of Her said Royal Highness, an Annuity of Eight thousand Pounds, to be settled on Her said Royal Highness for Her Life, in such Manner as Her Majesty shall think proper; the said Annuity to commence from the Date of the Marriage of Her Royal Highness with His Royal Highness Prince Frederic William of Prussia, to be free from all Taxes, Assessments, and Charges, and to be paid quarterly, on the Fifth Day of January, the Fifth Day of April, the Fifth Day of July, and the Tenth Day of October, the First Payment to be made, on such of the said quarterly Days as shall happen next after the said Marriage, of such Portion of the Annuity as shall have accrued between the Date of such Marriage and such quarterly Day, and a proportionate Part to be payable for the Period from the last quarterly Day of Payment to the Day of the Determination thereof; and such Annuity shall be charged on and payable out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, after paying or reserving sufficient to pay such Sums as have been directed to be paid out of the same by former Acts of Parliament, but with Preference to all other Payments which may hereafter be charged upon the said Fund. CAP. III. An Act to amend the Act of the Sixteenth and Seven- WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Session holden in 16 & 17 Vict. the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Years of the Reign of c.99. 'Her Majesty, Chapter Ninety-nine, to substitute in certain Cases other Punishment in lieu of Transportation; and it ' is expedient that such Act should be amended:' 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assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: I. Sections One, Two, Three, and Four of the said Act shall be repealed. Part of re cited Act repealed. Sentence of II. After the Commencement of this Act, no Person shall Sentence of be sentenced to Transportation; and any Person who, if this Transportation Act and the said Act had not been passed, might have been abolished, and sentenced to Transportation, shall, after the Commencement Penal Servitude of this Act, be liable to be sentenced to be kept in Penal substituted. Servitude for a Term of the same Duration as the Term of Transportation to which such Person would have been liable if the said Act and this Act had not been passed; and in every Case where, at the Discretion of the Court, One of any Two or more Terms of Transportation might have been awarded, the Court shall have the like Discretion to award One of any A 2 Two Provisions of ing transported C Two or more of the Terms of Penal Servitude which are hereby authorized to be awarded instead of such Terms of Transportation: Provided always, that any Person who might at the Discretion of the Court have been sentenced either to Transportation for any Term or to any Period of Imprisonment, shall be liable at the Discretion of the Court to be sentenced either to Penal Servitude for the same Term or to the same Period of Imprisonment; and in any Case in which before the passing of the said Act Sentence of Seven Years Transportation might have been passed, it shall be lawful for the Court in its Discretion to pass a Sentence of Penal Servitude of not less than Three Years. III. And whereas the Provisions applicable to Persons ' under Sentence of Transportation extend to Persons under Sentence of Penal Servitude conveyed to Parts beyond the apply to Offen-Seas in those Cases only where they are conveyed to and kept in Places of Confinement appointed under the said Act or the Act of the Fifth Year of King George the Fourth, Chapter Eighty-four, and it is expedient to extend the said Provisions to other Cases :' ders under Sentence of Penal Servi tude. Existing Power to appoint Places of for the Purposes of this Act. Any Person now or hereafter under Sentence or Order of Penal Servitude may, during the Term of the Sentence or Order, be conveyed to any Place or Places beyond the Seas to which Offenders under Sentence or Order of Transportation may be conveyed, or to any Place or Places beyond the Seas which may be hereafter appointed as herein mentioned; and all Acts and Provisions now applicable to and for the Removal and Transportation of Offenders under Sentence or Order of Transportation to and from any Places beyond the Seas, and concerning their Custody, Management, and Control, and the Property in their Services, and the Punishment of such Offenders if at large without lawful Cause before the Expiration of their Sentence, and all other Provisions now applicable to and in the Case of Persons under Sentence or Order of Transportation, shall apply to and in the Case of Persons under Sentence or Order of Penal Servitude, as if they were Persons under Sentence or Order of Transportation. IV. The Provisions and Powers of the said Act of the Fifth Year of King George the Fourth, authorizing the Appointment Transportation (by Her Majesty, with the Advice of Her Privy Council,) of to be applicable any Place or Places beyond the Seas to which Felons and other Offenders under Sentence or Order of Transportation shall be conveyed, and all other Powers of Her Majesty, or the Lord Lieutenant or Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, for the like Purpose, shall extend and be applicable to and for the Appointment of any Place or Places beyond the Seas to which Offenders under Sentence or Order of Penal Servitude may be conveyed, as herein provided. Magistrates V. And whereas by the said Act of the Sixteenth and 'the the Prison or Place of Confinement from which he was revoked to ' released by virtue of the said Licence:' Be it enacted, That Penal Servitude in any from and after the passing of this Act any such Convict may Convict Prison. be recommitted by the Magistrate issuing his Warrant in that Behalf, either to the Prison from which he was released by virtue of his Licence, or to any other Prison in which Convicts under Sentence of Penal Servitude may be lawfully confined. VI. Where in any Enactment now in force the Expression All Enactments "any Crime punishable with Transportation," or "any Crime referring to punishable by Law with Transportation," or any Expression of to have referTransportation the like Import, is used, the Enactment shall be construed ence to Penal and take effect as applicable also to any Crime punishable with Servitude. Penal Servitude. VII. The said Act of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Years Recited Act of Her Majesty and this Act shall be read and construed together as One Act. read as one. and this to be VIII. This Act shall commence on the First Day of July One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven. CAP. IV. An Act to apply the Sum of Eight Millions out of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven. [3d July 1857.] 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:— Commencement of Act. for the Ser 8,000,000l. I. There shall and may be issued and applied, for or towards There shall making good the Supply granted to Her Majesty for the Service be applied of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, the vice of the Sum of Eight Millions out of the Consolidated Fund of the Year 1857 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Com- the Sum of missioners of Her Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom out of the of Great Britain and Ireland, or the Lord High Treasurer of Consolidated the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for the Fund. 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 The Treasury Majesty's Treasury from Time to Time, by Warrant under may cause their Hands, to cause or direct any Number of Exchequer Bills of Exchequer to be made out at the Receipt of Her Majesty's Exchequer at Bills to be 8,000,000/ made out in manner pre- 48 G. 3. c. 1., The Clauses, Acts extended to this Act. Westminster for any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Eight Millions; 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 Fortyeighth 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 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, Privi&c. in recited leges, Advantages, Penalties, Forfeitures, and Disabilities contained in the said recited Acts shall be applied and extended to the Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance of this Act, as fully and effectually, to all Intents and Purposes, as if particularly repeated and re-enacted in this Act. Interest on Bank of Eng land may advance 8,000,000l. on the Credit of this Act, notwith standing IV. The Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance of this Act shall and may bear an Interest not exceeding the Rate of Threepence Halfpenny per Centum per Diem upon or in respect of the whole of the Monies respectively contained therein. V. It shall and may be lawful for the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, and they are hereby empowered, to take, accept, and receive the Exchequer Bills authorized to be made out in pursuance of this Act, and to advance or lend to Her Majesty, at the Receipt of the Exchequer at Westminster, upon the Credit of the Sum granted by this Act, out of 5 & 6 W. & M. the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Eight Millions, 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. c. 20. Bills prepared by virtue of this Act to be delivered to the Bank, as Security for such Advances. Monies raised by Bills to be applied to the Services voted by the Commons. Exchequer Bills made chargeable VI. It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, and they are hereby authorized and 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. VII. It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Her 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 of Great Britain and Ireland in this present Session of Parliament. VIII. The Principal Sum or Sums of Money to be contained in all such Exchequer Bills to be made forth by virtue of Produce of of this Act, together with the Interest that may become due upon the thereon, shall be and the same are hereby made chargeable and growing charged upon the growing Produce of the Consolidated Fund the Consoliof the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in the dated Fund. 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. CAP. V. An Act to continue the Act for extending for a limited WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Session of Parliament WE holden in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Years of Her Majesty's Reign, Chapter Ninety-one, intituled An Act to 16 & 17 Vict. 'extend for a limited Time the Provision for Abatement of Income c. 91. Tax in respect of Insurance on Lives, and was limited to con 'tinue in force until the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four: And whereas by certain other Acts 'subsequently passed, and more especially by an Act passed in 'the Session of Parliament holden in the Nineteenth and 19 & 20 Vict Twentieth Years of Her Majesty's Reign, Chapter Thirty- c. 33. three, the said first-mentioned Act has been amended and extended, and now stands limited to continue in force until the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and fifty'seven, and it is expedient further to continue the same, so 'amended, for such Period as herein-after mentioned:' 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, as follows: I. The said first-mentioned Act, so amended as aforesaid, shall be and the same is hereby continued in force until the Sixth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and sixty. 3 A 4 CAP. 16 & 17 Vict. c. 91. con tinued until |
