There shall be applied, for the Year 1851, the Service of the Sum of 8,000,000l. out of the Consolidated Fund. 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 & 6 Vict. 66. CAP. III. 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 fifty-one. Most Gracious Sovereign, [1st April 1851.] 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, I. That there shall and may be issued and applied, for or towards making good the Supply granted to Her Majesty for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fiftyone, the Sum of Eight Millions out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or the Lord High Treasurer of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the Time being, are or is hereby authorized and empowered to issue and apply the same accordingly. II. That it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, 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 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, 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. Acts extended to this Act. III. That all and every the Clauses, Provisoes, Powers, Pri- The Clauses, vileges, Advantages, Penalties, Forfeitures, and Disabilities con- &c. in recited tained 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. IV. That the Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance Interest on Exof this Act shall and may bear an Interest not exceeding the chequer Bills. Rate of Threepence Halfpenny per Centum per Diem upon or in respect of the whole of the Monies respectively contained therein. advance 5 & 6 W. & M. c. 20. V. That it shall and may be lawful for the Governor and Com- Bank of Engpany of the Bank of England, and they are hereby empowered, land may to take, accept, and receive the Exchequer Bills authorized to 8,000,000l. be made out in pursuance of this Act, and to advance or lend to on the Credit Her Majesty, at the Receipt of the Exchequer at Westminster, of this Act, notwithstanding 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, anything 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. livered to the VI. That it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Bills prepared Her Majesty's Treasury, and they are hereby authorized and by virtue of this empowered, to cause such Bills as shall be prepared by virtue of Act to be dethis Act to be delivered from Time to Time to the Governor Bank, as Seand Company of the Bank of England, in such Proportions as curity for such the Public Service may require, as Security for any Advance Advances. 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. VII. That Monies raised by Bills to be applied to the Services voted by the Com inons. Exchequer Bills made chargeable upon the grow ing Produce of the Consolidated Fund. VII. That it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's 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 Services as shall then have been voted by the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in this present Session of Parlia ment. VIII. That the Principal Sum or Sums of Money to be contained in all such Exchequer Bills to be made forth by virtue of this Act, together with the Interest that may become due thereon, shall be and the same are hereby made chargeable and charged upon the growing Produce of the 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, 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. resigned. CAP. IV. An Act to enable Her Majesty to appoint a Vice 6 pointed: pointed: And whereas the State of Business in the Court of Chancery renders it expedient that a Vice Chancellor should be appointed in the Place of the said Sir James Wigram:' 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, as follows: Vice Chan I. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty to appoint, by Letters Appointment Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, a fit Per- of additional son, being or having been a Barrister-at-Law of Fifteen Years standing at the least, to be an additional Judge Assistant to the Lord Chancellor in the Discharge of the Judicial Functions of his Office, in the Place of the said Sir James Wigram, and to be called Vice Chancellor. Chancellor. II. The Vice Chancellor to be appointed under this Act Rank, &c. of shall have all the same Powers and Privileges, and the same additional Vice Rank, and shall be subject to the same Provisions, Duties, and Observances, as the said Sir James Wigram had or was subject to under the said Act of the Fifth Year of Her present Majesty, Session One, Chapter the Fifth, excepting that he shall have Rank and Precedence next after the Vice Chancellors that now are. and Train III. He shall have a Secretary, Usher, and Trainbearer, To have a Seto be from Time to Time appointed and removed by him at cretary, Usher, his Pleasure; and the Secretaries, Registrars, and other Offi- bearer. cers appointed to attend the Lord Chancellor shall attend such Vice Chancellor when sitting for the Lord Chancellor, and also when sitting in his separate Court, as Circumstances shall require, and as the Lord Chancellor shall order or direct. IV. The Salary of such Vice Chancellor, and the Salaries Salaries. of his Secretary, Usher, and Trainbearer, shall be of the same Amounts, and paid out of the same Funds, and in like Manner as the Salaries of the said Sir James Wigram, his Secretary, Usher, and Trainbearer, were and were directed to be paid under the said Act of the Fifth Year of Her present Majesty, Chapter the Fifth. V. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by Letters Patent Retiring Penunder the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, to grant to sion. such Vice Chancellor, on his Resignation of or ceasing to exe-. cute his Office, an Annuity of the same Amount, after the same Period of Service, under the same Circumstances, subject to the same Conditions, and payable out of the same Fund as the Annuity authorized to be granted to each of the Vice Chancellors appointed under the said Act of the Fifth Year of Her present Majesty, Chapter the Fifth. VI. It shall be lawful for the Lord Chancellor to appoint One Lord Chanor more Person or Persons, removable at Pleasure, for the Pur- cellor may appose of keeping Order in the Court of the Vice Chancellor to be point Persons to keep Order appointed under the Authority of this Act; and the Salaries of in Court. the Persons appointed or to be appointed under this Act, or under any Act or Acts now in force, to keep Order in the Court of the Vice Chancellor to be appointed under the Autho Successor not to be appointed. Lord High Admiral, &c. may make Articles for the Punishment of Mutiny, Desertion, &c. 14 VICT. rity of this Act, shall be of such Amount, not exceeding the yearly Sum of Eighty Pounds, as the Lord Chancellor may think reasonable, and such Salaries shall be paid to each such Person so to be appointed out of the same Funds, and at the same Time, and in like Manner as the Salaries of such Persons have heretofore been paid. VII. Nothing herein contained shall authorize the Appointment of a Successor to the Vice Chancellor appointed under the Authority of this Act. 6 6 CAP. V. An Act for the Regulation of Her Majesty's Royal Marine Forces while on shore. [11th April 1851.] WHEREAS it is judged necessary for the Safety of the United Kingdom, and the Defence of the Possessions of this Realm, that a Body of Royal Marine Forces should be employed in Her Majesty's Fleet and Naval Service, under the Direction of the Lord High Admiral of the United King'dom, or the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral aforesaid: And whereas the said Forces may frequently be quartered or be on shore, or sent to do Duty or be on board Transport Ships or Merchants Ships or Vessels, or Ships or Vessels of Her Majesty, or other Ships or Vessels, or they may be under other Circumstances in which they will not be subject to the Laws relating to the Govern'ment of Her Majesty's Forces by Sea: And whereas no Man can be forejudged of Life or Limb, or subjected in Time of Peace to any Kind of Punishment within this Realm by Martial Law, or in any other Manner than by the Judgment of his Peers, and according to the known and established Laws of this Realm; yet nevertheless it being requisite for the retaining of such Forces in their Duty that an exact Discipline be observed, and that Marines who shall mutiny or stir up Sedition, or shall desert Her Majesty's Service, or be guilty of any other Crime in breach of good Order and Discipline, be brought to a more exemplary and speedy Punishment than the usual Forms of the Law will allow, or be guilty of Crimes and Offences to the Prejudice of good Order and Military Discipline: 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, as follows: 6 I. That it shall be lawful for the said Lord High Admiral, or the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral aforesaid, to make, ordain, and establish Rules and Articles of War under the Hand of the said Lord High Admiral, or under the Hands of any Two or more of the said Commissioners, for the better Government of Her Majesty's Royal Marine Forces, and for the Punishment of Mutiny, Desertion, Immorality, Breach of Discipline, Misbehaviour, Neglect of |