XCVII. An Act for appointing Commissioners to inquire into the Existence of Bribery in the Borough of Sudbury. page 846 XCVIII. An Act for the more effectual Suppression of the 851 XCIX. An Act to apply a Sum out of the Consolidated Fund, and certain other Sums, to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and to appropriate the Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament. 854 xi THE PUBLIC GENERAL STATUTES, 6 VICTORIA. C CAP. I. An Act to enable Her Majesty to indemnify the [3d March 1843.] WHEREAS by an Act passed in the last Session of Par liament, intituled An Act for appointing Commissioners 5 & 6 Vict. to inquire into the Issue, Receipt, Circulation, and Possession of c.11. * certain forged Exchequer Bills, the Right Honourable William Earl of Devon, Henry John Stephen Esquire, Serjeant at Law, and Robert Mitford Esquire, were constituted Commissioners of Inquiry into the Manner in which certain Documents pur'porting to be Exchequer Bills were made and issued, and in which the same came into the Possession of the Parties by whom they were then holden, and the said Commissioners • were directed to report from Time to Time to Her Majesty what they should find with respect to the several Matters into which they were directed by the said Act of Parliament to inquire: And whereas the said Commissioners have made their Report to Her Majesty bearing Date the Second Day of August in the Year One thousand eight hundred and fortytwo, wherein they have classified the Holders of the said Documents under Four Classes, according to the Degree in which the Parties appeared to them to have become possessed thereof in the usual Course of Business, without Knowledge or Suspicion that they were other than genuine, or had been improperly obtained by any Person whatever, and according to the Degree in which they appeared to have acted with proper Caution: And whereas it is expedient to make Provision for enabling Her Majesty to indemnify such of the Holders of the said Documents as appear entitled to Her Majesty's Consideration, and that Her Majesty should be empowered to direct Exchequer Bills to be issued to such Parties, under the Regulations herein-after contained:' 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 Treasury may Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Bri- raise 262,000l. by Exchequer tain and Ireland at any Time or Times to cause any Number of Bills. [No. 1. Price 2d.] A 2 Exchequer 6 VICT. Exchequer Bills to be made out at the Receipt of the Exchequer at Westminster for any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Two hundred and sixty-two thousand Pounds, in like Manner as is prescribed in an Act passed in the Forty-eighth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act for regulating the issuing and paying off of Exchequer Bills, and in another Act passed in the Fourth 4 & 5 W. 4. c. 15. Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, intituled An Act to regulate the Office of the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer at Westminster, and in another Act passed in the last Session of 5&6 Vict. c.66. Parliament, intituled An Act for further regulating the Preparation and Issue of Exchequer Bills. 48 G. 3. c. 1. The Clauses in recited Acts extended to this Act. Bills to be payable out of Supplies of next Session. Interest on Exchequer Bills. Bills to be current at the Exchequer after dar Months The Treasury to apply the Money raised. II. And be it enacted, That all the Clauses of the said Acts shall be applied to the Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance of this Act as fully as if the said several Clauses had been herein particularly re-enacted. III. And be it enacted, That the Principal Sum or Sums of Money to be contained in such Exchequer Bills shall be charged upon and shall be paid out of any Supplies to be granted in the next Session of Parliament. IV. 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 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. V. 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. VI. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of the Treasury to issue from Time to Time to the several Persons named in the Schedule marked (A.) annexed to this Act, upon Application of such Persons severally, or of some Person duly authorized in their Behalf, Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance of this Act, in Value not exceeding in each Case the Amount set against the Name of each such Person in the said Schedule respectively: Provided always, that every such Applicant shall produce and deliver to the said Commissioners a Certificate under the Hand of the Comptroller of the Exchequer that the several Documents specified specified in the first-mentioned Act of the last Session of Parliament, and set opposite to the Name of such Applicant in the Schedule annexed to this Act, have been deposited in the Office of the Exchequer. VII. And be it enacted, That the Attorney General shall be entitled, in the Name of Her Majesty, to sue for and recover the Amount for which any such forged Exchequer Bill purported to have been issued from any Person who was at any Time possessed thereof, and through whom, mediately or immediately, the Possession thereof came to the Applicant so indemnified; and in such Suit it shall not be necessary to give any Evidence, except for proving that the Party sued was one through whom the Possession of such forged Exchequer Bill came to the Person indemnified as aforesaid: Provided always, that any Person so sued shall be entitled in such Suit to plead any Matters which would have been a valid Defence in case the Suit had been brought against him or her by the Party who immediately received such forged Exchequer Bill from him or her. The Attorney General may sue for the Amount from any previous Holder. VIII. And be it enacted, That all Monies so recovered shall As to Monies be paid into the Bank of England to the Credit of the Con- recovered. solidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. may be amended or IX. And be it enacted, That this Act repealed by any Act to be passed in this Session of Parliament. SCHEDULE (A.) referred to in the foregoing Act. |