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 A. D. 1722. Anno nono Georgii Regis. C. 5. 423 of the fame: And whereas on the eighth Day of February one thoufand feven hundred and feventeen, James then Lord Vifcount Stanhope, (afterwards Earl Stauh.pe,) Thomas Lord TurrHigtm, John IFallop, Efquire, (now Lord Limington) and George Eaittie, Efquire, then Commii ' < [lis Majefty's Trea- fury, did by an Inftrument in Writing under their Hands, purfuant to the Power to them given by the faid Act of the third Year of his Maje%'s Reign, approve a Form and M'-thod of making out Deben- 3 Ceo. t, c. 17. tures in the Manner thereby defcribed, and did order and appoint the faid Method and Form according- ly: And whereas by feveral Acts of Parliament made and palled ftnee the faid Act of the third Yeai ; <>>. 1. c. 9. his Majefty's Reign, feveral Perfons therein respectively named have been conftituted Commi lion to ». 1 c 14. examine, flate and determine the Debts due to the Army, who were by the fame Acts refpectively im- 6, Grj ' *■ c- ' 7 - powered to act in Performance of the Trufts in them refpectively repofed, without obtaining any new I "^' I,St:lt - '• Commiflion under the faid Great Seal in that Behalf: And whereas by one of the faid fubfequent Acts which was made and palled in the fifth Year of his Majefty's Reign, it was enacted, That all Ccrtifi-, ceo 1 c ij cates made out by Virtue of that Act, fhould be diredted to the Right Honourable James Earl of Car- narvon (now Duke of Chandos) or his Deputy, or fuch Perfon or Perfons as the Cornmiflioners of the Treafury, or any three or more of them, or the Lord High Treafurer for the Time being, fhould think fit to nominate and appoint ; and the faid Earl of Carnarvon, or his Deputy, or the faid Perfon or Per- fons fo to be nominated, were thereby directed and authorised to iffue the Debentures accordingly, as well for fuch Sum or Sums of Money, as fhould appear to have arifen to become due to. the refpective Claimants for any Time, during which he was Paymafter, as for any Time or Times before or fince : And whereas by an Inftrument in Writing, bearing Date the fourth Day of June one thoufand feven hundred and nineteen, under the Hands and Seals of John Aijlabie, Efquire, John Wallop, Efquire, (now Lord Lhnington) George Baillie, Efquire, and William Clayton, Efquire, then Cornmiflioners of his Ma- jefty's Treafury, Thomas More, Efquire, (who had acted and then continued to act as Deputy to the faid James Duke of Chandos, in all Cafes where Debentures had heretofore been, or were by the faid A£t of the fifth Year of his Majefty's Reign, authorized to be made out by the faid Duke, as late Paymafter General of the Army, or his Deputy) was conftituted and appointed to make out Debentures on all and every the Certificates whatfoever, that were, fhould or might be ifl'ued by the Cornmiflioners appointed as aforefaid, upon or by Virtue of the faid Act of the fifth Year of his Majefty's Reign : And whereas by an Act made and parted in the feventh Year of his Majefty's Reign (being one of the Acts for ap- 7 Ge °- i.Stat.i, pointing Cornmiflioners to examine, ftate and determine the Debts due to the Army) it was enacted, "• 3°- That all Debentures made out, or to be made out by any Paymafter or Paymafters, or his or their De- puty or Deputies, in Purfuance of any Certificate authorized to be made out by the Cornmiflioners by Virtue of that or any other A£t or A£ts of Parliament, for ftating and determining the Debts due to the Army, fhould carry an Annuity after the Rate of four Pounds per Centum per Annum, to commence from the twenty-fourth Day of June one thoufand feven hundred and feventeen, and that the fame Annuities fhould be payable out of the Monies arifing or to arife from the Cuftoms and other Duties and Payments, commonly called the General Fund, eftablifbed by an Act of Parliament of the third Year of his Ma- 3 Geo. t. c 7, jefty's Reign, amounting to feven hundred twenty-four thoufand eight hundred forty-nine Pounds fix Shillings and ten Pence one fifth Part of a Penny per Antimn, and the Cornmiflioners of his Majefty's Treafury, or any three or more of them, and the High Treafurer for the Time being, are thereby autho- rized and impowered, upon producing any fuch Debenture or Debentures made forth or to be made forth upon any fuch Certificate or Certificates as aforefaid, to iifue Standing Orders for paying at the faid Re- ceipt of Exchequer, the faid Annuities for the Principal Sums contained in the faid Debentures refpec- tively, to the Perfons named in fuch Debentures, their Executors, Adminiftrators, Succeflbrs andAfligns refpectively, which Annuities are neverthelefs redeemable, according to a Provifo in the faid Adt of the feventh Year of his Majefty's Reign contained in that Behalf, as by the faid feveral Acts and Inftruments, 7Geo. i.Stat. i. Relation being thereunto had, may more fully appear : And whereas the faid Thomas More hath made c - 3°- forth feveral Debentures in the Form prefcribed by the faid Cornmiflioners of the Treafury, upon the faid Commiflion under the Great Seal, which was founded upon the faid A6t of the third Year of his Ma- 3 Geo. *• c- 37, jefty's Reign, and fome Doubts have arifen or may arife, whether the Certificates made forth by the fe- veral Cornmiflioners, for ftating and determining the Debts due to the Army, purfuant to the faid other Acts, or fome of them, and which Certificates have been delivered to the faid Thomas More, were deli- vered to a proper Officer or Perfon in order to have the Debentures made forth thereupon ; and whether the faid Thomas More, to whom fuch Certificates were delivered, was ftrictly authorized in all Cafes, to make forth the Debentures upon all fuch Certificates fo delivered to him ; and whether the ftanding Or- ders for fuch Annuities as aforefaid, payable at the Exchequer, or fome of them, have been well grounded upon all the Debentures figned by the faid Thomas More as aforefaid :' Now for the obviating all fuch Doubts for the future, it is hereby declared and enacted, &c. " Debentures, &c. already made forth, or to be made forth, 13 c. deemed good and valid. Altering or " counterfeiting Debentures, 13 c. Felony." EXP. ' XXXVII. And whereas fince the faid Feaft of Saint Michael the Archangel in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred twenty and two, feveral Sums of Money have been called for to be iffued for paying off and cancelling fuch of the Exchequer- Bills as then remained to be cancelled, purfuant to an Act made and paffed in that Behalf in the eighth Year of his Majefty's Reign, and feveral Sums, 8 Geo. 1. c. a«, amounting to twenty-three thoufand one hundred thirty-eight Pounds eleven Shillings ten Pence three Farthings, Part of the Monies of the faid Sinking Fund, which remained in the Exchequer at the faid 1 ' Feaft