A. D. 1 72 1. Anno feptimo Georgii Regis. Stat. 2. 359 Wager of Law, or any more than one Imparlance fhall be granted or allowed. IX. And it is hereby enacted, That all Contracts for the Sale or Purchafe of any Subfcription or Contrails unper- Stoclc of the faid South-Sea Company, or any other Company or Corporation, which fhall be u iper- '"""ned on 29 formed in Whole or in Part, and not compounded on or before the faid twenty-ninth Day of September s "' 172, , in the Year of our Lord one thoufand (even hundred and twenty-one, where the Seller, or the Perfon on &c wa» n t *■' whofe Behalf fuch Contract was made, was not, at the Time of fuch Contract, or within fix Days after, tuall r actually polleffed of, or intitled, in his, her or their own Right, tofuch Subfcription or Stock, fhall beoffuchSt< , and is hereby declared null and void, with refpect to fo much only of the faid Stock or Subfcription as declared void. the Seller, or the Perfon upon whofe Account fuch Sale was made, was not poileiied of, or intitled to as aforefaid. X. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That no Special Bail fhall be required in No Special Bail any Action brought or to be brought upon any Contract made fince the firft Day of December one thou- for Contracts mall be awarded upon any Judgment or Decree, obtained or to be obtained in any Action or Suit brought t j on ,j|j tnl , £,,",5 or to be brought upon any Contract for the Sale or Purchafe of any Subfcription or Stock of the faid of the Seir.on of South-Sea Company, or any other Company or Corporation, or pretended Company or Corporation, 1Ja,lijmerit " c -t until the End of the Seffion of Parliament, which fhall be next after the faid twenty-ninth Day of Sep- after 2 9 s ' , P t - timber in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and twenty-one. Vanhtr Prc-vi- Jions concerning this Company, 8 Ceo. I. c. 21 fif 22. 9 Geo. 1. c. 6. 1 Geo. 2. c. 8. 3 Geo. 2. c. 16 & 20. 4 Geo. 2. c. 5, 5 Geo. 2. c. 17. 6 Geo. 2. c. 25 & 28. 7 Geo. 2. c. 17. 9 Geo. 2. c. 34. 10 Geo. 2. c. 17. 20 Geo. 2. c. 3. 24 Geo. 2. c. z & 11. 26 Geo. z. c. 16. Anno Regni GEORGII Regis Magnse Britannia, Francis & Hibernia?, octavo. A T the Parliament begun and holden at Wejlminjler the feventeenth Day of March, Anno Domini one ' £_ thoufand feven hundred and fourteen, in the firft Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. and from thence continued by feveral Prorogations to the nineteenth Day of October one ' thoufand feven hundred and twenty-one, being the eighth Seifion of this prefent Parliament. CAP. I. An Act for granting an Aid to his Majefty by a Land-Tax to be raifed in Great Britain for the Service of the Year one thoufand feven hundred twenty-two. EXP. z s. in the Pound. CAP. II. An A£t for continuing the Duties on Malt, Mum, Cycler and Perry, to raife Money by Way of a Lottery, for the Service of the Year one thoufand feven hundred and twenty-two ; and for transferring the Deficiencies of a late Malt- Act to the Land-Tax for the faid Year •, and for giving Time for inferting the Money given with Apprentices in their Indentures ; and touching loft Bills, Tickets or Orders •, and for exchanging the Tickets in the Exchequer for Certificates •, and for fuppreffmg Lotteries, denominated Sales, and other private Lot- teries-, and for enlarging the Time for the Accountant General of the Bank of England to return Duplicates of Annuities into the Exchequer. XXXVI. AND whereas, notwithstanding the Provifion already made by feveral Acts of Parliament, Claufe for the /". for fuppreffing and preventing of unlawful Lotteries, and Offices and Places, under the mote effeau.il Denomination of Sales, and taking or making, buying or felling Subfcriptions for the Sale of Chances, f u PP refi i"g u "- or Part of Chances, to arife on Tickets made out in Purfuance of any Act of Parliament for a publick denominate"'"' Lottery, many ill-difpofed Perfons, with a Defign to evade fuch Laws, have of late prefumed and do Sales, &c. daily prefume to erect and fet up Offices or Places under the Denomination of Sales of Houfes, Lands, ' Amended and Plate, Jewels, Ships, Goods and other Things ; and alfo have prefumed to make, print and publifh, enforced I2Ge0 - or caufe to be made, printed or publifhed, Propofals or Schemes for advancing fmall Sums of Money left f^'o^f by feveral Perfons, amounting in the Whole to large Sums, to be divided among them by the Chances c> %Z " ^An^.' of the Prizes in fome publick Lottery or Lotteries, eftablifhed or allowed by Act of Parliament, and to i 6.'/. s 6. deliver out Tickets to the Perfons advancing fuch Sums, to entitle them to a Share of the Money fo 10 Ann. c. 26. advanced according to fuch Propofals, and Advertifements thereof are daily publifhed in the common/- io 9- 1 Geo. printed News-Papers and otherwife ; which Practices are highly prejudicial to the Publick and to the *' c ' 9 ' '" 43 ' Trade of this Kingdom, and tend to defraud his Majefty's Subjects :' Be it further enacted by the Au- thority aforefaid, That all and every Perfon or Perfons who, after the twenty- firft Day of December in the
