Secretary of the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, and thereupon the like Presentment or Order shall be made, the like Proceedings taken, the like Powers exercised, and Acts and Matters and Things whatsoever done and executed, for rendering effectual the Levy and Repay, ment of every Sum so certified as last aforesaid, as are hereinbefore directed, authorized, and required for rendering effectual the Levy and Repayment of any other Sum certified to be due by such Chief or Under Secretary to any such Secretary of the Grand Jury as aforesaid pursuant to the Provisions herein-before in that Behalf contained: Provided always, that before taking any such Proceedings as aforesaid for procuring the Repayment of any Money which may have been or be so presented, but which shall remain unpaid by reason of the absconding, Insolvency, or Default of any such Treasurer, Collector, or other Person empowered to collect or receive the same as aforesaid, the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall cause the Accounts relating to such Issues or Advances and Repayments to be audited and the Balances remaining due to be ascertained by the Officer charged for the Time being with the Duty of auditing the Accounts of the Treasurers of Counties and Counties of Cities and Towns in Ireland under an Act passed in the First 1&2 Vict. c. 53. Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to provide more effectual Means to make Treasurers of Counties and Counties of Cities in Ireland account for Public Monies, and to secure the same; and such Officer is hereby authorized and required to audit the said Accounts and ascertain such Balances, and shall for that Purpose have all such Powers and Authorities as he may now by Law have for the Audit of the said Treasurers Accounts; and the said Officer shall cause a Notice of the Time appointed for the Audit of such Accounts as regards each County respectively to be given to the Secretary of the Grand Jury of such County, who shall lay the same before the Grand Jury of such County at the next ensuing Assizes; and they shall have Power, if they shall so think fit, to direct the Treasurer of the County to attend such Audit with all proper Vouchers and Documents; and the Expence of the Attendance of such Treasurer, and of any other Person whom such Officer shall deem it necessary to examine on the Matters aforesaid, shall be defrayed to the Extent that shall be approved of by such Officer, and not otherwise, out of the Fee Fund in the said last-recited Act mentioned, and the Amount so disbursed in respect of the Audit of the Accounts of each County shall be levied off each such County by Grand Jury Presentments, together with and in addition to the Amount of the Fee by the said last-mentioned Act directed to be so levied. Penalty on Officers neglecting or refusing to act hereunder. XXIII. And be it enacted, That if any Secretary of a Grand Jury, Treasurer of any County, or any Churchwarden of any Parish in Ireland, or any Collector of Grand Jury or Parish Cess, or other Person, shall neglect or refuse to perform any of the Duties which by this Act he is required to perform, he shall for every such Offence forfeit and pay to the Queen's most most Excellent Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, the Sum of Fifty Pounds, to be recovered by Information in any One of Her Majesty's Superior Courts of Record in Ireland, in addition to any other Liabilities which may attach on him or them, or his or their Sureties, Lands, and Tenements, by reason of such Neglect or Default, or by reason of the Receipt of any Monies under this Act; all which Monies, when received by any such Treasurer, Churchwarden, Collector, or other Person, shall be deemed to be received by him or them to the Use of Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, and to be recoverable and accounted for accordingly as in other Cases of Debtors and Accountants to the Crown. XXIV. And be it enacted, That all and every such Officers Officers, Colas aforesaid, and all Persons respectively employed in the Col- lectors, &c. lection, Receipt, or Custody of Grand Jury or Parish Cess, shall accountable. be answerable for, and that all Securities entered into by such Persons in respect of such Employment shall respectively extend to, all Monies to be levied by Grand Jury Presentment, Parochial Assessment, or otherwise under this Act. XXV, And be it enacted, That in every Case in which the Grand Jury of any County at any Assizes is or may, by this Act or any other Act or Acts passed or to be passed; be required to present any Money, and in default of its being by such Act or Acts provided that some other Officer or Person shall certify to the Secretary of the Grand Jury for such County the Amount so to be presented, it shall be lawful for the Paymaster of Civil Services in Ireland, or for the Secretary of the said Commissioners of Public Works in the Case of any Presentment required to be made for the Purpose of reimbursing or repaying any Monies advanced or expended by the said Commissioners, to certify to such Secretary of the Grand Jury the Amount to be so presented, specifying in such Certificate the Act or Acts under the Authority of which such Presentment is required to be made, and whether such Money is chargeable against the Whole or any and what Division and Part of such County, and thereupon the like Presentment or Order shall be made, the like Proceedings taken, the like Powers exercised, and Acts and Matters and Things whatsoever done and executed, for rendering effectual the Levy and Payment or Repayment of every Sum so certified as last aforesaid, as are herein-before directed, authorized, and required for rendering effectual the Levy and Repayment of any Sum certified to be due by such Chief or Under Secretary to any such Secretary of the Grand Jury as aforesaid pursuant to the Provisions herein-before in that Behalf contained. Money due by be certified by of Civil Services in Ireland, unless other wise provided. XXVI. And be it enacted, That wherever the Word "County" Construction occurs in this Act, the same shall be construed to extend to and of the Word comprehend a County of a City or a County of a Town, as well as a County at large. 66 County." XXVII. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended Act may be or repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of amended, &c. Parliament. 6 6 G. 4. c. 27. CAP. LI. An Act to regulate the Payment and Assignment in WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Fifty-ninth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, 59 G. s. c. 12. intituled An Act to amend the Laws for the Relief of the Poor: And whereas another Act was passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for extending to Scotland certain Provisions of an Act for the Relief of the Poor, in so far as the same relate to Parochial Relief to Chelsea and other Pensioners: And whereas it is expedient to alter and amend the said Act of the Fifty-ninth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, and to repeal the said Act of the Sixth Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, and to make other Provisions with relation to Army, Naval, and other Pensions :' 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, That from and after the First Day of January 59 G. 3. c. 12. One thousand eight hundred and forty, so much of the said Act of the Fifty-ninth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third as directs or authorizes the Assignment of any Pension, Superannuation, or other Allowance granted in respect of Service in the Navy, Royal Marines, Army, or Ordnance for the Indemnity or Reimbursement of Parishes, and as directs or authorizes Justices to order Payment to Parish Officers of any such Pensions, upon any Pensioner or other Person entitled thereto leaving his Wife or Family chargeable to any Parish, and also the whole of the said Act of the Sixth Year of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, shall be and the same are hereby repealed. Part of and whole of 6 G. 4. c. 27. repealed. Guardians may require the Payment of Pensions to be made to them for Relief given into the Work house. II. And be it enacted, That when Relief shall be given to any Person entitled to or in receipt of any Army or Naval Pension, or any Superannuation or other Allowance in respect of his Service in the Army, Navy, Marines, or Ordnance, or any other Branch of the Military Service, or in any Civil Branch of the Army, Navy, Marines, or Ordnance, or to his Wife, or to any Person whom he may be liable to maintain, by Admission of such Pensioner, his Wife, or Person, into the Workhouse of any Union or Parish, it shall be lawful for the Guardians of such Union, by Minute, in the Form in the Schedule to this Act annexed marked (A.) with respect to any Pension payable at Chelsea Hospital, or payable out of any Funds intrusted to the Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital for the Payment of Pensions, and in the Form in the Schedule to this Act marked (B.) with respect to any Greenwich Out-pensions, and in the Form in the Schedule Schedule to this Act marked (C.) with respect to any other of the before-mentioned Pensions, Superannuation, or Allowance, to require that the next Payment which shall become due of such Pension or Allowance shall be made to such Guardians, who shall transmit a Copy of such Minute, attested by their Clerk, at least One Month before such Payment shall become due, and addressed, as to Pensions or Allowances payable at Chelsea Hospital or by the Commissioners of the said Hospital, to the Secretary of Chelsea Hospital, with the Words "Chelsea Pension" written thereon, and as to Greenwich Out-pensions to the Paymaster General, Out-pension Office, Tower Hill, with the Words "Greenwich Out-pension" written thereon, and as to all other the before-mentioned Pensions to the Paymaster General, Whitehall, London; and the Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital and Her Majesty's Paymaster General respectively shall thereupon, and upon the like Proof being given as is herein-after directed with respect to Assignments, cause Payment to be made to such Guardians; and the said Guardians shall thereupon enter upon their Minutes the Nature and Amount of Relief actually given to such Pensioner, or his Wife or other Person, and upon Application made by the said Pensioner to the Clerk of the said Guardians shall inform the said Pensioner of the Amount thereof; and the said Guardians so receiving any Pension or Allowance shall retain and apply so much thereof as will repay the Cost of Relief actually given as aforesaid for the Use and Indemnity of the Union or Parish, and shall pay the Surplus (if any) to the Pensioner or Person entitled thereto; and upon the Receipt of any such Minute as aforesaid the Payment of the Pension or other Allowance mentioned therein shall be suspended until sufficient Proof shall have been given to entitle the Guardians named in such Minute to receive the Money thereby required to be paid to them; provided that where such Relief shall not be given to the Pensioner himself the said Guardians, before transmitting any such Minute as aforesaid, shall obtain satisfactory Proof that the Person to whom such Relief shall be given is the lawful Wife of the said Pensioner, or a Person whom such Pensioner is by Law liable to maintain, which Proof shall also be entered upon the Minutes of the said Board of Guardians. certain Cases. III. And be it enacted, That when any Pensioner, or Person Authorizing entitled to or in receipt of any Pension or other Allowance as Assignment of aforesaid, shall apply for temporary Relief to the Guardians of Pension in any Union or Parish in England or Ireland, or to the Churchwardens or Overseers of any Parish in which the Administration of the Relief of the Poor has not been directed to be governed by a Board of Guardians, or not situate within any Union, so long only as such Parish is not governed by such Guardians, nor situate within any Union, or to the Heritors and Kirk Session in Scotland, or shall receive Relief from the said Guardians, Churchwardens and Overseers, or Heritors and Kirk Session, it shall be lawful for the said Guardians, or Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor, and Heritors and Kirk Session, Gg 3 Session, but not compulsory upon them, to grant such Relief in such Case, or in the event of any Pensioner receiving Relief without previous Application on his Part, and to require the Pensioner applying for or receiving the same to assign to them respectively his next quarterly Payment of Pension or other Allowance, to the Intent that such Guardians, or Church wardens and Overseers, or Heritors and Kirk Session respec tively, may receive the same, and retain for the Use of the said Union or Parish so much thereof as shall have been by them respectively advanced for the temporary Relief of such Pensioner, or of his Wife or Family residing with him in such Union or Parish; and every Assignment to be made of any such Pension or other Allowance for the Purposes and according to the Tenor of this Act shall be exempt from Stamp Duty, and shall, as to any Pensions payable at Chelsea Hospital or by the Commissioners thereof, be in the Form set out in the Schedule to this Act marked (D.), and as to Greenwich Out-pensions in the Form set out in the Schedule to this Act marked (E.), and as to all other the before-mentioned Pensions and Allowances payable by Her Majesty's Paymaster General in the Form set out in the Schedule to this Act marked (EE.); and every Assignment shall be certified by the Chairman and Clerk of the said Union at some Meeting of the Board of Guardians, or by a Churchwarden or Overseer of such Parish, or One of the Heritors, and shall be attested by One of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace; and every such Assignment shall be transmitted, within Seven Days after the same shall have been executed, and at least One Month before the Payment thereon shall become due, under Cover, addressed, as to Pensions payable at Chelsea Hospital or by the Commissioners of the said Hospital, to the Secretary of Chelsea Hospital, with the Words " Chelsea Pensioner" written thereon, and with respect to Naval Pensions to the Paymaster General, Out-pension Office, Tower Hill, with the Words "Greenwich Out-pension" written thereon, and as to all other the before-mentioned Pensions, to the Paymaster General, Whitehall, London, who shall thereupon respectively cause the Payment thereof to be made to the said Guardians of the Union or Parish, or to the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish, or to the Overseers of the Poor alone where there are no Churchwardens, or Heritors and Kirk Session, for whose Security the Assignment shall have been made, in the same Manner as the said Payment would have been made to the Person assigning the same if no such Assignment had been made; and such Guardians, or Churchwardens and Overseers, or Heritors and Kirk Session, are hereby authorized to receive the same, and to retain thereout, for the Use of the said Union or Parish, so much as shall have been advanced and paid on Security thereof; and the said Guardians, Churchwardens and Overseers, or Heritors and Kirk Session respectively, shall keep an Account in Writing of the Sum or Sums so advanced, and also, immediately upon the Receipt of the said Pension, shall pay the Residue thereof (if any) to the Pen |