Land Tax Act 1696

XCVIII. Monies paid into the Exchequer in Specie (Exception) for 1697 to be applied to take up Bills.

Deficiency made up out of Supplies of the next Session.

And for the more certaine and regular answering discharging and cancelling all the said Bills hereby authorized to be issued as aforesaid Be it enacted That all and every the Su[m]m and Su[m]ms of Money which shall happen att any time or times to be paid into the Exchequer in Specie for any of the Aids or Supplies hereby granted or to be granted (except as aforesaid) for the Service of the Yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety and seven shall be there im[m]ediately applied so farr as it will extend to take upp and cancell the Bills which shall be brought by any Person to the said Receipt of Exchequer And that if it shall happen that the Aids or Supplies hereby granted (except as aforesaid) in Bills that shall or may be granted for the Warr for the Yeare One thousand six hundred ninety & seven shall fall short or be deficient of raiseing the said Su[m]m of One Million Five hundred thousand Pounds so authorized to be issued in Bills as aforesaid Itt is hereby enacted & declared That such Deficiency shall be in the first Place made Good and supplied out of any the Moneys that shall be raised by any Act or Acts of the next Session of Parliament.