Coal Duties for Rebuilding Saint Paul's Act 1685

XII. 22 Car. II. c. 11. § 38.

22 Car. II. c. 11. § 41; Reciting that divers Parish Churches mentioned in said Acts remain unbuilt or unfinished; Archbishop, &c. may appropriate any Part of the Duties, not in any one Year exceeding a Fifth Part, to the finishing the said Parish Churches; Remainder to rebuilding St. Paul's.

And whereas by the Additionall Act for Rebuilding the City of London made in the Two and twentieth yeare of King Charles the Second an Imposition of Eighteene pence per Chaldron upon Coals was appointed for Rebuilding fifty one Parochiall Churches named in the said Act by the Warrant and Direction of the said Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury the Lord Bishop of London and Lord Maior of London for the time being or any two of them And whereas by a Provisoe in the said Act One fourth part of the said Imposition was appointed to be imployed by the like Warrants for the Rebuilding the Cathedrall Church of St Pauls by which meanes the Fabricke of the said Cathedrall hath beene considerably advanced Now soe it is that the said fourth part haveing beene deducted the remainder of the said Imposition will by Estimate fall short of finishing all the said Parochiall Churches soe that foure of the said fifty one Churches may remaine unbuilt and the Towers of some other Churches not perfected To the end therefore that the said Parish Churches appointed by name in the said Act to be Rebuilt may have due benefit of the said Imposition upon Coals Bee it Enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That it shall and may be lawfull for the said Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury the Lord Bishop of London and Lord Maior of London for the time being or any two of them to appropriate by Warrant under their Hands and Seales such part of the Imposition granted by this Act as shall in their Discretions seeme sufficient for the compleating of any the said Parochiall Churches that may happen to remaine unfinished at the Expiration of the aforesaid Act made in the Two and twentyeth yeare of King Charles the Second soe as the same doe not in any one yeare exceede one Fifth part of the Imposition granted by this Act And when the said Churches shall be competently finished then to apply and appropriate the whole Remainder of the said Imposition to the Rebuilding of the said Cathedrall of Saint Pauls and to noe other use nor purpose whatsoever.