Purpose connected with the Care of the faid Seamen or Prisoners, or in any manner relating thereto, and all Bonds and other Securities entered into by any Perfon or Perfons for the due Performance of fuch laft mentioned Contracts, Covenants or Agreements, or for the doing or performing of any other A&t, Matter or Thing whatsoever relating to the last mentioned Services, fhall be vefted in and transferred to the faid Commiffioners for victualling His Majefty's Navy, and fhall continue in force in like manner, to all Intents and Purposes, as if the fame Contracts, Covenants and Agreements, Bonds and other Securities had been entered into with the Commiffioners for victualling His Majefty's Navy, or any of them. Ante, c. 10. § 65. § 66. Allowances for Further Allowance of One WE CA P. XXXII. An Act for fixing the Rates of Subfiftence to be paid to Innkeepers and others on quartering Soldiers. [21st May 1816.] HEREAS by an Act paffed in the prefent Seffion of Parliament, for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters, it is enacted, that Officers and Soldiers fhall be furnished with Diet and Small Beer upon paying and allowing for the fame the several Rates that are or fhall be established by any Act or Acts of Parliament; and an Option is given to Innholders and others, upon whom Officers and Soldiers are quartered and billetted, to furnish certain Articles gratis, in lieu of Diet and Small Beer; and it is juft and expedient that an adequate Allowance fhall be made and established for Pro• vifion and other Articles furnished to Officers and Soldiers:' May it therefore please Your Majefty that it may be enacted; and be it 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 present Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That every Non Commiffioned Officer and Private Soldier who shall be furnished with Diet and Small Beer within those Parts of the United Kingdom specified in the faid recited A&t by the Innholders or other Perfons on whom fuch Non Commiffioned Officers or Private Soldiers fhall be quartered and billetted by virtue of the faid Act, fhall pay and allow for the fame the Sum of One Shilling per Diem until the Twenty fourth Day of April inclufive, and from and after that Day the Sum of Ten pence per Diem; and that for fuch Allowances of One Shilling and Ten pence, the Innholder or other Perfon fhall furnish One Meal; videlicet, a hot Dinner if required, in each Day, to each Non Commiffioned Officer, Trumpeter, Drummer and Private Soldier, quartered and billetted on him, to confift of fuch Quantities of Diet and Small Beer as have been or fhall be specified and fixed in and by any Regulations made or to be made from time to time by His Majefty in that Behalf, but not to exceed One Pound and a Quarter of Meat previous to being dreffed, One Pound of Bread, One Pound of Potatoes or other Vegetables, previous to being cooked, and Two Pints of Small Beer, and Vinegar, Salt and Pepper; and that the Accounts of the fame fhall be rendered, and Payment thereof made, in like manner as is directed by the faid A&. II. And be it further enacted, That in cafe any Innholders or other Perfons on whom any Non Commissioned Officers or Private Men Men fhall be quartered within the aforefaid Parts of the United Halfpenny per Kingdom, fhall, by virtue of the faid Option in the faid A&t, fur- Diem. nifh fuch Non Commiffioned Officers or Soldiers with the Articles therein mentioned in lieu of furnishing Diet and Small Beer, at the Rate prescribed by this Act, fuch Innholders or other Persons on whom fuch Non Commiffioned Officers or Soldiers are quartered, and by whom the faid Articles fhall have been fo fupplied, fhall receive in Confideration thereof One Halfpenny per Diem for each Non Commiffioned Officer and Soldier; which Sum of One Halfpenny per Diem shall be accounted for and paid in like manner as is directed touching the Rate aforefaid. III. And be it further enacted, That the Sum to be paid to the Innholder or other Person within the aforesaid Parts of the United Kingdom, on whom any of the Horses belonging to His Majefty's Forces fhall be quartered by virtue of the faid Act, for Hay and Straw, shall be One Shilling and Two pence per Diem for each Horfe until the Twenty fourth Day of April inclufive, and from and after that Day Ten pence per Diem. IV. And be it further enacted, That all Non Commiffioned Of ficers and Soldiers fhall be entitled to receive their Diet and Small Beer from the Innholders or other Perfons on whom they may be billetted, within the aforefaid Parts of the United Kingdom, at the Rate herein before prescribed while on the March, as alfo on and for the Day of their Arrival at the Place of their final Destination, and on the Two fubfequent Days, unless either of the Two fubfequent Days fhall be a Market Day in and for the Town or Place where fuch Officers or Soldiers fhall be billetted, or within the Distance of Two Miles thereof; in which cafe it fhall be lawful for the Innholder, or other Perfon as aforefaid, to discontinue on and from fuch Market Day the Supply of Diet and Small Beer, and to furnish in lieu thereof the Articles in the faid recited A&t specified, and at the Rate herein before prescribed. V. Provided always, That if any Victualler or other Perfon liable by the faid recited A&t to have Soldiers billetted or quartered on him or her, fhall pay any Sum or Sums of Money to any Non Commiffioned Officer or Soldier on the March, in lieu of furnishing in kind the Diet and Small Beer to which fuch Non Commiffioned Officer or Soldier is entitled under the faid Act, every such Victualler or other Person may be proceeded against and fined in like manner as if he or she had refufed to furnish or allow according to the Directions of the said recited A&t the feveral things respectively directed to be furnished to Non Commiffioned Officers or Soldiers fo quartered or billetted on him or her as aforefaid. Horfes quarter ed, Rate per Diem to be paid for Hay and Straw. Regulation with refpect to dietNon Com miffioned Officers and Soldiers on March. Perfons paying Officers or Sol- March in lieu of Provifo for Non when halted. VI. Provided alfo, and be it further enacted, That if any Regiment, Troop, Company or Detachment, when on the March, fhall be halted, either for a limited or indefinitive time, at any intermediate Place, the Non Commiffioned Officers and Soldiers belonging thereto shall be entitled to receive their Diet and Small Beer from the Perfons on whom they shall be billetted at fuch intermediate Place, for fuch time only for which they would be entitled to receive the same after arriving at the Place of their final Destination, according to this A&t. VII. Provided nevertheless, That whenever it fhall happen that If Halting only any Regiment, Troop, Company or Detachment, when on their for a Day after March fhall be halted, and it fhall appear by the Marching Orders Arrival, and that it is not intended that fuch Regiment, Troop, Company or De tachment that a Market Day, Diet and Small Beer not dilcontinued. Regulations as to Recruiting Parties and Re tachment shall halt for any longer time than One entire Day after the Day of their Arrival at the Place of Halting, and the Day after fuch Arrival fhall be fuch Market Day as aforefaid, it fhall not be lawful for the Innholders or other Persons on whom the Non Commiffioned Officers and Soldiers shall be billetted, to discontinue on fuch Market Day the Supply of Diet and Small Small Beer to any fuch Officers or Soldiers; but that all such Officers and Soldiers fhall be entitled to receive their Diet and Small Beer from fuch Innholders and other Perfons aforefaid, upon fuch Market Day as aforefaid, at the Rates hereinbefore prescribed, in like manner as they would have been entitled thereto if fuch Day had not been a Market Day; any thing hereinbefore contained to the contrary hereof notwithstanding. VIII. And be it further enacted, That all Non Commissioned Officers and Private Men employed in Recruiting, and the Recruits cruits on March. by them raised, fhall, while on the March and for Two Days after the Day of their Arrival at any Recruiting Station, be entitled to the fame Benefits as are hereinbefore provided in regard to Troops upon the March; but no Recruit enlifted after the Two Days fubfequent to the Arrival of the Party at their Recruiting Station, fhall be entitled to be fupplied with Diet and Small Beer at the Rates herein beforeprescribed, except at the Option of the Perfon on whom he fhall be quartered: Provided also neverthelefs, that in case any fuch Recruiting Party, with the Recruits by them raised, shall remove from their Station, and after a time shall return to the fame Place, they and the Recruits by them raised, so returning, shall not be again entitled to the Supply of Diet and Small Beer for fuch Two Days as aforefaid, unless the Period between the time of their Re moval from fuch Place, and their Return thereto, shall have exceeded Twenty eight Days. Provifo. Continuance of Provifo for A&t may he altered, &c. IX. And be it further enacted, That this Act fhall have Continuance and be in force from the Twenty fourth Day of March One thoufand eight hundred and fixteen until the Twenty fifth Day of March One thoufand eight hundred and feventeen; and that all Payments which have been made, and all Acts, Matters and things done in pursuance of or in conformity with the Provifions thereof, fhall be as good, valid and effectual to all Intents and Purposes as if this Act had paffed before the faid Twenty fourth Day of March One thoufand eight hundred and fixteen. X. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That this Act may be altered and varied by any Act to be made in this Seffion of Parliament. CA P. XXXIII. An Act to indemnify fuch Perfons in the United Kingdom as CAP. CAP. XXXIV. An Act to charge an additional Duty on Corks, ready made, therefore enacted by The King's Moft Excellent Majefty, by and II. And be it further enacted, That the additional Duty of Cuftoms hereby impofed fhall be managed, aicertained, raifed, levied, collected, paid and recovered, in fuch and the like manner as any Duties of Cuftoms of the like Nature are managed, afcertained, raifed, levied, collected, paid and recovered. Duty on ready made Corks imported. Managed as other Duties of Customs. III. And be it further enacted, That all Monies from time to Application of time arifing from the faid Duty, the neceffary Charges of raifing and Duties. accounting for the fame refpectively excepted, fhall from time to time be paid into the Receipt of His Majefty's Exchequer at Westminfter, and fhall be appropriated and applied in the fame manner as the Duties called "Permanent Duties," impofed by an Act paffed in the Forty ninth Year of the Reign of His prefent Majefty, inti- 49 G. 3. c. 98. tuled An Ad for repealing the feveral Duties of Cuftoms chargeable in Great Britain, and for granting new Duties in lieu thereof, are directed to be appropriated and applied. IV. And be it further enacted, That this A&t may be varied, altered or repealed by any A&t or Acts to be made in this prefent Seffion of Parliament. CAP. XXXV. An Act for the more fpeedy and effectual Collection of the HEREAS it is expedient that Provifion should be made for Act may be altered, &c, W the more fpeedy and effectual Collection of the Tonnage • Duties payable upon Ships and Veffels entering Inwards in Great Britain from Foreign Ports;' Be it therefore 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 paffing of this Act no Officer of His Ma- Tonnage Duty jefty's Customs whatsoever, or any Deputy or Clerk of fuch Officer, to be paid before thail permit or fuffer any Ship or Veffel to break Bulk, or any Part any Veffel is of ber Cargo to be discharged, or iffue any Order, or grant any Do. fuffered to break cument Bulk. 47 G. 3. Seff. 1. C. 51. § 8. ་ cument for the unfhipping or landing any Goods, Wares or Merchandize brought or imported by any Ship or Veffel fubject and liable to the Payment of the Duties of Tonnage, until the faid Duties have been fully paid to the proper Officer of the Customs; or in cafe any Doubt or Difpute fhall arife as to the true Tonnage thereof, fo that a perfect Entry cannot be paffed, then in every fuch cafe a fufficient Depofit fhall be made of the faid Duties with fuch Officer as aforefaid, previous to any Document being iffued or granted for the unfhipping or landing any Part of the Cargo of fuch Ship or Veffel fo entering Inwards as aforefaid; any Law, Custom or Ufage to the contrary thereof in any wife notwithstanding. II. And Whereas by an Act paffed in the Forty seventh Year of the Reign of His prefent Majefty, intituled An A& to extend the Provifions of an A&t made in the laft Seffion of Parliament, for abolishing Fees received by certain Officers and other Perfons employed in the Service of the Customs in the Port of London, and for regulating the Attendance of Officers and others fo employed, to the Outports; and to appropriate the Fees of certain abolished and vacant Offices in the Cuftoms to the Superannuation Fund; it is pro• vided and enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Lords Commiffioners of His Majefty's Treasury, or any Three or more of them, by Warrant under their Hands, whenever and as often as they fhall deem it right for the better Security of the Revenue, and the Accommodation of Trade, to alter the Hours during which the Officers, Clerks or other Perfons employed in the • Service of the Cuftoms at any Port of Great Britain, except the • Port of London, are now by Law required to attend in the Exe'cution of the Duties of their refpective Offices or Employments; ⚫ and to regulate and direct the Attendance of every fuch Officer, Clerk or other Perfon fo employed, in fuch manner and during 'fuch times and at fuch Places as they the faid Lords Commiffioners of His Majefty's Treasury shall in their Judgment deem expedient for the public Service; any Law, Cuftom or Ufage to the contrary ⚫ notwithstanding: And Whereas it is expedient that the Lords Commiffioners of His Majefty's Treafury fhould have the like • Power of altering and fixing the legal Hours of Attendance of the Officers in the Port of London;' Be it therefore enacted, That it fhall and may be lawful for the Lords Commiffioners of His Majesty's Treasury, or any Three or more of them, by Warrant under their Officers of Cuf- Hands, whenever and as often as they fhall deem it right for the better Security of the Revenue, and the Accommodation of Trade, to alter the Hours during which the Officers, Clerks or other Perfons employed in the Service of the Cuftoms in the Port of London, are now by Law required to attend in the Execution of the Duties of their respective Offices or Employments; and to regulate and direct the Attendance of every fuch Officer, Clerk or other Perfon fo employed in fuch manner and during such times and at fuch Places as they the faid Lords Commiffioners of His Majefty's Treasury shall in their Judgment deem expedient for the public Service; any Law, Custom or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding. Treafury may alter Hours of Attendance of toms in London. III. And Whereas great Inconvenience has been experienced by the Shippers of Coals in confequence of the Ships and Veffels not being permitted to commence lading until the Fitter or Perfon vending fuch Coals has delivered to the Officer of the Cuftoms 'Certi |