THe Eſtates of Parliament conſidering, how much it concernes the credit and wealth of the Kingdom, that our own native Commodities be manufactured amongſt our ſelves, and that the endeavours of ſuch perſons as are ſetting up Manufacturies and Trades have been, and are much retarded, by the importation of ſuch forreign Commodities as may be made within the Kingdom. Therefore, and for their due encouragment, the Kings Majeſty, with advice and conſent of the Eſtates of Parliament, Statutes and Ordains, that from and after the firſt day of September next, twelve pounds Scots upon ilk ell of broad Engliſh Cloath; ſix pounds upon ilk ell, of York-ſhire and all narrow Cloath; two pounds eight ſhillings upon ilk ell of Searge; thirty ſhillings upon ilk ell of Caſtilians; fourty eight pounds upon ilk Beaver-hat; twenty four pounds upon ilk Demy beaver 〈◊〉 vigon; and three pounds upon the piece of ilk common Hat; thirty ſix pounds upon the 〈…〉 four pounds upon the dozen of Stag-gloves▪ , and 〈◊〉 pounds upon the dozen of 〈◊◊〉 , C 〈…〉 s, Kid or Shiverings; and twenty four ſhillings upon ilk pound of Tobacco imported either for ſale or private uſe into this Kingdom from England, all Scots money, Be exacted, levied and collected and fourſcore per cent. upon all other ſorts of Commodities imported into this Kingdom from England, and not particularly named in this Act, and upon all the growth and manufactury of that Kingdom, though imported from any other place, and that over and above all other impoſitions put upon the ſame already. And to the effect this preſent Act may be the more exactly put to execution, It is Statute and Ordained, that all Goods imported from England, or of the growth and manufactury of England, not above particularly expreſt, ſhall be valued, after ſighting, by two skilfull honeſt men upon oath, to be nominate by the Dean of Gild or his Aſſeſſors, or Magiſtrates of the Burgh, or next adjacent Burgh to the Cuſtom-office where the ſaids G •••• are entered, or by the oath of the party to whom the ſaids Goods belongs, and accordingly pay the ſaid f •••• ſcore per cent. And the Lords Theſaurer and Theſaurer-depute, and Lords of His Maieſties Exchequer, are hereby required to take an Oath, and Bond with ſufficient Caution, from the Farmers or Collectors of the ſaids impoſitions, that they ſhall exactly collect the ſame, without any abatement thereof, directly or in directly; and that they ſhall not ſuffer any of the ſaids Goods to paſs or be conveyed away un-entered, and that under the penalty of the worth of the ſaids Goods, if the contrary ſhall be made appear, the one half thereof to His Maieſties uſe, and the other half to the informer, and under the pain of forfaulting their Lacks and Commiſsions, and being declared incapable to farm or collect, in any time thereafter, any Cuſtom, Exciſe, or other Impoſition whatſoever within this Kingdom. And if any of the foreſaids Goods or Commodities ſhall be informed and made appear to be brought in, or ſhall be ſeized upon, not being entered in the Cuſtom-office, or any other Office appointed for that effect, then the ſame to be wholly confiſcate, the one half to His Maieſties uſe, and the other half to the firſt informer or ſeizer thereof. And Ordains theſe preſents to be printed, and publiſhed at the Mercat Croſs of Edinburgh, and other places needfull, where-through none may pretend ignorance of the ſame.