Crown Lands (Forfeited Estates) Act 1698

CXLIII. The Monies arising on the said Pound Rate, and the Loans thereupon, and the transferred Loans; and Overplus of Tonnage and Poundage, &c. granted for Five Years, ending 25th Dec. 1699, and Arrears; and Year's Overplus of Branches for Civil List, ending 25th Dec. 1700; and Duties on Wrought Silks, &c. imported by 30th Sept. 1701; and on Muslins, granted this Session; and Monies arising by Purchase of Annuities, by Act of this Session; and the Plantation Duties for One Year, from the last of March 1700; and Year's Produce upon Duty of 5s. per Ton on French Ships, from 25th Dec. 1699; and Year's Produce of additional Duties on French Goods, from March 1700; and Year's Produce of the Duty of 1s. 10d. per Pound Weight on Wrought Silks imported, from 25th Dec. 1699; and £27,000, Part of Monies advanced by Farmers of Excise, appropriated; For Sea Services, Ordnance for Land Service; Circulating Exchequer Bills; Half Pay to disbanded Officers; Subsistence, &c. of Guards and Garrisons; and Arrears due to Guards and Garrisons, except Clothing; Tallies, with £6 per Cent. Interest.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all the Moneys ariseing by this Act of or for all the said Pound Rate and Assessments to be raised within the Kingdome of England Dominion of Wales and Towne of Berwick upon Tweed as aforesaid And all the Loanes made or to be made upon the Creditt thereof and the said Loanes made at the Exchequer for which the Orders are hereby directed to be transferred as aforesaid (the Moneys hereby appropriated for the Repayment of the said Loanes and the Interest thereof and the severall Allowances of Poundage hereby directed for the collecting receiveing or raiseing [X1 of] the said Assessments only and alwaies excepted) And all the Overplus Moneys of the Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage and other Duties upon Goods and Merchandizes imported and exported which were granted for Five Yeares ending upon the Five and twentieth Day of December One thousand six hundred ninety nine which Overplus Moneys doe consist of Seaventy six thousand three hundred eighty three Pounds Five Shillings and Four Pence Farthing remaineing in the Receipt of Exchequer on the Second Day of December One thousand six hundred ninety nine and of all Moneys ariseing from the said Subsidy and other Duties last mentioned or for Arreares of the same after the said Second Day of December One thousand six hundred ninety nine And alsoe all the aforesaid Overplus of the Produce which shall arise in the Yeare ending upon the Five and twentieth Day of December One thousand seaven hundred of or for the said great or small Branches charged with the said Yearely Summe of Seaven hundred thousand Pounds for the Service of His Majesties Household and for other His necessary Occasions and Expences as aforesaid And likewise all the Moneys which shall arise of or for the Duties by any Act of this Session of Parliament charged or to be charged on wrought Silks Bengalls and Stuffs mixed with Silke or Herba of the Manufacture of Persia China or the East-Indies and upon all Callicoes painted died printed or stained there to be imported untill the Thirtieth Day of September One thousand seaven hundred and one And all the Moneys which shall arise by the Duties by any Act of this Session of Parliament charged or to be charged upon Muslins during the Continuance thereof (the necessary Charges of manageing the said Duties only excepted) And moreover all the Money which shall arise for the Purchase of Annuities by any Act of this Session of Parliament. And furthermore all the Moneys which in One Yeare to be reckoned from the last Day of March One thousand seaven hundred shall be brought into the Receipt of Exchequer of or for the Duties commonly called the Plantation Duties charged by an Act of Parliament made in the Five and twentieth Yeare of the Reigne of King Charles the Second of blessed Memory upon severall Commodities therein enumerated which should be laded or putt on board any Shipp or Vessell which by Law might trade in any of His Majesties Plantations and should come to any of them and shipp and take on board such Commodities Bond not being first given to bring such Commodities to England Wales or the Towne of Berwick upon Tweed as is therein mentioned And all the Moneys which in One Yeare to be reckoned from the Five and twentieth Day of December One thousand six hundred ninety nine shall arise by the Duty of Five Shillings per Ton upon every Shipp or Vessell belonging to any the Subjects of the French King comeing into any Port Creeke Harbour or Road of England Wales or Towne of Berwick upon Tweed and there lading or unlanding any Goods or Commodities or takeing in any Passengers or setting on Shoare pursuant to an Act of Parliament in that behalfe made in the Twelfth Yeare of the Reigne of the said late King Charles the Second And all the severall Duties which in one Yeare to be reckoned from the said last Day of March One thousand seaven hundred shall arise by vertue of the Act of Parliament made and passed in the Seaventh Yeare of His Majesties Reigne intituled An Act for granting to His Majestie an additionall Duty upon all French Goods and Merchandizes the necessary Charges of manageing the last mentioned Duties onely excepted And all the Moneys which within One Yeare to be reckoned from the said Five and twentieth Day of December One thousand six hundred ninety nine shall arise by the Duty of One Shilling and Tenn Pence for every Pound Weight of wrought Silke imported from the East Indies or Persia pursuant to an Act of Parliament in that behalfe made in the Ninth Yeare of His Majesties Reigne the Charges of collecting and manageing these Duties only excepted And lastly the Summe of Twenty seaven thousand Pounds Part of the Moneys which shall be advanced by any Farmers or Contractors upon the Duties of Excise in case the same be farmed pursuant to the Powers in this Act given for farming or demiseing those Duties shall be wholly appropriated and applied and the same are hereby appropriated in Manner following that is to say out of all the said Supplies Duties Overplus-Moneys and other Moneys hereby appropriated aforesaid there is and shall be applyed for Sea Services (to witt) for paying off and dischargeing Officers and Seamen and for Recalls Victualling and short Allowance Money the Summe of Three hundred thousand Pounds; For Bounty Money to the Officers of the Fleete Eighteene thousand Pounds; For the Ordinary of the Navy (excluding the Charge of the Register for Seamen) One hundred eighty four thousand three hundred forty two Pounds; Towards extraordinary Repaires of the Fleete Ninety thousand Pounds And for the Services of the Navy and the Victualling thereof and for Sea Services of the Office of Ordnance performed and to be performed Three hundred sixty four thousand Pounds; In all for the said Sea Services the Summe of Nine hundred fifty six thousand three hundred forty two Pounds; And for Land Services performed and to be performed by His Majesties Office of [X2 the] Ordnance Twenty five thousand Pounds; And for the Charge of circulating the Bills commonly called the Exchequer Bills Forty thousand Pounds And for and towards the Halfepay now due or which shall growe due to disbanded Officers a Summe not exceeding Forty one thousand Pounds; And the Summe of Three hundred thousand Pounds shall be applied to and for the Subsistance Off-Reckonings and Clearings of His Majesties Guards and Garrisons in England and the Dominions thereunto belonging (Ireland excepted) for One Yeare from the Four and twentith Day of December One thousand six hundred ninety nine And the Summe of Twenty four thousand Pounds for Arreares which became due to His Majesties Guards and Garrisons in the Yeare ended on the Four and twentieth Day of December One thousand six hundred ninety nine other than the Money due for Clothing And the Commissioners of His Majesties Treasury or High Treasurer or any Three or more of the Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being are hereby directed and authorized to issue and pay or to assigne by Talleys or otherwise as to them shall seeme most meete and expedient for His Majesties Service all the Moneys hereby appropriated as aforesaid to the severall Uses and Purposes by this Act directed and intended as aforesaid and to no other Use Intent or Purpose whatsoever and to allow an Interest upon any such Talleys or Assignements not exceeding the Rate of Six Pounds per Cent[um] per Annum for any Part of the said Money which shall be advanced for the Purposes aforesaid or any of them

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