Crown Lands (Forfeited Estates) Act 1698

XL. Recital of Stat. 10 W. III. c. 9. ante; and that Money, with Interest, remained due by Tallies, &c. upon Aid of 3s. in the Pound, and upon Duties of 8. W. III. c. 7., and upon certain Exchequer Bills, and by Tallies granted by 9 W. III. c. 38.

Debentures for Arrears to Officers of Army, Transport Service, Clothing the Army, Tallies. &c; to be taken at the Exchequer as Sterling Money, for Purchases; The said Principal and Principal and Interest to be computed; The said Debentures, &c. to be registered; Trustees, once in 30 Days, to examine Register with Debentures; and cancel same; Trustees every Three Months to transmit Account of Debentures, &c. to Exchequer in England.

And whereas by one other Act of this Session of Parliament, severall Co[m]missioners therein named are appointed to take and determine (amongst other things) the Accounts of Arreares due to the Generall Officers, and other Officers of His Majesties Army and Land-Forces, and of the Traines of Artillery which served in the Reduction of Ireland, and in the late Warr against France, and to the Officers of the Hospitalls, and the Officers and Gunners of His Majesties Garrisons, and certaine Arreares due to Clothiers, whereupon Debentures or Certificates are to be made forth for their Arreares, as in the said Act is prescribed.; And in and by the same and severall former Acts of Parliament in this behalfe made, Provision was and is made for stating and makeing forth Certificates or Debentures for the Moneys due for Transport-Service in the said severall Acts respectively mentioned: And whereas severall Su[m]mes of Money (with the Interest thereof) remaine due and unpaid by Tallies, and Orders charged on the Aid of Three Shillings in the Pound, granted in the Eighth Yeare of His Majesties Reigne, and upon the Duties imposed upon Paper and Parchment, by an Act made in the same Eighth Yeare of His Majesties Reigne, and upon Ticketts, commonly called Malt Ticketts, and upon Bills, commonly called Exchequer Bills, made forth by severall late Acts of Parliament in that behalfe, and by Talleys and Orders charged upon the Quarterly Poll which was granted in the Ninth Yeare of His Majesties Reigne. Now towards the dischargeing and satisfying of the Arreares, Debts, and Interest-Moneys aforesaid, soe farr forth as the said Estates, in Ireland will extend thereunto It is hereby further enacted and declared by the Authority aforesaid, That the said Debentures for Arreares, which became due to the said Officers, and for Transport-Service, and for Clothing and the said Talleys, Orders, Ticketts and Bills, every or any of them, shall and may be tendred in Payment by any Purchaser or Purchasers of the said Castles, Honours, Mannors, Lands; Rents, Goods, Chattells, Personall Estate and other the Premisses, or any of them, in the Kingdome of Ireland, for and in lieu and discharge of the Purchase-Money, or Consideration-Money, or any part thereof, which shall be contracted or agreed to be paid for such Castles, Honours, Mannors, Lands, Rents, Goods, Chattells, Personall Estate, or other the Premisses respectively, and shall be allowed accepted and taken by the proper Officers of His Majesties Exchequer att Dublin, as fully and freely as if the same were Sterling Money: And that in the Acceptance thereof, the just Su[m]mes contained and specified in such Debentures for the Arreares of the said Officers, and Clothing, and the Principall Moneys only contained in the said Debentures for the Transport-Service, and the Principall and Interest which shall be then due upon the said Talleys and Orders, Ticketts and Exchequer Bills, shall be computed cast up and reckoned; And the said Officers in the Receipt of His Majesties Exchequer att Dublin, shall take care to keepe a fair Booke in Parchment, wherein all the Debentures; Certificates, Talleys, Orders, Bills and Ticketts which shall be soe received or taken in, shall be entred and registred; And the said Trustees, or any Seaven or more of them, shall take Care from time to time, att least once in every Thirty Daies, during their continuance in the Execution of the Powers hereby reposed in them, to examine the said Booke, with the Debentures, Certificates, Talleys, Orders, Ticketts and Bills which shall be soe taken in, and to cancell the same Debentures, Certificates, Talleys, Orders, Ticketts and Bills, soe that His Majesty and the Publick may be secured from all further Demands to be hereafter made thereupon; And the said Trustees, or any Seaven or more of them, are hereby required and injoyned from time to time every Three Months, during their Execution of the Powers aforesaid, to transmitt or cause to be transmitted into His Majesties Exchequer of England, to witt into the Office of the Auditor of the Receipt there, a faire, full and true Account of all the Debentures, Certificates, Talleys, Orders, Ticketts and Bills which shall be soe taken in and cancelled, expressing therein the Date of each Debenture, Certificate, Talley, Order, Tickett and Bill the Names of the Person to whom the Money was originally due, soe farr as the same shall appeare and the Summes allowed or discharged thereupon; for the Purchase or Consideration-Money, as aforesaid and the Names of the Persons who received the Benefitt thereof upon his or their Purchase or Purchases.