annual Amount at which such House may be liable to be rated under this Act, as may be fixed and settled by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners with the Assent of the Lord Lieutenant in Council; and from and after such Redemption such House shall cease to be rated under this Act; and in case the said Rate be purchased and redeemed by the Owner he may add the Amount thereof to the Rent of the House, and shall be entitled to recover the same in the same Manner and with the like Powers as the Rent is recoverable. Redemption VII. All Redemption Monies which shall be so paid to the paid to Ecclesaid Paymaster of Civil Services shall be paid by him to the siastical Comsaid Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Ireland in like Manner missioners in as herein provided with respect to Monies arising from Rates Monies arising under this Act. like Manner as from Rates. to pay to Incum VIII. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Ireland shall Ecclesiastical pay to the several Incumbents for the Time being of the Parishes Commissioners now liable to the Payments of Ministers Money under the bents 751. per said Act of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of King Cent. on the Charles the Second, by quarterly Payments on the First Day Sum payable of January, the First Day of April, the First Day of July, and Money during the First Day of October in every Year, a yearly Sum, to be the Year 1853. computed after the Rate of Seventy-five Pounds for every One hundred Pounds of the Sum payable in such Parishes respectively for Ministers Money during the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, the first of such Payments to be made on the First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five; anything in an Act passed in the Session of the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of King William the Fourth, Chapter Thirty-seven, or any Act amending the same, to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided always, that, in every Case where the Revenues of any such Benefice may be charged with the Payment of Curates and such other Charges as are allowed to be deducted in fixing the net Income of Benefices taxable to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, the Portion of the gross Revenue employed in defraying such Charges shall not be reduced to the aforesaid Seventy-five per Cent., but shall be paid in full, Cent. per Cent., (that is to say,) that the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners shall pay to the Incumbents of such Benefices respectively, in addition to the aforesaid Seventy-five per Cent., and in like quarterly Proportions, but exempt from Taxation, a further Sum after the Rate of Twenty-five Pounds for every One hundred Pounds actually expended by such Incumbents in defraying such Charges. may invest IX. The said Ecclesiastical Commissioners shall, from Time Ecclesiastical to Time, at their Discretion, invest all or any Part of such Commissioners Monies as shall at any Time by or under the Provisions of Monies. this Act be paid to them as aforesaid in the Purchase of Government or Parliamentary Funds, Stocks, or Securities, and no other, either in England or Ireland, and from Time to Time change, transfer, or sell out such Stocks, Funds, or Securities Funds in for the Augmentation of Benefices, or increasing the Number of Clergymen in said Cities and Securities, or any Part thereof, and reinvest the Produce thereof, as they may find necessary or convenient. X. It shall and may be lawful for the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners, when and as in their Judgment it may be Commissioners proper, but with the previous Approval of the Lord Lieutenant may be applied of Ireland in Council, to apply any Monies which may be in their Hands or at their Disposal (after answering and providing for the Payments to be made by them under this Act to the Incumbents for the Time being of the Parishes now liable to the Payment of Ministers Money) for the Augmentation of the Incomes of Incumbents having cure of Souls, or for increasing the Number of Officiating Clergymen of the Established Church within the said City and Suburbs of Dublin and Liberties thereunto adjoining, and the said other Cities and Boroughs now liable to the Payment of Ministers Money. Towns. Nonpayment of Rate not to prevent Persons being admitted XI. The said Rate shall not be deemed to be a Cess Rate or Tax the Payment of which is necessary to enable any Occupier or other Person to be admitted or enrolled as a Burgesses, &c. Burgess of any City or Corporate Town in Ireland, or to vote at any Election of Municipal Commissioners in any Town in Ireland. CAP. XII. Treasury may raise 16,024,100% Bills, in like Manner as is prescribed by An Act for raising the Sum of Sixteen millions twentyfour thousand one hundred Pounds by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four. [12th May 1854.] 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 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 and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: I. It shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, by Exchequer at any Time or Times, to cause any Number of Exchequer Bills to be made out at the Receipt of the Exchequer at Westminster for any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Sixteen millions twenty-four thousand one hundred Pounds, in like Manner as is prescribed in an Act passed in the Forty-eighth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act for regulating the issuing 48 G. 3. c. 1. and and paying off of Exchequer Bills, and in another Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Fourth and Fifth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act to regulate the Office of the Receipt 4 & 5 W. 4. of His Majesty's Exchequer at Westminster, and in another Act c. 15. passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for further regulating the Preparation and Issue of 5 & 6 Vict. Exchequer Bills. c. 66. Acts extended II. All and every the Clauses, Provisoes, Powers, Privileges, The Clauses Advantages, Penalties, Forfeitures, and Disabilities contained &c. in recited in the said Acts shall be applied and extended to the Exchequer to this Act. 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. It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's 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. The Treasury to issue and apply the Money raised. IV. The principal Sum or Sums of Money to be contained Bills, how to in such Exchequer Bills shall be charged upon and shall be paid be charged and out of any Supplies to be granted in the next Session of Parliament. paid. V. The Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance of Interest on this Act shall bear Date on the Days on which the same shall Bills. be respectively issued, and shall bear an Interest not exceeding the Rate of Threepence Halfpenny per Centum per Diem in respect of the whole of the Monies respectively contained therein, payable out of any Aids or Supplies in the Bank of England standing to the Credit of the Exchequer. be current in Twelve Calen VI. All the Exchequer Bills to be made out by virtue of this Bills charged Act, or so many of them as shall from Time to Time remain on Supplies to undischarged and uncancelled, shall, after Twelve Calendar Payment of Months from their respective Dates, be taken and shall pass Public Reveand be current to all the Receivers and Collectors in Great nue after Britain of the Customs, Excise, or any Revenue, Supply, Aid, dar Months or Tax whatsoever already granted or payable, or which shall from their hereafter be granted or payable, to Her Majesty, Her Heirs Dates. 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, Bodies Politic or Corporate whatsoever, making any Payment there to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, upon any Account what ever. VII. It shall be lawful for the Governor and Company of Bank of Engthe Bank of England to advance or lend to Her Majesty, upon land may the Credit of the Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance 16,024,100l. on of advance the Credit of c. 20. 42 Geo. 3. c. 91. s. 197. 42 Geo. 3. c. 120. s. 55. Militia may be embodied whenever a State of War exists. The Time of Training may after a Corps of Militia is called be extended out. 6 of this Act, any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Sixteen millions twenty-four thousand one hundred Pounds; anything 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. An Act to amend the Acts relating to the Militia of II. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty, when any Regiment, Battalion, or Corps of the Militia in England is actually assembled for Training and Exercise for a less Period than Fifty-six Days, or at any Time after the Notices to the Men of such Regiment, Battalion, or Corps to attend Training and Exercise for any such less Period have been given by Order signified under the Hand of One of the Principal Secretaries of of State to the Lieutenant of the County, Riding, or Place for which such Regiment, Battalion, or Corps is enrolled, or in his Absence to Three or more Deputy Lieutenants of such County, Riding, or Place, to extend the Period of such Training and Exercise for such Period as to Her Majesty may seem fit, not exceeding with the Time for which such Regiment, Battalion, or Corps may have been called out for such Training and Exercise the Period of Fifty-six Days, and it shall not be necessary in any such Case as aforesaid to give fresh Notices to attend Training and Exercise; and all Provisions applicable to such Militia during the Time of Training and Exercise shall be applicable to such Regiment, Battalion, or Corps during such extended Period as if the Notices for calling out such Regiment, Battalion, or Corps for such Training and Exercise had been given for such extended Period, and the same had been authorized by Law. reckoned. III. In case any of the Commissioned Officers or Privates of Time of Drill such Regiment, Battalion, or Corps shall, previously to the not to be assembling of the same for Training and Exercise, have been sent to their Head Quarters or attached to any Corps of Her Majesty's Regular Forces for Purposes of Instruction, the Time during which they shall have remained at their own Head Quarters, or with the said Corps, for Instruction as aforesaid, shall not be reckoned as any Part of the Period of Fifty-six Days during which such then Commissioned Officers and Privates may be kept assembled for Training and Exercise as herein-before provided. of Meeting to to the Resi in their Attestations, and to IV. Provided, That in the Case of drawing out and embody- Notice of the ing the Militia in England or any Part thereof, under the Time and Place Authority of this Act, the Notices to the Militia Men to attend be sent by the at the Time and Place mentioned in the Order of Her Majesty Commanding for drawing out and embodying the Regiment, Battalion, or Officer by l'ost Corps to which they shall belong shall be sent by the Colonel dences of the or Commanding Officer of such Regiment, Battalion, or Corps Men as stated by the Post, to the Residences of the several Men as stated on their Attestations, or as subsequently certified by them, and be deemed such Notices shall be sufficient in all respects; and any Militia sufficient. Man not appearing at the Time and Place appointed in such Notice shall be deemed to have disobeyed Her Majesty's Order for drawing out and embodying the Regiment, Battalion, or Corps to which he belongs, and shall be liable to be punished and dealt with accordingly; and the Provisions of the One hundred and sixteenth Section of the Act of the Forty-second Year of King George the Third, Chapter Ninety, shall be applicable to such Militia Man, and to any Person knowingly harbouring and concealing him. CAP. |