Page:Ruffhead - The Statutes at Large - vol 8.djvu/621

 A. Ty, 1 76 1. Anno fecundo Georgii III. C. 7. 587 was done in purfuance, and by the Authority, of this Ad: And if it fhall appear to have been fo done the Jury fhall find for the Defendant or Defendants ; and if the Plaintiff fhall be nonluited, or difcontinue his Action, after the Defendant or Defendants fhall have appeared ; or if Judgment fliall be given, upon any Verdift or Demurrer, againft the Plaintiff, the Defendant and Defendants fhall and may recover treble Cofts, and have the like Remedy for the fame, as any Defendant or Defendants Treble Cofls. hath or have in other Cafes by Law. ,,.,„.• ^r. i. • «■ IV. And be it further enadkd by the Authority aforefaid. That this Aft fhall continue and be m This Aa obe -n force force 'from the faid twenty-fourth Day of Dcce?nber in this prefent Year one thoufand feven hundred ^'^' 2+^". 17 2. and fixty-one, until the twenty-fourth Day oi Dccefnber which fhall be in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and fxxty-two, and no longer. CAP. VIL An A61 for enabling bis Majefty to raife a certain Sum of Money towards paying off and difchar^incr the Debt of the Navy, and towards Naval Services, for the Year one thoufand feven hundred and fixty-two. Mojl Gracious Sovereign^ <■ T 7E, your Majefly's mofl dutiful and loyal Subjeds, the Commons of Great Britain, In Par- preamble, ' VV liament affembled, for raifing the Supply granted to your Majefly, towards paying off and ' difchargino- the Debt of the Navy ; and alfo towards raifingthe Supply granted to your Majefly for ' grant unto your Majefly the Sum of one million five hundred thoufand Pounds; and do there- The Sum of 1,500,000!, ' fore mofl humbly befeech your Majefly, that it may be enabled ;' And be it enafted by the King's granted; mofl Excellent Majefly, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That it Ihall and may be lawful to and for the King's moll Excellent Majedy, by Warrant or Warrants under his Royal Sign Manual, to authorize and impower the CommifTioners of his Majefly's Treafury now or for the Time being, or any three or more of them, or the Lord High Treafurer for the Time being, at any Time or Times before the fifth Day of January one thoufand feven hundred and fixty-three, to caufe or direft any Loans to be taken or received at his Majefly's Exchequer, to be raifed by Loans oj from any Perfon or Perfons, Natives or Foreigners, Body or Bodies Politick, or Corporate, or any Exchequer Bills, Number of Exchequer Bills to be made out there, for any Sum or Sums of Money, not exceeding, in Loans and Exchequer Bills together, in the Whole, the faid Sum of one million five hundred thou- fand Pounds in the fame or like Manner, Form and Order, and according to the fame or like Rules in like manner as Loans and Dir-clions, as in and by an A(5l of this prefent SefTion of Parliament, intituled. An Ai^ for grant- crExchequer Bills autho- ing an Aid to his Majefly by a LandTax to be raifed in Great Britain /ir the Service of the Tear one thou- '^"'^semot-^^'"'^" [and feven hundred and fixty-ttvo, are enaded and prefcribed concerning the Loans or Exchequer Bills ^ '^ e ion, to be taken or made in purfuance of the faid A61. IL And be it further enafted by the Authority aforefaid. That all and every the Claufes, Provi- and all the Claufes and foes " Powers, Privileges, Advantages, Penalties, Forfeitures, and Difabiiities, contained in the faid Powers, &c. in the faid lafl-mentioned A£l, relating to the Loans or Exchequer Bills authorized to be made by the fame A£t ^^'excI? uerBm^s^arr (except fuch Claufes as do charge the fame on the Taxes granted by the fame Aft, and except fuch extendedo"tbi's AftT Claufes as limit the Rate of Intereft to be paid for the Forbearance of Money lent on the Credit of Exception. the faid A61, and alfo except as is herein after mentioned) fhall be applied and extended to the Loans and Exchequer Bills to be made in purfuance of this Adt, as fully and effectually, to all Intents and Purpofes, as if the fame Loans or Exchequer Bills had been originally authorized by the faid lafl mentioned Adl, or as if the faid feveral Claufes or Provifoes had been particularly repeated and re- enaiied in the Body of this A£l. III. Provided always, and be it further enabled by the Authority aforefaid, That no Exchequer Exchequer Bills iiTued to Bill or Bills to be made out by virtue of this A£l, fhall, after the fame hath or have been iffued and f.^'J^o^t^'t^'be received*' ■paid at the Exchequer to the Treafurer of his Majefty's Navy for the Time being, and applied by him IJainL Payment li any for the Purpofes herein after-mentioned, be afterwards, at any Time before the twenty-hxth Day of of the pubHckRevenues, March one thoufand feven hundred and fixty-three, received or taken, or pafs or be current to any Receiver or Colleclor in Great Britain of the Cuftoms, Excife, or any Revenue, Supply, Aid, or Tax whatfoever, due or payable to his Majefly, his Heirs, or SuccefTors, or at the Receipt of the Exchequer, from any fuch Receiver or Collector, or from any other Perfon or Perfons, Bodies Poli- tick "^or Corporate, otherwife, or on any other Account, than for the Difcharge and Cancelling of fuch Bills, in cafe the fame fhall be in due Courfe or Order of Payment before the faid tv/enty-fixth JD^' oi March ; nor fhall any fuch Receiver or Collector exchange at any Time before the faid o"" «*«:'^anged before ?.» twe.nty-fixth Day of ^i/<7r<:/;, for any Money of fuch Revenues, Aids, Taxes, or Supplies, in his ^^^*''*^^ ^763* Hands, any Exchequer Bill or Bills which fhall have been iffued and applied as aforefaid by virtue of this A61 ; nor fhall any A6tion be maintained againft any fuch Receiver or Colledlor for neg'ecSling or refufmg to exchange any fuch Bill or Bills for ready Money, before the faid twenty-fixth Day of March any Thing in the faid A61 made in this prefent Seffion of Parliament, intituled. An A£i for granting an Aid to his Majefly by a Land 'Tax, to be raifed in Great Britain, for the Service of the Tear one thoif and feven hundred and fixty-two, or this A6t, contained^o the contrary notwithflanding. 4 F 2 IV,
 * Naval cervices, in the Year one thoufand feven hundred and fixty-two ; have refolved to give and