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British and Irish ships (except in die King’s pay, or that neither load or unload there) shall pay tunnage besides 1 d. per tun; but not more in the whole at one time than 208.
Foreigners one penny halfpenny,
but not more than 11. 103.
computed by outward gauging.
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V. And in regard the mending or cleansing of the said several harbours and channels will be of great use to all ships, which shall come into the said ports, and to all lighters, boats, gabbarts, and wherries within the said ports, and that a great and constant expence will be requisite to carry on the said several works in the said several ports: be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the said several ballast-offices shall be erected as-aforesaid in the said several ports, or in any of them, all British and Irish ships, which shall come into any of the said ports, where such ballast-office is or shall be erected and kept up (ships in his Majesty’s, his heirs and successors, pay, and ships, that neither load or unload in any of the said ports, only exempted) shall pay unto the said office one penny per tun for every tun of the burthen of such ship or ships over and above the money payable for ballast as aforesaid, in case that they make use thereof; and every foreign ship coming within any of the said ports shall pay one penny half-penny per tun over and above the ballast money, if they have any ballast delivered them in such port; which tunnage, as well in British and Irish ships as in foreign ships, shall be computed by outward gauging of the said ships respectively, and not otherwise; and the master of such ballast-office for the time being, and all and every other officer and officers for that purpose as aforesaid appointed or to be appointed, is and are hereby impowered to make such outward gauge of all and every such ship and ships, as shall come into or go out of any of the said ports from time to time, as they shall see occasion for the doing thereof; provided always that no such British or Irish ship or vessel of what burthen soever shall at any one time pay more in the whole for such tunnage than twenty shillings, nor any foreign ship of any burthen more than one pound ten shillings.
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