SCHEDULE (H.)-SUPPLIES. CIVIL SERVICES.-CLASS V. SCHEDULE OF SUMS granted by Section 19 of this Act, to defray the Charges of the several CIVIL SERVICES herein particularly mentioned, which will come in course of Payment during the Year ending on the 31st Day of March 1866; viz.— Sums not exceeding No. 1. For the Civil Establishment of the Bermudas £ 4,200 2. For the Ecclesiastical Establishment of the British North American Provinces 3. For the Indian Department in Canada 3,813 1,000 4. For the Salaries of the Governors, Lieutenant Governors, and others in the West Indies, and certain other Colonies 23,278 5. For Salaries and Allowances of the Stipendiary Justices in the West India Colonies 6. For the Civil Establishments on the Western Coast of Africa 7,200 11,730 14. For the late Expedition to the Zambesi River 13. For the Emigration Board and Emigration Officers at the different Ports of this Kingdom, and for certain other Expenses connected with Emigration 15. On account of the Treasury Chest 10,531 1,657 3,000 16. For Bounties on Slaves and Tonnage Bounties, for Expenses incurred for the Support and Conveyance of captured Negroes, and for other Charges under the Acts for the Abolition of the Slave Trade 17. For Salaries and Expenses of the Mixed Commissions established under the Treaties with Foreign Powers for suppressing the Traffic in Slaves. 10,650 18. For the Consular Establishments abroad 166,018 19. For the Establishments in China, Japan, and Siam 102,972 20. For the Extraordinary Disbursements of Her Majesty's Embassies and Missions abroad 36,400 21. For special Missions, Diplomatic Outfits, and Conveyance and Entertainment of Colonial Officers and others 22. For Salaries of the Third Secretaries at Her Majesty's Embassies and Missions abroad 4,500 TOTAL CIVIL SERVICES, CLASS V. £ 476,106 28 & 29 VICT. 4 F SCHEDULE (I.)—SUPPLIES. CIVIL SERVICES.-CLASS VI. SCHEDULE OF SUMS granted by Section 20 of this Act, to defray the Charges of the several CIVIL SERVICES herein particularly mentioned, which will come in course of Payment during the Year ending on the 31st Day of March 1866; viz.— No. 1. For Superannuation Allowances and Compensations to Persons formerly employed in the Public Service 2. For enabling Her Majesty to grant Relief to Toulonese and Corsican Emigrants, St. Domingo Sufferers, American Loyalists, and others who have heretofore received Allowances from Her Majesty 3. Towards the Support of the Refuge for the Destitute 4. For the Subsistence of Polish Refugees and Allowances to distressed Spaniards 5. For Pensions to Masters and Seamen of the Merchant Service, and to their Widows and Children, under the Merchant Seamen's Fund Act, and for Compensation to the late Officers of the Trustees of the Merchant Seamen's Fund 6. For the Relief of distressed British Seamen abroad 7. For miscellaneous Allowances formerly defrayed from the Civil List, the Hereditary Revenues, &c., and for which no permanent Provision has been made by Parliament 8. For Allowances granted under certain Acts of Parliament to the Treasurers of Public Infirmaries in Ireland 9. For the Westmoreland Lock Hospital, Dublin 10. For the Rotunda Lying-in Hospital, Dublin Sums not exceeding £ 179,382 661 325 2,789 54,200 30,400 3,780 2.272 2,600 700 13. For the House of Recovery and Fever Hospital, Cork Street, Dublin 2,500 245 17. For the Board of Superintendence of Hospitals in Dublin 18. For Charitable Allowances charged on the Concordatum. Fund in Ireland, and other Allowances and Bounties formerly defrayed from Grants for the Lord Lieutenant's Household, Civil Contingencies, &c. 19. For Non-conforming, Seceding, and Protestant Dissenting Ministers in Ireland SCHEDULE (J.)-SUPPLIES. CIVIL SERVICES.-CLASS VII. SCHEDULE OF SUMS granted by Section 21 of this Act, to defray the Charges of the several CIVIL SERVICES herein particularly mentioned, which will come in course of Payment during the Year ending on the 31st Day of March 1866; viz. :— Sums not exceeding No. £ 1. For the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England 3,750 2. For Salaries and Expenses of temporary Commissions 30,702 3. For Fees, Salaries, Expenses, and Compensations payable under the Provisions of the Patent Law Amendment Act 4. For Salaries and Expenses of the Board of Fisheries in Scotland 31,003 15,427 5. On account of the Annuity to the Board of Manufactures in Scotland, in discharge of Equivalents under the Treaty of Union 6. For Payments on account of the Difference of Dues payable by British or Foreign Vessels under Treaties of Reciprocity 2,000 55,532 7. For Salaries of Inspectors of Corn Returns, and for Expenses defrayed by Counties for Corn Returns 8. For adjusting and defining the Boundaries of Counties, Baronies, and Parishes in Ireland 9. For the Expense of the Publication of the Ancient Laws and Institutes of Ireland 10. For encouraging the Cultivation of Flax in the South and West of Ireland 11. For the Expense of the Telegraphic Cable laid down between Malta and Alexandria, and of the Balmoral Telegraph 12. For collecting Agricultural Statistics in Great Britain 13. For certain Expenses formerly charged upon the Vote for Civil Contingencies TOTAL CIVIL SERVICES, CLASS VII. 2,900 500 500 5,000 780 10,000 SCHEDULE (K.)-SUPPLIES. REVENUE DEPARTMENTS. SCHEDULE of SUMS granted by Section 22 of this Act, to defray the Charges of the several REVENUE DEPARTMENTS herein particularly mentioned, which will come in course of Payment during the Year ending on the 31st Day of March 1866; viz. :— 3. For Post Office Services and the Collection of the Post Office Revenue 1,284,157 2,121,478 4. For Superannuations and Compensation Allowances, Pensions, and other non-effective Charges in the Departments of Customs, Inland Revenue, and Post Office Provisions of 27 & 28 Vict. c. 57; to apply to this Act. Style of Commissioners of Admiralty in Suits. As to Costs. Prerogatives of the Crown in Suits preserved, &c. Saving for Information, &c. CA P. CXXIV. An Act for consolidating certain Enactments relating to the Admiralty. BE [6th July 1865.] E 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, as follows: 1. The Provisions of The Admiralty Lands and Works Act, 1864, respecting the User of Lands, and respecting Powers of Management and Leasing, and other Rights and Powers relative to Lands, and respecting Recovery of Possession and Sale of Lands, and respecting Actions and Suits by and against the Admiralty relative to Lands, shall apply in relation to all Lands for the Time being vested in or purchased by the Commissioners of the Admiralty. 2. Except as otherwise expressly provided, the Commissioners of the Admiralty for the Time being may be styled, in any Action, Suit, or other Proceeding at Law or in Equity, "The Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the "United Kingdom," without more; and any Action, Suit, or Proceeding shall not be affected by any Change among the Commissioners of the Admiralty; and in any Action, Suit, or Proceeding the Commissioners of the Admiralty shall be liable and entitled to pay or receive Costs according to the ordinary Law and Practice relative to Costs. 3. Nothing in this Act, or in The Admiralty Lands and Works Act, 1864, shall take away or abridge in any Action or Suit the legal Rights, Privileges, and Prerogatives of Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, but in all Actions and Suits instituted by or against the Commissioners of the Admiralty, and in all Proceedings and Matters connected therewith, the Commissioners of the Admiralty may exercise and enjoy all such Rights, Privileges, and Prerogatives as are for the Time being exercised and enjoyed in any Action or Suit in any Court of Law or Equity by Her Majesty, Her Heirs or Successors, as if the Crown were actually a Party to such Action or Suit. 4. Notwithstanding anything in this Act, or in The Admiralty Lands and Works Act, proceeding by 1864, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, to proceed by Information in the Court of Exchequer, or by any other Crown Process, legal or equitable, in any Case in which it would have been competent for Her Majesty, Her Heirs or Successors, so to proceed if no Provisions respecting Procedure had been inserted in this Act, or in The Admiralty Lands and Works Act, 1864. Superintendents of Dock 5. The Superintendents of Her Majesty's Dockyards shall be in all Places Justices of yards to be Jus- the Peace in respect of all Offences specified in this Act, and of all Matters relating to Her tices for certain Majesty's Naval Service, and the Stores, Provisions, and Accounts thereof. Purposes. Punishment for Petitions, Certificate, &c. to 6. If any Person, in order to sustain any Claim to any Pay, Wages, Allotment, Prize uttering false Money, Bounty Money, Grant, or other Allowance in the Nature thereof, Half Pay, Pension, or Allowance from the Compassionate Fund of the Navy, or other Money payable by the Admiralty, or to any Effects or Money in charge of the Admiralty, or in order procure any Person to be admitted a Pensioner as the Widow of an Officer of the Navy, -does any of the following Things, namely,-offers or utters to any Person in the Service of the Crown or of the Admiralty any false Affidavit, knowing the same to be false, or makes or subscribes or offers or utters as aforesaid any false written Petition, Application, Statement, Answer, Certificate, or Voucher, or other false Writing, knowing the same to be false,-every such Person shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for any Term not exceeding Five Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour, and with or without Solitary Confinement, or on summary Conviction before a Justice, Sheriff, or Magistrate shall be liable to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Six Months, with or without Hard Labour. 7. The following Sections of the Act of the Session of the Twenty-fourth and Twentyfifth Years of Her Majesty's Reign (Chapter Ninety-eight), "to consolidate and amend the "Statute Law of England and Ireland relating to indictable Offences by Forgery," shall be incorporated with this Act, and shall be read as if they were here re-enacted, namely,Sections Forty to Forty-two and Fifty to Fifty-three (all inclusive); and for this Purpose the Expression "this Act" used in the said incorporated Sections shall be construed to include the present Act, and Expressions therein used relating to Forgery or forged Writings shall be construed to apply to any Act being a Misdemeanor under the last foregoing Provision of this Act, and to Writings made, subscribed, offered, or uttered in contravention of that Provision. 8. If any Person in order to receive any Pay, Wages, Allotment, Prize Money, Bounty Punishment for Money, Grant, or other Allowance in the Nature thereof, Half Pay, Pension, or Allowance Personation of Seamen, &c. from the Compassionate Fund of the Navy, payable or supposed to be payable by the Admiralty, or any other Money so payable or supposed to be payable, or any Effects or Money in charge or supposed to be in charge of the Admiralty, falsely and deceitfully personates any Person entitled or supposed to be entitled to receive the same, every such Person shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for any Term not exceeding Five Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour, and with or without Solitary Confinement, or on summary Conviction before a Justice, Sheriff, or Magistrate shall be liable to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Six Months, with or without Hard Labour. 9. Nothing in this Act shall prevent any Person from being proceeded against and Saving for punished under any other Act or at Common Law in respect of an Offence (if any) punishable as well under this Act as under any other Act or at Cominon Law. Punishment under other Acts, &c. 10. This Act shall commence on such Day, not later than the First Day of January One Commencethousand eight hundred and sixty-six, as Her Majesty in Council thinks fit to direct. ment of Act. in Council. 11. Every Order in Council under this Act shall be published in the London Gazette, As to Publicaand shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within Thirty Days after the making tion of Orders thereof, if Parliament is then sitting, and if not then within Thirty Days after the next meeting of Parliament. 12. This Act may be cited as The Admiralty Powers, &c. Act, 1865. Short Title. CA P. CXXV. An Act for the Regulation of Dockyard Ports. [6th July 1865.] BE 1. This Act may be cited as The Dockyard Ports Regulation Act, 1865. The Term "Dockyard Port" means any Port, Harbour, Haven, Roadstead, Sound, The Term "Vessel" includes Ship, Boat, Lighter, and Craft of every Kind, however The Term "Master" applied to a Vessel means the Person having the Command or Short Title. Interpretation of Terms. The |