Orders to be affignable.

Treasury to direct payment on Oct. 10, 1790, of all orders under sol.

Commiffion

to the fuffer

ers certificates

ered to iffue their warrant to the auditor of the receipt of the ex chequer to pay, out of any money remaining there of the faid aid or fupplies, remaining for the fervice of the year in which fuck intereft and instalment fhall become due, the respective fum and fums to which the proprietors of each and every fuch order fo fifty pounds, and the equi multiples of fifty pounds, made out b virtue of this act, fhall be intitled, by inftalments of fix pound and five fhillings per centum, together with the half-years interef due upon fuch fum as fhall be remaining unpaid and undischarge on each half-yearly day of payment, when fuch proportional fun fhall be fo directed to be paid off.

II. And be it further enacted, That the standing orders which shall be made out at the exchequer in pursuance and under the authority of this act, fhall be affignable on the back of fuch orders on the affignment being attefted by two or more credible wit neffes, which affignment fhall intitle the affignee, his executors adminiftrators, and affigns, to the benefit attending fuch order o orders, and to the interest which shall become due and payable in refpect of the fame.

III. And be it enacted, That the commiffioners of the treasury now being, or any three or more of them, or the high treasure for the time being, fhall be, and they are hereby authorised, im. powered, and required, out of any of the aids or fupplies that fhal be granted for the fervice of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety, to direct the payment at the receipt of the exchequer of the principal fums contained in all and every the feveral and refpective orders made forth for any fum or fums of money lefs thar fifty pounds, on the tenth day of October one thousand seven hundred and ninety, together with the intereft thereon, computed from the faid fifth day of July one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, to the faid tenth day of October one thoufand fever hundred and ninety.

IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That ers to deliver in order to prevent fuch orders from being fraudulently obtained from the auditor of the exchequer, or his officers, by any other of the fums to perfon or perfons than those who fhall be duly entitled to the fame, which they the faid refpective commiffioners appointed for ascertaining the are intitled, to loffes afore mentioned, fhall make forth and deliver to each and be tranfmit

ted to the

every perfon named in the faid books, or to his or her lawful attreafury, &c. torney, to be tranfmitted by them to the commiffioners of his Majefty's treasury, a certificate containing the name and addition of fuch claimant, and the fum to which he or she shall be intitled; which certificate fhall be carried to the proper officer in the office of the faid auditor of the exchequer, who, upon receipt thereof, thall deliver the order made out for the benefit of fuch perfon, and fhall take a receipt on the back of fuch certificate as a difcharge for the faid order.

Orders to be numbered arithmetiCally.

V. And be it enacted by the authority aforefaid, That the or ders directed to be made out for the purposes in this act mentioned, shall be numbered in an arithmetical order, beginning with number one, and fo proceeding, in an arithmetical progrel

fion afcending, wherein the common excess or difference shall always be one, and shall be registered accordingly.

act, except

VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That Claufes of all and every the claufes, provifoes, powers, privileges, advantages, malt act to penalties, forfeitures, and difabilities, contained in an act made extend to this and paffed in this feffion of parliament, intituled, An act for con- fuch as charge tung and granting to his Majefty certain duties upon malt, mum, the loans, &c. , and perry, for the fervice of the year one thousand feven hundred and ninety, (except fuch clauses as charge the loans or exchequer bills authorised to be made by the said act, and except fuch clauses as limit the rate of intereft to be paid for the forbearance of money lent on the credit of the faid act, and except the directions for making forth tallies for loans made out), fhall be applied and extended to the orders which fhall be made out in pursuance of this act, as fully and effectually, to all intents and purposes, as if the faid claufes were repeated and re-enacted in the body of this prefent act.

ders to be

VII. Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforefaid, That in cafe any of the faid orders made forth by virtue of Treasury may this aft fhall be filled up by writing or indorsements thereon, or direct new or by any accident be defaced, it fhall and may be lawful for the made out in commiffioners of the treasury, or any three or more of them, or lieu of fuch as the high treafurer for the time being, and he and they are hereby may be deauthorifed and impowered by his or their direction, from time to faced, &c, time, to caufe new orders to be made forth at the receipt of the exchequer, in lieu of fuch orders which fhall be fo filled up or defaced, which orders fo filled up or defaced fhall be cancelled at the receipt of the exchequer, and kept there on a file or files for that purpofe; and fuch orders fo to be made forth in lieu thereof fhall, in all refpects, be fubject to the fame rules, methods, and contiDuance, and have and be intitled to the fame and like benefits and advantages, and bear the fame numbers, dates, and principal fums, as was or were borne by fuch order or orders fo cancelled.

VIII. Provided always, and it is hereby enacted by the authority aforefaid, That out of any of the aids or fupplies to be grant- Treafury may ed to his Majefty for the fervice of the years one thousand seven reward per fons employed bundred and ninety, one thoufand feven hundred and ninety-one, in the execu one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, one thousand seven tion of this hundred and ninety-three, one thousand feven hundred and ninety- act. four, one thousand feven hundred and ninety-five, one thousand feven hundred and ninety-fix, one thousand feven hundred and ninety-feven, and one thousand feven hundred and ninety-eight, or out of fuch monies as fhall or may remain in the exchequer of the confolidated fund, it shall and may be lawful to and for the commiffioners of the treasury, or any three or more of them, or the high treasurer for the time being, to reward fuch person or perfons that fhall or may be in any ways employed in the execution of this act for their labour, pains, and fervice therein refpectively, and to fatisfy and discharge fuch incidental charges and expences as fhall neceffarily attend the execution of the fame, in fuch manner as the faid commiffioners of the treasury, or any

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If fupplies be not granted for payment of orders, they fhall be paid

out of the confolidated fund,

dated fund,

three or more of them, or the high treafurer for the time being fhall from time to time think fit and reasonable in that behalf.

IX. And be it enacted by the authority aforefaid, That in ca fufficient aids or fupplies fhall not be granted before the fifth da of April one thoufand feven hundred and ninety-one, or befor the fifth day of April in each subsequent year, before the whole the faid orders, herein directed to be made forth, are fatisfied an paid off with intereft for the fame, then fuch fum as fhould ought to be satisfied and paid pursuant to this act, in part of th principal fum of fuch orders, together with the intereft that fha then have become due, fhall be charged upon fuch monies as, any time after the faid fifth day of April in each year, shall be remain in the exchequer of the confolidated fund, (except fuc monies of the faid confolidated fund as are appropriated to an ufe or uses by any act or acts of parliament in that behalf); an fuch monies of the faid confolidated fund fhall and may be iffue and applied, as foon as the fame can be regularly ftated and a certained, for and towards paying off fuch inftalment or infta ments, and the intereft due and payable on the feveral orders, ac cording to the directions of this act; any act or acts of parlia ment, or any claufe or claufes in any act or acts of parliament, t the contrary notwithstanding.

Money iffued X. Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority afore from confoli- faid, That whatever monies fhall be fo iffued out of the faid cor to be replaced folidated fund fhall, from time to time, be replaced by and out out of the first the firft fupplies to be then-after granted in parliament; an fupplies. thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

Perfons forging orders,

&c. to fuffer death,

Preamble.

20 Geo. 3. C. 17, and

XI. And it is hereby enacted by the authority aforefaid, Tha if any perfon or perfons fhall forge or counterfeit any orde which fhall have been made forth by virtue of this act, before th same shall have been paid off and cancelled, or any order to b renewed or made forth in pursuance of this act, or any indorfe ment or writing thereupon or therein, or tender in payment an fuch forged or counterfeit order, with intent to defraud his Ma jefty, his heirs and fucceffors, or the perfon or perfons to be ap pointed to pay off the fame, or to pay any intereft thereupon, o any of them, then every fuch perfon or perfons fo offending, be ing thereof lawfully convicted, fhall be adjudged a felon, and fha fuffer death as in cafes of felony, without benefit of clergy.

CA P. XXXV.

An act to explain and amend an act, paffed in the twentieth year o the reign of his prefent Majesty, touching the election for knights the fhire to ferve in parliament for that part of Great Britai called England,

WHEREAS an act was passed in the twentieth year of th reign of his prefent Majefty, intituled, An act to remov certain dificulties relative to voters at county elections, whereb it is, among other things, enacted, That, from and after the first day January one thousand feven hundred and eighty-one, no person sha

vot

wate for electing of any knight or knights of the fhire to ferve in pariament, within that part of Great Britain called England, or the principality of Wales, in respect of any meffuages, lands, or tenements, abib have not, for fix calendar months next before fuch election, been charged or affeffed towards fome aid granted, or to be granted to his May, his heirs or fucceffors, by a land tax, (in cafe any fuch aid be the granted and affeffable), in the name of the perfon or perfons who bei claim to vote at such election for or in respect of any fuch me Juages, ds, or tenements, or in the name of his or their tenant or tenants ually occupying the fame as tenant or tenants of the owner or landard thereof and whereas the form of affeffment prefcribed by the jaid at, and thereunto annexed, denotes that the names, both of the proprieter and of the occupier, ought to be specified; and doubts have arifen, whether, if fuch form be not flrictly pursued, the fuffrage of the perfon claiming to vote be admiffible: and whereas an act was paffed in

the twenty-fecond year of his prefent Majefty's reign, intituled, An act 22Geo.3.c.31, for the preventing of bribery and corruption in the election of recited. members to ferve in parliament for the borough of Cricklade in the county of Wilts, whereby it is enacted, That fuck freeholders only fhall be intitled to vote in the election of members to ferve in parlia ment for the faid borough of Cricklade, as fhall be duly qualified to vate at elections for knights of the fhire for the county of Wilts, according to the laws in force for regulating county elections at the time fpafing the fame act be it therefore enacted by the King's most excellent majefty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords fpiritual and temporal, and commons, in this prefent parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, That nothing in the Nothing in faid acts contained fhall extend, or be conftrued to extend, to pre- recited acts vent any person from voting at any election of a knight or to prevent knights of a fhire to ferve in parliament within that part of Great any perfon from voting Britain called England, or the principality of Wales, or at any for knights election of a burgefs or burgeffes to ferve in parliament for the of the hire, borough of Cricklade, in the county of Wilts, for or in refpect of or for burany meffuages, lands, or tenements, which have been charged or Cricklade, for geffes for affeffed, for fix calendar months next before fuch election, to- lands, &c. wards fome aid granted or to be granted to his Majefty, his heirs which have or fucceffors, by a land tax, in the name of the perfon claiming been all-fled to vote, or for or in refpect of any meffuages, lands, or tenements, to the land to which the perfon fo claiming to vote fhall have become en- tax, in the titled by defcent, marriage, marriage fettlement, devife, promotion name of fuch to any benefice in a church, or promotion to any office, within perfon, &c. twelve calendar months next before fuch election, and which meffuages, lands, or tenements, shall have been within two years next before fuch election charged or affeffed to the land tax, in the name of the perfon or perfons by or through whom fuch perfon fo claiming to vote fhall derive his title to fuch meffuages, lands, or tenements, or of fome predeceffor of such person fo claiming to vote, although the name of the tenant or tenants actually occupying fuch meffuages, lands, or tenements, fhall not be inferted in fuch affeffment, according to the form of aflefliment to the faid first recited act annexed.

II. And

for 6 months

Preamble.

28 Geo. 3.

than the num

II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, Tha nothing in the said acts contained fhall extend, or be conftrue to extend, to prevent any perfon from voting at any fuch electio of a knight or knights of any fhire, or of a burgess or burgeff for the faid borough of Cricklade, for or in refpect of any meffuage lands, or tenements, which have been charged or affeffed, for fi calendar months next before fuch election, towards fome ai granted, or to be granted to his Majefty, his heirs or fucceffor by a land tax, in the name of a tenant or tenants actually occu pying the fame at the time of fuch affeffment being made, al though the name of the perfon fo claiming to vote, or the perfo or perfons by or through whom such person so claiming to vot derives his title, or of the predeceffor of the perfon fo claimin to vote, fhall not be inferted in the affeffment, according to th form of the affeffment to the faid first recited act annexed.

An act to alter, explain, and amend an act, made in the twenty-eight year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, intituled, An act fo limiting the number of perfons to be carried on the outside ftage coaches, or other carriages, and for regulating the condu of the drivers and guards thereof.

HEREAS an act was passed in the twenty-eighth year

W the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An act for limitin

c. 57, recited. the number of perfons to be carried on the outfide of ftag coaches, or other carriages: and whereas the regulations and pena ties thereby established and inflicted have proved infufficient to anfwe the good purposes thereby intended: and whereas it is expedient the certain regulations fhould be established with respect to the conducti the drivers of ftage coaches, and other fuch carriages, and of the per fons going therewith as guards: may it therefore please your Ma jefty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's mo excellent majefty, by and with the advice and confent of the lord fpiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present parliamen From Sept. 29, affembled, and by the authority of the fame, That, from and af 1790, it more ter the twenty-ninth day of September one thousand seven hundre ber of perfons and ninety, if the driver of any coach, chaife, or other carriag herein men- of the like fort, drawn by three or more horses, and going o tioned are travelling for hire, fhall permit or suffer more than one person of carried on the the coach box befides himself, and four perfons on the roof; an outfide of any if fuch coach, chaife, or other carriage, fhall be drawn by lef ftage coach, the driver to than three horses, more than one perfan on the coach box, an pay 5s. for three perfons on the roof, (except the driver of fuch coach, chaife or other carriage, drawn by less than three horses, which shall not go or travel a greater diftance than twenty-five miles from the poft office in the city of London, and who fhall not carry mor than one person on the coach box, and four perfons on the roof the tolls, &c. at one and the fame time), to go or he conveyed by any coach, chaife, or carriage refpectively, every fuch driver fhall pay to the collector of the tolls, at every turnpike gate through which

each perfon

above the

limited num

ber, to the collector of

fuch

fuck