An Act to apply the sum of Six million pounds out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the year ending the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight. (25th February 1878.)

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:

1. The Commissioners of Her Majesty Treasury for the time being may issue out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and apply towards making good the supply granted to Her Majesty for the service of the year ending on the thirtyfirst day of March one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight the sum of six million pounds.

2. The Commissioners of the Treasury may borrow from time to time on the credit of the said sum, any sum or sums not exceeding in the whole the sum of six million pounds, and shall repay the moneys so borrowed with interest not exceeding five pounds per centum per annum out of the growing produce of the Consolidated Fund at any period not later than the next succeeding quarter to that in which the said moneys were borrowed.

Any sums so borrowed shall be placed to the credit of the account of Her Majesty's Exchequer, and shall form part of the said Consolidated Fund, and be available in any manner in which such fund is available.

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5. Short title.

An Act to raise the sum of Six million pounds by Exchequer Bonds, Exchequer Bills, or Treasury Bills.

(25th February 1878.)

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 raising 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:

1. Towards raising the supply granted to Her Majesty for the service of the year ending on the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, at any time or times not later than the said thirtyfirst day of March, to raise any sum or sums, not exceeding in the whole six million pounds, by the issue of Exchequer bonds, Exchequer bills, or Treasury bills in manner provided by the Exchequer Bills and Bonds Act, 1866, and the Treasury Bills Act, 1877, so, however, that no

Exchequer bond shall be made out for any sum less than one hundred pounds.

Every Exchequer bond issued in pursuance of this Act shall provide for the paying off of such bond at par at any period not exceeding three years nor less than twelve months from the date of such bond.

2. The interest on all Exchequer bonds issued in pursuance of this Act shall be charged upon and issued out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, or out of the growing produce thereof.

The principal money secured by every Exchequer bond issued in pursuance of this Act shall be repaid out of money provided by Parliament for the purpose.

3. All money raised in pursuance of this Act shall be paid into the Exchequer.

4. Section fifteen of the Exchequer Bills and Bonds Act, 1866, (which section relates to the forgery of Exchequer bills,) shall apply to all Exchequer bonds issued in pursuance of this Act in like manner as if it were herein enacted with the substitution of Exchequer bond for Exchequer bill.

5. This Act may be cited as the Exchequer Bills and Bonds Act, 1878, and together with the Exchequer Bills and Bonds Act, 1866, and the Treasury Bills Act, 1877, may be cited as the Exchequer and Treasury Bills Acts, 1866 to 1878.

fied from the right of voting in the Election of Members to serve in Par liament by reason of their underletting such Dwelling-houses for short (25th February 1878.)

terms.

WHEREAS questions have arisen upon the occupation required by the third section of the Representation of the People Act, 1867:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal,

follows:

1. This Act shall be cited for all purposes as the House Occupiers Disqualification Removal Act, 1878.

2. From and after the passing of this Act every man shall be entitled to be registered and to vote under the provisions of the said section notwithstanding that during a part of the qualifying period not exceeding four months in the whole he shall by letting or otherwise have permitted the qualifying premises to be occupied as a fur. nished house by some other person.

An Act to extend the hours of Polling at Parliamentary Elections in the Metropolis. (25th February 1878.)

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:

1. At every election held after the passing of this Act to return a member or members to serve in Parliament for any of the boroughs named in the Schedule to this Act, the poll, if taken, shall commence at eight o'clock in the forenoon and