River Tone Navigation Act 1698

III. Duties to be paid as herein mentioned, until Principal Money of Purchase and Money laid out, together with Interest at £ 6 per Cent. per Ann. to be repaid to the Conservators.

The said Duties to be paid at Knap Bridge; if not paid, Boat, &c. and Goods may be detained until paid; Other Duties to be paid at Coal Harbour; if not paid, Boat, &c. and Goods may be detained until paid.

And forasmuch as the makeing the said River navigable continueing and keeping the same soe hath been a great Charge to the said John Mallett and those claiming under him and will be soe to the said Conservators who have purchased the Interest of the [X1 Heires of the] said John Mallet Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for the reimbursing the said Conservators the principall Money of the said Purchase and what shall be laid out in the makeing or keeping the said River navigable or in makeing or repaireing Bridges over the said River or in any other Works together with Interest for the same after the Rate of Six Pounds per Centum per Annum untill the said Conservators shall be repaid the said Principall and Interest of what they have or shall disburse for the Purposes aforesaid every Boate Barge or Vessell that shall passe up the said River from the said Towne of Bridgwater or other Part of the said River to or towards the said Mills called Ham Mills shall pay to the said Conservators or such Person or Persons as by them or the major Part of them shall be impowered and appointed to receive the same a Toll not exceeding the Sum of Four Pence for every Weigh of Coals contained in every such Boate Barge or Vessell each Weigh containing Eight and forty Bushells by Heap of the Measure now used at Bridgwater which is equall in Quantity to Two Chalders or Seventy two Bushells Winchester Measure by Heap and alsoe in like Manner the further Sum of Two Pence for every Tun of other Goods Wares and Merchandize contained in every such Boate Barge or Vessell soe often and every time as such Boate Barge or Vessell shall soe passe and soe proportionably for a greater or lesser Quantity to be paid and received at a certaine Place on the said River commonly called or knowne by the Name of Knapp Bridge or Bridges and on Refusall or Default of Payment of the same it shall and may be lawfull for the said Conservators or any or either of them or the Person or Persons impowered and appointed by them to receive the same to stop arrest or detaine such Boate Barge or Vessell with all its Apparell and Tackle and all the Coals Goods Wares and Merchandizes laden in or on the same untill the said severall Sums of Four Pence for every Weigh of Coals and Two Pence for every Tun of other Goods Wares and Merchandize shall be duely answered and paid And every Boate Barge or Vessell that shall passe from the said Ham Mills or other Part of the said River to or towards the said Towne of Taunton shall alsoe pay to the said Conservators or the Person or Persons by them appointed to receive the same at the first or lowermost Lock that shall be built or made on the said River above a certaine House or Place neare the said Ham Mills commonly called or knowne by the Name of Coal-Harbour a further Toll not exceeding the Sum of Four Shillings for every Weigh of Coales contained in every such Boate Barge or Vessell which shall be from time to time sett and appointed by the said Conservators or the major Part of them and alsoe in like Manner the further Sum of Two Shillings for every Tun of other Goods Wares and Merchandize contained in every such Boate Barge or Vessell soe often and every time such Boate Barge or Vessell shall soe passe up through such Lock soe to be built or made as aforesaid and so proportionably for a greater or lesser Quantity And on Refusall or Default of Payment thereof it shall and may be lawfull to and for the said Conservators or the Person or Persons soe appointed to receive the same to stop arrest and detaine such Boate Barge or Vessell with all its Apparell and Tackle and all the Coales Goods Wares and Merchandizes laden in or on the same untill the said severall Sums of Four Shillings for every Weigh of Coals and Two Shillings for every Tun of other Goods Wares and Merchandize shall be duely answered and paid

Editorial Information

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