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 23° Order transfer- able. Provision for Salaries. Quakers, Pa- pms and Jews cohabiting, to pay, but not to make their Marriages good jn Law. A P ■ P E N D I ; Xa or Office ; And in cafe the Auditor (hall not Direct, or the Clerk of the P4ls. Record, or the- Telle* make. Payment according to each Perfons due Place and. Order as afore Directed, Then he or. they (hall be judged to forfeit, and their rcfpe&ive Deputies and Clerks herein offending,, to be liable to fuch Ac- tion, Debt, Damages and Cofts, in fuch manner. a§ afp/efaid j AJ1 which faid Penalties., forfeitures, Damages and Cofts to be incurred by any of the Officers aforefaid, any their Deputies or Clerks, (hall and may be recovered by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information, inatiy of his Majefties, Courts of Record at ffe/i/niti/hr, wherein no Effoign, Protection, Priyiledge, Wager of Law,, injunction or Order of Reftraint lhall- be in any wife granted or allowed:. LIX. Provided' always, and be it. hereby Declared, That if it fhall happen that fever.al . Talleys of Loan, or Orders for Payment, as aforefaid, bear Date, or be brought the fame day to the Auditor of the Receipt to be Regiftred, Then it (hall be interpreted no undue Preference which of thofe he Enters firft, fo he Enters them all the fame day.. ../'.. . LX. Provided alfo, That it (hall not be interpreted any undue Preference to incur any Penalty in point of payment, if. the Auditor Direct, and the Clerk of the. Pells Record,, and the Teller, pay iubfequent Orders of Perfons that, come and demand their Money, and bring their Orders in their, courfe, fo as there may be fo much Money referved as will fatis.fie. precedent Orders, which (hall not be otherwife difpofed, but kept for them,. .(Inter-eft upon Loan being to ceafe from the time the. Money is fo referved and kept in Bank fen- them. )- LXI. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That every Perfon or Perfons to whom any Money lhall.be due by virtue of this Act, after Order Entred in the Book or Regifter aforefaid for payment thereof, his Executors, Adnnniftr.aiors, or Afligns, by Indorfement of his Order may Affign and Transfer his Right, Title, lnteieft and Benefit of fuch Order, or any part thereof, to any other; which being .notified in the Office of the Auditor of Receipt aforefaid, and an Entry or Memorial there- of alfo made in the Book of Regifter. a.forefaiid for Orders; (which the Officers (hall upon requeft, with- out Fee .or Charge, accordingly make), (hall Entitle iuch Affignee, his Executors, Adminiftrators. or Affigns, to the Benefit thereof, and Payment thereon ; and fuch Affignee may in like manner Affign again, and fo toties quoties-, and afterwards it (hall not be in the power of fuch Perfon or Perfons who have or hath made fuch Alignments, to make void, releafe or difcharge the fame. LXII. Provided always, and be it enacted, That it lhall and may be lawful to and for his Majefty, his Heirs and Succeffors, out of the Duties arifing by this Act, to caufe fuch fu.m and fums of Money to.be expended, and; paid from time to .time for Salaries and other incident charges, as (hall be necef- fary in and for the receiving, collecting, levying or managing of the fame Duties, during the laid term therein by this Act granted ; any. thing herein contained to the, contrary notwithftanding. LXIII. Provided always and be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That all perfons com^ monly called, Quakers, or reputed fuch, and all Papifts or reputed Papifts, whether they are Popifh Recufants Convict, or not, and all Jews, or any other perfons who lhall cohabit and live together as. Man and Wife, (hall and are hereby; made lyable to pay the fev.eral and refpective Duties and fums of money payable upon Marriages, according to their refpective Degrees, Titles, Orders and Qualifications, as they ought to have paid by virtue of this Act, if they had been Married, according to the Law of England; which Duties and fums of Money fhall be collected, [levyed and paid in fuch manner, and Tubject to fuch rules and directions, and under fuch Penalties and forfeitures, as are in. this Act fpecified and contained, Tor and concerning payment of the fev.eral and refpective duties payable upon Marriages, any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithftanding ; and upon every pretended Marriage which fhall be made by any fuch perfon, within the faid term of Five years, according to the Method and Forms ufed amongft them, the Man fo entring into fuch pretended ftate of Matrimony, fhall within Five days after, give Notice thereof, to the Collectors, or one of them, of the Parifh or Place where he Lives; and in default of giving fuch Notice, he (hall forfeit the fum of Five pounds, one Moiety thereof to the Kings Majefly, the other Moiety to the Informer. LXIV. Provided always, That nothing herein contained (hall be conftrued to make good or effectual in Law any fuch Marriage or pretended Marriage, but that they fhall be of the fame Force and yirtupj and no other, as they would have been if this Act had never been made. Anno