A. D. 1707. Anno fexto Ann^e Reglnse. C. 6. 275 and be for ever incapable of any Office or Place of Truft, and fhall anfwer and pay Treble Damages to every Contributor or Perfon who (hall be prejudiced thereby, to be recovered by A61:ion of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information in any of her Majefty's Courts of Record at IVeftminJhr, wherein no EfToin, Proteiftion, Privilege of Parliament, or other Privilege, Wager of Law, Injunftion, Order of Reftraint, or more than one Imparlance ftiall be granted or allowed ; and in the faid Action the Plaintiff upon Re- covery fhall have full Cofts, one third of which Sum to be recovered for Damages, fliall be to the Ufe of her Majefiry, her Heirs and Succeflbrs, and the other two third Parts with the Cofts fliall be to the Ufe of the Profecutor ; and in cafe there fliall be any Collufion or Feint Profecution between the Plaintiff and Defendant in fuch Aftion, it fhall be lawful for any other Contributor, his or her Executors, Admi- iiiftrators or Affigns, to "bring another A6lion, wherein he or fhe fhall recover, as aforefaid, to the like Ufes, as aforefaid. XVIII. Provided always, That no Perfon or Perfons whatfoever fhall or may Purchafe or obtain, or NoPurchafeun- bc admitted to purchafe or obtain any Annuity whatfoever upon this Aft, unlefs the whole or one fourth '^'K'?"^ ^°Z^^ h at leaft of the Confideration-money for the lame, at fuch Rate, as aforefaid, be advanced and paid '"to j-os/* "" the faid Receipt of Exchequer, on or before the faid fix and twentieth Day of March one thoufand feven ' hundred and eight. XIX. Provided alfo, That in Cafe any fuch Contributor, as aforefaid, who fhall on or before the faid Contributor pay- fix and twentieth Day of yM?rir/7 one thoufand feven hundred and eight, have advanced one fourth Part '"E°"= f^""h,ii of his or their Purchafe-money, or his, her, or their Executors, Adminiftrators, Succeffors, or Affigns, R"4'jf"der°fo'r- do not advance and pay into- the faid Receipt of Exchequer, one other fourth Part of his or her Confi- fgjts^.hatispaiij, deration-money, fo to be paid for fuch refpeclive Annuity or Annuities, as aforefaid, on or before the faid fix and twentieth Day of May in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and eight ; and the other fourth Part thereof, on or before the faid fix and twentieth Day of July one thoufand feven hundred and eight ; and the remaining fourth Part thereof on or before the faid five and twentieth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and eight ; then and in every fuch Cafe refpecftively no Order fhall be drawn or figned for fuch refpeftive Annuity, for which the Confideration-money fhall not be fully paid, as aforefaid, but fo much of the Confideration- " money as fhall have been aftually paid into the Receipt of the Exchequer for fuch refpeftive Annuity, ihall be forfeited to her Majefty, her Heirs, and Succeffors, and be applied, together with other the Mo- nies to be raifed by this A6t, for fuch publick Services, as aforefaid ; any thing in this AQ. contained to the contrary notwithftanding. XX. Provided alfo, and it is hereby enafted. That it fhall and may be lawful to and for the Trea- Treafury may furer of the Exchequer, or any three or more of the Commiflioners of the Treafury for the Time being, ■^^"^^ Officers, out of the Overplus of the Revenues hereby appropriated for making good the faid Fund, not exceeding forty thoufand Pounds per Annum, which fhall arife over and above fo much as fhall be fufficient to make up the faid yearly Fund for difcharging all the Annuities to be purchafed on this KEk., to rev/ard the Officers, Clerks, and others to be imployed in the Payment of the faid Annuities, or the Accounts thereof, for their Labour, Pains, Charges, and Service therein refpeftively, and to defray all other the necef- fary Charges incident to the Payment of the faid Annuities, as to the faid Treafurer or Commiffioners of the Treafury for the Time being, fliall feem meet and reafonable in that Behalf; any thing in this A£t contained to the contrary notwithftanding. ' XXI. And whereas there are admitted in the Exchequer many Subfcriptions for Annuities to Subrcriptions ad.
- this AiS before the fame has had the Royal Affent,' Be it further ena£led by the Authority afore- '"'"^'^ before the
faid. That all Subfcriptions made or taken, or which fhall be made and taken, before the Royal Affent ^°^ •^^""^' given to this A£i:, fhall be, and are hereby declared to be null and void. ^°' ' CAP. VI. An A6t for rendring the Union of the two Kingdoms more intire and compleat.
- I. TT 7 H E R E A S by her Majefty's great Wifdom and Goodn'-fs the Union of the two Kingdoms 5 Ann. c 8.
' VV hath been happily effected, and the whole Ifland is thereby fubjeiEl to one Sovereignty, and ' prefented by one Parliament :' To the end therefore that the faid Union may be rendred more compleat and intire, be it enafted by the Qiieen's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent «f the Lords Spiritual and Temporal', and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, that from and after the firft Day of May in the Year of our Lord one thoufand From i May feven hundred and eight, the Queen's Majefty, her Heirs and Succeffors, fhall have but one Privy Coun- ^7°^ the Queen ell in or for the Kingdom oi Great Britain, to be fworn to her Majefty, her Heirs and Succeffors, as So- privy^coundlT vtx?gns oi Great Britain ; and fuch Privy Council fhall have the fame Powers and Authorities as the Great Britain. Privy Council of £?z^/(7«(:/ lawfully had, ufed, and exercifed at the Time of the Union, and none other. II. And to the End the publick Peace may be in like Manner preferved throughout the whole United Juftices of Peace Kingdom ; Be it further enafted by the Authority aforefaid, That in every Shire and Stewartry within ?° ^^ appointed that Part of Great Britain czUed Scotland and alfo in fuch Cities, Borouijhs, Liberties, and Precinifs ^"/sj^^^.jj^j'/y ■ , within Scotland, as her Majefty, her Heirs or Succeffors fhall think fit, there fhall be appointed by her ofScotland. j Wajefty, her Heirs or Succeifors, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, a fufficient Number of good and Explained as to lawful Men to be Juftices of the Peace v/ithin their refpedlive Shires, Stewartries, Cities, Boroughs, Liber- Dittaysand Par- ties, or Precinfts ; which Perfons fo appointed, over and above the feveral Powers and Authoritfes vefted tenus Rolls, by in Juftices of the Peace by the Laws of Scotland, fhall be further authorized to do, ufe and exercife over ^ Ann^jC, 16. Nn 2 all' 3-
