Section XII Recital of Stat. 4 W. & M. c. 3. §9.; and that in pursuance of Stat. 9 W. III. c. 24. several reversionary Tallies have been struck, &c. in the Name of the Earl of Ranelagh, and that Doubts had arisen whether Assignments thereof by him were according to the Form of 4 W, & M. c. 3.

On Entry made in the Exchequer, as herein mentioned, before 29th Sept. 1700, subsequent Assignments good.

And whereas by an Act of Parliament made and passed in the Fourth Yeare of the Reigne of His present Majesty and the late Queene Mary intituled An Act for granting to Their Majesties certaine Rates and Duties of Excise upon Beere Ale and other Liquors for securing certaine Recompences and Advantages in the said Act mentioned to such Persons as shall voluntarily advance the Summe of Ten hundred thousand Pounds towards carrying on the Warr against France It is (amongst other Things) enacted That it shall and may be lawfull for any Contributor his Executors Administrators or Assignes by any Writing under Hand and Seale or by his last Will in Writing to assigne or devise any one or more Share or Shares of the Fond therein mentioned to any Person or Persons and no such Assignment to be revocable soe as an Entry or Memorandum thereof be made in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipt within the Space of Two Months after such Assignment or Death of the Devisor and upon produceing such Assignment or Will the Party is to bring an Affidavit of the Execution thereof to be filed as is therein specified And whereas in pursuance of an Act of Parliament made in the Ninth Yeare of His Majesties Reigne intituled An Act for enlargeing the Time for purchasing certaine Estates or Interests in severall Annuities therein mentioned severall reversionary Talleys have been struck and Orders thereupon drawne for Payment of reversionary Annuities in the Name of Richard Earl of Ranelagh of the Kingdom of Ireland and by him issued out to such Uses as in and by the said Act is directed but some Doubt ariseing whether the Assignments made by the said Earle on the Back of the said Orders be according to the Forme prescribed by the first recited Act whereby the severall and respective Assignees may not have such legall Titles to the said Talleys and Orders as by the said last recited Act was intended they should which may obstruct the Sale or conveying away the same and their receiving any Annuity due or to grow due thereon to the end therefore that all Persons who now are or at any Time hereafter shall or may be possessed of or interested in any of the said Talleys and Orders may have and be invested in a good and lawfull Title to the same Be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the said indorsed Assignments now made or hereafter to be made by the said Earl of Ranelagh or other Person or Persons authorized to make the same for conveying the said Talleys and Orders to such Persons and to such Uses as in the said recited Act are specified and all other Assignments whether indorsed or otherwise made by virtue of and subsequent to such indorsed Assignements soe as an Entry or Memorandum of such subsequent Assignements be made in the said Office of the Receipt before the Nine and twentieth Day of September One thousand seaven hundred shall be and are hereby deemed and adjudged to be as good to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever in Law as if each and every of the said Assignments had beene executed in every particular pursuant to the Forme and Manner in the first above recited Act more at large prescribed and enacted