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 A. D. 1763. Anno quarto Georgii III. C. 1. 73

any of his Majefty's Revenues, Aids, Taxes or Supplies or byway of Exchange, as aforefaid, to the respective Days whereupon such Bill or Bills shall be so paid, exchanged or lent.

Interest to cease whilst the Bills are in the Hands of Receivers, &c.

XXXVI. Provided always, That no Interest shall run, or be paid upon or for any such Bill or Bills, during the Time any such Bill or Bills so paid, exchanged or lent, shall remain in the Hands of any of the said Receivers or Collectors, Or in the Hands of any Teller or Tellers of the Exchequer ; but for such Time the Interest on every such Bill shall cease.

Bills paid to Receivers, &c. to be signed and dated.

XXXVII. And to the end it may be known for what Time such Bills bearing Interest shall, from Time to Time, remain in the Hands of fuch Receivers or Collectors, or in the Exchequer as aforefaid ; Be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That the Person or Persons, who shall pay any such Bill or Bills so bearing Interest, to any Receivers or Collectors of any of his Majesty's Revenues, Aids, Taxes and Supplies, byway of Exchange, or otherwise, or shall pay or lend such Bill or Bills, so bearing Interest, into the Exchequer, as aforesaid, shall, at the Time of making such Payment, Exchange or Loan, on each Bill bearing Interest, and so paid, exchanged or lent, put his or their Name or Names, and write there- upon, in Words at Length, the Day of the Month and Year, in which he, she or they so paid, exchanged or lent such Bill or Bills bearing Interest; all which the laid Receivers and Colledors respectively, and also the respective Tellers in the Exchequer, shall take care to see done and performed accordingly;

Interest to be allowed to the said Days. to which respective Days the said Receivers and Collectors shall be allowed again the Interest, which he, she or they shall have allowed or paid upon such respective Bill or Bills, upon his or their paying the same into the Re- ceipt of Exchequer as aforesaid.

The Bills may be reissued, XXXVIII. Provided also, and be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the said Bills, or any of them, maybe reissued and paid again out of his Majesty's Exchequer; and when the fame shall be reissued and paid again out of his Majesty's Exchequer, the respective Teller there, from whose Office such Bill or Bills bearing Interest shall be so reissued, or again paid out, shall indorse on the same Bill or Bills so reissued, in Words at Length, the Day of the Month and Years in which the same were reissued or repaid out of the Exchequer, and also on what Account the same were last received into the Exchequer, and sign the same; from which Time the Interest of such Bill or Bills so reissued or paid again shall revive; and such Bill or Bills shall revive, run and pass at Interest, as the same did before they were paid unto or received by the said Receivers or Collectors, or before the same were paid or lent into the Exchequer, as aforesaid.

both for the Prinicpal and Interest,

XXXIX. And it is hereby enacted, That the same Bills to be reissued, from Time to Time, or at any Time, at the Exchequer, as aforesaid, shall be so reissued for the Principal Money to be contained therein, ntereft s and for so much Interest as was due thereon, and allowed by the Teller at the respective Time and Times, when such Bill and Bills were last paid into the Exchequer.

Receivers to keep a Book.

XL. And be it enacted, That every Receiver General of any the Revenues, Aids, Taxes or Supplies, belonging or to belong to his Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, shall keep a fair Book or Books of Account in Writing of all the Monies by him received ; in which he, or his Deputy or Deputies, shall truly enter all the Sums which shall have been received by him or them, for every such Revenue, Aid, Tax or Supply, together with the Names of the Several Collectors from whom the same, or any Part thereof, was received, the Days when, and the Sums paid, how much thereof in Money, and how much thereof in such Exchequer Bills, and what Exchequer Bills shall have been exchanged by every such Receiver General pursuant to this Act; to which Account every Person concerned shall have free Access at all seasonable Times, without Fee or Charge ; and the said Accounts shall lie constantly open at one certain Place within the Limits of his Receipt for that Purpose; and if such Receiver shall neglect to keep such Book or Books, or enter therein any Sum or Sums of Money by him received and paid as aforesaid, by the Space of three Days after his Receipt or Payment of the same, or shall refuse any Person or Persons concerned to inspect such Book or Books without Fee or Reward, as aforesaid ; every such Receiver, for every such Offence, shall forfeit the Sum of one hundred Pounds to any Person or Persons who will sue for the same, to be recovered by Action of Debt, or upon the Case, Bill, Suit or Information, in any of his Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster; wherein no Essoin, Protection, Privilege or Wager of Law shall be allowed, or more than one Imparlance.

Bills filed up by Indorsments, or defaces, to be exchanged. XLI. Provided always, and it is hereby enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That in case any of the Bills filled up by Exchequer Bills which shall be current as aforesaid, shall be filled up by Writing or Indorsement made thereon as aforefaid, or shall by any Accident be defaced, it shall and may be lawful for the Commissioners of the Treasury, or any three or more of them, or the High Treasurer for the Time being, and he and they are hereby authorized and impowered, by his or their Discretion, from Time to Time, to cause new Bills to be made forth at the Receipt of Exchequer, in lieu of such Bills which shall be so filled up or defaced; which Bills fo filled up or defaced shall be cancelled at the Receipt of Exchequer, and kept there on a File or Files for that Purpose; and such Bills so to be made forth in lieu thereof, shall have a like Currency, and shall in all respects be subject to the same Rules, Methods and Continuance, as the Bills so filled up were intended to have been by this Act, and shall bear the same Numbers, Dates, and Principal Sums, and carry the like Interest, as was borne and carried by the Bills so cancelled respectively.

Bills not exceeding 5000l. each, to be made forth at Exchequer. XLII. And it is hereby enacted, That, for the greater Ease and Dispatch of publick Buisness at the Exchequer, it shall and may be lawful to and for the Commissioners of the Treasury, or any three or more of them, or the High Treasurer for the Time being, and he and they are hereby authorized and enabled, in cafe he or they shall so think fit to cause Exchequer Bills for any large Sums, not exceeding five thousand Pounds each, to be made forth at the Receipt of the Exchequer, and to be placed as Cash in the said Receipt, in lieu of the like Value of the Principal contained in the said Exchequer Bills made forth for

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