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By the King.  
A PROCLAMATION, For Continuing Officers of the Excise, during His majesty's Pleasure.  
CHARLES R.  
WHereas by virtue of an Act entitled, An Act for the continuing of the Excise until the Five and Twentieth day of December 1660. the same Receipt was managed, and the whole Work thereof carried on by certain Commissioners therein named, called Commissioners for the Grand Excise, and by divers subcommissioners, and other their inferior Officers and Ministers not therein mentioned: And by certain other Commissioners in the said Act also named, called Commissioners for Appeals and Regulating the Excise, and their inferior Officers and Ministers.  
And whereas part of the said Excise, consisting of certain Impositions upon Beér, Ale, Cider, Perry, and other liquours, is by two several Acts of Parliament passed upon the Four and Twentieth day of this instant Deeember, granted unto us, That is to say, one moiety thereof to us, Our Heirs and Successors, as a perpetual recompense and satisfaction of and for Our Tenures and Purveyance; And the other moiety thereof as an Augmentation of Our Revenue during Our Life. In both which Acts it is referred unto us to nominate such Persons as We shall think fit to be Commissioners and Officers for carrying on of that Service, which the shortness of time, and other Our Weighty Occasions will not yet give us leisure to think of.  
To the intent therefore that Our Revenue may not suffer any loss or hindrance by this delay, We do hereby Publish and Declare Our Royal Will and Pleasure, That all and every the Persons, who upon the Four and Twentieth day of this instant December, were Commissioners for the Grand Excise, subcommissioners, or inferior Officers relating thereunto, or Commissioners for Appeals and Regulating the Excise, shall be and are hereby Authorized and required to continue in his and their respective Employments, And are hereby Declared to be Our Commissioners for the Excise of Beer, Ale, Cider, Perry, and other liquours, and our subcommissioners and inferior Officers; and also Our Commissioners for Appeals and Regulating the Excise, during Our Pleasure. And We do hereby enjoin them to Act in their several Places and Employments according to the Rules in the two Acts last mentioned and not otherwise, For which they shall receive from us during their respective Employments, like Wages and Salaries as hath been heretofore used and accustomed.  
Given at Our Court at Whitehall, this Four and Twentieth day of December, One thousand six hundred and sixty, in the Twelfth Year of Our Reign. 
 GOD SAVE THE KING.   

LONDON Printed by John Bill, Printer to the KING'S most Excellent MAJESTY, 1660.  
At the KING'S Printing-House in Blackfriars.