Rebuilding of London Act 1670

XLII. How the Charge of sinking and making the said Channel to be defrayed.

[X1 Provided alwayes and bee it further enacted and declared That the sinking and makeing of the said intended Channell of Bridgewell docke and Fleet ditch from the Channell of the Thames to Holbourne bridge and the Sasses and Sluces for the better Navigation thereupon and the raiseing and sinkeing [X2 other] Wharfes or Keyes on each side of the said Bridewell docke and Fleete ditch (whereby to bring the same to a Levell) shall be borne and first defrayed by the Maior and Commonaltie and Citizens of the said City of London out of the said fourth part of the Imposition to be raised upon Coles by vertue of this Act. And that the said Maior and Commonaltie and Citizens shall cause the said Chaunnells to be sunke and Wharfes or Keyes to be reduced to such a Levell as may be proper for the Proprietors of the Ground immediately bordering upon the said Wharfes or Keyes to build upon with convenient accesse thereto before the first of August One thousand six hundred and seaventy. And in the next place after the charge before mentioned shall be borne out of the said fourth part, satisfaction shall be made out of the same fourth part to the Proprietors whose Ground hath beene or shall be laid open, or from whom any Ground hath beene or shall be taken for the said publique use.]

Editorial Information

X1 annexed to the Original Act in a feparate Schedule.

X2 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: o'the O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]