$2. So far as requires Certifi cates of Quan tity, &c. of Coals to be registered, 3 G. 3. c. 16. 43 G. 2. c.119. 46 G. 3. c. 101. 55 G. 3. c.1. 55 G. 3. c. 133. 'Masters of Ships and others, to advance the Price of Coals, in • Prejudice of the Navigation, Trade and Manufactures of this Kingdom, and for the further Encouragement of the Coal Trade, it is enacted, that every Fitter or other Person vending or delivering Coals, or some or one of them, shall give a full, true and ample Certificate or Certificates to each and every Ship'master every Voyage, containing the Quantity, and other Par•ticulars therein enumerated, of the Coals sold and loaded on board each and every Ship or Vessel, which upon the Arrival of the Ship at any delivering Port other than the Port of London • shall be registered at the Custom House with the Keeper of the Cocquets there: And Whereas it is no longer expedient to ' require such Certificates to be registered at the Custom Houses ' of such Ports;' Be it therefore enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act, so much of the said Act as requires the said Certificates to be registered at the Custom House, at any delivering Port other than the Port of London, shall be and the same is hereby repealed. W CAP. XCVIII. An Act to enable the Commissioners or Governors of Green- ४ have, during the Continuance and since the Termination of the late Wars, paid, under the Authority of the said recited • Acts, and other Acts of Parliament relating to the said Hospital, • Pensions to a considerable Number of Out Pensioners, and continued to pay such Pensioners out of such Surplus Funds. under their Controul as have not been necessary for the Expences of the said Hospital: And Whereas such Payments were by the said recited Acts directed and authorized to be paid out of the Surplus only of the Income of the said Hospital, after defraying the necessary Expences of the said Hospital: And • Whereas from the Number of such Out Pensioners the continuing such Payments as heretofore may reduce the Annual Income of the said Hospital arising from the Estates, Rents, • Revenues, Annuities in Public Funds, or other Securities, or • Monies and Receipts receivable and received by and under the Authority of the Commissioners and Governors, below the Sum required for the necessary Expence of the said Hospital: And Whereas it is expedient that the said Commissioners and Governors should continue to pay such Out Pensioners, and should at the same time be secured and indemnified in applying any Funds under their Controul for that Purpose, and that Provision 'should be made to secure the Preservation and Maintenance of the Funds necessary for the Expences of the said Hospital :" Be it therefore enacted by The King'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 it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners and Governors to continue to pay all such Out Pensioners of the said Hospital in like manner as heretofore, out of the Interest or by Sale of the Principal of any Capital Stock, Public Funds or Annuities vested in or belonging to them as such Commissioners and Governors for the Purposes of the said Hospital, other than such as shall become vested in the said Commissioners or Governors by reason of any Legacy or Bequest to or for the Benefit of the said Hospital: Provided always, that if in the Judgment of the said Commissioners and Governors the making any such Payments may reduce the Annual Income arising from the Estates, Rents, Revenues and Public and other Securities, and Sums applicable to the Purposes of the said Hos- the Hospital, "pital, below what may be sufficient for the necessary Expences thereof, the said Commissioners and Governors shall, before they shall make such Payments out of any Interest or Sale of such Principal, require and receive from the Lord High Treasurer, or Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury for the time being, Security, either by the Deposit or Issue, to the said Commissioners and Governors of the said Hospital, of Exchequer Bills, for all such Sums so paid or to be paid, in order that the Adequacy of the Funds of the said Hospital for the necessary Expences and Purposes thereof may be fully secured and satisfied; and the Commissioners and Governors of the said Hospital are hereby indemnified in making any such Payments, and applying the Funds under their Controul in paying such Out Pensioners; and the Lord High Treasurer or Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury for the time being are hereby authorized and empowered, by Warrant A a 4 or Commissioners, &c of Greenwich Hospital to pay all Out Pensioners out of Interest or by Sale of Funds vested in them. (Exception.) If Income reduced below the necessary Expences of Treasury to issue Amount of Exchequer Bills to secure the Hospital so applied, &c. Funds of the When Funds are exhausted Governors not or Warrants under his or their Hand or Hands, or the Hands of any Three or more of them, to direct the proper Officer of the Exchequer either to deposit with or issue to the Commissioners or Governors of the said Hospital, from time to time, any such Amount of Exchequer Bills, out of any Exchequer Bills granted by Parliament towards the Aids or Supplies of any Year, as may be necessary to secure the Amount of such Payments, or as may be necessary to enable the Commissioners and Governors to make such Payments; any thing in any Act or Acts of Parliament to the contrary notwithstanding. II. And be it further enacted, That nothing herein contained shall extend, or be construed to extend, to require the said Commissioners and Governors to continue to pay any such Out Penrequired to pay sions after the Principal of the Capital Stock or other Public Out Pensions. 58 G. 3. c. 85. 59 G. 3. c. 16. 59 G. 3. c. 17. Funds or Securities now in their Possession shall be exhausted. CA P. XCIX. An Act for the Appropriation of certain Proceeds arising " THEREAS several Acts passed in the Fifty eighth and Fifty ninth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, for carrying into execution certain Treaties or Con'ventions made between His said Majesty and the Kings of Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands respectively, for preventing Traffic in Slaves: And Whereas Vessels belonging to the Sub'jects of the said States have been captured between the Seven'teenth Day of February One thousand eight hundred and fifteen, and the Period at which the Commissioners appointed in virtue ' of such Treaties or Conventions have assembled: And Whereas the Vessels belonging to the Subjects of Portugal_so_captured as aforesaid, are by the Additional Convention with that State, bearing Date the Twenty eighth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and seventeen, made the Subject of special Adjudication under the Mixt Commission established in London: And Whereas during the Period aforesaid certain Proceedings have been had and Decrees have been made, without due Authority or Jurisdiction, in the Vice Admiralty Court at Sierra • Leone, in respect of Seizures of the Vessels and Cargoes belonging to the Subjects of Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands, some or all of them, for alleged Contravention of the said Trea• ties or Conventions: And Whereas it is expedient and necessary to make further Provisions and Regulations respecting all the aforesaid Ships and Cargoes, and also for the Payment of 'Bounties in certain cases for Slaves seized and taken on board the said Ships:' May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by The King's Most Excellent Majesty, Treasury may direct the Papers and Pro 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 it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury to direct the original Papers and Proceedings respecting all Ships, Vessels and Cargoes belonging to any of the Subjects of Spain, Portugal or ceedings respecting Vessels the Netherlands, condemned in the Vice Admiralty Court at Sierra and Cargoes Leone since the Seventeenth Day of February One thousand eight condemned at hundred and fifteen, to be transmitted to the Registry of the High Sierra Leone, Court of Admiralty of England; and further, to direct the Pro- to be transmitted to Registry ceeds of such Ships and Cargoes, in whosesoever Possession the of Admiralty same may be, to be remitted and paid for the Use of His Majesty, Court of Engin such manner as the said Commissioners of the Treasury may land. direct and appoint; and further, that it shall be lawful for the said Proceedings for Commissioners of the Treasury to institute Proceedings in the said Proceeds. High Court of Admiralty against any Person or Persons in Possession of the said Proceeds, for the Purpose of obtaining Payment of the same, and to enforce the Payment thereof by Process of the said Court, and to reward the Captors in all the cases aforesaid, by granting to them One Moiety of the Proceeds of every Ship and Cargo captured as aforesaid. II. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That the Captors shall not be entitled to any such Reward where it shall have been adjudged, by the Mixt Commission established in London for the Adjudication of the Claims of Portuguese Subjects, that such Seizure was wrongfully made, and the remaining Moiety of the said Proceeds shall be paid to such Person or Persons as the said Commissioners shall direct or appoint to receive the same, for the Use of His Majesty. In what case Captors not entitled to Rewards. Treasury may order the Charges of Proceedings' incurred by Captors to be paid out of the III. And be it further enacted, That in every Seizure of any Ship or Vessel for being engaged or employed in the illicit Traffic in Slaves, made before the passing of this Act by any of His Majesty's Ships or Vessels of War, or any Ship or Vessel duly commissioned by any Governor or Lieutenant Governor of any of His Majesty's Colonies or Settlements, in which it shall appear to the Satisfaction of the Lord High Treasurer or the Commissioners of Proceeds, &c. His Majesty's Treasury for the time being, that such Seizure has not been wantonly or improperly made, it shall be lawful for the said Lord High Treasurer or Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, or any Three or more of them, to order and direct that all the Costs, Charges and Expences which may have been or may be incurred by the Person or Persons making such Seizures in any Proceedings, or for any Matter or Thing relating thereto, or arising out of any such Seizure, shall be paid and defrayed out of the Proceeds of such Capture or Seizure, or out of any of the Proceeds of the said Vessels or Cargoes paid or to be paid to the Order of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, under the Provisions of this Act. In what case Captors of Vessels and Car IV. And be it further enacted, That wherever Ships and Cargoes captured by any of His Majesty's Ships of War, or by any Ship or Vessel commissioned by any Governor or Lieutenant goes condemned Governor of any of His Majesty's Colonies or Settlements, have for illicit tradbeen in fact condemned for illicit trading in Slaves, contrary to ing in Slaves, the Treaties or Conventions made with the Governments of Spain, confirmed in Portugal Possession of Captors of Ves sels, after Condemnation, entitled to Moiety of Proceeds be longing to His Majesty. A Bounty of 104. for every Slave seized on board. Portugal or the Netherlands, and where Distribution of the Proceeds thereof has been made prior to the passing of this Act, the said Captors shall be confirmed and are hereby confirmed in the Possession of the said Proceeds; any Law, Statute or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding. V. And be it further enacted, That where any Ship or Vessel employed or engaged in illicit Traffic in Slaves, in Violation of any of the said Conventions hereinbefore mentioned, shall be seized by any Ship or Vessel belonging to His Majesty, duly authorized under the Provisions of the said Conventions to make such Seizure, and shall be afterwards condemned by any of the Commissions appointed in virtue of the Treaties or Conventions aforesaid, there shall be paid to the Captors the Moiety to which His Majesty is entitled under the said Conventions of the net Proceeds of the said Ship and Cargo, the said Moiety of the said net Proceeds to be distributed in the manner hereafter directed for the Distribution of Bounties on Slaves taken on board the said Vessels. VI. And be it further enacted, That there shall be paid out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland a Bounty of Ten Pounds of lawful Money of Great Britain, for every Man, Woman and Child Slave seized and found on board any Ship or Vessel taken, and by the Commissioners appointed in virtue of any of the said Conventions condemned for illicit Traffic in Slaves, in Violation of any of the Provisions of the low issued and said Conventions; such Bounty to be issued and paid by Order from the said Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, and to be distributed to and amongst the Captors aforesaid, in such Manner and Proportions as is directed by His Majesty's Proclamation for the Distribution of Proceeds, bearing Date the Fourteenth Day of October One thousand eight hundred and sixteen, or by any other Proclamation which His Majesty may from time to time be pleased to issue in this Behalf. distributed. Like Bounty of 101. to be paid for every Slave seized on board of Vessels of • VII. And Whereas certain Treaties were concluded with His • Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal, on the Nine'teenth Day of February One thousand eight hundred and ten, and the Twenty second Day of January One thousand eight hundred and fifteen; and an additional Convention to the said • last mentioned Treaty, for the Purpose of preventing the illicit Traffic in Slaves, was also concluded on the Twenty eighth Day * of July One thousand eight hundred and seventeen: And Whereas a Treaty with His Catholic Majesty the King of Spain, for the Purpose aforesaid, was concluded on the Twenty third Day of • September One thousand eight hundred and seventeen: And • Whereas a Treaty with His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, for the like Purpose, was concluded on the Fourth Day of May • One thousand eight hundred and eighteen And Whereas prior to the passing of this Act, and since the Conclusion of the said • Treaties respectively, divers Seizures have been made of Ships, Cargoes and Slaves on board the said Ships, the said Ships being engaged in Traffic for Slaves, contrary to the Provisions of the said Treaties, some or one of them:' Be it further enacted, That in all Captures as aforesaid of Portuguese Vessels made by any His Majesty's Ships of War, or any Ship or Vessel duly commissioned by any Governor or Lieutenant Governor of any of His Majesty's |