XVI. Supplies to be applied only for the Purposes aforesaid. On account, to 31st March 1858. XVII. Certain Rules to be observed in the Application of the Sum appropriating Half Pay. Not to prevent the receiving of Half Pay under any Act relating to the General or Local Militia, &c. Paymaster General, by Permission of the Treasury, may issue Half Pay to Officers appointed to Civil Offices since July 1828. An Account of the Number of Officers so receiving Half Pay to be laid before Parliament annually. XVIII. Treasury may authorize Military Officers in Civil Employments to receive Half Pay in certain Cases. XIX. Persons concerned in issuing, paying, and receiving Money for Payment of Half Pay, without the requisite Oaths, indemnified. Consolidated Fund (Appropriation). XX. Half Pay allowed to Officers of the Manx Fencibles. XXI. Half Pay Allowances to Chaplains of Regiments not holding Ecclesiastical Benefices derived from the Crown. XXII. Surplus of Sum by 19 & 20 Vict. c. 105. appropriated to Half Pay Officers to be disposed of as Her Majesty shall direct. XXIII. Widows, &c. claiming Pensions to make required Declaration. XXIV. Declarations to be made as specified in 5 & 6 W. 4. c. 62. LOCAL ACTS. Cap. i. An Act for enabling the Great Western, Bristol and Exeter, and South Devon Railway Companies to afford further Assistance towards the Completion of the Cornwall Railway between Plymouth and Truro; for extending the Time for the Completion thereof; and for other Purposes. [21st March 1857.] Preamble recites Acts 9 & 10 Vict. c. cccxxxv.; 18 & 19 Vict. c. lix.; 10 & 11 Vict. c. lxxii.; 17 & 18 Vict. c. lxxxv. Period limited by 18 & 19 Vict. c. lix. extended, § 2. Such Extension not to affect Provision as to Suspension of Dividends, § 3. Associated Companies may enter upon and complete the Portion of Railway between Plymouth and Truro, § 4. Property in such Portion of Railway to remain in the Cornwall Company, § 5. Account of Expenditure to be delivered to Company, and if not agreed to, to be settled by Arbitration, § 6. Provisions of Agreement as to Purchase may be exercised by Associated Companies, § 7. Expenditure to become a Debt from the Cornwall Company to the Associated Companies, and Cornwall Company to raise Money to pay the same, § 8. Provision as to Payment if Debt not paid out of Money raised, § 9. Term of Lease to be continued until Associated Companies be fully repaid in respect of Expenditure, &c., § 10. Agreement of 23d June 1855, and Modifications thereof, to remain in force, except as hereby altered, § 11. Cornwall Company to create £300,000 of Preference Stock on Guarantee of Associated Companies, § 12. Provisions, &c. as to new and Preference Shares, §§ 13-17. Deposits not to be paid out of Company's Capital, § 18. Cap. ii. An Act to re-incorporate Price's Patent Candle Company, Limited, and for other Purposes. [21st March 1857.] [Preamble recites Act 18 & 19 Vict. c. xxii. Recited Act repealed, § 1. Purposes and Re-establishment of Company, §§ 4 & 6. Capital £1,000,000, § 14. Provisions as to Shares, §§ 15 to 18. Power to borrow £50,000, § 19. Application of Money raised, § 20. Provisions as to Meetings, §§ 21 to 24. Provisions as to Directors and Auditors, §§ 25 to 29. Restriction as to Land to be held by Company, § 30. Provision for Education, &c., of Persons in Company's Employment, § 31. Provision as to Powers of holding Patents being brought before Parliament after Seven Years, § 35.] Cap. iii. An Act to enable the Whitehaven, Cleator, and Egremont Railway Company to raise additional Capital; and for other Purposes. [21st March 1857.] [Preamble recites 17 & 18 Vict. c. lxiv. Power to raise, by Creation of new Shares, £25,000, § 5. Provisions as to New Shares, §§ 5 to 12. Provisions as to Preference Shares, §§ 13, 14, 15. Power to borrow £8000, § 16. Deposits not to be paid out of Company's Capital, § 20.] Annuity to the Right Hon. C. S. Lefevre. 20 Vict. c. 9.-An Act for settling and securing an Page 31. 2. Treasury to direct Payment. 3. Right Hon. C. S. Lefevre to be deemed to have ceased 4. One Half of the Annuity to abate in case the Right Appointment of Chief Constables for Counties. Appointment of Overseers. See Extra- Appointments under Copyhold, &c., Commissions. 20 Vict. c. 8.- An Act to continue Appointments 20 VICT. K |