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6oo C. 33. Anno duodecimo Georg 11 Regis, A. D. 1725, Marks and Stamps required in that Behalf, which faid Sum of five Pounds is to be applied to the fame TJfes and Purpofes as the Duties hereby granted are to be applied. Commiflioners jx. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That every Commiffioner and Officer who fhall be J f°om Ce ' S t0 a< ^ ' n an< * about the managing or collecting the Stamp-Duties hereby granted, fhall before he fhall aft in or about the fame, take the Oath following, that is to fay, Their Oath. * T A. B. do fwear, That I will faithfully execute the Truft repofed in me, purfuant to the Acl of Parlia- ' A. ment made in the twelfth Year of the Reign of his Majefty King George, intituled, An An for ' Relief of the Suitors of the High Court of Chancery, whereby certain additional Duties are charged or made

  • payable, in refpect of the feveral Matters and Things engrofied or written, as therein is mentioned, with -

' out Fraud or Concealment; and fhall from Time to Time true Account make of my doings therein, and ' deliver the fame to fuch Perfon or Perfons, as by the faid Act are impowered to receive fuch Account- ' and fhall take no Fee, Reward or Profit whatfoever, for the Execution or Performance of the faid Truft, ' or. the Bufinefs relating thereto, from any Perfon or Perfons whatfoever, other than fuch as by the faid Acl ' is allowed of.' Which Oath (hall or may be adminiftred by any two or more of the Commiflioners laft mentioned, or any one or more JufHces of the Peace. The Money to X. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That all and every the Officer and Officers who be paid to the fhall be concerned in the levying, collecting or receiving the Duties arifing by this Acl, fhall and do keep iBank. feparate and diftinct Accounts thereof, and pay the fame to the Cafhier of the Bank of England for the Time being, who is hereby required and impowered to receive the fame, and whofe Receipt or Receipts' fhall be, from Time to Time, to the faid Receiver General, his Deputy or Deputies, a fufficient Difcharge, which Payments are to be made weekly on Wednefday in every Week, unlefs it be an Holiday, and then the next Day after, which fhall not be an Holiday. A Book to be XI. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That there fhall be provided and kept, in the kept on account Bank of England, a Book or Books, wherein all the Monies to be paid in Weekly as aforefaid, fhall be en- of the Suitors. {rec ] 5 an( j the fame fhall be entred apart and diftinct from all other Monies paid or payable upon Account of the Suitors of the faid Court of Chancery ; and when the faid Monies fhall be paid to the Cafhier of the Bank as aforefaid, the fame fhall be, and be confidered as Part of the General and Common Cafli of the faid Court of Chancery, and as fuch fhall be iflued and applied in and for the Payment of the refpec- tive Demands of the Suitors of the faid Court, in fuch Manner as the faid Court fhall direct:. The Penalties, XII. And it is hereby further enacted, That all Receivers General, Comptrollers, Collectors and other &c. of Aft 9 Officers, who are or fhall be concerned in the managing, raifing, levying, receiving, collecting or paying w.^ 3. to be in the Duties arifing by this Act, or in keeping the Accounts thereof, or accounting in refpect of the fame, fhall perform their feveral and refpeetive Duties therein, as to them refpeclively fhall appertain, under fuch and the like Penalties, Forfeitures and Difabilities, for any Offence or neglect therein, or for detaining or mifappiying any Part of the faid Monies, as are prefcribed and to be inflicted by Virtue of an AQ. of Par- §W. 3. c 44. liament made and paned in the ninth Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King William the Third, intituled, An Aft for raifing a Sum not exceeding two millions upon a Fund for Payment of Annuities, after the Rate of eight Pounds per Centum per Annum, and for fettling the 'Trade to the Eaft-Indics, for the like Of- fence or Neglect, in relation to the Duties upon Salt, and other Duties upon Stampt Vellum, Parchment and Paper thereby granted, or for detaining, diverting or mifappiying any Part of the Monies which were granted by the Acl: iaft mentioned. All the Powers XIII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That all Powers, Provifions, Articles, in the Sump Claufes, Pains of Death and other Penalties and Forfeitures, Diftribution of Penalties and Forfeitures, Arts to be in ant ] a ]l other Matters and Things prefcribed, appointed or contained in or by an Act of Parliament made F '"' Ff: - in the faid ninth Year of the Reign of his faid late Majefty King William the Third, intituled, An Acl 9 W. 3. c 25. f r granting to his Majefty, his Heirs and Succejjors, further Duties upon Stampt Vellum, Parchment and Paper, 1. 1?" 1 a or m an Y ot ber Act of Parliament relating to the like Duties, which are now in Force, and not hereby al- fia't 1. c. iz. tered or otherwife provided for, fhall in the fame Manner and Form as they now ftand in Force, with re- 4 fc?5 Am. c. htion to the faid Duties or any of them, be of full Force and Effect, with relation to the faid Stamp Du- 12. 5 Ann. c. t j es hereby charged, during all the faid Term of fixteen Years, and fhall be applied, pradlifed, made and '3 - ; '"- J: executed for the fecuring, raifing, levying, collecting, executing, ani'wering and paying the faid Stamp- s', ""io •/*■«. Duties hereby charged, according to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act, as fully to all Intents and c. iocifj.6. Purpofes, as if the fame Powers, Provifions, Articles, Claufes and Things, and every of them, had feve- 12 Ann. fie. 1. rally and refpeclively been particularly enacted in this Act, with relation to the Stamp-Duties hereby c, 2. Am1. charged, arid as if the Stamp-Duties hereby charged had been charged by the faid laft mentioned Act of the fiat. 2. c 9. n inth Year of his faid late Majefty 's Reign or in any other fuch Act or Acts as aforefaid. 5 Geo. I. c. TO. j j o j JcFi. 4S. 6 Gn. 1. c. 4 & zi. ll'G'eo. V.Y. 8. Receivers, &c. XIV. And. be-it ejiacted by the Authority aforefaid, That the Receiver or Receivers General, Comp- to exhibit their troller or other Perfon or Perfons, who are or fhall be refpeclively employed in the directing, receiving, yearly Accmmts co u ec ] : j no . or paying the Duties by this Act granted, fhall and are hereby required, between the iecond Day »f the Imprefls. of Aug if and the twenty -fifth Day of December in every Year, during the Continuance of this Act, to ex- hibit their refpeetive yearly Accounts thertof to his Majefty's Auditors of the Impreft for the Time being, or one of them, who fhall and are hereby from Time to Time refpeclively authorized to examine upon Oath the faid Receiver or Receivers General, Comptroller or other Perfon or Perfons, Accountant or Ac- countants, which fhall be employed in raifing, receiving or collecting the faid Duties hereby granted, of and concerning what Sum or Sums of Money was or were by them or any of them refpeclively raifed, col- lected