Land Tax Act 1698

LXXXVII. Appropriation of £600,000, first, for disbanding, then for Subsistence and Clearings of the Guards and Garrisons in England and the Dominions there (Ireland excepted) for the Year 1699, and for Half Pay Officers disbanded, and for the Ordinary of the Ordnance, for the Year 1699.

And it is further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That out of the Money that hath been or shall be levied or paid into the Receipt of His Majesties Exchequer by virtue of this Act or of one other Act of this present Session of Parliament intituled An Act for granting an Aid to His Majesty for disbanding the Army and other necessary Occasions by the Loans that have or shall be transferred to this present Act by virtue of the last recited Act a Sum not exceeding the Sum of Six hundred thousand Pounds shall be and is hereby appropriated to the Services herein after mentioned that is to say in the first Place so much of the said Sum of Six hundred thousand Pounds as is or shall be sufficient for the paying off and disbanding the Regiments Troops and Companies by the said Act appointed and enacted to be disbanded and the Residue of the said Sum of Six hundred thousand Pounds is hereby appropriated for and towards the Subsistance and Clearings of His Majesties Guards and Garrisons in England and the Dominions thereunto belonging (Ireland excepted) for the Yeare One thousand six hundred ninety nine and for and towards the Halfe Pay now due and which shall grow due to Officers disbanded or to be disbanded and for and towards the Ordinary of the Ordnance for the said Yeare One thousand six hundred ninety nine.