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mentioned, for relief of shipwrecked Mariners and distressed Persons (His Majesty's Subjects) in the Kingdom of Portugal, and for other pious and charitable purposes usually contributed to by the Merchants trading to Portugal; and a certain other Act, made and passed in the Ninth Year of the reign of King George the Second, (Cap. 25,) intituled An Act for the more equal paying and better collecting certain small Sums for relief of shipwrecked Mariners and distressed Persons (His Majesty's Subjects) in the Port of Cadiz and Port of St. Mary's, in the Kingdom of Spain, and for other Uses usually contributed to by the Merchants trading to the said Ports; and a certain other Act made and passed in the Tenth Year of the reign of the said King George the Second, (Cap. 14,) intituled An Act for collecting at the Port of Leghorn certain small Sums of Money to which the Merchants trading there have usually contributed for the relief of shipwrecked Mariners, Captives, and other distressed Persons (His Majesty's Subjects), and for other charitable and public Uses; and a certain other Act, made and passed in the Fifty-fourth Year of His late Majesty King George the Third, (Cap. 126,) for altering and extending the said recited Act of the Eighth Year of the reign of King George the First, shall be and the same are hereby repealed.

XVII. And be it further enacted, That all and every sum and sums of money which shall be and remain in the hands of any Collector or Treasurer or other Person, arising from any duties leviable under the several Acts hereby repealed, or any of them, and which shall not have been applied to the purposes or in manner directed by the said Acts respectively, shall by such Collector, Treasurer, or other Person be paid over to the Consul-General or Consul at the Port or Place where the same shall have been received; and all and every such sums and sum which shall be so paid to and received by any such Consul-General or Consul, and all other arrears of money arising from any such duties which shall be in the hands of any such Consul-General or Consul, shall be paid, applied, and disposed of in such manner, and to and for such public purposes, as shall be directed by any One of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.

XVIII. And be it further enacted, That all Consuls-General and Consuls shall be allowed and have credit in any Accounts by them rendered through One of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State to the Lord High Treasurer, or the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for the time being, for all such sums of money as shall by any such Consul-General or Consul be disbursed and expended towards the succour and relief of Mariners shipwrecked and taken in war, or other distressed Persons being Subjects of His Majesty, and resorting to the Port or Place at which any such Consul-General or Consul may be appointed to reside: Provided always, that such sums of money be so disbursed and expended in pursuance of and in conformity to any special or general rules and

regulations to be for that purpose made and prescribed by His Majesty, by any Order or Orders to be by Him for that purpose issued, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, and that an Account of the particulars of all such expenditure shall by the first convenient opportu nity be transmitted by such Consul-General or Consul for His Majesty's information, through One of His Principal Secretaries of State.

XIX. And be it further enacted, That within six weeks next after the commencement of each Session of Parliament there shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament, Copies of all Orders which may have been made, since the commencement of the last preceding Session of Parliament, by His Majesty, with the advice of His Privy Council, in pursuance of this Act, together with an Account of all salaries which, since the commencement of such next preceding Session of Parliament, may have been granted by His Majesty to any Consuls-General or Consuls, by virtue or in pursuance of this Act, together with an Estimate specifying the total amount of the money to be required for the payment of the salaries of all such Consuls-General or Consuls respectively, for one Year, from the fifth Day of January preceding the date of such Estimate, and also for all contingent charges and expenses connected with the public duties and establishments of such ConsulsGeneral or Consuls, after deducting the amount provided on account of the payment of such Consuls-General or Consuls out of the money applicable under the third Class of His Majesty's Civil List, as specified in the Schedule annexed to an Act made in the First Year of His Majesty's Reign, (Cap. 1,) intituled An Act for the support of His Majesty's Household, and for the Honour and Dignity of the Crown of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

XX. And whereas it is expedient that every Consul-General or Consul appointed by His Majesty at any Foreign Port or Place should in all cases have the power of administering an oath or affirmation whenever the same shall be required, and should also have power to do all such notarial acts as any Notary Public may do; Be it therefore enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act it shall and may be lawful for any and every Consul-General or Consul appointed by His Majesty at any Foreign Port or Place, whenever he shall be thereto required, and whenever he shall see necessary, to administer at such Foreign Port or Place any oath, or take any affidavit or affirmation from any Person or Persons whomsoever, and also to do and perform at such Foreign Port or Place all and every notarial acts and act which any Notary Public could or might be required and is by Law empowered to do within The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; and every such oath, affidavit, or affirmation, and every such notarial act, administered, sworn, affirmed, had, or done by or before such ConsulGeneral or Consul, shall be as good, valid, and effectual, and shall be of like force and effect, to all intents and purposes, as if any such oath

affidavit, or affirmation, or notarial act respectively, had been administered, sworn, affirmed, had, or done, before any Justice of the Peace or Notary Public in any part of The United Kingdom of Great Britain or Ireland, or before any other legal or competent authority of the like nature.

XXI. And be it further enacted, That all penalties incurred under or imposed by this Act shall and may be sued for, prosecuted, and recovered by any Person or Persons who may sue for the same, by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, in the name of His Majesty's AttorneyGeneral, wherein no essoign, protection, privilege, wager of law, or more than one imparlance, shall be allowed.

XXII. And be it further enacted, That this Act, and the several clauses, matters, and things herein contained, shall take effect from the first Day of January, 1826, except where any other commencement is particularly directed.

TABLES to which this Act refers.

TABLE (A.)

Certificate of due landing of goods, exported from The

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Attending Sales, per Cent. where there has been a Charge for valu

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Attendance out of Consular Office at a shipwreck, Five Dollars per Diem for his personal Expences, over and above his travelling Expences.

Do.............on opening a Will 5 Dollars. Management of Property of British Subjects dying intestate 24 percent.

The Dollars mentioned in the preceding Tables are in all cases to be paid by the delivery of Dollars, each of which is to be of the value of 4s. 6d. Sterling, and no more, according to the rate of exchange prevailing at the place where such payment is made.

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OTHER RESOURCES.

AMOUNT of Savings on the Is on th Third Class of the Civil List) MONEY brought from the Civil List on account of the Clerk of the Hanaper MONEY received in re-pay-7 ment of the Loan raised for the service of the Emperor of Germany, per Acts 35 and 37 Geo. 3. MONEY received from the East India Company, on account of Retired Pay, Pensions, &c. of His Majesty's Forces serving in the East Indies, per Act 4 Geo. IV. c. 71. FROM the Commissioners for the Issue of Exchequer Bills, per Act 57 Geo. 3. c. 34, for the Employment of the Poor. MONEY received from the Trustees of Naval and Military Pensions

FROM several County Treasurers, and others in Ireland, on account of Advances made by the Treasury, for improving Post Roads, for building Gaols, for the Police, for Public Works, Employment of the Poor, &c.

IMPREST Monies, re-paid by sundry Public Accountants, and other Monies paid to the Public

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Whitehall, Treasury Chambers, 10th March, 152

Lacome of the UNITED KINGDOM of Great Britain and Ireland; for the Year ended 5th Jan. 1825.

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