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Queen Anne's Bounty was a scheme established in 1704 to augment the incomes of the poorer clergy of the Church of England and by extension the organisation ("The Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the Poor Clergy") that administered the bounty (and eventually a number of other forms of assistance to poor livings).
Beginning in 1703, Queen Anne's Bounty was the name applied to a perpetual fund of first-fruits and tenths granted by a charter of Queen Anne and confirmed by the Queen Anne's Bounty Act 1703 (2 & 3 Ann. c. 20), for the augmentation of the livings of the poorer Anglican clergy.
The Queen Anne's Bounty Act 1703 (2 & 3 Ann. c 20) was an Act of the Parliament of England, granting "in Perpetuity the Revenues of the First Fruits and Tenths" for the support of the poor clergy of England. [3] The whole Act, so far as not otherwise repealed, was repealed by section 48(2) of, and Part II of Schedule 7 to, the Charities Act 1960.
A bounty flyer offering rewards on behalf of the "Anti-Taliban Forces" in Afghanistan A bounty is a payment or reward of money to locate, capture or kill an outlaw or a wanted person . Two modern examples of bounties are the ones placed for the capture of Saddam Hussein and his sons by the United States government [ 1 ] and Microsoft 's bounty ...
[2] [3] The British government, concerned about the number of venomous cobras in Delhi, offered a bounty for every dead cobra. Initially, this was a successful strategy; large numbers of snakes were killed for the reward. Eventually, however, people began to breed cobras for the income.
The Queen Anne's Bounty Act 1707 (6 Ann. c. 54) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. It was one of the Queen Anne's Bounty Acts 1706 to 1870. [2] This Act is chapter 27 of 6 Ann. in common printed editions. [3] Sections 2 and 3 and 4 were repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1887.
The longitude rewards were the system of inducement prizes offered by the British government for a simple and practical method for the precise determination of a ship's longitude at sea. The prizes, established through an act of Parliament, the Longitude Act 1714 (13 Ann. c. 14), in 1714, were administered by the Board of Longitude.
The Queen Anne's Bounty Act 1706 (6 Ann. c. 24) was an Act of the Parliament of England. It is one of the Queen Anne's Bounty Acts 1706 to 1870. [3] The whole act was repealed by section 6 of, and schedule 2 to, the First Fruits and Tenths Measure 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5. No. 5).