Crown Lands (Forfeited Estates) Act 1698

CXLVII. Farmers to pay Rents contracted for, to Commissioners of Excise, to be by them Weekly apportioned as appropriated.

Provided alwaies and it is hereby enacted by the Authority aforesaid That as well the Rent and Rents as the Overplus (if any shall be) which shall be reserved or become due and accrew to His said Majesty His Heires and Successors upon or by reason of such Farme or Contract shall be paid by the said Farmers or Contractors unto the Hands of the Commissioners of Excise for the Time being who shall weekely apportion the same as exactly as can be done to the severall and respective Funds whereunto the said Duties themselves are appropriated or applicable by the Act or Acts of Parliament now in force in that Behalfe And the same Rents and Overplus-Money shall be applyed to make good the said Funds in the same Proportions and by such Waies and Methods and in such Manner and Forme as the said Duties ought to have beene applyed if such Farme or Contract were not made And that the said Commissioners and all Officers of the Exchequer and others respectively concerned in the paying into the Exchequer issueing or Application of the said Rents or Summes of Money and Overplus aforesaid: or any Part thereof for any Default or Failure therein or for diverting or misapplying the same Rents Summes of Money and Overplus or any Part thereof shall be and are by this Act made subject and lyable to the same Penalties Forfeitures and Disabilities as they or any of them respectively would have incurred for the like Offence Default or Failure in respect of the said Duties soe to be farmed or contracted for Any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding