be issuing and payable out of the said Consolidated Fund, after paying or reserving sufficient to pay all such Sums as shall have been directed to be paid out of the same by any Act or Acts of Parliament made previous to the time of passing this Act, and with a Preference to all other Payments which shall or may at any time or times after the passing of this Act be charged upon and payable out of the said Fund.

Annuity to be payable at the Exchequer ;

II. And be it further enacted, That the said Annuity of Fifty thousand Pounds shall be paid and payable at the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer; and the Auditor of the said Receipt shall and he is hereby required, by virtue of such Letters Patent, to make forth and pass Debentures from time to time, for paying the said Annuity, as the same shall become due and payable, without any Fees or Charges to be demanded or taken without fee. for paying the same or any part thereof; and the Acquittance or Acquittances, Receipt or Receipts of Her said Majesty, or of such other Person or Persons as shall by Her said Majesty be duly authorized and appointed to receive the said Annuity or any part thereof, shall be a good and sufficient Discharge for the Payment thereof; and the said Debentures, to be made forth and Debentures, a passed as aforesaid, shall be a sufficient Authority to the several sufficient Auand respective Officers of the Receipt of the Exchequer, now and for the time being, for the Payment of the said Annuity to Her said Majesty, or any such Person as aforesaid, during the Continuance thereof, without any further or other Warrant to be sued for, had or obtained in that behalf.

thority for Pay

ment.

30,2771.8s. 10d.
advanced to
Her Majesty
out of 200,0001.

'III. And Whereas the Sum of Thirty thousand two hundred and seventy seven Pounds Eight Shillings and Ten pence has 'been advanced to Her Majesty, out of the Sum of Two hundred ‹ thousand Pounds granted in the last Session of Parliament, to granted last • enable His Majesty, among other things, to make such Advances Session, to be as might be necessary for the Expences of Her Majesty until retained in the Parliament should make other Provison in respect thereof;' Be Exchequer. it therefore enacted, That out of the first Monies directed to be issued and paid to Her Majesty out of the Consolidated Fund, under the Provisions of this Act, there shall be retained in the Exchequer, to continue and remain, and be carried to the Account of the said Consolidated Fund, a Sum equal to the said Sum of Thirty thousand two hundred and seventy seven Pounds Eight Shillings and Ten pence, so advanced to Her Majesty as aforesaid.

IV. And be it further enacted, That the said Annuity of Fifty thousand Pounds, and every part thereof, shall be free and clear from all Taxes, Rates and Assessments, and all other Charges whatsoever, imposed or to be imposed by Authority of Parliament, or otherwise howsoever; and such Annuity shall be and be deemed to be a Bar to any Right or Claim under the said Marriage Treaty, or the said recited Act of the Thirty fifth Year of His late Majesty's Reign, or otherwise howsoever, or to Dower, or to any Part of any Personal Estate of His Majesty, in the event of Her Majesty surviving His Majesty.

Annuity, free from Taxes, &c. and to be in

Bar of Dower,

&c.

58 G. 3. c. 20.

$ 10.

WH

CA P. II.

An Act to amend an Act of the Fifty eighth Year of His late Majesty, for more effectually discovering the Longitude at Sea, and encouraging Attempts to find a Northern Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and to approach the Northern Pole. [23d February 1821.] WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Fifty eighth year of His late Majesty, intituled An Act for more effectually discovering the Longitude at Sea, and encouraging Attempts to find a Northern Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, "and to approach the Northern Pole, it was enacted, That if any Ship or Ships, Vessel or Vessels, belonging to any of His Majesty's Subjects, or to His Majesty, shall first find out and 'sail through any Passage by Sea between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in any Direction or Parallel of the Northern Hemisphere, the Owner or Owners of such Ship or Ships, Vessel or Vessels, if belonging to any of His Majesty's Subjects, or 'the Commander or Commanders, Officers, Seamen and Marines of such Ships or Vessels if belonging to His Majesty, so first finding out and sailing through such Passage, shall receive a 'Reward for such Discovery of Twenty thousand Pounds: And Whereas it was further enacted, that if any Ship or Ships, Vessel or Vessels, should approach within One Degree of the • Northern Pole, the Owner of such Ship or Vessel, Ships or 'Vessels, if belonging to any of His Majesty's Subjects, or the Commander or Commanders, Officers, Seamen and Marines of any Ship or Ships, Vessel or Vessels, if belonging to His Majesty, so first approaching within One Degree of the Northern Pole, should be entitled to receive a Reward of Five 'thousand Pounds: And Whereas it was further enacted for the Encouragement of Persons who may attempt the said Passage or Approach to the Northern Pole, but not wholly accomplish the same, that the Commissioners for Discovering the Longitude at Sea, might by their Memorial propose to His Majesty in Council to direct and establish proportionate Rewards to be paid to such Person as aforesaid, who shall first have accomplished certain Proportions of the said Passage or Approach; and if His Majesty in Council should be pleased to sanction and approve the said Proposal, then that the same should be published ' in the London Gazette, and any Person or Persons accomplishing such Passages, or the specified Proportions of them, should ' be entitled on the Award of the said Commissioners to receive such total or proportionate Sums as may have been offered for the Object which he or they may have then accomplished: 'And Whereas Doubts have arisen whether such proportionate Rewards be over and above the said Sums of Twenty thousand and Five thousand Pounds respectively, or only Parts and Proportions of the said Sums: "For the Removal of all such Doubts, be it 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, The proportion- and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the

§ 12.

ate Rewards

passing

passing of this Act, such proportionate Rewards shall be held and taken to be Proportions and Parts only of the said Sums of Twenty thousand and Five thousand Pounds respectively, and that such proportionate Rewards as His Majesty may be pleased hereafter to direct and establish by His Order in Council under the said Act, shall be Parts and Proportions only of the said Sums, so that no more than the said respective Sums of Twenty thousand and Five thousand Pounds shall be paid or payable under such Order in Council, for the Accomplishment of the whole of the said Passage or Approach respectively, whether the same shall be attempted or accomplished by Proportions or Parts, or by One Voyage only.

or

II. And be it further enacted and declared, That it shall and may be lawful for His Majesty in Council to revoke, annul, alter amend, as from time to time may seem necessary and proper, any Order or Orders in Council already made, or hereafter to be made, under the Authority of the said recited Act or of this Act.

CA P. III.

An Act for continuing to His Majesty certain Duties on
Malt, Sugar, Tobacco and Snuff, Foreign Spirits and
Sweets, in Great Britain; and on Pensions, Offices and
Personal Estates, in England; for the Service of the Year
One thousand eight hundred and twenty one.

[23d February 1821.]

4

[This Act is the same as 60 G. 3. & 1 G. 4. c. 3. except as to Dates and Sums, and as to the Sections that are here retained.] II. AND be it further enacted, That the said Duties on Malt, Tobacco and Snuff, hereby continued and imposed, shall be respectively raised, levied, collected, recovered, paid and applied, in such and the like manner, and in or by any or either of the general or special Means, Ways or Methods by which other the Duties of Excise upon Malt, Tobacco and Snuff, are or may beby any Act or Acts of Parliament now in force, raised, levied, col, lected, recovered, paid and applied; and the said Persons, Goods, Wares and Merchandize, or Commodities by this Act respectively made liable to the Payment of or chargeable with the said Duties hereby imposed, shall be and the same are hereby made subject and liable to all and every the Conditions, Regulations, Rules, Restrictions and Forfeitures, to which such Persons, Goods, Wares, Merchandize or Commodities, were generally or specially subject and liable by any such Act or Acts of Parliament as aforesaid, now in force relating to or concerning His Majesty's Revenue of Excise on Malt, Tobacco or Snuff respectively; and all and every Pain, Penalty, Fine or Forfeiture, of any Nature or Kind whatever, for any Offence whatever committed against or in breach of this Act, or any other Act or Acts of Parliament now in force for securing Duties of Excise on Malt, Tobacco or Snuff respectively, or for the_Regulation or Improvement thereof, and the several Clauses, Powers and Directions therein contained, shall and are hereby directed and declared to extend to, and shall be respectively applied, practised and put in Execution, for and B 3

in

directed by recited Act, and pursuant to any cil, held to be Parts only of the several Sums of

Order in Coun

20,000l. and 50001.

Orders in Council under this or recited

Act may be revoked.

How the

Duties on Malt,
Tobacco, and

Snuff shall be raised.

in respect of the said several Duties of Excise respectively hereby
imposed, in as full and ample manner to all Intents and Purposes
whatsoever, as if all and every the said Acts, Clauses, Provisions,
Powers, Directions, Fines, Pains, Penalties or Forfeitures, were
particularly repeated and reenacted in the Body of this Act.

'V. And Whereas Maltsters and Makers of Malt for Exportation 'do frequently mix the Produce of Two or more Steepings of Corn 'or Grain that have been entered to be made into Malt for Exportation, on or as soon as it comes off from the Kiln, by reason 'whereof the Officers for the Duties on Malt cannot ascertain the 'real Produce thereof, by which Means great Quantities of each Steeping of such Malt are or may be privately conveyed away, ' and made use of for Home Consumption, though the same has 'not been charged with the Duty, as all Malt made for Home • Consumption ought to be:' Be it enacted, That all and every Maltster or Maltsters, or Maker or Makers of Malt for Exportbe kept separate ation, shall keep the whole and entire Quantity of his, her or their Corn or Grain making into Malt for Exportation, of One Steeping or Wetting, when the same shall be on the Kiln, or after the same shall be taken off the Kiln, separate and apart from all and every Part of any other former Steeping or Wetting of Corn or Grain, until the same shall have been measured by such Maltsters or Makers of Malt, in the Presence of some Officer or Officers for the Duty upon Malt, on pain of forfeiting and losing the Sum of Fifty

Steepings of
Malt for Ex-

portation shall

till measured.

Penalty 501.

Notice to
Officers for

Kilns.

Pounds.

VI. And be it further enacted, That all such Maltsters, or Makers of Malt for Exportation, shall give Notice in Writing to some taking Malt off Officer or Officers of the Duties upon Malt, or shall leave Notice in Writing at the next Office of Excise where the Journal is kept, of the Hour when he, she or they shall intend to take any Malt off the Kiln or Kilns, that such Officer or Officers may attend the measuring of such Malt; and after such Malt has been measured, the same shall be immediately carried on Shipboard, if intended to be then exported, or else shall be immediately locked up and secured in some Storehouse or other Place belonging to such Maltsters or Makers of Malt, in the Presence of the said Officer or Officers, on pain of forfeiting the Sum of Fifty Pounds.

Penalty 501. Clandestinely opening Locks of Storehouses.

Penalty 1001.

Additional
Duties on

VII. And be it further enacted, That if any such Maltster or
Maltsters, or Maker or Makers of Malt, or any other Person or
Persons whatsoever, by his Order, Privity or Direction, after any
Steeping or making of Malt shall have been locked up and se-
cured in any Storehouse or other Place or Places in manner as
aforesaid, shall open any of the Locks or Doors, or shall make
any way or kind of Entrance into such Storehouse or other Place
or Places, or shall remove any Part whatsoever of the Partition
between any such Storehouse or Place and any other Place or
Places whatsoever next thereunto adjoining, or shall remove out
of the said Storehouse or other Place any Quantity whatsoever
of the Malt that has been so locked up and secured, without the
Knowledge and Consent of, or without first having given Notice
to some Officer or Officers for the said Duties, he, she or they
shall respectively forfeit and lose the Sum of One hundred Pounds.

· XI. And Whereas the additional Duties of Excise on Brandy,
Spirits, Aqua Vitæ or Strong Waters, imported into Great

• Britain,

.

Britain, and on Sweets or Made Wines made in Great Britain Foreign Spirits ' for Sale, granted by an Act made in the Forty third Year of the and on Sweets Reign of His said late Majesty, and on Brandy, Spirits, Aqua 43 G. 3. c. 81. granted by Vitæ or Strong Waters imported into Great Britain, granted and 47 G. 3. by an Act made in the Forty seventh Year of the Reign of s. 1. c. 27. His said late Majesty, which would have expired at a certain continued to limited time after the Ratification of the definitive Treaty of July 5. 1822. 'Peace, had not the same been continued, were and are, by an

Act made in the Fifty sixth Year of His said late Majesty's 56 G. 3. c. 17. Reign, continued until and upon the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty one, and it is expedient 'further to continue the same:' Be it therefore enacted, That all the said additional Duties of Excise on Brandy, Spirits, Aqua Vitæ or Strong Waters imported into Great Britain, and on Sweets or Made Wines made in Great Britain for Sale, granted respectively, and continued as aforesaid, shall be, and the same respectively are hereby further continued until and upon the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty two.

Excise.

XII. And be it further enacted, That the additional Duties on The said Duties Foreign Spirits and Sweets hereby continued, shall and may be to be levied as respectively raised, levied, collected, answered, paid, recovered, other Duties of adjudged, mitigated and allowed in such and the like manner, and in or by any or either of the general or special Means, Ways or Methods by which the former Duties and Drawbacks of Excise respectively upon Goods, Wares, Merchandize or Commodities of the same Sorts or Kinds respectively, were or might be raised, levied, collected, answered, paid, recovered, adjudged, mitigated and allowed; and the Goods, Wares, Merchandize or Commodities, so by the said Acts respectively made liable to the Payment of, or chargeable with Duties of Excise, or so entitled to Drawbacks of Excise, as respectively inserted, described and set forth in the Schedules annexed to the said Acts, shall be and the same are hereby made subject to all and every the Conditions, Regulations, Rules, Restrictions and Forfeitures to which Goods, Wares and Merchandize or Commodities were generally or specially subject or liable by any Act or Acts of Parliament in force immediately before the passing of this Act respecting the Duties of Excise, and all and every Pain, Penalty, Fine or Forfeiture of any Nature or Kind whatever, for any Offence whatever committed against or in breach of any Act or Acts of Parliament, in force immediately before the passing of this Act, made for se- Former Acts curing the Revenue of Excise, or for the Regulation or Improve- in force. ment thereof, and the several Clauses, Powers and Directions therein contained, shall and the same are hereby directed and declared to extend to, and shall be respectively applied, practised and put in Execution for and in respect of the several Duties and Drawbacks of Excise hereby contained, in as full, ample, and beneficial manner to all Intents and Purposes whatever, as if all and every the said Acts, Clauses, Provisions, Powers, 'Directions, Fines, Pains, Penalties and Forfeitures respectively, were particularly repeated and reenacted in the Body of this Act.