Act or Acts of Parliament in force for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, as shall be specified or referred to in any such Order or Orders in Council, shall be applied and put in force for the Purpose of carrying into immediate Execution any such Treaty, Convention, or additional Stipulation first above mentioned; and upon the issuing of any such Order or Orders in Council all the Directions, Powers, and Authorities contained. therein, and all Clauses, Provisions, Powers, Authorities, Penalties, and Forfeitures referred to in any such Order or Orders, and contained in any such Act or Acts of Parliament aforesaid, shall have the same and like Force and Effect; and all Acts, Matters, and Things done under the Authority thereof, and all Acts and Judgments of any Tribunals under the same, shall be valid and effectual, as fully to all Intents and Purposes as if the same had been enacted in an Act of Parliament. of Act, &c. II. And be it enacted, That this Act, and all Orders in Continuance Council issued under the Authority thereof, shall continue in force until the Expiration of Six Months after the Commencement of the next Session of Parliament. CAP. LXIII. An Act to defray the Charge of the Pay, Clothing, WHEREAS it is necessary that Provision should be made for defraying the Charge of the Pay, Clothing, and ⚫ contingent and other Expences of the Regular Militia, and of the Miners of Cornwall and Devon, when disembodied, in • Great Britain and Ireland; and for making in certain Cases Allowances of Reduced Pay to Subaltern Officers and Surgeons Mates and Assistant Surgeons of the Regular Militia, and of the Miners of Devon and Cornwall, while disembodied; ⚫ and Allowances to Adjutants, Paymasters, Surgeons, Quarter'masters, and Serjeant Majors of the Regular Militia, who have 'been or may be reduced, and to Adjutants, Surgeons, and "Quartermasters disabled after long Service:' Be it therefore 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 Secretary at War for the Secretary at Time being may and shall, and he is hereby authorized, War to issue empowered, and required to cause to be issued and paid the quired for the whole Sum required for the Regular Militia of Great Britain Pay of the Reand Ireland (when disembodied), in the Manner and for the gular Militia. Bb3 several the Money re 1 VICT. several Uses herein-after mentioned; (that is to say,) for the Pay of the said Regular Militia at the Rates following; (that is to say,) Rates of Pay. For each Adjutant, Eight Shillings per Diem: Rates of Pay when absent on Furlough. Clothing. Contingent Adjutant, &c. to reside where the Arms of the Corps are kept. Adjutant to have Charge of the Arms and For each Serjeant Major, having been Serjeant Major of a Provisional Battalion of Militia, Two Shillings and Sixpence per Diem: For each Serjeant Major, where one is appointed in Corps consisting of Two or more Companies, One Shilling and Ten-pence per Diem : For each Serjeant, having been a Colour Serjeant in one of And also for the Clothing of the Regular Militia (when disem- II. And be it further enacted, That every Adjutant and Noncommissioned Officer on the Staff of the Regular Militia, when disembodied, shall be constantly resident within the City, Town, or Place where the Depôt of the Corps to which they belong may be ordered to be stationed, or within such reasonable Distance of the Depôt as shall be sanctioned by the Secretary at War: Provided always, that every such Adjutant and Noncommissioned Officer shall forfeit his Pay for any Period during which he shall be absent, except when absent by Leave from the Colonel or Commandant of the Regiment, Battalion, or Corps, which Leave shall not, except in case of certified Sickness, extend beyond Three Calendar Months in One Year, nor to a greater Proportion than One Third of the Non-commissioned Officers at the same Time. III. And be it further enacted, That the Adjutant of each Regiment of Militia shall have the Charge and Care of the 5 Arms, to issue the tingent Expences on an designed by Order the Colonel. a Stock Purse. Arms, Accoutrements, Great Coats, Clothing, Necessaries, and Clothing, and other Stores thereof, under the Superintendence of the Colonel Money for conor Commandant; and shall out of the Allowance of Sixpence per Annum for each Private Man, directed by this Act to be issued and paid for defraying the contingent Expences of such Regiment, Battalion, or Corps, from Time to Time issue and pay such Sums of Money as may be necessary for the Repair of Arms, and other usual contingent Expences, upon an Order in Writing signed by the Colonel or other Commandant; and after Balance to form Payment of such Sums as aforesaid he shall Three Times in the Year make up Accounts of all such Money, and of the Expenditure thereof, showing the Balance remaining in his Hands, (which said Balance shall form a Stock Purse for the Use of the Regiment, Battalion, or Corps,) and shall transmit the same to the Colonel or other Commandant of such Regiment, Battalion, or Corps, to be by him examined, allowed, and signed; and the said Accounts so allowed and signed shall be and are hereby directed to be the proper Vouchers and Acquittal of such Adjutant for the Application and Disposal of such Money. the Command of the Serjeant Major. IV. And be it further enacted, That in the occasional and In Absence of unavoidable Absence of the Adjutant from the City, Town, or the Adjutant, the Serjeants, Place where the disembodied Staff is quartered, or during any &c. to be under Vacancy in the Appointment of Adjutant, the Serjeants shall be under the Command of the Serjeant Major, or of some Serjeant who shall be appointed by the said Adjutant, with the Approbation of the Colonel or other Commanding Officer, to act as Serjeant Major during the Absence of such Adjutant; and the said Serjeant Major or acting Serjeant Major shall render the same Returns and perform such other Acts as are by Law required from the Adjutant. V. And be it further enacted, That the Officers and Non- Militia when commissioned Officers, Drummers, and Private Men of the called out for Regular Militia shall, for the Period or Periods during which Exercise enthey shall be called out for the Purpose of Exercise or Training, titled to Pay. be entitled to the same Pay and Allowances as the Officers, Non-commissioned Officers, Drummers, and Private Men of the Militia when embodied. VI. And whereas it is expedient to grant Allowances to Allowances to ' certain Officers of the said Militia Forces of Great Britain and Subalterns and Surgeons Matoz Ireland, while disembodied, under certain Regulations;' be and Assistant it further enacted, That the following Allowances shall be Surgeons. made and paid, to the Amount, under the Restrictions, and in the Manner herein-after expressed, to every Subaltern Officer and Surgeon's Mate in Great Britain, and to every Subaltern Officer and Assistant Surgeon in Ireland, who held a Commission in the Militia of Great Britain or Ireland, and was serving therein, when the Corps was last disembodied, and also to every Supernumerary Subaltern Officer and Assistant Surgeon of any Regiment of Militia in Ireland which was augmented during the War, and which has been reduced to its original Establishment; (that is to say,) 1 Officers. To a Lieutenant, Two Shillings and Sixpence per Diem: And to a Surgeon's Mate or Assistant Surgeon, Two Shillings Rank of certain Provided always, that for the Purposes of this Act all Officers of the Militia serving with the Rank of Captain-Lieutenants shall be deemed to be Lieutenants, and all Officers serving with the Rank of Second Lieutenant shall be deemed to be Ensigns; and that the Supernumerary Subalterns and Assistant Surgeons of Regiments of Militia in Ireland as aforesaid shall be deemed to have belonged to such Regiments when they were last disembodied, and to have continued to serve therein from that Time. Certain Persons not entitled to Allowances. Declaration to be taken to &c. to such Allowances. VII. Provided also, and be it further enacted, That no Person who is or shall during the Continuance of this Act become possessed of such an Estate or Income as would by Law qualify him to hold the Commission of Captain of a Company in the said Militia, or who is or shall be appointed Adjutant in any Regiment, Battalion, or Corps of Militia, nor any Officer on Full Pay of the Navy, Army, or Marines, shall have or be in any way entitled to the said Allowances, or any Part or Share thereof; any thing herein contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. VIII. And be it further enacted, That the Subaltern Officers, entitle Officers, Surgeons Mates, and Assistant Surgeons of the Militia, who shall claim under the Authority of this Act to receive any Part of the said Allowances, shall, previous to receiving the same, and in order to entitle themselves thereto, take and subscribe a Declaration before some one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace of the United Kingdom, or before some one of Her Majesty's Ministers, Secretaries of Embassy, of Legation, or Consuls Abroad, in the Words or to the Effect following; (videlicet,) Form of Declaration. IA.B. do solemnly and sincerely declare, That I belonged to " the of Militia when the same was 'disembodied, and that I have continued to serve therein from that Time until the Day of inclusive, as a [Lieutenant, Ensign, Surgeon's Mate, or Assistant Surgeon, as the Case may be]; and that I was not in my own Right, or in the Right of my Wife, during any Part of the Period for which I now claim to receive my Allowance, that is to say, Day of • from the to the Day of both inclusive, in the actual Possession ⚫ and Enjoyment or Receipt of the Rents and Profits of Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments of such an annual Value above • Reprizes as would qualify me to hold a Commission of Captain of a Company in the Militia; that I was not in Holy Orders; that I have not during the above Period held the Appointment of Adjutant, Surgeon, Paymaster, or Quartermaster in any Regiment, Battalion, or Corps of Militia; that I did not hold or enjoy, nor did any Person for me hold or enjoy, during the said Period, any Place, Office, or Employment of Profit, 'Civil or Military, under the Crown or any other Government, • besides besides the Allowance of. a Day now claimed, except my Half Pay as a • the to the Which Declaration, so taken and subscribed, shall be produced to the Paymaster General of Her Majesty's Forces by the Subaltern Officer, Surgeon's Mate, or Assistant Surgeon claiming the Allowance. in 1829. IX. And be it further enacted, That the Allowances granted Allowances to to certain Paymasters, Surgeons, and Quartermasters of the Officers reduced Militia of Great Britain and Ireland, on their being reduced in pursuance of an Act passed in the Tenth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, shall be issued and paid, under the Restrictions and in the Manner herein-after expressed, during the Continuance of this Act, and that it shall be lawful for the Secretary at War to place any such Paymaster, Surgeon, or Quartermaster, when unfit for further Duty, upon a retired Allowance equal to and in lieu of his reduced Allowance. Officers claim X. And be it further enacted, That every Paymaster, Surgeon, Declaration to and Quartermaster of Militia, who shall claim under the Autho- be taken by rity of this Act to receive any Part of the said Allowances, ing the said shall, previous to receiving the same, and in order to entitle Allowances. himself thereto, take and subscribe a Declaration before some one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace in the United Kingdom, or before some one of Her Majesty's Ministers, Secretaries of Embassy or of Legation, or Consuls Abroad, in the Words or to the Effect following; (videlicet,) I A.B. do solemnly and sincerely declare, That I was serving Form of as [Paymaster, Surgeon, or Quartermaster, as the Case may Declaration. be,] in the of Militia at the Reduction of the Staff of the said Militia in One thousand ⚫ eight hundred and twenty-nine; and that I was not in Holy Orders during any Part of the Period for which I now claim 6 to receive an Allowance, that is to say, from the • Day of to the ⚫ eight hundred and One thousand eight hundred and ⚫ claimed, except my Half Pay as a or Navy or Marines, or of a Provisional Battalion the Militia, as the Case may be], and except Allowances from the to the • Days inclusive, during which Period the ' assembled for Training and Exercise.' a Day now [of the Army formed from my Pay and both Militia was |