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  "legislation": "aep/WillandMar/6-7/3",
  "legislation_title": "Taxation (No. 3) Act 1694",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-3-act-1694",
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  "kind": "section",
  "number": "LXXXI",
  "heading": "Repayment of such Monies how secured.",
  "text": "Books provided; Tally of Loan to Lender and Warrant for Interes; Orders for Repayment registered according to Date of Tally, and paid in course; Monies to come in by this Act liable to satisfy such Loans; No Fee for providing or making Books, &c. or for Payment of Money lent; Penalty; Punishment; Undue Preference by Officer; Penalty. Punishment. By Deputy; Penalty; Punishment. Auditor, Clerk of the Pells, or Teller not making Payment in due Order; Penalty. How all such Penalties to be recovered.\nAnd to the end that all such moneyes which shall be soe lent to his Majestie on the creditt of this Act may be well and sufficiently secured out of the said moneyes ariseing and payable by this Act Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That there shall be provided and kept in his Majesties Exchequer (that is to say) in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipts one booke and register in which all moneyes of the said aide of four shillings in the pound that shall be paid into the Exchequer by virtue of this Act shall be entered and registered apart and distinct from all other moneyes paid or payable to his Majestie upon any other branch of the Revenue or upon any other account whatsoever; and that all and every person and persons who shall lend any money to his Majestie upon the creditt of the said aid of four shillings in the pound granted by this Act and pay the same into the receipt of exchequer shall imediately have a tally of loan struck for the same and an order for his or theire repayment beareing the same date with his or theire tally in which order shall be conteined a warrant for payment of interest for the forbeareance thereof not exceedeing five pounds per Centum per Annu[m] for his or theire considerac[i]on to be paid every three months untill repayment of his or theire principall, and that all orders for repayment of moneyes shall be registered in course according to the date of the tally respectively without other p[re]ferrence of one before another and that all and every person and persons shall be paid in course according as theire orders shall stand entered in the said register booke soe as the persons natives or forreigners his or theire executors adm[ini]strators or assignes who shall have his or theire order or orders first entered in the said booke of register shall be taken and accounted the first person or persons to be paid upon the moneyes to come in by virtue of this Act; and he or they who shall have his or theire order or orders next entered shall be taken and accounted the second person to be paid and soe successively and in course; and that the moneyes of the said aide of four shillings in the pound to come in by this Act shall be in the same order lyable to the satisfacc[i]on of the said respective partyes theire executors administrators and assignes respectively and successively without preferrence of one before another and not otherwise and not to be divertible to any other use intent or purpose whatsoever; and that noe fee reward or gratuitye directly or indirectly be demanded or taken of any his Majesties subjects for provideing or makeing of any such bookes registers entryes veiwes or search in or for payment of such money lent or the interest thereof as aforesaid by any of his Majesties Officer or Officers theire Clerks or Deputyes upon paine of paying treble damages to the party agreived by the party offending with costs of suite, or if the Officer himselfe take or demand any such fee or reward then to lose his place alsoe; and if any undue preferrence of one before another shall be made either in point of registry or payment contrary to the true meaneing of this Act by any such Officer or Officers then the party offending shall be lyable (by acc[i]on of debt or on the case) to pay the value of the debt damages and costs to the party agreived and shall be forejudged from his place or office; and if such p[re]ferrence be unduely made by any his Deputy or Clerke without direcc[i]on or privity of his Master then such Deputy or Clerke only shall be lyable to such acc[i]on debt damage and costs and shall be for ever after uncapable of his place or office and in case the Auditor shall not direct the order, or the Clerke of the Pells record or the Teller make payment according to each persons due place and order as aforedirected then he or they shall be adjudged to forfeit and theire respective Deputyes and Clerks herein offending to be lyable to such acc[i]on debt damages and costs in such manner as aforesaid All which said penalties damages forfeitures and costs to be incurred by any of the Officers of the Exchequer or any theire Deputyes or Clerks shall and may be recovered by acc[i]on of debt bill plaint or informac[i]on in any of his Majesties Courts of record att Westminster wherein noe essoigne protecc[i]on priviledge wager of law injuncc[i]on or order of restraint shall be in any wise granted or allowed:-",
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