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 C. 5. 69r A. D. 1697. Anno nono GULIELMI III. lame. foever, Natives or Foreigners, having or not having any Property or Intereft in fuch Eflate for Life, at any any other may Time or Times after the faid five and twentieth Day of March one thoufand fix hundred ninety-eight, and purchafe the on or before the tenth Day of April one thoufand fix hundred ninety-eight, to contribute, advance, and pay, into the faid Receipt of Exchequer, ſo much Money as any fuch Annuity being computed for four Years doth and fhall amount to; that is to fay, For every one hundred Pounds that was paid for the fingle Life, in an Annuity of fourteen Pounds a Year, there fhall be paid, in all the Cafes laft mentioned, the like Sum of fix and fifty Pounds for an Intereft for the then Refidue of the faid Term of ninety-fix Years, to be reckoned as aforefaid, and to be charged with, and ſubject to the prefent Eftate for Life of and in the fame Annuities reſpectively, and there fhall be paid a Rate or Confideration in the fame Proportion, for Annuities exceeding fourteen Pounds a Year; and that all and every the Perfon and Perfons fo paying the Perfons on Par- Confideration Money, as aforefaid, fhall immediately, upon Payment of their Monies, be intitled by this ment intitled to Act to fuch Annuity or Annuities fo to be purchaſed; and the fame fhall be charged upon ſuch reſpective the faid Annui- Fund or Revenue in the faid former Act mentioned, as if the Confideration Money fo to be contributed or ties, &c. advanced for the fame had been actually advanced or contributed within the reſpective Times limited by the faid former Act. as the Confidera- III. Provided always, and it is hereby enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That if any Perfon or Perfons, Or on diſcharg who are or fhall be intitled to any Arrears incurred between the feventeenth Day of May one thoufand fix ing the King of hundred ninety-fix, and the feventeenth Day of of May one thoufand fix hundred ninety-feven, upon the lo much Arrears faid feveral Annuities which were charged upon the faid Tunnage Duties, or upon the faid Duties on Salt, tion Money and are hereby intended to be provided for, fhall, upon their Orders, Tallies, or Lottery Tickets, for fuch amounts to, &c. Arrears, diſcharge His Majefty in the Exchequer, of ſo much as the Confideration Money to be paid by him or them reſpectively, for purchafing a further Term or Intereft as aforefaid, fhall amount unto, that then and in every fuch Cafe, all and every the Perfon and Perfons fo difcharging His Majeſty of the Value of the Confideration Money, as aforefaid, fhall immediately, upon fuch Diſcharge given and entred in the Receipt of His Majeſty's Exchequer (which the proper Officers there are hereby required to enter and re- gifter accordingly, without Fee or Charge) be intitled by this Act to fuch Annuity or Annuities fo to be purchaſed; and the fame ſhall be charged upon fuch reſpective Fund or Revenue in the faid former Act men- tioned, as if the faid Confideration Money was actually paid in the lawful Coins of this Realm. IV. And it is hereby enacted, That all and every the Directions, Powers and Claufes in the faid former Powers in the Act contained, for or concerning the levying of Tallies, the making forth of Orders, or for making Tranf- A 6 &7 W.3i ferrences or Affignments, or for the apportioning or applying the Monies arifing by the faid Funds or Re- c. 5. revived. venues, or any of them, or for appointing, fettling or eftabliſhing any other Matter or Thing, for or in relation to the reſpective Annuities thereby purchaſed or obtained, fhall be, and are by force and virtue of this Act revived, and fhall be duly obferved, practifed and put in Execution, for and in reſpect of fuch An- nuities as fhall be purchaſed or obtained upon this Act, as fully and effectually as if the fame Powers, Di- rections and Clauſes were here again expreffed and particularly repeated. V. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That all the Monies which fhall come into the Monies how to Receipt of His Majeſty's Exchequer, of or for the faid Contributions for further or more certain Eſtates in be applied. the faid Annuities to be purchaſed as aforefaid, fhall be iflued and applied, and the fame are hereby appro- priated to and for the Payment and Satisfaction of the Arrears of the feveral Annuities which are charged upon the five feventh Parts of the faid Tunnage Duties, and upon the two feventh Parts of the faid Tun- nage Duties, and upon the faid Duties upon Salt, and which are or fhall be incurred or become payable out of thofe Funds reſpectively from the faid ſeventeenth Day of May one thouſand fix hundred ninety-fix, to the faid feventeenth Day of May one thouſand fix hundred ninety-feven, fo that a proportionable Part of the Contributions, fo arifing in Money, fhall be applied to make good each of thofe Funds, according to the Sum of the Arrears incurred within the Time aforefaid, which fhall from time to time be remaining unpaid thercupon, and ſhall not be diverted to any other Ufe, Intent, or Purpoſe whatſoever, upon Pain that any Officer offending therein fhall for ſuch Offence forfeit his Office, and double the Value of every Sum of Mo- ney fo diverted or miſapplied." VI. And whereas by virtue of an Act of Parliament made in the fourth Year of the Reign of His pre- 4 & 5 W. & M. fent Majefty and of the late Queen of blefled Memory, intituled, An Act for granting to their Majeties c. 3. certain Rates and Duties of Excife upon Beer, Ale, and other Liquors, for fecuring certain Recompences and Ad- vantages, in the faid Aut mentioned, to fuch Perfons as fhall voluntarily advance the Sum of ten hundred thou- fand Pounds towards carrying on the War against France, and of divers other fubfequent Acts of Parliament, feveral Perfons are intitled to have and receive certain yearly Annuities, Rents, or Payments, out of the faid Duties of Excife granted by the faid Act firft mentioned, payable quarterly, wherein no Benefit of Survivorfhip is to be had;' Be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That from and after the firſt No Annuities Day of March one thoufand fix hundred ninety-feven next enſuing, no Officer or Officers appointed to pay out of the Du payable quarterly the faid Annuities fhall pay off any quarterly Payment of the faid Annuities upon any Order or Orders ties of Excife whatſoever, until all and every Perfon or Perſons intitled to fuch Annuities and Payments fhall or may have shall be paid off, had and received, his, her or their Annuities and Payments for the precedent Quarter, for which publick until the prece- Notice fhall be given by hanging the fame up in the moſt convenient publick Place in the faid Office, that dent Quarter be the laft precedent Quarter is either fully paid, or that the Money is ready in the Office for the Payment of &c. whereof fuch as have not timely brought their reſpective Orders to be directed, or have not thought fit to call for publick Notice their Money; and in cafe any Officer fhall offend herein by making any Payment contrary to the Tenor to be given. hereof, or in any other Manner than as aforefaid, every fuch Officer fhall forfeit his Office, and fhall, for Penalty on Of- every fuch Offence, forfeit the Sum of fifty Pounds to fuch Perfon or Perſons who fhall fue for the fame, ficer offending. to be recovered by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information, in any of His Majefty's Courts of Re- cord at W'eftminster, wherein no Effoin, Protection, Privilege of Parliament, or other Privilege, Wager of 4 T 2 Law, firft difcharged, C C