Coal Duties for Rebuilding Saint Paul's Act 1685

II. Coal-Meters for London to give to Officers of Archbishop, &c. a Certificate in Writing of the Sorts and Quantities of Coals delivered.

Default, Suspension for a Year, and Penalty of £10; If more Coals appear than Duty paid for further Duty of 5s. per Tun; Refusal of Payment; Ship, &c. attached by Warrant till Payment.

And to the end that the said Imposition may be duely answered and paid without Fraude or Covin and for the better Levying and Collecting thereof and for discovery of the just quantities of all sorts of Coals to be Imported as aforesaid Bee it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That 'the Coale-Meeters for the City of London appointed or to be appointed and every of them and their respective Deputyes in their turne and course of Attendance respectively soe soone as any Shipp or Vessell fraught with Coals shall be unladen shall forthwith deliver a true Certificate in Writeing unto the Deputy or Deputyes Officers or Assignes of the said Lord ArchBishop Lord Bishop and Lord Maior for the time being or any two of them (who shall be appointed to receive the said Imposition) of the sorts quantities or number of Chaldrons or Tunns of Coals respectively which shall be measured or weighed and delivered from on board any Shipp or Vessell on paine for his or their default therein to be suspended from the Execution and Benefitt of his or their Office or Imployment for one whole yeare from thence next following and to forfeite the Summe of Ten pounds And in case it shall appeare by such Certificate or otherwise that there was on board any such Shipp or Vessell a greater number of Chaldrons or Tuns of Coals then for which the said Imposition shall have beene answered and paid as aforesaid That then in such case there shall be paid to the said Lord Arch-bishop Lord Bishop and Lord Maior for the time being or any two of them for every Chaldron or Tun of Coals soe concealed over and above the Imposition aforesaid the further Imposition or Summe of Five shillings for all which Impositions (in case of refusall to pay the same) such Shipp or Vessell or any the Tackle Furniture or Apparell thereof may be attached and detained by Warrant from the said Lord Arch-Bishop Lord Bishop and Lord Maior for the time being or any two of them untill payment thereof.