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ItiIMIUMTE 11,1RROUR Jett

CASE RESPECTINO COLLIERS
LAST SENO LIABLE TO THE DITTIES IMtOSED

fW BAL.

IT THIS ACT.

IN TNt COURT OF •T OVRIIR PC

SANDIIIIOIII MID OTHItI, rialswirtrrs, AND scam,

DEFENDANT.

This caufe being an *llion of affumpfit for money
Lad and received by the Defendant for the ufe of the
Plaintiffs. came on to be tried at the La Durham Ar.
fires before Mr. Baron THOMPSON, when a reedit&
by content wa taken by the Plaintiffs, Cubic& to the
opinion of the Court on the following cafe, viz.
That in purfuanee of an Aft miffed in the 32d year
of the reign of his prefent Majedy, entitled, An Adt
for the m tintenance and improvement of the Har-
bour of Ramfgate, in the County of Kent, and for
cleanfing. amending, and preferring the Haven of
Sandwiih, in the fame County—The Troika., for
carrying the faid AR into execution, did fettle and
imp,de ;he ft reral Rates and ditties hereinafter men-
tioned, to commence and become payable from and
after the 23/6 day of 7xxr,l792,inclufive, (that is to
fay) " the rate and duty of 3d per ton to be paid by
the Mailer or owner of every (hip, treffel, or crayer,
of the burthen of so tons or upwards, and not es
ceeding the burthen of 300 tons, whether the fame
laden or in Loge, paffiTig from, to, Or by Ramfgate,
whetheren the call or weft fide of the Goodwin Sands,
or other wife palling by or coming into the harbour
there (other than and except (hips laden with coals,
Grindstones, or Purbeck, Portland, or other limes,
nut having a receipt teltifying his payment before as
that voyage.) And for every (hip, veld, or Brayer,
which than exceed the burthen of soottans,the rate us
duty of one penny for each ton of fuch Sup, ezeept
(hips laden with coals, Grindflone.Purbeck„ Portland,
or other Rones, and lor every children of coals, or
ton of Grindllones, Purbeck, Portland, or other
Hones, a rate of three halfpence to be paid in loch
manner, and In often as in the faid Aft in there re.
(peas mentioned. By which laid 48 it is esafied, am the
faid chair:flail he paid rimy trnsr facksSO, v#l, r 47411/
fail frog, arrive, or come iota barker et, or 'tali by
Ramfgate as afarion, excels at .thereinafter it aonotioned
sued by which faid AB it is lidera, that xi, milliog gag
or man, Ad! pay the deo charged by fail sia
Outer than once is every one year, sorrjiall soy Whir re.
turning in hallall freest the French or calf, paw.
ins a testi/kale ofitaviogigaid the Any ox her ortepard &lout
voyage, for her cargo o cards, he fiaa tothepaymnit easy
filch d.O for her inward boxed voyage. And which faid
rates ar.d duties were forthwith duly publiflied in
manner diredled by the raid Aft, and Rill remain in
full force and unaltered. - -
That the Plaintiffs were and are the owners of the
(hip Violet, being aft* of the ierrrim of t 66 sexu, em•
ployed in carrying coals from Sunderland, and other
ports of England, to other ports of England, and
returning immediately, is Aare, to her port of load-
ing. That the faid (hi p early in the reliant year,
failed with a cargo of coals from Sunderland to
Portfmouth, and delivered the fame there, and the
mailer of the faid (hip paid there, on his maiward-
bound voyage, the Ramfgate harbour ditties of three
half pence per chaldron on the faid (hip's cargo of
coals, purfuant to the faid Adt. That the faid
after delivering her faid cargo of coals at PortA
month, returned immediately so Waft to Sunderland,
and the mailer there paid on his honsensherwl bound
voyage the Ratnfgate harbour duty of three-pence
pr ton on the narthex of the faid thin.
That afterwards, in the month of April laR, the
faid (hip failed orals. with another cargo of coals from
Sunderland to Portfmouth, and delivered the fame
'acre, and the mailer vain paid there, oo his Jail men-
tioned outward borad voyage, the Ramfgate harbour
duties, of three half pence per chaldmn on the faid
(hip's Jail mentioned cargo of coals.
That the faid (hip havingdelivered thefaidlall men-
tioned cargo of coals at Portfmouth a forefaid.retomed
to Sunderland aforetaid. is Anl4o, and on the arrival
there the Defendant, being the Calleithr, duly appoint-
ed, of the Itanigak barker Ism, payable at the port
of Sunderland, demanded of the Plaintiff the lam of
al. ts. 6d. for the Ramfgate harbour duty of three-
pence per ton, for the Jail mentioned Itaaareard km/
voyage of the (aid (hip t and which funs of 24 is. lid.
the Plaintiff paid to the Defendant, under protek
againft its being legally payable. and without preju-
dice to their right to recover it back t for this pay-
ment the following receipt was given by the Deputy
Colleltor of the raid duties, to the mailer of the (aid
(hip.

Port of Sunderland, Rantriato Hinter duty.
Receipt No. 73. " Received the tab day of June tint.
of Captain Wisliarn Mackie, Matter of the Violet, regiftered at
Sunderland, of the burtheo of inn ton., bound from Parttime&
to Sunderland, the fum of al. to 6d. for the duty of threepence
per ton, payable for the vrwrgrlrsre to the truftene for the mints.
oar.ce and improrcov-n: or the harbour of Ranafgate, by virtue or
an Aft of Par hantort niaJi. in the ;ad year of the reign °this Ma.
jetty King George the I hind. " C. S. HILL, COnatille
The gttefliott refc. toed fcr the opinion atilt Court is, window
the Mandr are entitled to recover f
(ailord) Joan Rt for Pka.
itoa. WARD. for Deft."