Taxation Act 1698

XIV. Recital of Stat. 8 & 9 W. III. c. 20. §58.; and that the said Clause had become useless.

The said Clause repealed, and Assignments of the same Force as if the said Clause had not been enacted.

And whereas in and by an Act made and passed in the Eighth Yeare of His Majesties Reigne intituled An Act for makeing good the Deficiencies of the severall Funds therein mentioned and for enlargeing the Capitall Stock of the Bank of England and for raiseing the Publick Credit It was amongst other Things enacted That no Assignement or Transferrence which from and after the Tenth Day of June One thousand six hundred ninety seaven should be made of any the Orders or Talleys therein mentioned or any the Moneys contained therein upon the selling buying or bargaining of the same should be good unlesse such Assignment or Transferrence be made and signed or sealed and be within Tenn Daies after the signeing thereof entred or registred and that Oath be thereupon made concerning the Premium Gratuity or Consideration in the Manner and Forme prescribed by the said Act as by the said Act relation being thereunto had may more fully appeare And whereas the Provision soe made concerning the Sale of Talleys and Orders was at the Time of makeing thereof and afterwards of great Service to the Publick but by reason such Talleys and Orders as aforesaid are now generally risen in their Value and Estimation and the said Provision is become needlesse and in some respects inconvenient Be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Clauses of the said Act therein recited for or concerning the makeing entring and registring such Assignements as aforesaid and for makeing Oath concerning the Premium Gratuity or Consideration-Money as aforesaid are and shall be repealed and utterly void and that all Assignements made or to be made of or upon any the said Orders or Talleys shall be of such or the like Force and Effect as the same would have beene if the said recited Clauses concerning the same had not been inserted in the said Act Any thing in the said Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding