An Act for paying off and cancelling one million of Exchequer bills, and to give ease to the South-Sea Company, in respect of its present obligation, to circulate or contribute towards circulating Exchequer bills; and to give further time to that Company for repayment of one million, which was lent to them; and for issuing a further sum in new Exchequer bills, towards His Majesties supply, to be discharged and cancelled, when the said Company shall repay the million owing by them; and that the Exchequer bills, which are to continue, may be circulated at easie and moderate rates; and for appropriating the supplies granted to His Majesty in this session of Parliament; and for relief of the sufferers at Nevis and Saint Christophers, by an invasion of the French in the late War; and for laying a further duty on apples imported; and for ascertaining the duties on pictures imported.
Great Britain.
[London : printed by John Baskett, and by the assigns of Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, deceas'd,
1722]
At head of drop-head title: 'Anno octavo Georgii Regis.' - Text in black letter.
Issued separately with a general titlepage, and also as part of: 'Anno Regni Georgii Regis .. octavo. At the Parliament begun .. the seventeenth day of March, anno Dom. 1714. .. and from thence continued .. to the nineteenth day of October, 1721. Being the eighth session of this present Parliament.' - Imprint from general titlepage.
Last word of first line of text: 'Sovereign,'; first word of line below initial: 'ing'; last word of last full line of text: 'Pictures'.
ESTC
Kress,
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