AN ORDINANCE Appointing the EXCISE OF Alum and Copperace.   blazon of the Commonwealth 

Tuesday 29 August, 1654.  
ORdered by His Highness the Lord PROTECTOR and the Council, that this Ordinance be forthwith Printed and Published.  
Hen. Scobel, Clerk of the Council.   
LONDON, Printed, by William Dugard, and Henry Hills, Printers to His Highness the Lord Protector. 1654.   

 blazon of the Commonwealth  
AN ORDINANCE Appointing the EXCISE OF Alum and Copperace.  
BEE it Ordained by His Highness the Lord Protector, with the advice and consent of His Council, That the Commissioners for the Excise and their sub-Commissioners and all Farmers and Officers employed in the service of the Excise; Do from and after the nine and twentieth day of September, One thousand six hundred fifty four, demand and receiv for the duty of Excise, three pence for and upon every hundred weight, containing five score and twelv pounds of Alum, and no more; and the same rate for Copperace to be paid by the maker thereof, the rate in the Ordinance of the seventeenth of March, One thousand six hundred fifty three, notwithstanding.   

Tuesday, 29 August, 1654.  
ORdered by His Highness the Lord PROTECTOR and the Council, That this Ordinance be forthwith Printed and Published.  
Hen. Scobel, Clerk of the Council.