Taxation (No. 4) Act 1694

VII. Commissioners for Transportation to make out within Three Months Debentures for Money due for each Transport.

Proceedings thereon; Debentures to be numbered in course; If more than one Ship hired, Debentures numbered according to Registry.

Provided and it is further enacted by the authority aforesaid That the Commissioners for Transportation doe within Three months after the passing this Act make out authentick Debentures for each su[m]m of money due to or for every respective Shipp as the same was adjusted by the Commissioners for takeing and stating the Publick Accounts of the Kingdome And that such Debenture when made out bee delivered either to the Owner of or to the Agent appeareing for every such respective Shipp and shall hee made payable to such person or his assignes as such respective Owner or his Agent shall nominate for the use of the Owners of the respective Shipps And that such Owner or Agent shall upon the receipt of such Debenture give a receipt to the said Commissioners for Transportation for every such Debenture Which said receipt shall bee entred in a Book kept for that purpose in the Office of Transportation And that such Debenture or Debentures bee numbred in course begining with the first Shipp that was hired with the Figure of One and soe successively according to the day the said Shipps were hired whether by his Majesties Commissioners for the Navy the Officers for Victualling the Officers of the Ordnance or the Commissioners for Transportation to the end that noe undue preferrence may bee made And if it soe fall out that more then One Shipp was hired in one day the respective Owner or Agent shall have his or their Debentures numbred as their respective Ships stand registred in the respective Offices where they were taken upp or hired.