Taxation (No. 3) Act 1696

XXX. Persons entitled to Arrears of Annuities charged upon Tunnage and Salt Duties discharging the Crown of Consideration Money shall be entitled to Annuity.

Provided always and it is hereby enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Person or Persons who are or shall be intituled to any Arreares incurred between the Seventeenth Day of May One thousand six hundred ninety six and the Seventeenth Day of May One thousand six hundred ninety seven upon the said several Annuities which were charged upon the said Tunnage Duties or upon the said Duties on Salt and are hereby intended to be provided for shall upon their Orders Talleys or Lottery Ticketts for such Arrears Discharge His Majesty in the Excheq[uer] of so much as the Consideration Money to be paid by him or them respectively for purchasing a further Interest or Terme as aforesaid shall amount unto that then and in every such case all and every the Person and Persons so dischargeing His Majesty of the Value of the Consideration Money as aforesaid shall i[m]mediately upon such Discharge given and entred in the Receipt of His Majesties Excheq[uer] (which the proper Officers there are hereby required to enter and register accordingly without Fee or charge) be intituled by this Act to such An[n]uity or Annuities so to be purchased and the same shall be charged upon such respective Fund or Revenue in the said former Act mentioned as if the said Consideration Money was actually paid in the lawfull Coins of this Realme.