TABLE 2.

Showing the Amount of Coals at 38. per Chaldron, allowing 21 to the

An Act for regulating the vend and delivery of Coals in the cities of London and Westminster, and in certain parts of the counties of Middlesex, Surrey, Kent, Essex, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Berkshire.

Whereas the acts now in force for regulating the vend and delivery of coals in the cities of London and Westminster and the liberties thereof, and in certain parts of the counties of Middlesex, Surrey, Kent, and Essex, have been found insufficient to prevent the commission of frauds and impositions in the vend and delivery of such coals:-And whereas the objects intended to be effected by the said acts would be more effectually promoted, and the rates and charges which tend to increase the price of coals might be reduced, if the said acts were repealed, and other provisions were made in lieu thereof :-Be it enacted, that so much of the 9 Ann, c. 28. as directs that every fitter or other person vending or delivering coals, shall give a certificate to every ship master, every voyage, signed by his handwriting, containing the day of the month and year of such loading, the master's and ship's names, and the exact quantity, and the usual names of the several and respective collieries out of which the said coals shall be wrought and gotten, and the price paid by the masters for each and every sort of coals, &c.; and also the 47 Geo. III. sess. 2. c. 68;-the 56 Geo. III. c. 21; the 57 Geo. III. c. 1;-the 57 Geo. III. c. 40;—and the

9 Geo. IV. c. 65, be repealed after 31st Dec. 1831 :-Provided always, that the several acts and provisions repealed by the said recited acts or any of them shall not be revived, and that nothing herein contained shall have the effect of reviving any act or any provision of any act whatsoever. § I.

Coal Exchange vested in the Corporation of London. The piece or parcel of land, with the buildings thereon, called "The Coal Exchange," with the hereditaments and appurtenances, which by the said act of 47 Geo. III., was declared to be vested in the mayor and commonalty and citizens of the city of London, shall continue and the same is hereby vested in them for the purposes of this act. § 3.

To be an open market.-There shall continue to be in or upon the said coal exchange and hereditaments a free, open, and public market for the sale of coals brought into the port of London, which shall be called "The Coal Market." § 4.

Clerks and officers.-It shall be lawful for the said mayor, aldermen, and commons of the city of London, in common council assembled, to continue and retain any clerk or other officer of the said coal market, or to appoint such other clerks and officers, with such salaries for their trouble and attendance there, as the said mayor, &c. shall think just and reasonable, and to remove or displace any of the said present or other clerks or officers, and to appoint other clerks or officers in their stead. § 5.

Power to remove and enlarge the market.—It shall be lawful for the said mayor, &c. at any time to remove the said market to any other place, and also at any time to enlarge the said coal exchange, or other the place where the said market shall for the time being be holden. § 6. Corporation empowered to purchase tenements and hereditaments.

§ 7.

New market subject to the same regulations as the present.—When any new market place shall be provided by virtue of this act, the same shall be vested in the said mayor and commonalty and citizens of London, and shall be subject to the same jurisdiction and regulations in all respects, and the like rates, dues, and charges may be demanded, received, and taken at or in respect of the same, in the like manner and under the like authorities and provisions as if the said market had coutinued to be holden on its present site.-When any new market place shall have been provided and opened, no market shall any longer be holden in the place from whence the said market shall have been removed. §§ 19 and 20.

Seven days' notice to be given of the opening of any new market. $21.

A duty of one penny per ton on coals, culm, and cinders, to be levied for defraying the expences of the market, &c.-For the purpose of defraying the charges and expences of such market, and of the purchase of the tenements and hereditaments hereby authorized to be purchased, and of erecting and supporting convenient buildings thereon, and for defraying the salaries and allowances of the several clerks and other persons employed in the execution of this act, and for defraying the other charges and expences of carrying the same into execution, and for paying the compensations hereinafter directed or authorized to be made, and the monies hereinafter authorized to be borrowed or raised, and the interest thereof, and for creating a fund for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, it shall be lawful for the said mayor, &c., to demand and take, or cause to be demanded and taken, of and from

every master of a ship or vessel laden with coals, cinders, or culm, or other person having the care or command thereof, arriving at her moorings within any part of the port of London at or to the westward of Gravesend, the sum of one penny per ton, and no more, for every ton of coals, cinders, or culm contained in such ship or other vessel;-and such sum of one penny per ton shall and may be collected, levied, recovered, and paid in such and the like manner, and by, with, and under such powers, authorities, and provisions, as the other duty or duties or imposition or impositions on coals hereinafter made payable may be collected, levied, recovered, and paid respectively. § 23.

When the duty to cease.-Provided always, that the costs, charges, and expences incident to and incurred in obtaining and passing this act shall be paid out of the money to be received by virtue of this act; and when such costs, &c., and the costs, charges, and expences of purchasing tenements and hereditaments for the said market, and of making buildings and other conveniences thereto, and the compensation hereinafter directed or authorized to be made, and the sums of money hereinafter authorized to be borrowed or raised, and the interest thereof, shall have been paid off and discharged, and the said duty of one penny per ton of coals, cinders, and culm shall be more than sufficient for maintaining, repairing, and supporting the said market, and of the several buildings and conveniences thereto, and for paying the said compensation, and the salaries and other payments and allowances to the clerks and other officers and persons employed in the execution of this act, and for defraying the several other charges of carrying the same into execution, then the residue of the monies to be received from the said duty shall from time to time be laid out or invested in the purchase of stock in some of the public funds, at interest, until the yearly dividends and interest of all the stocks, funds, and securities so purchased shall be sufficient for the payment of the salaries and other payments and allowances to the clerks and other persons employed in the execution of this act, and for defraying the several other charges and expences of carrying the same into execution;-and when and so soon as the same dividends and interest shall be fully sufficient for the purposes last mentioned, then and from thenceforth the said duty of one penny per ton of coals, cinders, and culm shall cease :-Provided always, that it shall be lawful for the said mayor, &c., again to raise such duty, or any part thereof, to any sum not exceeding the sum granted by this act, when it shall be necessary for the purposes thereof;-and such duty or any part thereof when so reduced or again raised, shall be collected, levied, and recovered in the same manner as the duty granted or continued by this act can or may be collected, levied, and recovered ;-and when and so often as the said duty, or any part thereof shall cease or be again renewed, the said mayor, &c. shall cause one calendar month's previous notice of such cesser or renewal to be given by advertisement in the London Gazette, and by affixing notice thereof in writing on the door or some conspicuous place in the said coal market. § 24.

By-laws to regulate the market. It shall be lawful for the court of lord mayor and aldermen of the city of London, to make, ordain, and establish such orders, rules, and by-laws, and to amend, alter, or repeal the same, for the regulating, governing, and managing the said coal market, and all erections, buildings, works, matters, and things thereunto belonging, and also for the regulating of all officers to be employed in such market, and all other persons coming thereto or transacting any business therein, as to the said court of lord mayor and aldermen

shall seem just and reasonable, and also as occasion shall require, to repeal, amend, and alter such rules, orders, and by-laws, and also to fix and appoint certain reasonable penalties or forfeitures for the nonobservance or nonperformance or other breach of any such rule, order, or by-law, not exceeding the sum of five pounds for any one offence;and all such penalties and forfeitures shall and may be recovered by such ways and means as any other penalties or forfeitures may be recovered by virtue of this act :-Provided always, that no such rule, order, or by-law be repugnant to or inconsistent with the laws of that part of the United Kingdom called England, or contrary to the directions and provisions in this act contained. § 32.

To be approved and allowed by one or more of the judges. § 33. By-laws to be printed and published.-Provided always, that all such orders, rules, and by-laws so to be from time to time made, altered, amended, or repealed by the said court of lord mayor and aldermen, shall be printed; and such orders, and the several alterations and amendments made therein, and the repeal thereof respectively, shall also be made public in such other manner as the said court of lord mayor and aldermen shall think proper, and shall from time to time order and direct. § 34.

Accounts to be laid before parliament.—The said mayor, aldermen, and commons shall once in each and every year, or oftener if required, lay before both houses of parliament an account of the produce of the said duty of one penny per ton hereby granted and made payable upon coals, cinders, and culm, and also of all receipts and disbursements received or paid for or on account of the said market. § 42.

Coals shall be sold by weight.-All coals, cinders, and culm which shall be sold from and out of any ship or vessel in the port of London, or at any place within the cities of London and Westminster, or within the distance of twenty-five miles from the general post-office in the city of London, shall be sold by weight and not by measure. § 43.

For preventing the sale of one sort of coals for another. If any seller of or dealer in coals shall knowingly sell oue sort of coals for and as a sort which they really are not, within the said port of London, or at any place within the cities of London and Westminster, or within the distance of twenty-five miles from the post office aforesaid, every such seller or dealer shall forfeit the sum of ten pounds per ton for every ton of coals so sold, and so in proportion for any smaller quantity ;-and such seller or dealer shall not be subject or liable to any penalty imposed by the said act of 9 Ann, or by an act made in 3 Geo. II. (c. 26.) întituled "An Act for the better regulation of the coal trade," on every person who shall knowingly sell one sort of coals for and as a sort which they really are not:-Provided always, that no seller or dealer shall be subject to such penalty for or in respect of any number of tons exceeding twenty-five tons for the same offence. § 45.

Lightermen may carry on partnership with coal dealers.—It shall be lawful for any lighterman to enter into any copartnership with any woodmonger, or other person, in the trade or business of a coal dealer, and to carry on as co-partner with such person such trade or business of a coal dealer or dealers, and to keep, use, and employ as such copartners their own lighters, barges, or other craft in and for the carrying of coals to and from any such ship, or other vessel in the river Thames, and to and from any wharf, dock, creek, or other place whatsoever on or near the said river Thames, without being subject to any penalty or penalties for any such joint trading together, any act, statute,

by-law, or ordinance whatsoever to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding-Provided nevertheless, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to extend so as to authorize or empower any lighterman to be or become jointly interested with any woodmonger or other person whomsoever, (not being a lighterman,) in the trade or business of carrying in lighters, barges, or other craft for hire any sort of description of goods whatsoever, other than and except only such coals as may be lightered by them in their said trade of coal dealers. § 46.

Seller's ticket to be sent with coals. Exception. Weighing Machine. -With any quantity of coals exceeding five hundred and sixty pounds delivered from any lighter, ship, barge, or other craft, or from any wharf, warehouse, or other place within the cities of London and Westminster, or within the distance of twenty-five miles from the post office aforesaid, the seller shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the purchaser thereof, or to his agent or servant, immediately on the arrival of the cart, waggon, or other carriage, or lighter, barge, or craft, in which such coals shall be sent, and before any of such coals shall be unloaded, a paper or ticket in the form following; (that is to say,)

Mr. A. B., [here insert the name of the buyer,]

Take notice, that you are to receive herewith [here insert the number] tons [here insert the name of the coal, if any particular sort is ordered or contracted for, and, if ordered or contracted for as Walls End, specify the name of the colliery] coals in [here insert the number] sacks containing [here insert the weight] pounds of coal in each sack. "Signed C. D. [here insert the name or names of the seller or sellers in words at full length.] [here insert the name of the carman in words at full length.]

E. F.

"The act of the Second William the Fourth, chapter [a blank in the act] directs, that with any quantity of coals exceeding five hundred and sixty pounds, a paper or ticket describing the quantity, (and, if any particular sort is ordered or contracted for, the sort of the coals sent by the seller,) shall be delivered to the purchaser, or his agent or servant, before any part of such coals shall be unloaded;-that a weighing machine shall be carried with every waggon, cart, or other carriage, and the carman is required to weigh gratuitously any sack or sacks of coals which shall be chosen by the purchaser, or his agent or servant; and if any carman refuses to weigh such sack or sacks of coals as aforesaid, or drives away the waggon, cart, or other carriage before the coals are weighed, or otherwise obstructs the weighing thereof,--he is liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds."

Penalty on seller for neglect.-And in case any such seller do not deliver, or cause to be delivered, such ticket to the purchaser or to his. servant, before any part of such coals are unloaded, every such seller shall forfeit any sum not exceeding twenty pounds;—and in case the carman, driver of, or other person attending any such cart, waggon, or other carriage,—or the person having the charge of the lighter, barge, or craft, laden with any such coals,-to whom any such ticket shall have been given by or by the orders of the seller, in order to be delivered to the purchaser, shall (having so first received the same from the seller, or any person by the direction of the seller) refuse or neglect to deliver such ticket to the purchaser or his servant, before any part of such coals shall be unloaded, such carman, &c. shall forfeit any sum not exceeding twenty pounds :-Provided always, that coals delivered to any seller or dealer in coals, or to any person or persons purchasing