{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-2-act-1697/section-XLIX",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-2-act-1697/section-XLIX.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Will3/9/10",
  "legislation_title": "Taxation (No. 2) Act 1697",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-2-act-1697",
  "path": "section/XLIX",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XLIX",
  "heading": "Shares in New River, &c.",
  "text": "Offices of Insurance from Fire, Convex or other Lights; King's Printing-house, &c. taxed 3s. in the Pound; London assessed by Commissioners, appointed for London; And the Sums to be paid by the Governors, &c. of the said Waterworks.\nAnd be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Person and Persons having any Share or Shares or Interests in any Fresh Stream or Running Water brought to the North parts of London comonly called the New River or in the Thames Water-works or in Marybone or Hampstead Waters or any Rents or Proffitts ariseing thereby And all and every Person and Persons having any Share or Interest in any Office or Stock for insuring of Houses in Cases of Fire or in the Convex or other Lights or in the Stock or Stocks for printing of Books in or belonging to the House co[m]monly called the Kings Printing House shall pay for the same the Su[m]m of Three Shillings for every Twenty Shillings of the full Yearely Value thereof And they and all Companies of Merchants in London charged by this Act shall be assessed by the Co[m]missioners nominated & appointed for the said City or any Two or more of them for their respective Shares and Interests aforesaid and the aforesaid joynt Stock or Stocks and the same shall be paid by the Governours and respective Treasurers or Receivers of the said River Waters and Water-works and of the said Offices and Stocks respectively and be deducted att and out of their next Dividends.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/9/10/section/XLIX",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:23:00.585606+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."
}