EXCEPTIONS. The Chief Secretary. Commander-in-Chief and his Secy. Officers acting under Military Com missions. ....Do. Secretary at War. Officers Acting under Military Commissions. Officers or others holding Military Judge Advocate General. Master General. Lieutenant General. Surveyor General. Clerk of the Ordnance. Clerk of the Cheque, and Principal Storekeeper. Secretary to Master General, and all Persons holding their Situations by Military Commissions. Treasurer of the Ordnance. Persons who being Military Officers may be entitled to Full or HalfPay as such. Lords of the Admiralty. Second Secretary. The Treasurer. ACT of the British Parliament, to amend an Act of the Third Year of His present Majesty, respecting Superannuation Allowances. [Cap. 104.] [June 24, 1824.] WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Third Year of the Reign of His present Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled, "An Act to amend an Act passed in the 50th Year of His late Majesty, for directing that Accounts of Increase and Diminution of Public Salaries, Pensions and Allowances, shall be annually laid before Parliament, and for regulating and controlling the granting and paying such Salaries, Pensions and Allowances:" And whereas it is expedient that certain of the Provisions in the said Act passed in the Third Year of His present Majesty, relative to a Fund towards the payment of Superannuation Allowances, and also relative to the charging one moiety only of such Superannuation Allowances on the Funds of Departments, should be repealed; May it therefore please Your Majesty, That it may be enacted; and be it enacted by The King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of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 from and after the passing of this Act, all such parts of the said Act of the Third Year of His present Majesty, as charge the Salaries and Emoluments of Persons to whom Superannuation Allowances may be granted under the Provisions of that Act, with any deductions or payment by way of Contribution, for the purpose of creating, raising, and maintaining a Superannuation Fund, towards the payment of such Superannuation Allowances; and all regulations and provisions whatever, relative to such deductions or payments, or to the management thereof, and also all such parts of the said Act, as charge the Funds of Public Departments or Offices with one moiety only of such Superannuation Allowances, as may be granted to any Officers or Persons serving therein, or belonging thereto respectively, shall be and the same are hereby repealed, and made void. II. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act the whole of every such Superannuation Allowance, as may have been or may be granted under the Provisions of the said recited Act, shall be charged upon, and made payable out of the Funds of the respective Departments or Offices in which the Persons receiving such Allowances shall have served, in such and the same manner as the moieties of such Superannuation Allowances are, by the same Act, charged and made payable. III. And be it further enacted, That all and every sum and sums of money which, under the Provisions of the said recited Act, shall have been contributed and paid by, or which shall have been deducted from the Salaries or Emoluments of any such Officers or Persons, shall be repaid to all such Officers and Persons respectively, or to the Executors or Administrators of such of them as may be deceased, in such manner and form as the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, or any three or more of them, shall from time to time direct; and the Commissioners for the reduction of the National Debt, and the Heads of all Offices and Departments respectively, shall duly observe and perform all such orders, rules and regulations, as the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, or any three or more of them, may from time to time prescribe for their guidance, in repaying to the several Officers or Persons aforesaid, or the Executors or Administrators of such of them as may be deceased, all such sum and sums of money as they may be respectively entitled to receive under the Provisions of this Act. SPEECH of the Lords Commissioners on the Closing of the British Parliament, on Saturday, July 19, 1823. MY LORDS, AND Gentlemen, We are commanded by His Majesty, in releasing you from your attendance in Parliament, to express to you His Majesty's acknowledgments for the zeal and assiduity, wherewith you have applied yourselves to the several objects, which His Majesty recommended to your attention at the Opening of the Session. His Majesty entertains a confident expectation, that the provisions of internal regulation which you have adopted with respect to Ireland, will, when carried into effect, tend to remove some of the evils which have so long afflicted that part of the United Kingdom. We are commanded to assure you, that you may depend upon the firm and temperate exercise of those powers which you have intrusted, to His Majesty, for the suppression of violence and outrage in that Country, and for the protection of the lives and properties of His Majesty's loyal Subjects. It is with the greatest satisfaction that His Majesty is enabled to contemplate the flourishing condition of all Branches of our Commerce and Manufactures, and the gradual abatement of those difficulties under which the Agricultural Interest has so long and so severely suffered. GENTLEMEN of the House of Commons, We have it in command from His Majesty to thank you for the Supplies which you have granted for the service of the year, and to assure you that He has derived the sincerest pleasure from the relief which you have been enabled to afford to His People by a large Reduction of Taxes. MY LORDS, AND GENTLEMEN, His Majesty has commanded us to inform you, that He continues to receive from all Foreign Powers the strongest assurances of their friendly disposition towards this Country. Deeply as His Majesty still regrets the failure of His earnest endeavours to prevent the interruption of the Peace of Europe, it affords Him the greatest consolation that the principles upon which He has acted, and the policy which He has determined to pursue, have been marked with your warm and cordial concurrence, as consonant with the interests, and satisfactory to the feelings of His People. CONVENTION of Navigation and Commerce between The United States and France.-Signed at Washington, the 24th of June, 1822. WHEREAS a Convention of Navigation and Commerce between The United States of America and His Majesty The King of France and Navarre, together with Two Separate Articles annexed to the same, was concluded and signed at Washington on the 24th day of June last past, by the respective Plenipotentiaries of the Two Powers; and whereas the said Convention and the First Separate Article annexed to the same, have been duly and respectively ratified by me, and by His Majesty The King of France and Navarre, and the Ratifications of the same have this day been exchanged at the City of Washington, by John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State, and the Count Julius de Menou, Chargé d'Affaires of France, which Convention, and the First Separate Article annexed to the same, are in the words following, to wit: Convention de Navigation et de Sa Majesté Le Roi de France et de Navarre et Les Etats Unis d'Amérique, désirant régler les relations de Navigation et de Commerce entre leur Nations respectives par une Convention Temporaire réciproquement avantageuse et satisfaisante, et arriver ainsi à un arrangement plus étendu et Convention of Navigation and Commerce between The United The United States of America and His Majesty The King of France and Navarre, being desirous of settling the relations of Navigation and Commerce between their respective Nations, by a Temporary Convention recipro cally beneficial and satisfactory, and thereby of leading to a more |