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<HEAD><HI>A PROCLAMATION,</HI> Impo&s;ing a further Cu&s;tom upon Wines and Tobacco, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_CHARLES,</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great-Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defen|der of the Faith,</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>To Our Lovites  <GAP DESC="blank">  Macers of Our Privy Council, or Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;eve|rally, &s;pecially con&s;titute, Greeting:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Fora&s;much, as by the twenty &s;ixth Act of the third Se&s;&s;ion of Our fir&s;t Parliament, The Ordering and Di&s;po&s;al of Trade with Forreign Countreys, and the laying of Re&s;traints and Impo&s;itions upon Forreign Imported Commo|dities, is a&s;&s;erted to belong to Us and Our Royal Succe&s;&s;ors, as an undoubted Priviledge and Prerogative of the Crown; and that by vertue thereof, We may lay &s;uch Impo&s;iti|ons and Re&s;traints upon Forreign imported Commodities, and &s;o Order and Di&s;po&s;e up|on the Trade of them, as We &s;hall judge &s;it for the good of Our Kingdom: And where|as, by an Act and Proclamation of the eleventh of <HI>April</HI> la&s;t, upon con&s;ideration of the great detriment Our Cu&s;tomes and Exci&s;e might &s;u&s;tain by a Prohibition put upon &s;everal Forreign Commodities, deduction of the Exci&s;e of that imployed upon Fi&s;hes and other allowances, given for the encouragement of Manufactures and building of Ships; We did for ballance of &s;ome part thereof, appoint a further Duty to be put upon Wine and Tobacco, which is found to be ve|ry far &s;hort in ballancing and compen&s;ing the fore&s;aid lo&s;s: Wherefore We, with advice of Our Privy Council, conform to the Power given Us by the &s;aid Act of Parliament, Ordain, that each Tun of <HI>French, Spani&s;h</HI> and <HI>Rheni&s;h</HI> Wine, which for|merly payed thirty pound Scots of Cu&s;tom, &s;hall hereafter pay thirty pound Scots more, being in all three&s;core pounds Scots, with the burden of the Bullion as formerly, by way of Custom: And each pound of Tobacco coming immediatly from the Plantations, pay hereafter two &s;hilling four pennies Scots of Cu&s;tom, and eight pennies Scots of Exci&s;e: And each pound of all other Tobacco, coming from any other place, except the Plantations, pay five &s;hilling Scots of Cu&s;tom; and twelve pennies of <HI>Exci&s;e,</HI> making in all &s;ix &s;hilling Scots of Cu&s;tom and <HI>Exci&s;e,</HI> each pound weight. And whereas, by the Act of Parliament, <HI>Anno 1669.</HI> the Merchant exporter is to have allowed or repayed by the Cu&s;tomers, ten pounds four &s;hilling Scots for the Salt of each exported La&s;t of Herrings: And that by an Act of Parliament, <HI>Anno</HI> 1673. anent the taking away the Pre-emption of Salt, It is appointed that the exporters of Herring, &s;hall only be free of Cu&s;tom at the export, being only twenty four &s;hilling Scots <HI>per</HI> La&s;t; And that by the fore&s;aid Proclamation following thereupon, the Merchant exporter is to have allowance according to the fir&s;t Act of Parliament, without con&s;idering that We did quite the Exci&s;e then payable to him upon In-land Salt, being fifteen &s;hilling Scots <HI>per Linlithgow</HI> Boll, which would have extended to much more then what is to be returned to the Merchants for their exported Herrings; and that the Act 1673. does take away all pretences thereto. Therefore We Ordain, that the &s;aid Act, 1673. &s;hall &s;tand in full force, and that no allowance be given for ex|ported Herrings, notwith&s;tanding of the &s;aid Act of Council and Proclamation fore&s;aid, following thereupon, appointing re|payment for exported Herrings, according to the Act of Parliament fore&s;aid, in the year, 1669. And Ordains the Collectors or Fermorers of Our Cu&s;tom and Exci&s;e, pre&s;ent and to come, their Deputs, Servants and Waiters, to uplift and exact the &s;aid Cu&s;tom and Exci&s;e upon the &s;aids Goods, as the &s;ame is now Impo&s;ed in time coming, whether Our Cu&s;tomes and Exci&s;e be uplifted by Collection or Ferm, any former <HI>Act</HI> to the contrair notwith&s;tanding. And We ordain the&s;e Pre&s;ents to be Pub|li&s;hed at the Mercat Cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and other places needful, that none pretend ignorance.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Given under Our Signet at</HI> Edinburgh <DATE>the <HI>&s;ixth day of</HI> October, <HI>one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and eighty one, And of Our Reign, the thretty three year.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilii.
<SIGNED><HI>PAT. MENZEIS,</HI> Cls Sti. Concilii.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<CLOSER>God &s;ave the KING.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to His mo&s;t Sacred <HI>Maje&s;ty, Anno DOM.</HI> 1681.</P>
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