of the Dividends receivable in respect of all the Bank Annuities, then before transferred for the Purchase of Life Annuities, and also the Excess (if any) in the Amount of the Life Annuities then payable above the Amount of such Dividends; Also a Half-yearly Account of the Capital Stock, which upto the Period of such Account, shall have been redeemed by the Application of the Annual Sums which shall from Time to Time have so reverted to the said Funds by reason of the Deaths of Nominees, or otherwise; and by the Application of the accumulated Dividends of the Capital Stock thereby redeemed : Also an Account of the whole Amount of Three Pounds per Centum Bank Annuities, which, up to the Period of such Account; would have been redeemed by the Excesses in the Amount of the Life Annuities, from Time to Time payable by the said Commissioners, above the Amount of the Dividends from Time to Time receivable by them in respect of the Bank Annuities transferred for the Purchase of such Life Annuities, in case such Excesses had been intermediately applied in the Redemption of Three Pounds per Centum Stock, in the Manner prescribed, by the Laws now in force for the Redemption of the National Debt.
Limitation of Actions.
XXXV. And be it further enacted, That if any Action or Suit shall be brought against any Person or Persons for any Thing done in pursuance or by virtue of this Act, such Action or Suit shall be commenced within Three Months next after the Fact committed and not afterwards; and the Defendant or Defendants in every such Action or Suit may plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the special Matters in Evidence at any Trial to be had thereupon; and if the Jury shall find for the Defendant or Defendants in any such Action or Suit, or if the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs shall be nonsuited, or discontinue his, her, or their Action or Suit after the Defendant or Defendants shall have appeared; or if upon Demurrer Judgment shall be given against the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs, the Defendant or Defendants shall have Treble Costs, and have the like Remedy for the same as any Defendant hath in other Cases to recover Costs by Law.
Act may be altered this Session.
XXXVI. And be it further enacted, That this Act may be altered, varied, or repealed, by any Act or Acts, to be made is this present Session of Parliament.
