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<P>DIEV ET MON DROIT</P>
<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<HEAD>By the King.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">A PROCLAMATION, For Continuing Officers of the Exci&s;e, during His Maje&s;ties Plea&s;ure.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>CHARLES R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>_WHereas by vertue of an Act Entituled, An Act for the continuing of the Exci&s;e untill the Five and Twentieth day of <HI>December 1660.</HI> the &s;ame Receipt was managed, and the whole Work thereof carried on by certain Commi&s;&s;ioners therein named, called Com|mi&s;&s;ioners for the Grand Exci&s;e, and by divers Sub-Commi&s;&s;ioners, and other their infe|rior Officers and Mini&s;ters not therein mentioned: And by certain other Commi&s;&s;i|oners in the &s;aid Act al&s;o named, called Commi&s;&s;ioners for Appeals and Regulating the Exci&s;e, and their inferior Officers and Mini&s;ters.</P>
<P>And whereas part of the &s;aid Exci&s;e, con&s;i&s;ting of certain Impo&s;itions upon Be&eacute;r, Ale, Cider, Perry, and other Liquors, is by two &s;everal Acts of Parliament pa&s;&s;ed upon the Four and Twentieth day of this in&s;tant <HI>Deeember,</HI> granted unto Vs, That is to &s;ay, one Moyety thereof to Vs, Our Heirs and Succe&s;&s;ors, as a perpetual Recompence and &s;atisfaction of and for Our Tenures and Purveyance; And the other Moyety thereof as an Augmentation of Our Revenue during Our Life. In both which Acts it is referred unto Vs to nominate &s;uch Per&s;ons as We &s;hall think fit to be Commi&s;&s;ioners and Officers for carrying on of that Service, which the &s;hortne&s;s of time, and other Our Weighty Occa&s;ions will not yet give Vs Lea&s;ure to think of.</P>
<P>To the intent therefore that Our Revenue may not &s;uffer any lo&s;s or hindrance by this delay, We do hereby Publi&s;h and Declare Our Royal Will and Plea&s;ure, That all and every the Per&s;ons, who up|on the Four and Twentieth day of this in&s;tant <HI>December,</HI> were Commi&s;&s;ioners for the Grand Exci&s;e, Sub-Commi&s;&s;ioners, or inferior Officers relating thereunto, or Commi&s;&s;ioners for Appeals and Re|gulating the Exci&s;e, &s;hall be and are hereby Authorized and required to continue in his and their re|&s;pective Employments, And are hereby Declared to be Our Commi&s;&s;ioners for the Exci&s;e of Beer, Ale, Cider, Perry, and other Liquors, and our Sub-Commi&s;&s;ioners and inferior Officers; and al&s;o Our Commi&s;&s;ioners for Appeals and Regulating the Exci&s;e, during Our Plea&s;ure. And We do hereby enjoyn them to Act in their &s;everal Places and Employments according to the Rules in the two Acts la&s;t mentioned and not otherwi&s;e, For which they &s;hall receive from Vs during their re&s;pective Employ|ments, like Wages and Salaries as hath been heretofore u&s;ed and accu&s;tomed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at Our Court at <HI>Whitehall,</HI> <DATE>this Four and Twentieth day of <HI>December,</HI> One thou|&s;and &s;ix hundred and &s;ixty, in the Twelfth Year of Our Reign.</DATE></DATELINE><LB>
GOD SAVE THE KING.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>LONDON</HI> Printed by <HI>John Bill,</HI> Printer to the KING'S mo&s;t Excellent MAJESTY, 1660.</P>
<P>At the KING'S Printing-Hou&s;e in <HI>Black-Friers.</HI></P>
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