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For all Ships, whether Sailing Ships or Steam Ships, navigating 

 from any Port or Ports in the United Kingdom to any Port or Ports 

 in the British Colonies in North America ; 



For all Ships, whether Sailing Ships or Steam Ships, bound from 

 any Port or Ports in the British Colonies in North America upon 

 any Transatlantic voyage; 



For all Ships, whether Sailing Ships or Steam Ships, arriving at 

 any Port or Ports in the British Colonies in North America after any 

 Transatlantic voyage ; 



For all Ships, whether Sailing Ships or Steam Ships, arriving at 

 any Port or Ports in the United Kingdom from New York, or any 

 Port in the United States. North of New York ; 



And for all Steam Ships leaving any Port or Ports in the United 

 Kingdom for New York, or any Ports in the United States North of 

 New York, passing the said Light House, when the Light is exhibited 

 therein, and consequently deriving benefit therefrom. 



And whereas it is necessary that provision should be made for the 

 imposition and collection of the said Dues on and from all such of 

 said Ships or Vessels as shall from time to time enter or clear at and 

 sail from any of the respective Ports of this Colony: 



Be it therefore Enacted, by the Governor. Legislative Council and 

 Assembly, in Legislative Session convened, as follows: 



I. That from and out of the amount of Light Dues, to which the 

 Ships or Vessels hereinafter referred to are liable, by the Laws of 

 this Colony, to pay upon entering or clearing at any Port therein, 

 there be appropriated and paid to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Suc- 

 cessors, in this Colony, for the support and maintenance of the said 

 Light House on Cape Race, in this Island, and for the other pur])' 

 referred to in the said recited Act, and according to the provisions 

 of the Laws now in force in this Colony for the erection and main- 

 tenance of Light Houses, a Toll or Duty of One-Sixteenth of a 



702 Penny Sterling, per Ton, upon the tonnage burthen of every 

 such Ship as is hereinafter mentioned, on and for every vovairi' 

 of such Ship navigating between the following places, that is to 

 say: 



Upon the Tonnage Burthen of all Ships or Vessels navigating on 

 any voyage from any Port in this Colony to any Port in the United 

 Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ; 



Upon the Tonnage Burthen of all Ships or Vessels bound from 

 any Port in this Colony upon any Transatlantic voyage; 



Upon the Tonnage Burthen of all Ships or Vessels arriving at any 

 Port in this Colony immediately after any Transatlantic voyage : 



II. The Receiver General of this Colony shall, quarterly, render an 

 account to the Officer of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, of 

 the said Duties or Tolls that shall be taken and received in this 

 Colony ; and also an account of the particulars of the Vessels which 

 have paid such Duties or Tolls, giving the names of such Vessels and 

 the Ports to which they belong, their Tonnage, rate of Toll, and the 

 amount paid by each Ship or Vessel. 



III. All Dues or Tolls to be levied and appropriated as aforesaid, 

 under this Act shall be paid over by the Receiver General to HIT 

 Majesty's Paymaster General, at such times and in such manner a- 

 the Board of Trade in the United Kingdom may direct, and shall be 



