hundred and eighteen, upon the yearly fund of feven hundred twenty four thousand eight hundred forty nine pounds fix fhillings ten pence and one fifth part of a penny, commonly called the general fund, likewife appointed, as aforefaid, to be referved for the difpofition of parliament (over and above the fum of one hundred and thirty thousand pounds, which is hereafter in and by this act directed to be reserved towards making good the half yearly payment on the annuities charged on the said general fund for the half year ending at Christmas one thousand seven hundred and eighteen) and all the excess or overplus monies, which within and for the half year to end at Lady-day one thousand seven hundred and nineteen, fhall arise upon the feveral rates, duties, revenues and incomes, commonly called the aggregate fund, the South Sea company's fund, and the general fund before mentioned, every or any of them, which by the faid acts of the third year of his Majefty's reign, were feverally referved and intended to be referved, for difpofition of parliament, fhall by force and virtue of this act, be applied (fo far as the monies of all the faid feveral furpluffes, exceffes or overpluffes will extend) towards redeeming the faid annuity or allowance of seventy fix thousand eight hundred and thirty pounds fifteen fhillings per annum, and to and for the fatisfying and difcharging fo much as the fame will extend to fatisfy and discharge of the principal monies contained in the faid exchequer bills, and the intereft due or to be due upon the fame, according to the direction and true meaning of this act herein after specified.

Money fhall be iffued for payment of the half yearly annuities charged on the general fund. Money to be issued to satisfy the annuities for one quarter, to end at Lady-day 1719. Afterwards thofe annuities to be paid half yearly. Treasury at Lady-day 1719, to cause all the furpluffes for that half year to be computed. After Lady-day 1719. 20000l. yearly to be the fund for answering the annuities of 41. per centum, to the contributors in this lottery. Till redemption by parliament. Any perfons may be contributors. Times of payment. Fortunate tickets to be printed. Forging or counterfeiting tickets felony. Managers to enter fortunate tickets in a book, and transmit it into the exchequer; and a duplicate to the cashier of the bank, &c. Perfons named in the faid book entitled to an annuity of 41. per centum, for their respective principal fums, payable half yearly. Firff payment at Mich. 1719. Guardians may contribute for infants. Annuities tax free. Redeemed 13 Geo. 1. c. 3.

XXII. And to the end all the annual and other payments, which by the faid firft recited act were charged upon the faid duties, revenues and incomes, called the aggregate fund (other than and except fuch payments, as from and after Lady-day one thousand seven hundred and nineteen might incur for or upon the said allowance of feventy fix thousand eight hundred and thirty pound fifteen fhillings per annum, hereby intended to be redeemed, and other than and except fuch other fums of money and payments as are already fatisfied and discharged, or are by this act intended to be reduced or faved to the publick) may, together with the faid yearly fund, not exceeding twenty thoufand pounds per annum, be well and fufficiently fecured, and

may

fund continu

may respectively obtain their due courfe of payment, with such preferences as by the faid former act, and this prefent act, are appointed in that behalf; it is hereby further enacted and declared by the authority aforefaid, That all the faid particular The duties of duties on houses, and all the faid other rates, duties, revenues the aggregate and incomes, which by the said first recited act of the third year of his Majefty's reign were fettled for answering the refpective ed for ever. 3 Geo. 1. c. 8. payments therein mentioned (all which are by this act denominated to be the aggregate fund, as aforefaid) and every of them, are and fhall be continued, and be paid and payable to his Majefty, his heirs and fucceffors for ever, and shall be raised, levied, collected and brought into the exchequer of England, by and according to fuch rules, methods and directions, and with fuch drawbacks, repayments and allowances, and under fuch penalties, forfeitures and disabilities, as are prescribed in and by the respective act and acts of parliament now in force, or any articles, claufes, matters or things therein contained, or thereby referred unto, for raifing, levying or bringing in the fame, as fully and effectually as if the fame acts, articles, clauses, matters and things, and every of them, were repeated and reenacted in the body of this prefent act; nevertheless all the monies arifing thereby into the faid receipt of exchequer, from and after the feast of the annunciation of the bleffed Virgin Mary one thousand feven hundred and nineteen, and all the monies then remaining in the said receipt, of the fame rates, duties, revenues and incomes, fhall be difpofeable to and for the several and respective uses and purposes by this or the faid first recited act appointed or intended (other than and except, as aforefaid) and fubject to the feveral provifoes of redemption herein con- Redeemable tained; any former law, ftatute, provifion, restriction, claufe by parliament, or claufes, matters or things whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding.

All the monies to be entred in a book. The aggregate fund appropriated. Penalty on officers mifapplying the monies. How the monies fhall be iffued and applied to the bank, &c. 120,000l. for his Majefty during life. Provifo for the deficiencies of 116,573 1. 12 s. Deficiencies to be made good by parliament. The annuities of 88,751 1. 7 s. and rod. half penny, and 100,000l. per annum payable to the bank, redeemable. On fix months notice to the bank, and repayment, annuities to cease. After redemption of the feveral annuities, aggregate fund to be redeemed. See 13 Geo. 1. c. 3. fect. 1. Till the lottery annuities are redeemed, bank to employ a chief cashier and accountant general. This annuity a perfonal eftate. The principal monies of these annuities to be deemed a capital stock, and affignable. No ftamp duty on transfers, &c. No fee for paying thefe annuities. The powers of 3 Geo. 1. c. 8. continued. The furpluffes of the aggregate fund, &c. made liable to fatisfy the loans hereafter mentioned. Further loan for discharging exchequer bills. Treafury every quarter to enter in a book a juft account of the several furpluffes for the preceding quarters. Another book for entry of orders of loan. $20,000 1. may be advanced at 51 per centum. Money lent tax-free. Tallies of loan to be truck, &c. No fee for regiftring, or undue preference. Tallies dated the fame day, no undue preference. Orders affign. able. All the monies of the feveral funds arifen before 25 March 1719. to be applied towards paying off and cancelling exchequer bills. Notice to be affixed on the royal exchange, and published in the London Gazette, of

the

The overplus money at the end of every

the time. On oath before a baron of the Exchequer, of bills being loft, &c. Treasury to pay the fame. After 25 March 1719. the annuity after the rate of 3 1. per centum, fhall ceafe, and the bank not obliged to circulate exchequer bills. The refidue of the bills to be circulated by fuch perfons as the treasury fhall appoint. Treafury to allow a falary for the fame. Treafury to contract with perfons for circulating. Treasury to take fubfcriptions from fuch perfons as will advance money for circulating exchequer bills. Contract to be in writing, and registred in the auditor of the receipts and clerk of the pells offices. No ftamps on fuch contracts. Such perfons not difabled from being members of parliament. Perfons circulating the bills, and contractors, to keep an office in London or Westminster, Refufing to exchange the bills for ready money may be fued, &c. Treasury to iflue out money for difcharging exchequer bills, &c. Exchequer bills to be current in the revenue, &c. Receivers and collectors to give ready money for exchequer bills, &c. Exchequer bills paid or lent into the exchequer; officers to caufe tallies to be levied for the fame. Receivers to allow the intereft on exchequer bills. No intereft on bills in receivers hands or in the exchequer. How it fhall be known, how long time the bills have been in receivers hands, &c. Such bills may be re-iffued. Bills to be re-iffued for the principal money only. Tellers to be re-imburfed the intereft they pay on exchequer bills. Receivers of taxes to keep books for entry. Exchequer bills filled up by indorsements, new bills to be iffued in lieu of them. Forging fuch bills, felony. No interest to be paid to any leffer fum than one penny. Treafury to issue bills for large fums not exceeding 5000 1. each. Treasury to allow falaries to perfons for circulating, &c. Exp. 13 Geo. 1. c. 3.

LXVI. Provided alfo, and it is hereby enacted and declared by the authority aforefaid, That all the monies, which at the end of every or any quarter of a year fhall or may be produced quarter to be for the refpective furpluffes, exceffes, or overplus monies of the difcharging faid feveral funds, commonly called the aggregate fund, and the national debts fund of the South Sea company, and of the faid duties and rebefore 25 Dec. venues charged with the faid general yearly fund of feven hun2716.

referved for

dred twenty four thousand eight hundred forty nine pounds fix fhillings and ten pence and one fifth part of a penny, as alfo the excess or overplus of the fame general yearly fund, when and as often as any fuch furpluffes, exceffes or overplus monies fhall be over and above the monies at the end of every fuch quarter refpectively due or demandable, to be firft paid or referved for payment out of the fame, by virtue of this and the faid recited acts, or any of them) fhall be appropriated, referved and applied, to and for the further discharging the principal and intereft of fuch national debts and incumbrances as were incurred before the twenty fifth day of December one thousand feven hundred and fixteen, and are declared to be national debts, and were provided for by act or acts of parliament, in such manner and form as fhall be directed or appointed by any future act or acts of parliament to be discharged therewith, or out of the fame, and to or for none other ufe, intent or purpose whatso

ever.

If provifion be made by parliament in lawful coin to pay off principal and intereft on exchequer bills, then fuch bills to be cancelled, &c. If the fum of 520,000 1. be not lent by 1 May 1719. then fo much of the furplufies to be applied towards cancelling exchequer bilis. EXP.

САР.

CAP. IV.

An alt for frengthning the proteftant intereft in these king

doms.

WHEREAS an act of parliament was made in the tenth year 10 Ann. c. 2. of the reign of the late Queen Anne, intituled, An act for preferving the proteftant religion, by better fecuring the church of England, as by law established; and for confirming the toleration granted to proteftant diffenters by an act, intituled, An act for exempting their Majesties proteftant fubjects, diffenting from the church of England, from the penalties of certain laws, and for fupplying the defects thereof; and for the further fecuring the proteftant fucceffion, by requiring the practicers of the law in North Britain to take the oaths, and fubfcribe the declaration therein mentioned: and whereas part of the faid act, as also another act herein after mentioned, have been found to be inconvenient; be it therefore enacted by the King's most excellent majesty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords spiritual and temporal and commons, in parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, That the faid recited act paffed in the Part of the act tenth year of the late Queen Anne, from the beginning thereof 10 Ann. c. 2. to these words, And it is hereby further enacted and declared by the and the fchifm authority aforefaid, That the toleration granted to proteftant diffenters, ftat. 2. c. 7. and also one act made in the twelfth year of the reign of the late repealed. Queen Anne, intituled, An act to prevent the growth of fchifm, and for the further fecurity of the churches of England and Ireland,

as by law established, shall be and are hereby repealed, annulled

and made void.

with the en

II. Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority afore- Mayor,&c.refaid, That if any mayor, bailiff or other magiftrate, in that part forting to any of Great Britain called England, the dominion of Wales, or the conventicle town of Berwick upon Tweed, or the ifles of Jerfey or Guernsey, figns of his offhall knowingly or wilfully refort to, or be prefent at any pub- fice, difabled lick meeting for religious worship other than of the church of to hold any England as by law established, in the gown or other peculiar ha- publick office. bit, or attended with the enfign or enfigns of or belonging to fuch his office, that every fuch mayor, bailiff or other magiftrate, being thereof convicted by due courfe of law, shall be difabled to hold fuch office or offices, employment or employments, and shall be adjudged incapable to bear any publick office or employment whatsoever within that part of Great Britain called England, the dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick upon Tweed, or ifles of Jerfey and Guernsey.

CAP. V.

An act for punishing mutiny and desertion, and for the better payment of the army and their quarters. EXP.

CAP.

The declaration.

13 Car, 2. ftat. 2. c. I.

CAP. VI.

An act for quieting and establishing corporations.

WH

HEREAS by act made in the thirteenth year of King Charles the Second, intituled, An act for the well governing and regulating of corporations, it is, amongst other things enacted, That every person or perfons, who from and after the expiration of the commiffions in the faid act mentioned, fhould be placed, elected or chofen, in or to any the offices or places of mayors, recorders, bailiffs, town clerks, common council men, or to any office or offices of magiftracy, or places or trufts, or other imployment relating to or concerning the government of cities, corporations and boroughs, and cinqueports and their members, and other port towns, fhould at the Jame time when the oath for the due execution of the faid places and offices respectively should be adminiftred, take the following oath, viz.

I

A. B. do declare and believe, That it is not lawful, upon any pretence whatsoever, to take arms against the King; and that I do abhor that traiterous pofition of taking arms by his authority against his person, or against thofe that are commiffioned by him.

And fubfcribe the following declaration, viz.

So help me God.

A. B. do declare, That I hold that there lies no obligation upon me, or any other perfon, from the oath commonly called, The folemn league and covenant; and that the fame was in itfelf an unlawful oath, and impofed upon the fubjects of this realm against the known laws and liberties of this kingdom.

And that in default thereof every fuch placing, election and choice fhould be void; and whereas the taking the faid oath, and subscribing the faid declaration, have for several years laft paft been generally omitted, and questions have of late arifen, Whether the faid statute made in the faid thirteenth year of King Charles the Second, as to the faid oath and declaration, be yet in force: therefore for avoiding of all fuch queftions for the future, and for the establishing the peace and quiet of corporations, be it declared and enacted by the King's most excellent majefty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords fpiritual and temporal and commons, in this prefent parliament affembled, and by the authority of the Members of fame, That all and every member and members of any corpocorporations ration within this kingdom, and all and every perfon and perin their offices, fons that were required by the said above recited act to take the though they faid oath, or fubfcribe the faid declaration, shall be and are have not taken hereby confirmed in their feveral and refpective offices and the faid oath places, notwithstanding their omiffion to take the faid oath, or fubfcribe the faid declaration, and fhall be indemnified, freed and discharged of and from all incapacities, difablities, forfeitures and penalties arifing from fuch omiffion, and none of their acts shall be questioned or avoided for or by reason of the same;

are confirmed

and declara

tion.

And indemnified, &c.

but