APPENDIX. BILL-continued.

$5 Geo. 3. c. 94.

All bills, orders, remittance bills and remit-
tance certificates, drawn by commissioned
officers, masters and surgeons in the navy,
or by any commissioner or commissioners of
the navy, under the authority of the act
passed in the 35th year of His Majesty's
reign, for the more cxpeditious Payment of
the Wages and Pay of certain Officers be-
longing to the Navy.

All bills drawn pursuant to any former act or
qcts of Parliament by the commissioners of
the navy, or by the commissioners for vic-
tuulling the navy, or by the commissioners for
managing the Transport service, and for tuk-
ing care of sick and wounded seamen, upon,
and payable by the treasurer of the navy.
All drafts or orders for the payment of any
sum of money to the bearer on demand, and
drawn upon any banker or bankers, or any
person or persons acting as a banker, who
shall reside or transact the business of a
banker, within ten miles of the place
where such drafts or orders shall be issued,
provided such place shall be specified in such
drafts or orders; and provided the same
shall bear date on or before the day on
which the same shall be issued; and provid-
ed the same do not direct the payment to be
made by bills or promissory notes.
All bills, for the pay and allowances of His

Majesty's land forces, or for other expendi-
tures liable to be charged in the public regi-
mental or district accounts, which shall be
drawn according to the forms now pre-
scribed or hereafter to be prescribed by His
Majesty's orders, by the paymasters of re-
giments or corps, or by the chief paymaster,
or deputy paymaster, and accountant of the
army depot, or by the paymasters of recruit-
ing districts, or by the paymasters of detach-
ments, or by the officer or officers authorized to
perform the duties of the paymastership dur-

£. s. d.

d. APPENDIX.

BILL-continued.

ing a vacancy, or the absence, suspension or incapacity of any such paymaster as aforesaid; save and except such bills as shall be drawn in favour of contractors or others, who furnish bread or forage to His Majesty's troops, and who by their contracts or agreements shall be liable to pay the stamp duties on the bills given in payment for the articles supplied by them. PROMISSORY NOTE for the payment, to the bearer oa demand, of any sum of money,

Not exceeding one pound and one shilling
Exceeding 17. 1s. and not exceeding 21. 2s.
Exceeding 21. 2s. and not exceeding 51. 5s.
Exceeding 51. 5s. and not exceeding 107.
Exceeding 101. and not exceeding 201..
Exceeding 201. and not exceeding 301..
Exceeding SOL. and not exceeding 501. .
Exceeding 501. and not exceeding 1007.

£. s. d.

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APPENDIX. PROMISSORY NOTE-continued.

Exceeding 1,000l. and not exceeding 2,000l.
Exceeding 2,000l. and not exceeding 3,000l.
Exceeding 3,000l.

£. s. d.

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0 15 0 150

060

086

And the following instruments shall be
deemed and taken to be Promissory
Notes, within the intent and meaning of
this Schedule; viz.

All notes, promising the payment of any sum

or sums of money out of any particular
fund, which may or may not be available;
or upon any condition or contingency, which
may or may not be performed or happen; if
the same shall be made payable to the

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The same duty

as on a promissory note, payable in less than two

months after date for a sum equal to the whole amount of the money to be paid.

PROMISSORY NOTE-continued.

bearer, or to order, and if the same shall
be definite and certain, and not amount in
the whole to twenty pounds.

And all receipts for money deposited in any

bauk, or in the hands of any banker or
bankers, which shall contain any agreement
or memorandum, importing that interest
shall be paid for the money so deposited.

Exemptions from the Duties on Promissory
Notes.

All notes, promising the payment of any sum
or sums of money out of any particular
fund, which may or may not be available;
or upon any condition or contingency, which
may or may not be performed or happen;
where the same shall not be made payable to
the bearer or to order, and also where the
same shall be made payable to the bearer or
to order, if the same shall amount to twenty
pounds, or be indefinite.

And all other instruments, bearing in any
degree the form or style of promissory
notes, but which in law shall be deemed
special agreements, except those hereby ex-
pressly directed to be deemed promissory

notes.

But such of the notes and instruments here
exempted from the duty on promissory
notes shall nevertheless be liable to the duty
which may attach thereon, as agreements or
otherwise.

Exemptions from the preceding and all other
Stamp Duties.

All promissory notes for the payment of money,
issued by the Governor and Company of the
Bank of England.

PROTEST of any bill of exchange or promissory

note, for any sum of money,

Not amounting to 201.

Amounting to 201. and not amounting to 1007.

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APPENDIX. PROTEST-continued.

Amounting to 100%. and not amounting to 5007.

Amounting to 500l. or upwards
PROTEST of any other kind

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STATUTE AGAINST USURY.

12 ANN. ST. 2. c. 16.

An Act to reduce the Rate of Interest, without any
Prejudice to Parliamentary Securities.

WHEREAS the reducing of interest to ten, and from thence to eight, and thence to six in the hundred, hath from time to time, by experience, been found very beneficial to the advancement of trade, and improvement of lands: and whereas the heavy burden of the late long and expensive war, hath been chiefly borne by the owners of the land of this kingdom, by reason whereof they have been necessitated to contract very large debts, and thereby, and by the abatement in the value of their lands, are become greatly impoverished: and whereas by reason of the great interest and profit which hath been made of money at home, the foreign trade of this nation hath of late years been much neglected, and at this time there is a great abatement in the value of the merchandizes, wares, and commodities of this kingdom, both at home and in foreign parts, whither they are transported: and whereas for the redress of these mischiefs, and the preventing the increase of the same, it is absolutely necessary to reduce the high rate of interest of six pounds in the hundred pounds for a year to a nearer proportion with the interest allowed for money in foreign states; be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That no person or persons whatsoever, from and after the nine and twentieth day of September, in the year of our Lord,