be fufficient to difcharge the payments by this act intended to be charged thereupon, may be referved for the use of the publick: therefore we your Majefty's moft dutiful and loyal fubjects, the commons of Great Britain in parliament affembled, being defirous to pursue your Majefty's pious and gracious intentions for the honour and benefit of the church of England and advancement of our holy religion, by making provifion for raifing the faid sum of three hundred and fixty thousand pounds in fuch proportions at a time as thall be needed to be employed (fo far as the fame will extend) for or towards the building and finishing of churches, purchafing fcites, church yards, burying places, and houses for minifters, repairing the faid collegiate church of St. Peter, Weftminster, and the chapels of the fame, finishing Greenwich Hofpital and the chapel thereunto belonging, and making provifions for minifters, according to the true intention of the faid former. acts of parliament; and being alfo defirous to make good the fupply granted to your Majesty in this feffion of parliament, by making provision to raise a fum, not exceeding the faid fum of five hundred twenty eight thousand three hundred and twenty pounds one fhilling and nine pence; and being alfo defirous to have the faid furpluffes referved for the ufe of the publick as aforefaid, do moft humbly prefent to your Majefty the feveral impofitions, rates and duties herein after mentioned, and do moft humbly pray, That it may be, and be it enacted by the King's moft excellent majefty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords fpiritual and temporal and commons, in this prefent parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, That for all forts of coals and culm which, from and after the twenty-feventh day of September one thoufand feven hundred and March 1751, twenty five, and before the feaft of the annunciation of the 35. per chal- bleffed Virgin Mary which fhall be in the year of our Lord one der and tun. thousand feven hundred and fifty one, thall be imported and Thefe duties are brought into the port of the city of London, or the river of made perpetual Thames within the liberty of the faid city upon the fame river, by 6 Geo. 1. there fhall be paid to his Majefty, his heirs and fucceffors, by way of impofition thereupon (over and above all other impo fitions and duties) according to the rates hereafter mentioned, (that is to fay) for all fuch forts of coals and culm as are usually fold by the chalder, for every chalder thereof containing thirty fix bushels Winchefter meafure, the fum of three fhillings, and for fuch fort of coals as are fold by the tun, for every tun thereof, containing twenty hundred weight, the fum of three fhillings.

Coals and

culm import

ed into the port of London, after 27 Sept 1725, and

before 25

to pay, viz.

č. 4. fect. 1.

See 13 Geo. 1. c. 21. fect. 1.

Thefe duties

II. And it is hereby enacted by the authority aforefaid, That to be under the faid refpective fums of three fhillings for every chalder of the manage- coals and culm and tun of coals, which from time to time, ment of the commiffioners from and after the feaft of the annunciation of the bleffed Virof the customs. gin Mary one thoufand feven hundred and nineteen, and be

fore the faid feaft of the annunciation of the bleffed Virgin Mary which fhall be in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty one, fhall be imported or brought into the faid

port

2. C. 23.

port or river within the liberty of the faid city, as aforefaid, and payable by virtue of the faid recited acts of the ninth year of her 9 Ann. c. 22. late Majefty's reign and the first year of his Majefty's reign, and Geo. 1. ftat. by virtue of this prefent act, every or any of them, fhall from time to time be under the management of the commiffioners and officers of his Majefty's cuftoms for the time being, according to fuch orders and directions as are or fhall from time to time be given by the commiffioners of the treasury, or any three or more of them now being, or by the high treasurer, or any three or more of the commiffioners of the treafury for the Duties how to time being; and fhall or may from time to time be raised, le- be levied. vied, collected and paid to his Majefty, his heirs and fucceffors, in fuch manner, method and form, and at fuch places and by fuch rules, ways and means, and under fuch penalties and forfeitures, as are mentioned, expreffed and referred unto in and by any act, law or ftatute, acts, laws or ftatutes now in force, for raifing, levying, collecting or anfwering any other duty or duties now payable to his Majefty for or upon any coals or culm whatsoever imported or brought coastwife into the faid port of London; and that all and every the powers, authorities, penalties, forfeitures, difabilities, articles, rules and clauses in the fame acts, laws and ftatutes, or any of them, mentioned or contained (except fuch and fo much of them, for and concerning which it is otherwise provided in this and the faid recited acts, or any of them) fhall be of fuch force and effect, to all intents and purposes, for the raifing, levying, collecting and anfwering the impofitions hereby granted, for and during the faid term or time herein before limited, as if the fame were particularly and at large fet down and enacted by this act; any former law, cuftom or ufage whatfoever to the contrary in any wife notwithstanding.

Chelsea ho

III. Provided, that this act, or any thing therein contained, 100 chalders fhall not extend, or be conftrued to extend, to charge or lay of coals per any of the duties or impofitions hereby impofed upon fuch coals ann. for (not exceeding one hundred chalders by the year) as fhall be (pital, not brought into the port of London, from Newcastle upon Tine or chargeable. any other place, for the only use and service of the royal hofpital at Chelsea; any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding

IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, The monies That all and every fuch fum and fums of money as thall be to be brought raised, collected or levied by virtue of the faid recited act of the into the exchequer. ninth year of her faid late Majefty's reign, and by virtue of the 9 Ann. c. 22. faid recited act of the first year of his Majefty's reign, and by 1 Geo. 1. ftat. virtue of this prefent act, every or any of them, of or for the 2. c. 23. faid duties on coals and culm to be imported and brought into the faid port of the city of London, or the river of Thames within the liberty of the faid city upon the fame river, at any time or times, from and after the feaft of the annunciation of the bleffed Virgin Mary one thoufand feven hundred and nineteen, and before the faid feaft of the annunciation of the bleffed Vir

And appropriated for the uses of this act.

After 25

intereit of

360,000 1.

gin Mary one thousand seven hundred and fifty one, (the necef fary charges of raifing, managing and accounting for the fame always excepted) fhall from time to time be brought and paid into the receipt of Exchequer; and the fame monies (other than fuch furplus monies as are to be referved for future difpofition by parliament as aforefaid) are and fhall be, by force and virtue of this act, appropriated, iffued, applied and difpofed to and for the feveral and refpective ufes and purposes in and by this present act prescribed and directed, of and concerning the fame, and to and for none other use, intent or purpose whatsoever; any former act or acts of parliament, or any appropriation, direction, clause or clauses, matter or thing whatfoever therein contained to the contrary in any wife notwithstanding.

V. And to the end a good and fufficient fund and fecurity March 1719, may be fettled and established for raising the faid fum of three for 32 years, hundred and fixty thousand pounds, in fuch proportions at a 21,000l. to be a fund for an- time as fhall be needed, for the purpofes in this act particularly fwering the expreffed, of and concerning the fame; be it further enacted by principal and the authority aforefaid, That yearly and every year, from and after the faid feast of the annunciation of the bleffed Virgin Mary one thousand seven hundred and nineteen, for and during the term of thirty and two years from thence next enfuing, the full fum of twenty and one thousand pounds, by or out of the monies of or for the said several duties on coals and culm by this act appropriated as aforefaid, fhall be and is by this act de clared and enacted to be a particular fund and fecurity for an fwering and paying, as well the principal as the intereft of the faid fum of three hundred and fixty thousand pounds, in fuch courfe, manner and form, as are hereafter in this act prescrib ed in that behalf: and the commiffioners of his Majesty's trea fury now being, and the treasurer and under-treasurer of the exchequer and commiffioners of the treasury of his Majesty, his heirs and fucceffors for the time being, are hereby strictly enjoined and required to caufe the faid yearly fum of twenty and one thousand pounds to be applied according to this act, out of the duties arifing as aforefaid, with preference to any other payments to be made out of the fame; any former law or sta tute to the contrary notwithstanding.

Money may VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, be railed by That it fhall and may be lawful to and for the commiffioners of way of loan his Majefty's treafury, or any three or more of them now beat 41. per cent. ing, and the treafurer and under-treasurer of the exchequer, for building churches, &c. or any three or more of the commiffioners of the treafury for the time being, (without any further or other warrant or au thority to be fued for, had or obtained in that behalf) from time to time to direct the officers at the receipt of the exchequer to receive, by way of loan, from any person or perfons, natives or foreigners, bodies politick or corporate, willing to make fuch loan or loans upon credit of the faid particular fund of twenty and one thousand pounds per annum by this act esta

blished

Tax-free.

blished as aforefaid, such sum and fums of money as any five or more of the perfons appointed, or to be appointed by commiffion or letters patents under the great feal of Great Britain, fhall from time to time, or at any time or times, think necessary, and fhall, by writing under the hands of them or any five or more of them, defire to be raised by way of loan for the buildings, repairs and other purposes by the faid recited acts intended; and to allow intereft, not exceeding the rate of four pounds per centum per annum, for the forbearance thereof; and that the monies fo lent fhall not be taxed or affeffed by any act of parliament whatsoever; and that fuch lenders fhall have tallies of loan and orders for their repayment, with fuch intereft as aforefaid, out of the faid particular fund of twenty and one thousand pounds per annum, the principal to be paid in courfe according To be paid in to the refpective dates of the tallies, and the intereft every three courfe. Interest every months, until the repayment of the principal, fo that at the three months, end of every quarter of a year the faid intereft then due fhall be &c paid, or money fufficient fhall be reserved for payment thereof; and the rest of the money of the fame particular fund then remaining in the exchequer fhall be iffued and applied, from time to time, towards fatisfaction of the faid principal in courfe as aforefaid; and fo as care be taken, that as the principal be paid off, the interest be proportionably funk and abated; and that no fee, reward or gratuity shall be demanded or taken in or for the payment thereof; and that the money of the faid particular fund of twenty and one thousand pounds per annum shall be liable to fatisfy fuch orders accordingly without being diverted from the fame to any other ufe, intent or purpose, upon pain of forfeiting treble damages, with full cofts of fuit, to the party grieved by the party offending; and that such orders shall be affignable by endorsements thereupon according to the courfe in fuch cases used in the exchequer; any law or statute whatfoever to the contrary notwithstanding.

. VII. And it is hereby enacted, That all the monies to arife by The 21,000 l. way of loan upon credit of the faid particular fund of twenty and per ann. apone thousand pounds per annum, and all the monies of the fame propriated for fund (except fo much thereof as is to be applied for repayment building the of the principal and fatisfaction of the intereft of the loans which churches, &c. fhall be made thereupon, as aforefaid) are hereby appropriated, and fhall, be applied for or towards the building and finishing of churches, purchafing of fcites, church-yards, burying-places, and houses for ministers, repairing the faid collegiate church of St. Peter, Weftminster, and the chapels of the fame, finishing Greenwich Hofpital and the chapel thereunto belonging, making provifion for minifters, and other charges relating to the faid churches, which were authorized and intended by the faid former acts or any of them concerning the fame, and to or for none other use, intent or purpose whatsoever.

VIII. Provided always, That the principal of fuch loans, Not to exceed together with the monies (if any fuch be) which fhall be fup- 360,000 L plied out of the fame particular fund itself, for the purposes laft

men

Treasury to iffue fuch

money as the commiffioners for the

the treasurer

mentioned, fhall not in the whole exceed the faid fum of three hundred and fixty thousand pounds.

IX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That it fhall and may be lawful to and for the commiffioners of his Majefty's treasury, or any three or more of them now being, and the high-treasurer and under-treasurer of the exchechurches fall quer, or any three or more of the commiffioners of the treasury think fit, to for the time being, and they are hereby directed and authorized, in that behalf. (without any further or other warrant or authority to be fued for, had or obtained in that behalf) from time to time to iffue and pay, or cause to be iffued and paid, out of the monies to arife by way of loan upon credit of the faid particular fund of twenty and one thousand pounds per annum and out of the monies of the faid particular fund of twenty and one thousand pounds per annum, (except fo much of the fame particular yearly fund as is to be applied for the payment of principal and fatisfaction of the intereft of the loans to be made upon the fame as aforefaid) fuch fum and fums of money as fhall be thought meet and neceffary by the faid commiffioners appointed or to be appointed to take care of the said buildings as aforesaid, or any five or more of them, for the buildings, repairs and other the fervices laft before-mentioned; which monies fo to be iffued as aforefaid fhall be paid unto fuch perfon or perfons, (not being of the number of the fame commiffioners) for the ends and purposes aforefaid, as his Majefty, his heirs or fucceffors, fhall from time to time direct and appoint to be the treasurer or treasurers in this behalf; and fhall be received by him or them by way of impreft, and be accounted for only by fuch treasurer or treafurers; and fhall be disburfed, expended and applied by fuch treasurer and treasurers refpectively, according to fuch orders and warrants as he or they fhall receive from time to time from the faid commiflioners for the faid buildings and repairs, or any five or more of them, for all or any the uses and services before by this or the faid former acts prescribed or allowed in that behalf, and not otherwise, or to any other use, intent or Treasurer acpurpose whatsoever; which faid treasurer and treasurers refpectively thall be accountable in the exchequer for the fame, and quer, and to thall give fuch fufficient fecurity, as fhall be approved by the give fecurity. commiffioners of the treafury, or any three or more of them now being, or by the treafurer and under-treasurer of the exchequer, or any three or more of the commiffioners of the treafury for the time being, before he or they enter upon his or their office, for making fuch accounts.

countable in

the exche

The produce X. Provided always, and it is hereby enacted by the authoof the duties rity aforefaid, That the produce of the faid duties which fhall before come or be brought into the receipt of exchequer for fuch 25 March coals or culm, as aforefaid, imported or to be imported before 1719, to be applied in the faid feast of the annunciation of the bleffed Virgin Mary one purfuance of thousand feven hundred and nineteen, fhall be iffued and applied in fuch manner as the fame ought to have been issued and applied by or in purfuance of the said former acts or any of them,

the former

acts.