Mode of Trial 6 & 7 VICT. Inspectors shall wilfully give false Evidence shall be liable to the Pains and Penalties of Perjury. XXVI. And be it enacted, That every Convict or other and Conviction. Person who shall commit any Offence mentioned in this Act or in any way relating to the Millbank Prison, for which he or she is not liable to be summarily convicted, may be tried before the Justices of Oyer and Terminer either at the Central Criminal Court or for the County in which the Offender shall be taken; and in any Case of any Prosecution for any such Offence either against a Convict or against any other Person or Persons concerned therein or accessory thereunto, a Copy, properly attested, of the Order of Commitment to such Prison, with Proof that the Person then in question before the Court is the same who was delivered with such Order, and Production of the Register of the said Prison, shall be sufficient Evidence of all the Facts entered in such Register as to such Convict, without the Production of any Record or Conviction or other Proof that such Convict had been convicted of Felony, and legally ordered to be imprisoned in the Millbank Prison. Expences of executing this Act. Protection of Governor. XXVII. And be it enacted, That an Account of the Expences of carrying this Act into execution shall be annually laid before both Houses of Parliament, and shall be provided for by Parliament. XXVIII. And be it enacted, That the Provisions of all Acts Inspectors and of Parliament now or which at any Time hereafter shall be in force for rendering Justices of the Peace safe in the Execution of their Offices shall extend to the said Inspectors and to the Governor of the Millbank Prison. Limitation of Act may be amended, &c. XXIX. And be it enacted, That all Suits and Prosecutions to be commenced by any Person or Persons for any thing done in pursuance of this Act shall be laid or tried in the County or Place where the Fact was committed, and shall be commenced within Six Calendar Months after the Fact committed, and not otherwise. XXX. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this Session of Parliament. CAP. XXVII. An Act for granting to Her Majesty, until the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and fortyfour, certain Duties on Sugar imported into the United Kingdom, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-three. Most Gracious Sovereign, [4th July 1843.] WE, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the and Duties imposed by and voluntarily resolved to give and grant unto Your Majesty the Duties herein-after mentioned; and therefore do 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 the Duties imposed on Sugar and Molasses by an Act passed in the Sixth and Seventh Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act for granting to His Majesty, until the 3 & 4 Vict. Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, c. 17. continued certain Duties on Sugar imported into the United Kingdom, for the till 5th July Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and by an Act passed in the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for granting to Her Majesty Duties of Customs, Excise, and Assessed Taxes, shall be further continued until the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and forty-four. 6 & 7 W. 4. c. 26. and 1844. II. And be it enacted, That the Duties hereby continued Collection of shall be collected, paid, and accounted for in such and the the Duties like Manner as if the said Duties had been continued to the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and fortyfour by the said first-recited Act. scriptions of 1 & 2 Vict. c. 33. III. And be it enacted, That the respective Bounties now Bounties on payable on Sugar by an Act passed in the Third and Fourth certain DeYears of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act refined Sugar. to grant certain Bounties and Allowances of Customs, and also by 3 & 4 W. 4, an Act passed in the First and Second Years of the Reign of c. 58, Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for granting to Her Majesty, until the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, certain Duties on Sugar imported into the United Kingdom, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, shall continue to be allowed and paid so long as the Duties on the Importation of Sugar imposed by the said first-recited Act shall remain in force or be further continued by any Act hereafter to be passed. Importation Possessions at IV. Provided always, and be it enacted, That if at any Time Her Majesty satisfactory Proof shall have been laid before Her Majesty in may allow the Council that the Importation of Foreign Sugar into any of Sugar the British Possession within the Limits of the East India Com- Growth of pany's Charter is prohibited, it shall be lawful for Her Ma- certain British jesty, by and with the Advice of Her Privy Council, or by Her the lower Rate Majesty's Order in Council to be published from Time to of Duty. Time in the London Gazette, to allow the Importation of Sugar the Growth of any such British Possession at the lower Rate of Duty in the said first-recited Act specified, in like Manner and under the same Restrictions and Conditions as Sugar the Growth of the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal may be imported subject to a lower Rate of Duty, under the Provisions of the said first-recited Act. V. And be it enacted, That a distinct and separate Account Separate Acshall be kept in the Office of the Comptroller General of the counts to be kept in the Receipt Exchequer of the Duties Britain. 6 & 7 VICT. Receipt and Issue of Her Majesty's Exchequer at Westminster arising in Great of all the Money that shall be paid to the Account of Her Majesty's Exchequer at the Bank of England from so much of the said Duties hereby granted on Sugar as shall arise and be payable in Great Britain; and it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to issue and apply the same from Time to Time 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; and so much of the said Duties on Sugar as shall arise and be payable in Ireland shall be paid into the Receipt of the Exchequer in Ireland, and shall be carried to the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Duties arising in Ireland to be paid into the Exchequer there. The Treasury to be made out not exceeding 3,000,000l. VI. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said may direct Ex-Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, at any Time or chequer Bills Times, to cause any Number of 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, including any Sum or Sums of Money issued towards the Aids or Supplies in pursuance of this Act, the Sum of Three Millions, in like Manner as is prescribed in an Act passed in the Fortyeighth 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 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 last Session of Parliament, intituled An Act for further regulating the Preparation and Issue of Exchequer Bills. 48 G. 3. c. 1. 4 & 5W. 4. c. 15. 5&6 Vict. c. 66. Powers of Acts Act. VII. And be it enacted, That all and every the Clauses, extended to this Provisoes, Powers, Privileges, Advantages, Penalties, Forfeitures, and Disabilities contained in the said recited Acts passed in the Forty-eighth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, and in the Fourth and Fifth Years of the Reign of His said late Majesty, and in the last Session of Parliament, 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 or Provisoes had been particularly repeated and re-enacted in the Body of this Act. Exchequer Bills to bear an Interest. Bank of England may advance Money on the Credit of this Act, not withstanding 5 & 6 W. & M. c. 20. VIII. And be it enacted, That the Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance of this Act shall bear an Interest not exceeding the Rate of Four Pounds per Centum per Annum upon or in respect of the whole of the Monies respectively contained therein. IX. 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, by placing to the Account of Her Majesty's Exchequer at the Bank of England, upon the Credit of the Exchequer Bills authorized by this Act, any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Three Three Millions, 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. Bank of Eng X. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Bills to be deCommissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to cause such Bills livered to the as shall be prepared by virtue of this Act to be delivered from land as Security Time to Time to the Governor and Company of the Bank of for Advances. England, in such Proportions as the Public Service may require, as Security for the Advance 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. on the Duties granted by this Act. XI. And be it enacted, That the Exchequer Bills to be made Exchequer Bills forth by virtue of this Act, together with the Interest that may to be charged become due thereon, shall be and the same are hereby made chargeable and charged upon the Duties granted by this Act; and it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury from Time to Time to direct to be issued to the Paymasters of Exchequer Bills, by way of Imprest and upon Account, such Sums of Money and at such Periods as the said Commissioners shall think necessary for or towards paying off and discharging the Exchequer Bills which shall have been made forth by virtue of this Act, or any of them, and for and towards paying the Interest to become due on the said Bills or any of them. next Aids. XII. And be it enacted, That the Monies remaining un- Money due to satisfied or not discharged, with the Interest due or to grow be paid out of due thereon, shall be paid and satisfied out of the next Aid or Aids to be granted in Parliament after the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and forty-four. Consolidated XIII. And be it enacted, That the Surplus of the Monies Surplus Monies arising from the Duties granted and imposed by this Act, after to be carried to paying off and satisfying all the Exchequer Bills issued by Fund. virtue of this Act, together with the Interest that may become due thereon, shall, as a Surplus of any such Monies respectively, be carried to and made Part of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. necessary XIV. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to pay and allow, or cause to be paid and allowed, out of the Monies to arise of or from the said Duties hereby granted, or of or from the said Consolidated Fund, from Time to Time, the Charges of making forth the Exchequer Bills hereby authorized to be made forth, and such other Charges as shall be necessarily incident to or for the Execution of this Act, or any Part thereof, in relation to the said Bills; any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding. XV. Pro Monies issued to be replaced out of first Supplies. Act may be amended, &c 10 G. 4. c. 7. XV. Provided always, and be it enacted, That whatever Monies shall be issued out of the said Consolidated Fund shall from Time to Time be replaced by and out of the first Supplies to be thereafter granted by Parliament; any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding. XVI. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of Parliament. CAP. XXVIII. An Act to abolish the Roman Catholic Oath as a Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for the Relief of His Majesty's Roman Catholic Subjects, it was amongst other things enacted, that Persons professing the Roman Catholic Religion, being otherwise qualified, should be entitled to vote at Elections of Members to serve in Parliament upon their taking and subscribing a 'certain Oath therein set forth, which said Oath was thereby 'substituted for and directed to be taken in place of the several "Oaths of Allegiance, Supremacy, and Abjuration, and instead of the Declaration at that Time required, and instead also of such other Oath or Oaths as were then by Law required to be taken by any of His Majesty's Subjects professing the Roman Catholic Religion: And whereas another Act was passed in the Second and Third Years of the Reign of His 2&3 W. 4. c.88. late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act to amend the Representation of the People of Ireland: And whereas Doubts have existed whether, under the Provisions of the said last-mentioned Act, it continues to be necessary for Persons professing the Roman Catholic Religion in Ireland, being otherwise qualified, to take and subscribe the said Oath previous to voting at the Election of Members to serve in Parliament, and great Diversity of Practice has prevailed in this respect: And whereas it is expedient that such Doubts should be removed;' be it therefore enacted and declared 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 from and after the passing of this Act no Person professing the Roman Catholic Religion in Ireland, being otherwise qualified, shall be required to take the said Oath previous to voting at the Election of Members to serve in Parliament, and that Her Majesty's Roman Catholic Subjects shall be admitted to vote at such Elections on the same Conditions and on the taking of the same Oaths as are by Law required to be taken at Elections by Her Majesty's Protestant Subjects in that Part of the United Kingdom. Roman Cathorequired to take lics not to be the Oath required by 10 G. 4. c. 7. 6 |