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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1709. 
the correspondence and communi. part of the dividends. due. on the 
cation between the armies of the 
two courts, his Imperial majesty, 
shall think proper to send an offi- 
cer, or other person, on his part, 
to. the English armies, they shail, 
in like manner, receive from the 
generals of his Britannic majesty, 
all_such marks of confidence as are 
most analogous to the intimate 
union so happily subsisting between 
the two courts. 
4. It is expressly agreed, that 
the said loan is to rest on the secu. 
rity of all the revenues of zl the 
different hereditary dominions of 
his Imperial majesty. -All the ne- 
cessary measures shall be taken 
on the part of his Imperial majesty, 
jn each of the said dominions’ re- 
spectively, to give full and legal 
effeét.and validity to the said loan, 
and to the éngagements for the re- 
wlar payment of the balf-yearly 
dividends which shall fall due in 
consequence thereof; so that if 
at any time there should happen, 
from whatever cause, to be any 
delay in any of the payments, after 
the period of their falling due, the 
holders of the securities granted, 
or to be granted, on the part of his 
Jinperial majesty, for the said loan, 
may sue the receivers or treasurers 
of his Imperial majesty’s revenues, 
in any of the said dominions re 
spectively, at the option of such 
holders, and may recover from them, 
or any of them, by due course of 
law, the full amount of such pay. 
ments having so fallen due, in the, 
same manner as any private indivi- 
duals are admitted in the said do- 
minions respectively to prosecute 
and recover their just rights against 
other private persons, 
5. Ifit should ever happen that, 
contrary to all expectation, any 
said loans should, in consequence of 
the failure of the payments stipu. 
lated to Ge made by his Imperial 
majesty, be paid by the. British 
government, 3t is agreed that such 
payments shall be made at the 
Bank of England, ard only on the 
delivery of the tallies or certificates 
of the dividends so respectively 
paid; and every such tally or cer- 
tificate so delivered up shall be a 
valid aad legal security, so.as to 
enable the holder thereof to. sue 
any of the receivers or treasurers 
of his Imperial majesty’s revenues, . 
in any ot his dominions aforesaid, 
at the option of such holder, and 
to recover from them, or any of 
them, the full amount of the sum 
expressed in such tally orcertificate, 
with interest thereon, at the rate 
of five per cent. per annum, to be 
reckoned from the date of the pay- 
ment.made by the British govern. 
ment. And whereas it is pro- 
vided, in the terms agreed upon 
for raising the said loans, that, as 
a collateral security for the said 
loans, there shall be deposited in 
the Bank of England mortgage ac- 
tions of the Bank of Vienna, for 
a sum, in the proportion of four to. 
three of the loan to be so raised; it. 
is further agreed, that the governor 
and company of the said Bank shall, 
in case of any such payment as 
aforesaid being made by the British 
government, be authorized to.wath- 
draw from the said deposit such a 
quantity of the said. attions, as - 
shall be required to make up at 
least the proportion of four pounds 
for every-three which shall be so 
paid by the British government, to 
be by the said government either 
used as a security or claim upon the 
Bank of Vienna, until te-payment 
iy of 
