The Civil List Act 1697 (9 Will. 3. c. 23) was an act of the Parliament of England.'William III, 1697-8: An Act for granting to His Majesty a further Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage towards raiseing the Yearly Su[m]m of Seven hundred thousand Pounds for the Service of His Maj[es]ties. Household & other Uses therein menc[i]oned dureing His Majesties Life. [Chapter XXIII. Rot. Parl. 9 Gul. III. p. 4. n. 5.]', Statutes of the Realm: volume 7: 1695-1701 (1820), pp. 382–85. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=46909. Date accessed: 30 April 2007. This was the first act of Parliament to set the Civil List, although the custom had begun in 1689.Civil List article from Encyclopædia Britannica The annual amount assigned to King William III and his household was £700,000, an amount that did not change until the beginning of the reign of George III in 1760.History of the Monarchy, George III
Subsequent developments The whole act was repealed by the Customs Law Repeal Act 1825 (6 Geo. 4. c. 105).
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