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 234 R- 34- Anno nono Georgii II. A. D. 1736. of, by virtue of any fuch forged or counterfeited Receipt, Letter of Attorney, Inftrument or Authority or (hall falfely and deceitfully perfonate any true and real Proprietor or Proprietors of any of the (aid Order or Orders, and thereby afligning, or endeavouring to affign, any of the faid Order or Orders, or receiving, or endeavouring to receive, the Money of fuph true and lawful Proprietor, as if fuch Offender were the true and lawful Owner theieof ; then, and in every fuch Cafe, all and every Perfon and Per- fons, being thereof lawfully convicted in due Form or Law, (hall be adjudged guilty of Felony, and ihall fuffer as in Cafes of Felony without Benefit of Clergy. Penalty on Offi- IX. And be it further enacted, for the better encouraging Perfons to advance the faid Sum of fix hun- Fees or Gratui? d r ed thou ' a " d Pounds upon the Credit of this Act, That all Receipts and Iffues, and all other Things ties. di reeled by this Act to be performed in the Exchequer, (hall be done and performed by the Officers there without demanding or receiving, directly or indirectly, any Fee, Reward or Gratuity for the fame- and in cafe the Officers of the Exchequer (hall take or demand any fuch Fee or Reward, or (hall not keep Books or Regiiters, and make Entries, and do and perform all other Things which by this Act they are required to perform, every fuch Officer (hall forfeit his Office, and be for the future incapable of any Office or Place of Truft whatfoever, and (hall anfwer and pay Treble Damages and Cofts of Suit to any Contributor, or Perfon claiming under him, that will fue for the fame, to be recovered by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information, in any of his Majefty's Courts of Record at Wejlminjier, wherein no Effoin, Protection, Privilege or Wager of Law, Injunction or Order of Reftraint, or more than one Imparlance, fhall be granted or allowed ; and in the faid Action the Plaintiff upon Recovery (hall have Full Cofts of Suit, one Third of which Sum fo to be recovered fhall be paid into the Receipt of the Exchequer for the Benefit of his Majefty, his Heirs and Succeffors, and the other two Thirds fhall be to and for the Ufe of the Profecutor. Treafury to pay X. Provided always, and it is hereby enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That out of the Monies from the Officers and time to time arifing at the faid Receipt of Exchequer, of or for the faid Surpluffes, Exceffes or Overplus faid 1 " Fund'. Monies of the Fund commonly called the Sinking Fund, hereby appropriated as aforefaid, it (hall and may be lawful to and for the faid Commiffioners of the Treafury, or any three or more of them, or the High Treafurer for the Time being, to reward the Officers and Clerks in the Exchequer, and others that (hall or may be any way employed in the Execution of this Act in relation to the faid Annuities to be payable thereupon, for their Labour, Pains and Service therein refpectively, and to difcharge and fatisfy fuch incident Charges as (hall neceffarily attend the Execution of the fame, in fuch Manner as the Com- miffioners of the Treafury, or any three or more of them, or the High Treafurer for the Time being, ihall from time to time think fit and reafonable in that Behalf; any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding. When the faid XL Provided alfo, and it is hereby enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That at any Time upon one ceafe U ' tleS fllaU Year's Notice to be printed in the London Gazette, and affixed upon the. Royal Exchange in London, by Authority of Parliament, at any of the half-yearly Feaft Days for Payment of the faid Annuities, and upon Repayment by Parliament of the principal Sums for which the faid Annuities ihall be payable, to fuch refpective Perfons or Corporations as fhall be intitled to the fame Annuities, and alfo upon full Payment of all Arrearages of the fame Annuities, then, and not till then, the faid Annuities (hall ceafe and determine, and be underftood to be redeemed ; and from and after fuch Redemption, the Mo- nies arifing by the faid Surpluffes, Exceffes or Overplus Monies of the Fund commonly called the Sinking Fund, fhall not be iffued or applied to any Ufe or Purpofe but as fhall be directed by future Act or Acts of Parliament ; any thing in this or any former Act or- Acts of Parliament to the con- trary notwithftanding : And that any Vote or Refolution of the Houfe of Commons, fignified by the Speaker in Writing to be inferted in the London Gazette, and affixed on the Royal Exchange in Lon- don as aforefaid, fhall be deemed and adjudged to be fufficient Notice within the Words and Meaning of this Act. One million of XII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That by or out of fuch Monies as are jLnnuities'to^e or '^ a '* " 3e * n t * ie ^ ecei P t of the Exchequer of the Surpluffes, Exceffes or Overplus Monies of the paid oft. Fund commonly called the Sinking Fund, arifen or to arife at or from the Feaft Day of the Birth of our Lord Chrilt, which (hall be in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and thirty-fix (after Payment of, or referving fufficient to pay, fuch Monies as have been or fhail be directed by Farther Prwiji- this or any former Acl or Acts of Parliament to be paid out of the fame) there (hall be iffued and m: concerning tbh applied to the Governor and Company of Merchants of Great Britain trading to the South-Seas, and io'SrtPa. c. 17. otner Parts of America, and for encouraging the Fifhery, at the faid Feaft Day, and afterwards quar- 20 Geo. 2.' t'. 3. ' terly from Time to Time, as the fame (hall arife, fuch Sum or Sums of Money as fhall on fuch § 60. Quarter Day or Days be in the faid Receipt of Exchequer, for or towards redeeming Part of the Annui- zgGeo.z.c.z t j es attending on the Capital Stock of Annuities commonly called new South-Sea Annuities, remaining 26GV0. 2. c 16. due to the faid Company, until the faid Payments (hall in the Whole amount to the Sum of one mil- lion Sterling ; and that as the faid Payments of Principal Money Ihall be from Time to Time made, a proportionable Part of their faid Capital Stock of Annuities, and of the Annuities attending thereon, and of the Allowance for Charges of Management, fhall alfo from Time to Time ceafe and determine for the Benefit of the Publick. The Monies to XIII. And be it enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That the faid South Sea Company fhall forthwith, be equally diftri- on tn Receipt of the faid Sum of one million, or as foon after as conveniently may be, divide buted amonglt ", ..- ., * , , ' , n u i r i r> • r ^L • faid Capital Stock of Annuities, towards finking and difcharging fo much of their Shares or Interefts in the faid Capital Stock of Annuities, by even and equal Dividends amongft them all, in Proportion to their refpective Shares or Interefts therein. 8 XIV. And
 * he Proprietors, out and diftnbute as near as conveniently may be done, amonglt all the leveral _ Proprietors ot their