4d. for Metage.; 6d. per Chaldron over the said Metage, and all other Duties on Coals and Culm; and for Coals sold by the Ton, 6d. per Ton;; how and when paid;; Receipt, without Fee, to Person paying Duty.; levied as by 19 Car. II. c. 3. which is to be in force.; Duties received paid into the Chamber.
And for a further Increase of the said Fond be it enacted by the authority aforesaid That for all sorts of Coals which shall be imported or brought into the Port of the said City of London or the River of Thames within the Liberty of the said City upon the same River to be sold by the Chaldron or Tun there shall be paid by way of imposition thereupon according to the Rates and Duties herein after mentioned (that is to say), For all such sort of Coals or Culm as are usually sold by the Chaldron for [X1for] every Chaldron thereof which shall be imported from and after the said Foure and Twentieth day of June One thousand six hundred ninety foure the su[m]m of Foure pence Meetage for ever over and above what is now lawfully paid for the Meetage thereof which said su[m]m shall bee paid in like manner as the present Duty for Meetage is or hath been accustomed to bee paid and from time to time be paid to the said Mayor Co[m]monalty and Citizens of the said City by the Officer and Officers receiving the said Meetage. And for all such sort of Coals or Culm which shall be imported into the said Port or Members thereof from and after the Nine and twentieth day of September which shall be in the yeare of our Lord One thousand and seven hundred (over and above all other Impositions and Duties and the abovemenc[i]oed su[m]m of Foure [X2pence] the further su[m]m of Six pence for every Chaldron thereof. And for such sort of Coals as are sold by the Tun for every Tun thereof containeing Two thousand weight the like su[m]m of Six pence which said Imposition of Sixpence shall continue from the said Nine and twentieth day of September for and dureing the Terme of Fifty yeares and noe longer And the said Impositions of Six pence for every Chaldron of Coals shall from time to time dureing the continuance of the said Imposition be answered and paid unto the said Mayor Co[m]monalty and Citizens by the Master Owner or Owners or other person or persons takeing Charge of any Ship or Vessel whereupon the same shall be laden before they [X2shall] break Bulk or have a Meeter assigned for the measuring or weighing any Coals aforesaid to be delivered from on board such Shipp or Vessel the same to bee paid att such place or places as by the said Mayor and Court of Aldermen shall from time to time be appointed within the said City or Liberties thereof for the Receipt thereof, upon Receipt whereof the Party appointed to receive the same shall without delay fee or reward deliver a Receipt to the person or persons who shall pay the said Duty or Duties Which Receipt shall for soe much be a sufficient discharge And that the said imposition of Six pence per Tun or Chaldron shall by virtue of this Act be collected and levied in such sort and manner in all and every respect as in and by one Act made in the Nineteenth yeare of the Reigne of the late King Charles the Second entituled An Act for the rebuilding the City of London the Imposition of Coals thereby granted was to be collected and levied and all and every the powers authorities directions and provisions in or by the said Act menc[i]oned or provided for the levying collecting and recovering thereof or the penalties thereby imposed or for the ordering or regulateing the Proceedings of the said Coal Meeters or others in discharge of their respective Offices and Duties or for the preventing of Fraud and Covin and for the discovery of the just quantity of all sorts of Coals to be imported as aforesaid shall remain and be in force and by virtue of this present Act shall and may be exercised and put in Ure for the collecting levying and recovering the said Duty of Six pence according to the purport and effect of the aforesaid Act and under the same Penalties in all and every respect and that for and dureing all the time by this Act limitted and appointed for the payment of the said imposition as if the same were expresly menc[i]oed in this present Act with referrence to the said imposition thereby imposed All which moneys so to be received upon account of the said respective impositions of Foure pence and Six pence or by any other additional duty in case of concealment thereof as by the aforesaid Act is appointed and all other the su[m]ms of money hereby appointed as part of the said Fond shall from time to time be paid into the Receipt of the Chamber of the City of London and shall be and is hereby appropriated towards the raiseing such a Fond as aforesaid and applied towards the discharge of the said Debts.