AND whereas it is expedient that such aid as hereinafter is mentioned should be provided out of the Consolidated Fund, for the payment of the interest and the discharge of the principal of the said sums remaining due as aforesaid, and mentioned in the said Schedule ; 5 BE it therefore Enacted, That the Lighthouse tolls which from and after the passing of this Act shall be levied and received by the said Master, Wardens and Assistants, shall be applied by them to the purposes hereinafter mentioned; (that is to say)

The maintenance of the Lighthouses now under the management
of the said Master, Wardens and Assistants:

The payment of the principal of the debts now due and owing on
the security of the light dues, and mentioned in the Sche-
dule hereunto annexed; and so far as respects the sum of
Twenty-five thousand Pounds, part of the said light dues,
subject and without prejudice to the purposes aforesaid, the
same may be applied by the said Master, Wardens and
Assistants, in payment to persons now in the receipt of
pensions from the said Master, Wardens and Assistants, of
the pensions now enjoyed by them, so far as the said Master,
Wardens and Assistants may think fit to continue the same;
and as to the overplus, if any, of the said sum of Twenty-
five thousand Pounds, and as to the whole thereof, as soon
as all such pensions shall have ceased the same shall be applied
until Parliament shall otherwise direct for the benefit of poor
mariners, their widows and orphans, as the said Master,
Wardens and Assistants may think fit:

The salaries of the elder brethren :

The subsisting compensation allowances (if any) which have
been granted under the said General Lighthouse Act:

The salaries and superannuation allowances of the officers and
servants of the said Master, Wardens and Assistants:

The expenses of their establishment, the purchase of land for
and the erection of new Lighthouses, and other expenses inci-
dental to the execution of their duties:

35 And that as respects any surplus of the said light dues which may
from time to time remain unapplied to the purposes aforesaid, the
same shall be invested by the said Master, Wardens and Assistants,
either in the purchase of Bank Annuities or of Exchequer Bills, and
such Bank Annuities and Exchequer Bills, and the interest thereof,
shall be applicable, as occasion shall require, to the same purposes as
the said Lighthouse tolls.

Mode and objects in
Trinity House
Light Dues are to

and to which the

be applied.

11.

Regulations of the

Board of Mercantile

house Tolls to be

confirmed by Her

And be it Enacted, That the said hereinbefore-recited enactments in the said Act of the third year of the reign of King GEORGE the Fourth, and in the said General Lighthouse Act, which authorize the said Master, Wardens and Assistants, the said Northern Lights Commissioners, and the said Ballast Corporation respectively, to reduce, 5 alter and modify Lighthouse tolls, and to make regulations for the purpose of relieving vessels from light dues or tolls, or for the purpose of substituting one class of toll for another, or for the purpose of altering the time or place of payment of Lighthouse tolls, shall be repealed.

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And be it Enacted, That the said Board of Mercantile Marine may make regulations for the purpose of reducing, taking off or modifying the tolls now or hereafter to be payable in respect of any Lighthouse, and for reviving, re-establishing, increasing or otherwise modifying any such tolls so reduced, taken off or modified, and for the purpose 15 of relieving certain vessels from the tolls payable to the said Master, Wardens and Assistants, Commissioners and Corporation respectively, in respect of any Lighthouses, upon such terms and to such extent as to the said Board of Mercantile Marine shall seem proper; or for the purpose of substituting a tonnage duty not exceeding One Shilling 20 per register ton for each year, or any other class of toll or other payment in respect of vessels, or any particular description of vessels, in lieu of the tolls to which such vessels may be subject at the time of the making such regulations respectively; or for the purpose of altering the times or places, or either of them, at which any tolls in respect of any 25 Lighthouses shall be payable, and may make other regulations revoking or altering any previous regulation; and from and after the time when such regulation shall take effect, the tolls thereby made payable shall be paid by the owners and masters of the vessels mentioned therein (unless otherwise directed by such regulation), and be recoverable by 30 the said Master, Wardens and Assistants, Commissioners and Corporation respectively, at such time and place and in such manner as were the tolls in lieu whereof the same shall have been so made payable.

And be it Enacted, That no such regulation shall take effect until Marine as to Light- the same shall have been submitted by the said Board of Mercantile 35 Marine to, and shall have been assented to and confirmed by Her Majesty in Council. Majesty in Council, and such assent and confirmation shall have been signified in writing to the said Board of Mercantile Marine, nor until One Month after the said Board of Mercantile Marine shall have caused notice of such regulation, to be published in the "London 40 Gazette:" Provided always, That every such regulation shall be transmitted by the said Board of Mercantile Marine to such of the said three several Lighthouse Boards as may be entitled to the tolls to be diminished, increased or modified thereby, Fourteen Days at the

least

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least before such regulation shall be submitted to Her Majesty in Council; and it shall be lawful for the Lighthouse Board or Boards to which such regulation shall be so sent, to transmit to the Board of Mercantile Marine any objections in writing to such regulation; and the said Board of Mercantile Marine shall submit such objections, with their remarks thereon, to Her Majesty in Council at the same time with the regulation so objected to: Provided nevertheless, That except in case an annual tonnage duty, not exceeding One Shilling per register ton per annum, be instituted in lieu of light dues under the 10 power of substitution hereby given, the Lighthouse tolls shall not at any time be increased by any regulations hereby authorized to be made by the said Board of Mercantile Marine beyond the maximum which might have been leviable by the said Master, Wardens and Assistants, the said Commissioners and the said Ballast Corporation 15 respectively, if this Act had not been passed.

Tolls.

12.

And be it Enacted, That from time to time, as often as any altera- Publication of the tion in the amount of any such tolls, or any new regulation, or alteration of any existing regulation concerning the same, shall be made, the said Master, Wardens and Assistants, Commissioners or Corporation 20 respectively, shall, with all convenient speed, after the same shall have been notified to them by the said Board of Mercantile Marine, cause fresh Tables of such tolls, and a summary of every such new regulation or alteration to be laid before the said Board of Mercantile Marine, who shall authenticate such Tables (if correct) by sealing 25 the same; and the said Master, Wardens and Assistants, Commissioners and Corporation respectively, shall cause printed copies thereof to be delivered at Her Majesty's Custom-houses in London, Edinburgh and Dublin respectively, and forwarded to the principal Officer of Customs at each port or place in the United Kingdom for which 30 any such Officer shall be appointed; and the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Customs for the port of London, Edinburgh and Dublin respectively, and all other Her Majesty's principal Officers of Customs any such port or place to whom any such copies shall be so delivered or forwarded, shall cause the same to be kept constantly hung 35 up and preserved, as long as the same shall remain in force, in some conspicuous part of Her Majesty's Custom-houses in London, Edinburgh and Dublin respectively, or other the Custom-house for any such port or place, so that the said Tables may be seen and read by all persons having any business in such Custom-houses respectively; and the 40 tolls specified in any such Table, when so sealed as aforesaid, shall be the lawful tolls or duties payable to the said Master, Wardens and Assistants, Commissioners and Corporation respectively, and the same, and none other, shall be received by them respectively upon the vessels and in respect of the Lighthouses therein referred to, and in such man

for

13. Power to the Lords

of the Treasury to advance annually out of the Consolidated Fund

ner and form as shall be directed therein, or in such summary so therewith drawn up and entered as aforesaid; and a copy of every such Table, examined with the original so entered and so purporting to be signed as aforesaid, shall be deemed and taken in all courts of law and other places to be evidence of the right to recover such tolls according 5 to the tenor thereof.

And be it Enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Lord High Treasurer or the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury for the time being, or any Three or more of them, and he or they is and are hereby 30,000 l. in payment authorized and empowered, until the Thirty-first of December, Eighteen 10

of Debt and Inte

rest mentioned in the Schedule.

14.

This Act and the
General Lighthouse
Act to be construed

as one Act.

15.

Act may be amended this Session.

hundred and
yearly and every year out of the Consolidated
Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to pay
the said Master, Wardens and Assistants the sum of Thirty thousand
Pounds, by Two half-yearly payments, on the First day of February
and the First day of August in each year, the first payment to be made 15
on the First day of February One thousand eight hundred and Forty-
nine; and the said Master, Wardens and Assistants shall apply the
same in payment of the interest of the said debts mentioned in the Schedule
hereunto annexed; and as to the surplus (if any) of such annual sum,
the same shall be applied towards discharge of the principal of such 20
debts.

And be it Enacted, That the said General Lighthouse Act and this Act shall be construed as one Act, except so far as the provisions of this Act may repeal or alter the provisions of the said General Lighthouse Act.

And be it Enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in the present Session of Parliament.

SCHEDULE.

SCHEDULE.

£.

300,000 due from the Master, Wardens and Assistants to the Bank

of England.

57,000 due from the Master, Wardens and Assistants to vario us
31,500
persons on bond.

51,160 due to the Master, Wardens and Assistants for advances made from the Pilotage Fund towards the purchase of Lighthouses.

122,515 due to the Master, Wardens and Assistants for advances 7,325J

£.569,500

for the like purpose.