480 A. D. 1799. 



harbour-mailers in the port, &c The quays formed within the com- 

 pany's inclolure being declared legal, all veflels arriving from the Weft- 

 Indies, after the completion of the works, mufi; difcharge their cargoes 

 on the quays belonging to them, and there the duties upon them mufl 

 be afcertained ; after which the goods may be flored in the company's 

 warehoufes, or elfewhere, in the option of the proprietors or their agents, 

 except tobacco, which immediately after being landed mufi be conveyed 



to fome of the king's warehoufes If at*any time the docks are fo full, 



that fome vtffels cannot find room in them, the commiflloners of the 

 cufloms may authorize fuch veflels to difcharge at fuch other legal quay 

 as they fliall appoint. The fame commiffioners may alio order vellels 

 arriving from other countries with Weft- India produce onboard, to dif- 

 charge fuch produce in the company's docks. All vcflels bound for the 

 Weft-Indies niuft take in their cargoes in the company's docks, or in 

 the river below Blackwall, except in the cafe of takmg in naval ftores for 

 his Majefty's fervice at Deptford. — All veflels, before entering the docks, 

 muft unload their guns, and difcharge all their gun-powder, except one 

 pound ; and for the prevention of fire, no tar, pitch, tallow, ftraw, ftiav- 

 ings, or other combullible matter, muft be allowed to be on any veflel's 

 deck, or on any of the quays or wharfs, above \welve hours; neither 

 ftiall anv fire, candle, or lamp, be lighted in the docks, warehoules &c. 

 unlefs they be neceffary for making or repairing any of the works. — 

 In confideration of the lofs of employment which may be fuftained by 

 the owners of legal wharfs, fufferance wharfs, and certain warehoules, 

 docks, and other tenements, or by Chrift's hofpital by failure of the in- 

 come derived from car-rooms, or by any porters or car-men employed 

 upon the prefent wharfs, the commiflloners, appointed for fettling the 

 compenfation to Lord Gwydir, ftjall award them a juft and liberal com- 

 penlation, wlych may be claimed in three years after the docks are 

 ready tor ufe. 



In confideration of the accommodation and advantage which the pro- 

 pofed works will afiord to the fliipjiing and trade of the port, and iii 

 onfidcration of the expenfe of conftrudmg the canals, bridges, roads, 

 8cc. to be made by the corporation of London, the following raies are 

 made payable to his Majefty for fourteen years after the i" of Auguft; 

 1799 by every vefiel ufing the port ot London, viz. 



Coastins: vessels above 45 tuns, for every vo\ac:e in and out, in-l . , 



, ^ ' J . & ' 'per tun . id 

 elusive y 



Vessels arriving from Denmark, Norway on this side of the INortli cape, the"! 

 coast ot Gernuiuy bordering on the Ocean, the Duteh and Austrian Ne- I 

 therlaiuls, France as lar as Usliant, and the islands of Gueiiise), Jersey, [ + 

 Alderiiey, Sark, or Mann J 



V(_sscls from an} country within the Baltic, or beyond the North Cape v( 1 

 N r ■ ay j ^ 



Vessels Jroin France south of Ushant, the coast of Spain bordering on the"] 



Ocean, Pcrtiigal, the Azores, IMadeira, the Canaries, or any part of the > 2^ 

 east coast ol North America J 



