A. D. 1730. Anno duodecimo Georgii II. C. 18,19. 335 " Truftees impowered to pull down and rebuild the Church. Funeral Rates. Rates for tolling the " Bells, as fpecified by an Indenture, and Rates for the Ufe of Palls, to be applied to the Purpofes " of the Act. The Rates to be vefted in the Truftees. Collectors exempted from the Office of Scaven-
- ger. Annuities for Life on Contributions, at 8/. per Centum per Annum, to be charged on the Rates.
" Quarterly Affeffments to be made; and to be paid two Thirds by the Landlord, and one by the " Tenant. The Rates not to intitle Perfons to Settlements. Parifhioners impowered to alter the burial " Fees. Rights of the Bifhop of London, and the' Rector, not to be prejudiced. CAP. XVIII. An Act for repairing the Road or Highway from the Dun Cow in the Town of Dunchurch-, through the Parifh of Bilton over Dun/more Heath to the Town of Hill Morton in the County of Warwick ; and from thence through the feveral Parifhes of Creek, Weft Haddon and Eajl Haddon. in the County of Northampton, to Saint James's End, in the Parifh of Dunjion, in the faid County of Northamp- ton. PR. Certain Tolls are granted from zJune 1739, for 21 Years. 16 Geo. 2. c. 20. CAP. XIX. An A6t for granting to his Majefty the Sum of five hundred thoufand Pounds out of the Sinking Fund, for the Service of the Year one thoufand feven hundred and thirty-nine ; and for enabling his Majefty to raife the further Sum of five hundred thoufand Pounds out of the growing Produce of the faid Fund ; and for the further appropriating the Supplies granted in this Seffion of Parliament •, and for giving Time for the Pay- ment of Duties omitted to be paid for the Indentures and Contracts of Clerks and Apprentices. MOST gracious Sovereign : We your Majefty's molt dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons Preamble. of Great Britain in Parliament affembled, being defirous to raife the Supply granted to your Ma- 1 jetty in this Seffion of Parliament, by Ways the lealt burihenfome to your Majefty's Subjects, have i refolved to give and grant unto your Majefty the Sum of five hundred thoufand Pounds, out of the
Surplufles, Exceffes and Overplus Monies, commonly called The Sinking Fund, towards the Supply
i granted to your Majefty for the Service of the Year one thoufand feven hundred and thirty-nine ; and i alfo to enable your Majefty to iffue and apply the further Sum of five hundred thoufand Pounds out I of the growing Produce of the faid Sinking Fund, or to raife the fame by Loans or Exchequer Bills, ! at an Intereft not exceeding three Pounds per Centum per Annum, to be charged upon and fecured by the ! faid Fund, for the Service of the faid Year one thoufand feven hundred and thirty-nine, in cafe the 1 Exigency of Affairs fhould require the fame, in fuch Manner and Form as is herein after mention- ' ed ; and to that End and Purpofe do moft humbly befeech your Majefty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted 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 affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That by or out of fuch Monies as now are, or fhall from time to time quarterly be, in Treafury to if- the Receipt of the Exchequer, of the faid Surplufles, Exceffes or Overplus Monies, commonly called f" e °ut °' 'lie the Sinking Fund, at any Time before the Feaft Day of the Nativity of Saint John the Bapiift, which ^^.fj^^ fhall be in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and thirty-nine (after paying or referving fufficient to pay all fuch Sum and Sums of Money as have been directed by any former Act or Acts of Parliament to be paid out of the fame) there fhall and may be iffued, paid and applied a Sum not < exceeding the faid Sum of five hundred thoufand Pounds, for or towards the Supply granted to his Majefty, for the Service of the faid Year one thoufand feven hundred and thirty-nine ; and the Com- .miffioners of his Majefty's Treafury, or any three or more of them now being, or the high Treasurer, i or any three or more of the Commiffioners of the Treafury for the time being, are hereby authorized and impowered to iffue and apply the fame accordingly. II. And for or towards raiting the faid further Sum or Sums of Money, not exceeding in the Whole the faid Sum of five hundred thoufand Pounds ; it is hereby further enacled by the Authority afore- faid, That it fhall and may be lawful to and for the Commiffioners of his Majefty's Treafury, or any and the grow- three or more of them now being, or the high Treafurer, or any three or more of the Commiffioners >"S ?r° duce of of the Treafury for the time being, and they are hereby authorized and impowered from time to time, towa^dsraMne at or after the faid Feaft Day of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptift, to iffue and apply the growing thefurther Sum Produce of the faid Surpluffes, Exceffes and Overplus Monies, commonly called The Sinking Fund ot 5^°j° co1 : (except fuch Monies of the faid Sinking Fund as are appropriated to any particular Ufe or Ufes by ° r the Year 58
- any former or other Act or Acts of Parliament in that Behalf) towards raifing the faid further Sum of 1739.
- five hundred thoufand Pounds, for or towards the Supply granted to his Majefty for the Service of the
faid Year one thoufand feven hundred and thirty-nine as aforefaid ; but in cafe the faid Commit- or the faid Sum . any Perfon or Perfons, Natives or Foreigners, Bodies Politick and Corporate, to advance or lend to his Majefty,
