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 A. D. 1759* Anno tricefimo tertio Georgii II. C. 12. 443 ninth, and thirty-fecond Years of his prefent Majefty's Reign, and fhall be transferrable at the Bank of England; and the Charges and Expences in refpe6t theieof, fhail be charged upon and paid and 'he Charges to be out of the Fund, commonly called The Sinking Fund, until Redemption thereof by Parliament, in J'jjj"" *' '^^ Sinking the fame and like Manner as the Annuities confolidated as aforefaid are transferrable, and as the Charges and Expences in refpe^l: thereof are payable; any Thing in the faid A£t made in the thirty- fecond Year of his prefent Majefty's Reign to the contrary thereof in any wife notwithftanding. II. And be it further enaded by the Authority aforefaid. That fuch Proprietors who fhali not, on Proprietors difTenting, to or before the twentieth Day of June one thoufand feven hundred and fixty, fignify their Diffent to ^"J^"" ^^' Diflent on or fuch Confolidation as aforefaid, in Books to be opened at the Bank oi England ^ox that Purpofe, "''"'^ *°J""'= ^7^°- ihall be deemed and taken to aflent thereto j any Thing to the contrary thereof in any wife not- withfranding. III. And be it further enacled by the Authority aforefaid, That all the Monies which have arifen The Duties appropriated fince the fifth Day of January one thoufand feven hundred and fixty, or that fliall or may hereafter for Payment ot the An- arife, of the Subfidy of Poundage upon certain Goods and Merchandizes imported, or to be im- ""'•'« chargeable on the ported into this Kingdom, and the additional Inland Duty on Cofree and Chocolate, which were felafrTedTolheTink'n'* made a Fund for Payment of three Pounds per Centum per Annum, at the Bank oi England, on fix Fu„d • ^ '"'iing millions fix hundred thoufand Pound:^, borrowed by virtue of the faid AiSt made in the thirty- fecond Year of the Reign of his prefent Majefty, towards the Supply of the Year one thoufand feven hundred and fifty-nine, as alfo on the faid additional Capital of fifteen Pounds added to every one hundred Pounds advanced towards the faid Sum of fix millions fix hundred thoufand Pounds, amounting to nine hundred and ninety thoufand Pounds, fhall be'carried to and made a Part of and made a Part thereof j the Fund, commonly called The Sinking Fund; and the fame fhall be deemed and taken to be Part of the faid Sinking Fund, and fhall be iffijed and applied to fuch Ufes and Purpofes as the feveral and to be applied ac- Exceffes, SurplufTes or Overplus Monies compofing the faid Sinking Fund, are or may be ifTued "rdingiy. and applied; any Thing in the faid before recited A<51 to the contrary thereof in any wife notwith- ftanding. fent Majcfly, intituled, Jn JH for granting to his Majejly a Sum not exceeding one million fifty thou- Claufe in Aft 30 Geo.a. fand and five Founds and five Shillings, to he raifed by way of Lottery; the Managers and Dire£tors c. 5. of the faid Lottery were required to caufe fuch of the Tickets contained in the outermofl Column of the Books to be prepared in purfuance of the faid A£f, which fliould not have been difpofed of to Contributors, and alfo the Tickets upon which Defaults of Payments fliould have been made, to be delivered into the Receipt of his Majefly's Exchequer, there to be retained and kept as Cafh, to be ifi'ued and difpofed of for the Purpofes of the faid A(5l, in fuch Manner as the Commifiioners of his Majefty's Treafury, or any three or more of them then being, or the High Treafurcr, or any three or more of the Commifiioners of the Treafury for the Time being fliould dired : And whereas the Managers and Diredors of the faid Lottery did, in purfuance of the faid Ad, deliver into the Receipt of his Majefty's Exchequer fix hundred and forty- feven thoufand two hundred and eighty-one Tickets, there to be retained and kept as Cafli, which at one Pound one Shilling each amounted to the Sum of fix hundred and feventy-nine thoufand fix hundred and forty-five Pounds one Shilling : And whereas the CommifTioners of his Majefty's Treafury did afterwards hy xcxW2Lxrd.ni2i^Y>^rt Robert Jeiinings, John Dive, Barwell Smith, Daniel Wray^ and Frederick Atherton Hindley, to receive from, his Majefty's Exchequer the faid fix hundred and forty-feven thoufand two hundred and eighty-one Tickets, and to fell and difpofe of the fame; who accordingly did receive the faid Tickets from the Tellers of the faid Receipt, and did fell and difpofe of fixty-fix thoufand five hundred and feventy-four Tickets, Part of the faid Tickets, which at one Pound one Shilling each amounted to fixty-nine thoufand nine bundled and two Pounds fourteen Shillings, and paid the faid Sum into the faid Receipt of Exchequer, and did return five hundred and eighty thoufand feven hundred and k^n Tickets, which remained in their Hands undifpofed of, into the faid Receipt, which are now retained and kept as Cafh there, and computed at the Rate of one Pound and one Shilling each, amount to the Sum of fix hundred and nine thoufand feven hundred and forty-two Pounds and feven Shillings; Be it therefore ena6led any Perfon or Perfons whatfoever, to be by them cancelled and deftroyed, that thereby the Tellers n^^de forth in purfuance of his Majefty's Receipt of Exchequer may be difcharged of the Total Amount of the Cafh or Va- of the recited Ads, and lue of the faid five hundred and eighty thoufand feven hundred and feven Tickets, at the Rate of were not difpofed of; one Pound one Shilling each; and that the faid Robert Jennings, John Dive, Barwell Smith, i)^;?/,'/^"'^.;';'^ Tellers, &c. tQ fVray, and Frederick Atherton Hindley, ftiall be and are hereby difcharged of their Account touch- ^^^.f'^^f^.^s^f^'/jj'';^^- L r J ..u T T 1 T^- (-. ^i,--iT-^ ° r fL count loucning the lame. mg the lame; and the Managers and Directors of the faid Lottery, or any five or more ot them, or Manageis to cancel the the Perfon or Perfons in whofe Cuftody the Columns containing the Duplicates of, and the Tickets Duplicates, of the Numbers and ClafTes correfponding with, the faid five hundred and eighty thoufand feven hundred and feven Tickets, do or fhall remain, may, and is and are hereby authorifed and im- powered to cancel and deftroy fuch Part of the faid Columns as contain the faid Duplicates, and Tickets of the correfponding Numbers and Clafies as aforefaid; any Thing in the faid Ad, or any other Ad contained to the contrary notwithftanding. ^ L 11 2 CAP.
 * • IV. And whereas by an AS: of Parliament made in the thirtieth Year of the Reign of his pre-