'surance, and make and subscribe the Declaration required by Law, or otherwise to qualify themselves as aforesaid, within such Time and in such Manner as in and by the said Acts respectively, or by any other Act of Parliament in that Behalf made, is required, whereby they have incurred, or may be in Danger of incurring, divers Penalties and Disabilities: For quieting the Minds of His Majesty's Subjects, and for preventing any Incon⚫venience that might otherwise happen by means of such Omissions;' Be it 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 all and every Person or before the passPersons who, at or before the passing of this Act, hath or shall have ing of this Act; omitted to take and subscribe the Oaths and Declarations, or to receive the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, or otherwise to qualify him, her, or themselves, within such Time and in such Manner as in and by the said Acts, or any of them, or by any other Act of Parliament in that Behalf made, is required; and who, after accepting any such Office, Place or Employment, or undertaking any Profession or Thing on account of which such Qualifications ought to have been had, and is required, before the passing of this Act, hath or have taken and subscribed the said Oaths, or made the Declarations required by Law, and also received the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper according to the Usage of the Church of England; or who, on or before the Twenty fifth Day and who shall of March One thousand eight hundred and twenty five, shall take on or before and subscribe the Oaths, Declarations and Assurance respectively, March 25,1825, in such Cases wherein by Law the said Oaths, Declarations and qualify themAssurance ought to have been taken and subscribed in such Manner and Form, and at or in such Place or Places, as are appointed in and by the said Act made in the First Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty King George the First, or by any other Act or Acts of Parliament in that Behalf made and provided; and also hath or have received, or shall, on or before the said Twenty fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and twenty five, receive the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper according to the Usage of the Church of England in such Cases wherein the said Sacrament ought to have been received, and hath or ought to have made and subscribed, or shall on or before the said Twenty fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and twenty five, make and subscribe the said Declaration against Transubstantiation; and also hath or have made and subscribed, or shall, on or before the said Twenty fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and twenty five, make and subscribe the said Declaration in the said Statute made in the Thirtieth Year of King Charles the Second, in such Cases wherein the said Declaration ought to have been made and subscribed, or to take and subscribe the Oath directed by the said Act made in the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, in such Cases wherein the said Oath ought to have been taken and subscribed, in such Manner as by the said Act is directed, shall be and are hereby indemnified, freed and dis- shall be indemcharged from and against all Penalties, Forfeitures, Incapacities nified against and Disabilities incurred or to be incurred for or by reason of any Forfeitures.

Neglect

selves,

4 G.4. c.86.

§ 29.

55 G.3. c.147.

Neglect or Omission, previous to the passing of this Act, of taking or subscribing the said Oaths or Assurance, or receiving the Sacrament, or making or subscribing the said Declaration, or taking or subscribing the said Oath, according to the above mentioned Acts or any of them, or any other Act or Acts; and such Person or Persons is and are and shall be fully and actually recapacitated and restored to the same State and Condition as he, she or they were in before such Neglect or Omission, and shall be deemed and adjudged to have duly qualified him, her or themselves according to the above mentioned Acts and every of them; and that all Elections of, and Acts done or to be done by any such Person or Persons, or by Authority derived from him, her or them, are and shall be of the same Force and Validity as the same or any of them would have been if such Person or Persons respectively had taken the said Oaths or Assurance, and received the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, and made and subscribed the said Declarations, and taken and subscribed the said Oath according to the Directions of the said Acts and every or any of them; and that the Qualification of such Person or Persons qualifying themselves in Manner and within the Time appointed by this Act, shall be to all Intents and Purposes as effectual as if such Person or Persons had respectively taken the said Oaths and Assurance, and received the Sacrament, and made and subscribed the said Declaration, and taken and subscribed the said Oath, within the Time and in the Manner appointed by the several Acts before mentioned.

CAP. VII.

An Act to continue, until the First Day of July One thousand
eight hundred and twenty seven, Two Acts of His present
Majesty, (a) for the Appointment of Commissioners for
inquiring into the Collection and Management of the Public
Revenue.
[16th March 1824.]

(a) 1&2G.4. c.90. 3 G. 4. c.37.

CAP. VIII.

An Act to amend an Act of the last Session of Parliament,
for amending the Laws for the Improvement of Church
Lands in Ireland.
[16th March 1824.]
W
WHEREAS by an Act made in the last Session of Parlia-
ment, intituled An Act to amend the Laws for collecting
Church Rates, and Money advanced by the Trustees and Com-
missioners of the First Fruits of Ecclesiastical Benefices, and for
the Improvement of Church Lands in Ireland, it is among other
things enacted and declared, That the several Powers, Pro-
visions and Regulations contained in an Act made in the Fifty
fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the
Third, intituled An Act for enabling Spiritual Persons to exchange
'the Parsonage or Glebe Houses or Glebe Lands belonging to their
Benefices, for others of greater Value, or more conveniently
situated for their Residence and Occupation, and for annexing such

'Houses

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Houses and Lands so taken in exchange to such Benefices, as Parsonage or Glebe Houses and Glebe Lands, to become Glebe in ' certain Cases; and for other Purposes; or such of the Powers, Regulations and Provisions contained in the said Act, as are ' applicable or shall be necessary to be applied to Benefices in Ireland, shall and may be applied and put in execution for the carrying into effect the Purposes of the said recited Act with respect to Benefices in Ireland, as fully and effectually, to all 'Intents and Purposes, as if all the Clauses, Powers, Provisions ' and Regulations in the said recited Act contained, were repeated and inserted in the Body of the said Act of last Session of Parliament, and as if the said Clauses, Powers, Provisions and Regulations of the said recited Act of the said Fifty fifth Year, had by the said Act been expressly extended and referred to Benefices in Ireland: And Whereas Doubts have arisen as to the Application of certain Powers contained in the said Act of the Fifty fifth Year of His late Majesty's Reign to the Execu'tion of the said Act in Ireland;' 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 in all Cases where, in and by the said recited Act of Certain Matters the said Fifty fifth Year, any Act, Matter or Thing is required required to be to be done with relation to any Number of Acres of Land in the done under said Act mentioned, such Acres shall be considered and inter- to be considered preted to be Irish Acres; and that where any Act, Matter or as referring to Thing is by the said recited Act required to be done by or with certain Matters relation to the Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne for the and Officers in Augmentation of the Maintenance of the Poor Clergy, every such Ireland. Act, Matter and Thing shall be done in Ireland by and with relation to the Trustees and Commissioners of the First Fruits of Ecclesiastical Benefices in Ireland; and that where any Act, Matter or Thing is by the said recited Act required to be done by or with relation to the Bank of England, or the High Court of Chancery, or the Lord High Chancellor, Lord Keeper or Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal, or the Accountant General of the Court of Chancery in England, every such Act, Matter and Thing shall be done in Ireland by and with relation to the Bank of Ireland, and the High Court of Chancery, and the Lord High Chancellor, Lord Keeper or Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal, and the Accountant General of the Court of Chancery in Ireland; any Thing in the said recited Acts, or either of them, to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding.

CAP. IX.

55 G. 3. c. 147.

An Act to carry into Effect a Convention relating to Austrian Loans. [16th March 1824.] HEREAS an Act was passed in the Thirty fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, 'intituled An Act for guaranteeing the Payment of the Dividends 35 G.3. c. 93. on a Loan of Four millions six hundred thousand Pounds to the Emperor of Germany: And Whereas another Act was passed in

the Thirty seventh Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty,

'intituled

37 G.3. c.59.

Convention be

tween His

Majesty and the Emperor of Austria, dated 17th Nov. 1823, stipulating the Payment of 2,500,0001 by the Emperor in

Satisfaction of the British Claims.

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'intituled An Act for guaranteeing the Payment of the Dividends
on a Loan of One million six hundred and twenty thousand Pounds
to the Emperor of Germany, and the regular Redemption of
the Capital to be created thereby; for enabling the Governor and
Company of the Bank of England to retain the Sums granted for
paying Advances made by them for the Public Service; and for
repaying to the Contributors to the Loans of Fourteen millions
'five hundred thousand Pounds, and One million six hundred and
twenty thousand Pounds, the Excess of their Deposits beyond the
proportional Deposits to the said Loans: And Whereas a Con-
vention was entered into at Vienna, on the Seventeenth Day of
November in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hun-
'dred and twenty three, between His Majesty and His Majesty
the Emperor of Austria, whereby His Majesty the Emperor of
Austria engaged to pay the Sum of Two millions five hundred
thousand Pounds Sterling, in Satisfaction of the whole of the
'British Claims upon His Imperial Majesty under the Head of
the Austrian Loan; and it was also agreed, that the said Sum
' of Two millions five hundred thousand Pounds Sterling should
'be paid into the British Treasury, in the Name and on the
Behalf of the Austrian Government, by the Houses of Baring,
Reid and Irving, and Rothschild in London, the said Houses
having been appointed and fully empowered by the Austrian
Government to make the above Payment, according to such
Terms as had been agreed to and were judged satisfactory by
'the British Government; and that, immediately after the Řati-
'fication of the said Convention by His Majesty and the Emperor
of Austria, His Majesty's Plenipotentiary should deliver up to
'such Persons as should be appointed by His Imperial Majesty
to receive them, the original Letters of Octroi, and the whole
of the Imperial Bonds which had been held in the Possession of
His Majesty's Government as Securities from the Time of
raising the Austrian Loan, and His Majesty would thenceforth
'be responsible for the complete Release of the Austrian Go-
vernment from all British Claims that could be founded upon
the said Loans; and it was stipulated and agreed in and by the
'said Convention, that all pecuniary Claims upon Austria con-
'nected with the said Austrian Loans, as well as all pecuniary
Claims upon Great Britain, of whatever Description they might
'be, which had existed, or might be considered to exist, on the
Part of the Imperial Government of Austria, should be deemed
'to be extinct, and should be totally abolished: And Whereas
the Loans guaranteed by the said recited Acts were duly raised,
' and the Money arising thereby paid to the Use of the Govern-
'ment of Austria: And Whereas a separate Account has hitherto
'been kept at the Bank of England of the Annuities payable by
'virtue of the said recited Acts, under the Title " Imperial
Annuities:" And Whereas it is no longer necessary that the said
Account should be kept separate, and it is expedient that the
same should be consolidated with and made a Part of the Three
'Pounds per Centum Consolidated Annuities:' May it therefore
please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted
by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice
and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons,

able under the

in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of The Imperial the same, That the separate Accounts of the Annuities called Annuities pay“Imperial Annuities," payable under the said recited Acts, which recited Acts have heretofore been kept at the Bank of England, shall cease consolidated and determine, and the said Annuities, and the Annual Charge with the Three thereof, shall be deemed, from and after the passing of this Act, per Cent. to be Part of the Funded Debt of the United Kingdom of Great Consols. Britain and Ireland, and the said Annuities shall be and the same are hereby consolidated with the Three Pounds per Centum Consolidated Annuities payable at the Bank of England; any Thing in the said recited Acts of the Thirty seventh and Thirty ninth Years respectively of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding.

'II. And Whereas it was agreed between the Commissioners of • His Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the said Houses of Baring, Brothers, Reid, Irving and Company, and Nathaniel Mayer Rothschild, that the said total Sum of Two millions five hundred thousand • Pounds to be advanced by them on Behalf of the Emperor of Austria should be paid in the several Proportions and at the • Periods hereinafter mentioned; videlicet, One hundred thousand Pounds on the First Day of December One thousand eight hun'dred and twenty three, Two hundred thousand Pounds on the First Day of August One thousand eight hundred and twenty 'four, Three hundred thousand Pounds on the First Day of April One thousand eight hundred and twenty five, Three hun'dred thousand Pounds on the First Day of December One ⚫ thousand eight hundred and twenty five, Three hundred thousand Pounds on the First Day of August One thousand eight hundred and twenty six, and One Million three hundred thousand Pounds on the First Day of June One thousand eight hundred and

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of, before the payable pursuant to the Agreement

same become

herein mentioned, Treasury shall allow a Discount of

' twenty seven; and it was provided that the said Parties should On Payment 'be entitled to a Discount at the Rate of Five Pounds per of the said Centum per Annum on any Payments which they might make 2,500,000l. or into His Majesty's Exchequer in Anticipation of any of the said any Part thereInstalments; Be it therefore further enacted, That upon the Payment of the Whole of the said Sum of Two millions five hundred thousand Pounds, or any Part thereof, into the Exchequer, to be there carried to the Account of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, before the same would be due and payable according to the said Agreement, it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, or any Three or more of them, by any Warrant 5 per Cent. under their Hands, to direct the Issue out of the growing Produce of the Consolidated Fund of such a Sum by way of Discount, in conformity with the aforesaid Agreement, as shall be equivalent to the Interest, at the Rate of Five Pounds per Centum per Аппит, on any Sum or Sums which may have been paid by the said Parties before the same were due and payable according to the Terms of the said Agreement.

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