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BILL

To continue an Act of the Fourth and Fifth Years of Her
present Majesty, for authorizing and facilitating the
Completion of a Survey of Great Britain, Berwick-upon-
Tweed, and the Isle of Man.

[Note. The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted
in the Committee.]

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c. 30.

HEREAS an Act was passed in the fourth and fifth years Preamble: of the reign of Her present Majesty Queen VICTORIA, 4 & 5 Vict. intituled, "An Act to authorize and facilitate the Completion of a Survey of Great Britain, Berwick-upon-Tweed, and the Isle of Man," and which Act will expire on the Thirty-first day of December One thousand eight hundred and Forty-six: And whereas it is expedient that the said Act should be further continued ;

Be it therefore Enacted, by The QUEEN's most Excellent MAJESTY, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords 10 Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, THAT the said Act conrecited Act, and all the powers, provisions, matters and things therein contained, shall continue in force until the Thirty-first day of December One thousand eight hundred and Fifty-one.

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For amending the Act for rendering effective the Services
of the Chelsea Out- Pensioners, and extending it to the
Out-Pensioners of Greenwich Hospital.

[Note.-The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted
in the Committee.]

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c. 95.

HEREAS by an Act passed in the seventh year of the Preamble: reign of Her Majesty, intituled, "An Act for rendering 6 & 7 Vict, more effective the Services of such Out-Pensioners of Chelsea Hospital as shall be called out to assist in preserving the Public Peace," it is among other things enacted, that it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, from time to time, by warrant under the Royal Sign Manual, to order that such and so many of the Out-Pensioners of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea resident within any county or other district specified in such warrant, as to Her Majesty shall seem fit, shall be enrolled as a Local Force for the preservation of the peace; provided that the whole number of Pensioners so to be enrolled in the United Kingdom should not at any one time exceed Ten thousand Men: And whereas it is expedient that the provisions of the said Act should be extended to the Out-Pensioners of Greenwich Hospital, and that the number of Men authorized to be enrolled should be increased for that purpose, and the period of exercise extended: 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 the said Act shall apply to the Out-Pensioners of Greenwich Hospital, in like manner as if they were Out-Pensioners of Chelsea Hospital; and that the whole 106.

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Provisions of c. 25, exGreenwich

6 & 7 Vict.,

tended to

Pensioners and amended.

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number of Pensioners of Chelsea and Greenwich Hospitals so to be enrolled in the United Kingdom at any one time may be any number not exceeding Twenty Thousand men; and that they may be called out for inspection or exercise on any number of days not exceeding Twelve in each year.

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AND whereas it is expedient that the same power should be vested in the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland for the time being, as is by the said Act vested in any one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, so far as regards calling out the enrolled Pensioners resident in that part of the United Kingdom to assist the Civil Power; BE it Enacted, 10 That it shall be lawful for the said Lord Lieutenant, or in case of emergency, any person or persons bearing his Warrant for that purpose, to call out such and so many of the said enrolled Pensioners resident in Ireland as he or they may deem necessary to aid the Civil Power in the preservation of the public peace within the 15 district in which the said enrolled Pensioners reside, or within any adjoining district,

And be it Enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to

be passed in this Session

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Parliament.

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