Standard of Silver Plate, etc. Act 1696

VII. Treasury may advance £50,000 out of unappropriated Monies for the said Allowance of 5s. 4d. per Ounce;

which is to be Part of the Sum of £125,000.

And to the end a Sum of ready Money may the more speedily be provided to pay for wrought Plate which shall be brought in pursuant to this Act be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawfull to and for the Co[m]missioners of His Majesties Treasury or any Three or more of them now being or the Lord Tresurer or any Three or more of the Co[m]missioners of the Tresury for the time being out of any Money that is or shall be advanced or lent to His Majesty upon the Creditt of any Aid Fund or Revenue whatsoever (not being the Money appropriated to the Repaym[en]t of the Principal or Interest of Loans or to the Satisfaction of any Bills of Creditt established by Act of Parliament) to issue and apply any Su[m]m or Su[m]ms of Money not exceeding the Su[m]m of Fifty thousand Pounds for & towards the Payment of the said Rate or Allowance of Five shillings and foure pence an Ounce for Plate and the Charges of taking in and coining the same which Su[m]ms so issued and applied shall be reckoned to be part of the Su[m]m not exceeding One hundred twenty five thousand pounds for coining of hammered Money and Plate and Charges thereunto incident Any thing herein or in any former Act of Parliament contained to the contrary notwithstanding.