London Coal Duties Abolition Act, 1889. An Act to abolish any Duties on Coals leviable by the Corporation of London.
WHEREAS by a charter of His Majesty King James the First, dated the twentieth day of August, in the third year of his reign, after reciting that the mayor and commonalty and citizens of the City of London (hereinafter referred to as the Corporation) from time immemorial had had and exercised the office of bailiff and the conservancy of the River Thames, and had received all the profits belonging to the office of bailiff, and also reciting that the Corporation had from time immemorial exercise...