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Section XV 6&7 W. III. c. 7. § 1.

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

Surplus after Payment of Interest at 5 per Cent. to be kept in the Exchequer, &c.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in case it shall so happen that the several additional Duties so granted to his Majesty upon Coffee Tea Chocolate and Spice by the said herein recited Act together with the Duties to be raised by virtue of this Act shall amount to more than what may prove sufficient for Payment of Interest att Five Pounds per Centum for the said principal Sum[m] of Three hundred thirty thousand seven hundred sixty nine pounds ten shillings seven pence that then and in such Case such Surplus ariseing by the said Duties more than sufficient for payment of the said Interest shall remaine in the Excheq[uer] and not be disposed of otherwise than by Act of Parliament expresly made in that behalfe.