} 3 d. 3 q. and 80,000 1. Seventeen fillings and ten pence halfpenny, and two millions, shall be actually reduced to four pounds per centum per annum, and be likewife from thenceforth redeemable by parliament: now we your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal fubjects, the commons of Great Britain in parliament affembled, being defirous to have the publick debts and incumbrances leffened and discharged as fast as conveniently may be, with regard to juftice and the publick faith, do humbly beseech your Majefty, that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's most excellent majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal and commons, in this prefent parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, That from and after the feaft of the na- After 24 June tivity of Saint John Baptift which fhall be in the year of our 727,annuities Lord one thousand feven hundred and twenty feven, the faid to the bank of respective annuities aforefaid fhall ceafe and determine; and the 88,7511. 78. 10 d. 2q. and faid governor and company of the bank of England, and their 100,000l. to be fucceffors (fubject nevertheless to the provifo and power of re- reduced to demption hereafter in this act contained in that behalf, and none 71,0011. 2 s. other) fhall have, receive and enjoy, in lieu of the respective annuities aforefaid, one annuity or yearly fum of feventy one thoufand and one pounds two fhillings and three pence three farthings, in respect of the faid principal fum of one million seven hundred seventy five thousand and twenty feven pounds seventeen fhillings and ten pence halfpenny, and one other annuity or yearly sum of eighty thousand pounds, in respect of the faid principal fum of two millions; which faid feveral and respective annual or yearly fums of feventy one thousand and one pounds two fhillings and three pence three farthings, and eighty thoufand pounds, fhall be and are hereby charged upon and fhall be paid and payable, from time to time, out of all the monies arifen, or to arife, at the faid receipt of the exchequer, of or for the faid particular duties on houses aforefaid, and of and for the duties and revenues called the aggregate fund, and every or any of them; and fhall be paid and payable to the faid governor and company of the bank of England, and their fucceffors for ever, from the faid feast of the nativity of Saint John Baptift one thousand seven hundred and twenty feven, at the four moft ufual feafts or days of payment in the year, by even and equal portions; all which payments fhall also be made in fucli manner and form, and on fuch conditions, and with fuch preference, as are in the faid act prescribed and directed, in relation to the said feveral annuities of eighty eight thoufand feven hundred fifty one pounds feven fillings and ten pence halfpenny, and one hundred thousand pounds per annum respectively. Redeemed II. Provided always, and it is hereby enacted, That upon re- On repayment payment by parliament to the faid governor and company of the annuities to bank of England, and their fucceffors, of the faid feveral and ceafe. respective principal fums of one million, feven hundred seventy 2 Geo. 2. c. 3+ five thousand twenty feven pounds feventeen fhillings and ten pence halfpenny, and two millions, without any deduction, discount or abatement whatsoever to be made out of the fame, VOL. XV. P or any part thereof, and of all arrears of the faid respective an-nuities of feventy one thousand and one pounds two fhillings and three pence three farthings, and eighty thousand pounds per annum, (if any fuch thall be then due) then, and not till then, the faid feveral and respective annuities of feventy one thousand and one pounds two fhillings and three pence three farthings and eighty thousand pounds, or either of them which fhall be fo redeemed, fhall from thenceforth ceafe and determine; any former act or acts of parliament, or any provifoes, matters or things therein contained, or any other matter or thing whatfoever to the contrary notwithstanding. As any part of III. And in regard it is intended that the faid annuities may be the principal fums are paid Satisfied by any payments, not being less than five hundred thousand off, a propor- pounds of lawful money of Great Britain at a time, and that as the tional part of faid principal money fhall be paid off, the faid debt and annuities shall the annuities proportionally fink and be abated; be it therefore provided and ento be abated. acted by the authority aforefaid, That if at any time or times payment be made of any fum or fums of money, (not being lefs than five hundred thoufand pounds at a time,) in part for the respective principal fums, for which the faid annuities (hall be payable as aforefaid, and alfo if payment be made of all arrearages then due to them, of the fame annuities, or fo much of those arrearages, as fhall bear a proportion to the principal monies from time to time remaining unfatisfied, being computed till the time of every fuch payment of part of the principal refpectively, then from and after every fuch payment so made, so much of the faid annuities, as fhall bear proportion to the monies fo paid in part of the said principal, fhall cease, determine and be abated; any thing in this, or in any former act or acts of parliament to the contrary notwithstanding. eftates. IV. And it is hereby enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Thefe annui- the faid annuities, or fums of feventy one thousand and one ties perfonal pounds two fhillings and three pence three farthings, and eighty thousand pounds, and either of them, fhall be deemed and adjudged to be personal estates, and the fame, and the stock and ftocks, which the faid governor and company of the bank of England, now have, or are entitled unto, as alfo all fuch stock or stocks, which the faid governor and company fhall or may be entitled unto by virtue of this act, and also the principal fums and annuities payable to the faid governor and company, for or in refpect of any fuch ftock or ftocks, are and fhall by virtue of this act be clear and free, and freed and discharged of and from all taxes, charges and publick impofitions whatsoever, charged or to be charged thereupon, and fhall not be liable to any foreign attachments; any law, cuftom or ufage to the contrary notwithftanding. Powers of for mer acts continued, &c. V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That the faid former acts above recited or mentioned, and all the powers, authorities, privileges and advantages, rules, directions, pains, penalties and forfeitures, claufes, matters and things therein contained, being now in force (fuch alterations as are are therein made by this act only excepted) fhall continue and be used, exercised, inflicted, applied and put in practice and execution, as fully as if the faid powers, authorities, privileges and advantages, rules, directions, pains, penalties and forfeitures, clauses, matters and things, were again repeated and reenacted in the body of this prefent act; and that the faid governor and company of the bank of England, and their fucceffors, fhall continue to be a corporation, and fhall enjoy the feveral annuities or fums of feventy one thousand and one pounds two fhillings and three pence three farthings, and eighty thousand pounds, till they refpectively fhall be redeemed as aforefaid; and fhall enjoy all fuch capacities, powers, privileges and advantages, to the said governor and company of the bank of England, as a corporation belonging, until the faid annuities or yearly fums shall be redeemed (according to the provifo in this act contained concerning the fame) freed and discharged of and from all former and other provifoes and powers of redemption whatfoever, for redeeming the faid duties or revenues called the aggregate fund, or the said duties on houses, or any of them; any former act or statute, or any claufe, matter or thing in this act contained to the contrary notwithstanding. ! bank-bills or notes, felony. VI. And whereas of late divers frauds and deceits have been put upon the faid governor and company of the bank of England, and Forging, &c. other perfons, by the altering, forging and counterfeiting of the bankbills, and bank-notes of the faid governor and company, and by the erafing and altering the said bills and notes, and the endorsements thereupon, and by the tendring in payment, uttering, vending, exchanging and bartering, of fuch altered, forged, counterfeited and erafed bills and notes, and the endorsements thereupon, to the prejudice of publick credit, and to the great hurt and diminution of trade and commerce; for redreffing whereof for the future, be it enacted by the authority aforefaid, That if any person or persons shall alter, forge or counterfeit any bank bill or bank-note, made or given out for the payment of any fum of money, by or for the faid governor and company, or any bank-note of any fort whatfoever, or fhall erafe or alter any fuch bill or note, or any endorsement thereupon, or fhall tender in payment, utter, vend, exchange or barter, any fuch altered, forged or counterfeited bill or note, or any erafed or altered bill or note, or the endorsement thereupon, or demand to have the fame exchanged for ready money by the faid governor and company, or their fucceffors, or any other perfon or perfons (knowing fuch bill or note, or the endorfement thereupon, fo tendred or demanded to be exchanged, vended or bartered, to be altered, forged, counterfeited or erafed) and with intention to defraud the faid governor and company, or their fucceffors, or any other perfon or perfons, body politick or corporate; then every fuch perfon or perfons fo offending, (being thereof lawfully convicted) fhall be, and is hereby declared and adjudged a felon, and thall fuffer as in cafes of felony. Reciting the laft will of Thomas Guy, efquire. CAP. X. An act to enable the juftices of the peace for the eaft-riding of the county of York, to take down the county bridge, called Stanford Bridge, and to build a tone bridge at a more convenient place over the river Darwent in the said riding instead thereof. Justices of the east-riding Com. Ebor. may take down Stanford bridge, and build a new bridge at a more convenient place, to be the county bridge. Justices may tax the inhabitants thereto. Juitices may fell the materials of the old bridge. May purchase ground for making a new road to the new bridge. Taxes not to exceed 4d. per pound. CAP. XI. An act for repairing the roads therein mentioned, from the parish of Enfield in the county of Middlefex, to the town of Hertford, and to the great bridge in Ware in the county of Hertford. The tolls granted by this act, took place from the third of May 1725. and to continue for 21 years. Continued and enlarged 6 Geo. 2. c. 15. CAP. XII. An act for incorporating the executors of the last will and teftament of Thomas Guy, late of the city of London, efq; deceased, and others, in order to the better management and difpofition of the charities given by his faid last will. W beirs, beirs, executors, adminiftrators and affigns, and afterwards fuch corporetion should, out of the Refiduum of bis eftate, or the rents, interests, or other profits thereof, carry on, erect, finish, and fit up, the two new Squares of buildings in Southwark, by him then fometime fince began, and intended for an hofpital for reception of fuch fick perfons as are therein after mentioned, and fuch other erections, offices and buildings, as should, in the opinion of his faid executors and trustees, be for that purpose fur ther neceffary; and alfo provide and furnish the fame with beds, and all other conveniencies, for the reception of, and receive and entertain therein, four hundred poor perfons, or upwards, labouring under any distempers, infirmities or diforders, thought capable of relief by phyfick or Surgery, but who by reason of the small hopes there might be of their cure, or the length of time, which for that purpofe might be required or thought necessary, were or might be adjudged or called incurable, and as fuch, not proper objects to be received into, or continued in the prefent hofpital of St. Thomas, or other bospitals, in and by which no provifion bad been made for distempers deemed or called incurable, (of whom he declares his mind to be, that they receive and entertain lunaticks, adjudged or called as aforefaid incurable, not exceeding twenty in number at one time) fuch poor perfons to be chofen and appointed by his faid executors and trustees, out of fuch patients and perfons, who shall be discharged out of the hospital of St. Thomas or Bethlehem, or other hospitals, on account of the fmall bopes of their cure, or the great length of time for that purpose required or thought necessary, and on fuch or any other account, adjudged or called incurable, and not fit to be continued in the faid hofpital of St. Thomas or Bethlehem, or other hofpitals, or fuch other poor fick perfons or lunaticks, as under fuch or the like circumstances, fhould apply to his faid executors and trustees for relief, at the difcretion and pleasure of his faid executors and trustees, to whom he fubmits the feveral fpecies or kinds of fick perfons deemed or called incurable, who shall be admitted into the faid intended bofpital; and has further thereby directed, that his faid executors and trustees should provide fuitable and proper diet, phyfick, and all other neceffaries, for the maintenance, relief or cure of fuch fick perfons during their lives, or for fo long time as his faid executors and trustees fhould think fit to continue them under their care in the faid intended hofpital; and bath thereby further declared his mind and will to be, that fuch poor fick perfons received into, and entertained in the said intended hofpital, should be fubject at all times to his faid executors and trustees, and to fuch rules and orders as they should think fit to make for their behaviour in the faid intended hofpital, and liable to be expelled from thence and removed at the pleasure of his faid executors and trustees, and other like fick perfons admitted and entertained in their room; and thereby further declares his mind and will to be, that if his faid execu tors and trustees should not find cause, or fhould on any account whatfoever not think fit to keep all, or great part of the beds or wards in the faid intended hofpital, filled and supplied with fick perfons deemed or called incurable, it should be lawful for them to caufe any number of the faid beds or wards to be filled and made use of in like manner, and with like patients, as the beds in the hofpital of St. Thomas are ordinarily used for; all which patients fo to be received and taken in from time to time into the faid intended hofpital as incurable or otherwife, he hath declared bis mind to be, that his faid executors and trustees should provide in all things, as near as might be, according to the courfe, customs and usage of late years prevailing and practifed in the faid prefent hospital of P 3 St. |