tution, if the said Royal Naval Asylum should for ever hereafter be incorporated with, and the Buildings and Funds thereof be 'transferred to and be administered by the said Commissioners ' and Governors of the said Royal Hospital in their Corporate Capacity;' Be it therefore enacted by the King'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 Messuage, Tenement or Buildings, with the Land, Hereditaments and Premises now held and used for the Purposes of the Royal Naval Asylum, adjoining to the Royal Park at Greenwich aforesaid in the County of Kent, together with the Dwelling House, Gardens, Buildings, Yard and Premises nearly adjoining thereto, and in the Tenure or Occupation of Richard Smith, Esquire, Clerk of the Check of the said Royal Hospital, and all Stocks, Funds, Monies, Revenues and Arrears of every Description, belonging to or held in trust for the said Institution called The Royal Naval Asylum, shall, from and immediately after the passing of this Act, be divested out of all other Persons whatsoever, and shall be vested and are hereby declared for ever hereafter to be vested in and to belong to the Corporation of the Commissioners and Governors of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, in the County of Kent. The Premises now used for the Royal Naval Asylum, &c. and all Stocks and Funds belonging to the Trust, vested in the Corporation of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich. of Greenwich Hospital may make Rules for Royal Naval Asylum. II. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful Commissioners for the said Commissioners and Governors of the Royal Hospital and Governors for Seamen at Greenwich in the County of Kent, and they are hereby fully authorized and required, to make such Rules, Orders and Regulations respecting the said Establishment and the Officers and Servants employed in and about the same, and for maintaining, carrying on, managing, providing for and directing the School heretofore called The Royal Naval Asylum, and for the Maintenance, Education and Clothing of such Children as are now in the said School, or as shall hereafter be admitted thereto, for the Purpose of their being educated and maintained in the said School, and for putting them out to the Sea Service, or otherwise, as to the said Commissioners and Governors of the said Royal Hospital shall seem necessary and expedient. CA P. XXVII. 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. [10th June 1825.] WHEREAS an c.12. HEREAS an Act was passed in the Fifty ninth Year of 59 G.2. c. 12. • Act to amend the Laws for Relief of the Poor, and which said 'Act extends only to that Part of the United Kingdom called England: And Whereas it would be expedient that certain Provisions in the said Act should be extended to Scotland, in so far as the same relate to Chelsea and other Pensioners:' May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, I 4 and Pensions to &c. may be have advanced Money for their Support. Form of Assignment to be attested by Justice, and transmitted to Paymaster of a and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the I [naming the Pensioner or other Applicant, and stating such • Heritors and Kirk Session of the Parish of the next Payment of the Pension at the Rate of per and payable from 'to secure to the said Parish of • of the Sum of weekly Sum of in order the Repayment advanced to me [or of the ordered or agreed to be advanced to me, as the Case may be] by such Heritors and Kirk • Session. Signed by the above named before me, One of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace ' for ‹ Day of this And every such Assignment, attested by One of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace of any quarterly or other Payment payable by the Commissioners for the Affairs of the Royal Hospitals at Chelsea or Greenwich, or by the Paymaster of the Royal Marines, the Forces, &c. or the Treasurer of the Board of Ordnance respectively, and made as aforesaid to the Heritors and Kirk Session of any Parish, shall be transmitted by such Heritors and Kirk Session, at least One Month before such Payment shall become due, under Cover, addressed to the Paymaster General of His Majesty's Forces, with the Words "Chelsea Pensioner" written thereon; or to the Paymaster of the Pensions at Greenwich Hospital, with the Words "Greenwich Pensioner" written thereon; or to the Paymaster of the Royal Marines, with the Words "Royal Marines Pensioner" written thereon; or to the Secretary of the Board of Ordnance, with the Words "Ordnance Pensioner" written thereon, who shall respectfully cause the said Payment to be made to the Heritors and Kirk Session of the Parish, for whose Security the Assignment shall have been made, or to the Treasurer of the said Kirk Session, in the same Manner as the Payment would have been made to the Person assigning the same, if no such Assignment had been made; and such Heritors and Kirk Session, or the Treasurer of the said Kirk Session, are, and is hereby authorized authorized to receive the same, and to retain thereout for the Use of the Parish, so much as shall have been advanced and paid on Security thereof, and forthwith to pay the Residue (if any there shall be) to the Pensioner or Person by whom such Assignment shall have been made; and if any Question shall arise between Questions as to the Pensioner or Person making any such Assignment, and the the Amount due on AssignHeritors and Kirk Session of any Parish, touching the Amount ment to be which shall be due and payable to them by virtue of any such settled by a Assignment, the same shall be determined in a summary Way, by Justice. One of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace, and his Order and Determination therein shall be final and conclusive: Provided, that no such Assignment shall entitle the Heritors and Kirk Session to whom the same shall be made, to receive the Pension or Allowance purporting to be thereby assigned, if the Party assigning the same shall die before the Time when such Pension or other Allowance would have become payable to him, if no such Assignment thereof had been made. Two Justices may order Payons of Per ment of Pen sons leaving their Families chargeable, to be made to Kirk Sessions. II. And be it further enacted, That when any Pensioner or other Person entitled to or in Receipt of any such Pension or other Allowance as aforesaid, shall leave his Wife or Family chargeable, or suffer them to become chargeable to any Parish, it shall be lawful for Two or more Justices, upon Complaint thereof to them made and duly verified by any One or more of the Heritors or Members of Kirk Session of such Parish, to direct, by Order under their Hands, that the next Payment which shall become due, of such Pension or other Allowance, shall be made to the Heritors and Kirk Session of the Parish to which such Wife or Family shall have become chargeable, or to the Treasurer of the said Kirk Session; and any One or more of such Heritors or Members of such Kirk Session shall transmit such Order to the aforesaid Commissioners for the Affairs of the Royal Hospitals at Chelsea or Greenwich, or the Secretary of the Board of Ordnance respectively, in like Manner as any Assignment is herein before directed to be transmitted to the Paymaster General of His Majesty's Forces, and the Paymasters of Pensions at Greenwich, the Paymaster of the Royal Marines, and the Secretary of the Board of Ordnance, as the Case may be; which said Paymaster General, or Paymaster of Pensions at Greenwich, or the Treasurer of the Board of Ordnance, shall thereupon, and upon sufficient Proof being given that the Person whose Pension or other Allowance shall be directed to be paid, shall have been living when the same shall become payable and would have been entitled to receive the same if no such Order had been made, cause the said Payment to be made to the Heritors and Kirk Session of the Parish for whose Security such Order shall have been made, or to the Treasurer of the said Kirk Session; and the Heritors and Kirk Session receiving any such Pension or other Allowance by virtue of any such Order, shall retain and apply the same, or so much thereof as shall have been actually expended for the Purposes aforesaid, for the Use and Indemnity of the Parish, and shall pay the Overplus (if any there shall be) Overplus to to the Pensioner or Person entitled thereto; and upon Receipt Pensioner, of any such Order as aforesaid, by which the Pension or other Allowance to be mentioned therein shall be directed to be paid to such Heritors and Kirk Session as aforesaid, the Payment Proof given of the Life of such Persons, thereof Rates of Post age to be taken for Conveyance of Letters between Great Britain and Ireland, by Liverpool. Rates. No higher Rates to be charged than if sent by Holyhead. Powers of Acts extended to this Act. thereof may be suspended, until sufficient Proof shall have been given to entitle the Heritors and Kirk Session of the Parish in such Order named, to receive the Money thereby directed to be paid to them. An Act for granting Rates of Postage for the Conveyance of WHEREAS it hath been found necessary, for the Convid nience and Improvement of Trade and Commerce, and for the more speedy Conveyance of Letters and Packets between 'Great Britain and Ireland, to establish Packet Boats between the Port of Liverpool in the County of Lancaster, and the Port of Dublin in Ireland;' Be it therefore enacted by the King'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 passing of this Act, it shall and may be lawful to and for His Majesty's Postmaster General, and his Deputy and Deputies, by him thereunto sufficiently authorized, to and for the Use of His Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, to demand, have, receive and take, for the Port and Conveyance of all and every the Letters and Packets that shall be carried or conveyed by Packet Boats to or from the Port of Liverpool aforesaid, from or to the Port of Dublin aforesaid, or from or to any other convenient Port or Ports in Ireland, over and above all other Rates payable for the Postage and Conveyance of such Letters and Packets, a Packet Postage, according to the Rates and Sums in Sterling Money hereinafter mentioned (the same being rated either by the Letter or by the Ounce); that is to say, for every Single Letter Eight Pence; for every Double Letter, One Shilling and Four Pence; for every Treble Letter, Two Shillings; and for every Ounce, Two Shillings and Eight Pence; and so in proportion for every Letter or Packet of greater Weight than an Ounce. II. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That no Letter or Packet sent by the Post from or to any Place or Places in Great Britain, to or from Dublin, or any other Port or Ports in Ireland, by way of Liverpool, shall be charged or chargeable with an higher Rate of Postage than such Letters and Packets would be rated and liable to pay if they were sent by way of Holyhead; any Thing herein before contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding. III. And be it further enacted, That all the Powers, Provisions, former Postage Privileges, Advantages, Disabilities, Penalties, Forfeitures and Distribution thereof, and all Clauses and other Matters and Things contained in any Act or Acts of Parliament in force at the Time of the passing this Act, relating to the Post Office, or any Rates or Duties payable on the Port or Conveyance of Letters or Packets, and not repealed or altered by this Act, shall, so far as the same are applicable, continue in force and be applied and extended, and shall be construed to apply and extend to this present Act, and to the Rates and Duties hereby granted, as fully and effectually, to to all Intents and Purposes, as if the same had been particularly repeated and reenacted in the Body of this Act. IV. And be it further enacted, That the Monies to arise by Application of the Rates and Duties aforesaid, except the Monies which shall Rates. be necessary to defray such Expences as shall be incurred in the Management and Collection of the same, shall be paid into the Receipt of the Exchequer at Westminster, and be carried to and made Part of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. V. And be it further enacted, That if any Person or Persons In Action for shall be at any Time or Times sued, molested or prosecuted, for executing Act. any Thing by him, her or them done or executed in pursuance of this Act, or of any Clause, Matter or Thing herein contained, such Person and Persons shall and may plead the General Issue, and General Issue. give the Special Matter in evidence for his, her or their Defence ; and if upon the Trial a Verdict shall pass for the Defendant or Defendants, or the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs shall become nonsuited, then such Defendant or Defendants shall have Treble Costs awarded Treble Costs. to him, her or them, against such Plaintiff or Plaintiffs. દ WH CA P. XXIX. An Act to repeal an Act made in the Second Year of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary, for the discouraging the Importation of Thrown Silk. [10th June 1825.] HEREAS an Act was made in the Second Year of the 2W. & M. Reign of King William and Queen Mary, intituled An Sess. 1. c. 9. "Act for the discouraging the Importation of Thrown Silk: And Whereas it is expedient that the said Act should be repealed;' Be it therefore enacted by the King'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 passing repealed. of this Act, the said recited Act for discouraging the Importation of Thrown Silk shall be and the same is hereby repealed. CA P. XXX. An Act to amend an Act of the Fourth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, for the better Administration of Justice in the Court of Chancery in Ireland. [10th June 1825.] W HEREAS by an Act passed in the Fourth Year of the 4G.4. c.61. Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act for the $1. • better Administration of Justice in the Court of Chancery in Ireland, it was among other Things enacted, that it shall be lawful for the several Officers and their respective Deputies and Clerks, in, of or belonging to the said Court of Chancery, mentioned and described in the Tables to the said Act annexed, to ask, demand, have, receive, take and accept the several Fees, Payments and Sums of Money in the said Tables to the said Act annexed respectively mentioned, and none other or greater Fees or Sums of Money whatever, under the Regulations and Penalties in the said Act mentioned, expressed and contained: And Whereas the Fees payable to the Chief Examiners of the said Court, under ' • the |