37^ C. 26. Anno feptimo ANNiE Reglnse, A. D. 1708, CAP, XXVI. An Aft for appointing Commiflloncrs to treat and agree for fuch Lands, Tenements and He- reditaments as fhall be judged proper to be purchafed for the better fortifying Port/mouthy Chatham, and Harwich. ' kJ HERE AS for the better fecuring her Majefty's Docks, Ships of War, and Stores, 'tis highly ' W necelTary to enlarge "and ftrengthen the Fortifications at or near Port/mouth, Chatham, and Har~ ' wich; and in Order thereunto, to purchafe feveral Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, fome of which
- are or may be the Eftates of Infants, Femes Covert, Ecclefiaftical Corporations, or other Perfons who
- by Law are difabled to make any Coritrafts or Conveyances ; in all which Cafes, as likewife where any
' Proprietors defigning to obftruft the publick Service, or to make any unreafonable Gain to themfelves,
- infift on extravagant Rates, 'twill be necefTary to have Recourfe to the ufual Methods that have been
' taken in fuch like Cafes ;' Be it therefore enaflied, i^c. " The Queen to appoint Commiflioners to furvey, &c. the Lands to be purchafed. Any five of the Com- " miffioners appointed to treat and agree with the Owners of the Lands, i^c. Perfons refufing to treat, " or uncapable, the Commiffioners may iffue Warrants to the Sheriff to impanel and return a Jury, who " fhall enquire into the true Value, U'c. Farther Provifion for the Land Owners by 8 Anna;, c. zi. S i. " and their Verdifl: Ihall be certified into the Chancery by the Z3d of OSfober 1709. The Commiffioners " not to be liable to the Penalties in the ASt of 25 Car. z. c. z. nor i W. & M. SefT. i. c 8. Nor 13 & " 14 W. 5. c. 6. The Commiffioners not to be difqualifiedfrom fitting in the Houfe of Commons, P R." Anno Regni ANNtE Reginffi odlavo. ' A T the Parliament fummoned to be holden at Weflmhifter the eighth Day of July, Anno Dom. 1708. in ' l the feventh Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady ANNE, by the Grace of God, of Great ' Britain, France, and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, &c. and by feveral Writs of Prorogation ' begun and holden, on the fixteenth Day of November 1708, being the firft Seffion of this prefent ' Parliament; and from thence continued by feveral Prorogations to the fifteenth Day of iVow^i^r one. ' * In the Rer ' thoufand feven hundred and nine, * being the fecond Seffion of this prefent Parliament. Gerd is added,' and by feveral Adjournments continued till the fifth Day of April, in the ninth Year of her Majefty's Reign, CAP. I, An Aft for granting an Aid to her Majefty, to be raifed by a Land Tax in Great Britain for 4S- " ■ ~ the Service of the Year one thoufand feven hundred and ten. in the Pound. 7Annje,c, S, ' CXIIL AND whereas in and by an AGi of Parliament made and paffed in the feventh Year of her K_ n, ' l^ 1;T-,",„A,,'., ID^:™., r. n, ,.,.1 '^ru: ..1 :_ .„: l^ ;t :„ „..„,, .'J^J ^.-.J o,,-,Xl.=j T'U-t Majefty's Reign (amongft other Things therein contained) it is provided and ena£ted,That it fhould and might be lawful to and for the Governor and Company of the Bank of England (in cafe ' their general Court fhould fo think fit) to contradt and agree at any Time before the laft Day of Deceni- ' her one thoufand feven hundred and nine, with the Lord High Treafurer of Great Britain, to circulate 7 Annae, c. 7, ' (over and above the Bills undertaken to be circulated by another A£t of the fame Seffion therein men- ' tioned) fuch further Bills not exceeding fix hundred and twelve thoufand feven hundred thirty-nine ' Pounds, as Ihould be made 'forth at her "Majefty's Exchequer for her Majefty's Supply: And whereas ' by Indenture bearing Date the eight and twentieth Day of September one thoufand feven hundred and, ' nine, made between the moft Honourable Sidney Earl of Godolphin, then and now Lord High Treafurer ' of Great Britain, of the one Part, and the faid Governor and Company of theBank of England, of
- the other Part, reciting. That the faid Governor and Company of the Bank of England in a general
' Court by them holden, did agree to circulate-in Exchequer Bills, the Sum of four hundred thoufand ' Pounds, Part of the faid Sum not exceeding fix hundred and twelve thoufand feven hundred thirty-nine. ' Pounds, it was made known and declared, that in purfuance of the faid recited KSk. of Parliament in ,' that Behalf, they the faid Governor and Company of the Bank of ^jz^Z-jw^ had contrafted and agreed, 1 ' and did by the faid Indenture contratl and agree with the faid Sidney Earl of Godolphin, Lord High Tre- ' fixtr of Great Britain, to circulate fuch further and other Bills, for any Sum not" exceeding the faid ' Sum of four hundred thoufand Pounds, as fhould be made forth at her Majefty's Exchequer for her Ma- ' jefty's Supply, as aforefaid :' Now to the Intent that the faid Bills which have been made or ifiued, or {hall be made and ifTued, as aforefaid, not exceeding the faid Sum of four hundred thoufand Pounds, may have and bear t;he like Credit, Intereft, Allow.ances, Currency, Privileges, and Advantages in all Re- fpefts, as the Bills formerly ifTued in purfuance of the faid other A£l: of Parliament herein before-men-r tioned, whereby the general Fund for circulating and difcharging Exchequer Bills was fettled and eft-a-r blifhed ; Be it enaded, &c. The
