Page:Ruffhead - The Statutes at Large - vol 5.djvu/443

 A.D. 1721. Anno o&avo Georgii Regis. C. 20. 397 XXX. And it is hereby enacted by the Authority'aforefaid, That no Fee, Reward or Gratuity fhall N " F« «> be be demanded or taken, directly or indirectly, by any his Majefty's Officers in the Exchequer, or by £|" n { ° T "7 any of their Clerks or Subftitutes, from any his Majefty's Subjects, for any Matter or Thing to be p^J l ° z "( n done by the faid Officers, Clerks and Subftitutes, or any of them refpectively, in Purfuancc of this Act; this Aft. and that no fuch Officer, Clerk or Subftitute fhall divert or mifapply, or caufe or procure to be diverted 1'enalty on Of- or mifapplied, any of the Monies by this Act intended for the exchanging, circulating or paying off the nccr > **■ faid Bills or any of them, under fuch Penalties, Forfeitures and Difabilities, to be incurred by and in- ^ lfjp ] pl) "^ flicted on them refpectively, as by one Act of this Seffion of Parliament for granting an Aid to his Ma- ° nl "' jefty by a Land-Tax to be raifed in Great Britain for the Service of the Year one thoufand feven hundred and twenty-two, are prefcribed or enacted for diverting and mifapplying any the Monies thereby granted, or for taking or demanding any Fee, Reward or Gratuity concerning the fame. XXXI. Provided always neverthelefs, and it is hereby enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That the Treafury out of faid Commiflioners of the Treafury, or any three or more of them, or the High Treafurer for the Time Sinking Fund, being, fhall have Power, and he or they are hereby enabled to pay and allow, or caufe to be paid and al- ~, def ' a> '/* lowed, out of the Monies to arife of or for the faid Surpluffes, Excefles and Overplus Monies, called cuttng^ihii"^, the Sinking Fund, from time to time, the neceflary Charges of cancelling fuch Exchequer-Bills as are hereby directed to be cancelled, and of making forth the new Exchequer-Bills hereby authorized to be made forth, and fuch other Charges as fhall be neceffarily incident in or for the Execution of this Adt, or any Part thereof; any Thing herein contained to the contrary notwithftanding. ' XXXII. And whereas the Revenues fettled or appointed for the Service of his Majefty's Houfhold, and the Honour and Dignity of the Crown, did produce in clear Money for one Year, ended at Michaelmas one thoufand feven hundred and twenty, the Sum of one hundred two thoufand fix hundred eighty-two Pounds feven Shillings and eleven Pence three Farthings, over and above trie Sum of feven hundred thoufand Pounds allowed for thofe Services in that Year ; and by an Act of Parliament made and Recital of pafled in the feventh Year of his Majefty's Reign, intituled, An Ad for raifing a Sum not exceeding five 7 Geo - »■ hundred thoufand Pounds, by charging Annuities at the Rate of Jive Pounds per Centum per Annum, upon at ' *' ( the Civil Lift Revenues till redeemed by the Crown ; and for enabling his Majefty, his Heirs or Succejfors (by eauftng fuch a Deduction to be made as therein is mentioned) to make good to the Civil Lift the Payments which Jhall have been made upon the faid Annuities ; and for borrowing Money upon certain Lottery Tickets ; and for dif charging the Corporations for AJJurances of Part of the Money which they were obliged to pay to his Majejiy ; and for making good a Deficiency to the ■ Eaft-India Company, it was enacted, That yearly and every Year, from and after the Feaft of the Nativity of Saint John Baptift in the Year of our Lord one thoufand (even hundred and twenty-one, a certain yearly Fund, to be computed after the Rate of five Pounds per Centum per Annum, for and upon all the Annuities to be purchafed upon that Act, fhould be and was, by Virtue thereof, fettled and eftablifhed in the Manner therein mentioned ; and that for raifing any Sum or Sums of Money, not exceeding five hundred thoufand Pounds, for the Purpofes therein men- tioned, it fhould be lawful for any Perfons, Bodies Politick or Corporate, to contribute, advance and pay to the firft or chief Cafhier of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England for the Time being, any Sum or Sums of Money, not exceeding in the whole the»faid Sum of five hundred thoufand Pounds, for the Purchafe of fuch Annuity or Annuities as were thereby charged or chargeable, fubject to fuch Redemption as is therein mentioned ; and the Commiflioners of his Majefty's Treafury, or the High Treafurer for the Time being, were thereby impowered to caufe any Arrear or Arrears of any Fees, Salaries, Wages, Penfions, Annuities or other certain or extraordinary Allowances, or any Debt or Debts, Sum or Sums of Money due or to be due or payable at the Receipt of Exchequer, by Virtue of any Letters Patents or other lawful Authorities, whereupon the fame refpectively were or fhould be grounded, to be fatisfied and paid at the fame Receipt, by levying Tallies of Pro or Affignment, or other Tallies upon the faid Cafhier for the Time being, for or in Part of the faid Sum not exceeding five hundred thoufand Pounds ; and that upon producing fuch Talley or Tallies, and delivering or tea- dring the fame to the faid Cafhier, the fame Cafhier fhould forthwith give a Receipt in Writing for fuch Talley or Tallies, and the Perfon or Perfons fo producing and delivering or tendring the fame, fhould in refpect thereof be deemed Contributors within the Meaning of that Act ; and their Names and the Sums contained in fuch Tallies refpectively, fhould be fairly entred in the Book or Books of the Con- troller therein mentioned, and into the Duplicates thereof, to be tranfmitted into the Office of the Au- ditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer ; and fuch Contributor and Contributors, by delivering up his, her or their Tallies, or fuch as he, fhe or they fhould nominate, his, her or their Executors, Adminiftra- tors, Succeflbrs and Affigns, fhould have, receive and enjoy the refpective Annuity and Annuities fo pur- chafed out of the yearly Fund by that Act fettled and eftablifhed, and fhould have fuch or the like Eftate and Intereft therein, as if his, her or their Contribution or Contributions had been fpecifically made in ready Money, as by the Act laft mentioned, Relation being thereunto had, may more fully ' appear. And whereas the above-mentioned Sum of one hundred two thoufand fix hundred eighty-two ' hundred thoufand Pounds intended to be raifed by the Act laft^ in Part recited, and after the Raifing f the Aggregate Fund, arifen within the faid Year, ended at Michaelmas one thoufand feven hundred •' and twenty) to be applied to make good fo much of the Surplufles, Excefles and Overplus Monies, f commonly called the Sinking Fund, out of which the Exchequer-Bills, formerly lent to the South-Sea the
 * Pounds feven Shillings and eleven Pence three Farthings, was Part of the fajd Sum not exceeding five
 * thereof, the faid Sum of one hundred two thoufand fix hundred eighty-two Pounds feven Shillings and
 * eleven Pence three Farthings, ought (as Part of the Excefs or Surplus of the Fund, commonly called
 * Company, are by this Act appointed to be paid off and. cancelled, as is above-mentioned :' Now for