Exportation (No. 2) Act 1698

VIII. Recital of Stat. 6 & 7 W. III. c. 18. § 16.

Duty to be paid for Seven Years, &c. by Coals exported in Foreign Bottoms; in English Bottoms.

And whereas by an Act made in the Sixth and Seventh Yeares of His present Majesties Reigne intituled An Act for granting to His Majesty certain Duties upon Glasse Wares Stone and Earthen Bottles Coals and Culm for carrying on the Warr against France reciting that the Imposition upon Coals exported to Forreign Parts was so great that it was almost a Prohibition to the great Diminution of His Majesties Customs the lessoning of the English Navigation and the Exportation of Coals beyond the Seas For Remedy whereof it was thereby enacted That all Coals exported beyond the Seas in Forreign Bottoms should during the Continuance of the said Act only pay Tenn Shillings the Chaldron and in English Bottoms only Three Shillings the Chaldron which Part of the said Act will determine on or about the Twenty ninth Day of September in the Yeare of our Lord One thousand seaven hundred if timely Care be not taken for continueing of the same which hath been found very beneficiall and usefull to the Publick and fully to have answered the good End and Intent of the said Act of Parliament Be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Coals exported beyond the Seas in Forreigne Bottoms shall from and after the said Nine and twentieth Day of September in the Yeare of our Lord One thousand seaven hundred for and during the Space of Seaven Yeares and from thence to the End of the next Session of Parliament only pay Tenn Shillings the Chaldron and in English Bottoms only Three Shillings the Chaldron Any Law to the contrary notwithstanding