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ANNO QUINQUAGESIMO SEXTO
GEORGII III. REGIS.
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C A P. XCV.
An Ad to authorize fuch Perfon as His Majeity fhall appoint to transfer a certain Sum in Three
Pounds per Cent. Reduced Annuities, now landing in the Name of the diffolved College of Hertford, in the Univerfity of Oxford; and alfo to receive Dividends due upon fuch Annuities.
[26th "June 1816.j
'HEREAS by the Laws in being, relative to the Transfer of Annuities transferrable at the Bank of England, Books are dire£ted to be kept by the Accountant General of the .	r .i_ t)___1, —-t t?vtnisiii/J for tRp T 1 me Dcincf«
Y T directed to be kept by tne Accoumam	.
Governor and Company of the Bank of England for the Time being, wherein all Affignments or Transfers of fuch Annuities fhall be entered „ j	r,„-h Vntries are to be conceived in proper Words for
wherein all Affignments or 1 ransters ot lucn Annum« and regiftered, and fuch Entries are to be conceived m proper Words o that Purpofe, and to be figned by the Parties making fuch T ransfers, or if fuch Party be abfent, by his or their refpedive Attorney or Attornies the unto lawfully authorized, in Writing under his or their Hand and Sealer Hands and Seals, to be attefted by Two or more credible Witnelles, and it is alfo declared, that no other Method of affign.ng and transferring fuch Annuities fhall be good or available in Law: AndAvhereas:by an Inqm-Mon taken at tfufcity of Oxford on the Fourth Day of virtue of a Commiffion under the Great Seal of Gnat Britain, it wa famoneft other Things) found that Hertford College, in the Univerfity fePon the Twenty-eighth Day of/«, J the Y«r Oneit ouland eicht hundred and five, became and was drived, and that the laid diffolved College at the Time of its Diffolution was poffeffed of One thou-10D	5
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56° GEORGII III. Cap.95.
fand Pounds Capital Stock in the Three per Cent. Reduced Bank Annuities {landing in the Names of the Principal and Fellows of Hertford College, Oxford, in the Books of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England; and that fince the Diffolution of the faid diffolved College the Dividends on the faid Sum of One thoufand Pounds Three per Cent. Reduced Bank Annuities had been, and ftill were in arrearand unpaid ; and that the faid Stocks, Funds, Monies, and Securities had efcheated and devolved, and did then belong to His Majefty, bv virtue of His Prerogative Royal, and the fame were, by the Commiffioners in the faid Commiffion named, feized into the Hands of His Majefty ; but by reafon of the Laws aforefaid there are no Means of making a Iransfer of fuch Annuities, or of receiving the Arrears of Dividends due thereon, without the Authority of Parliament; be it therefore enacted by the King’s moil Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal) and Commons, in this prefent Parliament afifembled, and by the Authority ™ em ower °f the ranle’ That !t and 111 aY be lawful for His Majefty, His Heirs arvy"Perfon^to and Succefiors, by Warrant under His or their Royal Sign Manual, to transfer the appoint and empower any Perfon or Perfons to aflign and transfer the faid i,oool 3 per Sum of One thoufand Pounds Capital Stock of Three per Cent. Reduced duced An- /Ynnuities’ into lhe Name of any other Perfon or Perfons, and alio to nuities now receive all fuch Dividends as are or lhall be due and in arrear upon the faid ¡landing in Capital Stock, and to give proper Receipts and Difcharges for the fame ; tbe Name of and fuch Perfon or Perfons fo appointed and empowered as aforefaid may College of and iha11’ and. he and they is and are hereby authorized to aflign and Hertford, transfer the faid Sum of One thoufand Pounds Capital Stock, now Handing into the in the Books of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, from Names of any the Name of the Principal and Fellows of Hertford College, Oxford, into the amT receive"5 ’ Name of any other Perfon or Perfons; and alfo to receive and give proper theDividends. Receipts and Difcharges for all fuch Dividends upon the faid Capital Stock,
as are or ihall be due and in arrear ; any Law, Ufage, or Cuitom, to the contrary notwithilanding.
demnified. the Bank of England, and their Succelfors, lhall be, and they are hereby
held harmlefs and indemnified from and againft all Claims and Demands of or by any Perfon or Perfons, Body or Bodies Politic or Corporate, for or by reafon or in confequence of the Transfer of the faid Sum of One thoufand Pounds Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities, herein-before authorized and directed to be transferred, or in any Manner refpecting the fame, or for or by reafon or in confequence of the Payment by the faid Governor and Company of the Bank of England, of the Dividends herein-before dire&ed to be received ; and the faid Governor and Company of the Bank of England ihall not be required to fee to the Application ot the laid Dividends, nor be in any Manner refponfible lor the Mifapplication or Nonapplication thereof.
LONDON: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Stuaiian, Printers to the King’s moil Excellent Majefty. 1816.
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