respectively, no Essoign, Protection, or Wager of Law, or more than One Imparlance, shall be allowed. For Payment of Principal Money and Interest advanced on Credit to the Rates. XV. And be it further enacted, That in order to discharge the Principal Money and Interest already advanced and lent, or which may be hereafter advanced and lent upon the Credit of the Rates or Assessments made by virtue of the said recited Act, it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Commissioners, and they are hereby authorized and directed, yearly and every Year, to deduct, appropriate, and set apart, the Sum of One Penny in the Pound of the Total Amount of the yearly Rent or Value of the several Houses and other Buildings, Lands, and Grounds within the said District; and the said Sum or Sums of Money so to be set apart and appropriated, shall be from Time to Time taken and deducted from and out of the Rate and Assessment levied and collected for forming and keeping in Repair the Streets, and other publick Passages and Places within the said District, and for otherwise improving the same: Provided always, that such Sum or Sums of Money so to be deducted, set apart, and appropriated as aforesaid, shall not at any Time exceed the Proportion of One-twentieth Part of such Rates or Assessments as shall have been actually levied and collected, and shall only be to deducted, set apart, and appropriated at such Time or Times as the said Rate or Assessment shall not exceed the full Sum of Two Shillings in the Pound in any One Year. Respecting Surplus of Rate. XVI. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Commissioners, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, from Time to Time, when and as often as the Surplus of the said Rate (if any), shall, together with the Produce of One Penny in the Pound, so to be set apart and appropriated, amount to the Sum of One hundred Pounds or upwards, to pay off and discharge the Money borrowed and to be borrowed on the Credit of the said Rate, in such Manner as the said Commissioners shall think proper, and a separate Account shall be kept of the Sums of Money paid off and discharged by the Surplus of the said Rate, distinct from those which shall be paid off and discharged by the Sum so appropriated as aforesaid by virtue of this Act. Application of Compensation where amounting to 200_l._