A. D. 1704, Anno tertb Sc quarto Ann;e Reginse. C. 2. 161 M(ij-/?y's Oaafions, by felling Annuities at feveral Rates, and for fuch rcfpeciive Terms or EJiatcs, as are therein mentioned, and by feveral other Afts therein recited, Provifion is made. That from and after 'See i Geo. i, the five and twentieth Day of December in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and ^"■ ed. . , „ . . . . . clear, and intire weekly Sum of three thoufand feven hundred Pounds, out of all the Monies to arife by the faid Hereditary Duties of Excife, from Time to Time for ever, fiTall be brought and paid into the Receipt of Exchequer every Week, in the Manner and Form, and under fuch Penalties, as are thereby prefcribed : And it is thereby further enafted. That out of the Money of the faid Here- ditary Duties of Excife, arifmg in or by fuch weekly Payments at the Exchequer as aforefaid, certain annual Sums after the Rate of three Pounds per Centum per Annum, therein mentioned, fhall be fatisfied and paid, and that out of the Monies of the faid feveral Branches of Excife, arifing in or by the faid weekly Payments, the feveral Annuities to be purchafed in purfuance of the faid Acil of the fecond Year of your Majefty's Reign, fliould alfo be paid and fatisfied ; and that all the Reft and Refidue of the Mo- ' By 6 Geo. i, nies arifing by the faid weekly Payments, and which at the End of every Year, reckoning the firft Year c. 4. the Soutli- to begin from the faid five and twentieth T>-3.Y-oi December in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven S" Company hundred and five, ftiould remain, after fatisfying or referving fufficient to fatisfy all the Payments which ^nn;!^'^^^"'^-'^ fliould be then incurred or grown due, as well for and upon the faid annual Sums, after the Rate of three Pounds per Centian per Annum, as alfo for and upon all the faid Annuities, to be purchafed upon the Afl; laft mentioned, fnould be applied and difpofed of to and for the publick Ufe and Service, and not otherwife : And whereas the faid annual Sums, after the Rate of three Pounds per Ctntum per- Annum, do amount in the whole to the yearly Sum of thirty-nine thoufand eight hundred fifty- five Pounds fixteen Shillings and one Halfpenny; and the Annuities purchafed on the faid Aft of the fecond Year of your Majefty's Reign, for the faid Term of ninety-nine Years, do amount in the whole tofixty-feven thoufand nine hundred twenty-four Pounds ten Shillings and fix Pence Halfpenny; and the Annuities purchafed ieverally on the fame A(S1: for fingle Lives, do amount in the whole to twenty-two thoufand three hundred and thirteen Pounds fix Shillings and eight Pence; and the Annui- ties feverally purchafed on the fame Aft for the Lives of two Perfons, and the Survivor of them, do amount in tlie whole to ten thoufand five hundred and twenty-eight Pounds ; and the feveral Annuities purchafed on the fame Aft for the Lives of three Perfons, and the Sujvivors and Survivor of them, do amount in the whole to three thoufand nine hundred feventy-nine Pounds thirteen Shillings and four Pence; and the Charges of paying the faid Annuities do amount to the yearly Sum of twelve hundred Pounds ; fo that there doth remain at this Time undifpofed, of the Money of the faid weekly Payments, to be applied to the publick Ufe and Service, the yearly Sum of forty-fix thoufand five hundred ninety- eight Pounds thirteen Shillings and five Pence, or thereabouts, befides the Expeftancies after the De- termination of the faid refpeftive Eftates, for one, two, and three Lives :' Now we your Majefty's moft dutiful and loyal Subjefts, the Commons oi England in Parliament aflembled, being defirous to raife the Money neceflary for carrying on the prefent War, and other your Majefty's moft- pxeffing Occafions, by fuch Ways and Means as are moft eafy to your Majefty's Subjefts, do chearfully and unanimoufly grant unto your Majefty a further Aid, to arife by Contributions for Annuities, to be purchafed in the Manner and Form herein after mentioned ; and do humbly befeech your Majefty that it may be enafted ; and be it enafted by the Queen's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament aflembled, and by the Authority of the fame. That it ftiall and may be lawful to and for any Perfon or Perfons, Natives or Foreigners, to contribute, advance, and pay into the Receipt of her Majefty's Exchequer, for her Majefty's Ufe, at or What Sums may before the refpeftive Days and Times in this Aft limited in that Behalf, any Sum or Sums of Money, be advanced for not exceeding in the whole the Sum of eight hundred feventy-feven thoufand nine hundred and thirty P""^'^^' *='^- Pounds nineteen Shillings and three Pence Halfpenny, for purchafing fuch feveral and refpeftive Annui- ties as are herein after-mentioned (that is to fay) any Sum and Sums of Money, not exceeding fix hun- dred and ninety thoufand Pounds (Part of the faid vv'hole Sum not exceeding eight hundred feventy-feven thoufand nine hundred and thirty Pounds nineteen Shillings and three Pence Halfpenny) for any An- nuity or Annuities to be paid during the full Term of ninety-nine Years, to be reckoned from the faid fo' 99 "^=3" at five and twentieth Day o^ December in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and five, at the ^S^ears P"'- Rate of fifteen Years Purchafe ; which Rate doth amount to the Sum of one hundred and fifty Pounds hito^theExche- for every fuch Annuity of ten Pounds per Annum, and proportionably for any greater Annuity ; and the quer. fame Rate or Confideration-money, for the faid full Term of ninety-nine Years, is hereby appointed to be paid into the faid Receipt at or before the refpeftive Days and Times herein after-mentioned (that is to fay) One third Part thereof on or before the firft Day of May in the Year of our Lord one thoufand fe- Timesof Pay- ven hundred and five ; one other third Part thereof, on or before the four and twentieth Day of June in aient. the faid Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and five ; and the remaining third Part thereof on or before the nine and twentieth Day oi September in the fame Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hun- dred and five: All v hich Annuities, fo to be purchafed for the faid full Term of nine-nine Years, fhall Annuities fo not exceed in the whole the Sum of forty-fix thoufand Pounds /^r Annum, and fhall be paid and payable P^chafed, not at the four moft ufual Feafts in the Year (that is to fay) The Feaft of the Annunciation of the BlefiTed '°/ 1 Virgin Mary, the Nativity of St. John Baptiji, ^t, Michael the Archangel, and the Birth of our Lord Annum.' ^" Chrift, by even and equal Pgrtions j the firft Payment to be made at or upon the Feaft of the Annunci- Tiie firft Pay- Vol. IV, Y ation ™^"'^ S March 1706. ,
