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King Charles the Second, and by the duties of excise payable during the faid late King William's life, and by every or any of them, if all those duties of excise should so long continue; and if the faid duties of excise, payable during his faid late Majesty's life, should happen to determine before the end of the the faid term of five years, then out of the monies arifing entirely by the faid bereditary duties of excise, for and during all the residue which should be then to come and unexpired of the faid term of five years, should be brought and paid into the receipt of the Exchequer by weekly payments, and in fuch manner and form as in the faid act are particularly mentioned, for the purposes in the faid aft expressed: and it is thereby further enacted, That in lieu and difcharge of certain perpetual annual payments, and of all arrears thereof granted by his late majesty King Charles the Second to the respective patentees therein named, the faid hereditary revenue of excise should, from and after the twenty fixth day of December, one thousand seven hundred and five, be and fland charged for ever with the payment of annual fums after the rate of three pounds per centum per annum, to be paid as by the faid act is directed, and Subject to fuch power of redemption as in the faid alt is expressed:

II. And whereas by an act of parliament made in the first year of your Majesty's reign, intituled, An act for the better fupport of her Majesty's houshold, and of the honour and dignity of the crown, it is (amongst other things) enacted, That the duties of excife which had been granted to his faid late majesty King Charles the Second, during his life, and afterwards to King William and Queen Mary, during their lives, and the life of the furvivor of them (except as therein is excepted) and a certain duty upon vinegar, shall be levied and paid to your Majesty, during your life (which God preServe) and the same, together with the faid hereditary duties of excife, are thereby subjected to the said weekly payment of three thousand Seven hundred pounds, in the manner therein mentioned, during the faid term of five years; and it was thereby further declared, That from and after the expiration of the said term of five years, so much money as, together with the faid payments after the rate of three pounds per centum per annum, should make up the sum of three thousand feven hundred pounds for every week, during your Majesty's life, should and might be taken out of the faid hereditary duties of excife, and out of the faid duties of excise granted for your Majesty's life, and either or any of them, and the faid payments, after the rate of three pounds per centum per annum, being deducted out of the hereditary part thereof, the residue of the faid three thousand seven bundred pounds a week should be applied and disposed of, to and for the publick use and fervice, as by the faid feveral acts (relation being thereunto respectively had) may more fully appear.

III. Now we your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects the commons of England in parliament assembled, being defirous by the most easy means that are possible to raise the money which is necessary for carrying on the present war, and supply....ing your Majesty's important occasions, do cheerfully and unanimoufly grant unto your Majesty a further aid to arife by contributions for annuities to be purchased in the manner and form

form herein after mentioned; and do humbly beseech your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the Queen's most excellent majesty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the fame, That from and after the five and twentieth day of December, in the Aid granted year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and five, the faid from 25 Defull, clear, and entire weekly sum of three thousand seven hun-cember, 1705. dred pounds, out of all the monies arifing by the said hereditary duties of excife, and by the said duties of excise payable during her Majesty's life, and by every and any of them, according to the tenor and direction of the act of parliament above recited in that behalf, and from and after her Majesty's decease, then the like full, clear, and entire weekly fum of three thousand seven hundred pounds of lawful English money, out of all the monies to arife by the said hereditary duties of excise, and every or any of them, from time to time for ever, shall be brought and paid by the commiffioners, farmers, receiver and receivers general for the time being of the said several duties of excife (who are hereby required and enjoined to bring and pay the fame accordingly) into the receipt of the Exchequer distinctly and separately from all other monies whatsoever, that are or shall be payable by them into the faid receipt, the said weekly sum or payment of three thousand seven hundred pounds, to be brought and paid into the faid receipt upon Wednesday, in every week, if it be not an holiday, and if it be, then upon the next day that is not an holiday, for the purposes in this act expressed; and in case in any week or weeks the whole receipt of the monies of the faid several branches or duties of excife hereby charged as aforesaid, shall not be sufficient to answer the weekly payment or payments hereby directed for fuch particular week or weeks, that then and so often the deficiency and deficiencies thereof thall be supplied and made good out of the whole receipt of the said particular branches of excife, and every or any of them, arifing in the next week or weeks, when the receipt or receipts shall be fufficient to bear the fame.

IV. And it is hereby further enacted by the authority aforeMonies arifing faid, That the commissioners of excife for the time being, at by the faid their head office in London, shall from time to time separate and branches of keep apart all the monies arifing by the faid particular branches excife to be of excife herein before mentioned, as the fame shall from time kept apart, and paid to time arife or be paid into the faid office of excife by the re- weekly into ceivers or collectors of the fame, or by any other person or per- the Exchesons whatsoever, and shall out of the monies so arifing make the quer. said weekly payments into the Exchequer, for the uses in this act mentioned.

V. And be it further enacted, That if the said commissioners Penalty on of excife for the time being shall refuse or neglect to pay or nonpayment. cause to be paid into the Exchequer the faid weekly sums hereby appointed, or shall divert or misapply any part of the monies which should make good the fame, then they and every of them

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King Charles the Second, and by the duties of excise payable during the faid late King William's life, and by every or any of them, if all those duties of excise should so long continue; and if the faid duties of excise, payable during his faid late Majesty's life, should happen to determine before the end of the faid term of five years, then out of the monies arifing entirely by the faid bereditary duties of excise, for and during all the residue which should be then to come and unexpired of the faid term of five years, should be brought and paid into the receipt of the Exchequer by weekly payments, and in fuch manner and form as in the faid act are particularly mentioned, for the purposes in the faid act expressed: and it is thereby further enacted, That in lieu and discharge of certain perpetual annual payments, and of all arrears thereof granted by his late majesty King Charles the Second to the respective patentees therein named, the faid hereditary revenue of excise should, from and after the twenty fixth day of December, one thousand seven hundred and five, be and fland charged for ever with the payment of annual fums after the rate of three pounds per centum per annum, to be paid as by the faid act is directed, and Subject to fuch power of redemption as in the faid act is expressed:

II. And whereas by an act of parliament made in the first year of your Majesty's reign, intituled, An act for the better fupport of her Majesty's houshold, and of the honour and dignity of the crown, it is (amongst other things) enacted, That the duties of excife which had been granted to his faid late majesty King Charles the Second, during his life, and afterwards to King William and Queen Mary, during their lives, and the life of the survivor of them (except as therein is excepted) and a certain duty upon vinegar, shall be levied and paid to your Majesty, during your life (which God preferve) and the fame, together with the faid hereditary duties of excife, are thereby subjected to the faid weekly payment of three thousand Seven hundred pounds, in the manner therein mentioned, during the faid term of five years; and it was thereby further declared, That from and after the expiration of the said term of five years, so much money as, together with the faid payments after the rate of three pounds per centum per annum, should make up the sum of three thousand Seven hundred pounds for every week, during your Majesty's life, should and might be taken out of the faid hereditary duties of excife, and out of the faid duties of excise granted for your Majesty's life, and either or any of them, and the faid payments, after the rate of three pounds per centum per annum, being deducted out of the hereditary part thereof, the residue of the faid three thousand seven bundred pounds a week should be applied and disposed of, to and for the publick use and fervice, as by the faid feveral acts (relation being thereunto respectively had) may more fully appear.

III. Now we your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal fubjects the commons of England in parliament assembled, being defirous by the most easy means that are possible to raise the money which is necessary for carrying on the present war, and supplying your Majesty's important occafions, do cheerfully and unanimoufly grant unto your Majesty a further aid to arife by contributions for annuities to be purchased in the manner and form

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form herein after mentioned; and do humbly beseech your Majefty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the Queen's most excellent majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present parliament affembled, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the five and twentieth day of December, in the Aid granted year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and five, the faid from 25 Defull, clear, and entire weekly sum of three thousand seven hun-cember, 1705. dred pounds, out of all the monies arifing by the said hereditary duties of excise, and by the faid duties of excise payable during her Majesty's life, and by every and any of them, according to the tenor and direction of the act of parliament above recited in that behalf, and from and after her Majesty's decease, then the like full, clear, and entire weekly fum of three thousand seven hundred pounds of lawful English money, out of all the monies to arise by the said hereditary duties of excife, and every or any of them, from time to time for ever, shall be brought and paid by the commiffioners, farmers, receiver and receivers general for the time being of the said several duties of excife (who are hereby required and enjoined to bring and pay the fame accordingly) into the receipt of the Exchequer distinctly and feparately from all other monies whatsoever, that are or shall be payable by them into the faid receipt, the said weekly sum or payment of three thousand seven hundred pounds, to be brought and paid into the faid receipt upon Wednesday, in every week, if it be not an holiday, and if it be, then upon the next day that is not an holiday, for the purposes in this act expressed; and in case in any week or weeks the whole receipt of the monies of the faid feveral branches or duties of excife hereby charged as aforesaid, shall not be sufficient to answer the weekly payment or payments hereby directed for such particular week or weeks, that then and so often the deficiency and deficiencies thereof thall be supplied and made good out of the whole receipt of the said particular branches of excife, and every or any of them, arifing in the next week or weeks, when the receipt or receipts shall be fufficient to bear the fame.

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IV. And it is hereby further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That the commissioners of excife for the time being, at by the faid their head office in London, shall from time to time separate and branches of keep apart all the monies arifing by the faid particular branches excife to be of excife herein before mentioned, as the fame shall from time kept apart, and paid to time arife or be paid into the faid office of excife by the re- weekly into ceivers or collectors of the fame, or by any other person or per- the Exchefons whatsoever, and shall out of the monies so arifing make the quer. faid weekly payments into the Exchequer, for the uses in this act mentioned.

V. And be it further enacted, That if the said commissioners Penalty on of excife for the time being shall refuse or neglect to pay or nonpayment. cause to be paid into the Exchequer the faid weekly sums hereby appointed, or shall divert or misapply any part of the monies which should make good the fame, then they and every of them

so offending shall forfeit their several offices and places, and be incapable to serve the Queen, her heirs or successors, in any office or place of trust or profit, and shall be liable for every fuch offence to pay double the value of the money so diverted or misapplied, to any person or persons who will inform or fue for the fame, by action of debt, or of the cafe, bill, fuit or information, in any of her Majesty's courts of record at Westminfter, wherein no essoin, protection, wager of law, or more than one imparlance shall be granted or allowed.

Comptrollerof VI. And be it enacted, That the comptroller of the excife excife to keep for the time being shall keep a perfect and diftinct account, in a count of the book or books fairly written, of all the monies which shall arife monies.

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by the faid particular branches of excise, out of which the said weekly payments are to be made as aforesaid, as the same shall from time to time arise or be raised (to which books all persons concerned shall at all reasonable times have free access, without fee or charge) and such comptroller in default thereof shall forfeit his office or place, and be rendred incapable as aforesaid, and shall also forfeit and lose the sum of two hundred pounds for every fuch default, to any person or persons who will inform or fue for the fame as is before mentioned.

VII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That there shall be provided and kept in the office of the auditor of the receipt of the Exchequer one book, in which all the monies which ought to be paid in weekly as aforesaid, for or upon account of the faid weekly fums out of the faid particular branches of excife, and which shall be brought to the said receipt, shall be entred apart and distinct from all other monies paid into the faid receipt on any other account whatsoever.

VIII. And it is hereby further enacted, That out of the mohow to be paid. ney of the faid hereditary duties of excife, arifing in or by fuch

weekly payments at the Exchequer as aforesaid, the faid annual fums, after the rate of three pounds per centum per annum, prescribed by the said act, made in the parliament holden in the twelfth year of the reign of his said late majesty King William the Third, thall be fatisfied and paid according to the directions therein contained, and subject to the power of redemption therein mentioned; and also out of all the monies of the said several branches of excife, arifing in or by the said weekly payments, the several annuities to be purchased in pursuance of this act, shall be paid and fatisfied, from and after the faid five and twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thoufand seven hundred and five, for and during the then refidue and remainder of the feveral and respective terms and estates, which by virtue of this act shall be purchased of and in fuch annuities respectively; and that all the rest and refidue of the monies arifing by the faid weekly payments, and which at the end of every year, reckoning the first year to begin from the faid five and twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand feven hundred and five, shall remain, after fatiffying or referving sufficient to fatisfy all the payments which shall