Yarmouth Coal Import Duties (Privileges of Freemen, etc.) Act 1782
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1782 c. 22 |
(22 Geo. 3) C A P. XXII.
'WHEREAS an Act of Parliament was made, in the fifth Year of the Reign of QueenAnne , intituled, Great Yarmouth,in the County of Norfolk, whereby all Persons, not free of the Corporation of Great Yarmouth , are authorised, upon Payment of certain Duties or Sums of Money, therein particularly mentioned, to the Mayor, Aldermen, Burgesses, and Commonalty, of the said Borough of Great Yarmouth , to import Coals, Culm, and Cinders, into the said Port, and to sell the same, in like Manner as Burgesses or Freemen of the said Corporation are authorised to do: And whereas it frequently happens that Coals, Culm, and Cinders, are imported into the said Port in Ships or Vessels which belong, in separate Shares, as well to Burgesses or Freemen as to Persons who are not free of the said Corporation, and that the Loading in such Ships or Vessels is the separate Property of such Persons; and, in order to evade Payment of the Duties or Sums of Money which ought to be paid, by Persons who are not free of the said Corporation, for such Coals, Culm, and Cinders, false Lists or Accounts of such Ships or Vessels, and of the Loading thereof, are frequently made out and delivered to the Water Bailiff, or Receiver of the said Duties, by Ship Masters and others, by Means of which fraudulent Practices the said Mayor, Aldermen, Burgesses, and Commonalty, are deprived of great Part of the Duties or Sums of Money which they are intitled to receive by virtue of the said Act:' In order therefore to prevent such fraudulent Practices for the future, 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, from and after the first Day of , one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, whenever any Coals, Culm, or Cinders, shall be imported into the said Port, the Master of the Ship or Vessel in which the same shall be imported shall, previous to the Time of the clearing of such Ship or Vessel at the Custom-house atGreat Yarmouth aforesaid, deliver to the Water Bailiff of the said Borough, at...
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