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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-3-act-1695/section-XXXI",
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  "legislation": "aep/Will3/7-8/18",
  "legislation_title": "Taxation (No. 3) Act 1695",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-3-act-1695",
  "path": "section/XXXI",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XXXI",
  "heading": "Repayment of Monies lent, how to be secured.",
  "text": "Books to be provided; Tally of Loan to Lender, and Warrant for Interest; Orders for Repayment to be 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.; Undue Preference by Deputy; Penalty. Auditor, Clerk of the Pells, or Teller not making Payment in due Order; Penalty.\nAnd to the end that all Moneys which shall bee lent to His Majesty upon the Creditt of this Act may bee well and sufficiently secured out of the Moneys ariseing and payable by this Act bee 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 Receipt One Booke and Register in which all the Moneys that shall bee paid into the Exchequer by virtue of this Act for the Duties hereby granted shall bee entred and registred apart and distinct from all other Moneys paid or payable to His Majesty upon any other Branch of His Majesties Revenue or upon any other Account whatsoever And that all and every Person and Persons who shall lend any Money to His Majesty upon the Creditt of this Act and pay the same into the Receipt of Exchequer shall immediately have a Tally of Loane struck for the same and an Order for his or theire Repayment beareing the same Date with his Tally in which Order shall bee alsoe contained a Warrant for Payment of Interest for the Forbearance thereof not exceeding the Rates aforesaid for his consideration to bee paid every Three Moneths untill Repayment of the Principall and that all Orders for the Payment of Money shall bee registred in course according to the Date of the Tally respectively without other Preference of one before another And that all and every Person and Persons shall bee paid in course according as their Orders shall stand registred in the said Register Booke soe as the Person Native or Foreigner his Executors Administrators or Assignes who shall have his Order or Orders first entred in the said Booke of Register shall bee taken and accounted the first Person to bee paid upon ye Monies to come in by virtue of this Act & he or they who shall have his or their Order or Orders next entred shalbe taken & accounted the second Person to be paid and soe successively and in course And that the Moneys soe to come in by this Act shall bee in the same Order lyable to the Satisfaction of the said respective Partyes their Executors Administrators and Assignes successively without undue preference of one before another and not otherwise and not to bee divertible to any other Use Intent or Purpose whatsoever And that noe Fee Reward or Gratuity directly or indirectly bee demanded or taken of any of His Majesties Subjects for providing or makeing of any such Books Registers Entries Views or Search in or for Payment of Money lent or the Interest thereof as aforesaid by any of His Majesties Officer or Officers theire Clerks or Deputies on paine of Payment of double 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 loose his Place alsoe and if any undue preference of one before another shall bee 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 bee lyable by Action of Debt or on the Case to pay the value of the Debt Damages and Costs to the Party agrieved and shall bee forejudged from his Place or Office And if such preference bee unduely made by any his Deputy or Clerke without Direction or Privity of his Master then such Deputy or Clerke onely shall bee lyable to such Action Debt Damages and Cost and shall bee 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 afore directed then hee or they shall bee adjudged to forfeite and their respective Deputies and Clerks herein offending to be lyable to such Action Debt Damages and Costs in such manner as aforesaid All which said Penalties Forfeitures Damages and Costs to bee incurred by any of the Officers of the Exchequer or any of their Deputies or Clerkes shall and may be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of His Majesties Courts of Record att Westminster wherein noe Essoigne Protection Priviledge Wager of Law Injunction or Order of Restraint shall bee in any wise granted or allowed.",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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