell whatsoever till the same shall be so weighed or tendred to be weighed and a Permit or Certificate containing the Quantity of such Salt so weighed or tendred to be weighed as aforesaid be first had and obtained under the Penalty of forfeiting the said Salt not so weighed or tendred to be weighed and over and above Ten Shillings per Bushell for the same and after that Rate for a greater or lesser Quantity to His Majesty His Heires and Successors so carried on board any Ship Boat or Vessell contrary to the true intent and meaning hereof which said Permit or Certificate such Officer shall give to the Party requiring the same gratis on the Penalty of Five Pounds to the Party grieved

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