Hair Powder Certificates, etc. Act 1795
Year | 1795 |
(35 Geo. 3) C A P. CXII.
[26th June 1795]
'WHEREAS by an Act, passed in the present Session of Parliament, intituled, ; it was enacted, that, from and after the fifth Day ofMay one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, or within the Space of one Calendar Month next ensuing, every Person liable to the Duty by the said Act imposed, should make Entry of his or her Name and Place of Abode, in the Manner and for the Purpose in the said Act mentioned, under the Penalty in the said Act contained, in order to obtain a Certificate thereof duly stamped, as by the said Act is directed: And whereas from the short Period of Time allowed by the said Act for making such Entries, many Persons using Hair Powder may, through Ignorance, Absence, or some unavoidable Accident, have omitted or neglected to make such Entries, and obtain such Certificates as aforesaid, within the Time limited by the said Act, whereby they are or may become liable to the Penalty contained therein:' For Remedy whereof, may it please your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's 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 the Timeallowed by the said recited Act for making such Entries, and obtaining such Certificates, shall be, and is hereby extended until and upon the twentieth Day ofJuly one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five; and that every Person liable to the Duty by the said recited Act imposed, who, on the fifth Day of June one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, shall have neglected or omitted to make such Entry and obtain such Certificate, and who, before the twentieth Day of July one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, shall make such Entry and obtain such Certificate, as by...
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