as a temporary Advance, from Time to Time, at any Time on the Credit of before the First Day of October in this Year, as they may find Rates in cours of making and necessary, out of the growing Produce of the Consolidated collecting. Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, any Sum or Sums of Money, not exceeding Three hundred thousand Pounds, by way of Imprest, to the said Relief Commissioners for the Execution of this Act, to be by them applied by way of Loan on the Security of the Rates made or to be made as herein-after provided, for the Purposes of this Act; and all such Sums of Money shall be repaid to the Consolidated Fund by the said Relief Commissioners, in such Manner as the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury may direct, from and out of the Rates to be levied in the Union on behalf of which such Loan shall have been made. XVI. And be it enacted, That as soon as any Board of As soon as Guardians shall have resolved on making any Kate for the Guardians shall Purposes of this Act, and the Inspector of the Union shall have have resolved on making Rate certified under his Hand to the Relief Commissioners that such Relief CommisResolution has been passed, and that to the best of his Belief the sioners may Guardians are proceeding with all possible Despatch to make grant Loans on and levy such Rate, the Relief Commissioners may, if they the same. shall think fit, make such Loans on the Credit of the Rates so about to be made as shall be authorized by the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury. the Credit of XVII. And be it enacted, That the Amount of any such As to the Loan, or any Proportion thereof which the Relief Commis- Repayment of sioners shall think fit to advance, from Time to Time, shall be Loans. paid by the said Relief Commissioners to the Person mentioned in the Warrant to receive Money on behalf of the Finance Committee of the Union, Electoral Division or Divisions, on whose Behalf such Money is to be paid, to be by them applied in the Manner herein-before directed as to the Sums received under any such Warrant, and thereupon the Treasurer of the Union shall pay to the Relief Commissioners the Rates levied in such Union, except such Part as he shall be allowed to retain for the other Purposes of the Acts in force for the Relief of the destitute Poor in Ireland, by any Regulations to be from Time to Time made by the Relief Commissioners, until the whole Amount of the Loan, or Advances made on account of such Loan, shall be reimbursed to the said Relief Commissioners; and any Treasurer of any Union who, after Notice of any such Loan or Advance given to him in Writing under the Hand of any One of the said Relief Commissioners, shall pay away to any Person other than the Person appointed in and by such Notice to receive the Rates on behalf of the Relief Commissioners any Part of any Rate collected in such Union, beyond what he shall have been so allowed to retain by the Regulations of the said Relief Commissioners, until the whole of such Loan or Advances shall have been reimbursed to the said Relief Commissioners, shall be liable to pay to the said Relief Commissioners the Sum which he shall have so wrongfully paid away; B 4 and On Application of Relief Com missioners Treasury may make Grants or Contributions 10 VICT. and in case of Nonpayment thereof it shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace, on Complaint of any One of the said Inspectors, to levy the Amount so wrongfully paid away by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of such Treasurer; and the Receipt of the Receiver mentioned in and by such Notice shall be a sufficient Discharge to the Treasurer for so much Money as shall be paid by him to such Receiver, and shall be allowed in auditing and passing his Accounts. XVIII. And be it enacted, That, on the Application of the Relief Commissioners, the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall be empowered to cause to be issued and paid from Time to Time, as they shall find necessary, out of any in aid of Rates Monies which may be granted for that Purpose, any Sum or Sums of Money, under such Regulations and Conditions as the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall think fit, in aid of the Rates so to be made as aforesaid or of voluntary Contributions for the Purposes of this Act, and all such Monies shall be paid over to the Finance Committee of the Union, or Electoral Division or Divisions, on account of which it shall have been issued, and shall be applied and accounted for in like Manner as the Monics paid pursuant to any Warrant as aforesaid. Rules and Re gulations to be made by Relief Commissioners for the Purposes of this Act. Relief to be administered subject to such Rules, &c. Guardians, Members of to be concerned in Contracts while in Office. XIX. And be it enacted, That the said Relief Commissioners shall be authorized and required from Time to Time to make Rules and Regulations in regard to the Proceedings of any such Finance Committees and Relief Committees, and in regard to the making out the Lists of destitute Persons, the making or revising and allowing Estimates as to Relief Funds, the Mode of Application for Relief, the Mode of Inquiry into the Circumstances of the Applicants for Relief, the Description of Relief to be afforded, and whether by Gift or Sale, the Mode of granting, ordering, and giving such Relief, the keeping the Accounts thereof, the Security to be given by any Person who shall receive any Monies for the Purposes of this Act, the making of Reports, and such other Matters as the said Commissioners shall deem necessary; and the Relief to be furnished under this Act shall be administered subject to the Rules and Regulations so to be made by the said Relief Commissioners. XX. And be it enacted, That no Guardian, paid Officer, Member of any Finance Committee or Relief Committee under this Act, or other Person in whose Hands the Collection of any Rates, Grants, Loans, or voluntary Contributions, or the providing for, ordering, Management, Control, or Direction of the Relief of the destitute Poor, under the Provisions of this Act, shall or may be placed, shall, either in his own Name or the Name of any other Person, provide, furnish, or supply for his own Profit any Materials, Goods, or Provisions for the Use of the destitute Poor under this Act, during the Time for which he or they shall retain such Appointment, nor shall be concerned for his own Profit directly or indirectly in furnishing or supplying the same, or in any Contract relating thereto, under pain of forfeit ing the Sum of One hundred Pounds, with full Costs of Suit plied for the XXI. And be it enacted, That when, pursuant to any such Produce of Regulations as aforesaid, any Food or Necessaries shall have Sales to be apbeen sold under the Direction of any Relief Committee, the Purposes of Monies arising from such Sale shall be applied for the Purposes this Act, subof this Act by such Relief Committee, subject to such Instruc- ject to Regulations and Regulations as they shall from Time to Time receive Commissioners. in respect thereof from the said Relief Commissioners. XXII. And be it enacted, That no Warrant shall be issued under this Act, nor shall any Grant or Loan be made by the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury in aid of any Rates to be levied under this Act, after the First Day of October in this Year. tions of Relief No Grant or made by the XXIII. And be it enacted, That in this Act the Words Interpretation "Lord Lieutenant" shall be construed to extend to any Lords of Act. Justices, or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland. XXIV. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or Act may be repealed by any Act to be passed in this Session of Parliament. amended, &c. CAP. VII. An Act to apply the Sum of Eight Millions out of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven. Most Gracious Sovereign, [18th March 1847.] WE, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled, towards making good the Supply which we have cheerfully granted to Your Majesty in this Session of Parliament, have resolved to 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, That there shall and. There shall be may be issued and applied, for or towards making good the applied for the Supply granted to Her Majesty for the Service of the Year Year 1847, One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, the Sum of Eight the Sum of Millions out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom 8,000,000l. out of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Commissioners of Her dated Fund. Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or any Three or more of them, or the Lord High Treasurer of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Service of the of the Consoli for The Treasury may cause 8,000,000l. of Exchequer Bills to be made out in manner prescribed by 48 G. 3. c. 1. 4&5 W.4. c. 15. and 5 & 6 Vict. c. 66. The Clauses, &c. in recited to this Act. for the Time being, are or is hereby authorized and empowered to issue and apply the same accordingly. II. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, or any Three or more of them, from Time to Time, by Warrant under their Hands, to cause or direct any Number of Exchequer Bills to be made out at the Receipt of Her Majesty's Exchequer at Westminster for any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Eight Millions, and such Exchequer Bills shall be made out in the same or like Manner, Form, and Order, and according to the same or like Rules and Directions, as are directed and prescribed in an Act passed in the Fortyeighth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for regulating the issuing 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 of His Majesty's Exchequer at Westminster, and in another Act 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 Exchequer Bills. III. And be it enacted, That all and every the Clauses, Provisocs, Powers, Privileges, Advantages, Penalties, Forfeitures, Acts extended and Disabilities contained in the said recited Acts 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, Provisoes, Powers, Privileges, Advantages, Penalties, Forfeitures, and Disabilities had been particularly repeated and re-enacted in the Body of this Act. Interest on Exchequer Bills. Bank of England may advance 8,000,000l. on IV. And be it enacted, That the Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance of this Act shall and may bear an Interest not exceeding the Rate of Three-pence Halfpenny per Centum per Diem, upon or in respect of the whole of the Monies respectively contained therein. V. And be it declared and enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, and they are hereby empowered, to take, accept, and receive the Exchequer Bills authorized to be made out in pursuance of this Act, and to advance or lend to Her Majesty, at the Receipt of the Exchequer at Westminster, upon the Credit of the Sum granted by this Act out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Eight Millions, any thing 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 the 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 other Act or Acts to the contrary notwithstanding. VI. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Bills prepared Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, and they are hereby Act to be by virtue of this authorized and empowered to cause such Bills as shall be pre- delivered to pared by virtue of this Act to be delivered from Time to Time the Bank, as to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, in such Security for Proportions as the Public Service may require, as Security for any Advance or Advances which may be made to Her Majesty by the said Governor and Company of the Bank of England under the Authority of this Act. such Advances. VII. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Monies raised Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to issue and apply be applied to by Bills to from Time to Time all such Sums of Money as shall be raised the Services by Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance of this Act to voted by the 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. Commons. Fund. VIII. And be it enacted, That the Principal Sum or Sums Exchequer of Money to be contained in all such Exchequer Bills to be Bills made made forth by virtue of this Act, together with the Interest the growing chargeable upon that may become due thereon, shall be and the same are hereby Produce of the made chargeable and charged upon the growing Produce of the Consolidated Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in the next succeeding Quarter to that in which the said Exchequer Bills have been issued; and it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury for the Time being, or any Three or more of them, and they are hereby authorized, from Time to Time, by Warrant under their Hands, to direct the Comptroller General of the Receipt of the Exchequer at Westminster, in such Manner as they shall think necessary, to grant a Credit on the Exchequer Funds in the Bank of England unto such Person or Persons as shall be named in the said Warrant, which Credit shall be chargeable on and paid out of the growing Produce of the said Consolidated Fund of the next succeeding Quarter to that in which the said Exchequer Bills have been issued, for any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole a Sum sufficient to discharge and pay off the Principal Sum or Sums of Money contained in such Exchequer Bills then outstanding, and which may have been made out and issued by virtue of this Act, together with all such Interest as may be due thereupon. 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