soldiers with the articles therein mentioned, in lieu of furnishing diet and small beer at the rates prescribed by this act, such innholders, shall receive in consideration thereof one halfpenny per diem for each non-commissioned officer and soldier.

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Allowance for Horses.-The sum to be paid to the innholder on whom any of the horses belonging to his majesty's forces shall be quartered by virtue of the said act, for hay and straw, shall be ten-pence per diem for each horse. §3.

Soldiers on the March entitled to their Diet and Small Beer.All non-commissioned officers and soldiers shall be entitled to receive their diet and small beer from the innholders at the rates herein before prescribed, while on the march, as also on and for the day of their arrival at the place of their final destination, and on the two subsequent days, unless either of the two subsequent days shall be a market day in and for the town or place where such officers or soldiers shall be billeted, or within the distance of two miles thereof; in which case it shall be lawful for the innholder to discontinue on and from such market-day the supply of diet and small beer, and to furnish iu lieu thereof the articles in the said recited act specified, and at the rates hereinbefore prescribed. § 4.

And if any victualler or other person, liable to have soldiers billeted or quartered on him, shall pay any sum of money to any non-commissioned officer or soldier on the march, in lieu of furnishing in kind the diet and small beer, every such victualler may be proceeded against and fined, in like manner as if he or she had refused to furnish or allow, according to the directions of the said act, the several things respectively directed to be furnished to non-commissioned officers or soldiers. § 5.

If any regiment, troop, company, or detachment, when on the march, shall be halted at any intermediate place, the non-commissioned officers and soldiers shall be entitled to receive their diet and small beer at such intermediate place, for such time only for which they would be entitled to receive the same after arriving at the place of their final destination: provided, that whenever it shall happen that any regiment, troop, company, or detachment, when on their march, shall be halted, and it shall appear by the marching orders that it is not intended that such regiment, troop, company, or detachment shall halt for any longer time than one entire day after the day of their arrival at the place of halting, and the day after such arrival shall be such market-day as aforesaid, it shall not be lawful for the innholders to discontinue on such market day the supply of diet and small beer to any such officers or soldiers. § 6.

Recruiting Parties.-All non-commissioned officers and private men employed in recruiting, and the recruits, shall, while on the march, and for two days after the day of their arrival at any recruiting station, be entitled to the same benefits as are herein before provided in regard in regard to troops upon the march; but no recruit enlisted after the two days subsequent to the arrival of the

party at their recruiting station shall be entitled to be supplied with diet and small beer at the rates hereinbefore prescribed, except at the option of the person on whom he shall be quartered: provided, that in case any such recruiting party, with the recruits, shall remove from their station, and after a time remove to the same place, they and the recruits so returning shall not be entitled to the supply of diet and small beer for such two days as aforesaid, unless the period between the time of their removal from such place, and their return thereto, shall have exceeded twenty-eight days. § 7.

MILITIA.

CAP. 10.-An Act to suspend, until the end of the next session of parliament, the making of lists and the ballots and enrolments for the militia, and to reduce the permanent stoff, and regulate the allowances of serjeants hereafter appointed.

[13th April, 1829. Proceedings relating to the Ballot suspended.-By this act, all general and subdivision meetings relating to the militia of the United Kingdom, and all proceedings relating to the procuring any returns or preparing or making out lists for such militia, or any parts thereof, or relating to the balloting for or enrolling any militia men, or substitutes, or supplying any vacancies in such militia shall cease and remain suspended until the end of the next session of parliament. § 1.

Act may be superseded by Order in Council.-But it shall be lawful for his majesty, by any order in council, to direct that auy proceedings shall be had at any time before the expiration of such period as aforesaid, either for the giving of notices and making returns and preparing lists, and also for the proceeding to ballot and enrol men for the filling up vacancies in the militia of the United Kingdom, or any part thereof, as his majesty shall deem expedient. 2.

Permanent Staff reduced.-From and after the twenty-fourth day of June next, the staff of the disembodied militia of the United Kingdom on permanent pay at head quarters shall be reduced to the following proportions; viz. one adjutant, one serjeant major, for each regiment, battalion, or corps of militia, and one serjeant for every forty private men, and one drummer for every two companies, with an additional drummer for each flank company, and one drum major for every regiment or battalion consisting of eight companies and upwards, and of no greater number. §.3.

Pensions to Serjeants. -No person who shall be appointed a serjeant of the militia of the United Kingdom, after the passing of this act, shall be entitled to any higher pension for any service as a serjeant, upon his discharge, than five-pence a day. § 4.

Provided, that nothing herein contained shall apply to any serjeant who shall be serving as such on the passing of this act; provided also, that all serjeants, although appointed after the

passing of this act, may, in case of the militia being afterwards embodied, and their serving therein while so embodied, be entitled to any such increased rates of pension, upon being discharged by reason of age or being invalid or disabled, or for length of service, as shall be fixed in any orders and regulations made by his majesty in that behalf, provided money for the payment of such increased pensions shall have been voted by parliament, § 5.

All regulations relating to any such increased pensions shall be laid before both houses of parliament by the secretary at war.

§ 6. Stannnaries.-This act shall be construed to extend to the warden and special deputy wardeus of the Stannaries, and corps of miners of Cornwall and Devon, as fully as if they were respectively and severally repeated in every clause, provision, direction and authority. § 7.

CREDITORS IN SCOTLAND.

CAP. 11.—An Act to continue for two years the 54 Geo. III. c. 137. for rendering the payment of creditors more equal and expeditious in Scotland. ...[13th April, 1829.

The 54 Geo. III. c. 137. intituled An act for rendering the payment of creditors more equal and expeditious in Scotland, is continued for two years from the 25th of July last (1828), and from thence to the end of the then next session of parliament.

MONEYS PAID INTO COURT.

ÇAP. 13.-An Act to provide for moneys paid into court under acts afterwards repealed. [13th April, 1829.

This act recites that whereas under the provisions of various acts heretofore passed, relating to turnpike roads, canals, bridges, and other works, moneys paid for the purchase of lands, houses, buildings, or other property taken for the purposes of such acts, or as a compensation for damage occasioned in effecting the objects of such acts, or on other accounts, have been paid into the Bank of England in the name and with the privity of the accountant general of the High Court of Chancery, or of the accountant general of the Court of Exchequer, to the intent that such moneys might be applied and disposed of under the directions of the said courts, in the manner in the said acts mentioned; and such acts have been afterwards repealed by subsequent acts, without any provision being made with regard to the moneys then already paid into the Bank under the acts so repealed; and, from the want of such provision, doubts have occurred with respect to the application of such moneys, and the powers of the said Court of Chancery or Court of Exchequer with regard to the same, which doubts it is desirable to remove; it is therefore enacted, That in all cases where any money shall have been, or shall hereafter be paid, into the Bank of England in the name and with the privity of the accountant general of the Court of Chancery, or of the accountant general of the Court of

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Exchequer, such money shall be paid, applied, and disposed of in the same manner as it would have been, and the said Court of Chancery or Court of Exchequer, as the case may be, shall have the same jurisdiction and authority with respect to the payment, application, and disposal of the said money, and for all purposes relating thereto, as it would have had, in case the act under which the same was so paid into the Bank of England had not been in any manner repealed; and where by any such act power shall have been given to the said Court of Chancery or Court of Exchequer to order the expences of any purchases to be made with such money or any part thereof, or the necessary costs and charges of obtaining the order for the same, to be paid by the trustees or commissioners acting in execution of such act, it shall be lawful for the Court of Chancery or Court of Exchequer to order such expences, costs, and charges, or such of them, or such part or parts thereof respectively, to be paid by the trustees or commissioners acting in execution of the act by which such former act shall have been repealed, if there shall be any such trustees or commissioners having moneys at their disposal which to the said court shall seem properly applicable, to such purpose. *

NAVAL OFFICERS' WIDOWS CHARITY.

CAP. 14.—An Act for repealing several acts relating to the Charity for the Relief of the Poor Widows of Commissioned and Warrant Officers in the Royal Navy, and for substituting other provisions in lieu thereof. [14th May, 1829.

Repeal of Acts. After reciting that by an act of the 6 Geo. II. it is enacted, that from the 24th June, 1733, there should be allowed upon the books of every ship of war in sea pay a man in every hundred men that the complement of such ship should consist of, and that the produce of the wages of each such seaman, and the value of his victuals, should be given and applied to the relief of the poor widows of commissioned and warrant officers of the royal navy, according to such rules and regulations as his majesty should establish for that purpose; which allowance, by another act of the 24 Geo. II. was increased and extended to one other seaman in every one hundred men of the complement, for such time only as the number of men employed in the service of the royal navy should not exceed 20,000, and by another act of the 16 Geo. III. c. 49. the said allowances were continued till the number employed in the royal navy should exceed 30,000; and that by another act, 49 Geo. III. c. 35. various regulations and provisions are enacted and established for the more convenient payment of the said pensions, under the order and direction of the Court of Assistants of the beforementioned Charity; and whereas, his majesty has deemed it necessary that an alteration should be made in the constitution of the said Charity; it is therefore enacted, That from and after the 31st December next after the passing of this act, so much of the said acts of the 6th and of the 24th Geo. II,

and of the 16 Geo. III. as are hereinbefore recited, and also the said act of the 49 Geo. III. relating to the pensious of widows of officers of the royal navy, be and are hereby repealed. § 1.

Pensions to Widows, how to be paid.-And from and after the said 31st December next, all pensions to which the widows of officers of the royal navy shall be entitled, under any commission, warrant, or order of his majesty already existing or hereafter to be made, shall be paid by the same persons and in the same manner as any wages, pay, or other allowance for services in the royal navy are now payable, and may be remitted to the party entitled thereto in the same manner, and be payable by the same persons and under the same regulations, as by the 55 Geo. III. c. 60. intituled An Act to repeal several acts relating to the execution of letters of attorney and wills of petty officers, seamen, and marines of his majesty's navy, and to make new provisions respecting the same, are provided in respect to the payment of the wages, pay, and other allowances for services in the royal navy, to the executors or administrators of any deceased petty officer or seaman; and all the enactments, regulations, clauses, provisoes, and penalties, contained in the said last-mentioned act with respect to remittance bills under the same act, shall from thenceforth extend to remittance bills to be made, out for payment of such widows' pensions pursuant to this act, and to the persons respectively by whom the same shall be payable. § 2.

Assignments of Pensions void.—All assignments, bargains, sales, orders, contracts, and agreements whatsoever of or in relation to any pension or part of a pension, or for the assignment thereof by any widow, shall be null and void to all intents and purposes. $3.

Orders, &c. exempt from Duty. All orders, certificates, vouchers, bills, and receipts for or relating to any such pensious shall be free and exempt from all duties of stamps whatever. §4.

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Personating a Widow entitled to Pension; forging Remittance Bill, &c. From and after the said 31st December next, if any person shall personate or falsely assume the name or character, or procure any other person falsely to assume the name or character, any widow entitled or supposed to be entitled to any such pension as aforesaid, in order to receive any such pension or any part thereof, or if any person shall falsely make, forge, or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be so done, or willingly act or assist in the false making, forging, or counterfeiting any remittance bill, certificate, voucher, or receipt for money, in relation to any such pension or the payment thereof, or any part thereof, or any affidavit, certificate, voucher, or other document, in order to obtain any such pension, or shall utter or publish as true any such, with intent to defraud any person whatsoever, knowing the same to be false, forged, or counterfeited, every such person shall be deemed guilty of felony, and the court before which any such person shall be convicted shall be empowered to adjudge the offender to be traus ported for any period not exceeding fourteen years. § 5.

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Producing false Affidavits, &c.-If any person shall utter or produce any false affidavit, certificate, voucher, or other document,

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