666 C. 20. Anno odavo & nono GuLiELMi III. A. D. 1697* No Tailey to Scflion of Parliament, fliall, upon any Contraft, Agreement, or Bargain, whatfoever, for or concerning beukenatmora ^j^y ^f j|^g j-^j^j Xallies Of Orders, or for or concerning the Monies or any Part thereof due or payable, or iMowedVhere"^"^^ '° ^^ "^"^ ° Payable by or upon any of the faid Tallies or Orders, take, accept, or receive, or agree to upon,^ "*' take, accept, or receive, or fliall give or allow, or promife or agree to give or allow, direfily or indire£l:ly, by way of Pramium, Reward, jjilcount, Gratuity, Gift, or otherwife, or by Means of any Exchange, Wager, Shift, -Chevifance, Covin, Device, or Way whatfoever, more than the lawful Intereft allowed upon fuch Talley or Order, and due or payable at the Time of fuch Affignment, together with a further Allov/ance not exceeding the Rate of fix Pounds per Centum for every hundred Pounds principal Money, oil pain of for- and fo proportionably for a greater or lefier Sum, upon Pain of forfeiting and lofing for every fuch Offence feitiiig treble the (-j-eble the Value of the principal Monies contained or fpecified in fuch Talley or Order, for v/hich fuch Value of the Bargain, Agreement, or Contracft fhall be made ; that is to fay, one third Part thereof to the King, His principal, oney. j^gj^.^ ^^^ Succeffors, and the other two thirds thereof to fuch Perfon or Perfons as will inform and fue for the fame, to be recovered by Aftion of Debt, or of the Cafe, Bill, Suit, or Information, wherein no Ef- fofn, Prote£tion, Wager of Law, or more than one Imparlatice, fhall be granted or allowed ; and that every Perfon, who ftiall be guilty of fuch- Offence in the buying of any fuch Order or Talley, and be thereof convided, ftall be deemed and is hereby adjudged to be a common Extortioner, and {hall fuffer fuch further Pains and Penalties, as by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm may be inflidtcd for common Extortion. EXP. LVIII. And for the more effeftual obviating and preventing the aforefaid evil Practice, and the mif- No Affignment chievous Confequences thereof ; Be it further enabled by the Authority aforefaid, That no Affignment or of OrJsi-oiTal- Transferrence, which from and after the faid tenth Day of 7a?z^ one thoufand fix hundred ninety-feven, ley to be good, fj-j,,]! |jg niade of any of the faid Orders or Tallies, or of any of the Monies contained or fpeciiied therein, unlefs made m ^p^^ {j.,g felling, buying, or bargaining of the fame, ihall be good and available either in Law or Equity, ^neTby th"e o be in any wife effectual for the affigning or transferring the Right or Property of any fuch Order or Tal- jr„.|-y^ ley, or any the Monies thereby due or payable, unlefs fuch Affignment or Transferrence be made in Wri- orthe'common ting, and be figned by the Party or Parties making the fame, or be under the comm.on Seal of a Corpora- Seal of a Cor- tion or Body Politick, or be figned by fome Perfon or Perfons by the Authority or Direftion of fuch Party poration, &c. or Parties, Corporation or Body Politick, and be within ten Days after the Signing thereof entred or re- and eiitreJ in lo g[fl-|.gj^ ^-jd th^t Oath be thereupon made in the Manner and Form following; that is to fay, in cafe fuch i^^-^^and"^Oath" Affignment or Tranferrence be of Money payable by any Order at the Receipt of the Exchequer, then the made^t'heieon. faid Affignment fhall be regiftred by an Eritry or Notification thereof in the Books kept or to be kept by Repealed by 1 1 the Auditor of the Receipt of His Majcfty's iiA-f/'/J^^^-, or the Clerk of the Pells there for that Purpofe, &iaW. 3.C. 3. and the Perfon or Perfons to whom fuch Affignment of or upon any fuch Order fhall be made, or the §• '4- Treafurer for any Corporation or Body Politick, who are to have the Benefit of fuch Affignment, or fome other credible Perfon or Perfons employed to make the Bargain or ContraiS, for which fuch Affignment fhall be made, and being Privy thereunto, fhall within the laid ten Days make Affidavit before the faid Auditor or the Clerk of the Pells in the faid Receipt of Exchequer (who have hereby Povv^er to adminifter the fame) that no Allov/ance, Prcemiuni, Gratuity or Confideration whatfoever, exceeding the lav.'fu! Interefl, and the faid Allowance not exceeding the Rate of fix Pounds per Centum, as aforefaid, directly or indiredtly,
- or by any Way, Device, Shift, Exchange, Wager, Chevifance, or otherwife howfoever, was taken, ac-
cepted, gained, gotten, or agreed to be taken, accepted, gained, or gotten, for or in rcfpeft of fuch Af- fignment ; and in cafe fuch Affignment or Transferrence be of Money payable by any Talley of Pro or Tal'e of Pro AiTignment at the Excife Office, or at the General Poft Office, or in any other pub^ick Office, then fuch payabUat the Affignment or Transferrence fhall be regiflred by an Entry or Notification thereof in the Books to be kept Excife, or Ge- for that Purpofe by the Commiffioners of Excife, the Poft Mafter or Poil Mailers General, or other Chief neralPoftOf- Officers in any of the faid publick Offices for the time being refpc£lively ; and the Perfon or Perlbn-; to fice, &c. whom fuch Ailignrnent of or upon any fuch Talley of Pro or Affignment fhall be made, or the Treafurer for any Corporation or Body Politick, or fome other credible Perfon or Perlons employed to make the Bar- gain or ContraiSt, for which fuch Affignment fliall be made, and being privy thereunto as aforefaid, fliall within the faid ten Days make tlie like Affidavit, as aforefaid, before one or more of the faid CommifEoners of Excife, and Poft Mafters General, or other Chief Officers in fuch publick Office, for the time being, or fuch Perfons as fliall be deputed by them refpeclively for this Purpofe, who have hereby Power to ad- minifter the fame. Rep. Officers In the LIX. And be it further cnafijed by the Authority aforefaid^ That the faid Auditor of the Receipt, and Exchequer, Ex. the Clerk of the Pells, or one of them, and fome one or more of the faid Commiffioners of Excife, Poft clfe and Poft Of- ^,4a{t,.i-s General, or other Chief Officers in the faid publick Oi^ices refpciStively, or their refpective Depu- flce, to attend ^j^^^ fhall, from and after the faid tenth Day of 'June one thoufand fix hundred ninety-leven, attend daily k» aVh" 2"d every Day, from the Hour of Nine to the Hour of 'I'welve in the Forenoon {Sundays and fuch Holi- !i!enfs, and"ad- days as are ufually obferved only excepted) for regiftring or caufing to be regiftred the faid Affignments, jnininifti-ing the. and for adminiftiing the (aid Oaths, and fhall duly regifter and^adminifter the fame, and fliall,^ upon the Oaths, regiftrino- of every fuch Affignment, and adminiftring the faid Affidavit relating thereunto, make a Memoran- dum, as 'well in their refpeitive Books, as upon the refpeftive Writings of Aff.gnment as aforefaid, importing that fuch Affidavit was duly adminiftred according to this A£l ; all v.'hich they fhall do and perform, or caufe to be done or performed, without Fee or Charge, under the Pain offorfeiting ti'eble Damages, be- fides Cofls of Suit, to the Party grieved, and to be recovered by Action of Debt or of the Cafe, as afore- faid. Penalty on Bro- LX. And be it enafted by the Authority aforefaid, That all and every Perfon and Perfons, who fhall be ,^„,^,^yed as a Broker or Brokers, Solicitor or Solicitors, or otherv/ife, in the Behalf of any other Perfon or above as. 6d. pgj.j-Qj^j,^ fg make or drive any Bargain or Contrail: for the buying or felling of any of the faid Orders or kcrs, &c, taking g^pjoyed as a Broker or Brokers, Solicitor or Solicitors, or otherv/ife, in the Behalf of any other Perfon or °-°Cent^"for' Perfons, to make or drive any Bargain or Contrail: for the buying or felling of any of the faid Orders or Broica"/&T. Tallies, who fliallj after the faid tenth Day of June one thoufand fix hundred ninety-fevcn, take or receive, ' " ' ■ dirsftly
