Where Judgment shall be given against the Seizor, or the Seizure shall be relinquished, the Treasury may direct Pay ment of the Costs and Damages. Treasury may direct Payment of any Sum awarded to be due on account of unlawful Seizures. Liability of Seizors not taken away. No Compensation to be made when any Articles specified in the Eighth Article of the Treaty are found on board. 6 VICT. and the Distribution of Prize Money, and the accounting for and paying over the Proceeds of Prize, and the Per-centage due thereon to Greenwich Hospital, shall be extended to all Bounties and Proceeds to be distributed under the Provisions of this Act to the Officers and Crews of any of Her Majesty's Ships or Vessels of War. XVII. And be it enacted, That when any Seizure shall be made or Prosecution instituted as or for the Violation of any of the Provisions of this Act, and Judgment shall be given against the Seizor or Prosecutor, or such Seizure shall be relinquished by him, it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, if to their Discretion it shall seem meet, by Warrant signed by any Three or more of them, to direct Payment to be made out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland of such Costs, Damages, and Expences as the said Seizor or Prosecutor may be liable to pay in respect of such Seizure, or any proportionate Part thereof, and also such Costs and Expences as the said Seizor may have incurred in respect of such Seizure. XVIII. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, if to their Discretion it shall seem meet, by Warrant signed by Three or more of them, to direct Payment to be made out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland of any Sums of Money awarded by the Mixed Commission Courts to be due on account of any unlawful Seizure or Detention by any of Her Majesty's authorized Cruisers: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall exempt the Seizor from his Liability to make good the Payments so made when lawfully called upon by Order of the said Commissioners. XIX. Provided always, and be it enacted, That if any of the Things specified in the Eighth Article of the said Treaty shall be found on board any Vessel which shall be detained and brought before either of the said Mixed Courts, neither the Master nor the Owner, nor any Person whatsoever interested in the Equipment or Cargo of the Vessel, shall recover any Compensation or Damages for such Detention, although the said Mixed Court should not pronounce any Sentence of Condemnation. CAP. CAP. XVII. An Act for raising the Sum of Nine millions and Most Gracious Sovereign, WE, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled, towards raising the necessary Supplies which we have cheerfully granted to Your Majesty in this Session of Parliament, have resolved to give and 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 it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland at any Time or Times to cause any Number of Exchequer Bills to be made out at the Receipt of the Exchequer at West- prescribed by minster for any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Nine millions and fifty thousand Pounds, in like Manner as is prescribed in an Act passed in the Fortyeighth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled Treasury may raise 9,050,000l. by Exchequer Bills in like Manner as is An Act for regulating the issuing and paying off of Exchequer 48 G. 3. c. 1. 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 4 & 5 W. 4. c. 15. the Office of the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer at Westminster, and in another Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled An Act for further regulating the Preparation 5 & 6 Vict. c. 66. and Issue of Exchequer Bills. Act extended II. And be it enacted, That all and every the Clauses, The Clauses, Provisoes, Powers, Privileges, Advantages, Penalties, For- &c. in recited feitures, and Disabilities contained in the said Acts shall be to this Act. 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 or Provisoes had been particularly repeated and re-enacted in the Body of this Act. III. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said The Treasury Commissioners of the Treasury to issue and apply from Time to apply the Money raised. 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 Parliament. [No. 13. Price 2d.] N IV. And Bills to be IV. And be it enacted, That the Principal Sum or Sums of payable out of Money to be contained in such Exchequer Bills shall be charged and shall be paid out of any Supplies to be granted in upon the next Session of Parliament. Supplies of the next Session. V. And be it enacted, That the Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance of this Act shall bear Date on the Days on which the same shall be respectively issued, and shall bear an Interest not exceeding the Rate of Three-pence Halfpenny per Centum per Diem in respect of the whole of the Monies respectively contained therein, payable out of any Aids or Supplies in the Bank of England standing to the Credit of the Exchequer. VI. And be it enacted, That all the Exchequer Bills to be made out by virtue of this Act, or so many of them as shall from Time to Time remain undischarged and uncancelled, shall, after Twelve Calendar Months from their respective Dates, be taken and shall pass and be current to all the Receivers and Collectors in Great Britain of the Customs, Excise, or any Revenue, Supply, Aid, or Tax whatsoever, already granted or payable, or which shall hereafter be granted or payable to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, and also at the Bank of England to the Account of Her Majesty's Exchequer from the said Receivers or Collectors, or from any other Person or Persons, Bodies Politic or Corporate whatsoever, making any Payment there to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, upon any Account whatever. VII. And be it declared and enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Governor and Company of the Bank of England to advance or lend to Her Majesty, upon the Credit of the Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance of this Act, any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Nine millions and fifty thousand Pounds, 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 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 subsequent Act, to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. CAP. XVIII. An Act to amend the Law for the Registration of Persons entitled to vote, and to define certain Rights of voting, and to regulate certain Proceedings in the Election of Members to serve in Parliament for England and Wales. [31st May 1843.] WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Second Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, intituled An Act to ' amend the Representation of the People in England and Wales: " And 6 And whereas it is expedient to explain and amend some Parts of the said Act, and to make further and other Provisions relating to the Registration of Persons entitled to vote in the Election of Members to serve in Parliament for England and Wales: And whereas it is recited in the said Act, that "it was expedient to form a Register of all Persons entitled to vote in the Election of a Knight or Knights of the Shire to serve in any future Parliament;" and divers • Clauses and Provisions were in and by the said Act enacted, for the Purpose of forming a Register of all Persons entitled to vote in the Election of a Knight or Knights of the Shire to serve in any future Parliament for any County, or for the Riding, Parts, or Division of any County, and also for the Purpose of forming a Register of Persons entitled to vote in the Election of a Member or Members to serve in any future Parliament for any City or Borough, and for the defraying of the Expences to be incurred thereby, and for the Appoint'ment and Payment of Revising Barristers: 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 the said Clauses and Provisions of the said Act so enacted for the Purpose of forming a Register of all Persons entitled to vote in the Election of a repealed. Knight or Knights of the Shire to serve in Parliament for any County, or for the Riding, Parts, or Division of any County, and for the Purpose of forming a Register of all Persons entitled to vote in the Election of a Member or Members to serve in Parliament for any City or Borough in England and Wales, and for the defraying of the Expences to be incurred thereby, and for the Appointment and Payment of Revising Barristers, shall be and the same are hereby repealed, except as to any Register heretofore made. Certain Pro visions of recited Act II. And be it enacted, That this Act shall come into force Commenceon the First Day of June next, and shall thenceforth be taken to ment of Act. be Part of the said Act as fully as if it were incorporated there with. Counties. Clerk of the III. And whereas, for the Purpose of forming a Register of 'all Persons entitled to vote in the Election of a Knight or Knights of the Shire to serve in Parliament, it is expedient Peace to have that Lists should annually be made out in manner herein- Forms of Pre' after mentioned;' be it therefore enacted That the Clerk of cepts, &c. printed. the Peace for every County shall cause a sufficient Number of Forms of Precepts, Notices, and Lists to be printed, according to the respective Forms numbered (1. 2. 3. 6.) in the Schedule (A.) and of the Table numbered (1.) in the Schedule (D.) to this Act annexed, and shall also, on or before the Tenth Day of June in every Year, make and cause to be delivered to the Overseers of the Poor of every Parish and Township within his County his Precept, according to the Form numbered (1.) in the said Schedule (A.), together with a sufficient Number of Overseers. the said printed Forms of Notices and Lists, and of the Copies Clerk of the Peace to issue with Forms of Notices, &c. to his Precepts, of such Part of the Register of Voters then in force for such County as shall relate to such Parish or Township respectively, and of the said Table, for the Purposes herein-after mentioned. IV. And be it enacted, That the Overseers of the Poor of every Parish and Township shall, on or before the Twentieth Day of June in every Year, publish a Notice, according to the Form numbered (2.) in the said Schedule (A.), having first signed the same, requiring all Persons entitled to vote in the Election of a Knight or Knights of the Shire to serve in Parliament in respect of any Property situate wholly or in part within such Parish or Township who shall not be upon the Register of Voters then in force, and also all Persons so entitled as aforesaid, who being upon such Register shall not retain the same Qualification or continue in the same Place of Abode as described in such Register, and who are desirous to have their Names inserted in the Register about to be made, to give or send to the said Overseers, on or before the Twentieth Day of July then next ensuing, a Notice in Writing, by them signed, of their Claim to vote as aforesaid; and every such Person, and any Person who being upon such Register may be desirous to make a new Claim, shall, on or before the said Twentieth Day of July, deliver or send to the said Overseers a Notice signed by him of his Claim, according to the Form of Notice set forth in that Behalf in the said Form numbered (2.), or to the like Effect. V. And be it enacted, That the Overseers of the Poor of every Parish and Township respectively shall on or before the last Day of July in every Year make out, according to the Form numbered (3.) in the said Schedule (A.), an alphabetical List of all Persons who on or before the Twentieth Day of July then next preceding shall have claimed as aforesaid; and in every such List the Christian Name and Surname of every Claimant, with the Place of his Abode, the Nature of his Qualification, and the local or other Description of the Property, and the Name of the occupying Tenant thereof, shall be written as the same are stated in the Claim; and the said Overseers, if they shall have reasonable Cause to believe that any Person whose Name shall appear in such List of Claimants, or in the Copy of the Register relating to their Parish or Township, and received by them from the Clerk of the Peace, is not entitled to have his Name upon the Register then next to be made, shall add the Word "objected" before the Name of every such Person on the Margin of such List of Claimants or the said Copy of Register; and the said Overseers shall also add the Word "dead" before the Name of any Person in the said Copy of the Register whom they shall have reasonable Cause to believe to be dead; and the Överseers shall cause a sufficient Number of Copies of such List of Claimants, and of the said Copy of the Register, with all such marginal Additions as aforesaid, to be written or printed, and shall on or before the First Day of August sign and publish the same; and the said Overseers shall likewise keep a Copy of such List of Claimants, and of the |