Sequestrations under Act 17 G. 3. c. 53. to have Priority. Construction XV. And be it enacted, That every Sequestration to be issued under the Provisions of the said Act of the Seventeenth Year of the Reign of King George the Third shall have Priority, and the Sums to be thereby recovered shall be paid and satisfied in preference to all other Sequestrations and the Sums to be thereby recovered, except such Sequestrations as shall be founded on Judgments duly signed and docketed before the passing of this Act. XVI. And be it further enacted, That in the Construction of "Benefice" of this Act the Word "Benefice" shall be deemed, construed, in this Act. and taken to extend to and comprise all Rectories with Cure of Souls, Vicarages, Perpetual Curacies, and Chapelries, the Incumbents of which respectively in Right thereof shall be Corporations Sole. CAP. XXIV. An Act to repeal Part of an Act intituled An Act to provide for the Administration of the Government in case the Crown should descend to Her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandrina Victoria, Daughter of His late Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, being under the Age of Eighteen Years; and for the Care and Guardianship of Her Person. [11th June 1888.] WHEREAS by an Act of His late Majesty's Reign, inti tuled An Act to provide for the Administration of the 1 W. 4. c. 2. • Government in case the Crown should descend to Her Royal • Highness the Princess Alexandrina Victoria, Daughter of His late Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, being under the Age of Eighteen Years; and for the Care and Guardianship of Her Person, it was amongst other things enacted, that if at the • Demise of His said late Majesty, leaving Her then Majesty • Him surviving, there should not be any Child of his said late Majesty then living born of Her then Majesty, and Her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandrina Victoria should be then living, in every Case in which by Law an Oath or Declaration or Assurance of Allegiance to the Sovereign, or asserting the Title of the Sovereign, is required to be taken, made, or subscribed, there should be added to such Oath, • Declaration, and Assurance the Words following: "Saving the Rights of any Issue of His late Majesty King William the Fourth which may be born of His late Majesty's Consort," which Addition was to be continued until Parliament should • otherwise order: And whereas it is expedient to repeal so much of the said Act as is herein recited, and that the Words, thereby directed to be added to every such Oath, Declaration, and Assurance be no longer used;' 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 so much of the said Act as is hereinbefore recited shall be and the same is hereby repealed; and that from and after the passing of this Act, in every which by Law an Oath or Declaration or Assurance of Allegiance to the Sovereign, or asserting the Title of the Sovereign, is required to be taken, made, or subscribed, such Oath, Declaration, or Assurance shall be taken, made, and subscribed without the Addition of the Words, "Saving the Rights of any Issue of His late Majesty King William the Fourth which may be born of His late Majesty's Consort," directed to be added thereto by the said recited Act. Case in So much of recited Act as relates to Saving of Rights of Issue of His late Majesty repealed. 6 & 7 W. 4. c. 107. CAP. XXV. An Act to explain and amend an Act of the Seventh ment holden in the Fourth and Fifth Years of the 'Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled 4 & 5 W.4.c.76. An Act for the Amendment and better Administration of the Laws relating to the Poor in England and Wales, Power is given to the Overseers or Guardians of any Parish or Union, in 'certain Cases, to borrow Money for the Purpose of building, altering, enlarging, purchasing, or hiring a Workhouse or "Workhouses, or for purchasing or hiring Land in order to 'build a Workhouse or Workhouses thereon; and it is by the 'said Act provided, that any Sum of Money borrowed for any of such Purposes shall be repaid by annual Instalments of 6 not less than One Tenth of the Sum borrowed, with Interest 6. on the same, in any One Year: And whereas by an Act 6 passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Sixth and and Seventh Years of the Reign of His said late Majesty, 'intituled An Act to extend the Period for the Repayment of 'Loans under an Act passed in the Fourth and Fifth Year of His present Majesty, for the Amendment and better Administration of the Laws relating to the Poor in England and Wales, reciting that several Loans had been made by the Exchequer Loan • Commissioners, and by private Persons, to divers Parishes and Unions, the Amount whereof or a large Part whereof was still due, it is enacted, that when any Money should have been so borrowed by any Parish or Union, under the Direction or with the Sanction of the Poor Law Com'missioners, it should be lawful for the Exchequer Loan Commissioners, with the Approbation of the Commissioners of the Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or for any private Persons, to extend the Repayment of the Principal Sum borrowed or to be borrowed under the Provisions of the first herein-before recited Act to such a Period as, calculating from the Date of the Charge on the Poor Rates of such Parish or Union, would extend the Repayment thereof to a Period not exceeding Twenty Years, instead of Ten Years: And whereas divers Loans have been made by • various incorporated Companies to divers Parishes and Unions under the Provisions of the first herein-before recited Act, the Amount whereof or a very large Part thereof is still due, and further Loans may hereafter be made by such Companies : And whereas Doubts have been entertained whether the 6 · said " said Act so passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Sixth and Seventh Years of the Reign of His said late Majesty is applicable to the Case of Loans so made or to be made by incorporated Companies; and it is expedient that such Doubts should be removed:' Be it therefore declared and 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 all the Powers, Authorities, and Pro- Provisions of visions contained in the said Act of the Session of Parliament 6 & 7 W. 4. c. 107. extended holden in the Sixth and Seventh Years of the Reign of His to Loans made said late Majesty shall be deemed and taken to apply, extend, by chartered or and relate to all Loans which have been or shall hereafter incorporated be effected or made by any chartered or incorporated Company Companies. or Corporation, in the same Manner, to all Intents and Purposes, as if such Loan had been made by a private Person. 6 II. quidation of building or enlarging of Workhouses. And whereas, previous to the passing of the first herein- Making Pro⚫ before recited Act, divers Sums of Money have been frequently vision for Lilent to Churchwardens and Overseers of Parishes or Town- Loans for the ships, or to other Persons, on behalf of Parishes or Townships, to be applied for the Purpose of building, altering, enlarging, purchasing, and fitting up Houses for the Reception of the Poor, or of purchasing or hiring Land in order to erect Build< ings thereon, or for other Purposes permanently beneficial to • such Parishes or Townships; but in many Cases there exist no Funds out of which the Repayment of such Sums can be legally enforced: And whereas it is expedient to make such Provision as herein-after is mentioned for the Liquidation of such Loans as aforesaid;' be it therefore enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Guardians of any Union, or of any Parish placed separately under a Board of Guardians, and for the Guardians or Trustees, Guardian or Trustee, of any dissolved Union, or for the Person or Persons who were the Guardians or Guardian, Trustees or Trustee of any dissolved Union, at the Time of its Dissolution, or who had been the last acting Guardians thereof, or a Majority of such Guardians, Trustees, or Persons, with the Approbation and subject to the Rules, Orders, and Regulations of the Poor Law Commissioners, to apply the Produce arising from the Sale of any Workhouses or other Property belonging to any such Union, or to any Parish comprised in such Union, or to any Parish placed separately under a Board of Guardians, or belonging or which did belong to such dissolved Union, which has already been or may hereafter be sold under the Provisions of the secondly herein-before recited Act (after deducting the reasonable Expences of such Sale), in liquidation of any Debts, Liabilities, or Engagements incurred or made by or on behalf of any such Union, or of any Parish therein, or of any separate Parish or dissolved Union respectively, which the Poor Law Commissioners shall consider to constitute a fair and just Claim against any such Union or Parish, notwithstanding that the Payment of any such Debt, Liability, or Engagement may not be capable of being legally enforced: Provided always, that no such Application as herein-before is mentioned of the Produce of the Sale of the Property of any Parish shall be made except with the Consent of a Majority of the Rate-payers of such Parish, and of the Owners of Property therein entitled to vote under and by virtue of the said first-recited Act, assembled at a Meeting to be duly convened and held for the Purpose, after public Notice of the Time and Place and Purpose of holding such Meeting shall have been given in like Manner as Notices of Vestry Meetings are published and given, such Majority to be ascertained in manner provided by the said first-recited Act. CAP. XXVI. An Act for raising the Sum of Thirteen Millions by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight. • Most Gracious Sovereign, [11th June 1838.] 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 16 Majesty in this Session of Parliament, have resolved to give and grant unto Your Majesty the Sum herein-after men⚫tioned; 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, That it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain 13,000,000l. by and Ireland at any Time or Times to cause or direct 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 Thirteen Millions, in the same or like Manner, Form, and Order, and according to the same or like Rules and Directions, as are prescribed in an Act passed in the Forty-eighth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for regulating the issuing and paying off of Exchequer Bills. The Treasury may raise Exchequer Bills in like Manner as is prescribed by 48 G. 3. c. 1. The Clauses, &c. in recited Act extended to this Act. Treasury to apply the Mo ney raised. 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 |