APPENDIX. BILL-continued. $5 Geo. 3. c. 94. All bills, orders, remittance bills and remit- All bills drawn pursuant to any former act or Majesty's land forces, or for other expendi- £. 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 £. s. d. 0 10 APPENDIX. PROMISSORY NOTE-continued. Exceeding 1,000l. and not exceeding 2,000l. £. s. d. 0 12 6 0 15 0 150 060 086 And the following instruments shall be All notes, promising the payment of any sum or sums of money out of any particular 1 10 0 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 And all receipts for money deposited in any bauk, or in the hands of any banker or Exemptions from the Duties on Promissory All notes, promising the payment of any sum And all other instruments, bearing in any notes. But such of the notes and instruments here Exemptions from the preceding and all other All promissory notes for the payment of money, 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. Y Y APPENDIX. PROTEST-continued. Amounting to 100%. and not amounting to 5007. Amounting to 500l. or upwards 0 5 0 STATUTE AGAINST USURY. 12 ANN. ST. 2. c. 16. An Act to reduce the Rate of Interest, without any 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, |