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 A.D. 1716. Anno tcitio Georgii Regis. C. 7. in ♦v„> rhipf Cafhier of the Governor and Company of the Bank of Englan^, and alike Duplicate to their ofthcB»nk,&c. Accountant General ; and the faid Commiffioners of the Treafury, or any three or more of them, or % t l%?" 77 ' XI And'be'i'r'further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That the faid Accoun'ant General for the Accountant o- Time toeing fhall upon reafonable Demand, dfcliver gratis to every Proprietor of the faid Lottery ' >. r ' ,« of fhem '-nd of the faid annual Payments charged on the hereditary Excife, or any of tl Piojri- feein^compreSidea or fpecified in the faid Du;',at,'or Lifts by this Adl 1 to be transmitted, •'* intoliis Office as aforefaid, or to the refneetive Affigns of men Proprietors, a Certificate thereof, to be grounded on the faid Duplicates and Lilts, or fome of them, fo as the Lottery Order or the Order ^harsred on the Excife (fpecified in fuch Duplicates or Lifts) be at the fame Time delivered up to the foaj fuch Oni-rs faid Accountant General to be cancelled and made void; neyerthelefs all the faid Lottery Orders (qbtdeiU i cancelled fhall be preferred by the faid Accountant General ; and that any Perfon or Performs may have 10 u "'"■•■■ recourfe to the fame without Fee or Reward ; and the fame, or attefted Copies thereof, may be given in Evidence in any Court of Law or Equity. XII. And it is hereby enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That all and every the Proprietors of the p ropr ; e, ors , faid Lottery Orders, or any of them, and of the faid Annuities charged or chargeable on the Excife, or have > "~ r pre limited, of 5 1, pet Ce ; m ifyino- his, her or their Uption or vvuiingneis to accept lucn Annuities in lieu tnereor ; and all and ''" lieu °^ elt irery other the Proprietor and Proprietors of the faid Lottery Orders charged on the yearly Funds before- & " ter> ' ' any of them by or from whom fuch Subfcriptions fhall be made within the Time herein before limited, of 5 )■ per Cent, fignifyins; his, her or their Option or W illingnefs to accept fuch Annuities in lieu thereof; a '" ry other the Proprietor and Proprietors of the faid Lottery Orders charged on the yearly Fur nentioned or any of them, and all and every the Proprietors of the faid annual Sums chargeable on the' hereditary Excife, or any of them, and the Executors, Adminiftrators, Succeflors and Affigns of all and every the faid Proprietors refpedtively, (fuch Proprietors of the faid Lottery Orders and annual Sums of three Pounds per Centum per Annum, or any of them, who, by fuch Subfcriptions as aforefaid to be made within the Time before limited, fhall choole to be paid in ready Money, only and always excepted and foreprized) fhall have, receive and enjoy, and be entitled, by vmue of this Act, to have, receive and enjoy an Annuity or Annuities after the Rate of five Pounds per Centum per Annum, of lawful Money of Great Britain, in Lieu and Difcharge of fuch their feveral and refpecStiye Lottery Orders and annual Pay- ments, charged or chargeable as aforefa'd ; which Annuities, after the Rate of live Pounds per Centum per Annum, fhall be computed upon the faid Lottery Orders, for fo much as fhall be due and unpaid for Prin- cipal or Intereft at and until Michaelmas one thcufand feven hundred and feventeen inclufively, and fhall be computed upon the faid Orders charged or chargeable on the hereditary Excife for fo much as the Lid Moieties of the faid principal Sums (for which they were made redeemable) and the Arrears of the faid annual Sums of three Pounds per Centum per Annum (if any fuch Arrears be) fhall, at and until Mi- chaelmas one thoiifand feven hundred and feventeen, amount unto; and that all the faid Annuities, after chargeable on > the P„ate of five Pounds per Centum per Annum, fhall be and are hereby charged upon, and fhall be paid and the General payable out of the Monies of the faid general Fund of feven hundred twenty-four thoufand eight hundred Fund > •forty-nine Pounds fix Shillings and ten" Pence and one fifth Part of a Penny per Annum, by this A£t efta- q„!,^ t fij blifhed, or intended to be eitablifhed as aforefaid, by quarterly Payments, at the four moft ufual Feafts in deemed/ the Year, that is to fay, the Feafts of the Birth of our Lord Chrift, the Annunciation of the blelTed Virgin By 4 Geo. 1. Mmy, the Nativity of Saint John Baptift and Saint Michael the Archangel, by even and equal Portions, c - IO - ka l- or within fix Days after every "of the faid Feaft-days, for ever, or until Redemption or Redemptions thereof thde a "? j1 l f,' ' XIII. And whereas it may happen that fome of the faid Subfcribers for Annuities, at the Time of ». ° r fI tt making their Subfcriptions, may have Arrears of the faid Intereft, after the Rate of fix Pounds per Centum ' re 'n r J^ cora J ' '' the Nativity of Saint John Baptift one thoufand feven hundred and feventeen inclufively,' It is hereby J un e 17 17. provided, declared and enafted by the Authority aforefaid, That all fuch Arrears of Intereft, to be com- puted until and for the Quarter to end at the faid Feaft of the Nativity of Saint "John Baptift one thoufand .feven hundred and feventeen, (although fome of them are payable a: other Feaft-days) fhall be paid and' fatisfied out of the Monies of the faid yearly Funds, or any of them, arifen or to arife at any Time before Michaelmas one thoufand feven-hundred and feventeen, without being converted into an Annuity after the Rate of five Pounds per Centum per Annum as aforefaid. ' XIV. And whereas the Governor and Company of Merchants of Great Britain trading to the South- So much of the ' Seas and other Parts of America, and for encouraging t,:e Fifhery, are obliged, in and by an Ac/t of this 2,000,000 1. '*' Seffion of Parliament, to advance and pay into the Receipt of his Majefty's Exchequer fuch Sum and wh!chchcSout h- ' Sums of Money, not exceeding 'in the whole the Sum of two Millions, at fuch Times and by fuch Pro- ^ a arf ^, ompany ,s f portions at a Time, as the Commiffioners ■ of the Treafury, or any three or more of- them, or the High g, a |i a a U a'iiy be ' Treafurer for the Time being, fliall call for, in the Manner therein mentioned, on or before the twenty:- called for, lhall clared ch5rse the Lot "
 * fhall be made according to the Provifoes herein after contained in that Behalf. yeaHy! 3 "' "
 * per Annum, due to them upon Computations to be made until and for the Quarter ending-at the Feaft ofputed till 24,
 * fourth Day of December one thoufand feven hundred and feyenteen ;' Now it is hereby enadted and de- b « appifed to de-