Six Shillings a Day, subject to the same Restrictions and Conditions as the aforesaid Allowance of Eight Shillings: Provided also, that no such Adjutant shall lose any Right he may have to Half Pay or Out Pension by reason of receiving such Allowance as aforesaid, but shall be entitled to receive such Half Pay as well as such Allowance. Quartermasters, after a Service of titled to an Al lowance, and also to Half Pay or Out 30 Years, en Pension. XX. And be it further enacted, That any Quartermaster of Regular Militia who shall have served faithfully, either in His Majesty's Regular Forces or in the Regular or Local Militia for the full Term of Thirty Years in the whole, whereof Fifteen shall have been as a Quartermaster of Regular Militia, and who shall have been or shall be by Age or Infirmity rendered unfit for further Service, shall, on producing to the Secretary at War a Certificate of such Service of Thirty Years as aforesaid from the Commanding Officers of the different Corps to which he shall have belonged, and obtaining from the Secretary at War an Order founded upon such Certificate, be entitled to receive, and the Paymaster of the Regiment shall be and is hereby authorized to pay to such Person an Allowance at the Rate of his Pay when serving in the disembodied Regular Militia: Provided always, that Proviso no Person shall be entitled to receive such Allowance as aforesaid who shall hold any Military Office or Employment of Profit under His Majesty, or any Civil Office or Employment under His Majesty, the annual Profits or Emoluments of which shall exceed Three Times the Amount of the said Allowance: Provided also,. that no such Quartermaster shall, by reason of receiving such Allowance as aforesaid, forfeit any Right which he may have to Half Pay or Out Pension, but shall be entitled to receive such Half Pay or Out Pension as well as such Allowance. XXI. And be it further enacted, That if any Surgeon of Regular Militia, having faithfully served in His Majesty's Regular Forces or in the Militia for the full Term of Twenty Years, shall by Age or Infirmity be rendered unfit for further Service, he shall, on producing to the Secretary at War a Certificate of such Service of Twenty Years in the whole (Ten of which he shall have served as a Surgeon of Militia), from the Commanding Officers of the different Corps to which he shall have belonged, and obtaining an Order from the Secretary at War founded upon such Certificate, be entitled to receive, and the Paymaster of the Regiment shall be and he is hereby authorized and required to pay to such Person an Allowance at the Rate of Six Shillings per Diem : Provided always, that no Person shall be entitled to receive such Allowance as aforesaid who shall hold any Military Office or Employment of Profit under His Majesty, or any Civil Office or Employment under His Majesty, the annual Profits or Emoluments of which shall exceed Three Times the Amount of the said Allowance of Six Shillings a Day; but no Person receiving such Allowance shall by reason thereof forfeit his Right to any Half Pay to which he may be entitled. XXII. And be it further enacted, That in case any Regiment, Battalion or Corps of Militia shall have already ceased and determined or been reduced in its Establishment, or shall cease and determine or be reduced in its Establishment during the Continuance of this Act, the Sum of Four Shillings per Diem shall be Cc 3 paid Surgeons, under the circum stances hereinmentioned, to receive 6s. per. Day. Proviso for Half Pay. Reduced Adjutant to re ceive 4s. per.. Day till March 24. 1824. paid to such Person as has actually served as Adjutant to such Regiment, Battalion or Corps, from the Twenty fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and twenty three, or from the Time such Regiment shall cease and determine or be reduced in its Establishment, as the Case may be, to the Twenty fourth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and twenty four: Provided always, that no Person shall be entitled to receive such Allowance as aforesaid, who shall hold any Military Office or Employment of Profit under His Majesty, or any Civil Office or Employment under His Majesty, the annual Profits and Emoluments of which shall exceed Three Times the Amount of the said AlRight to Half lowance of Four Shillings a Day; but no such reduced Adjutant Pay. shall lose any Right he may have to Half Pay of the Navy, Army, Marines or Provisional Battalion formed from the Militia, by reason of receiving such Allowance as last aforesaid, but shall be entitled to receive such Half Pay as well as such Allowance. Adjutants and Reduced Adjutants may take such Allowance with any Pay or other Allowance to which they may be entitled. 26 G.3. c.107. Proviso. Money for Pay and Clothing, issued. Allowances to XXIII. And Whereas certain Adjutants and Serjeant Majors < are entitled to and have received certain Allowances in consequence of having been reduced, under the Provisions of an Act passed in the Thirty ninth and Fortieth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty, which Allowance has been continued, and as to such Adjutants augmented to Four Shillings per Diem ;' Be it therefore enacted, That all such Adjutants and Serjeant Majors shall be entitled to receive and shall receive such Allowance from the Twenty fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and twenty three to the Twenty fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and twenty four, to be issued and paid to them under the Directions of the Secretary at War. XXIV. And be it further enacted, That every reduced Adjutant entitled to any Allowance granted under the said Act of the Thirty ninth and Fortieth Years aforesaid, and continued by any subsequent Acts, or by this Act, may receive and take such Allowance, together with any Full Pay, Half Pay or Allowance which was tenable together with such reduced Allowance under the Provisions of an Act passed in the Twenty sixth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, intituled An Act for amending and reducing into one Act of Parliament the Laws relating to the Militia in that Part of Great Britain called England, or under the Provisions of the aforesaid Acts of the Thirty ninth and Fortieth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty: Provided always, that no such reduced Adjutant shall be entitled to receive any Allowance under this Act during the Time he shall hold any Military Office of Profit under His Majesty, other than such as aforesaid, or any Civil Office or Employment under His Majesty, the annual Profits and Emoluments of which shall exceed Three Times the Amount of such reduced Allowance. XXV. And be it further enacted, That all Sums of Money granted for the Pay, Clothing, Allowances and contingent and other Expences for the Regular Militia when disembodied as aforesaid, shall be issued and paid under the Direction of the Secretary at War, according to such Regulations as have been or shall be established on that Head. XXVI. And be it further enacted, That in every County in Great Britain where the Regular Militia is or shall be raised, Al lowances lowances shall be paid to the Clerks of the General Meetings and neral and SubClerks of the several Subdivision Meetings, at the Rates following; division Meetthat is to say, to the Clerk of the General Meetings at the Rate of ings. Five Pounds Five Shillings for each Meeting, and the several Clerks of the Subdivision Meetings at the Rate of One Pound One Shilling for each Meeting; and such further Allowance shall be Rates of Almade to such respective General and Subdivision Clerks for their lowance. Expences and Trouble in amending the Returns of Persons returned liable to serve in the Regular Militia, by taking out the Names of all Persons who may appeal, and whose Appeals or Claims of Exemption have been allowed, and inserting the Names of any Persons that shall have been omitted to be inserted, and in numbering the Returns, and making out the Tickets for the Ballot, after the Rate of One Pound Fifteen Shillings for every One thousand Names of Persons returned liable to serve, and also for the actual Expences incurred by such respective Clerks, and for Printing and Stationery used for the Purposes of this Act, as to the Lord Lieutenants or Deputy Lieutenants of the respective Counties shall appear reasonable and proper; and in case the Orders made by the Lord Lieutenants or Deputy Lieutenants for the Payment of such further Allowance as aforesaid shall be confirmed at a General Meeting, consisting of not less than Five Deputy Lieutenants, but not otherwise; and the aforesaid Clerks of General Meetings and Clerks of Subdivision Meetings shall transmit to the Secretary at War the Accounts, Returns and Orders upon which they claim the aforesaid Allowances, in order that the Secretary at War may give the necessary Directions for the Payment thereof. XXVII. And be it further enacted, That all Bills, Drafts and Bills for Pay, Orders drawn for the Pay or Allowances of the Regular Militia &c. No Stamp when disembodied under this Act, may be or shall be drawn Duty. upon unstamped Paper; and no such Bill, Draft or Order shall be void by reason of being drawn or written on unstamped Paper. XXVIII. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That no Fee or Gratuity whatsoever shall be given or paid for or upon account of any Warrant or Sum of Money which shall be issued in relation to or in pursuance of this Act. No Fee for Expence of House for depositing Arms and Stores of XXIX. And be it further enacted, That the Hire or Cost of any House or Place to be provided for the keeping of the Arms, Accoutrements, Clothing or other Stores, and for the Residence and Accommodation of the permanent Staff belonging to any the Militia in Regiment or Battalion of Militia in Ireland, when not embodied, Ireland, &c. to that is to say, of the Paymaster, Adjutant, Surgeon and Quarter- be defrayed by master thereof, shall be defrayed by the County; and the necessary the County. Sum for that Purpose shall be raised by the Presentment of the Grand Jury of the said County, and which Presentment the Grand Jury of the County is hereby authorized and required to pass, on a Certificate signed by the Chief Secretary of the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the Time being, or in the Absence of such Chief Secretary, by the Under Secretary for the Military Department, and specifying the Costs incurred or to be incurred in building such House or Place, or the Rent agreed to be paid for the same, or both Costs and Rent; which Certificate shall be transmitted by such Chief Secre Cc 4 tary tary to the Clerk of the Crown for such County, or at any Time prior to the First Day of the Assizes for such County; or if in the County or County of the City of Dublin, then prior to the Provision as to First Day of the Presenting Term: Provided, that in no Case any Amount of Rent, &c. Provision for pences of Places The Arms of Militia of Ire land to be deposited in the Ordnance Stores in Dublin. Recovery of Penalties and Costs in Ireland. greater Řent than Forty Pounds Irish Currency shall be presented by such Grand Jury for the annual Rent of such Place, nor a greater Sum than Two hundred Pounds Irish Currency shall be required for building such House, save only in such Cases wherein the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the Time being shall think proper specially to permit or order a greater Rent or Sum, and then not more than One hundred Pounds Irish Currency yearly net, exclusive of Taxes and Repairs, or a Sum of Five hundred Pounds Irish Currency, such Permission or Order to be certified to the Clerk of the Crown by the Chief Secretary, or in his Absence the Under Secretary for the Military Department: Provided also, that the Grand Juries of such Counties shall be entitled to purchase Ground for building and erecting such House in the same Manner as they are now by Law entitled to purchase Ground for building County Gaols. 6 XXX. And Whereas the Sums heretofore allowed to be pre'sented for such Purposes have been in some Instances found quite insufficient, and therefore larger Sums have been expended, or larger Rents agreed for, or both; and it is expedient and reasonable that such extra Expences should be defrayed in Manner aforesaid;' Be it therefore enacted, That in all Cases in which the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the Time being shall deem any such Agreement or Expenditure to have been proper and necessary, and that the same shall be so certified to the Clerk of the Crown in Manner aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful to and for the Grand Jury of the County to present the same, to be raised in the same Manner in all respects as they could or might do under this Act, in case of an Agreement or Expenditure under or in pursuance of a previous Permission or Order made under this Act. XXXI. Provided always, and be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the Time being, (if he or they shall see sufficient Cause for so doing,) to order and direct that the Arms, Accoutrements and other Stores, or any Part thereof, belonging to any Regiment or Battalion of the said Militia, shall at any Time while such Regiment or Battalion shall not be embodied or in actual Service, be conveyed to and deposited and kept in any of his Majesty's Ordnance Stores in the City of Dublin, or to and in any such Ordnance Store, or to and in any other Place of Security in any other Part in Ireland, as he or they shall from time to time order or direct, and under such Rules and Regulations as he or they shall think fit and proper in that Behalf. XXXII. And be it further enacted, That all Penalties and Costs and Charges of Suit, and all Sums of Money for which any Person or Persons is or are or may be made answerable or liable under or by virtue of this Act in relation to the Militia of Ireland, shall be paid in Irish Currency, and shall be recovered in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record at Dublin, by Action of Deht, Bill, Plaint or Information, wherein no Essoign, Wager of Law, Privilege or Protection, nor more than one Imparlance, shall be allowed. to Ridings, &c. XXXIII. And be it further enacted, That all Provisions, Di- Provisions rerections, Clauses, Matters and Things in this Act contained, lating to Counrelating to Counties and to Regiments of Militia respectively, shall extend and be construed to extend to all Ridings, Shires, Stewartries, Cities and Places, and to all Battalions, Corps and Independent Companies respectively, and to the Corps of Miners of Cornwall and Devon, as fully and effectually as if they were respectively and severally repeated in every such Provision, Direction, Clause, and with relation to every such Matter or Thing. XXXIV. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall con- Continuance tinue in force until the Twenty fifth Day of March One thousand of Act. eight hundred and twenty four. CA P. LX. An Act for granting to His Majesty a Sum of Money to be 'XIX. AND Whereas it may be expedient to discontinue raising Money for the Public Service by way of Lottery after the Sale of the Tickets authorized by this Act, and in that Case ' it will be necessary to continue in force such Parts of this Act as will be necessary to repress unlawful Insurance in Little • Goes and Private Lotteries, and prevent the Sale and publishing Proposals for the Sale of Foreign Lottery Tickets within the ⚫ United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and to provide 'for the Payment of Prizes which shall be unpaid and outstanding, and to enable the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury to 6 Regulations as to the Suppression of illegal Lotteries and Insurance, and as to the preventing the Sale and publishing the Sale of Proposals for Foreign Lottery Tickets, to remain in force, though the other Powers of this Act may have ceased, &c. ' retain and appoint such Commissioners, Officers and Clerks of the Lottery Office as will be necessary for those Purposes, as well as to give and grant reasonable Compensation to those Commissioners, Officers, Clerks and other Persons who shall have been employed in the Lottery Office, or in and about the Drawing of the Lottery, and be no longer, necessary for the Purposes above mentioned;' Be it therefore enacted, That from and after the Drawing of the Lottery authorized by this Act, and the Matters relating thereto, the Clauses herein contained relative to the Suppression of illegal Lotteries and Insurance therein, and to the preventing the Sale and publishing Proposals for the Sale of Foreign Lottery Tickets, shall remain in full force and virtue, notwithstanding other Powers given by this Act may have ceased and determined; and that the said Commissioners of Treasury may His Majesty's Treasury shall have full Power and Authority to continue and appoint these Commissioners of Lottery for the Period of Three Years after the Discontinuance of Lotteries, who after Disconshall be hereby enabled and authorized to take in the Fortunate tinuance of Tickets of any and every Lottery authorized by this or any former Lotteries. Act for granting to His Majesty a Sum of Money to be raised by Lotterics, and deliver out Certificates for the same, to be num bered missioners for Three Years |