How Payment of fuch Allowances to Clerks made. Claims of Exemption have been allowed, and inferting the Names of any Person that shall have been omitted to be inferted, and in numbering the Returns and making out the Tickets for the Ballot, after the Rate of One Pound Fifteen Shillings for every One thousand Names of Perfons returned liable to ferve, and alfo for the actual Expences incurred by fuch refpective Clerks, and for Printing and Stationary used for the Purpofe of this Act, as to the Lord Lieutenants or Deputy Lieutenants of the refpective Counties, Ridings, Cities or Places fhall appear reasonable and proper; and in cafe the Orders made by the Lord Lieutenants or Deputy Lieutenants for the Payment of fuch further Allowances as aforefaid fhall be confirmed at a General Meeting confifting of not lefs than Five Deputy Lieutenants, but not otherwife. XII. And be it further enacted, That the Receiver General in England fhall pay to the Clerk of the General Meetings his Allowance at the Rate of Five Pounds and Five Shillings for each Meeting, or fuch further Allowance as may be made as hereinbefore directed, upon his producing an Order or Orders for that Purpose from His Majefty's Lieutenant, or from Three Deputy Lieutenants affembled at fome General Meeting or Meetings, and shall also pay to each and every of the Clerks of the Subdivifion Meetings their feveral Allowances, at the Rate of One Pound and One Shilling for each Meeting, or fuch further Allowance as may be made as hereinbefore directed, upon his or their producing an Order or Orders from One or more Deputy Lieutenant or Deputy Lieutenants affembled in the feveral Subdivifion Meetings; which faid Order or Orders, fpecifying the Day or Days of Meeting, at what Place or Places and for what Purpose or Purposes the faid General and Subdivifion Meeting or Meetings, have been affembled and held, together with the Clerk's Receipt or Receipts for the Sums fo claimed, fhall be to the Receivers General in England refpectively a fufficient Difcharge for the Payment of fuch Allowances, and be allowed in their Accounts; and that the feveral Allowances to Clerks of General and Subdivifion Meetings for their Trouble and Expences in the Execution of this Act in Scotland fhall be paid and defrayed in the fame Manner in which Schoolmasters, Conftables and other Perfons employed in the Execution of an A&t paffed in the 42 G. 3. c. 91. Forty fecond Year of the Reign of His prefent Majefty, intituled An Act to raife and establish a Militia Force in Scotland, are directed to be paid for their Trouble and Expences. Stamp Duty on Commitlions repaid. Bills drawn for Pay, &c. may be on uuftamped Paper. No Fee taken. XIII. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Agent General of Volunteers and Local Militia, and he is hereby required, to repay any Sum of Money which may have been paid for the Stamp Duty on any Commiffion of any Officer in the Local Militia, under fuch Regulations and in fuch Manner as the Secretary at War fhall appoint. XIV. And be it further enacted, That all Bills, Drafts and Orders drawn for the Pay or Allowance of the Local Militia under this A&, may or shall be drawn upon unitamped Paper, and no fuch Bill, Draft or Order shall be void by reason of being so drawn or written on unftamped Paper. XV. Provided always, and be it enacted, That no Fee or Gratuity whatfoever shall be given or paid for or upon account of any Warrant, or Sum of Money, which shall be iffued in relation to or in purfuance of this Act. С АР. CA P. XLVI. An Act for the better Regulation of the Civil List. [20th June 1816.] WHEREAS an Act paffed in the Twenty fecond Year of the 22 G. 3. c. 82. Reign of His prefent Majefty, intituled An Ad for enabling His Majefty to difcharge the Debt contracted upon His Civil Lift Revenues, and for preventing the fame from being in Arrear for the future, by regulating the Mode of Payments out of the faid Revenues; and by fuppreffing or regulating certain Offices therein mentioned, which are now paid out of the Revenues of the Civil Lift: And Whereas 23 G. 3. c. 82. an Act paffed in the Twenty third Year of the Reign of His prefent Majefty, intituled An Ad for eftablishing certain Regulations in the Receipt of the Exchequer And Whereas an Act paffed in 25 G. 3. c. 61. by His Majefly to Perfons in low and indigent Circumftances: And 44 G. 3. c. 80. of the United Kingdom, and for preventing Accumulation of Arrears in the Payments out of the Civil Lift Revenues: And Whereas an 52 G. 3. c. 7. • A&t passed in the Fifty fecond Year of the Reign of His present Majefty, intituled An Ad for granting to His Majesty a certain • Sum for defraying the Expences incident to the Affumption of the Perfonal Exercife of the Royal Authority by His Royal Highness The Prince Regent, in the Name and on the Behalf of His Majefty: And Whereas another Act paffed in the Fifty fecond Year of 52 G. 3. c. 8. 'the Reign of His prefent Majefty, intituled An Act for the Re 6 gulation of His Majesty's Household, and for enabling Her Majefty The Queen to meet the increafed Expence to which Her Majefty may be expofed during His Majefty's Indifpofition; and for the Care of His Majesty's Real and Perfonal Property; and to amend • an Ad of the laft Seffion of Parliament, to provide for the Adminif tration of the Royal Authority during His Majefty's Illness: And Whereas the ordinary Revenues of the Civil Lift have for many • Years paft been found inadequate to defray the Charges thereon, ‹ and the Deficiency has been made good by the Application of the • Funds arifing from the Droits of the Crown, or other Extraordinary Refources, or by fpecial Grants of Parliament: And Whereas it is highly expedient that the ordinary Revenues of His Majesty's Civil Lift fhould be made adequate to the ordinary Charges thereon, and that feveral of the Charges which have heretofore been borne • upon the Civil Lift Revenues fhould in future be made a Charge upon and be defrayed out of the Confolidated Fund of Great Britain, or otherwife provided for; and it is alfo expedient that • diftinct and feparate Appropriations fhould be made of certain Pro'portions of the Civil Lift Revenues, for the Payment of certain Charges comprifed in the feveral Claffes of the Civil Lift, and that • further and more effectual Provifion fhould be made for the Regul ation and Controul of the Expenditure thereof;' Be it therefore I 4 enacted Certain Sums heretofore paid dated Fund. Allowances to the Royal Family to be paid at the Exchequer without Fee or Reward. enacted by The King's Moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That from and after the Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and fixteen, the Payment of the feveral Allowances and Sums of Twelve thoufand Pounds to His Royal Highnefs Frederick Duke of York, of Two thoufand five hundred Pounds to His Royal Highness William Henry Duke of Clarence, and of Four thousand Pounds to each of Their Royal Highneffes the Princess Augufta Sophia, the Princess Elizabeth, the Princess Mary, and the Princefs Sophia, heretofore granted by His Majesty, and charged upon the Civil Lift Revenues, fhall ceafe and determine, and fuch Allowances and Sums of Money fhall be no longer payable or paid out of the faid Revenues; but from and after the said Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and fixteen, the faid feveral Allowances and Sums of Money respectively fhall be charged and chargeable upon and iffuing and payable out of the Confolidated Fund of Great Britain, during the Joint Lives of His Majefty and Their faid Royal Highneffes refpectively, as to each of their faid refpective Allowances and Sums aforefaid. II. And be it further enacted, That the said several and respective Allowances, Sums of Money and Annuities as aforefaid, fhall be iffued and paid out of the faid Confolidated. Fund, after paying and referving fufficient to pay all fuch Sums as fhall have been directed to be paid out of the fame by any Act or Acts of Parliament made and paffed before the paffing of this Act, and with Preference to all other Payments which fhall or may at any time after the paffing of this Act be charged upon and payable out of the said Fund, and fhall be paid and payable at the Receipt of His Majefty's Exchequer out of the faid Fund, and the Auditor of the faid Receipt fhall and he is hereby required to make forth and pass Debentures from time to time for paying the faid respective Sums, as the fame shall become due and payable, without any Fees or Charges to be demanded or taken for paying the fame or any Part thereof; and the refpective Acquittance or Acquittances, Receipt or Receipts of Their faid Royal Highneffes respectively, as to each of the faid Allowances, Sums of Money or Annuities aforefaid, or of such other Perfon or Perfons as fhall be by them refpectively duly authorized and appointed to receive their respective Allowances, Sums of Money or Annuities as aforefaid, or any Part thereof, fhall be good and fufficient Discharges for the Payment thereof refpectively; and the faid Debentures to be made forth and paffed for carrying into Execution the Provifions of this Act fhall be a fufficient Authority to the several and refpective Officers of the Receipt of the Exchequer now and for the time being, for the Payment of the said respective Sums of Money, without any further or other Warrant to be fued for, had or Clear of Taxes. obtained in that Behalf; and that the faid refpective Sums of Money fo to be paid, fhall be free and clear from all Taxes, Rates and Affeffments, and all other Charges whatsoever. III. And Whereas an Eftimate has been laid before Parliament ⚫ of the future Annual Charges of the feveral Claffes of His Majefty's Civil Lift, the Amount of which, for each Clafs refpectively, is fpecified in the Schedule to this Act annexed; and it is expedient, ⚫ for ensuring the regular Payment of the said Charges, arifing in each • Clafs Clafs refpectively, that Appropriations fhould be made out of the Civil Lift Revenues, in the manner hereinafter directed;' Be it therefore further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Lord High Treafurer, or the Commiffioners of the Treafury for the time being, or any Three or more of them, and they are hereby required, at the Commencement of every Quarter, or within a Period not exceeding Thirty Days from the Commencement of each Quarter, by Warrant under their Hands, to direct what Sums fhall refpectively be fet apart and appropriated, in the Receipt of His Majefty's Exchequer, out of the Quarterly Revenues of the Civil Lift, for the Purpose of defraying the feveral Charges upon the refpective Claffes thereof; but fo as that the Sum to be appropriated to the Sixth Clafs do not exceed One fourth Part of the estimated annual Amount of that Clafs, as specified in the Schedule to this Act annexed; and so that the Sums to be appropriated to the other of the Claffes in any One Quarter be equal to One fourth Part of the estimated Amount of fuch Clafs, together with any Saving which may have accrued upon the faid Clafs in the preceding Quarter; and the feveral and refpective Sums, in the faid Warrant directed to be fet apart and appropriated, fhall be fo fet apart by the Auditor of the Receipt of His Majefty's Exchequer, and be appropriated to the respective Claffes accordingly; and each and every Sum fo fet apart and appropriated, fhall in the First Inftance be applied in the Payment of all the unfatisfied Charges of every Defcription of the Clafs in refpect of which fuch Appropriation fhall have been made, in Preference to any other Charges whatever upon His Majefty's Civil Lift Revenues; and no Part thereof fhall on any Account whatever be applied for any other Purpose, or in Aid of any other of the Claffes of the Civil Lift, or of any other of the Charges thereon, except in the manner hereinafter provided; any thing contained in the faid recited Act of the Twenty fecond Year afprefaid, or any other A&t or Acts of Parliament to the contrary notwithstanding; but in cafe the actual Charge of any Clafs or Claffes of the Civil Lift shall exceed the Sum which may have been appropriated thereto, then fuch Exceeding fhall and may be iffued out of any Money in the Exchequer arifing from His Majefty's Civil Lift Revenues, which may not have been appropriated to any particular Clafs or Claffes of the Civil Lift. Sums appropri- Lift, and to be of in Preference Payments. applied at the IV. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That if any Sav- Treafury may ing or Surplus fhall arife in any Quarter, in refpect of any Money direct Savings in appropriated for defraying the Charges of any particular Clafs, fo as any Clafs to be that the Sum appropriated thereto fhall be more than fufficient for End of the the full and complete Payment of the Charges thereon, fuch Quarterly Year, in Aid of Saving or Surplus fhall in every such case be carried forward in the the other Exchequer to the Account and Credit, and be applied for the Pur- Claffes. pofes of the Clafs in which it fhall have arifen, until the Fifth Day of January in every Year; and in cafe fuch Saving or Surplus remaining at that time fhall have arifen in the Third Class, then it hall be lawful for the Lord High Treasurer, or Commiffioners of the Treafury for the time being, or any Three or more of them, and they are hereby required, to direct the fame to be carried to the Account of the faid Confolidated Fund; but in cafe and whenever any fuch Saving or Surplus remaining at the End of the Year shall have arifen in any other of the Claffes of the Civil Lift, then it fhall be lawful for the Lord High Treasurer, or Commiffioners of the Trea fury fury for the time being, or any Three or more of them, to direct the fame to be applied in Aid of the Charges or Expences of any other Clafs, or of any other Charge or Charges upon His Majefty's Civil Lift Revenues, in fuch manner as may under the Circumstances appear to be most expedient. • V. And Whereas it is expedient that the Income as well as the Charge of His Majefty's Civil Lift Revenues fhould, as far as may be practicable, confift of fuch Sums as are fixed and certain in their Amount, and that so much of the faid recited Act of the Twenty third Year of the Reign of His prefent Majefty, as enacts, that the Commiffioners of His Majefty's Treafury fhall direct the Surplus of the Fees and Gratuities, specified in the faid Act, to be carried to the Account of the Monies applicable to the Ufe of His Majefty's Civil Government and to the Sinking Fund, in the Pro'portions in the faid Act specified, fhould therefore be repealed;' Be it further enacted, That fo much of the faid Act as is above recited fhall be and the fame is hereby repealed; and that from and after the paffing of this Act, there fhall be applied to the Civil Lift Revenues, out of the Surplus of fuch Fees and Gratuities, the Sum and Remainder of Forty eight thoufand Pounds per Annum, by even and equal Quarterly Payments; and the Remainder of fuch Surplus fhall go and be carried to the faid Confolidated Fund. Application of Exchequer Fees repealed, and a fixed Sum carried to Civil Lift Revenue, to Confolidated Fund. 50 G. 3. c. 117. § 9. repealed. VI. And Whereas by an Act paffed in the Fiftieth Year of the Reign of His prefent Majefty, intituled An Ad to direct that Accounts of Increafe and Diminution of Public Salaries, Penfions and Allowances, fhall be annually laid before Parliament, and to regulate and controul the granting and paying of fuch Salaries, Penfions and 'Allowances, it is provided, that when any Deficiency of the Fee Fund fhould be found in the Offices of the Principal Secretary ' of State, of the Council and of the Treasury, the same should be 'made good out of the Civil Lift: And Whereas it is expedient that the faid Provifion fhould be repealed, and that any Deficiency of the Fee Fund which may arife in any of those Offices fhould not hereafter be made good out of the Civil Lift, or be confidered as forming any Part of the ordinary Charges thereof, but fhould be made good out of fuch other Funds as may be provided by Parliament; Be it therefore further enacted, That fo much of the said Act as is above recited, fhall be and the fame is hereby repealed; and that from and after the paffing of this Act, the Deficiency of Fees which may be found in any of the faid Offices fhall not be confidered as forming any Part of the ordinary Charges of the Civil Lift, but that the fame shall be made good out of any Funds which may be granted by Parliament to discharge fuch Expences, of a Civil nature, as do not form a Part of the ordinary Charges of the Civil Lift. VII. And Whereas it may frequently happen that Penfions, Fees and Salaries may be directed to be paid at the Exchequer, in • cafes where the Parties entitled to fuch Penfions, Fees and Salaries, may have died previously to the Day up to which fuch Payments may have been directed, by which the Money becomes appropriated in the Hands of the proper Officers of the Exchequer, and cannot be applied to any Purposes whatever without the Authority of Par<liament: And Whereas it is expedient that Authority fhould be given to the Lord High Treasurer, or Commiffioners of His Majefty's Treafury, or any Three or more of them for the time 'being, |