House of Commons (Disqualification) Act 1693

XLIII. Managers to make a Book of the fortunate Tickets, and sign and transmit it into the Exchequer, and a Duplicate into the Transfer Office.

Holders of Fortunate Tickets to be paid their Annuities for Sixteen Years.; Adventurer of several £10 to have 20s. per Annum for each £10 for Sixteen Years.; Annuities when payable.

And bee it enacted by the authority aforesaid That the said Managers and Directors or the major part of them shall cause one book of parchment or vellom to bee prepared and shall enter or cause to bee entred therein the Names and Sirnames of the respective persons who shall bee entituled to extraordinary benefitt by the said fortunate Ticketts or Lotts with the respective places of their abode and against every one of their Names the yearely annuity which hee or she respectively is to have by virtue of this Act as well in words att length as in figures and the names sirnames and places of abode of the respective persons who shall be entituled to the Annuities in respect of their numbers being first and last drawne as aforesaid with the Anuities payable to those two persons respectively and that the book last mentioned shall bee signed by the said Managers or the major part of them and transmitted by the first day of March One thousand six hundred ninety foure att the farthest into the Receipt of their Majesties Exchequer into the Office of the Auditor of the said Receipt there to remaine for the future and a true duplicate thereof by the same time shall bee transmitted to the Co[m]missioner or Officer of the Transfer Office herein after mentioned And that every person soe to bee named in the said Book to bee transmitted into the said Receipt of Exchequer his her and their Executors Administrators and Assignes shall have receive and enjoy and bee entituled to have receive and enjoy for and dureing the said terme of sixteen yeares the respective Annuity or yearely su[m]m so to bee sett against his or her name respectively in the book last menc[i]oed out of the said yearely Fund by this Act provided which Annuities shall bee payable and paid by equal halfe yearely payments to witt att the Feasts of the Annunciation of the blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Michael the Archangel by equal porc[i]ons or within twenty days after every or any such Feast day the first payment thereof to bee made att the Feast of the Annunciation of the blessed Virgin Mary One thousand six hundred ninety five or within twenty days then next ensueing And all and every other person and persons who shall have contributed or adventured any su[m]m of ten pounds or several entire sums of ten pounds as aforesaid not being entituled to a fortunate Lott exceeding one pound a yeare by the drawings before mentioned his her and their Executors Administrators and Assigns shall have receive and enjoy and bee entituled to have receive and enjoy for and dureing the same terme of yeares for every such su[m]m of ten pounds soe contributed or adventured an Annuity of one pound by the yeare out of the said Fund by this Act provided which Annuities of one pounds by the yeare apiece shall bee payable and bee paid att the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel in every yeare or within [X1 twenty] days after the same Feast day the first payments thereof to bee made att the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel One thousand six hundred ninety five or within twenty days then next ensueing and that every person who shall bee commissionated by their Majesties as aforesaid to bee Managers and Directors for putting of this Act in execution before his acting in such Commission shall take the Oath following that is to say.

Editorial Information

X1 interlined on the Roll.