A. D.I 707. Anno fexto Ann^. Reglii^e. C. r*r. 283
- herein after mentioned, to wit, one Million and twenty thoufand Pounds thereof for the better enabling
' your Majefty to defray the Expence of the prefent War, and other your Majefl's molt necellary and ini- ' portant Occafions ; and" two hundred and fixty thoufand Pounds, Refidue thereof, to be applied in fuch ' Manner as is herein after mentioned, towards making good the Payment of the Annuities to be purchafcd ' upon this Aft,' have, for that End and Purpofe, chearfully and unanimoufly given and granted, and do by this Act give and grant unto your Majefty the further Subfidies, Duties, and Sums of Money herein after mentioned ; and do nioft humbly befecch your Majefty that it may be enacted ; and be it enacled by Half Sutildy of the Qiieen's mofi Excellent Majefty, hy and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Tern- T°"»=ge and _ poral, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament aiTembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That over ^^""j from'^""" and above all other Subfidies, additional Duties, Impofitions and Payments whatfoever, by any former or j„]y ,7,,^ Ya^ other Act or Acts of Pailiament, or otherwife however, already due or payable, or which ought to be paid 96 Years. to her Majefty, for or upon any Wines, Goods, or Merchandizes whatfoever, imported or to be imported. Perpetuated by there fhall be raifed, leied, collefted, paid, and fatisfied unto her Majefty, her Heirs and Succeftbrs, for 1 Geo. i. ftat. 2, and upon all Wines, Goods, and Merchandizes, which at any Time or Times, from and after the laft •=• '-• §• ^• Day of "Jr/ly one thoufand feven hundred and twelve, within or during the Term of ninety-fix Years from |^^ 1"^'o/'m"1 thence next and immediately enfuing, fhall be imported or brought into Great Britain, one M^oicty or half ney arifing by Part of fuch and the like feveral and refpeclive Subfidies, Duties, and Sums ofMoney, as by the faid A£l: this Aa how ap- of the fifth Year of her Majefty's Reign are charged or payable within or during the Term or Time there- propriated. 7 hy granted or limited, for or upon the like imported Wines, Goods, and Merchandizes refpeiStively; ex- ^""^'"^ij-^ 5-' cept fuch Goods and other Merchandizes as by the faid Aift of the fifth Year of her Majefty's Reign, or by eslmp'tcd by for- any Law now in Force, are exempted from the Payment of the Subfidies or Duties which were firft grant- mer Acts. ed in the twelfth Year of the Reign of King Charles the Second as aforefaid. 11 Car. 2, c 4, IL And it is hereby enacted. That in all Cafes where, by the fiiid Act of the fifth Year of her Ma- jefty's Reign, or by any Aft relating thereunto, any Drawbacks or Abatements are to be made of the ,Wholc, or any Part of the Duties thereby impofed, upon any Wines, Goods or Merchandizes whatfo- ever, there fhall be in the like Cafes proportional Drawbacks and Abatements made of the Whole, or Part The fame Draw- of the Duties by this Aft impofed upon the fame Wines, Goods and Merchandizes refpeftively ; and that ^"^ks, &c. al- the feveral Subfidies and Duties by this Aft granted, during the Continuance thereof, fhall be raifed, col- p"j!^^ p lefted, levied, fecured, and paid, within and throughout the Kingdom of Great Britain, by the fame fj^ived. Ways, Means, and Methods, and under fuch Penalties and Forfeitures, and with fuch AUovvances, and fubject to fuch Rules and Direftions, as in and by the faid Aft of the fifth Year of her Majefty's Reign, or by any other Aft or Afts therein referred unto, are prefcribed or appointed, for the raifing, collefting, levying, fecuring, and paying the faid Subfidies and Duties, granted by the faid Aft of the fifth Year of 5 AnnE, c. ij.i her Majefty's Reign, during the Continuance thereof; and that every Article, Rule, and Claufe contained in the faid Aft of the fifth Year of her Majefty's Reign, or in any Aft or Afts of Parliament therein mentioned, or thereby referred unto, for raifing, collefting, le,vying, fecuring, and paying the faid Subfidies and Duties thereby granted, during the Continuance thereof, are and fliall be by Force of this Aft revived, and fhall be ufed, exercifed and put in Praftice, for the raifing, levying, collefting and anfwering the Sub- fidies and Duties granted or impofed by this prefent Aft, during the faid Term of ninety-fix Years, and all Arrearages thereof from time to time, as fully and effect ually as if the fame Articles, Rules, and Chiufes, and every of them, were again particularly and at large recited and re-enafted in the Body of this prefent Aft; except only as to fuch of the faid Articles, Rules, and Claufes, touching which other Provifions, Except where Alterations or Exemptions are made by any Aft or Afts of Parliament now in being, which other Provi- °^'^" Provifion fions. Alterations, or Exemptions fliall be obferved with Refpeft to the Duties hereby granted, during the '^ ™^°' Continuance of this Aft, in the fame Manner as they are to be obferved v^ith refpeft to the faid Subfidies formerly granted as aforefaid. in. And for the better and more fure Payment of all the Annuities to be purchafed on this Aft, be it Agonies to be further enafted hy the Authority aforefaid. That all the Monies arifing from time to time by or for the fur- paid into the Ex- ther Subfidies and Duties by this Aft granted or payable (the neceffary Charges of managing, raifing, le- chequer lepa- vying, collefting, anfwering, paying, and accounting for the fame only excepted) fhall from time to "'^'y- time, from and after the Commencement thereof, for and during the faid Term of ninety-fix Years there- by granted, be brought and paid by the Receiver General, or fuch Perfon or Perfons as for the time being -fhall have the Receipt thereof (who are hereby required and enjoined to bring and pay the fame as it fhall be railed) into the Receipt of the Exchequer, for the Purpofes in this Aft expreffed, diftinftly and fepa- ratcly from all other Monies whatfoever that are or fliall be payable by him or them into the faid Receipt. IV. And be it enafted by the Authority aforefaid. That from and immediately after the Time that all After the Prin- the Principal and Intcreft Monies which by the faid Aft of the fifth Year of her Majefty's Reign are cipal, &c. charg- charged upon the aforefaid Subfidies of Tonnage and Poundage thereby granted, fliall be fatisfied and paid ^^ ^y 5 Anna?, off, or that Money fhall be referved in the Exchequer fufRcient for that Purpofe, then one Moiety or half ^^•"f^,^j^'^jlJ'j"l^^]f Part of the aforefaid Subfidies of Tonnage and Poundage, to arife by the faid Aft of the fifth Year of her Subfidy to be Majefty's P,.eign, for the Reniaind:r of the Term thereby granted, ajid therein then to come and unex- paid weekly into pired (except the neceflary Charges of raifing, collefting, levying, and accounting for the fame) fliall in the Exchequer, like Manner from rime to time be brought and paid into the Receipt of the Exchequer for the Purpofes in this Aft exprcPibd diftinftly and apart as aforefaid, and the faid Receiver and Receivers General, or other Perfons who fhall have the Receipt of the faid Moiety or half Part of the faid Subfidies and Duties by this or the faid former Aft- granted, and hereby required to be paid into the Receipt of the Exchequer as afore- faid, fliall make or caufe to be made the Payments thereof into the faid Receipt of the Exchequer, accord- D o 2 ino-
