{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ships-act-1685/section-II",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ships-act-1685/section-II.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Ja2/1/18",
  "legislation_title": "Ships Act 1685",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ships-act-1685",
  "path": "section/II",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "II",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Foreign-built Ships employed in the Coasting Trade to pay 58. per Ton for every Voyage above other Duties; Duty applied to the Chest at Chatham and Trinity House at Deptford.\nBee it therefore enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majestie by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and the Commons in this present Parlyament assembled and by the Authoritie of the same That all Foreigne-built Shipps and Vessells which shall henceforth be bought and brought into the Kingdome of England Dominion of Wales or Towne of Berwicke upon Tweede and be imployed in carrying or transporting any Goods or Merchandize from Port to Port as aforesaid for every Voyage shall pay to his Majestie his Heires and Successors at the Port of delivery of their respective Ladeing (before the Delivery thereof) over and above all Dutyes now paid or that shall hereafter be payable by English-built Shipps the Summe of Five shillings per Tun to be collected and received by such Person or Persons as his Majestie shall appoint in that behalfe One moyety whereof to be for the use of the Chest at Chatham the other moyety to the Master Wardens and Assistants of the Trinity House of Deptford Strond for and towards the Reliefe of wounded and decayed Seamen their Widows and Children",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Ja2/1/18/section/II",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:26:47.521489+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}