7. Short title.

An Act to provide for raising Money for the present War in South Africa. [27th March 1900.]

Most Gracious Sovereign, WE, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, towards raising the necessary sup. plies granted to Your Majesty, have resolved that sums not exceeding thirty-five million pounds be raised in manner provided by this Act; and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the Queen'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, as follows:

1. Any money required for raising the supply granted to Her Majesty for the service of the years ending the thirty-first day of March nineteen hundred and the thirty-first day of March nineteen hundred and one, may be raised up to an amount not exceeding thirty-five million pounds, by either or both of the following methods, namely, by means of a Special War Loan, or by means of the issue of Treasury Bills.

2.-(1.) For the purpose of raising the Special War Loan, the Treasury may by warrant addressed to the Bank of England direct the creation of a new capital stock to be called "War Stock," and the issue of bonds to be called "War Bonds."

(2.) War Stock and War Bonds shall bear interest at the rate of two pounds fifteen shillings per centum per annum.

(3.) War Stock and War Bonds shall be interchangeable, subject to, and in accordance with, regulations made under this Act.

(4.) The creation of War Stock shall date from the sixth day of April nineteen hundred, and War Stock and War Bonds shall not be redeemable until the fifth day of April nineteen

hundred and ten, but on that date shall be redeemed at the rate of one hundred pounds sterling for every one hundred pounds of the stock or bond, together with the payment of all arrears of interest.

(5.) The sums raised by means of War Stock or War Bonds shall be paid into the Exchequer.

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3. There shall be charged on the Con- Charge on solidated Fund of the United Kingdom or the dated Fund. growing produce thereof—

(i) the principal and interest of War Stock and War Bonds; and

(ii) any sums required for defraying any expenses incurred in connection with the raising of the Special War Loan, but the principal and interest and other sums so charged shall not be payable as part of the permanent annual charge for the National Debt.

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4.-(1.) The interest on War Stock and War Supple Bonds shall be payable by equal quarterly visions as t dividends on the fifth day of January, the War Stock fifth day of April, the fifth day of July, and the fifth day of October in every year, and as from the sixth day of April nineteen hundred full quarterly dividends shall be payable on any War Stock or War Bonds issued, and any scrip certificates issued in respect thereof.

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(2.) War Stock shall be transferable in the books of the Bank of England and the Bank of Ireland in like manner as other stock transferable under the National Debt Act, 1870, 71. and shall be subject to the provisions of that Act and any enactment amending that Act, so far as is consistent with the tenor of this Act.

(3.) Sections eight, nine, ten, and eleven of the Forgery Act, 1861 (which relate to the 24 & 25 Vict. forgery of and other frauds relating to Ex- c. 98. chequer Bills), shall apply to War Bonds and shall have effect as if " Exchequer Bill" in those sections included " War Bond."

(4.) For the purpose of calculating the annual sums payable to the Bank of England and the Bank of Ireland for the management

A.D. 1900. of, cr expenses connected with, the National Debt, the Special War Loan shall be considered as part of the National Debt inscribed in the books of the Bank of England and the Bank of Ireland.

(5.) War Stock or War Bonds may be issued at such times, in such amounts, and subject to such conditions as to payments of deposits and instalments, and the issue of scrip certificates carrying dividends, and otherwise, as the Treasury direct, and any directions given by the Treasury before the passing of this Act with respect to those matters are hereby confirmed.

(6.) The Treasury may make regulations with respect to

(a) the limitation of the sums for which War Bonds are issued to sums of even amount, and to sums of not less than one hundred pounds; and

(b) the form and authentication of War Bonds, and the authority under which they may be issued; and

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on behalf of the several occupiers of dwellinghouses, with the following particulars, and no others, namely, particulars showing

(a) the name, sex, age, profession or occu pation, condition as to marriage, relation to head of family, birth-place, and (where the person was born abroad) nationality of every living person who abode in every house on the night of the census day; and (b) whether any person who so abode was blind or deaf and dumb, or imbecile or lunatic; and

(c) where the occupier is in occupation of less than five rooms, the number of rooms occupied by him; and

(d) in the case of Wales or the county of Monmouth, whether any person who so abode (being of three years of age or upwards) speaks English only or Welsh only, or both English and Welsh.

(2.) Every enumerator shall in the course of the week ending on the Saturday next before the census day leave at every dwelling-house within his enumeration district one or more of these schedules for the occupier thereof or of any part thereof, and on every such schedule shall be plainly expressed that it is to be filled up by the occupier for whom it is left, and that the enumerator will collect all such schedules within his district on the Monday then next following.

(3.) Every occupier for whom any such schedule has been so left shall fill up the schedule, to the best of his knowledge and belief, so far as relates to all persons dwelling in the house, tenement, or apartment occupied by him, and shall sign his name thereto, and shall deliver the schedule so filled up to the enumerator when required so to do.

(4.) In this section the expression "dwellinghouse" shall include every building and tenement of which the whole or any part is used for the purpose of human habitation, and where a dwelling-house is let or sub-let in different tenements or apartments and occupied distinctly by different persons or families a separate schedule shall be left with or for and shall be filled up by the occupier of each such distinct tenement or apartment.

(5.) For the purposes of this section, a person who is travelling or at work on the night of the census day, and who returns to a house on the morning of the following day, shall be treated as abiding in that house on the night of the census day.

Collection, correction, and copying of schedules. schedules so left within his district, from house to house, and so far as may be possible

5.-(1.) Every enumerator shall visit every house in his district, and shall collect all the

on the day next following the census day, and shall complete such of the schedules as on

delivery thereof to him appear to be defective, A.D. 1900. and correct such as he finds to be erroneous, and shall copy the schedules, when completed and corrected, and shall furnish a return according to the best information which he is able to obtain, of all the persons present within his district on the night of the census day, but not included in the schedules collected by him.

(2.) Every enumerator shall also furnish the prescribed particulars as to whether or not houses are occupied or inhabited, and as to the counties, boroughs, parishes, and other areas for electoral or administrative purposes, and the ecclesiastical parishes or districts, in which the houses are situate.

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7. The Registrar General shall, subject to Returns of the approval of the Local Government Board, velling or on obtain returns of the particulars required by shipboard this Act with respect to persons who during or not in the night of the census day were travelling or on shipboard, or for any other reason were not abiding on that night in any house of which account is to be taken by the enumerators, and shall include these returns in the abstracts to be made under this Act.

8.—(1.) The Registrar General shall, subject Abstracts of to the approval of the Local Government returns. Board, prepare a preliminary abstract and a detailed abstract of the census returns.

(2.) The preliminary abstract shall be printed and laid before both Houses of Parliament within five months next after the census day, if Parliament be then sitting, or if Parliament be not then sitting, then within the first fourteen days of the session then next ensuing.

(3.) The detailed abstract shall be printed and laid before both Houses of Parliament at as early a date as may be found practicable.

7. Short title.

An Act to provide for raising Money for the present War in South Africa. [27th March 1900.]

Most Gracious Sovereign,

WE, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, towards raising the necessary sup. plies granted to Your Majesty, have resolved that sums not exceeding thirty-five million pounds be raised in manner provided by this Act; and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the Queen'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, as follows:

1. Any money required for raising the supply granted to Her Majesty for the service of the years ending the thirty-first day of March nineteen hundred and the thirty-first day of March nineteen hundred and one, may be raised up to an amount not exceeding thirty-five million pounds, by either or both of the following methods, namely, by means of a Special War Loan, or by means of the issue of Treasury Bills.

2.-(1.) For the purpose of raising the Special War Loan, the Treasury may by warrant addressed to the Bank of England direct the creation of a new capital stock to be called "War Stock," and the issue of bonds to be called "War Bonds."

(2.) War Stock and War Bonds shall bear interest at the rate of two pounds fifteen shillings per centum per annum.

(3.) War Stock and War Bonds shall be interchangeable, subject to, and in accordance with, regulations made under this Act.

(4.) The creation of War Stock shall date from the sixth day of April nineteen hundred, and War Stock and War Bonds shall not be redeemable until the fifth day of April nineteen

hundred and ten, but on that date shall be redeemed at the rate of one hundred pounds sterling for every one hundred pounds of the stock or bond, together with the payment of all arrears of interest.

(5.) The sums raised by means of War Stock or War Bonds shall be paid into the Exchequer.

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3. There shall be charged on the Con- Charze on solidated Fund of the United Kingdom or the dated Fand growing produce thereof—

(i) the principal and interest of War Stock and War Bonds; and

(ii) any sums required for defraying any expenses incurred in connection with the raising of the Special War Loan, but the principal and interest and other sums so charged shall not be payable as part of the permanent annual charge for the National Debt.

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4.-(1.) The interest on War Stock and War Supple Bonds shall be payable by equal quarterly visions as dividends on the fifth day of January, the War Stock fifth day of April, the fifth day of July, and the fifth day of October in every year, and as from the sixth day of April nineteen hundred full quarterly dividends shall be payable on any War Stock or War Bonds issued, and any scrip certificates issued in respect thereof.

(2.) War Stock shall be transferable in the books of the Bank of England and the Bank of Ireland in like manner as other stock trans33 & 34 Vi ferable under the National Debt Act, 1870, and shall be subject to the provisions of that Act and any enactment amending that Act, so far as is consistent with the tenor of this Act.

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(3.) Sections eight, nine, ten, and eleven of the Forgery Act, 1861 (which relate to the 24 & 25 forgery of and other frauds relating to Ex- c. 99. chequer Bills), shall apply to War Bonds and shall have effect as if "Exchequer Bill" in those sections included "War Bond."

(4.) For the purpose of calculating the annual sums payable to the Bank of England and the Bank of Ireland for the management