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Municipal Borough of Salford, shall be paid out of the Borough Funds of that Borough, and the Treasurer of the said Borough is hereby directed and required to pay the same accordingly.

CAP. XXI.

An Act to apply the Sum of Eight Millions out of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.

Most Gracious Sovereign,

WE

[16th June 1854.]

E, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled, towards making good the supply which we have cheerfully granted to Your Majesty in this Session of Parliament, have resolved to 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, as follows:

for Service

I. There shall and may be issued and applied, for or There shall towards making good the Supply granted to Her Majesty for be applied the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty- of 1854 four, the Sum of Eight Millions out of the Consolidated Fund the Sum of of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the 8,000,000l. Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury of the United King- Consolidated dom of Great Britain and Ireland, or the Lord High Treasurer Fund. of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for the Time being, are or is hereby authorized and empowered to issue and apply the same accordingly.

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II. It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Her The TreaMajesty's Treasury from Time to Time, by Warrant under sury may their Hands, to cause or direct any Number of Exchequer Bills 8,000,000l. to be made out at the Receipt of Her Majesty's Exchequer at of ExcheWestminster for any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in quer Bills to the whole the Sum of Eight Millions; and such Exchequer in manner Bills shall be made out in the same or like Manner, Form, and prescribed by Order, and according to the same or like Rules and Directions, 48 G. 3. c. 1., as are directed and prescribed in. an Act passed in the Forty- c. 15., and eighth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the 5 & 6 Vict. Third, intituled An Act for regulating the issuing and paying c. 66. off of Exchequer 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 the Office of the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer at Westminster, and in another Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for further regulating the Preparation and Issue of Exchequer Bills.

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III. All

The Clauses

&c. in re

cited Acts

extended to this Act.

Interest on
Exchequer
Bills.

Bank of

England may
advance
8,000,000l.
on the Credit
of this Act,

III. All and every the Clauses, Provisoes, Powers, Privileges, Advantages, Penalties, Forfeitures, and Disabilities contained in the said recited Acts 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, Provisoes, Powers, Privileges, Advantages, Penalties, Forfeitures, and Disabilities had been particularly repeated and re-enacted in the Body of this Act.

IV. The Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance of this Act, shall and may bear an Interest not exceeding the Rate of Threepence Halfpenny per Centum per Diem upon or in respect of the whole of the Monies respectively contained therein.

V. It shall and may be lawful for the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, and they are hereby empowered, to take, accept, and receive the Exchequer Bills authorized to be made out in pursuance of this Act, and to advance or lend to Her Majesty, at the Receipt of the Exchequer at Westminster, upon the Credit of the Sum granted by this Act, 5 & 6 W. & M. out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great

notwithstanding

c. 20.

Bills prepared by virtue of this Act to be delivered to the Bank, as Security for

such Advances.

Monies

raised to be applied to the Services

voted by the Commons.

Exchequer Bills made chargeable upon the growing Produce of

Britain and Ireland, any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Eight Millions, anything 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 the 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 other Act or Acts, to the contrary notwithstanding.

VI. It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, to cause such Bills as shall be prepared by virtue of this Act to be delivered from Time to Time to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, in such Proportions as the Public Service may require, as Security for any 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.

VII. It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to issue and apply from Time 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.

VIII. The Principal Sum or Sums of Money to be contained in all such Exchequer Bills to be made forth by virtue of this Act, together with the Interest that may become due thereon, shall be and the same are hereby made chargeable and charged upon the growing Produce of the Consolidated Fund of the

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in the next the Consolisucceeding Quarter to that in which the said Exchequer Bills dated Fund. have been issued; and it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury for the Time being, and they are hereby authorized, from Time to Time, by Warrant under their Hands, to direct the Comptroller General of the Receipt of the Exchequer at Westminster, in such Manner as they shall think necessary, to grant a Credit on the Exchequer Funds in the Bank of England unto such Person or Persons as shall be named in the said Warrant, which Credit shall be chargeable on and paid out of the growing Produce of the said Consolidated Fund of the next succeeding Quarter to that in which the said Exchequer Bills have been issued, for any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole a Sum sufficient to discharge and pay off the Principal Sum or Sums of Money contained in such Exchequer Bills then outstanding, and which may have been made out and issued by virtue of this Act, together with all such Interest as may be due thereupon.

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CAP. XXII.

An Act to enable the Collector General of Dublin to levy Money to repay a certain Outlay by the Corporation for preserving and improving the Port of Dublin in and about repairing the Quay Wall of the River Liffey, and for future Repairs thereof, and for repairing and rebuilding Bridges over the said River. [16th June 1854.] WHEREAS under several Acts of Parliament the Building, Repair, and Preservation of the Quay Walls of the River Anna Liffey was intrusted to the Corporation for preserving and improving the Port of Dublin, and in consideration thereof a certain Assessment or Frontage Rate was imposed upon Grounds, Houses, and Buildings adjoining and fronting any of the Quays of said River: And whereas by an Act passed in the First and Second Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to make further 1 & 2 Vict. 'Provisions and to amend the Acts relating to the Harbour of Kingstown and the Port and Harbour of Dublin, it is recited, that the Quay Walls Westward of the Bridge called Carlisle Bridge, and extending to the Bridge called Barrack Bridge, 'had been built, and were then in good Order and Repair, and would not require for the maintaining or repairing ' of the same a Sun equal to the full Amount of the Duty or Rate theretofore leviable upon the Inhabitants of that Part of said Quays; and it was thereby enacted that from and after the First Day of July One thousand eight hundred and thirtyeight the said Rate or Duty theretofore payable to or leviable by the said Corporation within the Limits aforesaid, and all Arrears thereof, should cease and determine, and should not be any longer leviable by the said Corporation: And whereas

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it was by the last-mentioned Act further enacted, that whenever the said Corporation should on the First Sitting Day of any Easter or Michaelmas Term cause to be laid before the Court of Queen's Bench, signed with the proper Names and Handwriting of any Three Members of the said Corporation, and sealed with their Corporate Seal, an Estimate of the probable Expense of executing or making any Repairs which at any Time or Times should be wanting on or by the 'said Quay Walls within the Limits aforesaid, verified by the • Affidavit of Two skilful Persons, or by the Affidavit of the • Ballast Master for the Time being of the said Corporation, the said Court of Queen's Bench should in each and every such Case charge the Grand Jury of the County of the City of Dublin and the Grand Jury of the County of Dublin to meet in One Room at a certain Time to be named by the said Court, and that it should then be lawful to and for the said Grand Juries, when so assembled, or any Twentyfour Members thereof, and they were thereby required, to present the whole Amount of the Estimate so laid before them to be raised and levied by One Instalment or by equal halfyearly Instalments at every Easter and Michaelmas Term on and out of all Houses and other Buildings erected or to be erected within the District of the Metropolis, and to be paid by all and every the Owners or Occupiers thereof, and for the raising of such Sum on the said Inhabitants, as the Case might be, to present a certain Rate of Assessment, which should be agreed on by the said Grand Juries or any Twenty-four Members thereof, of a certain Sum in the Pound to be levied on the Value of all such Houses or other 'Buildings according to the Valuation by which they were then or thereafter might be valued or rated for or towards the • Maintenance of the Police Establishment of the said District, ⚫ and that it should be lawful for the said Grand Juries or any Twenty-four Members thereof to make such Presentment as aforesaid, whether they should have been approved of by the Presentment Sessions for such Counties respectively or not: And whereas in and by an Act of Parliament passed in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Years of Her present Majesty's 'Reign, intituled An Act to provide for the Collection of Rates in the City of Dublin, it is enacted, that from and after the Tenth Day of December One thousand eight hundred and fifty the several Powers, Duties, and Authorities of applotting, levying, and collecting the Rates, Cesses, Taxes, and Rents specified in Schedule (A.) to the said last-mentioned Act 'annexed should cease to be exercised by the Bodies Politic or Corporate, Boards, Commissioners, or Persons empowered by any Act or Acts to applot, levy, and collect the same, but should be vested in and exercised by the Collector General of Rates in the said last-named Act of Parliament mentioned, and should be performed in the Manner in the said last' mentioned Act directed: And whereas in and by an Act

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'passed in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Years of Her present Majesty's Reign, intituled "The Dublin Improvement Act, 1849," it is enacted, that on and after the Day on which the 'said Acts should come into operation, all the Powers and 'Duties of the Grand Jury of the County of the City of Dublin ' and the Sessions Grand Jury of the City of Dublin, in relation to the presenting and levying of Rates or Cesses as aforesaid, should cease and determine within the said Borough, ' and that from the Time aforesaid all the Powers theretofore ' exercised by or vested in relation to the presenting and levying ' of Rates and Cesses for local Purposes within the Borough of 'Dublin in the said Grand Jury or said Sessions Grand Jury 'should be transferred and be solely exercised by the Council of 'the said Borough; and it is thereby enacted, that the Council of the said Borough should fix a Time once in every Year to receive Applications for all Things then authorized to be 'done by the Grand Jury of the County of the City of 'Dublin or the said Sessions Grand Jury in relation to fiscal • Matters, Rates, or Cesses within the Borough of Dublin, and that such Applications should be made in like Form as the same were then authorized to be made in Cases of Application 'for Presentments, and that immediately after the Day so fixed for receiving such Applications the Council should proceed to investigate such Applications, and decide upon them at an open Meeting of the said Council or of a Committee thereof "authorized in that Behalf, and that a Schedule of such Appli'cations as might be agreed to with respect to Grand Jury Cess should be made out by the Town Clerk, who should lodge the same Two clear Days before the First Day of Hilary Term in the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and Two clear Days before the First Day of Michaelmas Term in 'said Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and Two 'clear Days before the First Day of Michaelmas Term in every succeeding Year, with the Clerk of the Crown of the Queen's Bench, and that a Schedule of such Applications as might be agreed to with respect to Sessions Grand Jury Cess should be made by the said Town Clerk, who 'should lodge the same in every Year subsequent to the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one Two clear Days before the First Day of October Quarter Sessions in every succeeding Year with the Clerk of the Peace for the City of Dublin, and that thereupon it should be lawful for the Court of Queen's Bench or any Judge of the said Court and the Recorder of the City of Dublin respectively to fix Days for the Consideration of the said Presentments, and that on such Days at least Twenty Members of the said Council should attend the said Court or Judge or Recorder respectively, ' and that the said Court, Judge, or Recorder respectively, after hearing all Parties affected by or interested in such Present'ments, should make such Orders therein, and should allow or 'disallow the same or any of them or any Portion thereof, as to

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