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Section XIX The Time for Subscriptions; enlarged.

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Subscriptions of £10. and upwards.; Subscriptions of £6. and upwards.

And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid in regard a great part of the time p[re]fixed in the said Propositions for the Subscriptions of the said Underwriters is already elapsed that every one of the Kings Subjects of the Realms of England Scotland or Ireland that shall underwrite within this Kingdome the su[m]m of ten pounds or more for the purpose aforesaid before the first day of May one thousand six hundred fourty two and before the said million of money be underwritten and shall pay in one moiety thereof to the respective Receivers before nominated in this Act at the time of such Subscription and shall pay in the other moiety residue thereof to the said Receivers within six moneths after such Subscription and every one of the Kings Subjects of the Realmes of England Scotland and Ireland that shall underwrite the su[m]m of six pounds or more within the Realm of Ireland for the purpose aforesaid (in one or more Books to be kept for that purpose by the Treasurer of the Army there for the time being) who is authorized and required hereby to keepe such Booke or Books and to enter the names of such Underwriters and the time of such Subscriptions togeather with the su[m]ms subscribed before the first day of July one thousand six hundred fourty two and before the said million of money shall be underwritten and shall at the time of such Subscription pay one moietie of such sum so to be underwritten to the said Treasurer for the time being (who is hereby likewise authorised to receive all such su[m]ms of money and give Receipts for the same under his hand) and shall pay to the said Treasurer the other moietic residue within six moneths after such Subscription every person so underwriting in this Realme or in the Realm of Ireland as aforesaid shall have a proportionable share of the said Rebels Lands and of other Lands to be forfeited by this Act according to the su[m]m to be underwritten and paid in as aforesaid and as if such person had underwritten within the times mentioned in the said Propositions and had paid in his money accordingly