Judge, or Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery, shall have full Power and Authority to make such Order touching such Costs and Expenses as such Judge or Court shall deem proper; and also to direct by whom and in what manner such Expenses shall in the first Instance be paid and borne, and in what manner the same shall be repaid and raised within the Limits of such exclusive Jurisdiction, in case there be no Treasurer or other Officer within the same, who by the Custom and Usage of such Place ought to pay the same in the first Instance, F 2 1 G. 9. c. 1. 22 G. 3. c. 82. 25 G. 3. c. 61. 27 G. 3. c. 13. 33 G. 3. c. 94. (T.) Anno Regni GEORGII IV. Britanniarum Regis, A Primo. T the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the Twenty first Day of April, Anno Domini 1820, in the First Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Fourth, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of • Great Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith; being the First Session of the Seventh Parliament of the United King'dom of Great Britain and Ireland.' CAP. I. An Act for the Support of His Majesty's Household, and of Most Gracious Sovereign, WHEREAS an Act passed in the First Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An • Act for the Support of His Majesty's Household, and of the Honour and Dignity of the Crown of Great Britain: And Whereas an Act passed in the Twenty second Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act for enabling His Majesty to discharge the Debt contracted upon His Civil List Revenues, and for preventing the same from being in Arrear for the future, by regulating the Mode of Payments out of the said Revenues, and by suppressing or regulating certain Offices 'therein mentioned, which are now paid out of the Revenues of the Civil List: And Whereas an Act passed in the Twenty fifth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act to authorise the Lord Steward of the Household, the Lord Cham'berlain, the Master of the Horse, the Master of the Robes, and 'the Lords of the Treasury respectively, to pay Bounties granted by His Majesty to Persons in low and indigent Circumstances: And Whereas an Act passed in the Twenty seventh Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act for repealing the several Duties of Customs and Excise, and granting other "Duties in lieu thereof, and for applying the said Duties together with the other Duties composing the Public Revenue; for permitting the Importation of certain Goods, Wares and Merchandise, the Produce or Manufacture of the European Dominions of the French King, into this Kingdom; ant for applying certain un'claimed Monies remaining in the Exc equer, for the Payment of 'the Annuities on Lives, to the Red tion of the National Debt: 'And Whereas an Act passed in the Thirty third Year of the 'Reign of His said late Majesty, in the Parliament of the then Kingdom of Ireland, intituled An Act for the Support of the 'Honour and Dignity of His Majesty's Crown in Ireland, and for granting to His Majesty a Civil List Establishment, under certain Provisoes and Regulatio is: And Whereas an Act passed in the Fifty fourth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty in tituled tituled An Act for the better Regulation of the Conduct of the 54 G. 9. c. 157. • Business of the Office of Works, and Expenditure thereof: And Whereas an Act passed in the Fifty sixth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act for the better Regulation 56 G.3. c. 46. of the Civil List: And Whereas an Act passed in the Fifty ninth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act for 59 G. 3. c. 22. the further Regulation of His Majesty's Household, and the Care of His Royal Person, during the Continuance of His Indisposi tion: And Whereas by the said recited Act of the First Year of 1 G. 3. c. 1. § 1. 'the Reign of His late Majesty it was enacted, that the Hereditary 'Rates and Duties, and other Duties and Payments, and the small Branches of His Majesty's Revenues therein expressed, should 'be raised, levied and collected as theretofore during the Life of His said late Majesty, and should be carried to and made Part of the Aggregate Fund; and that an Annual Rent or Sum was by the said last mentioned Act charged upon and made payable out of the said Aggregate Fund, during the Life of His said late Majesty, for the Support of His Majesty's Household, and the Honour and Dignity of the Crown: And Whereas by the said ' recited Act of the Twenty seventh Year of the Reign of His 'late Majesty, the said Rates, Duties, Payments and Revenues, 'were carried to and made Part of the Consolidated Fund during 'the Life of His late Majesty, and Provision was made in the said 'last mentioned Act for the Payment of such of the said Rates, Duties and Payments, as formed Part of the Hereditary Reve'nues of the Crown, after the Demise of His late Majesty, to His 'Heirs and Successors; and such Hereditary Rates, Duties and Payments, now belong, and are due and payable to Your Most 'Excellent Majesty: And Whereas Your Majesty has been graciously pleased to signify to Your faithful Commons, in Parliament 'assembled, That whenever their Attention should be directed to 'the Provision to be made for the Support of the Civil Government, and of the Honour and Dignity of the Crown, Your Majesty would leave entirely at their Disposal Your Majesty's In'terest in the said Hereditary Revenues; and that Your Majesty 'could not deny Yourself the Gratification of declaring, that so 'far from desiring any Arrangement which might lead to the Im' position of new Burthens upon Your People, or even diminish on 'Your Majesty's Account the Amount of the Reductions incident 'to Your Majesty's Accession to the Throne, Your Majesty could have no Wish, under Circumstances like the present, that any 'Addition whatever should be made to the Settlement adopted by • Parliament in the Year One thousand eight hundred and sixteen: 'Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of • Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled, with Hearts 'full of the warmest Duty and Gratitude, are desirous that a cer'tain and competent Revenue, for defraying the Expenses of Your Majesty's Civil Government, and supporting the Honour and Dignity of the Crown of the United Kingdom during Your Majesty's Life (which God long preserve,) may be settled upon Your Majesty as a Testimony of our unfeigned Affection to Your 'Sacred Person, by whose happy Succession to the Throne Your 'Majesty's Subjects have the strongest Assurance, that the Religion, Laws and Liberties of this Realm will be continued, and F 3 that Powers of Acts as to the Hereditary Revenues to remain in force. Hereditary Revenues and Arrears from late Demise, to be carried, during Life of His present Majesty, to the Consolidated Fund, and after cessors. that they Your Majesty's said Subjects and their Posterity may, through the Divine Goodness, enjoy every Blessing under Your Majesty's auspicious Reign; have therefore freely resolved to grant unto You, our most gracious Sovereign Lord King George the Fourth, a certain Revenue, payable out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and that the Produce of the Hereditary Revenues aforesaid be made Part of the said Consolidated Fund, during Your Majesty's Life; and do most humbly beseech 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, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That all Powers, Authorities, Provisions, Regulations and Clauses contained in the said recited Acts, or any or either of them, or in any other Act or Acts of Parliament of Great Britain or Ireland, or of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in force at the Time of the Demise of His late Majesty, as to the said Hereditary Rates, Duties, Payments and Revenues in that Part of the United Kingdom called England, and also as to the Hereditary Revenues of that Part of the United Kingdom called Ireland, and the levying and collecting, and Payment or keeping separate Accounts thereof, or computing the Amount of any such Rates, Duties, Payments or Revenues respectively, shall be and the same are hereby declared and enacted to be in full Force and Effect, and shall be used and applied for the levying, collecting, paying or keeping separate Accounts of, or computing the Amount of all or any of such Rates, Duties, Payments and Revenues, as fully and effectually to all Intents and Purposes as if the said Powers, Authorities, Provisions, Regulations and Clauses, were severally and separately re-enacted in the Body of and made Part of this Act. II. And be it further enacted, That the Produce of all the said Hereditary Rates, Duties, Payments and Revenues, in that Part of the United Kingdom called England, which, during the Life of His late Majesty, were by the said recited Acts, or any or either of them, carried to and made Part, first of the Aggregate Fund, and, after the said recited Act of the Twenty seventh Year aforesaid, of the Consolidated Fund of Great Britain, and all the said Hereditary Revenues in that Part of the United Kingdom, which were by the said recited Act of the Parliament of Ireland, of the Heirs and Suc- Thirty third Year aforesaid of the Reign of His late Majesty, carried to and made Part of the Consolidated Fund of Ireland, and which Hereditary Rates, Duties, Payments and Revenues in England and Ireland respectively, at the Time of the Demise of His late Majesty, made Part of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and all Arrears thereof which have accrued since the Demise of His late Majesty, which shall not have been applied and distributed in the Payment of any Charges thereupon respectively, shall, during the Life of His present Majesty (whom God long preserve) be carried to and made Part of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and from and after the Demise of His present Majesty (whom God long preserve) shall be payable and paid to the King's Majesty, His Heirs and Successors. III. And Ireland, to be 850,000l. in England and 207,000l. in paid out of the Consolidated Fund, for the Support of His Majesty's Household and the proportion. tioned. III. And be it further enacted, That for the Support of His Majesty's Household, and of the Honour and Dignity of the Crown, there shall be granted to His Majesty during His Life, in that Part of the United Kingdom called England, a Revenue of Eight hundred and fifty thousand Pounds, and in that Part of the United Kingdom called Ireland, a Revenue of Two hundred and seven thousand Pounds; and that the said Revenues shall be charged upon and made payable out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and shall re- of the Honour spectively commence from and immediately after the Demise of and Dignity of His said late Majesty King George the Third, and be paid to His the Crown, present Majesty during His Life (which God long preserve), with together with Preference to all other Payments which have heretofore been, or which shall or may hereafter be charged upon the same; and that the Sum of Three hundred and sixty eight thousand nine hundred and fifty six Pounds and Ten Pence in England, and Eighty nine thousand eight hundred and fifty one Pounds Twelve Shillings and Eleven Pence in Ireland, shall be issued and paid out of the said Consolidated Fund, for the Support of His Majesty's Household, and of the Honour and Dignity of the Crown, being the Proportion of the said Revenues accruing in the Period from the Twenty ninth Day of January to the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty; and that from and after the said Fifth Day of When payable. July the said annual Revenues or Sums of Money shall grow due and payable to His Majesty quarterly, at the Four most usual Days of Payment in the Year, (that is to say), the Tenth Day of October, the Fifth Day of January, the Fifth Day of April, and the Fifth Day of July, by even and equal Portions, out of the Monies of the said Consolidated Fund of the said United Kingdom; the First Quarterly Payment thereof to be made on the Tenth Day of October; and the Lord High Treasurer, or the Commissioners of Treasury auHis Majesty's Treasury, or any Three or more of them for the thorised to issue time being, shall and they are hereby authorised and required to cause the said yearly Revenues or Sums respectively, or any Arrears thereof, to be issued and applied from time to time, daily, weekly or otherwise, as soon as the same can be satisfied, for the Uses and Purposes by this Act appointed, out of the Monies arisen or to arise as aforesaid, so as by the said daily, weekly or other Payments, One fourth Part of such yearly Revenues or Sums of Money be not exceeded in, for or in respect of each Quarter; and so that upon every of the said Quarterly Days the whole then due thereupon be completed, made up or satisfied, according to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act. the same. out of the ' IV. And Whereas the Sum of Two hundred thousand Pounds. Monies applied was granted by the Commons House of Parliament in the last under Vote of 'Session to enable His Majesty to satisfy such Annuities, Pen- last Session, 'sions or other Payments, as would have been payable out of the 200,000l. to be. 'Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and retained in the 'Ireland, or out of the Civil List, in case the Demise of His late Exchequer 'Majesty had not taken place before the Fifth Day of April One ⚫ thousand eight hundred and twenty: And Whereas the said He'reditary Revenues of His Majesty, arisen and paid into the Exchequer, between the Time of His late Majesty's Demise and the F 4 Fifth towards the Aids of 1820: and Money applied for Hereditary |