Trade with Africa Act 1697

XVI. Duties appropriated for maintaining the Forts and Castles in Africa, &c.

Account of the Duties and Disbursements, &c. to be kept, and may be viewed at the African House in London.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all the Duties and Impositions ariseing and collected. and paid by virtue of this Act shall be and are hereby appropriated wholly to the Maintenance of the Forts and Caatles on the Coast of Africa and now are and hereafter shal be in the Possession of the said Royal African Company and for keeping them always in good condition and well repaired and for the providing Ammunitiou and all needful warlike Stores and a sufficient Number of Soldiers to defend the same and for paying the said Officers and Soldiers belonging to them and to noe other use or purpose whatsoever and that a just and true account of the said Duties and laying out of the same for the Uses above mentioned shall be kept in a Book or Books for that purpose which Book or Books shall lye open at the African House scituate in London to be perused at all seasonable times by all Persons trading to Africa and that an account shall be stated and made up yearly and every Year at Michaelmas or within Twenty Days after and be recorded in the Court of Exchequer.