Exchequer, Land Tax. of the Duties hereby granted on Annuities, Pensions, Stipends, granted out of Fees, Salaries, Wages, Allowances, Profits, or other yearly Pay- Annuities, ments whatsoever payable at the Receipt of His Majesty's Ex- Pensions, &c. chequer; nor shall any such Duties be collected or received by payable at the any Collector of the Land Tax, or included in the Parchment and pay the or other Duplicates, as heretofore; but all and every such An- same over to nuities, Pensions, Stipends, Fees, Salaries, Wages, Allowances, the Receiver Profits, or other yearly Payments, shall be and they are hereby General of the respectively charged, assessed, and taxed with the Duties hereby granted or continued, at the same annual Rate and to the like Amount as the same were respectively rated, charged, and assessed under the said recited Act of the Sixth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, or under any other Act or Acts; and the proper Officer or Officers in the said Exchequer shall, and he and they is and are hereby respectively directed, authorized, and empowered from Time to Time to stop and detain such Duties out of the said Annuities, Pensions, Stipends, Fees, Salaries, Wages, Allowances, Profits, or other yearly Payments or Arrears thereof, without any other or further Authority than the Provisions of this Act, and to all Intents as if such Duties had been brought into Assessment as heretofore, any Thing in this Act or in any other Act or Acts contained to the contrary thereof notwithstanding; and every such Officer or Officers shall, and he and they is and are hereby required from time to time to pay over the said Duties so stopped to the Receiver General of the Land Tax authorized to receive the same, and to render true Lists and Accounts thereof gratis to the Commissioners for the Affairs of Taxes, so that such Receiver General may be duly charged therewith. VI. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, at any Time or Times when they shall think fit so to do, to cause or direct any Number of Exchequer Bills to be made out at the Receipt of the Exchequer at Westminster, for any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the Whole, including any Sum or Sums of Money issued towards the Aids or Supplies in pursuance of this Act, the Sum of Three Millions, in the same or like Manner, Form, and Order, and according to the same or like Rules and Directions as are directed and prescribed in and by an Act made in the Forty eighth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for regulating the issuing and paying off of Exchequer Bills. VII. And be it further enacted, That all and every the Clauses, Provisoes, Powers, Privileges, Advantages, Penalties, Forfeitures, and Disabilities contained in the said recited Act, made in the Forty eighth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act for regulating the issuing and paying off of Exchequer Bills, shall be applied and extended to the Exchequer Bills to be made in pursuance of this Act, as fully and effectually, to all Intents and Purposes, as if the said several Clauses or Provisoes had been particularly repeated and re-enacted in the Body of this Act. The Treasury may direct Exchequer Bills to be made out, not exceeding 3,000,000l. Powers of 48G.3. c.l. extended to this Act. Bills to bear an VIII. And be it further enacted, That the Exchequer Bills to Exchequer be made out in pursuance of this Act shall and may bear an Interest not exceeding the Rate of Four Pounds I 4 per Centum per Annum Interest not exceeding 4 per Cent. Bank of Eng land may advance Money this Act, not- c. 20. Bills to be placed as Cash in the Exchequer; and to be is in common with other Monies. Annum upon or in respect of the Whole of the Monies respectively contained therein. IX. And be it declared and enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Governor and Company of the Bank of England to advance or lend to His Majesty, at the Receipt of the Exchequer at Westminster, upon the Credit of the Exchequer Bills authorized by this Act, any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Three Millions; any thing in an Act made in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary, intituled An Act for granting to their Majesties several Rates and Duties upon Tonnage of Ships and Vessels, and upon Beer, Ale, and other Liquors, and for securing certain Recompences and Advantages in the said Act mentioned to such Persons as shall voluntarily advance the Sum of One million five hundred thousand Pounds towards carrying on the War against France, or in any subsequent Act, to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. X. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of the Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, to cause such Bills as shall be prepared by virtue of this Act to be placed as so much Cash in the respective Offices of the Tellers of the said Receipt of Exchequer; each and every of which Tellers shall be severally charged with a Proportion of the said Bills which shall be so placed in his Office respectively; any Law or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding. XI. And be it further enacted and declared, That the said suable thereout Exchequer Bills in the Hands of the said Tellers shall be locked up and secured as Cash, according to the Course of the Exchequer at Westminster, and shall be taken and esteemed as so much in part of the Remains in real Money wherewith each of the said Tellers shall from time to time stand charged, in common with other the Monies in the said Exchequer, any Law or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding; and it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of the Treasury to issue and apply the same from time to time to such Services as shall then have been voted by the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in this present Session of Parliament. Exchequer Bills to be charged on the Duties granted by this Act. Account of XII. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That the Exchequer Bills to be made forth by virtue of this Act, together with the Interest that may become due thereon, and the Charges of exchanging and circulating the same, shall be and the same are hereby made chargeable and charged upon the Rates, Duties, and Assessments granted by this Act; and it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of the Treasury, and they are hereby authorized from time to time to direct to be issued to the said Paymasters, by way of Imprest and upon Account, such Sums of Money and at such Periods as the said Commissioners shall think necessary, for or towards paying off and discharging the Exchequer Bills which shall have been made forth by virtue of this Act, or any of them, and for and towards paying the Interest to become due on the said Bills, and for and towards the Charge of exchanging and circulating the same Bills, or any of them. XIII. And be it further enacted, That on the Twenty fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and twenty eight, or within Ten Ten Days after, the said Commissioners of the Treasury, or any Three or more of them now being, or the Lord High Treasurer, or any Three or more of the said Commissioners of the Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the Time being, shall cause a true and perfect Account in Writing to be taken, and attested by the proper Officers, of the Amount of all Exchequer Bills that shall have been issued by virtue of this Act, and how much thereof shall before that Time have been paid off or discharged, and how much thereof shall then remain undischarged. XIV. And be it further enacted and declared, That the Monies so remaining unsatisfied or not discharged, with the Interest due or to grow due thereon, and the Charges of exchanging and circulating the same, shall be paid and satisfied out of the next Aid or Aids to be granted in Parliament after the said Twenty fifth Day of March Ŏne thousand eight hundred and twenty eight. Money due on Bills to be paid Aids. Fund. XV. And be it further enacted, That the Surplus of the Monies Surplus Monies arising from the Rates, Duties, and Assessments granted and to be carried to imposed by this Act, after paying off and satisfying all the Ex- Consolidated chequer Bills issued by virtue of this Act, together with the Interest that may become due thereon, and the Charges of exchanging and circulating the same, shall, as the Surplus of any such Monies respectively shall be paid into the Receipt of the Exchequer at Westminster, be carried to and make Part of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. dated Fund the necessary Ch making forth new Exchequer XVI. Provided also, and be it enacted, That it shall and may The Treasury be lawful for the said Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, to allow out or any Three or more of them now being, or the said Lord High of the ConsoliTreasurer, or any Three or more of the said Commissioners of the Treasury for the Time being, and he or they is and are hereby authorized and empowered to pay and allow, or cause to be paid and allowed, out of the Monies to arise of or for the said Rates and Duties hereby granted, or of or for the said Consolidated Bills; Fund, from time to time, the necessary Charges of making forth the new Exchequer Bills hereby authorized to be made forth, and such other Charges as shall be necessarily incident in or for the Execution of this Act, or any Part thereof, in relation to the said Bills; any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding. XVII. Provided always, and be it enacted, That whatever to be replaced Monies shall be issued out of the said Consolidated Fund shall out of the first from time to time be replaced by and out of the first Supplies to Supplies. be then after granted in Parliament; any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding. XVIII. Provided always, and be it enacted, That this Act may be amended, altered, or repealed by any Act or Acts to be made altered or rein this present Session of Parliament. Act may be pealed this Session. CAP. CA P. VIII. Powers of 49G.3. c.45. as to Half Pay of Royal Marine Officers, shall extend to Pen sions of Widows of such Officers. Two Commis sioners of the Admiralty empowered to act. WE An Act for more conveniently paying the Pensions of Widows of Officers of the Royal Marines. [2d April 1827.] HEREAS the Pensions to Widows of Royal Marine Officers, heretofore payable by the Paymaster General of His Majesty's Forces, are henceforth to be paid by the Paymaster of Royal Marines;' Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this Act all the Powers, Duties, Exemptions, Regulations, and other Enactments, which by an Act passed in the Forty ninth Year of King George the Third, intituled An Act for more conveniently paying of Allowances on the Compassionate List of the Navy, and of Half Pay to Officers of the Royal Marines, are provided with regard to the Half Pay of Royal Marine Officers, shall attach and take effect with regard to the Pensions of Widows of Royal Marine Officers; and that all Matters and Things which under the said Act would have been Offences, if committed with regard to the said Half Pay, shall, if committed with regard to the said Pensions, be deemed Offences of the same respective Natures, and be punishable with the same respective Penalties, as if they had been committed with regard to the said Half Pay: Provided always, that all Matters which by the said Act are required to be done by Three or more of the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain, may be done by any Two or more of such Commissioners; and provided also, that the Remittance Bill for the said Pensions shall be in the Form or to the Effect following; videlicet, Form of Remittance Bill. PAY to late a in the Royal Marines,) on her producing and delivering the Duplicate hereof, the Sum of Day of being for the Pension payable to her as such Widow on 'the last, if the same be ' demanded within Six Calendar Months from the Date hereof, otherwise you are to return this Bill to the Paymaster of Royal Marines, at his Office in London. The Receiver General of the Land Tax for the County of The Collector of the Customs at the Port of The Collector of the Excise at N. B. The forging of this Remittance Bill, or procuring any other Person to forge the same, in order to receive any Part of the Monies hereby payable, is made Felony by the Acts '49th George 3d and 8th George 4th.' CA P. IX. An Act to repeal an Act of the Twenty eighth Year of His 28G.3. c.17. late Majesty, for the better Regulation of the Manufacture repealed. of Ounce Thread. CAP. X. [2d April 1827.] An Act to enable His Majesty to make further Provision for "His Majesty may grant an Annuity of 3,000l. to His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, to commence from January 5. "1827, and to be payable quarterly. § 1. Also an Annuity of "6,000l. to the Duchess of Clarence, to commence at the same "Time, and to be payable in like Manner. § 2. The Annuities "to be payable out of the Consolidated Fund. § 3.—and to be "free of all Charges. § 4. CA P. XI. An Act to continue, until the Twenty fifth Day of July One 546.5. c. 187. thousand eight hundred and twenty eight, an Act of the Fifty fourth Year of His late Majesty, for rendering the Payment of Creditors more equal and expeditious in Scotland. [2d April 1827.] CAP. XII. An Act to amend an Act of the First Year of His present W HEREAS by an Act passed in the First Year of His 16.4. c.81. present Majesty's Reign, for amending several Acts for the Advance of Money for carrying on Public Works, and for other Purposes in Ireland, certain Provisions were made for the Employment of certain Sums of Money in aid of divers Public Works in Ireland, in the said Act mentioned, under the Orders of the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, and under certain Presentments and Estimates in the said Act mentioned, provided that no Order for the Payment of Money under such Presentments and Estimates should be made after the Expiration of Five Years from the passing of the said Act: And Whereas by an Act passed in the Third Year 3 G.4. c.84. of His present Majesty's Reign, for the authorizing certain temporary Advances of Money for the Relief of the Distresses existing in Ireland, it was among other Things enacted, that it should be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor |