Recited Acts and this Act to be read together. There shall be applied for the Service of the Year ending the Thirtyfirst Day of March 1855 the Sum of 3,300,000/ out of the Consolidated Fund. The Treasury may cause 3,300,000l. of Exchequer Bills to be made out in manner prescribed by 48 G. 3., c. I., 4 & 5 W. 4. c. 15., and 5 & 6 Vict. c. 66. be filled up with such Term or Number of Years as may be authorized by such Order or Orders, instead of the Term or Number of Years mentioned in the Directions contained in such Schedules. II. The said Acts of the Tenth and Eleventh Years and Twelfth and Thirteenth Years of Her Majesty, and this Act, shall be read and construed together as One Act. CAP. V. An Act to apply the Sum of Three millions three Most Gracious Sovereign, WE, 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: I. There shall and may be issued and applied, for or towards making good the Supply granted to Her Majesty for the Deficiency in the Grants for the Service of the Year ending the Thirty-first Day of March One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, the Sum of Three millions three hundred thousand Pounds out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or the Lord High Treasurer 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. II. It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury from Time to Time, by Warrant under their Hands, to cause or direct any Number of Exchequer Bills to be made out at the Receipt of Her Majesty's Exchequer at Westminster for any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Three millions three hundred thousand Pounds; and such Exchequer Bills shall be made out in the same or like Manner, Form, and Order, and according to the same or like Rules and Directions, as are directed and prescribed in an Act passed in the Forty-eighth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, Chapter One, and in another Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Fourth Acts extended Fourth and Fifth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, Chapter Fifteen, and in another Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter Sixty-six. III. All and every the Clauses, Provisoes, Powers, Privileges, The Clauses, Advantages, Penalties, Forfeitures, and Disabilities contained &c. in recited in the said recited Acts shall be applied and extended to the to this Act. 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. Bills. IV. The Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance of Interest on this Act shall and may bear an Interest not exceeding the Rate Exchequer of Threepence Halfpenny per Centum per Diem upon or in respect of the whole of the Monies respectively contained therein. ་ advance notwith V. It shall and may be lawful for the Governor and Company Bank of of the Bank of England, and they are hereby empowered, to England may take, accept, and receive the Exchequer Bills authorized to be 3,300,000%, on made out in pursuance of this Act, and to advance or lend to the Credit Her Majesty, at the Receipt of the Exchequer at Westminster, of this Act, upon the Credit of the Sum granted by this Act, out of the standing Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 5 & 6 W. & M. Ireland, any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole c. 20. the Sum of Three millions three hundred thousand Pounds, anything in an Act passed in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary, Chapter Twenty, or in any other Act or Acts to the contrary notwithstanding. VI It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Her Bills prepared Majesty's Treasury, and they are hereby authorized and em- this Act to be by virtue of powered, to cause such Bills as shall be prepared by virtue of delivered to this Act to be delivered from Time to Time to the Governor the Bank, as and Company of the Bank of England, in such Proportions as such Advances. Security for 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. by Bills to be Services voted by the Com applied to the VII. It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Her Monies raised 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 mons. of Great Britain and Ireland in this present Session of Parlia ment. upon the VIII. The Principal Sum or Sums of Money to be contained Exchequer in all such Exchequer Bills to be made forth by virtue of this Bills made chargeable Act, together with the Interest that may become due thereon, shall be and the same are hereby made chargeable and charged growing Proupon the growing Produce of the Consolidated Fund of tne duce of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in the next Fund. succeeding [No. 2. Price 2d.] B Consolidated There shall be Service of the Year 1955 the Sum of 20,000,000l. out of the Consolidated Fund. 18 VICT. succeeding Quarter to that in which the said Exchequer Bills 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. CA P. VI. An Act to apply the Sum of Twenty Millions out of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five. [5th March 1855.] Most Gracious Sovereign, WE, 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: I. There shall and may be issued and applied, for or towards applied for the making good the Supply granted to Her Majesty for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, the Sum of Twenty Millions out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or the Lord High Treasurer 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. The Treasury may cause 20,000,000%. of Exchequer Bills to be made out in manner II. It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury from Time to Time, by Warrant under their Hands, to cause or direct any Number of Exchequer Bills to be made out at the Receipt of Her Majesty's Exchequer at Westminster for any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the 4 & 5 W. 4. c. 15., and the whole the Sum of Twenty Millions; and such Exchequer prescribed by Bills shall be made out in the same or like Manner, Form, 48 G. 3. c. I., and Order, and according to the same or like Rules and Directions, as are directed and prescribed in an Act passed in the 56 Vict. Forty-eighth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George c. 66. the Third, Chapter One, 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, Chapter Fifteen, and in another Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter Sixty-six. Acts extended III. All and every the Clauses, Provisoes, Powers, Privileges, The Clauses, Advantages, Penalties, Forfeitures, and Disabilities contained &c. in recited in the said recited Acts shall be applied and extended to the to this Act. 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. Bills. IV. The Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance of Interest on this Act shall and may bear an Interest not exceeding the Rate Exchequer of Threepence Halfpenny per Centum per Diem upon or in respect of the whole of the Monies respectively contained therein. may advance 20,000,000l. Notwith V. It shall and may be lawful for the Governor and Com- Bank of of the Bank of England and they are hereby empowered, England pany to take, accept, and receive the Exchequer Bills authorized to be made out in pursuance of this Act, and to advance or lend on the Credit to Her Majesty, at the Receipt of the Exchequer at Westminster, of this Act, upon the Credit of the Sum granted by this Act, out of the standing Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain 5 & 6 Ŵ. & M. and Ireland, any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the c. 20. whole the Sum of Twenty Millions, anything in an Act passed in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of Ki g William and Queen Mary, Chapter Twenty, or in any other Act or Acts, to the contrary notwithstanding. this Act to be delivered to the Bank, as Security for VI. It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Her Bills prepared Majesty's Treasury, and they are hereby authorized and by virtue of 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. such Advances. applied to the VII. It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Her Monies raised Majesty's Treasury to issue and apply from Time to Time all by Bills to be such Sums of Money as shall be raised by Exchequer Bills to be Services voted made out in pursuance of this Act to such Services as shall by the Comthen have been voted by the Commons of the United Kingdom mons. of Great Britain and Ireland in this present Session of Parliament. B 2 VIII. The Exchequer Bills made charge. able upon the growing Produce of the Consolidated Fund. 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 chargeabe and charged upon the growing Produce of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in the next succeeding Quarter to that in which the said Exchequer Bills 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. 17 & 18 Vict. c. 125. Provisions of Section 18. extended to Ireland. CA P. VII. An Act to extend to Ireland the Provisions of the I. That from and after the passing of this Act, whenever any Cause shall be tried in any Court of Civil Jurisdiction in Ireland by any Jury, the Addresses to the Jury shall be regulated as follows; that is to say, the Party who begins, or his Counsel, shall be allowed, in the event of his Opponent not announcing at the Close of the Case of the Party who begins his Intention to adduce Evidence, to address the Jury a Second Time at the Close of such Case for the Purpose of summing up the Evidence, and the Party on the other Side, or his Counsel, shall be allowed to open the Case, and also to sum up the Evidence, if any, and the Right to reply shall be the same as at present. CAP. |