CHAPTER 4. An Act to apply certain sums out of the Consolidated 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 making good the supply which we have cheerfully granted to Your Majesty in this session of Parliament, have resolved to grant unto Your Majesty the sums hereinafter 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 and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:1. The Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury for the time being may issue out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and apply towards making good the supply granted to Her Majesty for the service of the years ending on the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, and one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, the sum of one million and twenty-nine thousand five hundred and fifty pounds five shillings and one penny. 2. The Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury for the time being may issue out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and apply towards making good the supply granted to Her Majesty for the service of the year ending on the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, the sum of nine million pounds. 3. The Commissioners of the Treasury may borrow from time to time on the credit of the said sums, any sum or sums not exceeding in the whole the sum of ten million and twenty-nine thousand five hundred and fifty pounds five shillings and one penny, and shall repay the moneys so borrowed with interest not exceeding five pounds per centum per annum out of the growing produce of the Consolidated Fund at any period not later than the next succeeding quarter to that in which the said sums were borrowed. Any sums so borrowed shall be placed to the credit of the account of Her Majesty's Exchequer, and shall form part of the said Conolidated Fund, and be available in any manner in which such fund is available. CHAPTER 5. An Act for enabling a further Sum to be raised for the purposes of the Telegraph Acts, 1868 to 1870. [27th March 1876.] WHEREAS divers funds have been authorised to be raised for $1 & 32 Vict. the purposes of the Telegraph Acts, 1868 to 1870, and with c. 110. a view to the payment under those Acts of compensation to railway 32 & 33 Vict. companies in respect of telegraphs it is expedient to authorise the 33 & 34 Vict. Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury (in this Act referred to c. 88. as the Treasury) to raise further funds for the purposes of those Acts: 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, as follows: c. 73. raise a further sum of 1. The Treasury may, in addition to any sum previously autho- Power for the rised to be raised by them, raise for the purpose of the Telegraph Treasury to Acts, 1868 to 1870, any sum or sums of money not exceeding in the whole five hundred thousand pounds sterling, by the creation 500,000l. for of three pounds per cent. per annum permanent annuities. the purposes of Such annuities shall be charged upon the Consolidated Fund, and the Telegraph shall be paid out of the permanent annual charge for the National Debt. The annuities shall be created by warrant of the Treasury to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, directing them to inscribe in their books the amount of such annuities in the names directed by the warrant. The said annuities shall in manner directed by the warrant be consolidated in the said books with annuities at the same rate of interest and payable at the same date, and shall be transferable in the said books in like manner as the annuities with which they are consolidated, and shall be subject to the enactments relating to those annuities so far as is consistent with the tenor of those enactments. Acts. 2. All moneys raised in pursuance of this Act shall be placed to Application of the account of the Paymaster General at the Bank of England, and moneys raised. shall be issued from time to time under regulations to be made by the Treasury, and to be laid by them before Parliament; such moneys shall not be applied for the purpose of the extension of telegraphs, but shall be applied only for the other purposes of the Telegraph Acts, 1868 to 1870. 3. Accounts of all expenditure out of moneys raised in pursuance Accounts of of this Act shall be prepared by the Postmaster General in the form expenditure. approved by the Treasury, and be transmitted to the Comptroller and Auditor General, to be examined by him as if they were appropriation accounts, in manner directed by the Exchequer and Audit Departments Act, 1866. 29 & 30 Vict. c. 39. 4. Whereas by section twenty of the Telegraph Act, 1869, it is Amendment enacted that "there shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament of 32 & 33 Vict. on or before the thirty-first day of March in every year an account c. 73. s. 20, as showing the gross amount received during the previous year to account. Short titles. Policy stamped for total and not upon separate interests ending the thirty-first day of December, the amount of expenses " incurred during the year," and the other particulars in the said section mentioned. And whereas it is expedient to amend the said enactment: Be it therefore enacted, That There shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament, on or before the thirtieth day of November in every year, if Parliament be then sitting, or if not within one week after the then next meeting of Parliament, an account showing the gross amount received and expended on account of the telegraph service during the year ending on the previous thirty-first day of March, and the balance, if any, of the receipts over the expenditure. There shall be added to such account a statement of the amount expended during the said year on account of the annual charge for the securities created for the purpose of the Telegraph Acts, 1868 to 1870, and any Acts amending the same, and of the surplus, if any, which, after deducting from the said balance the amount of such annual charge, remains as a sinking fund for the redemption of the said securities, and a statement of the mode of application of such surplus. The surplus shall be issued out of the Consolidated Fund, or the growing produce thereof, to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, to be applied in the reduction of debt to an amount equivalent to that created by the said securities. The first account under this section shall show the gross amount received and expended during the fifteen months ending on the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight hundred and seventysix, and section twenty of the Telegraph Act, 1869, is hereby repealed 5. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Telegraph (Money) Act, 1876; and this Act and the Telegraph Acts, 1868 to 1870, may be cited together as the Telegraph Acts, 1868 to 1876. CHAPTER 6. An Act to amend the Law relating to the Stamping of 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, as follows: 1. From and after the passing of this Act a policy of sea insurance, by which the separate and distinct interests of two or more persons are insured, being stamped in respect of the aggregate of such may be stamped interests, but not duly stamped in respect of each of such interests, may be stamped with an additional stamp or stamps at any within one month after the last risk has been declared. with further duty. Section 16 of "The Stamp 2. From and after the passing of this Act, section sixteen of "The Stamp Act, 1870," shall apply to a policy of sea insurance. Such policy shall, for the purposes of the said section, be an instru- Act, 1870," to insurance. Penalty on 3. This Act may be cited as the Sea Insurances (Stamping of stamping, 1001. Title of Act. An Act to amend the Law relating to certain Appointments W WHEREAS by an Act of the Thirty-second and Thirty-third And whereas, regard being had to the composition of the said Council contemplated in Section Ten of the Act of the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Years of Her present Majesty, Chapter One Hundred and Six (in this Act referred to as the Act of 1858), it is expedient to amend the said first-mentioned Act in certain 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 autho- 1. Notwithstanding anything in the Act of 1869, the Secretary Appointment of State for India may, if he thinks fit, subject to the Condition as of persons with Where any Person appointed under this Act is at his appointment The special reasons for every appointment under this Act shall be stated in a Minute of the Secretary of State for India, and shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament. Not more than Three Persons appointed under this Act shall be Members of the Council at the same time; nor shall the provisions of Sections Seven and Ten of the Act of 1858, with reference to the Number of the Council, and the Qualification of the major part of the Members, be affected Number of men to consist of 132,884, including those employed at depôts in United Kingdom, but exclusive of those actually serving in India. Articles of War made by Her Majesty to be notice of, and copies printed by the Queen's transmitted to judges, &c. printer to be CHAPTER 8. An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better payment of the Army and their Quarters. [7th April 1876.] HEREAS the raising or keeping a standing army within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in time of peace, unless it be with the consent of Parliament, is against law: And whereas it is adjudged necessary by Her Majesty and this present Parliament that a body of forces should be continued for the safety of the United Kingdom, and the defence of the possessions of Her Majesty's Crown, and that the whole number of such forces should consist of one hundred and thirty-two thousand eight hundred and eighty-four men, including those to be employed at the depôts in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the training of recruits for service at home and abroad, but exclusive of the numbers actually serving within Her Majesty's Indian possessions: And whereas no man can be forejudged of life or limb, or subjected in time of peace to any kind of punishment within this realm, by martial law, or in any other manner than by judgment of his peers, and according to the known and established laws of this realm; yet nevertheless it being requisite, for the retaining all the beforementioned forces and other persons specified in this Act in their duty, that an exact discipline be observed, and that soldiers who shall mutiny or stir up sedition, or shall desert Her Majesty's service, or be guilty of crimes and offences to the prejudice of good order and military discipline, be brought to a more exemplary and speedy punishment than the usual forms of the law will allow : 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, as follows: 1. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty to make Articles of War for the better government of Her Majesty's army, which articles shall judicially taken be judicially taken notice of by all judges and in all courts whatsoever; and copies of the same, printed by the Queen's printer, shall as soon as may be after the same shall have been made and established by Her Majesty, be transmitted by Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the War Department to the judges of Her Majesty's superior courts at Westminster, Dublin, and Edinburgh respectively, and also to the governors of Her Majesty's dominions abroad: Provided that no person within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or within the British Isles, shall by such Articles of War be subject to suffer any punishment extending to life or limb, or to be kept in penal servitude, except for crimes which are by this Act expressly made liable to such punishments as aforesaid, or shall be subject, with reference to any crimes made punishable by this Act, to be punished in any manner which shall not accord with the provisions of this Act: Provided also, that nothing in this Act contained shall in any manner prejudice or affect any Articles of War or other matters made, enacted, or in force, or which may |