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 668 C. 20. Anno odavo & nono GuLiELMi III. A.D. 1697. refpe£live Tellers in the Receipt of the Exchequer, and the Receivers General or Caihiers of the Cuftoms, Excife, and Pod: Office, or any other Receivers, upon their iffuing or paying out the faid Bills, (hall fig* the fame, and add the Day of the Month, and fo toties.qmties until the faid Bills {hall or may come o? ■ be paid into the Exchequer on Account of the proper Funds or Supplies (upon which they are or {hall be firfl: ilTued out) to be cancelled. LXVI. And to the Intent that fuch Perfon or Perfons, who have or may have, or be intitled to, any Tallies or Orders, on any Branch of the Revenues, or on any Aid, Tax, or Supply, that is or (hall be appropriated for Repayment and Satisfaftion thereof, and (hall refufe or be unwilling to accept the faid Bills in Payment, may not be obliged to receive the fame ; Be it further ena<5ted, That for the Eafe, Ac- commodation, and Satisfaftion, of all and every Perfon and Perfons (o refufing, or being unwilling to re- ceive the faid Bills in Repayment of fuch Tallies and Orders, it (hall and may be luvful to and for the Commiffioners of His Majeily's Treafury, or any three of them now being, or the High Treafurer, or any three or more of the Commiffioners of His Majefty's Treafury for the time being, to'covenant and agree, Commiffioners in fuch Manner as they (hall think fit, with any Perfons Natives or Foreigners, Bodies Politick or Corpo- of'ihe Treafury rate (v^ith whofe Abilities they (hall be well fatisfied) for the immediate advancing or lending of Money maycontraft ("or ff^^j (,„£ to time, as there (hall be Occafion, for exchanging fuch Bills as (hall be fo refufed, or not ac- JretchaJl^rEx- "pted or taken in Repayment of Tallies and Orders, as aforefaid : And that fuch Perfon and Perfons, ch °q*uVBms not as (hall fo contraft and agree with the faid Commiffioners of the Treafury, or High Treafurer, to advance accepted iii Pay- and furnifh Money for the exchanging and circulating the faid Bills, in fuch Manner as the faid Commif- ment. fioners of the Treafury or High Ti'ealurer (hall appoint, (hall immediately, upon their paying or advancing. Perfons fo lend- ^^y Monies purfuant to their Contrails or Agreements, have for their Sfecurity and Satisfaftion the faid l"ave thefaM^ RiUs, or fuch Security as (hall be agreed upon between the faid Commiffioners of the Treafury and the Bills for Securi- faid Contraftors, and (hall alfo have and receive as a further Encouragement an Intereft or Reward not ty, and Intereft exceeding the Rate of ten Pounds per Centum per Annum, for the Sums fo by them refpedively contracted atiol. percent, or agreed to be furni{hed or advanced, from the Day they become feverally obliged, for and during fo long per Ann. Time as their faid Obligations (hall be in Force. Contraflors LXVII. And for the better afcertaining fuch Intereft to the faid Lenders or Contradlors ; Be it further' Names, &c. to enafted by the Authority aforefaid, That the Names of fuch Lenders or Contra£lors, and the Dates of beregiftred in (j^gi^ refpedtive Contrafts, and Sums contrafted for, (hall be regiftred in the Office of the Auditor of the Offi^"''andin- Recipt of the ^.vcfo^Kfr, and that the faid Interell- (hall be paid out of the Supplies granted for carrying on tered: to be paid the War againft France, for the Service of the Year one thoufand fix hundred ninety and feven, quarterly, quarterly. for fo long Time as the faid Contractors (liall ftand obliged as aforefaid. The King by LXVIIi. Provided always, and be it enafted by the Authority aforefaid, That until fuch Time as His Proclamation to Majefty, by His Royal Proclamation to be ilTued by the Advice of His Privy Council, (hall be pleafed to ^f^^^nown pubiif];! ^lVlA make known, that the faid Commiffioners of his Majefty's Treafury, or three or more of BillTmay beex- '^'lem, or the High Treafurer for the tirne being, (hall (by fuch Covenants or Agreements made with Per- changed for rea- fons of Ability, as aforefaid) have fufficiently fecured and made Provifion, that all Perfons, who at the faid dy Money. "S^zcti^t oi Exchequer, or at any the faid Publick Offices, (liall have any of the faid Bills for Satisfadion of their Tallies or Orders of Loan, or for any other Payments whatfoever, may have fuch Bills exchanged for ready Money ; the faid Bills, fo to be made forth for the faid fifteen hundred thoufand Pounds, or any Part thereof, (hall be current only for the Aids, Taxes, or Supplies, granted or to be granted for the Ser- vice of the War, for the Year one thoufand fix hundred ninety-feven, exclufive of the faid Aid of three Shillings in the Pound, according to the Tenour and true Meaning of the faid former Aft in that Behalf; and that after the faid Proclamation (hall be iffued, and not fooner, the faid Bills fo authorized to be iflued, as aforefaid, (hall pafs and be current for all Revenues, Aids, Taxes, Supplies, or other Payments to his Majefty, according to the true Meaning of this prefent Ad: ; any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithftanding. ' LXIX. And whereas by an AQ. of Parliament made in the feventh and eighth Years of the Reign of ' His prefent Majefty, intituled. An ASl for prever.ting Frauds, and regulating Alufes, In the Plahtation ' Trade, it is amongft other 7'hings therein enafted, Tnat all the prefent Governors and Commanders in ' Chief of any Englijh Colonies or Plantations, (hall, before the five and twentieth Day oi March one thou- ' fand fix hundred ninety-feven, and all who ftiall be made Governors or Commanders in Chief of the faid ' Colonies or Plantations, or any of them, before the entring into their Governments, fhall take a folemn ' Oath to do their utmoft that the Claufes, Matters, and Things, contained in one Aft of Parliament uCar.i. c. 18. ' made in the twelfth Year of the Reign of the late King Charles the Second, intituled. An Aiifor en- 1',C^u^.z.^. c couraging and increajing of Shipping and Navigation, and one other Aft made in the fifteenth Year of His 7^& . 3. c. t j-^jj j^j.^ Majefty's Reign, intituled, An ASl for Encouragement of Trade, and alfo the laid Aft made in th« ' feventh and eighth Years of the Reign of His prefent Majefty, intituled, An Aii for preventing Frauds, ' and regulating Abufes, in the Plantation Trade, be punftually and hona fide ch'i&r^zA, according to the true ' Intent and Meaning thereof, fo far as appertains unto the faid Governors or Commanders in Chief re- ' fpeftively : And whereas the Perfons appointed to adminifter the faid Oaths are by fome Accidents pre- ' vented from performing the lame within the Time limited by the faid Aft ;' to the end therefore that the good Intent of the faid Aft may not be difappointed for want of Time to put the fame in Execution, Be it therefore enafted, That further Time (hall be allowed for adminiftring the faid Oath, and that all pre- fent Governors and Commanders in Chief of any Englljlj Colonies or Plantations, (hall, before the five Further Time a!- and twentieth Day of March one thoufand fix hundred ninety-eight, and who fhall hereafter be made lowed for aJmi- Govemors or Commanders in Chief of the faid Colonies or Plantations, or any of them, fhall, at their niftringand ta- Entrance upon their refpeftive Governments, or within the Space of fix Months after the fame, take a king the Oaths. (q^^^ Oath to do their utmoft, that all the Claufes, Matters, and Things, contained in the before recited Afts of Parliament, or any of them, heretofore pafled and now in Force, relating to the faid Colonies and Plantations, be punftually and botiafde obferved, according to the true Intent and Meaning thereof (which 3 Oath 7&8W. .3.%,.