Taxation (No. 6) Act 1696

II. Hawkers to certify Commissioners for Transportation how they travel and trade; and pay down One Moiety of the Duty, and give Bond for the other at Six Months End.

Allowance for prompt Payment.; Licence.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Pedlar Hawker Petty Chapman and other trading Person or Persons so travelling as aforesaid shall before the Foure and twentieth Day of June One thousand six hundred ninety seven deliver or cause to be delivered unto the Co[m]missioners for Transportation or any Person or persons authorized or deputed by them or the major part of them in writing under their Hands & Seals a Note in writing under his or her Hand or under the Hand of some Person by her or them authorized in that behalfe how and in what manner hee or she will travel and trade whether on Foot or with One or more Horse or Horses Ass or Asses Mule or Mules or other Beast or Beasts of Burthen for her or his so travelling and trading for which hee or she shall thereupon pay or cause to be paid unto the said Co[m]missioners for Transportation or any Person or Persons authorized or deputed by them or the major part of them in writing under their Hands & Seales one Moiety of the Duty by this Act payable for the same and give Security by Bond with One or more sufficient Sureries to be taken in his Majesties Name for the true Payment of the other Moiety of the said Duties att the end of Six Kalendar Months unlesse the Party shall chuse to pay downe the other Moiety of the said Duty in which case hee or she shall be allowed after the Rate of Two shillings in the Pound for prompt Payment of the same and thereupon a Licence shall be granted unto him or her so to travel or trade by the said Co[m]missioners for Transportation or any Two or more of them.