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1384 and Company of the Bank of England, or any Receipt or Discharge for any Life Annuity, or for any Payment or Payments due or to become due thereon, or to any.Letter of Attorney, or other Authority or Instatment to transfer or accept any Batik Annuities or Life, Annuities,under the Provisons of,this Act, or to receive any Life Annuities, or any-Payment or payments due or to become due thereon, or than wilfully, falsely and deceitfully peronate any true and real Nominee or Nominees,, or shall wilfully deliver or produce to any Person or Persons acting under the Authority of this Act, or shall utter any such forged Register, Certificate, Affidavit, or Affirmation, knowing the same to be forged, counterfeited or altered, with Intent to defraud His Majesty, His Heirs and Succesors, or any other Person or Persons whomsoever, then and in every such Case all and every Person or Persons so offending, and being lawfully convcted thereof, shallbe adjudged guilty of Felony, and shall suffer Death as in Cases of Felony without Benefit of Clergy.

And be it further enacted, That all pecuniary Penalties and Forfeitures imposed by this Act, than be recoverable if, incurred in England, in the Name of His Majesty's Attorney General on the Part of His Majesty, by Information in the Court of Exchequer at Westminster, or incurred in Ireland in the Name of His Majesty's Attorney General in the Court of Exchequer at Dublin, (or if incurred in Scotland) in the Name of His Majesty's Advocate General in the Court of Exchequer in Scotland; and such Penalty and Forfeiture shall go and belong to the Paid Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, and become Part of the Sinking Fund: Provided always, that it (hall be lawful for the Paid Commissioners to cause such Reward as they shall think fit, not exceeding; one Moiety of any such Penalty or Forfeiture so recovered, after deducting such Charges and Expences incurred in recovering the same, to be paid thereout to any Person or Persons who shall appear to them to be entitled thereto as Informer or Informers, in respect of such Penalty or Forfeiture so recovered; any Thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

And be it, farther enacted, That no Fee whatever shall be received or taken by the Officer to be appointed as aforesaid for granting any Certificates, or for any Act, Matter, or Thing to be done by him in pursuance of this Act.

And be it further enacted, That the said Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, shall and they are hereby authorized and empowered to appoint such Officers, Clerks, and other Persons as may be necessary for carrying this Act into Execution.

And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, or any Three or more of them, or the Lord High Treasurer for the Time being, to order and direct any Sum or Sums of Money, to be issued and paid out of any Aids or Supplies granted, or to be grarnted by Parliamnent for the Service of the Year in which such Expensces than be incurred, for the Payment of Salaries to Officers an Clerks acting in the Execution of this Act, and for discharging such incidental Expenses as shall necessarily attend the Execution thereof, in such Manner: as the Paid Comissioners of the Treasury, or any Three or more of them, or the Lord, High Treasurer, shall from Time to Time-think fit