House of Commons (Disqualification) Act 1693

XLV. Contributors allowed £14 per Cent. for Money advanced before 10th Sept. till 29th Sept.

Receiver's Allowance, 1d. per pound.

Provided alsoe and bee it enacted for the encouragent of the Adventurers to make speedy payments to the said Receivers of the said several su[m]ms of ten pounds apiece att any time before the said Tenth day of September the said Receiver shall immediately out of the money so by him received pay back to the respective contributor or adventurer soe much as the interest of every su[m]m of ten pounds soe contributed or adventured shall amount unto after the rate of Fourteen pounds per Centum per Annum to bee reckoned from the day of makeing such payment by the adventurer until the Nine and twentieth day of September One thousand six hundred ninety foure And that every such Receiver upon his account and out of the moneys soe by him received shall bee allowed and discharged of soe much as hee shall soe pay back for interest and alsoe soe much more for his pains and service in receiving paying and accounting for the moneys of his receipt and for the faithful performance of his Office of Receiver as the Commissioners of their Majesties Treasury now being or the Tresurer of the Exchequer or Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being shall think reasonable soe as the allowance last menc[i]oed doe not in any case exceed one penny in the pound upon the moneys onely which the said Receiver shall have actually paid into the Exchequer Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.