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Speaker from Time to Time, and the said Commissioners shall Paymaster of appoint an Officer for that Purpose, who shall be called the Pay- the House of master of the House of Commons, and shall take from him such Commons. Security for the faithful Discharge of his Office as they shall think fit; and an Account shall be opened at the Bank of England in the Name of the said Paymaster; and the Commissioners ap- Money to be pointed under the said first-recited Acts shall from Time to Time transferred by transfer such Sums as they shall deem necessary for that Purpose Commissioners from the Account of the said Commissioners at the Bank of England to the said Account of the said Paymaster by an Order signed by the Speaker of the House of Commons and One other of the said Commissioners; and in case of the Death or Removal from Office of any such Paymaster, the Monies standing to his Credit in the Account aforesaid shall be forthwith transferred to the Account of the said Commissioners at the said Bank. V. And be it enacted, That for the Purposes of the said first- Speaker to act recited Act and this Act the Person who shall fill the Office of notwithstanding Speaker of the House of Commons at the Time of any Dissolution of Dissolution Parliament. of Parliament shall be deemed to be the Speaker until a Speaker shall be chosen by the new Parliament, and that in the event of the Death or Disability or Absence from the Realm of the Speaker during any Dissolution or Prorogation of Parliament, it shall be lawful for any Three of the said Commissioners to execute any of the Purposes of the said first-recited Act or this Act.

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VI. Provided always, and be it enacted, That it shall be lawful Payments may for the said Commissioners, upon Application of the Clerk of the be advanced House of Commons in respect of his Offices, and of the Serjeant- if the Estimate at-Arms in respect of his Department, and of the Speaker's Secretary in respect of the Department of the Speaker, to direct such further Sums to be advanced beyond those stated in the said Estimate of Expenditure as to them shall seem right to make good any unexpected Payments or Expences which shall not have been provided for in such Estimate; and an Account of all such Payments shall be laid before the House of Commons in the ensuing Session, with the Estimate for that Year.

CA P. LXXVIII.

An Act to authorize a further Advance of Money out of the
Consolidated Fund towards defraying the Expence of
County Works presented in Ireland. [26th August 1846.]

WHEREAS by an Act passed in the present Session of Par

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liament, intituled An Act to authorize Grand Juries in 9 & 10 Vict. c. 2. Ireland at the Spring Assizes of the present Year to appoint 'extraordinary Presentment Sessions, to empower such Sessions to make Presentment for County Works, and to provide Funds 'for the Execution of such Works, and also to provide for the more prompt Payment of Contractors for Works under Grand Jury Presentments in Ireland, it is amongst other things ' enacted, that it shall and may be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, on Application to them in that Behalf, to make Advances, not exceeding in the whole the Sum

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' of One hundred thousand Pounds, by way of Loan, at such Rate ' of Interest not exceeding the Rate of Five Pounds per Centum per Annum as they shall think fit, out of the growing Produce of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland arising in Ireland, to defray the Expence of any public Work or Works, the Execution of which shall have been approved of and presented under the Provisions therein in that Behalf contained, or of any Work presented for by a Grand Jury under the Provisions of any Acts relating to the Presentment of public Money by Grand Juries in Ireland (save as herein mentioned); and that when and so soon as any Application for such Works as aforesaid shall have been duly certified to the said Commissioners of the Treasury by the acting Clerk of the Crown to have been duly approved of, and presented according to the Provisions of any of the said last-mentioned Acts or of this Act, it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners from Time to Time to make, upon the Credit of such Application so approved of and presented as aforesaid, any Advance they may think fit, and that any such Money advanced under the Authority of the said Act shall be delivered or paid by such Officer or Person and in such Manner as the said Commissioners shall think fit, and by such Instalments as may be necessary, to the Treasurer of the County, County of a City, or County of a Town in which the Works in respect of which such Advances shall be made shall have been or are intended to be executed, and shall be accounted for by him in like Manner as any other Monies by him received for the Use of such County, County of a City, or County of a Town; and all Securities given or to be given by him or on his Behalf shall extend to such Money; and every such Treasurer shall also from Time to Time, and at all Times when thereunto required by the said • Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, furnish to the said • Commissioners, as they may direct, an Account of all his Disbursements and Receipts in respect of such Advances: And whereas Applications have been made to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury for Advances to defray the Expences of Works under said recited Act to an Amount exceeding the said Sum of One hundred thousand Pounds by the said recited Act authorized to be issued for such Purposes, and it is necessary to provide additional Funds for such Works:' 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 it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, in addition to the said Sum of One hundred thousand Pounds by the said Act authorized to 35,000l. for the be advanced, to make Advances, not exceeding in the whole the Purposes of the further Sum of Thirty-five thousand Pounds, by way of Loan, at said recited Act. such Rate of Interest not exceeding the Rate of Five Pounds per Centum per Annum as they shall think fit, out of the growing Produce of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland arising in Ireland, in the Manner, for the Purposes, and subject to the several Provisions, Conditions, and Regulations in the said recited Act contained.

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II. And be it enacted, That all and every the several Clauses, The Provisions Powers, Authorities, Provisions, and Enactments in the said of said recited recited Act contained, for the recovering of the Sum of Money Act to extend or any Part thereof by the said Act authorized to be advanced, shall be taken to extend and apply for the recovering of the said Sum of Thirty-five thousand Pounds by this Act authorized to be advanced, or any Part thereof, in the same Manner as if such Clauses, Powers, Authorities, Provisions, and Enactments were herein repeated and set forth, and applied to the Monies authorized by this Act to be advanced.

III. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or Act may be repealed by any Act to be passed during the present Session of amended, &c. Parliament.

CA P. LXXIX.

An Act to continue until the Thirty-first Day of July One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, and to the End of the then Session of Parliament, an Act of the Fifth and Sixth Years of Her present Majesty, for amending the Law relative to Private Lunatic Asylums in Ireland.

"5 & 6 Vict. c. 123. continued as in Title."

CA P. LXXX.

[26th August 1846.]

An Act to authorize the Advance of Money out of the
Consolidated Fund, for carrying on Public Works and
Fisheries, and Employment of the Poor.

[26th August 1846.]

WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Fifty-seventh Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, 'intituled An Act to authorize the Issue of Exchequer Bills and 57 G. 3. c. 34. the Advance of Money out of the Consolidated Fund, to a limited Amount, for the carrying on of Public Works and Fisheries in the United Kingdom, and Employment of the Poor in Great Britain, in manner therein mentioned: And whereas another 'Act was passed in the same Session of Parliament, intituled An 57 G. 3. c. 124. 'Act to amend an Act made in the present Session of Parlia

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and the Employment of the Poor: And whereas another Act was passed in the First Year of the Reign of His Majesty King

George the Fourth, intituled An Act to amend and continue 1 G. 4. c.60. Two Acts passed in the Fifty-seventh Year of His late Majesty King George the Third, for authorizing the Issue of Exchequer Bills and the Advance of Money for carrying on of Public Works and Fisheries, and Employment of the Poor, and to ' extend the Powers of the Commissioners for executing the said Acts in Great Britain: And whereas another Act was passed in the First and Second Years of the Reign of His said Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act to empower the Com- 1&2 G.4.c.111. 'missioners

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4 G. 4. c. 63.

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'missioners in Great Britain for the Execution of several Acts for authorizing the Issue of Exchequer Bills for carrying on of Public Works and Fisheries, and Employment of the Poor, and 'to extend the Time for the Payment of certain Advances under 'the said Acts: And whereas another Act was passed in the Third Year of the Reign of His said last-mentioned Majesty, 'intituled An Act to amend Two Acts of the Fifty-seventh Year of His late Majesty, and the First Year of His present Majesty, 'for authorizing the Issue of Exchequer Bills and the Advance of Money for carrying on Public Works and Fisheries, and Employment of the Poor, and to authorize a further Issue of Exchequer Bills for the Purposes of the said Acts: And 'whereas another Act was passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His said last-mentioned Majesty, intituled An Act to ' authorize the Advance of Money by the Commissioners under 'several Acts for the Issue of Exchequer Bills for Public Works for the building, rebuilding, enlarging, or repairing of Gaols in England: And whereas another Act was passed in the Fifth "Year of the Reign of His said last-mentioned Majesty, intituled 'An Act to amend and render more effectual the several Acts for the issuing of Exchequer Bills for Public Works: And "whereas another Act was passed in the same Year, intituled An 'Act to amend the Acts for the Issue of Exchequer Bills for 'Public Works: And whereas another Act was passed in the 'Sixth Year of the Reign of His said last-mentioned Majesty, 'intituled An Act to render more effectual the several Acts for "authorizing Advances for carrying on Public Works so far as ' relates to Ireland: And whereas another Act was passed in the 'Seventh Year of the Reign of His said last-mentioned Majesty, 'intituled An Act to amend the several Acts for authorizing Advances for carrying on Public Works, and to extend the Provisions thereof in certain Cases: And whereas another Act was passed in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of His 7 & 8 G. 4. c.12. said last-mentioned Majesty, intituled An Act to amend an Act of the First Year of His present Majesty, for the Advance of Money for carrying on Public Works in Ireland: And whereas 7 & 8 G. 4. c. 47. another Act was passed in the same Year, intituled An Act for

5 G. 4. c. 36.

5 G. 4. c. 77.

6 G. 4. c. 35.

7 G. 4. c. 30.

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authorizing the Issue of Exchequer Bills and the Advance of 'Money for carrying on Public Works and Fisheries, and Employment of the Poor, and to authorize a further Issue of Exchequer Bills for the Purposes of the said Acts: And whereas another Act was passed in the Third and Fourth Years of the 3&4 W. 4. c. 32. Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act to amend several "Acts authorizing Advances for carrying on Public Works: And 'whereas another Act was passed in the Fourth and Fifth Years 4 & 5 W.4.c.72. of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act to amend several Acts for authorizing the Issue of Exchequer Bills for carrying on Public Works and Fisheries and Employment of the Poor, and to authorize a further Issue of Exchequer Bills

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'Second Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An 1&2 Vict. c. 88. "Act to authorize the further Issue of Exchequer Bills for Public 'Works and Fisheries, and Employment of the Poor, and to ' amend the Acts relating thereto: And whereas another Act was passed in the Third Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, 'intituled An Act to authorize the Issue of Exchequer Bills for 3&4 Vict. c. 10. Public Works and Fisheries, and Employment of the Poor: And whereas another Act was passed in the Fifth Year of the

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Amount, for carrying on Public Works and Fisheries, and Employment of the Poor, and to amend the Acts authorizing the Issue of Exchequer Bills for the like Purposes: And whereas 'sundry Advances or Loans have been made by the Commissioners of the said recited Acts for the Purposes in the same Acts 'specified, and great Benefits have been derived therefrom: And whereas further Advances or Loans are required for the like • Objects, and it is deemed expedient to make further Advances of Money out of the Consolidated Fund for the Purposes of such Loans 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 for the Purposes of such Advances or Loans as aforesaid the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the Time being are hereby empowered, by Warrant under the Hands of any Three or more of them, to charge Issues not exthe Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain ceeding 90,0007. and Ireland (after providing for all preceding Charges, but having per Quarter. Preference of all future Charges), and to direct the Issue or the Payment thereout to the Account of the Commissioners for the Time being for the Reduction of the National Debt of a Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding Three hundred and sixty thousand Pounds per Annum during the Five Years next ensuing the Fourth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, by quarterly Instalments or Issues not exceeding Ninety thousand Pounds per Quarter, the same to become due on the Fifth Day of January, the Fifth Day of April, the Fifth Day of July, and the Tenth Day of October in each Year, the first Instalment thereof to become due and payable on the Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven.

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II. And be it enacted, That the Commissioners for the Time Commissioners being for the Reduction of the National Debt shall be and they for Reduction are hereby appointed Trustees on the Part of the Public for of National Debt holding the said Monies to be issued and paid out of the Con- of Public Works solidated Fund as aforesaid, and they shall continue or cause to be Loan Fund, continued the separate Account already opened at the Bank of and to cause a England with them under the Title of "The Commissioners for separate Acthe count to be con

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