But Justices not to act where Sessions held within a Week, or Twenty Miles. Places to be appointed to which Offenders may be transported. Persons trans- In Actions for executing Act. General Issue. punishing such Offences, or any of them, shall be and all such IV. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for His Majesty, by any Order or Orders to be by Him from time to time for that Purpose issued, with the Advice of His Privy Council, to appoint, or by any such Order or Orders in Council to authorize the Governors, Lieutenant Governors or other Persons for the Time being administering the Government of any of His Majesty's Foreign Possessions, Colonies or Plantations, to appoint the Place or Places within His Majesty's Dominions to which any Offender, convicted in any such Foreign Possession, Colonies or Plantations, and being under Sentence or Order of Transportation, shall be sent or transported; and all such Persons shall, within the Place or Places to which, in pursuance of any such Order or Orders in Council, they shall or may be so sent or transported, be subject and liable to all such and the same Laws, Rules and Regulations as are or shall be in force in any such Place or Places, with respect to Convicts transported from Great Britain. V. And be it further enacted, That all Persons who have heretofore been transported or sent to New South Wales or Van Diemen's Land, or to any other Part of His Majesty's Dominions, under or in pursuance or in Execution of any Judgment or Sentence of any Court in any of His Majesty's Foreign Possessions, Colonies or Plantations, shall, in New South Wales or Van Diemen's Land, or such other Part of His Majesty's Dominions as aforesaid, be henceforth subject or liable to all such Laws, Rules and Regulations as are or shall be in force in New South Wales or Van Diemen's Land, or such other Part of His Majesty's Dominions as aforesaid, with respect to Convicts transported from Great Britain ; and all Officers, Justices of the Peace and other Persons whatsoever, shall be and they are hereby absolutely indemnified of, from and against all Indictments, Informations, Suits, Actions and Demands whatsoever, which shall or may at any Time hereafter be brought or maintained, or which may now be depending against them or any of them, for or in respect of any Act, Matter or Thing by such Officers, Justices of the Peace or others done or performed in enforcing against any such Persons so transported from His Majesty's said Colonies or Plantations, the Laws, Rules and Regulations, or any of the Laws, Rules and Regulations in force with respect to Convicts transported from Great Britain; and it shall and may be lawful to the Defendants in any such Indictments, Informations, Suits or Actions, to plead the General Issue, and to give this Act and the special Matter in Evidence upon the Trial any such Issue; and if a Verdict shall be given for any such of Defendant Defendant or Defendants in any such Indictments, Informations, Suits or Actions, such Defendant or Defendants shall thereupon be entitled to enter up Judgment, with Double Costs of Suit. CA P. LXXI. An Act to enable His Majesty to grant an Annual Sum to CA P. LXX. An Act for raising the Sum of Ten millions five hundred (a) For the Appropriation of this Sum, see Cap. 134. §3. post. < B it is that His should be em . powered to grant to his Royal Highness Ernest Augustus • Duke of Cumberland a certain Annual Payment or Annuity, to enable His Royal Highness to make adequate Provision for the honourable Support and Education of His Highness Prince George Frederick Alexander Charles Ernest Augustus of Cumberland, Son of His said Royal Highness:' Therefore we, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, do most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King'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 His Majesty to give and grant, Annuity of under the Conditions and Limitations hereafter mentioned, by Let- 6,000l. to the ters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, to His Royal Duke of CumHighness Ernest Augustus Duke of Cumberland, in such Manner berland, under and Form as to His Majesty shall seem fit, until His Highness tations. Prince George Frederick Alexander Charles Ernest Augustus of Cumberland shall shave attained the Age of Eighteen, a certain Annual Payment or Annuity of Six thousand Pounds of lawful Money of Great Britain; which said Annual Payment or Annuity shall commence and take Effect from the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty five, and shall be paid quarter- To be paid ly, at the Four most usual Days of Payment in the Year; (that quarterly, and is to say), the Fifth Day of July, the Tenth Day of October, the chargeable on Fifth Day of January, and the Fifth Day of April, in every Year; Fund. and that the said Annual Payment or Annuity shall be issuing and payable out of and charged and chargeable upon the Fund called "The Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland," (after paying or reserving sufficient to pay Y 2 all certain Limi Consolidated Double Costs, all such Sum and Sums of Money as hath or have been directed to be paid out of the same by any former Act or Acts of Parliament, but with Preference to all other Payments which shall or may hereafter be charged upon and payable out of the said Fund); and the said Annual Payment or Annuity shall be paid and payable at the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer, out of the said Fund called "The Consolidated Fund ;" and the Auditor of the said Receipt shall and he is hereby required to make forth and pass Debentures from time to time for paying the said Annual Payment or Annuity, as the same shall become due and payable, without any Fees or Charges to be demanded or taken for paying the same or any Part thereof; and the Acquittance or AcquitDuke's Receipt tances, Receipt or Receipts of His said Royal Highness, or of a Discharge. such other Person or Persons as shall by His said Royal Highness be duly authorized and appointed to receive such Annual Payment or Annuity, or any Part thereof, shall be a good and sufficient Discharge for the Payment thereof; and the said Debentures to be made forth and passed shall be a sufficient Authority to the several and respective Officers of the Receipt of the Exchequer now and for the Time being, for the Payment of such Annual Payment or Annuity to His said Royal Highness during the Continuance of the same, without any further or other WarFree from Taxes rant to be sued for, had, or obtained in that Behalf; and that the and other Charges. said Annual Payment or Annuity so to be given and granted shall be free and clear from all Taxes, Rates and Assessments, and all other Charges whatsoever. II. Provided always, that inasmuch as it is highly expedient that His said Highness Prince George Frederick Alexander Charles Ernest Augustus of Cumberland should be educated within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, be it therefore enacted, That the said Letters Patent shall contain a Clause or Proviso that the said Annual Payment or Annuity shall not be payable or paid at the Exchequer, for or in respect of or during any Period in which His said Highness shall not reside and be within the United Kingdom, unless His said Highness shall be absent from the United Kingdom with the Licence and Consent in Writing of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors. Debentures without Fee. Annuity not payable when Prince of Cum berland shall be out of the Kingdom, unless with Con sent of His Majesty. CA P. LXXII. An Act to enable His Majesty to grant an Annual Sum to HEREAS it is expedient that His Majesty should be empowered to grant to Her Royal Highness Mary Louisa • Victoria Duchess of Kent, Widow of His late Royal Highness WH ‹ the Duke of Kent, a certain Annual Payment, to enable Her 6 Royal Highness to make adequate Provision for the honourable Support and Education of Her Highness the Princess Alexandrina Victoria, Daughter of their said Royal Highnesses :' Therefore Therefore we, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, do most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King'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 His Majesty to give and grant, by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, to Her said Royal Highness Mary Louisa Victoria Duchess of Kent, a certain Annual Payment or Annuity of Six thousand Pounds of lawful Money of Great Britain; which said Annual Payment or Annuity shall commence and take Effect from the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty five, and shall be paid quarterly, at the Four most usual Days of Payment in the Year; that is to say, the Fifth Day of July, the Tenth Day of October, the Fifth Day of January, and the Fifth Day of April in every Year; and that the said Annual Payment or Annuity shall and may be issuing and payable out of and charged and chargeable upon the Fund called "The Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland," (after paying or reserving sufficient to pay all such Sum and Sums of Money as hath or have been directed to be paid out of the same by any former Act or Acts of Parliament, but with Preference to all other Payments which shall or may hereafter be charged upon and payable out of the said Fund); and the said Annual Payment or Annuity shall be paid and payable at the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer, out of the said Fund called "The Consolidated Fund;" and the Auditor of the said Receipt shall, and Debentures he is hereby required to make forth and pass Debentures from without Fee. time to time for paying the said Annual Payment or Annuity, as the same shall become due and payable, without any Fees or Charges to be demanded or taken for paying the same or any Part thereof; and the Acquittance or Aquittances, Receipt or Receipts Duchess's Reof Her said Royal Highness, or of such other Person or Persons ceipt a Disas shall by Her said Royal Highness be duly authorized and ap- charge. pointed to receive such Annual Payment, Annuity, or any Part thereof, shall be a good and sufficient Discharge for the Payment thereof; and the said Debentures to be made forth and passed shall be a sufficient Authority to the several and respective Officers of the Receipt of the Exchequer, now and for the Time being, for the Payment of any such Annual Payment or Annuity to Her Royal Highness, during the Continuance of the same, without any further or other Warrant to be sued for, had or obtained in that Behalf; and that the said Annual Payment or Annuity so to be given and granted shall be free and clear from all Taxes, Rates and Assessments, and all other Charges whatsoever. CA P. LXXIII. An Act for further regulating the Trade of His Majesty's W 6000l. to the Annuity of Kent. To be payable Consolidated Free from Taxes and other Charges. HEREAS an Act was passed in the Third Year of the 3 G.4. c.44. Y 3 • late Certain Schedules of Goods and Duties by recited Acts, or by 4 G.4. c.2. repealed; Exception. Goods may be imported (Exception) from America, Europe or Africa, &c.; 6 < 6 4 late the Trade between His Majesty's Possessions in America and other Places in America and the West Indies, whereby it is enacted, that it shall be lawful to import into any of the Ports in His Majesty's said Possessions, enumerated in a Schedule to the said Act annexed (marked A.), and therein denominated "Free Ports," from any Foreign Country on the Continent of • North or South America, or from any Foreign Island in the West ' Indies, the Articles enumerated in another Schedule to the said 'Act annexed (marked B.), subject nevertheless to the several • Duties of Customs set forth in another Schedule to the said Act 'annexed (marked C.), and that it shall be lawful so to import the same in certain Foreign Ships or Vessels therein mentioned, as well as in British Ships or Vessels: And Whereas another Act was passed in the said Third Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act to regulate the Trade between His Majesty's Possessions in America and the West Indies, and other Parts of the World, whereby it is enacted, that it shall be lawful to import in any British Ship or Vessel, owned and navigated according to Law, from any Port in Europe or Africa, or from Gibraltar, the Island of Malta, or the Dependencies thereof, or the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney or Sark, in to any of His Majesty's Colonies, Plantations or Islands in America or the West Indies, the Articles enumerated or described in a Schedule thereunto annexed (marked A.), subject nevertheless, on Importation, to certain Duties of Customs set forth in another Schedule thereunto annexed (marked B.): And Whereas it is expedient to permit all Goods (except as hereinafter excepted) to be imported from any of the said Places into any of the said Free Ports, and to charge the same with the like Duties from whichever of the said Places the same may be imported; and also to permit any of such Goods to be so imported in Ships of the Country of which the Goods are the Produce, as well as in British Ships, but to confine all such Importations to the said Free Ports;' Be it therefore enacted by the King'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 several Schedules (marked B. and C. respectively) to the first recited Act annexed, and the several Schedules (marked A. and B. respectively) to the second recited Act annexed, and also that all Duties imposed by either of the said Acts, or by an Act passed in the Fourth Year of His said Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act to amend an Act of the last Session of Parliament, for regulating the Trade between His Majesty's Possessions in America and the West Indies, and other Parts of the World, shall, from and after the Fifth Day of January One thousand eight hundred and twenty six, be repealed, and the same are hereby repealed accordingly, except so far as the same relate in any way to the Island of Newfoundland. ¿ J II. And be it further enacted, That from and after the Fifth Day of January One thousand eight hundred and twenty six, it shall be lawful to import into any of the said Free Ports, except in Newfoundland, any Goods (except as hereinafter excepted) from any Foreign Place in America or in Europe, or in Asia within the Mediter |
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