nalties respectively shall be sued for, recovered, and applied in the Manner directed by this Act.
XXIV. Annuities ceasing to revert to Sinking Fund.
And be it further enacted, That all Life Annuities purchased under the Provisions of this Act, shall, upon the ceasing thereof, revert to the said Funds which shall from Time to Time be applicable to the Reduction of the National Debt, by virtue of the said recited Act of the Forty-second Year of His Majesty's Reign, and shall from thenceforth be applied in the same Manner as by the Laws now in force, and by this Act, the said Funds are made applicable.
XV. Certificates, Affidavits and Transfers of Stock and Life Annuities, to be exempt from Stamp Duties.
And be it further enacted, That ho Copy of the Register of the Birth or Baptism of any Nominee, or any Certificates, Affidavits, or Affirmations to be made or taken in pursuance of this Act, nor any Transfer of Bank Annuities which shall be made to the said Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, for the Purchase of any Life Annuity, nor any Transfer or Acceptance of any Life Annuity in the Books of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, nor any Receipt for the Payment of any Life Annuity or any Part thereof, at the Bank of England, shall be liable to any Stamp Duty whatever.
XVI. Persons making false Affidavits guilty of Perjury.
And be it further enacted, That if any Person in any Affidavit or Affirmation to be taken before any Judge of His Majesty's, Courts at Westminster, or before any of the Barons of His Majesty's Courts of Exchequer in Scotland or Ireland reflectively, or before any Justice of the Peace or Magistrate under the Provisions of this Act, shall wilfully or corruptly swear or affirm any Matter or Thing which shall be false or untrue, every such Person so offending, and being thereof duly convicted, shall he, and is hereby declared to be subject and liable to such Pains and Penalties as by any Laws now in force any Persons convicted of wilful and corrupt Perjury are subject and liable to.}}
XVI. Punishment for forging Registers, Certificates &c.
And be it further enacted, That if any Person or Perons shall forge, counterfeit, or alter, or cause or procure to be forged, counterfeited, or altered, or knowingly or wilfully act or assist in the forging, counterfeiting, or altering any Register or Registers of the Birth or Baptisim of any Person or Persons to be appointed a Nominee or Nominees under the Provisions of this Act, or any Copy or Certificate of any such Register, or the Name or Names of any Witness or Witnesses to any such Certificate, or any Affidavit or Affirmation required to be taken for any of the Purposes of this Act, or the Certificate of any Judge, Baron of the Exchequer, Justice of the Peace or Magistrate, of any such Affidavit or Affirmation having been taken before him, or any Certificate of any Governor or Person aging as, such, or Minister or Consul, or Chief Magistrate of any Province, Town, or Place, or other Person authorized by this Act to grant any Certificate of the Life or Death of any Nominee, or any Certificate or Certificates of the Officer to be appointed by the said Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, or of any Cashier or Clerk of the Bank of England, or shall forge or counterfeit, or shall cause or procure to be forged or counterterfeited, or knowingly or wilfully act or assist in the forging or counterfeiting the Name or Names of any Person or Persons in or to any Transfer of Bank Annuities for the Purchase of any Life Annuity, or in or to any Transfer or Acceptance of any Life Annuity in the Books of the Governor
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