20 C. 12. Anno primo Georgii Regis. Stat. 2. A. D. 1714. t mainder of fuch enlarged or augmented Fund fhall, from Time to Time, produce for that Purpofe, (hall < and may be appropriated for paying off ail the principal Money contained in all and every the faid Exchequer-Bills remaining, and which fhall from Time to Time remain uncancelled or undifcharged, and for cancelling the fame, until all the faid Bills fhall be cancelled and difcharged. Provided always, Deficiencies, * That in cafe at any Time or Times there fhall happen to be any Deficiency or Deficiencies to make made °ood. ' good the Payments of the original Fund of one hundred thoufand Pounds per Annum of the faid Governor ' and Company, fpecified in the faid firft mentioned Act of the feventh Year of her late Majefty's Reign, ' and of their yearly Annuity of one hundred and fix thoufand five hundred and one Pounds thirteen Shil-
- lings and five Pence, in the fame Act fpecified, or either of them, then and fo often, all and every fuch
' Deficiency and Deficiencies fhall and may, from Time to Time, be fatisfied and made good out of the i faid Refidue or P.emainder of fuch enlarged or augmented Fund, as aforefaid, with Preference to any ' Iflb.es thereafter to be made for cancelling any of the faid Exchequer-Bills : Now for the making up, ' fettling and eftabliming a good, fure and complete Fund, fuffkient to anfwer all the Ends and Purpofes
- by this A£l intended, by making all the Payments which fhall, from Time to Time, be incurred or
' grown due (in the Order and Courfe hereby prefcribed) as well for and upon the faid Intereft, and feveral See 1 Geo. i. ' Allowances before-mentioned, as for and upon the faid yearly Sums of one hundred and twenty thoufand Stat. 1. c, 19. 1 p ounc j S) a!lc [ fifty-four thoufand fix hundred Pounds, and by making good fuch Deficiencies as fhall or Andfanhtri ' may happen, as aforefaid, and by producing a yearly Sum to be applied quarterly, for or towards the Ceo. 1. Siat. 1. ' cancelling and difcharging the faid Bills ; We your Majefty's faid dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Com- e. 27- ' mons of Great Britain in Parliament afiembled, do humbly befeech your Majefty, that it may be enacted ' and declared ;' And be it enacted and declared by the King's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons, in this prefent Parliament The two Thirds afTembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That the aforefaid Duties, called the two Thirds of a Sub- Snbfidy, trie f lc jy f Tonnage and Poundage, and the faid Duties upon Coffee, Cocoa-Nuts, Chocolate, Cocoa-Pafte, &c.Tnd n the° one Tea > Nutmegs, Cinnamon, Cloves, Mace, Pictures and Muffins, and the faid increafed Duties upon Haif-Subfidy Coffee, Cocoa-Nuts, Chocolate, Cocoa-Pafte, Tea, Nutmegs, Cinnamon, Cloves, Mace, and Pictures, 7 Ann. c. 7. and the faid further Rates or Duties upon all white Callicoes, Porcelan, commonly called China Ware, flull be Part of anc j Drugs, and the aforefaid half Subfidy of Tonnage and Poundage, which were all granted to her faid for the"u' FU " d ^ at:e ^ a J e ^V5 ner Heirs and Succefiors for ever, by the faid firft mentioned Act of the feventh Year of her this Act. ' ' Reign, and the Excefs or Surplus, which fhall from Time to Time arife by the faid other Moiety or half of the faid Subfidy of Tonnage and Poundage, which was granted for the Term of ninety-fix Years, from the laft Day of July one thoufand feven hundred and twelve, and charged with eighty thoufand Pounds per Annum, for Payment of Annuities, and all other Revenues, Remains and Arrears whatfoever, which by the faid Act of the twelfth Year of her faid late Majefty's Reign were appropriated for Payment of Intereft and Allowances relating to the Exchequer-Bills, or towards cancelling the fame, fubject to fuch Redemp- tion as was thereby prefcribed, fhall be, and fhall be deemed and taken, and are hereby enacted and de- clared to be Part of the general Fund, and Security by this Act eftablifhed and intended to be eftablifhed, for all the Ufes and Purpofes in this Act expreffed, and fhall be fubject to fuch Redemption as in this Act is prefcribed, and not otherwife ; the faid former Adts or any of them, or any Claufe, Matter or Thing in them, or any of them, contained to the contrary in any wife notwithftanding. ' II. And to the End there may be no Failure or Defect in the faid general Fund hereby intended to be 4 eftablifhed, his Majefty's faid dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament Duties on ' afiembled, have given and granted, and by this Act do give and grant to his Majefty, his Heirs and Suc- Wines and Mer. e. ce fT ors f or ever, the feveral additional Revenues and Incomes herein after more particularly expreffed, and ' do moft humbly befeech his Majefty, that it may be enacted ;' And be it enacted by the Authority afore- faid, in Manner following, that is to fay, Whereas by an Act of Parliament of the fixth Year of her faid
- Anme, c n. [ a £ e Majefty's Reign, intituled, An Act for continuing one Half-Part of the Subfidies of Tonnage and Poundage
and other Duties upon Wines, Goods, and Merchandizes imported, which were granted to the Crown in the twelfth Tear of the Reign of King Charles the Second, and for fettling a Fund thereby, and by other TVoys and Means, for Payment of Annuities, not exceeding eighty thoufand Pounds per Annum, to be fold for raying a further Supply to her Majefty, for the Service of the Tear one thoufand feven hundred and eight, and other Ufes therein id 3ven. -. itely enfuing, fhould be imported or brought into Great Britain, one Moiety or Half-Part of the Subfidies Duties, and Sums of Money therein mentioned, or thereby referred to ; (except as therein is excepted): Now it is hereby enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That there fhall be raifed, levied, collected, and paid, to his Majefty, his Heirs and Succefiors for ever, for and upon all Wines, Goods and Merchandizes which at any Time or I imes, from and after the Determination of the faid Term of ninety-fix Years lhall be imported or brought into Great Britain, the like Moiety or Half-Part of the like Subfidies, Duties and Sums of Money (except as in and by the faid Act of the fixth Year of her late Majefty's Reign, or any other Act or Acts of Parliament in relation to the faid Half-Subfidy, is excepted) and fhall be collected levied, and paid by fuch Ways and Means, and under fuch Penalties and Forfeitures, and fubject to fuch Drawbacks and Allowances, and in fuch Manner and Form, as by the faid Act of the fixth Year of her Majefty's Reign,' or any other Act relating thereunto, is prefcribed, for railing and levying the faid Half- Subfidy, during the Term aforefaid ; and that all the Monies which, after the Determination of the faid Term of ninety-fix Years, fhall arife, of or for the faid Moiety or Half-Part of the faid Subfidy and Duties hereby intended to be continued, and all the Arrears of the faid Half-Subfidy which fhall or may 3. arife
