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may have all due encouragement;" may it please your Majesty that 

 it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent 

 Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual 

 and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, 

 and by the authority of the same, That for ever, from and after the 

 kindling or placing a light, for the benefit of shipping, in a Light- 

 house on one of the said Rocks called The Smalls, there shall be paid 

 to the Master, Wardens, and Assistants, of Trinity House of Deptford 

 Strond, their Successors and Assigns, for every British or 7mA ship, 

 or other vessel whatsoever (except ships or vessels of war of his 

 Majesty, his Heirs and Successors), which shall pass to, from, by, 

 or near the said Rock, or which shall pass between Cape Clear, in 

 the Kingdom of Ireland, and the Land^s End, in the County of Corn- 

 wall, and so up the Bristol Channel, eastward of the Isle of Lundy, 

 or to Milford Haven, or Linney Point, in the County of Pembroke, 

 or the said Rocks of The Smalls, in any direction, within twelve 

 leagues of the said Light-house, or which shall or may have any 

 benefit of the said Light-house or light, the following several Tolls 



or Duties; (that is to say) 



553 For every such British or 7mA ship or other vessel, not 

 being a ship of war belonging to his Majesty, his Heirs or 

 Successors, bound to or from and Port or Place in Great Britain or 

 Ireland, from or to any foreign port or place (neither of the said 

 Kingdoms to be for this Purpose deemed to be foreign, with respect 

 to ships or vessels bound only from the one to the other of them), the 

 Toll or Duty of one Penny for each Ton of the Burthen of every such 

 ship or vessel, for every such passage as aforesaid. 



For every ship or vessel of aliens, bound to or from any port or 

 place in either of the said Kingdoms, or from one foreign Port to 

 another, a Toll or duty of Twopence for each Ton of the Burthen of 

 every such last-mentioned ship or vessel, for every such passage as 

 aforesaid. 



And for every British or 7mA ship, or other vessel, bound coastwise 

 from one port to another in either of the said Kingdoms, or from any 

 port or place in either of the said Kingdoms to any Port or Place in 

 the other of the said Kingdoms, and returning without making any 

 foreign voyage, the Toll or Duty of one Halfpenny for each Ton 

 of the Burthen of every such last-mentioned ship or vessel, for every 

 passage as aforesaid. 



The said several Tolls or Duties to be paid, by the respective Mas- 

 ters or Commanders of such Ships or Vessels respectively, to such 

 Person or Persons as the said Master, Wardens, and Assistants, or 

 their Successors or Assigns, shall from time to time authorise and 

 appoint to collect the same, in such port or place, in either of the 

 said Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, whence any such ship 

 or other vessel shall set forth, or where any such ship or other vessel 

 shall arrive, before the loading or unloading the goods therein; all 

 which said Tolls or Duties shall and may be recovered by Action of 

 Debt in any of his Majesty's Courts of Record in either of the said 

 Kingdoms; wherein no Essoin, Wager of Law, or Protection, shall 

 be allowed, nor more than one Imparlance. 



" II. And, to the intent the said Tolls or Duties may be truly 

 answered and paid," be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 



