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Act of 9 Queen Anne, Cap. 10

that all Letters and other Things may be sent or conveyed to or from the said two Universities in Manner as heretofore
hath been used; any Thing herein to the contrary notwithstanding.
XXXIII. Provided always, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Postmaster General for the Time being, his
Deputy and Deputies, to continue By Bags for collecting and delivering of By Letters as hath been heretofore accustomed;
such Deputy and Deputies duly accounting to, and paying the respective Ports thereof to the Receiver General of the said
Revenue for the Time being, for the Use of her Majesty, her Heirs and Successors.

XXXIV. Provided always, and be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all and every Sum and Sums of
Money which shall or may be due and owing to her Majesty on the said first Day of June one thousand seven hundred and
eleven, for the Duties and Revenues that have arisen, or shall or may arise to that Time by Posts, or by reason of the Duties
and Revenues granted by either of the said former Acts, shall be paid to the Receiver General of the said Revenue, for her
Majesty's Use, and be recovered and recoverable in such Manner, and by such Ways and Means, as the same were
recoverable before the making of this present Act; any Thing herein contained to the contrary thereof in any wise
notwithstanding.
XXXV. And towards the Establishment of a good, sure, and lasting Fund, in order to raise a present Supply of
Money for carrying on the War, and other her Majesty's most necessary occasions; Be it further enacted by the Authority
aforesaid, That from and after the twenty-ninth Day of September one thousand seven hundred and eleven, for and during
the whole Term of thirty-two Years from thence next and immediately ensuing, the full, clear, and entire weekly Sum of
seven hundred Pounds of lawful Money of Great Britain, out of all the Duties and Revenues, from Time to Time, arising by
virtue of this Act, shall be brought and paid by the Postmaster General, the Receiver General of the Post-Office, or such
other Person or Persons, who for the Time being shall have the Receipt of the said Duties and Revenues, who are hereby
respectively enjoined and required to bring and pay the same accordingly into the Receipt of the Exchequer, upon Tuesday
in every Week, if it be not an Holy-day, and if it be, then upon the next Day that is not an Holy-day, as one Week shall
successively and immediately follow and succeed another; and in case in any Week or Weeks the whole Receipt of Monies
of the said Duties or Revenues hereby charged as aforesaid, shall not be sufficient to answer the said weekly Payment or
Payments hereby directed for such particular Week or Weeks, that then and so often the Deficiency and Deficiencies,
thereof shall be supplied and made good out of the whole Receipt of the said Duties or Revenues arising in the next Week
or Weeks, when the Receipt or Receipts shall be sufficient to bear the same; all which Payments into the Exchequer shall
be made for the Purposes, and under the Penalties, Forfeitures, and Disabilities hereafter in this Act expressed.

XXXVI. And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Postmaster General for the Time
being, at the Head Office in London, shall, from Time to Time, cause an Account to be kept by an Accountant General of
all the Monies arising by virtue of this Act, of or for the Duties or Revenues aforesaid, and every or any of them, as the
same shall from Time to Time arise, be paid or brought into the said Office, to the Hands of the Receiver General for the
Time being, who is or shall be appointed, from Time to Time, to receive the same; and that such Receiver General for the
Time being shall, out of the Monies so arising, make the said weekly Payments into the Exchequer, in Manner as aforesaid;
and if the said Postmaster General for the Time being shall refuse or neglect to appoint or keep such Accountant General,
or if such Accountant General shall neglect to keep a just and true Account as aforesaid, or if such Receiver General shall
at any Time refuse or neglect to make any such weekly Payments as aforesaid, into the Exchequer, according to the true
Meaning of this Act, or if the said Postmaster General, Accountant General and Receiver General for the Time being, or
any of them, or any other Officer of the said Duties, shall divert or misapply any of the Monies which should make good the
said weekly Payments, or any of them, or any Part thereof, contrary to the Tenor and true Meaning of this Act, at any Time
or Times during the said Term of thirty-two Years, then and in any such Case they and every of them so offending shall
forfeit their several Offices and Places, and be incapable to serve the Queen, her Heirs or Successors, in any Office or Place
of Trust or Profit, and shall be liable for every such Offence, to pay double the Value· of the Money so diverted or
misapplied, to any Person or Persons who shall or may be grieved by reason of such Offence, and will inform or sue for the
same by Action of Debt, or of the Case, Bill, Suit, or Information, in any of her Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster,
wherein no Essoin, Protection, Wager of Law, or more than one Imparlance shall be granted or allowed.
XXXVII. And to the end the said weekly Sum of seven hundred Pounds may be made a Fund or Security for the
Purposes in this Act expressed; Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That there shall be provided and kept in
the Office of the Auditor of the Rec~ipt of the Exchequer, one Book, in which all the Monies which shall be paid in weekly
as aforesaid, for or upon Account of the said weekly Sums out of the said Duties, shall be entered apart and distinct from
all other Monies which shall be brought and paid to the said Receipt upon any other Account whatsoever.

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