time limited by the faid former act) be good and valid in the law: now to the end that all perfons who now are, or at any time hereafter fhall 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 pursuance of and fubfequent to any the faid affignments of the faid late earl (whether fuch fubfequent affignment be or fhall be made by writing the name or names of the respective aflignor or affignors on the backfide of the said orders, or otherwife) fhall be as good and effectual in the law, as if each and every fuch subsequent affignment had been executed in every particular in the manner prescribed by the act firft above-mentioned, relating to the faid tallies and orders; and that an entry or memorandum of every such subsequent asfignment (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 fubfequent affignment fo to be entred, is the proper hand-writing of every fuch affignor respectively, as the perfon making fuch affidavit or affidavits verily believes, and so as every fuch fubsequent affignment (by indorfing the name, or otherwife) made before the fifth day of December one thousand seven 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 such subsequent 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 refpectively; any thing in the faid former acts, or any of them, contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

Commiffioners

on leather

may order new stamps as occafion

hali require. 9 Ann. c. II. Io Ann. c. 19..

IX. And for preventing the counterfeiting of any stamp or for the duty stamps, 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 majefty Queen Anne, are fet and impofed upon hides and skins, and pieces of hides and skins 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 alfo 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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spectively shall fee occafion, to direct, caufe and procure new stamps or feals to be made for the marking and ftamping of all fuch hides and skins, and of pieces of hides and fkins, and of vellom and parchment, as fhall refpectively be tanned, tawed, dreffed 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 use of for the respective purposes before mentioned, in the lieu and stead of such other stamps, marks or feals, as before the respective time and times of providing and appointing fuch new ones, fhall refpectively have been used for the purposes before mentioned; and that fuch new stamps and feals fo to be provided, as aforefaid, from the refpective time and times. when they respectively fhall be fo, as aforefaid, ordered to be used for the respective purposes aforefaid, fhall respectively be and are hereby declared to be the legal and authentick ftamps and feals respectively, to be made ufe of for the respective purposes before mentioned; and that the counterfeiting or forging Penalty for any stamp or seal, to resemble any ftamp or feal, which in pur- counterfeiting fuance of this act fhall be fo, as aforefaid, directed or ordered, ftamps. or the counterfeiting or resembling of the impreffion of any fuch stamp or stamps, feal 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 Majefty, his heirs or fucceffors, of any of the duties impofed or charged by the said 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 veilom or parchment, with fuch counterfeit mark or impreffion thereupon, knowing fuch mark or impreffion to be counterfeited, shall 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, ç. 11. Anne.

the new

X. And for the better afcertaining 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 fkins, 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 fupervifors 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 their hides, from time to time keep all fuch hides and skins 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, separate 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 stamped by the by the supervisors, &c. officers for the faid duties; and shall also from time to time keep

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all fuch hides and fkins and pieces of hides and fkins, and vellom and parchment, as from time to time fhall have been laft 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 fhall 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 fpace of twenty four hours next after fuch stamping thereof by the faid officers; and in other places out of the limits of the faid weekly bills, by the space of two days next after fuch stamping thereof, unless the fame fhall refpectively fooner have been weighed and taken account of by the refpective furveyors or supervisors Penalty rol. for the faid duties, on pain to forfeit for every offence therein the fum of ten pounds.

Recital of the act of

3 Geo. I. c. 8.

6 Geo. I. c. 2. & 10.

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CA P. III.

An act 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 those bills; and for circulating and exchanging for ready money the refidue of the fame bills for the future.

MAY it please your most excellent Majefty, Whereas by an act of parliament of the third year of your Majesty's reign, inFarther provi- tituled, An act for redeeming feveral funds of the governor and fions 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 allowances redeemable by parliament; and for obliging them to advance further fums not exceeding two millions five hundred 11 Geo.1. c. 9. thousand pounds, at five pounds per centum, as shall be found 13 Geo. 1.c.3: neceffary to be employed in leffening the national debts and incumbrances; 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 fixty 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 fbillings (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) fubjet nevertheless to a provifo of redemption in that act contained, upon fuch notice as is thereby prefcribed; which annuity or yearly allowance is by the fame aft 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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ticular duties on houses, and of or for several other duties and revenues, called the aggregate fund in that act, and in former acts relating to the faid fund more particularly mentioned and defcribed in the order and course, and with fuch preference as is thereby directed; and by the act first above-mentioned it is enacted and declared, That as well the faid particular duties on houses, and the duties, revenues and incomes compofing the faid aggregate fund, and all other duties which were fettled for payment of a former yearly fum of one hundred and fix thousand five hundred and one pounds thirteen fillings and five pence, and the intereft and allowances relating to former exchequer bills therein mentioned, fhould be continued, but be difpofable to and for the Several and respective uses and purposes appointed by that act and subject to the feveral provifoes of redemption therein contained; and that all the monies of the faid duties, revenues and incomes, which should or ought to be brought into the receipt of the exchequer (except the neceffary charges for raifing, collecting, levying, iffuing, paying and accounting for the fame) fhould be and are thereby appropriated, and Should be issued and applied to and for the payment and fatisfaction of Several yearly and other fums in the faid act particularly expreffed, in their due course and with fuch preferences as are thereby appointed; amongst which payments an express provifion is made for payment of the faid annuity or allowance of feventy fix thoufand eight hundred and thirty pounds fifteen fhillings per annum, and for answering all demands of intereft due and to be due upon the faid exchequer bills as is therein mentioned. And by the fame act it was declared and enacted, That the excess or furplus which, at the end of every or any quarter of a year (reckoning the quarters to end at the usual feaf-days) should or might be produced by the faid feveral rates, duties, revenues and incomes thereby appropriated, and should remain in the exchequer (over and above the money then due or demandable for or upon the feveral annuities, allowances and other payments therein before-mentioned, or any arrears of the fame) should attend the difpofition of parliament, and be applied according to act or acts of parliament in that behalf, and not otherwife. And it was thereby declared and enacted, That any vote or refolution of the house of commons, fignified by the speaker, of the faid houfe in writing, and delivered at the publick office of the Jaid governor and company, should be deemed and adjudged to be a fufficient notice within the words and meaning of the faid act for redeeming the faid annuity or allowance of feventy-fix thoufand eight hundred and thirty pounds fifteen fillings per annum, as by the fune act, relation being thereunto had (amongst many other matters and things therein contained) may more fully appear. And whores by Recital of another act of parliament of the faid third year of your Lily's the a&t of reign, intituled, An act for redeeming the yearly fund of the 3 Geo, I, C. §» South Sea company, being after the rate of fix pounds per centum per annum, and fettling on the faid company a yearly fund after the rate of five pounds per centum per annum, redeemable by parliament; and to raife for an annuity or annuities at five pounds per centum per annum any fum not exceeding two millions, to be employed in leffening the national debts and incumbrances; and for making the faid new yearly fund and annuities to be

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hereafter redeemable in the time and manner thereby prescribed, Several other fubfidies, impofitions, duties, revenues and proportional parts of duties and revenues therein mentioned, or thereby referred unto, were continued for the feveral and respective ufes and purpofes in that act. And it was thereby enacted, That all the monies thereof which should or ought to be brought into the exchequer for those purpofes (except the necessary charges of raifing, collecting, levying, iffuing and accounting for the fame; and except fuch part thereof, as by any former act or acts of parliament was applicable to the repayment of loans then remaining unsatisfied, and to pay the interest of the fame) fhould be and are thereby appropriated, and fhould be iffued and applied to and for the payment of the yearly and other fums in the fame act particularly expreffed, in their due method and order, and fubject to fuch redemption as are thereby prescribed. And by the fame act it was provided and enacted, That if at any time at the end of any quarter of a year (reckoning the quarters to end at the ufual feafts) there fhould be an excefs or furplus of the monies brought into the exchequer of the faid fubfidies, impofitions, duties, revenues and proportional parts, and fuch excefs or furplus fhould remain there, over and above the money then or before that time grown due, by or in pursuance of that act, as is therein mentioned, then fuch excess or furplus fhould from time to time attend the difpofition of parliament, and be applied according to act or acts of parliament, and not otherwife, as by the act last mentioned (relation being thereunto had) may also more fully Recital of the appear. And whereas by another act of parliament of the faid third year of your Majefty's reign, intituled, An act for redeeming the deeming feve- duties and revenues which were fettled to pay off principal and intereft on the orders made forth on four lottery acts paffed in the ninth and tenth years of her late Majesty's reign, and for redeeming certain annuities payable on orders out of the hereditary excife, according to a former act in that behalf; and for establishing a general yearly fund, not only for the future payment of annuities at feveral rates, to be payable and transferrable at the bank of England, and redeemable by parliament, but also to raise monies for fuch proprietors of the faid orders as fhall chufe to be paid their principal and arrears of interest in ready money; and for making good fuch other deficiencies and payments as in this act are mentioned; and for taking off the duties on linfeed imported, and British linen exported, several other customs, fubfidies, impofitions, additional impofitions, rates, duties, additional rates and duties, proportional parts of duties, revenues, and weekly and other payments out of duties and revenues therein Specified, or thereby referred unto, were continued for the purposes in that aft: and it was thereby enacted, That yearly and every year, reckoning the first year to begin from the feat of Saint Michael the archangel one thousand feven hundred and feventeen, and from thenceforth for ever (fubject nevertheless to fuch provifoes and power of redemption as are in that act contained) the full fum of feven hundred twenty four thousand eight hundred forty nine pounds fix fillings ten pence and one fifth part of a penny per annum, by or out of the mopies arifing of or for the faid cuftoms, fubfidies, impofitions, rates,

act for re

ral lotteries,

&c.

3

Geo, 1. c. 7.

addi

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