the Peace in force at the lent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament Commissions of assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That all Commissions of the Peace which at the Time of the Death or Demise of His late Majesty King William the Fourth were in force and effect, and which have not been or shall not be superseded, determined, or made void by Her present Majesty at any Time before the passing of this Act, shall be and continue and remain in full force and virtue for the Space of Six Calendar Months next after the passing of this Act, unless the same shall be respectively in the meantime superseded, determined, or made void by Her present Majesty (whom God long preserve), or by any Successor of Her said Majesty to whom the Imperial Crown of this Realm is by Law limited or appointed to go, remain, or descend. Death of His late Majesty, and not since made void, continued for Six Calendar Months. 1G.3. c.1. 22G.S. c.82. 25G. 3. c.61. 7G. 3. c. 13. 33 G.3. (I.) 56 G. 3. c. 46. CA P. II. An Act for the Support of Her Majesty's Household, and of the Honour and Dignity of the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. · • Most Gracious Sovereign, [23d December 1837.] WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Parliament of Great Britain in the First Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for the Support of His Majesty's Household, and of the Honour and Dignity of the Crown of Great Britain; and another Act was passed in the Twenty-second Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, 'intituled An Act for enabling His Majesty to discharge the Debt 'contracted upon the Civil List Revenues, and for preventing the same from being in arrear for the future, by regulating the Mode of Payments out of the said Revenues, and by suppressing or regulating certain Offices therein mentioned, which are now paid out of the Revenues of the Civil List; and another Act was passed in the Twenty-fifth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act to authorize the Lord Steward of the Household, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, the Master of the Robes, and the Lords of the Treasury respectively, to pay Bounties granted by His Majesty to Persons in low and indigent Circumstances; and another Act was passed in the Twenty-seventh Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty for the Purpose (among other things) of repealing the several Duties of Customs and Excise, and granting other Duties in lieu thereof, and for applying the said Duties, together with other Duties composing the Public Revenue; and another Act was passed in the Parliament of Ireland, in the Thirty-third Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act for the Support of the Honour and Dignity of His Majesty's Crown in Ireland, and for granting to His Majesty a Civil List Establishment, under 'certain Provisions and Regulations; and another Act was passed in the Fifty-sixth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act for the better Regulation of the Civil List; and another Act was passed in the Fifty-ninth Year of the Reign of 6 His said late Majesty, intituled An Act for the further Regulation 59G. 3. c. 22. of His Majesty's Household, and the Care of His Royal Person during the Continuance of His Indisposition; and another Act was passed in the First Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for the Support of His 1G. 4. c. l. Majesty's Household, and of the Honour and Dignity of the Crown ' of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; and another Act was passed in the First and Second Years of the Reign of His 'said late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for 1 & 2G. 4. c.31. ' removing Doubts as to the Continuance of the Hereditary Revenues ' in Scotland; and another Act was passed in the First Year of the < Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An 11G. 4. & 'Act to repeal certain of the Duties on Cider in the United Kingdom, 1W. 4. c. 51. and on Beer and Ale in Great Britain, and to make other Provi 'sions in relation thereto; and another Act was passed in the First Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act for the Support of His Majesty's House- 1W. 4. c. 25. hold, and of the Honour and Dignity of the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland: And whereas by the said last-recited Act of the First Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty King William the Fourth it was enacted, that all the 'Hereditary Rates, Duties, Payments, and Revenues in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and other Hereditary Rates, Duties, and Payments as in the said Act mentioned, should be carried to and 'made Part of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of 'Great Britain and Ireland, and from and after the Decease of His said Majesty King William the Fourth the same should be 'payable and paid to His Majesty's Heirs and Successors: And whereas the said several Hereditary Rates, Duties, Payments, and Revenues now belong and are due and payable to Your most Excellent Majesty: And whereas Your Majesty has been gra< ciously pleased to signify to Your faithful Commons in Parliament 'assembled, that Your Majesty placed unreservedly at their Disposal those Hereditary Revenues which were transferred to the Public by Your Majesty's immediate Predecessors, and that, desirous the 'Expenditure in this as in every other Department of the Govern'ment should be kept within due Limits, Your Majesty felt confident that Your faithful Commons would gladly make adequate Provision for the Support of the Honour and Dignity of the Crown: Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the ⚫ Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ' in Parliament assembled, with Hearts full of the warmest Duty ' and Gratitude, are desirous that a certain and competent Revenue for defraying the Expences of Your Majesty's Household, and supporting the Honour and Dignity of the Crown of the United Kingdom, during Your Majesty's Life (which God long preserve), may be settled upon Your Majesty, as a Testimony of our unfeigned 'Affection to Your sacred Person, by whose happy Succession to the Throne Your Majesty's Subjects have the strongest Assurance 'that the Religion, Laws, and Liberties of this Realm will be continued, and that Your Majesty's said Subjects and their Posterity may, through the Divine Goodness, enjoy every Blessing under Your Majesty's auspicious Reign, have therefore freely resolved to grant unto You, our most Gracious Sovereign Lady • Queen < B 2 Powers of Acts as to Hereditary Revenues to remain in force. Hereditary Revenues carried to the Consoli dated Fund during the Life of Her Majesty. • Queen Victoria, a certain Revenue payable out of the Consoli- II. And be it enacted, That the Produce of all the Hereditary Rates, Duties, Payments, and Revenues in England, Scotland, and Ireland respectively, and also the small Branches of the Hereditary Revenue, and the Produce of the Hereditary casual Revenues arising from any Droits of Admiralty or Droits of the Crown, or from the Duties called the Four-and-a-Half per Centum Duties or West India Duties, and from the surplus Revenues of Gibraltar, or any other Possession of Her Majesty out of the United Kingdom, and from all other casual Revenues arising either in the Foreign Possessions of Her Majesty, or in the United Kingdom, which were surrendered by His said late Majesty King William the Fourth for his Life, and which upon the Demise of His said late Majesty became payable to Her present Majesty, which have accrued since the Decease of His said late Majesty, or which shall accrue during the Life of Her present Majesty (whom God long preserve), and which shall not have been applied and distributed in the Payment of any Charge thereupon respectively, (save and except the Hereditary Duties of Excise on Beer, Ale, and Cider in Great Britain,) shall be carried to and made Part of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; and from and after the Decease of Her present Hereditary Re- Majesty (whom God long preserve) all the said Hereditary Revenues shall be payable and paid to Her Majesty's Heirs and Successors. After Her Demise the venues to be payable to Her Successors. III. And 385,000l. to be Fund for the Support of Her Majesty's of the Honour and Dignity of the Crown. Household, and III. And be it enacted, That for the Support of Her Majesty's The clear yearly Household, and of the Honour and Dignity of the Crown, and Sum of for the Payment of the Charges on the First, Second, Third, paid out of the Fourth, and Sixth Classes in the Schedule to this Act annexed, Consolidated there shall be granted to Her Majesty during Her Life a net yearly Revenue of Three hundred and eighty-five thousand Pounds; and that the said Revenue shall be charged on and made payable out of the Consolidated Fund of the United King dom of Great Britain and Ireland, and shall commence from and immediately after the Decease of His said late Majesty King William the Fourth, and be paid to Her present Majesty during Her Life (which God long preserve), with preference to all other Payments which have heretofore been or which shall or may hereafter be charged upon the same, to be paid quarterly; (that is to say,) on the Thirty-first Day of March, the Thirtieth Day of June, the Thirtieth Day of September, and the Thirtyfirst Day of December in each Year, by even and equal Portions; the first Charge for the same to be made on the Consolidated Fund on the Quarter Day next immediately after the passing of this Act, and to include the Proportion of the said Revenue which has accrued and become due to Her Majesty in the Period between the Day of the Death of His late Majesty and the said Quarter Day; but it shall be lawful for the Lord High Treasurer, or the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, or any Three or more of them, for the Time being, after the passing of this Act, and previously to the making up of the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter then next ensuing, to direct and cause to be issued and paid at the Receipt of Her Majesty's Exchequer, out of the growing Produce of the said Consolidated Fund, such Issues and Payments for Arrears or Charges of the Civil List granted by this Act as may have become due and payable since the Day of the Death of His late Majesty, in part of the Amount to be charged for the same on the Aecount of the Consolidated Fund for the ensuing Quarter; and the said Lord High Treasurer, or the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, or any Three or more of them, for the Time being, shall and they are hereby authorized on and during every succeeding Quarter to cause the said yearly Revenue to be issued and applied from Time to Time, daily, weekly, or otherwise, as soon as the same can be satisfied, for the Uses and Purposes by this Act appointed, out of the Monies arisen or to arise as aforesaid, so as by the said daily, weekly, or other Payments One Fourth Part of such yearly Revenue or Sum of Money be not exceeded in, for, or in respect of each Quarter, and so that upon every of the said Quarterly Days the whole Amount then due thereupon be computed, made up, or satisfied according to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act. 6 6 IV. And whereas the Sum of Two hundred thousand Pounds So much of was granted in the last Session of Parliament to enable Her the Sum of Majesty to satisfy such Charges, Pensions, and Annuities as would 200,000l. have been payable out of the Civil List, in case the Demise of Civil List Paygranted to make His said late Majesty had not taken place before the Thirty- ments as shall first Day of December One thousand eight hundred and thirty- have been so seven: And whereas the Hereditary Revenues of Her Majesty applied shall be arisen repaid out of B 3 the Money granted for the Civil List by this Act. 1,2007. a Year to be issued to defray the Charge of Pensions. Restriction on Grants of ' arisen and paid into the Exchequer since the Time of His late 'Majesty's Decease have, in pursuance of the said recited Acts of the Twenty-seventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, and the First Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, and the First Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, been set apart at the Exchequer for the Use of Her Majesty;' be it therefore enacted, That out of the first Monies which shall be issued and paid out of the Consolidated Fund in respect of the Civil List Revenue granted to Her Majesty by this Aet there shall be repaid to or retained in the Exchequer, towards completing the Aids granted by Parliament for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, a Sum equal to so much of the said Sum of Two hundred thousand Pounds as shall have been or shall be advanced and applied in satisfying any Payments for which Provision shall be made in the Civil List under this Act, and which after the passing of this Act become properly charged or chargeable upon the Civil List Revenues; and there shall be repaid to the Consolidated Fund a Sum equal to so much of the Amount of the said Hereditary Revenues so set apart at the Exchequer as aforesaid as has been or may be issued or applied out of those Revenues for satisfying the said Charges as aforesaid; and the Remainder of the said Hereditary Revenues which may not have been issued or paid in satisfaction of any such Charges or of any other Charges thereon shall be carried to the said Consolidated Fund immediately after the passing of this Act. V. And whereas it is expedient to make Provision, at the Rate ' of One thousand two hundred Pounds a Year for each and every 'succeeding Year of Her Majesty's Reign, to defray the Charge of such Pensions as may be granted by Her Majesty chargeable on Her Majesty's Civil List Revenues; be it therefore enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Lord High Treasurer, or for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury for the Time being, to charge upon and issue quarterly out of the said Consolidated Fund, as an Addition to the Sum hereby granted for Her Majesty's Civil List, such Sums as shall be required to defray the Charge of such Pensions as may be granted as aforesaid, at the Rate of One thousand two hundred Pounds a Year for the First Year of Her Majesty's Reign, and at the like additional yearly Rate for the Second and every succeeding Year of Her said Reign. 6 VI. And whereas it was resolved by the Commons House of Parliament, on the Eighteenth Day of February One thousand ' eight hundred and thirty-four, "That it is the bounden Duty of the responsible Advisers of the Crown to recommend to His Majesty for Grants of Pensions on the Civil List such Persons only as have just Claims on the Royal Beneficence, or who by their personal Services to the Crown, by the Performance of Duties to the Public, or by their useful Discoveries in Science and Attainments in Literature and the Arts, have merited the gracious Consideration of their Sovereign and the Gratitude of their Country": And whereas it is expedient that Provision should be made by Law for carrying into full Effect the said Resolution, and for giving an Assurance to Parliament that the ' responsible |