Section VIII Twenty Shillings upon African Shares.

And be it further enacted That for every share in the Joint Stock of the Royal African Company according as the number of shares are now reckoned and computed there shall be answered and paid to their Majesties the sum of Twenty shillings the same to be paid by the Governor and Treasurer of the said Royal African Company by Foure equal quarterly payments the First payment to bee made upon the said Five and twentieth day of March One thousand six hundred ninety and three and to be deducted according to the several shares and proportions of the Members of the said Company in the Joint Stock thereof upon their next Dividends.