502 A. D. 1800. 



the Weft-India dock company, particularly in not being permitted to 

 divide above ten per cent on their capital, and in making compenfarion 

 to the owners of wharfs, 8cc. if they fhall appear to have fufFered by 

 the trade being transferred to the docks. 



The company are entitled to the following dues, payable by all vefTels 

 entering their docks for every tun of their regiftered burthen, viz. 



Vessels to or from any part of Great Britain or tlie Scottish islands "if 



to or from Ireland, Mann, Guernsey, Jersey, France between Ushant and") 



Dimkirk, Flanders, Holland, the oceanic coasts of Germany, Denmark, S- 1/3 



and Norway as far as the North cape J 



to or from the Baltic above Elslneur, and the north coast of Europe beyond") pp. 



the North cape j ^^ 



to or from France beyond Ushant, Spain and Portugal as far as Cape S'. 7 ^ 



Vincent, Newfoundland, Madeira, the Canaries, and the Azores J -^-^ 



to or from Eui'ope to the southward of Cape S'. Vincent, the Meditterranean, 1 r 



Africa, An'ierica, and the Southern whale fishery I -^ 



to or from East-India, China and Persia 2/6 



In confideration of thefe duties, veflels are entitled to room in the 

 docks for fix weeks, after which they muft pay for two weeks more one 

 farthing, and thereafter one halfpenny, per tun, every week. The dock- 

 mafter may, however, order any light vefTel out of the docks on giving 

 five days notice to the owners. 



The company are alfo entitled to receive the fame rates for merch- 

 andize landed or fhipped within their premifes, which have been paid 

 in the port of London during the year 1798 for landing, loading, and 

 houfing, or for fhipping. 



For twenty years after the docks are completed, all veflels loaded with 

 tobacco, rice not the produce of the Eaft or Weft Indies, wine or brandy, 

 not the produce of the Eaft or Weft Indies, fliall land their cargoes on 

 the quays or wharfs belonging to the London docks, on penalty of for- 

 feiture and fine ; and there the duties fhall be afcertained. But vefl^els, 

 having not more than 20 pipes of wine, or 100 barrels of rice, may dil^ 

 charge at any other place ; and veflels bringing fruit may unload it, 

 before they enter into the docks to difcharge their wine, brandy, &c. 



The lords of the admiralty are empowered to purchafe the legal quays 

 between London bridge and the Tower, with their warehoules and other 

 appendages, at prices, either agreed with the proprietors, or fettled by 

 juries. ^Local aSls, c. xlvii] 



The duke of Bedford having laid out two new fquares and a number 

 of ftreets on the ground extending from Bloomfbury fquare northward 

 to the new road, part of which had formerly been occupied by his own 

 houfe and garden, two ads were pafled for paving, lighting, watching, 

 watering, and adorning, the propofed fquares and ftreets. [Local a&s, 

 cc. xlix, 1] The buildings, which are large and elegant, are carried on 

 with great fpirit : and they, together with another new fquare and 

 Jeveral new ftreets, eredled on the adjacent ground belonging to the 



