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6o8 C. 39. Anno'duodecimo Ge org 11 Regis. A.D. 1725. C A P. XXXIX. An Act for making Provifion for the Rector of Saint Mary le Strand in the County' of Middlefex, and for other Purpofes therein mentioned. PR. 2500 /. allotted for the Maintenance of the Rector of St. Mary le Strand. Treasurer to lay out that Sum as the Commiffioners mall appoint. 125 /. yearly to be raifed on the Inhabitants. Veflry to make the A fiefs - ment, &c. To be confirmed by two Juftices. To be paid to the Rector quarterly. Juftices to fettle Com- plaints. Unoccupied Houfes to be paid for by the next Tenants. Churchwardens to make two Tranfcripts of the AfTeflments, &c. Yearly Pound-Rate, and the Produce of 1500 /. to be the annual Maintenance of the Rector. Rectory not to be held in Commendam. Houfe built for the Rector out of the Pariih, to be deemed Part of the Parifh. -Parifh-Cierk of St. Mary le Strand, a Member of the Company of Parifn- Clerks. Anno Regni GEO RG II Regis Magna? Britannia?, Francis & Hiber- niss, decimo tertio. ' A ^ tlle Par ^ ament begun and holden at Weftminftler, the ninth Day of Oclober, Anno Domini one thou- t l fand. feven hundred and twenty-two, in the ninth Year of the Reign- of our Sovereign Lord t GEORGE, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, f fcfV. And from thence continued by feveral Prorogations to the feventeenth Day of January one thoufand' -feven hundred and twenty -.fix; being the fifth Seffionof this prefent Parliament.' CAP. I. An Act for granting an Aid to his Majefly by a Land-Tax to be raifed in Great Britain, for the Service of the Year one thoufand feven hundred twenty-feven. EXP. 4 s. in the Pound. CAP. IL An Act for punifliing Mutiny and Defertion, and for the better Payment of the. Army and their Quar- ters. EXP. C A P. III. An Aft for redeeming fondry Annuities transferrable at the Bank of England, and theAnnui- lies payable on Handing Orders for Army-Debentures, by the Produce of the -Sinking Fund, for applying to the fame Fund the Money remaining in the Exchequer on the Head of the Bankers Debt, and making Provifion for future Claims on the fame Debt, and for applying the Lottery-Tickets, Anno one thoufand feven hundred and twenty-fix, which were returned into the Exchequer, to the difcharging the [landing Orders made out for the Sufferers at Ne- tois and St. Gbriftophm, as far as the fame will extend. a _.o. i.e.'/. ' I, ~% ffl O S T gracious Sovereign ; Whereas by or in Pursuance of an Act of Parliament made in the third ' 1 v JL Year of your Majefty's Reign, intituled, An ASi for redeeming the Duties and Revenues, which were ' fettled to pay off Principal and lntereft on the Orders made forth on the four Lottery Acls pa fed in the ninth and ' tenth Years of her late Majefly s Reign, and for redeeming certain Annuities payable on Orders out of the here- '* d.itary Excife, according to a former Acl in that Behalf, and for eflablifhing a general yearly Fund, not only for ' the future Payment of Annuities at feveral Rates to be payable and transferrable at the Bank of England, and

  • redeeinahle by Parliament, but alfo to raife Monies for fetch Proprietors of the faid Orders, as Jhall chife to be

' paid their Principal and Arrears of lntereft in ready Money, and. for making good fetch other Deficiencies and Pay- ' ments as .in .this Acl are mentioned, and for taking off the Duties on Linjeed imported, and Britifh Linen ex- ■' ported, feveral Annuities or yearly Sums after the Rate of four Pounds per Centum per Annum, amounting ' to the 'Sum of one hundred and two thoufand thirty-fix Pounds thirteen Shillings and two Pence per An- '* mini, or thereabouts, were made payable by the Cafhierof the Bank of England for the Time being, for ' feveral Principal Sums, amounting together to two millions five hundred and fifty thoufand nine hundred ' andfixteen Pounds eight Shillings and eight Pence Half-penny, for Monies contributed by Tallies of Sol, 6 and contained in Army-Debentures, certified on or before the one and twentieth Day of March one thou- 4 fand feven hundred and nineteen, and were by Virtue or in Purfuance of the fame Act- made payable out ' of a certain yearly Fund of feven hundred twenty-four thoufand eight hundred forty-nine Pounds fix Shil- 4 lin^s and ten Pence one Fifth Part of a Penny per Annum, commonly called the General Fund, eftablifhed 5 Ceo. 1. c.24. ■* by the fame Act ; and by or in Purfuance of another Act of the fifth Year of your Majefty's Reign, inti- a private Aft. ' tuled, An Act for the Relief of isdwa'rd Clent, Efq; Executor of Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Clent, for an 4 Army-Debenture loft in the Pay-Office, one or more Annuity or Annuities amounting to twenty three Pounds 4 eight Shillings and three Pence Farthing per Annum, or thereabouts, after the Rate of, four Pounds per Cen- 4 turn per Annum, became payable by the faid Cafhier of the Bank of England {or the Time being, out of the ' {aid General Fund of feven hundred twenty-four thoufand eight hundred forty-nine Pounds fix Shillings 4 ' and