Taxation Act 1698

XVII. Over and above the £27,000 appointed to be paid by c. ante, the further Sum of £25,000 appropriated as herein mentioned.

Officers to keep Account of Monies paid upon Malt Tickets.

And be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That over and above the Summe of Twenty seaven thousand Pounds by another Act of this Session of Parliament appointed to be paid for the Uses therein mentioned out of the Money to be advanced by Farmers or Contractors for the Duties of Excise and certaine Duties upon Salt upon a Farme or Contract (if any such shall be) for a Terme not exceeding Three Yeares to commence from the Four and twentieth Day of June next there shall be and is hereby appropriated and applyed out of such Advance Money a further Summe not exceeding Twenty five thousand Pounds as well for dischargeing One Yeares Interest upon the Four and twentieth Day of June One thousand six hundred ninety eight upon the Tickets commonly called the Malt Tickets as alsoe to goe in Aid of the Arreares of the late Duties upon Malt to make up the Sixty fifth Payment in Course of the Malt Tickets that is to say to compleate the Sixty fifth Summe of Tenn thousand Pounds payable thereupon And the proper Officer and Officers concerned in the Payment of the said Tickets are hereby required to indorse the Interest soe paid upon every Ticket and to keepe a faire Account of such Payments in a Booke for that Purpose And if any of the said Tickets or any of the Exchequer Bills shall be applied to the purchaseing of any forfeited Estates in Ireland the same shall be first tryed or proved with the Counterparts thereof in the respective Offices for the same in England and be certified to be true Bills or Tickets by the proper Officers there And such further Summe not exceeding Twelve thousand Pounds as shall be necessary for the dischargeing the Halfe Pay of disbanded Officers to the Five and twentieth Day of December One thousand seaven hundred shall (over and above the Summe of Fourty one thousand Pounds already appropriated for the Halfe-Pay of such Officers) be likewise furnished and supplyed out of such Advance-Money to be paid by such Farmers or Contractors as aforesaid (if any such be) And all the rest and Residue of the said Moneys to be advanced by such Farmers or Contractors as aforesaid (if any such be) is hereby appropriated and shall be applyed to and for the makeing good of the severall and respective Fonds and to the severall and respective Uses and Purposes whereunto the severall Branches of the said Excise and Salt Duties are appropriated or directed by any Act or Acts of Parliament now in Force and in the same Proportions Order and Forme as the said Duties themselves are thereby appropriated or applicable Any thing in this or any former Act or Acts of Parliament contained to the contrary notwithstanding