# Taxation, etc. (No. 2) Act 1695, Section X: The King, by Commission under the Great Seal, may appoint Persons to take Subscriptions for raising £2,564,000 as herein mentioned.


The said yearly Sum of £179,480 applied to the Use of Subscribers.
And be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawfull to and for His Majesty by Co[m]mission under the Great Seale of England to authorise and appoint any Number of Persons to take and receive all such voluntary Subscriptions as shall be made on or before the First Day of August One thousand six hundred ninety six by any Person or Persons Natives or Forreigners Bodies Politick or Corporate (other then the Governor and Company of the Bank of England) for and towards the raiseing and paying into the Receipt of Exchequer the said Su[m]m of Two Millions five hundred sixty four thousand Pounds and to take and receive all such voluntary Subscriptions as shall be made of Land on or before the said First Day of August in such manner and forme as is herein after limitted and appointed and that the yearly Su[m]m of One hundred seventy nine thousand four hundred and eighty Pounds ariseing by and out of the said Duties and Impositions before mentioned shall be applied issued and directed and is hereby appropriated to the Use and Advantage of such Person or Persons Bodies Politick or Corporate as shall make such voluntary Subscriptions and Payments of the said Two Millions five hundred sixty foure thousand Pounds their Executors Successors and Assigns for ever proportionable to the Subscription of each Person or Body Politick so subscribing the same and shall from time to time as the same shall come into the said Receipt of Exchequer be issued and paid accordingly.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/7-8/31/section/X (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-etc-no-2-act-1695/section-X
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