Complaints for out the Con Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: 1. From and after the First Day of September One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, Complaints for the Recovery brought with- of Penalties under the said recited Act may be brought without the Concourse of the Lord Advocate, anything in the said Act to the contrary notwithstanding; provided always, that the Expenses of every such Complaint shall be in the Discretion of the Sheriff, Magistrate, or Justices before whom the same may be brought, and he or they shall determine the Amount thereof. course of the Lord Advocate. Certain Burghs to include the Area within 2. Burghs of Barony or Regality which send or contribute to send a Member to Parliament shall, for the Purposes of the Parliamen- the said recited Act and this Act, be deemed to include, and shall include, the whole Area contained within the Parliamentary Boundaries thereof. tary Bounda ries. 8 & 9 Vict. c. 83. Parochial bination may CAP. XVIII. An Act to make Provision for the Dissolution of 1. It shall be lawful for the Parochial Board of any ComBoard of Combination of Parishes which may have been combined under the appoint Special Provisions of the said recited Act, at One of its fixed General Meeting for Meetings, to resolve that it is expedient that the Combination Application should, as to all or as to certain of the Parishes thereof, be for Dissolution. dissolved, and thereupon to appoint a Special Meeting of the Board Board for the Purpose of considering whether an Application. should be made to the Board of Supervision, craving the said Board of Supervision so to dissolve such Combination: Provided always, that Notice shall have been given by the Member or Members of the Parochial Board intending, at such Meeting, to propose such Resolution, of his or their Intention then to propose the same, to every other Member thereof, by Letter addressed to each such Member at his ordinary Place of Residence, and put into the Post Office at least One Month prior to such General Meeting; and the Special Meeting, if resolved to be appointed, shall be appointed to be held on a Day not sooner than Three Weeks nor later than Six Weeks after the Date of such Resolution. Meeting. 2. Intimation shall be given of the Special Meeting ap- Intimation pointed as aforesaid by Letters addressed by the Inspector of of Special the Poor to every Member of the Parochial Board at his usual Place of Residence, and put into the Post Office at least One Fortnight before the Day of Meeting, and specifying the Time and Place of Meeting, and the Purpose for which such Meeting has been appointed to be held. 3. At such Special Meeting, if the Parochial Board shall Special Meetunanimously, or by a Majority of at least Two Thirds, agree rize Applicaing may authoto the proposed Application being made, but not otherwise, it tion to Board shall be lawful for the Parochial Board to authorize an Appli- of Supervision. cation, in their Name, to be transmitted to the Board of Supervision, praying such Board of Supervision to dissolve the Combination as to all or any of the Parishes thereof, and the Chairman of the Parochial Board shall thereupon sign and forthwith transmit to the Board of Supervision such Application accordingly; and the said Parochial Board may also transmit to the Board of Supervision a Statement of their Reasons in support of such Application; and any Members of the Parochial Board who may dissent from the Resolution to make such Application may, within Ten Days after the Date of such Resolution, give in to the Chairman a Statement of their Reasons of Dissent, which Statement the Chairman shall forthwith transmit to the Board of Supervision. 4. The Board of Supervision, on receiving any such Ap- Board of Suplication, shall make such Inquiry as to them shall seem pervision may thereupon disnecessary and proper; and the said Board of Supervision after solve Combisuch Inquiry shall have Power, if satisfied, from any Change nation; in the Condition and State of the Parishes, or on consideration of the Results of the Experience already had of the Administration of the Poor since the Parishes were combined, that it is not for the Advantage of the Parishes, or of the Poor thereof, that the Administration of the Affairs of the Poor should be continued in these Parishes in a State of Combination, to dissolve the Combination as to all or any of the Parishes thereof in Terms of the Prayer of the Application, or they may, if they see Cause, refuse such Appli cation. and decide all Questions between the Parishes. After Dissolu ment of Poor to proceed as if Parishes never combined. 5. If the Board of Supervision shall dissolve any such Combination as aforesaid, they shall further, after such Inquiry as they shall deem necessary and proper, determine all Questions as to the Liability of the several Parishes which had constituted the Combination to support particular Paupers in Time to come, and as to the Obligations incumbent on the Combination, and the Shares thenceforward to be borne by the several Parishes thereof, and as to any Property belonging to the Combination, and the Division or Destination to be thereafter made of it, and any Claims of Compensation thence arising; and generally they shall have Power to dispose of all Questions and Claims between the several Parishes in reference to the Affairs of the Poor in so far as affected by the Dissolution as aforesaid, and all Decisions and Determinations by the Board of Supervision shall be final and conclusive, and shall not be subject to Review by any Court, whether by Appeal, Advocation, Suspension, Reduction, or otherwise. 6. On any such Dissolution taking place as aforesaid, the tion, Manage Management of the Poor in every Parish which shall, in consequence, have ceased to form Part of a Combination of Parishes, and the Administration of the Laws relating to the Relief of the Poor in such Parish and to the raising the necessary Funds for their Relief, shall, from and after a Day to be named by the Board of Supervision as the Date at. which the Dissolution shall take effect, and subject to the Decisions and Determinations of the said Board herein-before mentioned, be carried on in every such Parish as if no such Combination had ever been formed. If Application refused not to be renewed till after Lapse of Five Years. 7. If the Board of Supervision shall refuse any such Application for Dissolution as aforesaid, it shall not be lawful for the Parochial Board whose Application has been refused to renew such Application till after the Lapse of Five Years from the Date at which it was so refused. CAP. XIX. An Act to apply the Sum of Ten Millions out of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. Most Gracious Sovereign, [7th June 1861.] 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, Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: Service of the out of the Con 1. There shall and may be issued and applied, for or towards There shall be making good the Supply granted to Her Majesty for the Ser- applied for the vice of the Year One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, Year 1861 the the Sum of Ten Millions out of the Consolidated Fund of Sum of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the 10,000,000l. Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury of the United King- solidated Fund. dom 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. 10,000,000!. of Exchequer Bills to be made out in manner pre scribed by 48 G. 3. c. l., 4 & 5 W. 4. c. 15., and 2. 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 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 Ten 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 5 & 6 Vict. in the Forty-eighth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King c. 66. 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. Acts extended 3. All and every the Clauses, Provisoes, Powers, Privileges, The Clauses, Advantages, Penalties, Forfeitures, and Disabilities contained &c. in recited in the said Acts shall be applied and extended to the Exchequer to this Act. 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. Bills. 4. 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. 10,000,000l. of this Act, notwithstand 5. 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 take, accept, and receive the Exchequer Bills authorized to be may advance made out in pursuance of this Act, and to advance or lend to on the Credit Her Majesty, at the Receipt of the Exchequer at Westminster, upon the Credit of the Sum granted by this Act, out of 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 Ten 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. ing 5 & 6 W. & M. c. 20. Bills prepared delivered to Monies raised by Bills to be Services voted applied to the by the Com mons. Exchequer Bills made chargeable upon the growing Produce of the Consolidated Fund. 6. It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, to cause such Exchequer 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. 7. 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. 8. 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 chargeable and charged upon the growing Produce of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, at any Period not later than 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, 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. XX. An Act to continue certain Duties of Customs and Inland Revenue for the Service of Her Majesty, and to alter and repeal certain other Duties. Most Gracious Sovereign, [12th June 1861.] E, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, towards raising the necessary Supplies to defray Your Majesty's Public Expenses, and making an Addition to the Public Revenue, have freely and voluntarily resolved to give and grant unto Your Majesty the several |