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Trustee, etc. (except Officers in Courts) having the Controul of Property, to pay the Duty.
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LXXXIV. And be it further enacted, That every Person who as Trustee, Guardian, Tutor, Curator, or Committee, or as Attorney, Agent, or Factor of any Person or Persons, whether under Incapacity or not, and whether residing in Great Britain or not, and the Chamberlain, Treasurer, or other Officer of any Corporation, Company, or Society in Great Britain, and every other Person who shall in respect of any Office be in the Receipt of Dividends or Annuities aforesaid, (except the Accountant General of the Court of Chancery, and the proper Officer of any other Court of Equity, or other Court in Great Britain, having the Direction and Controul of any Property vested in the said publick Annuities), shall be answerable for the doing all such Acts, Matters, and Things, as shall be required to be done, in order to an Assessment being duly made in each Case; and it shall be lawful for every Person herein-before described, by and out of such Dividends, whenever the same shall be received, to retain so much and such Part thereof, from Time to Time, as shall be sufficient for the Satisfaction and Discharge of such Duty, and every Person before described shall be and they are hereby respectively indemnified against all and every Person and Persons, Corporations, Companies, and Societies whatever, for all Payments on Account of the said Duty which they shall respectively make in pursuance of this Act.
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