tum per Annum or Five Pounds per Centum per Annum respectively, transferrable at the Bank of Ireland, as the cafe fhall require, and shall be payable and transferrable at the Bank of Ireland at the fame time and in the fame manner as fuch exifting Annuities of Three Pounds Ten Shillings per Centum per Annum, and Five Pounds per Centum per Annum refpectively, are payable and transferrable; and all fuch Sums fo written into the faid Books of the Bank of Ireland shall be entitled to Interest or Dividend from the laft Dividend Day immediately previous to the Transfer made under this Act of the feveral Stocks, Funds or Annuities in respect of which fuch Sums were fo written in, and up to which Day the Dividend or Intereft on fuch feveral Stocks, Funds or Annuities fhall have been payable at the Bank of England. X. Provided always, and be it enacted, That it fhall not be lawful to write in or confolidate any fuch Sum or Sums in the Books of the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland relating to the Three Pounds Ten Shillings per Centum per Annum Annuities transferrable at the Bank of Ireland, at any time within Three Weeks next preceding the Fifth Day of January or the Fifth Day of July in any Year; nor to write in or confolidate any fuch Sum or Sums in the Books of the faid Governor and Company relating to the Five Pounds per Centum per Annum Annuities transferrable at the faid Bank, at any time within Three Weeks next preceding the Fifth Day of April or the Tenth Day of October in any Year; any thing hereinbefore contained to the contrary in anywife notwithstanding. XI. And be it further enacted, That the faid Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland fhall, upon making up their Books preparatory to the Payment of each and every Half yearly Intereft or Dividend, certify to the Auditor General of His Majefty's Exchequer in Ireland, and to the Loan Clerk there, the Amount of all Stocks, Funds, Annuities or Debentures which shall have been written into the Books of the faid Governor and Company pursuant to this Act in the Courfe of the preceding Half Year, and for which Interest or Dividend fhall be and become payable pursuant to this Act; and fuch Loan Clerk fhall certify by his Signature fuch Application from the faid Bank of Ireland for the total Amount of the Intereft or Dividend falling due, and fo to be applied for, with the leaft poffible Delay, provided fuch Demand from the faid Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland fhall be correct; and thereupon it fhall and may be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the time being, and he or they is and are hereby authorized and required, to grant his or their Warrant to iffue out of the Produce of the Confolidated Fund arifing in Ireland a fufficient Sum of Money for paying to the said Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland the full Amount of all Intereft or Dividend fo becoming payable; any Act or Acts in force in Ireland, or any Law, Ufage, or Custom to the contrary in anywife notwithftanding. XII. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That in cafe of the Lofs or Deftruction of any Certificate of the Governor or Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, given for the Purposes of this Act, it shall and may be lawful for the Governor or Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, and they are hereby refpectively authorized and empowered, upon Proof of fuch Lofs or Deftruction to No fuch Sums te be written into the Books of the Bank of Ireland within Three Weeks previous to the respective Dividend Days. Bank of Ireland to certify to Auditor of the Loan Clerk Exchequer and there, the Amount of Stock written into their Books. Intereft to be Duplicates may be granted of Certificates loft or destroyed. Security to be given against the Production of the Original. If Original tendered after Duplicate acted upon, it may be detained and cancelled. Counterfeiting to their Satisfaction, to grant a Duplicate of fuch Certificate; and fuch Duplicate shall be full and fufficient Authority to the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland for the Purposes of this Act, and shall stand in the Place and Stead of the original Certificate, if fuch original Certificate fhall not have been previously found and produced to and acted upon by the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland: Provided always, that upon any Lofs or Destruction, or alleged Lofs or Deftruction, of any fuch original Certificate, and on the Production of any fuch Duplicate Certificate, the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland fhall and they are hereby authorized and required to demand and take from the Party or Parties tendering any fuch Duplicate full and fufficient Security to His Majefty, His Heirs and Succeffors, to indemnify the faid Governor and Company against the Production of, or any Claim which fhall be made under or by virtue of, any fuch original Certificate so lost or destroyed, or alleged to have been loft or deftroyed; and if, at any time after a Duplicate Certificate shall have been produced and acted upon under this Act, the Original of fuch Certificate fhall be tendered to the faid Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland, it shall and may be lawful for the faid Governor and Company, and they are hereby authorized and required, to detain fuch original Certificate, and to cancel the fame, and to tranfmit the fame fo cancelled to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, and to deliver up fuch Security as fhall have been entered into touching the said original Certificate, to the Party or Parties entering into fuch Security, or fuch of them as fhall require the fame. XIII. And be it further enacted, That if any Perfon or PerCertificates, &c. fons fhall forge or counterfeit, or caufe or procure to be forged or counterfeited, or fhall willingly act or affift in the forging or counterfeiting any fuch Certificate or Duplicate Certificate, or fhall alter any Number, Figure or Word therein, or fhall utter or publish as true any such false, forged, counterfeited or altered Certificate, with Intent to defraud the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, or the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland, or any Body Politic or Corporate, or any Perfon or Perfons whatsoever, every such Person or Perfons so forging or counterfeiting, or caufing or procuring to be forged or counterfeited, or willingly acting or affifting in the forging or counterfeiting, or altering, uttering or publishing as aforefaid, being thereof convicted in due Form of Law, fhail be adjudged guilty of Felony, and fhall fuffer Death as a Felon without Benefit of Clergy. Felony. Taking Fee for receiving any XIV. And be it further enacted, That no Fee, Reward or Gratuity whatsoever fhall be demanded or taken of any of His Majesty's Certificate, &c. Subjects for receiving any fuch Certificate or Duplicate Certificate, or for paying the faid Annuities or any of them, or for any Transfer of any Sum, great or small, to be made in pursuance of this Act, upon pain that any Officer or Perfon offending by taking or demanding any fuch Fee, Reward or Gratuity, fhall for every fuch Offence forfeit the Sum of Twenty Pounds to the Party aggrieved, with full Cofts of Suit, to be recovered by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information in any of His Majefty's Courts of Record at Westminster or Dublin refpectively, wherein no Effoign, Protection, Privilege, Wager of Law, Injunction or Order of Restraint, or any more than One Imparlance, fhall be granted or allowed. Penalty 201. САР. CAP. LXXX. An Act for raising the Sum of Nine Millions, by Exchequer 66 CA P. LXXXI. An Act for raifing the Sum of Three millions fix hundred "Moft Gracious Sovereign, W Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and E, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the • Ireland, in Parliament affembled, being defirous of raifing the neceffary Supplies which we have cheerfully and voluntarily granted to Your Majefty in this Seffion of Parliament, have refolved that • a Sum not exceeding Three millions fix hundred thousand Pounds British Currency be raised by Treafury Bills in Ireland, in manner • hereinafter mentioned;' and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majefty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's Moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That it fhall and may be lawful for the Lord High Treasurer of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the time being, or for the Commiffioners of His Majefty's Treafury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or any Three or more of them, now or for the time being, if he or they fhall judge it advifable, at any time or times after the paffing of this Act, to prepare and make and issue, or cause to be prepared or made and issued, any Number of Bills entitling the Bearer to the Sum or Sums refpectively specified therein, (not exceeding in the Whole the Amount hereinafter mentioned and directed,) and declaring fuch Sum or Sums to be payable, or fuch Bills to pass current at the Receipt of His Majefty's Exchequer in Ireland, at fuch time and times as fhall be directed by the faid Lord High Treasurer or Commiffioners of His Majefty's Treafury for the time being, or any Threc of them, and as fhall be expreffed in fuch Bills refpectively, and fuch Bills fhall bear an Interest not exceeding the Rate of Five Pounds per Centum per Annum; and the faid Bills fhall be numbered in Arithmetical Progreffion, beginning with Number Onc. Treasury may iffue Bills to a certain Extent, to bear Interest. Bills iffued not to exceed 3,600,cool. Bils, if not paid off, shall be taken in Payment of the Revenue in Ireland after fuch time as the Treasury fhall appoint. Intereft to cease. Money carried to Irish Confolidated Fund. Bills to be Bank of Ireland and Bank of England may II. Provided always, and be it enacted, That nothing herein contained fhall extend or be conftrued to extend to authorize the faid Lord High Treasurer or Commiffioners of the Treasury to iffue any fuch Bills under this Act to any Amount exceeding in the Whole the Sum of Three millions fix hundred thousand Pounds British Currency; and that fuch Bills fhall be iffued for fo much only of the faid Sum of Three millions fix hundred thousand Pounds British Currency as fhall be actually paid by any Person or Perfons into the Receipt of His Majefty's Exchequer in Ireland, at the Inftance or by and with the Confent and Approbation of the faid Lord High Treasurer or Commiffioners of His Majefty's Treafury or any Three of them now or for the time being; and that the Intereft on the faid Bills, not exceeding Five Pounds per Centum per Annum, shall commence from the iffuing thereof refpectively, and fhall be paid to the Person or Perfons entitled thereto, without any Fee or Charge, and free from all Deductions whatsoever; and that every such Bill fo to be iffued for the faid Sum of Three millions fix hundred thoufand Pounds British Currency, or any Part thereof as aforesaid, fhall or may, on or after fuch time or times as fhall be appointed by the faid Lord High Treasurer for the time being, or by the faid Commiffioners of His Majefty's Treafury now or for the time being, or any Three of them, if not fooner paid off, be received and taken by and be current to any Receiver or Collector in Ireland of the Cuftoms, Excife or any Revenue, Aid or Tax arifing in Ireland, for and in Satisfaction of any Cuftom, Excise, or any Aid, Revenue or Tax, then or thereafter respectively to become due or payable to His Majefty, His Heirs and Succeffors, in Ireland, and shall be taken, pafs and be current at the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer in Ireland, from every fuch Receiver or Collector, for or in respect of the Customs, Excife, or any Revenue, Aid or Tax by him collected or received, at or after fuch time or times fo to be appointed as aforefaid. III. And be it further enacted, That as foon as any of the said Treasury Bills, which shall or may be iffued in pursuance of this Act, fhall be received by any Receiver or Collector, pursuant to the Provisions of this Act, all Interest shall cease from the Day of fuch Receipt, and fhall be no longer payable thereon, and the fame, when paid by such Receiver or Collector into the Receipt of His Majefty's Exchequer in Ireland, fhall be cancelled. IV. And be it further enacted, That all the Monies to be received under or by virtue of this A&t fhall be paid into the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer at Dublin, and shall be carried to and form Part of the Confolidated Fund of the United Kingdom arifing in Ireland. V. And be it further enacted, That all the faid Treafury Bills, and all Intereft thereon, or which fhall become payable in respect of the faid Sum of Three millions fix hundred thousand Pounds British Currency, fhall be and are hereby charged and chargeable upon, and fhall be repaid out of the Confolidated Fund of the United Kingdom. VI. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland, and the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, to advance or lend to His Majesty, at the Receipt of His Exchequer in Dublin, or at on the Credit of the Receipt of His Majefty's Exchequer in London, any Sum or advance the Sum of 3,600,cool. this Act. Sums Sums of Money, not exceeding in the Whole the Amount of Three millions fix hundred thousand Pounds British Currency, any Act or Acts to the contrary notwithstanding; fo that no greater or higher Sum, by way of Intereft, Difcount, Gratuity or other Confideration, fhall be demanded or taken by fuch or any of the said Governors and Companies refpectively, or by any Perfon on their Behalf, than at the Rate of Five Pounds per Centum per Annum for any Money fo advanced. Bank till Holders VII. And be it further enacted, That the faid Lord High Trea- Interest arifing furer, or Commiffioners of His Majefty's Treafury, do and fhall in England to be order and direct, and caufe to be paid into the Bank of England, paid into the without any Fee or Charge, and free from all Deductions whatsoever, paid Principal all Intereft which shall become due and payable on fuch Part of the and Interett. faid Sum as fhall be raised or advanced in that Part of the United Kingdom called England, until fuch time as the Holders of fuch Treasury Bills fhall be paid their Principal Money, with all Interest remaining due thereon, at One entire Payment, at the faid Bank of England. to England. VIII. And be it further enacted, That the proper Officers of His Tranfmitting Majesty's Exchequer in Ireland be and they are hereby authorized Treafury Bills and required to obey all fuch Orders, as to the Iffue and Delivery of fuch Treasury Bills as fhall be required to be tranfmitted to England, as they shall from time to time receive from the Lord High Treasurer or Commiffioners of His Majefty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. CA P. LXXXII. An Act to continue an Act paffed in Ireland in the Thirteenth W HEREAS an Act was made in the Parliament of Ireland in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Years of the Reign of His 13 & 14 G. 3. (I.) present Majesty, intituled An A&t to explain and amend an A&t, passed in this Seffion of Parliament, intituled An A&t for granting Annuities in the manner therein provided, to fuch Perfons as shall voluntarily fubfcribe towards raifing a Sum not exceeding the Sum of Two hundred and fixty five thousand Pounds; which faid Act has by • feveral fubfequent Acts been continued, and is in force until and upon the Twenty ninth Day of September One thousand eight hun• dred and feventeen, and it is expedient that the faid recited A& fhould be further continued ;' Be it therefore enacted by The King's Most Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parlia ment assembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That the faid continued. A& shall be and the fame is hereby further continued, and shall be in force in Ireland from the faid Twenty ninth Day of September One thousand eight hundred and feventeen, fo long as the faid Annuities fhall be payable, and as the faid Act for granting Annuities or any of the Provifions for the fame fhall remain in force, and require to be carried into Effect; and the faid Act for granting Annuities, and the said Act for explaining and amending the fame, fhall be conftrued together as one Act. CA P. |