Powers, &c. of recited Acts as to Advances to have the 3 VICT. Support of any Collieries or Mines, or any Trustees or Trustee of Roads or Railways, or any other Person or Persons whomsoever, for any of the Purposes mentioned in the said recited Acts, or any or either of them, or this Act, all or any Part of the Sum or Sums, in Exchequer Bills, to be issued at any Time after the passing of this Act, under the Authority of this Act, or any Act or Acts having any relation thereto, upon, under, and subject to the like Terms, Conditions, and Securities, or any or either of them, as are specified and prescribed by the said recited Acts, or any or either of them, or this Act, or any Act or Acts having relation thereto; and all the Powers and Authorities, Regulations, Restrictions, Clauses, Provisoes, Privileges, Priorities, Advantages, Penalties, and Forfeitures contained in the said recited Acts or this Act, or any Act or Acts having relation thereto, shall be applied and extended to all Loans advanced and Acts done by the said Commissioners or their Secretary for the Time being, or any Trustees, or other Persons or Bodies Politic, Corporate, or Collegiate, or Companies, in pursuance and execution of this Act, as fully and effectually to all Intents or Purposes as if the said several Powers, Authorities, Regulations, Restrictions, Clauses, and Provisoes, Privileges, Priorities, Advantages, Penaltics, and Forfeitures had been particularly and severally and separately repeated and re-enacted in the Body of this Act, except only so far as the same are altered, amended, or enlarged by this Act. XVI. And be it enacted, That all the Clauses, Powers, Provisoes, Directions, Regulations, Authorities, Restrictions, Privileges, Priorities, Advantages, Penalties, and Forfeitures contained in the said recited Acts, or any of them, in relation if re-enacted in to any Advances made or to be made under the said recited same Force as this Act. Alteration of 'Act. Acts, or any of them, or this Act, or for the Recovery, Repayment, and Application of such Advances, and the Repayment thereof, and the Accounts to be kept in relation thereto, shall extend and are hereby extended and made applicable to the said Commissioners, and all other Persons, Parties, Bodies Politic or Corporate, in respect to all Advances which shall be made by the said Commissioners, and all Acts done and directed by the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, or the said Commissioners for executing this Act and the said recited Acts, or either of them, under the Authority of the said recited Acts and this Act, or any or either of them, and the Recovery, Repayment, and Application of such Advances, and of all Accounts in respect of the same, in such and the like Manner, to all Intents, Constructions, and Purposes whatsoever, as if such Clauses, Powers, Provisoes, Directions, Regulations, Authorities, Restrictions, Privileges, Priorities, Advantages, Penalties, and Forfeitures had been particularly and severally repeated and re-enacted in the Body of this Act, except only so far as the same are amended, extended, or altered by this Act. XVII. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of Parliament. CAP. CAP. XI. An Act to settle an Annuity on Lord Seaton and the Two next surviving Heirs Male of the Body of the said Lord Seaton to whom the Title of Lord Seaton shall descend, in consideration of his important Ser[19th May 1840.] 6 vices. • Most Gracious Sovereign, WHEREAS Your Majesty, by Your most gracious Message, hath been pleased to signify that Your Majesty, having taken into consideration the important Services rendered by John Lord Seaton, a Lieutenant General in Your Majesty's Army, and late Governor General of Upper and Lower Canada, in the Course of the Events which have taken < place in those Provinces, and being desirous to confer some signal Mark of Your Majesty's Favour for these and other distinguished Merits upon the said John Lord Seaton, and the • Two next surviving Heirs Male of the Body of the said John Lord Seaton, recommends to Your faithful Commons the Adoption of such Measures as may be necessary for the Ac'complishment of this Purpose:' Therefore We, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, duly considering Your Majesty's gracious Intention, do 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, That an annual Payment or Annuity of An Annuity of Two thousand Pounds shall be paid to John Lord Seaton, a 2,000l. granted Lieutenant General in Her Majesty's Army, and late Governor and his Two General of Upper and Lower Canada, for his natural Life, and next Heirs. to the Two next surviving Heirs Male of the Body of the said John Lord Seaton who may succeed to the Title of Lord Seaton, for their natural Lives respectively; and the said annual Payment or Annuity shall be deemed and considered to have commenced and taken effect upon the Twenty-third Day of March One thousand eight hundred and forty, and the first Payment of a proportionate Part thereof, together with the Quarter ending on the Fifth Day of July, shall be made on the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and forty, and shall thereafter be paid quarterly, (that is to say,) on the Tenth Day of October, the Fifth Day of January, the Fifth Day of April, and the Fifth Day of July in every Year; and the said annual Payment or Annuity shall and may be issuing and payable out of and charged and chargeable upon the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (after paying or reserving sufficient to pay all such Sum and Sums of Money as hath or have been directed to be paid out of the same by any former Act or Acts of Parliament, but with Preference to all [No. 8. Price 2d.] H other to Lord Seaton Treasury to of the Annuity. other Payments which shall or may hereafter be charged upon and payable out of the said Fund); and the Acquittance or Acquittances, Receipt or Receipts of the said John Lord Seaton and the Two succeeding Heirs Male of the Body of the said John Lord Seaton on whom the Title shall descend, or of such other Person or Persons as shall be duly authorized and appointed by the Person for the Time being entitled to such Annuity to receive such annual Payment or Annuity, or any Part thereof, shall be a good and sufficient Discharge for the Payment thereof; and the said annual Payment or Annuity shall be free and clear from all Taxes, Rates, and Assessments, and all other Charges whatsoever. II. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Comdirect Payment missioners of Her Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the Time being, and they are hereby authorized and required, by any Warrant under their Hands, to direct the Payment of the said Annuity according to the Provision herein-before contained. Annuity not to be aliened or encumbered. III. And be it enacted, That the said annual Payment or Annuity of Two thousand Pounds shall be and the same is by this Act vested in the said John Lord Seaton and the Two next succeeding Heirs Male of the Body of the said John Lord Seaton to whom the said Title of Lord Seaton shall descend, and the same or any Part thereof shall not at any Time or Times hereafter be aliened, conveyed, disposed, charged, or encumbered by the said John Lord Seaton, or by either of the Two next succeeding Heirs Male of the Body of the said John Lord Seaton on whom the said Title shall descend, for any greater or larger Estate or Time than during the natural Life of the Person so aliening, conveying, disposing, charging, or encumbering the same, so as to prevent the same from descending to the next or succeeding Heir Male of the Body of the said John Lord Seaton to whom the said Title of Lord Seaton shall descend, according to the Limitation aforesaid. . CAP. XII. An Act for raising the Sum of Eleven Millions by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty. • Most Gracious Sovereign, [19th May 1840.] 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 Supplies which we have cheerfully granted to Your Majesty in this Session of Parliament, have resolved to give and grant unto Your Majesty the Sum herein-after mentioned;' 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 11,000,0007. by Exchequer Bills in like Manner as is prescribed by Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parlia- II. And be it enacted, That all and every the Clauses, Provisoes, Powers, Privileges, Advantages, Penalties, Forfeitures, and Disabilities contained in the said Act shall be applied and extended to the Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance of this Act, as fully and effectually, to all Intents and Purposes, as if the said several Clauses or Provisoes had been particularly repeated and re-enacted in the Body of this Act. III. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of the Treasury to issue and apply from Time to Time all such Sums of Money as shall be raised by Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance of this Act to such Services as shall then have been voted by the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in this present Session of Parliament. IV. And be it enacted, That the principal Sum or Sums of Money to be contained in such Exchequer Bills shall be and are hereby charged and chargeable upon and shall be paid and discharged by and out of any Supplies to be granted in the next Session of Parliament. 48 G. 3. c. 1. The Clauses, &c. in recited Act extended to this Act. The Treasury to apply the Money raised. Bills to be payable out of Supplies of the next Session. V. And be it enacted, That the Exchequer Bills to be made Interest on Exout in pursuance of this Act shall bear Date on the Days on chequer Bills. which the same shall be respectively issued, and shall and may bear an Interest not exceeding the Rate of Three-pence Halfpenny per Centum per Diem upon or in respect of the whole of the Monies respectively contained therein, payable out of any Aids or Supplies in the Receipt of Her Majesty's Exchequer at Westminster. Dates. VI. And be it enacted, That all and every the Exchequer Bills to be curBills to be made forth by virtue of this Act, or so many of them rent at the as shall from Time to Time remain undischarged and uncan- Twelve CalenExchequer after celled, shall and may, from and after Twelve Calendar Months dar Months from their respective Dates, be received and taken and shall from their pass and be current to all and every the Receivers and Collectors in Great Britain of the Customs, Excise, or any Revenue, Supply, Aid, or Tax whatsoever, already granted, due, or payable, or which shall or may hereafter be granted, due, or payable to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, and also at the Bank of England to the Account of Her Majesty's Exchequer from the said Receivers or Collectors, or from any other Person or Persons, H 2 3 VICT. Persons, Bodies Politic or Corporate whatsoever, making any Payment there to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, for or upon any Account, Cause, or Occasion whatsoever, according to the Purport and true Meaning of this Act. VII. And be it declared and enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Governor and Company of the Bank of England to advance or lend to Her Majesty, upon the Credit of the Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance of this Act, any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Eleven Millions, any thing in an Act passed in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary, intituled An Act for granting to Their Majesties several Rates and Duties upon Tonnage of Ships and Vessels, and upon Beer, Ale, and other Liquors; and for securing certain Recompences and Advantages in the said Act mentioned to such Persons as shall voluntarily advance the Sum of One million five hundred thousand Pounds · towards carrying on the War against France, or in any subsequent Act to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. CAP. XIII. 4455 An Act to amend an Act of the First and Second Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, to abolish Compositions for Tithes in Ireland, and to substitute Rent-charges in lieu thereof. [19th May 1840.] WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Session of Parlia 1 & 2 Vict. c. 109. Any Petition under the re cited Act may include all or any Two or default named 6 ment holden in the First and Second Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to abolish Compositions for Tithes in Ireland, and to substitute Rent-charges in lieu thereof; and it is expedient to amend the said Act:' Be it therefore 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, That in any Petition to be presented under the said Act by Her Majesty's Attorney General for Ireland to the Court of Chancery or Exchequer in Ireland, or to the Court of any Assistant Barrister more Persons in or Chairman, for the Recovery of any Arrears of Tithe Comin the Schedule position vested in Her Majesty under and by the Operation of to any Memo- the Provisions of the said Act, it shall be lawful to include all or any Two or more of the Persons in default who shall be named and distinguished in the Schedule annexed to any Memorial for Relief presented to the Lord Lieutenant and Privy Council in Ireland under the said Act as having such Estates or Interests as in the said Act described in the Lands charged with any Composition due and in arrear; and that the Court to which any such Application may be made by Petition may from Time to Time proceed thereon as against any One or more of the Persons therein named as Defaulters who may appear to have had due Notice thereof, although such Notice rial for Relief presented under that Act; and the Court may proceed thereon as to any who may appear to have had due Notice. may |