Payment of Lottery Tickets Act 1697

V. 5 & 6 W. & M. c. 20. §53.

Officers not to pay Annuities when preceding quarterly Payments unpaid; Notice fixed up in the Office; Officer offending; Loss of Office and Penalty £100.

And whereas [X1 by] one Act made and passed in the Parliament holden the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of His Majesty and the late Queen (of blessed Memory) intituled An Act for granting to Their Majesties several Rates and Duties upon Tunnage of Ships and Vessels and upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for securing certain Recompences and- Advantages in the said Act mentioned to such Persons as shal voluntarily advance the Sum of Fifteen hundred thousand Pounds towards carrying on the War against France certain Annuities for One Two or Three Lives have been purchased or obtained for the respective Considerations therein mentioned and are payable Quarterly out of Two Seventh Parts of the several Duties thereby granted and the Reversions of the said Annuities or some of them or further Interests therein have been or may be purchased by several subsequent Acts of Parliament in that behalf Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the Fifteenth Day of May One thousand six hundred ninety eight no Officer or Officers appointed to pay the said Annuities shal pay off any Quarterly Payment of the said Annuities upon any Order or Orders whatsoever until all and every Person and Persons intituled to the said Annuities and Payments shal or may have had and received his her or their Annuities and Payments for the precedent Quarter or Quarters and that Publick Notice shall be given from time to time by fixing openly a Paper in the Office for Payment of the said Annuities when the last precedent Quarter is fully paid X2 or the Money is ready in the Office for Payment of such as have not timely brought their respective Orders to be directed or have not thought fit to call for their Money and in case any Officer shal offend herein by making any Payment contrary to the Tenor hereof or in any other manner than as aforesaid every such Officer shal forfeit his Place and shal for every such Offence forfeit the Sum of One hundred Pounds to such Person or Persons who shal sue for the same to be recovered (besides Costs of Suit) in such manner as aforesaid.

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X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: upon O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]

X2 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: that O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]