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 4QO Rules to be ob- feived in the .Application of the Half-Pay. Anno o&avo Georgii Regis. A. D. 1721. 1 Ceo. i.Srat. 1. c. 4. Claufe for difpo- fing the Overplus Money of Half- Pay Officers to the Compaf- lionate Lift. $ Ann. e. S3. fed*. 88. Claufe for Relief of the Sufferers at Nevis and St. Chriftophers, by an Invafion of the French in the late Wars. Jo Ann. e. 34. Sie farther 13 Geo.j, c. 3./10. See 9 Geo. 1. c. 12. Unfatis6ed De- bentures, how to be made good. C. 20. XLI. And as to the faid Sum of eighty-nine thoufand Pounds by this Aft appropriated on Account of Half-Pay as aforefaid, It is hereby enacted and declared by the Authority aforefaid, That the Rules herein after prefcribed (hall be duly obferved in the Application thereof; that is to fay, That no Perfon (hall have or receive anv Part of the fame, who was a Minor under the Age of fixteen Years at the Time when the Regiment, Troop or Company in which he ferved was reduced. That no Perfon fhall have or receive any Part of the fame, except fuch Perfons who did aftual Service in fome Regiment, Troop or Company. That no Perfon having any other Place or Employment of Profit, Civil or Military, under his Majefty, fhall have or receive any Part of the Half-Pay. That no Chaplain of any Garrifon or Regiment, who has any Ecclefiaftical Benefice, or other Prefer- ment in Great Britain or Ireland, {hall have or receive any Part of the faid Half-Pay. That no Perfon fhall have or receive any Part of the fame, who hath refigned his Commiffion, and has had no Commiffion fince. That no Part of the fame fhall be allowed to any Perfons, by Virtue of any Warrant or Ap- pointment^ except to fuch Perfons who would have been otherwife entitled to the fame, as reduced Officers. And that no Part of the fame fhall be allowed to any of the Officers of the five Regiments of Dragoons and eight Regiments of Foot lately difbanded in Ireland, except to fuch as were lately taken off the Efta- blifhmeut of Half-Pay in Great Britain. ' Service of the Year one thoufand feven hundred and twenty-one, and for other Purpofes therein ex- ' prefled, feveral Supplies which had been granted to his Majefty, as is therein mentioned, were appro- ' priated to feveral Uies and Purpofes therein expreffed, amongft which any Sum or Sums not exceeding ' jefty's Land-Forces and Marines, fubjeft neverthelefs to fuch Rules to be obferved in the Application provided, enacted and declared by the Authority aforefaid, That fo much of the faid Sum of ninety-four thoufand five hundred Pounds, as is or fhall be more than fufficient to fatisfy the faid reduced Officers, according to the faid Rules by the aforefaid Aft prefcribed to be obferved in the Application thereof, or any Part of fuch Overplus, fhall or may be difpofed to fuch Officers, who were maimed or loft their Limbs in the late Wars, or to fuch others as by Reafon of their long Service, or otherwife, his Majefty fhall judge to be proper Objects of Charity, or to the Widows or Children of fuch Officers, according to fuch Warrant or Warrants under his Majefty's Royal Sign Manual, as fhall be figned in that Behalf j any thing in this or the faid former Aft to the contrary notwithstanding. in the ninth Year of the Reign of her late Majefty Queen Anne, of bleffed Memory, a Sum of one hundred three thoufand and three Pounds eleven Shillings and four Pence was appointed to be distri- buted amongft the Proprietors and Inhabitants of the Iflands of Nevis and Saint Chriflophers, who fuf- tained great Lofles by a late Invafion and Depredation of the French, to encourage them to refettle in the faid Iflands ; and by another Act made in the tenth Year of her faid late Majefty's Reign, taking Notice that the Bounty aforefaid would exceed or amount at leaft to one third Part of the faid Loffes fuftained by the Planters and Inhabitants of the faid Iflands only, It was enacted, That her Majefty's. Commiffioners for the Affairs of Trade and Plantations, or any three or more of them, on fuch Proof as was therein prefcribed, fhould or might forthwith iflue out, in the refpeftive Names of every fuch Sufferer, his, her or their Executors or Adminiftrators, Debentures for one full third Part of their re- flective Lofles, fpecified in the return of a Commiffion therein mentioned (fuch Requifites being firft performed by the faid Sufferers, their Agents or Affigns, as by the faid Acts were to be done and per- formed) and that fuch Debentures fhould be delivered out to them, or their respective Agents or Attor- nies, and fhould carry Intereft for the principal Sums therein mentioned after the Rate of fix Pounds per Centum per Annum, from the five and twentieth Day of December one thoufand feven hundred and eleven : And whereas the Commiffioners for Trade and Plantations did make forth Debentures purfuant to the faid Acts, which amount in principal Money to the Sum of ninety-nine thoufand three hundred fixty-one Pounds fixteen Shillings, and no more, the Intereft whereof, at the Rate aforefaid, hath been fatisfied until the Feaft of the Birth of our Lord Chrift one thoufand feven hundred and fourteen ; and the faid principal Sum, together with forty-one thoufand feven hundred thirty-one Pounds nineteen Shillings and one Penny Farthing, for the like Intereft thereof, incurred for feven Years, ended at the Feaft of the Birth of our Lord Chrift one thoufand feven hundred and twenty-one, making together one hundred forty-one thoufand ninety-three Pounds fifteen Shillings and one Penny Farthing do ftill remain unfatisfied :' Now to the End the feveral Proprietors of the faid Debentures may have a juft and reafonable Satisfaction for the Principal and Intereft due or unpaid to them refpectively, It is hereby provided and enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That the faid refpeftive Proprietors, and their refpeftive Executors, Adminiftrators and Affigns, fhall by Virtue of this Act have and be entitled to an Annuity / after the Rate of three Pounds per Centum per Annum, for and in lieu of the Principal and Intereft due or unpaid to them refpectively as aforefaid, the fame Annuities to commence from the faid Feaft of the Birth of our Lord Chrift one thoufand feven hundred and twenty-one, and to be payable Half-yearly ; to wit, at the Feafts of the Nativity of Saint John Bapti/l, and the Birth of our Lord Chrift, by equal' Portions; until
 * XLII. And whereas by an Aft of Parliament made in the feventh Year of his Majefty's Reign, for
 * continuing the Duties upon Malt, Mum, Cyder and Perry, to raife Money by way of Lottery for the
 * the Sum of ninety-four thoufand five hundred Pounds, upon Account of Half-Pay for the Year one
 * thoufand feven hundred and twenty-one, was appropriated to be paid to the reduced Officers of his Ma-
 * of the faid Half-Pay, as in and by the aforefaid Act were prefcribed in that Behalf:' Now it is hereby
 * XLIII. And whereas amongft divers Matters and Things contained in an Aft of Parliament made