House of Commons (Disqualification) Act 1693

XL. Fund must be proportionable to the Sum advanced.

Blanks 20s. a Year, for Sixteen Years.; The Tickets to be rolled up and cut into another Box marked B. which is to be put into another Box locked, &c.; No Money to be advanced after 10th September.; Public Notice of time of cutting the Tickets into the Boxes.

Provided always and it is hereby enacted That if the said whole su[m]m of ten hundred thousand pounds shall not bee advanced and contributed by the Contributors or Adventurers as aforesaid on or before the tenth day of September then soe much onely of the abovesaid yearely su[m]m of one hundred and fourty thousand pounds as shall beare proportion to the real su[m]m which shall bee actually advanced or contributed by the Contributors or Adventurors as aforesaid shall bee the yearely Fund to bee applyed by this Act for satisfaction of the Annuities and other purposes hereby intended that is to say as the su[m]m of ten hundred thousand pounds is to one hundred and fourty thousand pounds per Annum soe the real su[m]m which shall bee actually advanced or contributed on this Act as aforesaid shall bee to the certaine yearely Fund in such case provided by this Act for the said Annuities and other purposes and in such case a diligent calculation shall bee made by the said Managers and Directors or the major part of them who shall cause all the yearely su[m]ms to bee written upon the said Fortunate Ticketts and the two yearely su[m]ms for the said first and last drawne Ticketts to bee proportioned accordingly yet soe as that every numbred Tickett which shall bee drawne not haveing a fortunate Lott to come upp for itt exceeding twenty shillings a yeare shall neverthelesse bee entituled to twenty shillings a yeare for the said terme of sixteene yeares And that all the said hundred thousand Ticketts as well the Fortunate as the Blanks which shall bee contained in the said outermost Columns of the Books last menc[i]oed shall in the presence of the said Managers and Directors or the major part of them which shall bee present att a meeting as aforesaid and in the presence of such Adventurers as will then bee there, bee carefully rolled upp and fastned with Thread or Silk and bee severally cutt out indent-wise thorow the said figure or devise into another Box to bee prepared for this purpose and to bee marked with the letter. B. which Box shall presently bee putt into another strong Box and bee lockt upp with seven different Locks and Keyes to bee kept by as many of the said Managers and sealed upp with their Seales or the Seales of some of them until these Ticketts shall alsoe bee drawne in the manner and forme herein after mentioned and that noe money shall bee received from any Contributor or Adventurer as aforesaid after the [X1 said] tenth day of September And that the whole businesse of rolling upp cutting off and putting into the said Boxes the said Ticketts and locking upp and sealing the said Boxes shall bee performed by the said Managers and Directors or such of them as aforesaid on or before the first day of October One thousand six hundred ninety foure And to the end every person concerned may bee well assured that the counterparte of the same number with his Tickett is putt into the Box marked with the letter A. from whence the same may bee drawne and that other matters are done as hereby directed some publick Notification in print shall bee given of the precise time or times of cutting the said Ticketts into the said Boxes to the end that such Adventurers as shall bee minded to see the same done may bee present att the doeing thereof.

Editorial Information

X1 interlined on the Roll.