Taxation Act 1677

XXXV. Money to be appropriated to building, rigging, &c. 30 Ships of War.

And bee it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That all moneyes collected leavyed and paid by vertue of this Act except the allowances therein made to the respective Collectors and Receivers Generall and the usuall Fees of the Officers of the Exchequer shall be applyed and appropriated and are hereby appropriated for the building and for the Gunns, Rigging and other Furnishing of Thirty Shipps of Warr whereof one to be of the First Rate and to containe and measure Fowerteene hundred Tunns and not under Nine to be of the Second Rate and to containe and measure each of them Eleaven hundred Tunns and not under and Twenty of them to be of the Third Rate and to containe and measure each of them Nine hundred Tunns and not under and to noe other intent use or purpose whatsoever.