Annuities Act 1697

VI. Recital that by virtue of 4 W. & M. c. 3. and of subsequent Acts, divers Persons are intitled to Annuities out of Duties of Excise under 4 W. & M. c. 3.

No Quarter's Payment of such Annuities to be made till preceding Quarter paid, of which Public Notice to be given.; Officer offending,; Loss of Office and Penalty £50.; Full Costs.

And whereas by virtue of an Act of Parliament made in the Fourth Yeare of the Reigne of His present Majesty and of the late Queen of Blessed Memory intituled An Act for granting to Their Majesties certaine Rates and Duties of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for securing certaine Recompences & Advantages in the said Act mentioned to such Persons as shall voluntarily advance the Su[m]m of Ten hundred thousand Ponnds towards carrying on the Warr against France and of diverse other subsequent Acts of Parliament several Persons are intituled to have and receive certaine yearely Annuities Rents or Payments out of the said Duties of Excise granted by the said Act first mentioned payable Quarterly wherein no Benefitt of Survivorshipp is to be had Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the First Day of March One thousand six hundred ninety seven next ensuing no Officer or Officers appointed to pay the said Annuities shall pay off any Quarterly Payment of the said A[n]nuities upon any Order or Orders whatsoever until all and every Person and Persons intituled to such Annuities [X1 or] Payments shall or may have had and received his her or their Annuities and Payments for the precedent Quarter for which public Notice shall be given by hanging the same upp in the most convenient publick Place in the said Office that the last precedent Quarter is either fully paid or that the Money is ready in the Office for the Payment of such as have not timely brought their respective Orders to be directed or have not thought fitt to call for their Money and in case any Officer shall offend herein by making any Payment contrary to the Tenor hereof or in any other manner X2 as aforesaid every such Officer shall forfeit his Office and shall for every such Offence forfeit the Su[m]m of Fifty Pounds to such Person or Persons who shall sue for the same to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of His Majesties Courts of Record att Westminster wherein no Essoigne Protection Priveledge of Parliament or other Priveledge Wager of Law Injunction or Order of Restraint or more than one Imparlance shall be granted or allowed and in the said Action the Plaintiffe upon Recovery shall have his full Costs.

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