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 38 Allowance on pi ompt Pay- ment. Perfons having or not having Eftates for Life in Annuities of 24 1 per Cent, per Ann. €!c 7 W. 3. £. 5. anay for 70 1. C. 3. Anno undecimo & duodecimo Gulielmi III. A. D. 1700. his Hands of the faid Duties of fifteen per Cent, arifing by this A£k, unto the Perfon or Perfons, Bodies Politick or Corporate, making the faid Exportations, or the faid Security fhali be vacated, as to fo much of the faid Goods or Merchandizes as fiiall be fo exported; any Thing in this Ace, or in any former Acl or A£ts of Parliament, contained to the contrary notwithftanding. VI. Provided alfo, and it is hereby enacted, That in cafe any of the faid Goods which fhall have been entred, and for v^hich Security fhall have been given as aforefaid, fhall, vi^ithin the Time hereby limited, be fairly fold by Way of Action as aforefaid, that then the Importer paying down, in ready Money, his Majefty's faid Duties of fifteen Pounds per Centum for fuch Goods, within twenty Days after fuch Sale, fhail have an Allowance for fuch prompt Payment after the Rate of five Pounds for every hundred Pounds of the Duties fo paid. VII. And for the more effectual raifing the Money which is necefTary for the Supply of your Majefty's Occafions before mentioned, we your Majefty's laid dutiful and loyal Subjefts do cheerfully and unani- moufly grant unto your Majefty a farther Aid, to arife by Contributions for Annuities, to be purchafed in fuch Manner as is herein after expreffed. And be it enaiSed by the Authority aforefaid. That it fhall and may be lawful to and for any Perfon or Perfons, Natives or Foreigners, having or not having any Eftate for one Life, of and in any Annuity purchafed or obtained at the Rate of one hundred Pounds for every fourteen Pounds per Annum, upon the feveral Afts of Parliament mentioned in an Ai£t made and pafled in the Parliament which was holden at WeJlmhTJler in the fixth and feventh Years of his Majefty's Reign, intituled, An A£i for eriablhigfuch Ferfons as have Ejlates for Life in Annuities, payable by feveral for- mer ASis therein meritioned, to purchaje and obtain further and more certain Inter ejis in fuch Annuities; and in Default thereof, for admitting other Perfons to purchaje and obtain the fame, for raifing Money for carrying o?i the JVar againJiYi:z.r).ce, at any Time before the fecond Day of A'aufw/'^- one thoufand feven hundred, to contribute, advance, and pay into the Receipt of his Majefty's Exchequer, fo much Money as every .cha-nge the fame or any fuch Annuity, being computed for five Years, doth or {hall amount unto (that is to fay) every into a Term cer- ^^^^^j, Pgrfon havinff or being intitled to fuch Eftate for Life, fhall or may pay to his Majefty's Ufe, for tain for the Re- i_ .. .. j ... j^'n j. ..u_. :j r„_ .k„ j:.,„1„ T :f„;. ' A „„ . ^ C J „ J .J' .» iidue of 96 Years, &c. Parchafers, on Payment, inti- tled to fuch An unities, &c. Powers, &c. 6 & 7 W. 3. .c. 5. revived. every one hundred Pounds that was paid for the fingle Life in any Annuity of fourteen Pounds per Annum the Sum of feventy Pounds, for changing or converting the fame into a certain Term for the Refidue which fhall be then to come of ninety-fix Years, to be reckoned from the five and twentieth Day of ^,7- tiuary one thoufand fix hundred ninety-five, or for an Intereft in fuch Annuity for the Refidue of the faid Term of ninety-fix Years, to take elTefl: after the faid Eftate for Life; and every Perfon not having fuch Eftate for Life, fhall or may contribute or pay to his Majefty's Ufe for every one hundred Pounds that was paid for the fingle Life in any fuch Annuity of fourteen Pounds per Annum., the like Sum of feventy Pounds for an Intereft in fuch Annuity for the Refidue of the faid Terra of ninety-fix Years, to be charg- ed with and fubjedl to the prefent Eftate for Life of and in the fame Annuities refpeftively, and in the fame Proportion there fliall be paid a Rate or Confideration for higher or larger Annuities; and that all and every the Perfon or Perfons fo paying the Confideration Money as aforefaid, fliall immediately, upon Payment of their Monies, be intituled by this Aft to fuch Annuity or Annuities fo to be purchafed, and the fame fliall be charged upon fuch refpective Fund or Revenue in the faid former A£t mentioned, as if the Confideration Money fo to be contributed or advanced for the fame, had been actually advanced or contributed within the refpeftive Times limited by the faid former Adl. VIII. And it is hereby further enafted. That all and every the Direftions, Powers, and Claufes in the faid former A£l contained, for or concerning the levying of Tallies, the making forth of Orders, or for making Transferrences or AfTignments, or for the apportioning or applying the Monies arifing by the faid Funds or Revenues, or any of them, or for appointing, fettling, or eftabliftiing any other Matter or Thing for or in P>.elation to the refpective Annuities thereby purchafed or obtained, fliall be and are by Force and Virtue of this AS revived, and fnall be duly obferved, praftifed, and put in Execution, for or in refpeft of fuch Annuities as fhall be purchafed and obtained upon this KSt, as fully and efteftua'.ly, as if the fame Powers, Diredtions, and Claufes were here again exprefled and particularly repeated. IX. And jt is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforefaid. That it fhall and may be lawful to and for his Majefty, by any Warrant under his Royal Sign Manual, to be counterfigned by any three or more of the Commiflioners of his Majefty's Treafury, or the High Treafurer for the Time being, to give Licence and Power to Doctor Peter Allix, or his Afligns, to import and bring into the Port of London any Qiiantity of Paper, called Great Demy Paper, to be ufed in the printing of a Hiftory of the feveral Coun- cils to be fet forth by the faid Doftor AUix, not exceeding in the whole five thoufand Reams, and that the Qiiantity of Paper, fo licenfed, fhall and maybe imported and palfed, without Payment of any Cu- ftom, Subfidy, or other Duty for the fame, upoa the Importation thereof; any Law or Statute to the contrary notwithftanding. ' X. And whereas feveral Perfons have purchafed upcn former A£ts feveral Annuities, which were re- ' fpectively to take efFe£t after one Life, then iuppofed to be in being, for the Remainder of the faid ' Term of ninety and fix Years, and at the Time of the Purchafe of fuch Annuities, fome of the Nomi- ' nees, upon whofe Lives fuch Annuities depended, or were fuppofed to depend, or expecSt, were aftual- ' ly dead, but not known to be fo -,' Be ft enacted by the Authority aforefaid. That in cafe it fhall ap- pear to the Lord High Treafurer ol England, or the CommiiTioners of his Majefty's Treafury for the time Iseing, or any three or more of them, that any fuch Reverfionary Annuity hath been fo purchafed as Purchafer of the j,fQj.j.|-j;jj^ and at the Time of fuch refpedtive Puichafe, the Nominee or Nominees, upon whofe Live or nuity to'iiMea' ■'^^^^^ ^'^'-^ Reverfion or Reverfi'jns did depend or were fuppofed to depend, or expect, was or were acSu- newTaiievand ally dead, that then and in fuch cafe, the refpeflive Perfon or Perfons that have fo purchafed fuch Rever- Order, &c'. fio.i or Rsverfions, and his, her, or their Alfiguees thei-eofrefpe£tively, upon delivering up of the Tallies and Dr. Allix miy import 5000 Ream of great Cemy Paper, Ciiftom Free. On Death of Nominee,