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 A.t)-i744« Anno decimo feptimo Georgii II. C. 29. 551 V Veffel, carrying Goods from, or bringing Goods to Cbr/ler, or through any Part of the new Channel, ♦' Ton on the Cheefe Trade ; and zd. per Ton placed in the Room. Skins or Wool to pay the Duty U by Weight only. Collector may weigh or gauge the Goods. Duty (hall be paid before the Veflel is •* cleared. Collector may flop the Veflil for the Duty, and fell the I <me after ten Days. Duty for Vcf- " fels lying in the Dock altered from c/d. to 6 d. Sixteen Feet altered to 15 Feet Water, for the Standard " Company's not keeping the River clear according to the Standard. Thirteen Commilfioners may •' make an Order. Supervifors to found the River weekly, if required. Two othi tidard-piles to " be ereited, and kept in Repair. Clerk of the Peace for Cbejler to regiftir the Supervisors a Month " after Nomination. Books of the Soundings to be kept by the Supervifors for pubJick Infpedtion. " Copies of the Books to be lodged with the Clerk of the Peace. Two Ferries to be kept. Conve- u nient Roads to be made to and from the Ferries, to kept in Repair by the Company. Shares in the " Company to be deemed Perfonal Eftates. Provifo for Landholders. Perfons aggrieved may apply to " of the Marlh Lands on the South Side to be taken. Not to affec~t Royalties of Fiftiing and Fowling. See 26 c«. z» " No Perfons to fix Nets or Stakes crofs the River." «• 35- CAP. XXIX. An A£t for making more effectual Provifion for enlightening the Streets of the City of London. ' Crimes of a heinous Nature, in the Night Seafon, in the Streets, Lanes, Paflages, and Courts ' within the City of London, and the Liberties thereof, an Aft of Parliament was made and palled in the ' ninth Year of the Reign of his prefent Majefty, for the better enlightening the Streets of the City of 9 Ceo - a - c --°> ' anfwer the feveral Ends and Purpofes thereby intended :' Wherefore, and to the End the good Pur- pofes intended by the faid Ad: may be carried on, and fully executed, for the Safety and Prefervation of the Citizens and Inhabitants of the faid City, the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of London in Common Council aflembled, do moft humbly befeech your Majefty that it may be ena£ted ; And be it enacted by the King's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this prefent Parliament aflembled, and by the Authority Number of of the fame, That fuch a convenient and fufficient Number of Glafs Lamps, of fuch Sort and Fafhion j- e t t 7 e p d $ " ^„ as the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the faid City in Common Council aflembled, fhall think court of aT. proper and requifite, fhall be from time to time erected, fixed, fet up and lighted in fuch Parts and dermenand Places within the faid City or Liberties thereof, as to the faid Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty in Common Common Council aflembled, fhall feem meet and expedient. Council. II. And for defraying the yearly Charges of erecting, lighting, Supplying, maintaining, and repairing -^ at " t0 ^ e fof - ] the fame Lamps ; Be it further enacted, That from the twenty-fourth Day of June one thoufand f;ven ^ or y 'Jjj^* ■ hundred and forty-four, one or more Rate or Rates, Afleflment or Afleflments, fhall twice in every Ye^r men^and Core (or oftner in every Year, if it fhall be thought needful for that Purpofe, by the Mayor, Aldermen and mon' Council. Commons in Common Council aflembled) be made, laid and aflefled in every Ward of the City of London, by the Aldermen, Deputy and Common Council, or the major Part of them, in each refpective Ward, of and upon all and every the Perfon or Perfons who do or fhall inhabit, hold, occupy, or enjoy any Lands, Houfes, Shops, Warehoufes, Cellars, Vaults, or other Tenements, or any Part thereof within the faid City of London or the Liberties thereof, who by the Laws now in being are liable to be, and from time to time lhall be actually rated towards the Relief of the Poor in the refpeclive Parifhes within the faid City of London and the Liberties thereof, where fuch Perfon or Perfons fhall refpeiSively live, or be Occupers, in fuch competent Sum and Sums of Money, as the faid Mayor, Aldermen and Commo- nalty of the faid City of London in Common Council aflembled, lhall between the nrft Day of September and the twentieth of Oflober, yearly and every Year, order and direct, in purfuance of the Power herein after invefted in them, fo as fuch Afleflment or Afleflments to be from time to time made by virtue or in purfuance of this A£t, do not exceed in the whole the Sum of fix Pence in the Pound in any one Year Rates not to ci of the yearly Rent of the Houfes, Mefluages, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments of or belonging to ceed fix Pen " '■'■ fuch Perfons fo to be aflefled, as the fame fhall from time to time be alcertained and rated by the Land " oani > Tax within the refpeitive Wards of the faid City of London, fo as by fuch Afleflment or AfiefTments no Perfon or Perfons be rated or aflefled in the whole in any one Year, in refpedt of any Lands, Tenements cr Hereditaments above the Sum of fifty Shillings : And the refpective Collectors for the Time being, nor j 0!I. ;„ for the feveral Wards within the faid City of London and the Liberties thereof, who fhall be chofe in anyone Year, Manner as herein after is appointed, are hereby authorized and required to collect quarterly of and from to be collected every Perfon and Perfons, who fhall be fo rated or aflefled as aforefaid, fuch Rates and Sums of Money quarterly. as fhall be rated and aflefled as aforefaid by every fuch Afleflment or Afleflments. III. And in order to afcertain the Rates and Afleflments to be raifed and levied by virtue of this A<£t, Aldermen and Be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That it (hall and may be lawful to and for the Aldermen Common Coun» of the feveral Wards within the faid City of London, and their refpective Deputies and Common Council thelYndTa^ Men. for the Time being, at ail feafonable and convenient Times, to call before them the Several Collec- Book?, and tors take Copies,
 * in order to be put on Board, or difcharged from any Ship, lying at Parkgate, Flint, or any other Place
 * within the Port of Che/ler, and below the Channel, for every Ton zd. Repeal of a Rate of dd. per
 * at a moderate Spring Tide. The City and Company to appoint two Supervifors. Penalty on th;
 * the Great Seflions for the County of Flint. Five Paflages to be kept for watering Cattle. A Survey
 * ■« TT HE RE AS to prevent the committing of Murders, Robberies, Burglaries, Felonies, and other
 * London: And whereas the Provifions made by the faid Acl: have been found defective, and infufficient to