XVIIAffidavit to be annexed to such Certificates of Identity.
Provided always, and be it further enacted, That to every such Certificate as herein-before is directed to be produced to the said Officer, shall be annexed an Affidavit or solemn Affirmation made before any Justice of the Peace or Magistrate in England or Scotland reflectively, or if in Ireland before one of the Barons of the Exchequer there, by the Person 6r Persons entitled to the said Annuity, or by the Person applying to receive the same on his, her, or their Behalf, that the Matters contained in such Certificate are to the best of his or her Belief true, and that the Person described or certified therein is the Nominee or one of the Nominees on whose Life or Lives the Annuity whereof such Half-yearly Payment shall be claimed doth depend ; and in case such Annuity shall have been granted on the Lives of Two Nominees and on the Life of the longer Liver of them, then in such Affidavit or Affirmation shall also be specified, to the best of the Knowledge or Belief of the Person making such Affidavit or Affirmation, whether the other of the Two Nominees whose Life shall not be so certified as aforesaid be living or dead, and if living the usual Place of his or her Residence ; but if the Person making such Affidavit or Affirmation shall be wholly ignorant whether the other of such Two Nominees shall be living or dead, or if living of the usual Place of his or her Abode, then the same shall be specified in such Affidavit or Affirmation.