Edinburgh Beer Duties Act 1716

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1716 c. 5
Edinburgh Beer Duties Act, 1716

(3 Geo. 1) C A P. V.
Anno Regni GEORGII Regis Magn Britanni, Franci &Hiberni, tertio.

An Act for continuing the Duty of two PenniesScots, or one Sixth Part of a Penny Sterling, on every Pint of Ale and Beer that shall be vended or sold within the City of Edinburgh and Privileges thereof, for the Benefit of the said City, and for discontinuing the Payment of the Dues commonly called the Petty-port Customs at Edinburgh, during the Continuance of this Act.

S-I This Act explained by 1 Geo. 2. st. 2. 2. 22.

I This Act explained by 1 Geo. 2. st. 2. 2. 22.

'I. WHEREAS the City ofEdinburgh, by being the Metropolis and Seat of the Government of Scotland, was subject to all the Vicissitudes and Changes of the State, and particularly has, ever since the Reformation, been remarkably zealous in supporting and defending the Protestant Interest, and thereby involved in great Debts above what the common Revenue of the Towncould discharge; therefore their late Majesties KingWilliam and Queen Mary, with Consent of the Estates of Parliament, by an Act passed in the Parliament of Scotland on the thirteenth of June one thousand six hundred and ninety-three Years, did give and grant to the said Town of Edinburgh and Communitythereof, and to the Magistrates and Town-council of the same, and their Successors in Office, for their Use and Behoof, the Imposition of two PenniesScots, (over and above the King's annexed Excise and additional Excise imposed in that Session of Parliament) upon the Pint of Ale and Beer, either brewed, or brought in, or vended, tapped and sold within the said Town and Suburbs, and Liberties thereof; viz. Cannongate, South and North Leighs, Westport, Potteraw , and Pleasants, and the other Pertinents, to be paid to the said Town and Magistates, and Council thereof, by the Brewers, Vintners, Sellers or Tapsters of the said Ale or Beer, during the Space of fifteen Years and further, not exceeding the Space of thirty Years, beginning from the first Day of July one thousand six hundred and ninety-three, and to be paid, uplifted and gathered weekly, monthly and quarterly, or other ways, as the Magistrates and Town-council should think fit to prescribe and order; excepting only from the said Acts all such Ale and Beer as should be brewed in the Country without the Liberties of the Burgh by Heretors on their own Lands, and brought in by them (they inhabiting for the Time within the Town) to be consumed for the Use of themselves and their Famities only; and also excepting all Ale and Beer vended within the Precincts ofHoly-Rood House and Castle of Edinburgh from the said Imposition: And whereas since the Union of the two Kingdoms there hath been a gradual Decrease of the Revenue of the said Town, and there are several publick Works (which of late Years have been much neglected) necessary to be carried on and done for the Service of the said Town, which will cost a very considerable Sum of Money, and the said Town is much in Debt (Part of which was occasioned by the late Rebellion) and the said Debt will, at the Expiration of the said Act, be so much increased, that the Money arising by the said Imposition will fall very short of discharging of the same: And whereas it is necessary to enlarge the Harbour of Leith and deepen the Channel thereof, and also to build and endow two new Churches, and make Provision for the Poor of the said Town, which are now become very numerous:' Wherefore your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Provost, Magistrates and Council of the City of Edinburgh, in Behalf of themselves and the Community of the said City do most humbly beseech your Majesty, that it may be enacted: Andbe it enacted by the King's most most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That such and the like Rates and Duties, and Imposition by the Act aforesaid, laid, granted and imposed upon Ale and Beer brewed, brought in, vended, tapped and sold as aforesaid, within the said Town ofEdinburgh and Suburbs and Liberties thereof, (except as in the said Act is excepted,) shall, from and after the Expiration of the Term by the said Act granted, be further continued, raised, levied, collected, paid and made payable to the Provost, Magistrates and Council of the said City of Edinburgh for the Time being, and their Successors for the use and Behoof of the said Town, for and during the full Term of nineteen Years, and by the same Means and Methods, and by and under such Rules and Directions, and with such Exceptions, and under the same Penalties and Forfeitures and Powers, as are prescribed, mentioned and expressed in the Act aforesaid; and that the said Act, and every Article, Rule, Clause, Matter and Thing therein contained, shall be of full Force and Effect to all Intents and Purposes, for raising, collecting, securing, disposing, accounting for and levying the same, during the said Term of nineteen Years, as fully as it the same were particularly and at large repeated and re-enacted in the Body of this present Act.

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'II. And whereas by the said in Part recited Act of the Parliament...

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