Trade with Africa Act 1697

II.

Any of the King's Subjects as well as the Company, may trade to Africa, between Cape Mount and the Cape of Good Hope, paying £10 per Cent., &c.

And the better to enable the said Royall African Company their Successors and Assigns to maintain the said Castles and Forts and for the Preservation and well carrying on the said Trade to and for the Advantage of England and the Plantations and Colonies thereunto belonging Be it further enacted That it shall and may be lawfull to and for any of the Subjects of His Majesties Realm of England as well as for the said Company from and after the said Four and twentieth Day of June to trade from England and from and after the First of August One thousand six hundred ninety and eight from any of His Majesties Plantations or Colonies in America to and for the Coast of Africa between Cape Mount and the Cape of Good Hope the said Company and all other the said Subjects answering and paying for the Uses aforesaid a Duty of Ten Pounds per Centum ad Valorem for the Goods and Merchandizes to be exported from England or from any of His Majesties Plantations or Colonies in America to and for the Coast of Africa between Cape Mount and the Cape of Good Hope and in proportion for a greater or lesser Value in Manner and Forme as herein after expressed.