Pensioners or Persons enrolled, &c. for a limited Period. Enrolled Per sons called out only by Autho rity of a Magis. trate, &c., to be employed for Twelve Days only, unless in certain Cases. In case of ac tual Invasion or Riot, Pen sent to any Part of the United Kingdom. 6 bearing the Warrant of the Secretary of State for that Purpose, may call out the said enrolled Pensioners in aid of the Civil Power, for Preservation of the public Peace, as by the said Act is directed, and by the Act herein-before thirdly recited similar Powers were conferred on the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland as regards the enrolled Pensioners in that Country; but such Warrant, if applied for and issued after the Emergency has arisen, cannot in many Cases be obtained in Time to meet such Emergency, and it is therefore expedient to give further Facilities in that Behalf;' be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, or in Ireland for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor of Ireland, and in Her Majesty's Colonies and Possessions beyond the Seas for the Governor or other Person administering the Government of such Colony or Possession, to issue his Warrant to the Lord Lieutenant of any County, or the Mayor or other Chief Magistrate of any Town or District, wherein such Pensioners and Persons having Claims to prospective or deferred Pensions are enrolled, authorizing him, in case of Emergency, or anticipated Emergency, whereby the Public Peace may be endangered, or on the Requisition of any Officer commanding Her Majesty's Forces within such Town or District, to call out the whole or such Part of the Persons so enrolled as he may consider necessary, for any Term not exceeding Twelve Days, during which Time they shall be liable to the Provisions of the Mutiny Act and Articles of War, in the same Manner in all respects as is provided in the firstmentioned Act; but no such enrolled Person who shall be called out only by the Authority of any such Lord Lieutenant of a County, Mayor, or Magistrate, for the Preservation of the Public Peace, shall be employed on such Duty for more than Twelve Days, unless by a Warrant from One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, or in Ireland from the Lord Lieutenant or Chief Governor of Ireland, or in any of Her Majesty's Colonies and Possessions beyond the Seas from the Governor or Person administering the Government, in case of their being employed in aid of the Civil Power, or by Warrant of Her Majesty in case of their volunteering to serve in any of Her Majesty's Forts, Towns, and Garrisons, as provided in the said Act. IV. And be it enacted, That in case of actual or apprehended Invasion or Riot it shall be lawful for Her Majesty by any sioners may be Proclamation to direct that the said enrolled Pensioners, or such of them as Her Majesty shall think fit, may be sent, in aid of the Defence of the Realm, or for the Suppression of Riot and Preservation of the Peace, to any Part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland where their Services may be required, and during the Time for which their Services shall be so required they shall be subject to all the Provisions of any Act then in force for the Punishment of Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters. V. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or Act may be repealed by any Act to be passed in this Session of Parliament. amended, &c. CAP. LV. An Act to authorize a further Advance of Money for the Relief of destitute Persons in Ireland. [25th June 1847.] HEREAS an Act was passed in the present Session of WH rary Advance to sioners acting in execution of recited Act. Parliament, intituled An Act for the temporary Relief 10 & 11 Vict. of destitute Persons in Ireland, and it is necessary to authorize c. 7. a further Advance of Money for the Relief of the destitute 'Poor in Ireland, in addition to the Sum advanced by virtue of the said Act:' 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 Treasury may it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Trea- cause a temposury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or be made to Reany Three or more of them, to cause to be issued as a tempo- lief Commis. rary Advance from Time to Time, at any Time before the First Day of October in this Year, as they may find necessary, out of the growing Produce of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding Six hundred thousand Pounds, by way of Imprest, to the Relief Commissioners acting in execution of the said recited Act, to be by them applied for the Purposes specified in the said Act, by way of Loan on the Security of the Rates made or to be made in pursuance thereof, or of an Act passed in the Second Year of the Reign of Her Majesty, intituled An Act for the more effectual Relief of the destitute Poor 1&2 Vict. c. 56. in Ireland; and all such Sums of Money shall be repaid to the said Consolidated Fund by the said Relief Commissioners, in such Manner as the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury may direct, from and out of the Rates to be levied in the Union on behalf of which such Loan shall have been made. II. And be it enacted, That all the Clauses, Provisions, Extending ProMatters, and Things contained in the said recited Act shall be visions of recited applied and extended to this Act, and to the Sum hereby autho- Act to this Act. rized to be advanced, in such and the like Manner as if the said Clauses, Provisions, Matters, and Things had been repeated and re-enacted in this Act. CAP. LVI. An Act to make legal the Collection of certain Duties ' ment Duties levied under certain Proclamatious legalized. Indemnity to under such ment of the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, and the Territories and Dependencies thereof, certain Duties of Customs were imposed and charged upon various Goods, Wares, ' and Merchandize imported and brought into Port Natal in South Africa aforesaid, and also a certain Duty of Three Shillings per Ton upon Vessels entering the said Port: And whereas Doubts have arisen as to the sufficient legal Autho'rity of such Proclamations for imposing of the said Duties:' 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 various Duties so imposed and charged are hereby declared to have been due and payable. II. And be it enacted, That the Governor for the Time Persons acting being of the said Castle, Town, and Settlement, and its DepenProclamations. dencies, and the respective Collectors and other Officers of the Customs in the same, and all Persons whatever acting or having acted under their Orders and Directions, shall be and are hereby indemnified for having caused such Duties to be levied. 6 G. 4. c. 39. CAP. LVII. An Act to amend an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, for granting certain Powers and Authorities to the Van Diemen's Land Company. [25th June 1847.] W HEREAS by an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for granting certain Powers and Authorities to a Company to be incorporated by Charter, to be called "The • Van Diemen's Land Company," for the Cultivation and Improvement of Waste Lands in His Majesty's Island of Van • Diemen's Land, and for other Purposes relating thereto, it was amongst other things enacted, that in case His Majesty should, within Three Years after the passing of the said Act, be pleased by Charter under the Great Seal of Great Britain to declare and grant that such and so many Persons as should be named therein, and all and every such other Persons and Person as should from Time to Time be admitted Members into their Corporation, should be a Body Politic and Corporate by the Name of "The Van Diemen's Land Company," and to declare that the said Corporation so to be made and created should be established for the Purpose of cultivating Waste Lands in the said Island of Van Diemen's Land, and in any Islands or Territories which might at any future Time be made dependent thereupon, and for such other lawful Purposes as to His Majesty might seem meet, then and in that Case it should and might be lawful for the said Corporation to hold to them and their Successors such Lands, Tenements, • and 6 and Hereditaments within the said Island of Van Diemen's Land, and such Dependencies thereof as aforesaid, as should or might be granted by His Majesty to them and their Suc'cessors within the said Island or its Dependencies, or as should be contracted for and purchased or acquired by them therein, ' and to hold, alienate, sell, exchange, and dispose of all such Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments upon, under, and subject to such Conditions, Provisoes, Limitations, and Restric'tions as His Majesty by such His Charter might impose, direct, 1825, incor or prescribe: And whereas, in pursuance of the said Act, His Letters Patent, 'said Majesty was pleased, by His Letters Patent or Charter, dated 10th Nov. under the Great Seal of Great Britain, dated at Westminster, porating the the Tenth Day of November in the Year of our Lord One Van Diemen's thousand eight hundred and twenty-five and in the Sixth Land Company. "Year of His Reign, to grant and declare that certain Persons 'therein named, and all and every such other Persons and Person as from Time to Time should be admitted Members into their Corporation, should be a Body Politic and Corporate, in Name and in Deed, by the Name of "The Van Diemen's Land Company," and should by that Name have 'perpetual Succession and a Common Seal, with Power to break or alter such Seal, and by that Name should and might sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded at Law or in Equity; and it was thereby further declared, that such Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments within the said Island of Van Diemen's Land, and its Dependencies aforesaid, as 'should or might be granted by His Majesty, His Heirs or 'Successors, to the said Company and their Successors should by them be held, alienated, sold, exchanged, and disposed of, upon, under, and subject to such Conditions, Provisoes, Limitations, and Restrictions as therein-after mentioned; (that is to say,) firstly, that all Grants of Land in the said Island of Van Diemen's Land, or its Dependencies aforesaid, which might be made to the said Company by His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, should be passed under the Great Seal ⚫ of the said Island and its Dependencies, in pursuance of War'rants under the Royal Sign Manual of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors; secondly, that for and in respect of all such Lands within the said Island, or its Dependencies aforesaid, as might be granted by His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, to the said Company in Fee Simple, to be holden by them in Free and Common Soccage, there should be reserved ' and paid and payable to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, an annual Quit Rent, which should amount to the Sum of Thirty Shillings and no more, for each and every Parcel of the said Lands of One hundred Pounds Sterling; 'thirdly, that no Quit Rents should accrue due or be payable by the said Company for or in respect of any such Lands as 'aforesaid during the Term of Five Years, to be computed 'from the Date of any Grant in and by which such Lands 'might be so granted; fourthly, that upon giving Six Months 'Notice in Writing, under their Common Seal to the Gover 6 6 nor, 6 nor, Lieutenant Governor, or other Person administering the Government of the said Island and its Dependencies, it should be lawful for the said Company to redeem the Quit Rents, or any Part thereof, upon Payment into the Treasury of the said Island and its Dependencies, in British Sterling Money, of a Capital Sum equal to Twenty Times the Amount of the Rent so to be redeemed; provided always, that the Redemption of any Portion of the said Quit Rents should not exone'rate or discharge any Part of the said Lands so to be granted to the said Company from the Payment of the whole or any Part of the Quit Rents remaining unredeemed; fifthly, that the said Company should employ upon the Lands so to be granted to them such a Number of Convicts as should at the least be equal to the Number of free Labourers employed thereupon, if the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or other 'Person administering the Government for the Time being ' of the said Island and its Dependencies, should be able and willing to supply a sufficient Number of Convicts for that Purpose; sixthly, that the said Company should at their own Expence employ fit and proper Persons, not being or having 'been Convicts, to act as Superintendents of the Convicts so to be employed by them, in the Proportion at least of One such 'Superintendent to every Fifty Convicts; seventhly, that no Land granted to the said Company by His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, should by the said Company be granted, bargained, sold, conveyed, demised, or alienated for or during a Period of Five Years, to be computed from the Date of the Grant from His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, in which any such Lands might be comprised; and if any such Grant, Bargain, Sale, Conveyance, Demise, or Alienation should during any such Period as aforesaid be 'made or executed, the Lands therein comprised should be and become absolutely forfeited to and vested in His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors; eighthly, that the said Lands 'to be granted to the said Company by His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, should be held by them in Mortmain, and be absolutely inalienable by them, except upon the Terms and ⚫ Conditions following; (that is to say,) that it should be lawful for the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or other Person administering the Government of the said Island and its Dependencies, and the Executive Council thereof, and they were thereby required, upon Application to them for that Purpose made by the said Company, to direct the Surveyor General or Deputy Surveyor General for the Time being of the said Island and its Dependencies to inquire and report whether the Sum of Two thousand five hundred Pounds Sterling had been laid out and expended by the said Company in the Formation of Roads, the Erection of Buildings, the Cultivation, clearing, fencing, draining, or other Improve ments of any such Lands; and if the said Surveyor General or Deputy Surveyor General should report to the said Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or other Person administer 6 6 |