Excise, and all and every Pain, Penalty, Fine or Forfeiture of any Nature or Kind whatever, for any Offence whatever committed against or in breach of any Act or Acts of Parliament, in force immediately before the passing of this Act, made for securing the Revenue of Excise, or for the Regulation or Improvement thereof, and the several Clauses, Powers and Directions therein contained, shall and the same are hereby directed and declared to extend to, and shall be respectively applied, practised and put in Execution for and in respect of the several Duties and Drawbacks of Excise hereby continued, in as full, ample and beneficial manner to all Intents and Purposes whatever, as if all and every the said Acts, Clauses, Provisions, Powers, Directions, Fines, Pains, Penalties and Forfeitures respectively, were particularly repeated and reenacted in the Body of this Act. • XXVII. And Whereas His Majesty has been graciously pleased to direct that certain Deductions should be made from the Sa'laries and other Emoluments of various Persons holding Offices ' and Places in His Majesty's Service, in Aid of the Public Service of the Year, and towards the Relief of the Public Burthens : • And Whereas many Persons holding Offices and Places in His 'Majesty's Service, and others having or holding Pensions or other ⚫ Emoluments derived from the Public, are desirous of contributing • Proportions of their respective Official Incomes, Salaries, Pensions or other Emoluments, for the same Purpose:' Be it therefore enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of His Treasury to Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and give Directions Ireland, or any Three or more of them, or for the Lord High Trea- respecting cersurer of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for tain Deduc the Time being, to give such Directions for One Year, commencing the Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and twenty two, to the Officers of the Exchequer, and of the several Departments of the Civil List of Great Britain respectively as may be necessary for giving Effect to the most gracious Intention of His Majesty in such Contribution, and for executing the Intentions of such other Persons as aforesaid; and no Deduction shall be made, No Fee. or Fee, Emolument or Allowance taken by any Person retaining, receiving or paying any such Contributions as aforesaid. tions from Sa laries, &c. Directing a Sum to be raised by Commissioners of the Treasury. XXXI. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland at any Time or Times to cause or direct any Number of Exchequer Bills to be made out at the Receipt of the Exchequer at Westminster, for any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Three Millions, in the same or like Manner, Form and Order, and according to the same or like Rules and Directions, as are directed and prescribed in and by an Act made in the Forty eighth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An 48 G. 3. c. 1. Act for regulating the issuing and paying off of Exchequer Bills. СА Р. CAP. VII. An Act for applying certain Monies therein mentioned for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and twenty two. [11th March 1822.] "4,000,000l. Remainder of the Grant for 1821, applied towards. "the Supply for 1822. CAP. VIII. An Act for raising the Sum of Twenty Millions by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and twenty two. [11th March 1822.] Treasury may raise 20,000,000l. by Exchequer Bills, in like manner as is prescribed by 48 G. 3. c. 1. - § 1. The Clauses, &c. in "recited Act extended to this Act. § 2. Treasury to apply the "money raised. § 3. Exchequer Bills to be payable out of the Supplies for the next Session. § 4. Exchequer Bills to bear an "Interest not exceeding 3d. per Cent. per Diem. § 5. Ex"chequer Bills to be current at the Exchequer after April 5, “1823. — § 6. CA P. IX. An Act for transferring several Annuities of Five Pounds per Centum per Annum into Annuities of Four Pounds per Centum per Annum. [15th March 1822.] Most Gracious Sovereign, WE JE, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled, having taken into our serious 'Consideration the present State of the National Debt, and being ' desirous of lessening the Charge thereof, have resolved, that all ' and every Person and Persons, Bodies Politic and Corporate, who now is or are or hereafter may be interested in or entitled unto any Part of the National Debt redeemable by Law, which now 'carries an Interest after the Rate of Five Pounds per Centum per 'Annum, and is usually known by the Name of Navy Five per Cents., or by the Name of Irish Five per Cent. Annuities, payable at the Bank of England, and who shall not signify his, her or 'their Dissent in the manner hereinafter mentioned, shall, in lieu ' of every One hundred Pounds of such Five per Centum Annuities, receive and be entitled to the Sum of One hundred and five Pounds in a new Stock, to be called "The New Four Pounds per Centum Annuities," and to carry Interest after the Rate of Four Pounds per Centum per Annum, and so in proportion for any greater or less Amount of such Five per Centum Annuities; and that the Dividends thereof shall be payable Half yearly at the Bank of England, upon the Fifth Day of January and the Fifth Day of July in each and every Year; and the first Half yearly Dividend on the said New Four Pounds per Centum Annuities shall be payable on the Fifth Day of January One thousand eight hundred and twenty three; and that the said New Four • Pounds 'Pounds per Centum Annuities shall not be liable to be paid off ⚫ until the Fifth Day of January One thousand eight hundred and twenty nine: And have also resolved, that the Interest and Di'vidends payable in respect of the said New Four Pounds per Centum Annuities, shall be charged and chargeable upon the 'Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 'Ireland, in the same manner as the Interest and Dividends of the 'Five Pounds per Centum Annuities now stand charged on the said 'Fund: And have also resolved, that all and every Person and Persons, Bodies Politic or Corporate, who shall not within the Period ' commencing on Monday the Fourth Day of March, and ending ' on Saturday the Sixteenth Day of March One thousand eight hun'dred and twenty two, both Days inclusive, signify his, her or 'their dissent from accepting and receiving a Share in the said 'New Four Pounds per Centum Annuities in lieu of his, her or their respective Shares in the said Five Pounds per Centum An'nuities, in the manner hereinafter directed, shall be deemed and ' taken to have consented to accept and receive the same: Pro'vided always, that if any Proprietor or Proprietors of Five 'Pounds per Centum Annuities shall not be within the Limits of 'the United Kingdom at any Time between the Twenty second 'Day of February and the Sixteenth Day of March One thou'sand eight hundred and twenty two, but shall be in any other Part of Europe, it shall be lawful for such Proprietor or Proprietors to signify such Dissent at any Time before the First 'Day of June One thousand eight hundred and twenty two; and if 'any such Proprietor or Proprietors shall not at any Time between 'the Twenty second day of February One thousand eight hundred and twenty two, and the First Day of June One thousand eight hundred and twenty two, be within any Part of Europe, it shall 'be lawful for him, her or them to signify such Dissent at any Time 'before the First Day of March One thousand eight hundred and 'twenty three; such Proprietor or Proprietors proving to the Sa'tisfaction of the Governor and Directors of the Bank of England, or any Two or more of them, his, her or their Absence from the United Kingdom, or out of Europe, as above specified, and that his, her or their Share or Shares of such Five Pounds per Centum 'Annuities stood in his, her or their Name or Names respectively, on the Twenty second Day of February One thousand eight hun'dred and twenty two, in the Books of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England: Provided also, that such Proprietor or 'Proprietors so absent from the United Kingdom, or out of Europe, 'shall signify such his, her or their Dissent within Ten Days after his, her or their Return to the United Kingdom: And have also resolved, that Provision should be made by the House of Commons, for paying off such Proprietor or Proprietors of the said Five Pounds per Centum Annuities, as shall signify his, her or their Dissent from accepting and receiving any Share in the said New Four Pounds per Centum Annuities in lieu thereof; and have also resolved, that all Persons, Bodies Politic and Corporate, possessed of any Part of the said Five Pounds per Centum Annuities, and who shall desire to signify such Dissent as aforesaid, shall, between the Fourth and Sixteenth Days of March One thousand eight hundred and twenty two, both inclusive, by themselves or ( some Every Person to receive 1051. some Agent or Agents for that Purpose duly authorized, signify to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England such Dissent in Writing, under his, her or their Hand or Hands, to'gether with the Amount of his, her or their respective Shares in the said Five Pounds per Centum Annuities, and which said Dis'sents shall be entered in a Book or Books to be opened and kept by the said Governor and Company for that Purpose, and numbered in the order in which his, her or their Dissent shall be received by the said Governor and Company; and in case of any Transfer of such Shares, or any Part or Parts thereof, after such Dissent, the Part or Parts so transferred shall be entered in the said Books under the same Numbers as were affixed to such Shares when the Dissent was so signified; and every such dis'sentient Proprietor or Proprietors, or his, her or their Assigns, under any such Transfer, shall be paid off in the numerical Order in which his, her or their Name or Names shall be entered in such Book, such Payment to commence on the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty two, and to be ⚫ continued at such Periods and in such manner as Parliament < may direct And have also resolved, that every Proprietor or Proprietors of the Navy Five Pounds per Centum Annuities afore'said shall receive the Dividend due thereon on the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty two; and that every Proprietor or Proprietors of the Irish Five Pounds per Centum Annuities aforesaid shall receive the Dividend due thereupon on the Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and twenty two, and shall also receive One Quarter's Dividend thereon, on the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and ⚫ twenty two; and the said last mentioned Five Pounds per Centum Annuities shall be paid off or converted into Four Pounds per Centum Annuities, in manner aforesaid, from and after the said Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty two; and no Transfer of the said Irish Five Pounds per Centum An'nuities, or of any Annuities at the Rate of Five Pounds per Centum per Annum, payable in Ireland, to or from the Books of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, or to or from the Books of the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland, ⚫ shall take place from and after the Twenty sixth Day of February 'One thousand eight hundred and twenty two: And have also resolved, that all Executors, Administrators, Guardians and Trustees may signify such Dissent in respect of such Shares of the said Five Pounds per Centum Annuities for the holding of which their Names are made use of respectively; and all Executors, Administrators, Guardians and Trustees not signifying such Dissent, 'shall be deemed to have assented as aforesaid, and shall be in'demnified in respect thereof: We, Your Majesty's most faithful 'Commons do therefore 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 and every Person and Persons, Bodies Politic or Corporate, who now is or are or hereafter may be interested in or entitled unto any Part of the National Debt redeemable by Law, which now carries an Interest 6 6 after after the Rate of Five Pounds per Centum per Annum, and is usu- New 41. per ally known by the Name of Navy Five per Centum Annuities, or Centum Anby the Name of Irish Five per Centum Annuities, payable at nuities. the Bank of England, and who shall not signify his, her or their Dissent in manner hereinafter mentioned, shall, in lieu of every One hundred Pounds of such Five Pounds per Centum Annuities respectively receive and be entitled to the Sum of One hundred and five Pounds in a new Stock, to be called The New Four Pounds per Centum Annuities, and to carry an Interest after the Rate of Four Pounds per Centum per Annum, and so in proportion for any greater or less Amount of such Five Pounds per Centum Annuities respect ively; and that the Dividends thereof shall be payable Half yearly Dividends to be at the Bank of England, upon the Fifth Day of January and the paid Half Fifth Day of July in each and every Year; and the first Half yearly. yearly Dividend on the said New Four Pounds per Centum Annuities shall be payable on the Fifth Day of January One thousand eight hundred and twenty three; and that the said New Four Liable to RePounds per Centum Annuities shall be subject and liable to Re- demption. demption upon and at any Time after the Fifth Day of January One thousand eight hundred and twenty nine, and not before that Period, and shall be free from all Taxes, Charges and Impositions, in the like manner as the said Navy Five per Centum Annuities. Consolidated II. And be it further enacted, That the Interest and Dividends Interest of such payable in respect of the said New Four Pounds per Centum Annu- 41. per Cent. ities, shall be charged and chargeable upon, and shall be issued charged on and paid out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Funds. Great Britain and Ireland, in the same manner as the Interest and Dividends of the said Five Pounds per Centum Annuities respectively now stand charged on the said Fund. on or before 16th deemed assent ing. III. And be it further enacted, That all and every Person and Persons not, Persons, Bodies Politic or Corporate, who shall not, on or be- March 1822, fore the Sixteenth Day of March One thousand eight hundred dissenting to and twenty two, signify his, her or their Dissent from accepting receive the New and receiving a Share in the said New Four Pounds per Centum 41. per Cent. Annuities, in lieu of his, her or their respective Shares in the said Annuities, to be respective Five Pounds per Centum Annuities, or for any Part of such respective Shares in such last mentioned Annuities, in the manner hereinafter directed, shall be deemed and taken to have consented to accept and receive the same: Provided always, that Proviso for if any Proprietor or Proprietors of the said respective Five Pounds Parties out of per Centum Annuities shall not have been within the Limits of the the United Kingdom. United Kingdom at any Time between the Twenty second Day of February and the Sixteenth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and twenty two, but shall have been in any other Part of Europe, it shall be lawful for such Proprietor or Proprietors to signify such Dissent at any Time before the First Day of June One thousand eight hundred and twenty two; and if any such Pro- And out of prietor or Proprietors shall not, at any Time between the Twenty Europe. second Day of February and the First Day of June One thousand eight hundred and twenty two, have been within any Part of Europe, it shall be lawful for him, her or them to signify such Dissent at any Time before the First Day of March One thousand eight hundred and twenty three, such Proprietor or Proprietors proving to the Satisfaction of the Governor and Directors of the |