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 A. D. 1698. Anno nono & decimo Culielmi III. C. 24.. 703, < Parliament for the feventh Year of His Majefty's Reign, and ftill remaining unfatisfied, and all the In- • J terefl thereof fliall be fully paid and difcharged ; and out of^the fmall Branches of His Majefty's Reve- nues herein after mentioned and exprefled, that is to fay, The Firfl: Fruits and Tenths of the Clergy ; ' the Fines for Writs of Covenant and Writs of Entry payable in the Alienation Office ; the Port; Fines ; ' the Revenue of the Wine Licences ; the Monies arifuig by Sheriffs Prefers and Compofitions in the Ex- -' chequer, and by the Seizures of uncuftomed and prohibited Goods ; the Revenue of the Duchy of Corn- ' wall, and any other Revenue arifing by the Rents of Lands in England or JVales, or for Fines of Leafes ' of the fame, or any of them ; and the Duty of four and an .{ per Centum in Specie, arifing in Barhadoes ' and the Zwzwvnilands in America; and out of the Monies which from and after the Commencement of ' this Aft fliall arife by the further Sabfidies and Duties hereby granted ;' Be it therefore further enadled, • and it is hereby enadled and provided by the Authority aforefaid. That if the faid great and fmall Branches rf the forefarj •• and Revenues herein before mentioned, and put of which the faid yearly Sum of feven hundred thoufand Revenues pro- Pounds is intended to be fupplied as aforefaid, and every or any of them, Ihall produce in clear Money "'"'^ "" ^'* ' more than the yearly Sum of feven hundred thoufand Pounds, to be reckoned from the five and twentieth 7°^'°'^°'" P^' Day oi December, which fhall be in the Year of our Lord one thoufand fix hundred ninety-nine, that then piuTnTt to b^' the Overplus of fuch Produce (being more than the laid yearly Sum of feven hundred thoufand Pounds) difpnfed of but ' fhall not be ilTued, difpofed, made ufe of or applied to any Ufe or Purpofe, or upon any Pretext whatfoever, by Parliament, without the Authority of Parliament: And that all Grants and Difpofitions whatfoever hereafter to be made '^'=p=»'«^'' H »*' '■ of fuch Overplus, or any Part thereof, from time to time, without the Authority of Parliament, fhall be f } T' '" utterly void and of none Effeft ; and the Grantees, or other Perfons to whom fuch Grants or Difpofitions, Grants thtreof or any of them, (hall be made, of fuch Overplus, or any Part thereof, {hall be adjudged uncapable in Law void, anj Gratis ■ to take, hold, keep, detain or enjoy the fame ; any Law, Cuflom or Ufagq to, the contrary notwith- '"' uncapabk Handing. l^^r"""' ' CAP. XXIV. An Ad for the enlarging the Time for purchafing certain Eftates or Interefts in feveral Annul*" ties therein mentioned. Mojl Gracious Sovereign^ WE Your Majefty's moft dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons in Parliament aflembled, duly con-- - fidering Your Majefty's extraordinary Occafions for Supplies of Money, do cheerfully and unani- moufly prefent unto Your Majefty a further Aid to arife by the Contributions herein after mentioned ; and be it enadted by the King's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spi- • ritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this prefent Parliament aflembled, and by the Authority of the fame. That it fliall and may be lawful to and for any Perfon or Perfons, Natives or Foreigners, having or Perfons havj'ng - not having any Eftate for one Life, of and in any Annuity, purchafed or obtained at the Rate of one hun-or not having dred Pounds for every fourteen Pounds per Annum., upon the feveral A(Sts of Parliament mentioned in an Annuities for ' Aft made and paflTed in the Parliament -which was holden at TVeJIminJler in the fixth and feventh Years of i^''^^ " Hl.iper ■ His Majefty's Reign, (intituled, An A if for enabling fuch Perfons as have Ejlates for Life in Annuities, pay- 6 &'^7 'w. t""' ' able by feveral former AEis therein mentioned, to purchafe and obtain further and more certain Interefls in fuch An- c. 5. . nuities, and in Default thereof, for admitting other Perfons to purchafe and obtain the fame, for raifing Money for carrying on the War againjl France) at any Time before the firft Day oi December one thoufand fix hundred- ■ ninety-eight, to contribute, advance, and pay into the Receipt of His Majefty's Exchequer, fo much Mo- ^ ney, as every or any fuch Annuity, being computed for four Years, doth or fliall amount unto- (that is to ■' fay) Every fuch Perfon, having or being intitled to fuch Eftate for Life, fliall or may pay to His Majefty's mayadrance for • Ufe, for every one hundred Pounds that was paid for the fingle Life in any Annuity of fourteen Pounds every looi. &c, . per Annum, the Sum of fix and fifty Pounds, for changing or converting the fame into a certain Term, for 5.^'- ''"'•'^han- the Refidue which fhall be then to come of ninety- fix Years, to be reckoned from the five and twentieth f^"^ a'^^e ta"^^ Day ofjanuar-j one thoufand fix hundred ninety-five, or for an Intereft in fuch Annuity for the Refidue of xerm for^the the faid Term of ninety -fix Years, to take EfFeft after th€ faid Eftate for Life ; and every Perfon, not ha- Refidue of 96 > ving fuch Eftate for Life, fhall or may contribute, or pay to His Majefty's Ufe, for every hundred Pounds Years, &c. or- ■■- that was paid for the fingle Life in any fuch Annuity of fourteen Pounds per Annum, the.like Sum of fix '° "'^f^^^^^ ; and fifty Pounds, for an intereft in fuch Annuity,, for the Refidue of the laid Term of ninety-fix Years, EiSe for Life to be charged with and fubjeft to the prefent Eftate for Life of and in the fame Annuities refpeftively, and &c. ' in the fame Proportion there fliall be paid a Rate or Confideration for higher or larger Annuities ; and that Perfons on Pav- - all and every the Perfon and Perfons, fo paying the Confideration-Money as aforefaid, fhall immediatel-y ment intitled to • upon Payment of their Monies be intitled by this Aft to fuch Annuity or Annuities fo to be purchafed, and ^^^'^ Annuities the fame fhall be charged upon fuch refpeftive Fund or Revenue in the faid former Aft mentioned, as if the ^>"^^^^ "f^'^j Confideration-Money, fo to be contributed or advanced for the fame, had been, aftually advanced or coa-^cr''"^ "" ^' " tributed within the refpeftive Times limited by the faid former Aft. n. And it is hereby further enafted. That all and every the Direftions, Powers, and Claufes in the faid Powers in the former Aft contained, for or concerning the levying of Tallies, the making forth of Orders^ or for making Aft S S;7 W. g, -,. Transferrences or Affignments, or for the apportioning or applying the Monies arifing by the faid Funds '^' ^' '■'^'"''^^» ■ or Revenues, or any of them_, or for appointing, fettUng, or eftablifliing any other Matter or Thing, for -' or in Relation to the refpeftive Annuities thereby purchafed or obtained, fhall be, and are by force and ■ virtue of this Aft revived, and fhall be duly obferved, praftifed, and put in Execution, for and in re/peft '■ of fuch Annuities as fhall be purchafed and obtained upon this Aft, as fully and efFeftually as if the fame Fowers,, Direftions, and Claufes were here again exprelled and particularly repeated,, m. And.:i