been iffued to the faid treasurer, and paid or directed to be paid accordingly, fo that fo much of the faid deficiency as fill remains to be made good to the treasurer of his Majesty's navy, doth amount to one bundred ten thousand three hundred and twelve pounds feventeen fillings and four ponce three farthings: and whereas fome doubts have been made in the conflruction of certain claufes in an act of parlia3 Geo. 1. c. 7. ment of the third year of his Majefty's reign, made for the redeeming the then yearly fund of the faid company; by which clauses it was enacted, That in default of fupplying fuch deficiency in the manner thereby preferibed, the fame fhould be made good out of the general yearly fund of feven hundred twenty four thousand eight hundred forty nine pounds fix fhillings and ten pence one fifth part of a penny, 9 Geo. 1. c. 9. by another act of the third year of his Majesty's reign, eftablished or intended to be established, as by the faid feveral acts (relation being thereunto refpectively had) may more fully appear: now for obviating all doubts concerning the refunding of the faid sum of one hundred ten-thoufand three hundred and twelve pounds feventeen fhillings and four pence three farthings, to the treasurer of his Majesty's navy, it is hereby declared and enacted by the authority aforefaid, That the faid deficiency amounting to one hundred ten thousand three hundred and twelve pounds, seventeen fhillings, and four pence three farthings, fhall and may be fupplied and made good to the treasurer of his Majefty's navy, upon account, for the fervice of the navy and victualling thereof, by or out of the general yearly fund of seven hundred twenty four thousand eight hundred forty nine pounds, fix fhillings and ten pence, one fifth part of a penny before mentioned, or out of money to be raised at the exchequer for purchasing an annuity or annuities, after a rate not exceeding five pounds per centum per annum, for the faid fum of one hundred ten thoufand three hundred and twelve pounds, seventeen shillings, and four pence three farthings, and that fuch annuity or annuities fhall be charged on the faid general yearly fund, and be payable and transferrable at the bank of England, as other annuities payable out of the faid general yearly fund are intended by any former act or acts of parliament now in force to be payable and transferrable, until the redemption thereof by parliament: and the commiffioners of his Majesty's treasury, or any three or more of them, and the high treasurer for the time being, are hereby directed and authorized to iffue his or their warrants or orders, and to do all other acts and things requifite or neceffary to be done or performed, for making good the faid deficiency, and for regiftring and payment of fuch annuity or annuities in refpect thereof, to the faid treasurer of his Majefty's navy, or the treasurer thereof for the time being, accordingly; any former law, ftatute, provifion, or other matter and thing whatfoever to the contrary notwithstanding.

CAP.

CAP. II.

An act for continuing the duties on malt, mum, cyder and perry, for the fervice of the year one thousand seven hundred and nineteen; and for enlarging the time for entring at the Exchequer fuch affignments of reverfionary annuities as are therein mentioned; and for better fecuring the duties on bides and fkins, vellum and parchment.

VIII. ND whereas by an act of parliament made and passed in 4 & 5 W.& M. the fourth year of the reign of King William and Queen c. 3. Mary, of glorious memory, for granting certain rates and duties of excife, for fecuring certain recompences and advantages to fuch as fhould advance the fum of one million towards carrying on the then war against France: it was enacted, That it should and might be lawful for any contributor, his executors, adminiftrators or affigns, by any writing under hand and seal, or by his laft will in writing, to affign or devife any one or more fare or fhares of the fund therein mentioned to any person or perfons, and no fuch affignment to be revocable, fo as an entry or memorandum thereof were made in the office of the auditor of the receipt, within the space of two months after fuch affignment or death of the devifor; aud upon producing fuch affignment or will, the party was and is to bring an affidavit of the execution there

of to be filed, as is therein specified: and whereas in pursuance of an 9 & 10 W. 1. act of parli ment made in the ninth year of his faid late Majefty's c. 24. reign for enlarging the time for purchafing certain eftates or interests in the annuities therein mentioned, feveral reverfionary tallies were ftruck, and orders thereupon drawn, for payment of reverfionary annuities, in the name of Richard then earl of Ranelagh of the kingdom of Ireland, and by him iffued out to fuch uses as in and by the faid act were directed; but fome doubt arifing whether the affignments made by the faid earl on the back of the faid orders were according to

the form prefcribed by the faid former act, it was by another act of 11 & 12 W. J. the eleventh year of his faid late Majefty's reign enacted, That all c. 3. fect. 12. · and every the faid endorfed affignments then made, or thereafter to be made by the faid late earl, or other person or perfons authorized to make the fame, for conveying the faid tallies and orders to fuch perfons, and to fuch uses, as in the faid recited act are specified, and all other affignments, whether endorfed or otherwise, made by virtue of and fubfequent to fuch endorsed affignments, fhould be good in law, fo as an entry or memorandum of fuch fubfequent affignments be made in the faid office of the receipt, before the twenty ninth day of September one thousand feven hundred, as by the faid feveral acts (relation being thereunto refpectively had) may more fully appear: and whereas feveral of the faid tallies which were ftruck, and the orders thereupon drawn, for payment of such reverfionary annuities, as aforefaid, in the name of the faid late earl, and which were af figned by him, as aforesaid, have been affigned over by several subJequent affignments, by indorfing the name of the affignor on the order, or otherwife, and it is doubted whether fuch fubfequent affignments made on the back of the fame orders (not being entred within the

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time limited by the said former act) be good and valid in the law: now to the end that all perfons who now are, or at any time hereafter shall or may be poffeffed of or interested in any of the faid tallies and orders, may have and be invested in a good and lawful title to the fame; it is hereby enacted by the authority aforefaid, That all and every the faid endorfed affignments, made or to be made in purfuance of and fubfequent to any the faid affignments of the faid late earl, (whether fuch subsequent affignment be or shall be made by writing the name or names of the refpective aflignor or affignors on the backfide of the faid orders, or otherwife) fhall be as good and effectual in the law, as if each and every fuch fubfequent affignment had been executed in every particular in the manner prefcribed by the act first above-mentioned, relating to the faid tallies and orders; and that an entry or memorandum of every fuch subsequent affignment (touching which no entry or memorandum hath already been made pursuant to the faid former act) fhall and may be made in the faid office of the receipt, fo as an affidavit be produced to the auditor of the receipt of his Majesty's exchequer, that the name or names of the refpective affignor or affignors fet to every such subsequent affignment so to be entred, is the proper hand-writing of every fuch affignor respectively, as the perfon making fuch affidavit or affidavits verily believes, and fo as every fuch fubfequent affignment (by indorfing the name, or otherwife) made before the fifth day of December one thousand feven hundred and eighteen, be brought to be entred at the faid office within two months after the faid fifth day of December one thousand seven hundred and eighteen, and fo as every fuch fubfequent affignment to be made after the faid fifth day of December one thousand feven hundred and eighteen, be brought to be entred in the faid office within two months after making the fame respectively; any thing in the faid former acts, or any of them, contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

IX. And for preventing the counterfeiting of any stamp or ftamps, feal or feals which have been or fhall be appointed to be used, to denote the charging of the duties, or of the additional duties, which by feveral acts, the one made in the ninth, and the other in the tenth years of the reign of her late majesty fhall require. Queen Anne, are fet and impofed upon hides and fkins, and 9 Ann. c. II. 10 Ann. c. 19. pieces of hides and fkins and upon vellom and parchment, tanned, tawed, dreffed or made: be it enacted by the authority aforefaid, That the commiffioners which for the time being are or fhall be appointed for the receipt, government and management of the faid duties, or additional duties, arifing in England or Wales, or town of Berwick upon Tweed, or the major part of them, and also the commiffioners which for the time being are or fhall be appointed for the receipt, government and management of the faid duties, or additional duties, arifing in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, fhall refpectively have full power and authority, and hereby are refpectively impowered and authorized, from time to time, when and fo often as they re

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fpectively fhall fee occafion, to direct, caufe and procure new ftamps or feals to be made for the marking and stamping of all fuch hides and skins, and of pieces of hides and skins, and of vellom and parchment, as fhall respectively be tanned, tawed, dressed or · made, either in England or Wales, or town of Berwick upon Tweed, or in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, and to be made ufe of for the refpective purposes before mentioned, in the lieu and stead of such other ftamps, marks or feals, as before the refpective time and times of providing and appointing fuch new ones, fhall refpectively have been used for the purposes before mentioned; and that fuch new ftamps and feals fo to be provided, as aforefaid, from the respective time and times when they respectively shall be so, as aforefaid, ordered to be ufed for the refpective purposes aforefaid, fhall respectively be and are hereby declared to be the legal and authentick stamps and feals refpectively, to be made use of for the respective purposes before mentioned; and that the counterfeiting or forging Penalty for any stamp or feal, to refemble any stamp or feal, which in pur- counterfeiting fuance of this act shall be so, as aforefaid, directed or ordered, stamps. or the counterfeiting or refembling of the impreffion of any fuch ftamp or ftamps, seal or feals fo directed or ordered, as aforesaid, on any hide or skin, or piece of any hide or skin, or on any vellom or parchment, whereby to defraud his faid Majesty, his heirs or fucceffors, of any of the duties imposed or charged by the faid acts, or either of them, or the uttering, vending or felling any hide or skin or any piece of any hide or skin, or any vellom or parchment, with fuch counterfeit mark or impression thereupon, knowing fuch mark or impreffion to be counterfeited, fhall render and make the offender and offenders therein fubject and liable to the like penalties, forfeitures and pains of death, as is and are mentioned and expreffed in the faid act made in the faid ninth year of the reign of her faid late majesty Queen 9 Ann. c. 11. Anne.

the new

X. And for the better ascertaining the faid duties, and for preventing the carrying on of frauds between the officers for the faid duties and the traders and dealers in the manufactures and goods charged with the faid duties; and to the intent that hides and skins and pieces of hides and skins, and vellom and parchment, after they have been weighed, and taken an account of by the officers for the faid duties, may again be weighed and taken account of by the fupervisors and furveyors for the faid duties: be it enacted by the authority aforefaid, That from and after the tenth day of January one thousand seven hundred and After 10 Jan. eighteen, all tanners, tawers and dreffers of hides and pieces of 1718, tanners, hides and skins, and all makers of vellom and parchment, fhall &c. to keep from time to time keep all fuch hides and fkins and pieces of &c. not stamphides and skins, vellom and parchment, which have not been ed by the offduly stamped by the officers for the faid duties, feparate and a- cers feparate, part from all other hides and skins and pieces of hides and skins, to be weighed vellom and parchment, which have been duly ftamped by the the fupervisors, &c. officers for the faid duties; and fhall alfo from time to time keep

their hides,

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all fuch hides and skins and pieces of hides and skins, and vellom and parchment, as from time to time thall have been last ftamped by the officers for the faid duties, feparate and apart from all other hides and fkins and pieces of hides and fkins, vellom and parchment, which at any time or times before shall have been ftamped by the officers for the faid duties, during the respective times herein after-mentioned, (that is to fay) within the limits of the weekly bills of mortality by the space of twenty four hours next after fuch ftamping thereof by the faid officers; and in other places out of the limits of the faid weekly bills, by the fpace of two days next after fuch stamping thereof, unless the fame fhall refpectively fooner have been weighed and taken account of by the respective surveyors or supervisors Penalty 101. for the faid duties, on pain to forfeit for every offence therein the fum of ten pounds.

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act of

3 Geo. 1. c. 8.

CAP. III.

An alt for applying certain overplus monies, and further fums to be raised, as well by way of a lottery, as by loans, towards paying off and cancelling exchequer bills, and for leffening the prefent great charge in relation to thofe bills; and for circulating and exchanging for ready money the refidue of the fame bills for the future.

MAX AY it pleafe your most excellent Majefty, Whereas by an act of parliament of the third year of your Majesty's reign, in Farther provi- tituled, An act for redeeming feveral funds of the governor and fons concerning company of the bank of England, pursuant to former provifoes the funds grant- of redemption; and for fecuring to them feveral new funds and ed by this act 6 Geo. I. c. 2. allowances redeemable by parliament; and for obliging them to 4. &.10. advance further fums not exceeding two millions five hundred 11 Geo.1. c. 9. thousand pounds, at five pounds per centum, as fhall be found 13 Geo.1.c.3. neceffary to be employed in leffening the national debts and in

cumbrances; and for continuing certain provifions formerly made for the expences of his Majefty's civil government; and for payment of annuities formerly purchased at the rate of five pounds per centum; and for other purposes in this act mentioned, the faid governor and company of the bank of England, and their fucceffors, for circulating certain bills, commonly called exchequer bills, therein mentioned, amounting to two millions five hundred sixty one thousand and twenty five pounds or thereabouts, in principal money, and for exchanging the fame for ready money on demand, are entitled to an annuity or yearly fum of feventy fix thousand eight hundred and thirty pounds fifteen fillings (being an allowance after the rate of three pounds per centum per annum, computed upon the faid fum of two millions five hundred fixty one thousand and twenty five pounds) fubject nevertheless to a provifo of redemption in that act contained, upon fuch notice as is thereby preferibed; which annuity or yearly allowance is by the fame at charged upon and made payable out of the monies arifen or to arife at the receipt of the exchequer, of or for certain par

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