LXIX. And whereas many perfons may chufe to advance money for the purchase of annuities, to be fecured upon and payable out of

on lives, at

the faid rates and affeffments, it is hereby further enacted, That 100,000l. may it thall and may be lawful to and for any perfon or perfons to be borrowed contribute, advance, and pay, into the hands of the faid com- by annuities miffioners, for the purposes of this act, any fum or fums of 81. per cent. money, not exceeding in the whole the fum of one hundred thousand pounds, for the abfolute purchase of one or more annuity or annuities, to be paid and payable during the full term of the natural life of fuch perfons, being of the age of forty five years, or upwards, as fhall be nominated by or on the behalf of fuch refpective contributors, at the time of payment of their respective contribution-monies; which annuity or annuities fhall not exceed the rate of eight pounds per centum per annum for every one hundred pounds, and fo in proportion for any greater or leffer fum, to be advanced and paid as aforefaid: all which annuities, fo to be purchased, shall be payable and paid, by the faid chamberlain of the faid city for the time being, out of the monies to arife by or from the said rates and affeffments, by four equal quarterly payments; the firft payment to be made to the refpective purchasers, or their affigns, at the expiration of the first quarter after payment of their refpective purchase-monies; the rate whereof fhall be fettled and adjusted by a public fale of the faid annuities, by the faid commiffioners, to the best bidder for the fame.

LXX. And it is hereby further enacted, That the clerk Clerk to enter of the faid commiffioners for the time being fhall enter in a all fecurities. book or books, to be for that purpose provided and kept by the faid commiffioners, all fecurities for monies borrowed, or annuities granted, by virtue or in pursuance of this act, and all affignments or transfers thereof; expreffing in words at length the names, furnames, additions, places of abode, and other defcriptions, of all fuch perfons as fhall, from time to time, be intitled to fuch fecurities, and the fums received upon fuch fecurities; and alfo the names, furnames, additions, places of abode, and other defcriptions, of the perfons for whofe lives the faid annuities fhall be refpectively granted, and the days whereon the faid annuities fhall refpectively be payable; to which book and books the person and perfons intitled to and poffeffed of fuch annuities, and all and every the perfon or perfons liable to the payment of the faid rates and affeffments, fhall, at all feasonable times, have accefs, with free liberty to infpect the fame, without fee or reward.

LXXI. And it is hereby further enacted, That all and Annuities not every perfon and perfons who fhall purchase fuch annuity or liable to taxes. annuities, and fhall duly pay the purchase-monies for the. fame, at the rates aforefaid, and his, her, or their refpective executors, adminiftrators, and affigns, fhall have, receive, and enjoy, the refpective annuity or annuities fo purchased, during the term of the natural life or lives of the perfon or perfons by them refpectively nominated at the time of fuch

pur

Securities transferrable.

purchase, and fhall have good, fure, abfolute, and indefeasible eftates and interefts in the said annuities refpectively, according to the true tenor and meaning of this act; and that none of the faid annuities fhall be fubject or liable to any tax affeffed upon land by authority of parliament; and every fuch purchaser fhall, upon payment of his or her purchase-money as aforesaid, have an order on parchment or vellum for payment of the annuity or annuities fo purchased by him or her, for and during the natural life or lives of fuch perfon or perfons as fhall be nominated by him or her as aforefaid; which order fhall be figned by the faid commiffioners, and after figning thereof, shall be firm, good, valid, and effectual, in the law, according to the purport and meaning thereof, and of this act.

LXXII. And it is hereby further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful to and for any person or perfons intitled to any of the fecurities aforefaid, and his, her, or their executors, administrators, or affigns, at any time or times, by writing under his, her, or their hand or hands refpectively, to affign or transfer fuch fecurities, by indorsement on the back thereof, to any perfon or persons whatsoever, and fo toties quoties; and fuch affignments or transfers, after they shall respectively be entered by the clerk of the faid commiffioners, in manner aforefaid (which he is hereby required to do without fee or reward) fhall intitle the perfon or perfons to whom they shall be respectively made, and his, her, or their respective executors, adminiftrators, and affigns, to the benefit of the fecurity or fecurities fo affigned or transferred.

LXXIII. And it is hereby further enacted, That all and Money borrowed charged every the fum and fums of money fo to be advanced and lent, on the rates. and the intereft thereof, and all and every the annuity and annuities, fo to be purchased, under and, by virtue of this act, fhall be, and they are hereby charged upon, and shall be paid and payable, from time to time, out of the monies arifing from the rates and affeffments to be rated and affeffed by virtue and for the purposes of this act; and all the perfons who fhall be fo poffeffed of fuch fecurities, fhall be creditors in equal degree, without preference in respect of the priority of his, her, or their advancing the money thereon.

Perfons charg

ed towards these rates,

LXXIV. Provided always, and it is hereby further enacted and declared, That no perfon who fhall be charged or affeffed towards the rates to be made by virtue or in pursuance of this not liable to act, fhall thereafter be liable to, or charged with, any other rates or affeffments, made or to be hereafter made by virtue or in pursuance of any former act or acts of parliament, for or towards the paving, cleanfing, or enlightening, the said city and liberties, or any part thereof.

the former;

but arrears

of former

LXXV. Provided alfo, and it is hereby further enacted and declared, That nothing in this act contained fhall extend, or rates ftill re- be conftrued to extend, to repeal, annul, or make void, any of the said rates or affeffments, made or charged by virtue or in pursuance of any fuch former act or acts of parliament, which

coverable.

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fhall

fhall be due and payable, or in arrear, on the faid twenty ninth day of September, one thousand seven hundred and fixty fix, or any of the remedies, powers, or provifions, given or provided by fuch former act or acts refpectively, for the collecting, levying, or recovering the fame; but all fuch rates and affeffments, and all arrears thereof refpectively, which shall remain: or become due and payable on the faid twenty ninth day of September, one thousand seven hundred and fixty fix; and all es the remedies, powers, and provifions, in and by fuch former act or acts respectively granted, enacted, or provided, for the collecting, levying, and recovering, the fame refpectively, thall nt continue and be in force; any thing herein before contained to the contrary thereof in any wife notwithstanding.

LXXVI. And whereas it was by the faid act of the Seventeenth Dr year of the reign of his faid late majesty King George the Second, enated, That if, at the expiration of feven years, it should be found that any furplus fbould have arifen from the monies collected by virtue of the faid act, over and above what should have been issued and applied in pursuance thereof, fuch furplus monies bould remain in the chamber of the faid city of London, to be applied either in aid of the orphans fund, or in abatement or diminution of future rates and affements, or to be otherwise disposed of to and for the use and benefit of the citizens of London, as they, by any act of common council, fhould direct and appoint: and whereas there is, at this time, fanding in the name of the chamberlain of the faid city, the fum of fix thousand pounds three per cent. confolidated bank annuities, which were purchased with or out of the furplus monies collected by virtue of the faid laft mentioned act, over and above what had been issued and applied in pursuance thereof; and it will tend to expedite the good purposes of this prefent act, if fuch bank annuities, and fuch other furplus as now is, or hereafter may be, in the chamber of London, of the monies collected, or to be collected, by virtue of the faid former all, were to be applied towards the carrying on the purposes aforefaid; therefore it is hereby further enacted and declared, That the faid fix thousand pounds bank annuities, and all fuch Surplus refurpluffes as have arifen, or fhall or may arife, from the monies maining in collected, or to be collected, by virtue of the faid act of the the chamber seventeenth year of his faid late Majefty, and fhall, on the faid under act 17 Geo. 2. twenty fifth day of December, one thousand feven hundred and fixty fix, be remaining in the faid chamber of London, over and above what fhall then have been iffued and applied in pur- to be applied fuance of the faid last mentioned act, fhall and may be applied to this act. towards the purposes of this present act, at fuch time or times, and in fuch manner, as the faid commiffioners fhall, from time to time, think fit, order, or direct; and the chamberlain of the faid city for the time being fhall, immediately after the faid twenty fifth day of December, carry the faid fix thousand pounds bank annuities, and the amount of the furplus of the faid monies which fhall then be in his hands, to the credit of the account of monies to be collected and paid into the said chamber by virtue or in pursuance of this present act. LXXVII. And,

Tolls to be

taken at the

turnpikes here men

LXXVII. And, to the end and intent that the useful purposes of this act may be the better and more speedily carried into execution, and for and towards increafing the fund for detioned on Sun- fraying the charges of the fame; it is hereby further enacted, days. That upon and after the first Sunday next after the pafling of this act, there fhall be paid to the receiver or receivers, collector or collectors, to be nominated and appointed as herein after mentioned, before any cattle or carriages fhall be permitted to pass on a Sunday through any or either of the turnpikes here. under mentioned, or through any turnpike to be erected by virtue of this or any other act or acts of parliament, near the fame, viz. The turnpike at Mile End; the turnpike at Bethnal Green; the turnpike at Hackney; the turnpike at Kingsland; the turnpike at Ball's pound, or pond, Islington; the turnpike at Holloway; the turnpike at the end of Saint John's Street; the turnpike at the end of Gofwell Strect; and the turnpike on the new road, commonly called The City Road; all which turnpikes are in the county of Middlefex; the following tolls; viz.

The tolls.

other tolls,

ed in the

mayor, &c.

For every coach, chariot, berlin, chaife, chair, calash, or other carriage, drawn by fix or more horfes, the fum of ten pence.

For every coach, chariot, berlin, chaife, chair, calash, or other carriage, drawn by four horses, the fum of eight pence.

For every coach, chariot, berlin, chaife, chair, calafh, or other carriage, drawn by three or two horfes, the fum of fix pence.

And for every chaife, chair, calafh, or other carriage, drawn by one horse, the fum of threepence.

For every horfe, mule, or afs, not drawing, the fum of one penny.

The faid tolls Which faid respective fums of money fhall and may be demandto be taken ed and taken for and in the name of a street toll, over and above, and ex- above, and exclufive of, all other tolls which are or shall be auclufive of, all thorized to be taken and collected upon or on account of the and to be veft. roads, or any of them; and the monies arifing therefrom shall be, and are hereby vefted in the faid mayor, commonalty, and citizens, and shall be difpofed of for the purposes of this act: and the faid commiflioners are hereby impowered by themfelves, or by any perfon or perfons by them thereto authorized, to levy the toll, hereby required to be paid, upon any perfon or perfons who fhall, after demand thereof made, neglect or refufe to pay the fame as aforefaid, or to deny or hinder' any paffage through the faid turnpikes refpectively, until payment thereof; which faid toll fhall and may be levied by diftrefs of any horse or horfes, or other cattle, upon which the toll is by this act impofed, or upon any of the goods and chattles of fuch perfon or perfons who ought to pay the fame; and all fuch horfes, cattle, or goods, may be detained until fuch toll, with the reafonable charges of such distress, shall be paid and it shall and may be

and to be levied by diArefs,

lawful

lawful for the perfon or perfons fo diftraining, after the space of Diftrefs may four days from the time of making and taking fuch diftrefs, to be fold after 4 days. fell the horse or horfes, cattle, goods, or chattles, so distrained, rendering to the owner or owners thereof the overplus upon demand, after fatisfaction of the faid toll, and the reasonable charges in and about making such distress, keeping, and fale, shall be fully paid and fatisfied.

LXXVIII. And it is hereby further enacted by the authority Commiffionaforefaid, That it fhall and may be lawful for the faid commif- ers may erect fioners, if they fhall think proper, at any time or times during turnpikes, &c. the continuance of this act, to caufe to be erected any turnpike or turnpikes, at or near all or any of the refpective places aforementioned, for the purposes of collecting the feveral and refpective tolls hereby made payable; and also cause to be erected or provided a toll-house at or near each turnpike; and, from time to time, to remove or alter the fame as they the faid commiffioners fhall think expedient: and the right and property of all the turnpikes and toll-houses to be, from time to time, erected Turnpikes, and provided by virtue of this act, and the right and property &c. vefted in of the materials provided for building or repairing the fame, the mayor,&c. fhall be, and are hereby, vefted in the mayor, commonalty, and citizens; and they are hereby impowered to bring, or cause to be brought, any action or actions in the name of the corporation, and to prefer, or order the preferring of indictments against any perfon or perfons who fhall injure the fame, or any part thereof, or difturb them in the poffeffion thereof, or take or retain, or hold poffeffion thereof, after being required by order of the commiffioners to deliver up the fame.

LXXIX. Provided always, and it is hereby further en- Tolls may be acted and declared, That it fhall and may be lawful for the collected at feveral and refpective receivers or collectors, and other perfons, the turnpikes already erectto be appointed by virtue of this act, to receive and collect the ed. feveral tolls hereby made payable; and they are hereby authorized and impowered, for the purposes of this act, without the lett, hindrance, or moleftation, of any perfon or persons whatfoever, to make ufe of all or any of the gates, turnpikes, and toll-houses, already erected, or hereafter to be erected or continued by virtue of any act or acts of parliament, at or near the several and respective places whereat any toll is hereby authorized to be taken; fo as fuch refpective receivers, collectors, or other perfons, do in no wife hinder or interrupt the tranf acting of any business or purpose, for which fuch turnpikes and toll-houses were refpectively erected or provided.

LXXX. Provided alfo, and it is hereby further enacted, That Street tolls no perfon or perfons fhall be liable to pay the said street toll to be paid but once a day more than once for paffing or repaffing, any time or times on the fame Sunday as aforefaid, with the fame cattle and carriage; but that all and every perfon and perfons, after having paid fuch. toll once as aforefaid, fhall, during the remainder of fuch day, pafs toll-free, with refpect to the faid ftreet toll, with the fame cattle and carriages, through the gate or turnpike at which any VOL. XXVII.

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