A. D. i7>i« Anno declmo Ann ^ Reginas. C. 27, 28. 591: are or fhall be irrrpowered by any A6t of this Seflion of Parliament, to ftate and determine the Debts of Commi/Tioncrs the Army ; and aUb any Sum not exceeding-one thoufand Pounds, to be received without Account, for the [j.""""/^*^ incident Charges of the faid Commiffioners relating to the Service laft mentioned, and to none other Ufes, ^mv" Intents and Purpofes whatfoever. ',.„-, , ,-. , ^ And'tiidr inc!- CXVII. Provided always, That out of the ]lonies to be ilTiiedto the Guards and Garrifons, as afore- dent Charges. faid, there fhall and may be talsen and applied any Sum not exceeding eighty-feven thoufand one hundred Soldiers for Sea. twenty-five Pounds and ten Shillings, towards the Charge of maintaing the Soldiers raifed and to be r:;ifed Service. for the Sea Service, vifith their Officers, and the contingent Charges thereunto belonging ; and out of the Monies to be iffiied for the Service of the Navy and Sea Service, as aforefaid, there fliall and may be taken and applied fuch Sums as, together with the faid Sum not exceeding eighty-feven thoufand one hundred ' twenty-five Pounds and ten Shillings, fliall be neceffary for the Charge of maintaining the faid Soldiers for Sea Service, with their Officers, and the contingent Charges- thereunto belonging ; any thing herein con- tained to- the contrary notwithflandingi eXVIIf. Provided alfo, and it is hereby enaded and declared, That no Appropriation,- or other R'latter No ApproprFa* or Thing in this Aft contained, fhall obflruft or hinder any Payment or Payments which, by or in purfuance tion to obdrua - of an Aift made in the ninth Year of her Majefty's Reign, intituled,- An ASt for making good -Deficiencies, any Payment by- and fatisfyi?ig the pnblick Debts; and for erectifig a Corf oration to carry on a Trade to <fe -South Seas, i3M|J^ J"^"'"^'^ °^ for the Encouragement of the Fifl}ery ; and for Liberty to trade in umvrought Iron with the Subjeiis of Spain ; and^ ^^<^^ "J^^ P^,. to repeal the ASisfor rcgijiring Seamen, and of herMajefly-'s Charter grounded thereupon, areor fhall be required ficiencies to tlie and authorized to be made by theTreafurer or Paymafter of the Navy for the time being, or by any other South ScaCor- Pcrfons to be intrulied with the publick Monies for-the Service- of the- Navy, out of fuch publick-Monics, |!°""""' i"P"^- Tallies, Orders, or Parliamentary Securities in their Hands or-Powerrefpeftively, as areor fh«ll thereby be ,"^"" ° ^^ ■'^""' charged or chargeable to make good any Deficiency or Deficiencies to the Corporation erefted in purfuance of the Act laft-mentioned, called by the Name of the Governor and- Company of Merchants oi Great' Britain, trading to the South Seas, and other Parts of America, and for encouraging the Eifliery^- or- to their Treafurer for their Ufe ;• any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithftanding. CXIX. Provided alfo, and It is hereby enafted, That fo much Money as, before the -fifft Day.offyfa^i^befioendes on . one thoufand feven hundred and twelve, fhall- be deficient to complete the quarterly-Payments incurred be- the Annuities fore that Time, for or upon the Anntdties, amounting to eighty thoufand Pounds per Annum, fettled -by ^'^"n^- <^- i'- - one hSi of Parliament made and pafTed in the fixth Year of her Majefty's Reign ; and fo much Money.as o° ^^'^f f ""^ fhall be deficient to complete the Quarterly Payments incurred or to incur at any Quarter Day, on or be- bUck,Molies, fore the twenty-fifth Day of December one thoufand feven hundred and twelve, for or upon the- Annuities, &c. amounting to fo'ty thoiifand Pounds per Annum, fettled by another Aft of Parliament made and paffed in the faid fixth Year of her Majefty's Reign, fhall and may be fupplied out of any publick Money that is 6'AnniB, C..5.,. or fhall he in the Exchequer, not -appropriated to particular Ufes by any former or oiher Aftor Afts of Par- liament; and in Default thereof, the fame Deficiencies, or fo- much thereof as fhall -remain- unpaid out of fuch publick Money, fliall and may be compleated and made good out of any Money that is or fhall be in the Exchequer, of the Aids or Supplies granted in this Seffion of Parliament, and hereby appropriated for Services relating to the Warj as aforefaid ; the fame Appropriations, or any of .them, to the contrary not- - v.'ithftanding, G A P. XXVIL . An Aft for making efFeftual fuch Agreement as fhall be made between- the Royal African Company of ^^ P- Enghnd and their Creditors. Two third Parts or more of the Creditors of the African Company, their Executors, faV. may, before i)^t-. 20. 17 12. allow them Time for Payment of their Debts; and fuch Agreements fhall bind the reft of the Creditors. Such Agreements by Guardians, tff, fhall, bind Inr. - fants, l^c. Saving Debts due to the Crown before fune 1712. G A P. XXVIII. An Aft for continuing the Ti-ade^and Corporation Capacity of the united Eafi India Compa.nyi .. although their Fund fhould be redeemed.
- X /HERE AS in and by an Aft made made in the ninth Year of the Reign of our late Sovereign 9 ^^ 1° 'W'-'S-;
' VV Lord King William the Third, of glorious Memory, intituled. An A£i for reifmg a Sum not'^'V" „ ' exceeding tivo Millions, upon a Fini for Paymerd of Annuities, after the R.ate of eight Pounds ■^zx Centum; f, ,™' 6^^,,' ' per Annum, and for fettling the Trade to the Eaft Indies, it is, amongft other Things, enafted, Thatc. 3, ©'17,, ' the Sum of one hundred and fixty thoufand Pounds per Annum, arifing by the feveral Duties upon Salt, ' and upon ftampt Vellum, Parchment and Paper, in the faid Aft mentioned, fhould be applied for the ' paying of Annuities of eight Pounds per Centum per Annum, to fuch Perfons or Corporations as fhould
- iubfcribe and pay the Sum of two Millions of Money, upon the Terms of the faid Aft; and that the ■
' Perfons and Corporations, who fhould fo fubfcribe and pay the faid Monies, fhould have the fole Trade ' to the Eafi Indies, and the other Places mentipned in the faid Aft, fubjeft neverthelefs to a Provifo or ■
- Condition of being redeemed by Parliament at any Time upon three Years Notice after the nine and i
' twentieth Day of September one thoufand feven hundred and eleven, upon Repayment of the faid two > ' Millions, and of the Arrears of the faid Annuities of eight Pounds per Centum, in the Manner direfted : ' by the faid Aft : Apd it was by the faid Aft likewife provided. That his faid late Majefty might confti- . ' tute
