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 1 Jac. »,c, 15. 644 C. 13 — 16. Anno oAavo Sc nono Gun el mi III. A, D. 1697. uponfeveral Goods and MerchandUes, for the profecuting the prefentWar again/i Fiznce, fliall be continued from the firft Day of March in the Year of our Lord one thoufand fix hundred ninety-fix, and be raifed, levied, collefted, anfwered, and paid unto His Majefly, His Heirs and Succeffors, until the feventeenth DsiV of May in the Year of our Lord one thoufand fix hundred ninety-feven; and that the faid AiSt, and a'l Powers, Provifions, Penalties, Articles, and Claufes, therein contained, fhall continue and be of full Force and EfFeiSl:, until the faid feventeenth Day of Afay one thoufand fix hundred ninety-feven, and fliall be applied, pradlifed, and executed, for raifing, levying, collefting, anfwering, and paying the faid ad- ditional Duties, and other Rates and Impofitions hereby continued, according to the Tenor and Intent of this prefent A&. CAP. xm. 'EXP. An A£i: for continuing feveral fornner A<Ss for punifiiing Officers and Soldiers who fhall mutiny or defert His Majefty's Service, and for punilhing falfe Mufters, and for Payment of Quarters, for one Year longer* CAR XIV. An Aft for the compleating the Building and adorning the Cathedral Church of Saint Fault London, and for repairing the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter, Weftminfter. ' TT 7 HERE AS by an Aft made in the Parliament begun at Wejlminjler the nineteenth Day o£ May ' W in the Year of our Lord one thoufand fix hundred eighty and five, and in the firft Year of the ' Reign of the late King James the Second, intituled. An ASi for rebuilding, finijhing, and adorning of the ' Cathedral Church of Saint Paul'^, London, it was enadted, That for all Sorts of Coals, which from and ' after the nine and "twentieth Day of iS^^^^wi^7-one thoufand fix hundred eighty and feven, and before the ' nine and twentieth Day of September one thoufand feven hundred, fhould be imported and brought into ' the Port of the faid City of London., or the River of Thames, within the Liberty of the faid City upon the - fame River, there Ihould be paid by way of Impofition thereupon, over and befides all other Impofitions ' and Duties, accordmg to the Rates therein after mentioned (that is to fay) For all Sorts of Coals and ' Culm as are ufually fold by the Chaldron, for every Chaldron thereof, containing thirty-fix Bulhels Win- ^ chefier Meafure, the Sum of eighteen Pence; and for fuch Sort of Coals as are fold by the Tun, for every ' Tun thereof, containing twenty hundred Weight, the like Sum of eighteen Pence; which faid Impofi- ' and paid, and in the firft Place to be applied and difpofed to the rebuilding, finifhing, and adorning the ' faid Cathedral of Saint Patd's, and for the compleating parochial Churches, as by the faid Aft more at ' large appears : And whereas not only the Monies hitherto received for the faid Duty, but feveral great ' Sums of Money advanced upon the Credit of the faid Aft (a confiderable Part whereof is now owing} ' and all other Supplies have been carefully expended and laid out about the faid Work, whereby the ' fame is far advanced, and yet by Reafon of the extraordinary Expence of Shipping in Time of War, ' and Dearnefs of Materials, the Money hitherto provided for the Works intended by the faid Aft hath ' proved defeftive; and unlefs fome further Provifion be made for compleating the faid Works, that which ' is already done will be greatly damaged, if not wholly loft; and in cafe the fame fhall be compleated, it ' will be neceflary that fome other Things be done, both for the Convenience and Ornament of the faid ' Cathedral Church, (jfc' 1 X P. " Duty laid on Coals and Culm from 29 Sept. 1700. to 2g Sept. 1716. For every Chaldron izd. Every Altered by 9 " Tun, 12 d. to be applied, one fixth Part to the Repairing Saint P^f^rV //•'$/?«/«/?£/-. 3,000/. outofthefe AnnE, c, 12. ti Duties to be paid in 4 Years towards Building Saint Thomas Church in Southwark. The Stipend to the- " Surveyor General of the Building of Saint Paul's fhall be paid in the Proportions following; one Moiety " yearly, and the other Moiety in one intire Sum, within fix Months after finifliing the Church." C A P. XV. PR. EXP. An Aft for Repairing the Highway between Ryegate in the County of Surrey, and Crawley in the County of Suffix, CAP. XVI. An Aft for enlarging Common Highvfays. 13& i4Car.2. ' IT 7FIEREAS an Aft made in the thirteenth and fourteenth Years oftheReign of King Charles the ' the Laws and Statutes of this Realm is not fuificient for the enlarging of the Highways of this King- Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Au- Tuftic s m thority of the fame, That the Juftices of the Peace of any County, City, Riding, Divifion, Liberty, or large'^Highway"' Pl^ce, or the major Part of them, being five at the leaft, at their Quarter- Seflions, fliall have Power to en- 8 Yards in large or widen any Highways in their refpeftive Counties, Ridings, Divifions, Liberties, or Places, fo that Breadth. the Ground to be taken into the faid Highways do not exceed eight Yards in Breadth, and that the faid 13 EJ. 1. /, P:-v(rer do not extend to pull dov/n any Houfe, or to take away the Ground of any Garden, Orchard,. Court, S-9
 * tion of eighteen Pence lor every Chaldron or Tun of Coals the faid A6t doth appoint how to be collected
 * • ''• ' ¥ V Second, for enlarging Common Highways, is expired, and that the ordinary Courfe appointed by
 * dom;' Be it enafted by the King's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the