Lotteries Act 1710
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1710 c. 6 |
| Year | 1710 |
(9 Ann.) C A P. VI.
M A Y it please your most Excellent Majesty: We your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects the Commons ofGreat Britain in Parliament assembled, being desirous, by the most speedy, easy, and effectual Ways and Means, to raise the necessary Supplies for prosecuting the present War (in which your Majesty hath been for several Years engaged) against the French King, and for enabling your Majesty, at the End thereof, to establish a good and lasting Peace, have for that End and Purpose given and granted, and do by this present Act give and grant unto your Majesty, the several Customs, Subsidies, and other Duties, for and upon such several Goods, Merchandizes, and Commodities to be exported, or which shall be shipped to be exported from or out ofGreat Britain , as are herein after expressed; and such Duties upon Coals, Culm and Cynders, which are or shall be water-born and carried from any Port or Place of Great Britain to any other Port of Place of the same; and such further Duties upon Candles made in Great Britain , or imported into the same, as are hereafter in this Act more particularly mentioned; and we do most humbly beseech your Majesty, that it may be enacted; And be it enacted by the Queen'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, in Form following: Whereas by an Act of Parliament made and passed in the twelfth Year of the Reign of his late MajestyKing Charles the Second (of blessed Memory) commonly calledThe Act of Tonnage and Poundage (amongst other Things therein contained) a certain Subsidy or Poundage for and upon all Manner of Goods and Merchandizes to be carried out of the Realm of England , or any the Dominions to the same belonging, that is to say, twelve Pence of the Value of every twenty Shillings, of the same Goods and Merchandizes, according to the several and particular Rates and Values thereof, as they were particularly and respectively rated and valued in the Book therein mentioned and referred unto, and other Duties, were granted to his said late Majesty, during his Life, except as therein is excepted: And whereas after granting the said Subsidy, as aforesaid, several other Acts of Parliament have been made, whereby the said Subsidy of Poundage, or some Part or Parts of the said Subsidy of Poundage, for and upon several of the said Goods, Merchandizes, and Commodities, exported or to be exported as aforesaid, were (together with several Customs or Duties upon Goods and Merchandizes imported) granted for several Terms successively, the last of which Terms was granted by an Act of the first Year of her Majesty's Reign, intituled, , and continued until the first Day ofAugust in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ten; and the said Subsidy of Poundage, as to several Goods, Merchandizes, and Commodities exported, which were originally charged therewith by the said Act of the twelfth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, hath been, by several Acts of Parliament, since taken away, lessened, or altered: Now it is hereby enacted by the Authority aforesaid, Thatso much of the said Subsidy of Poundage, and other Duties (first granted by the said Act of the twelfth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second as aforesaid) on several Goods and Merchandizes exported, as did remain or had Continuance until the first Day ofAugust in this present Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ten, or which by Force or Virtue of the said Act of the first Year of her Majesty's Reign, For making good Deficiencies , and the Act of the fifth Year of her Majesty's Reign, For the Union of the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland, or by any other Act or Acts of Parliament relating thereunto, were payable or existent on the last Day of July in the said Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ten, for any Goods or Merchandizes exported, shall, by Force and Virtue of this Act, be revived, and be further continued, and be paid and payable to her Majesty, her Heirs and Successors, for and upon the like Goods and Merchandizes respectively to be exported from Great Britain , from and after the eighth Day of March in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ten, at any Time or Times, within or during the Term of thirty-two Years from thence next ensuring (other than and except such Duties as were formerly granted to be paid upon the Exportation of Sea Coals for Parts beyond the Seas, instead whereof other Duties are imposed by this present Act.)
II How these Duties shall be raised.
II. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the said Subsidy of Poundage, and other Duties upon Goods and Merchandizes exported, hereby revived and continued, during all the Term of Years therein granted as aforesaid, and all Arrearages of the same, shall and may, from Time to Time, be raised, received, levied, and recovered, by such Ways and Means, and under such Penalties and Forfeitures, and with such Allowances for Goods lost or taken at Sea, and such other Allowances, and in such Manner and Form, as the like Subsidy of Poundage and other Duties, which continued until the said first Day ofAugust one thousand seven hundred and ten, were or might be raised, received, levied, or recovered by any Law or Statute which was in Force on the said last Day of July one thousand seven hundred and ten; and that so much of the said Act of the twelfth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, and of the Order of the Commons in Parliament assembled, bearing Date the seventeenth Day ofMay one thousand six hundred and sixty-two, for setting of Officers Fees, and all such Clauses, Penalties, Forfeitures, Matters and Things, contained in the Act last-mentioned, or in any other Act or Acts of Parliament whatsoever, as on the said last Day ofJuly one thousand seven hundred and ten were in Force for the raising, receiving, levying, or recovering, or for making Allowances out of the said Subsidy of Poundage and other Duties on Goods or Merchandizes exported, which had Continuance until the said first Day of August one thousand seven hundred and ten, shall be revived, practised and put in Execution, for raising, receiving, levying and recovering, or making Allowances out of the Subsidy of Poundage and other Duties hereby imposed on Goods and Merchandizes to be exported, during the said Term of thirty-two Years, and all Arrearages of the same, as fully and effectually, as if they were particularly and at large recited and set down in the Body of this present Act.
III Subsidy, &c. taken away or diminished by Acts of Parliament, not revived.
III. Provided always, and it is hereby declared, That where the Subsidy of Poundage, or other Duties formerly granted as aforesaid, on Goods or Merchandizes exported, have been taken away, in Part, or in the whole, upon any particular Goods or Merchandizes so exported, by virtue of any Act or Acts of Parliament, or by any Clause or Clauses contained in any such Act or Acts formerly made for taking away or diminishing the same in all such Cases, the Subsidy or Duty, or such Part of the said Subsidy or Duty so taken away, shall not be revived or continued by virtue of this present Act; any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
IV Leather, &c. may be exported, paying 12 d. per Cent. for 32 Years.
IV. And it is hereby also enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That for and during the Term of thirty-two Years, to be reckoned from the eighth Day ofMarch one thousand seven hundred and ten, it shall and may be lawful for any Person or Persons, Natives or Foreigners, to buy in open Fair or Market, and to export and transport from Great Britain into Ireland , or any Foreign Parts beyond the Seas, all Sortsof Leather, Sheep-skins or Calves-skins, tanned, tawed, or dressed, paying for each hundred Weight of all Sorts of Leather, Sheep-skins, and Calves-skins, containing one hundred and twelve Pounds, and so proportionably for a greater or lesser Quantity, the Sum of twelve Pence, and no more; any former Law, Statute, or Usage to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
V Duty upon Coals shipped to be exported;
V. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the several and respective Rates and Duties herein after mentioned (and none other) shall be raised, levied, collected and paid, unto and for the Use of her Majesty, her Heirs and Successors, for and upon all Coals, which at any Time or Timeswithin or during the Term of thirty-two Years, to commence from the eighth Day ofMarch in the present Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ten, shall be exported, or shipped to be exported beyond the Seas(that is to say) For all Coals ofWales , or the West of England , which shall be shipped for Exportation to Ireland , or the Isle of Man , the Sum of one Shilling for every Chalder (reckoning the Chalder to consist of thirty-six Bushels Winchester Measure) and after that Rate for a greater or lesser Quantity; for every Chalder (like Winchester Measure) of Coals, which shall be shipped for Exportation to any of her Majesty's Plantations, the Sum of two...
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