6, will be equal to the whole Number of Prisoners in the Prison, expressed in the Second Division of Columns 5 and 6 will be equal to that of Columns 8 and 9, and to that of Columns 10 and 11. CAP. LXV. An Act to continue, until the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty three, an Act of the Fifty ninth Year of His late Majesty, for rendering the growing Produce of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, arising in Great Britain, available for the Public Service. [22d July 1822.] "59 G. 3. c. 19. continued by 1 G.4. c. 44. and by 1 & 2 G. 4. c. 95. 66 First recited Act further continued. CAP. LXVI. An Act for authorizing the Commissioners for the Reduction the Bills; and from and after the Payment and Discharge of the Whole Commissioners of the principal Money advanced by the said Governor and Com- to pay into Expany upon such Exchequer Bills, the Commissioners for the Re- chequer further Sum equal to duction of the National Debt shall cause to be paid into the Ex- Difference bechequer such a further Sum or Sums of Money as may be equal tween Money to the Difference between the Sum or Sums of Money advanced by advanced by the said Governor and Company upon the Security of such Exchequer Bills, and the Sum or Sums of Money which may be paid to the Proprietors of such Five Pounds per Centum Annuities in Discharge of the Principal of such Annuities, and the said Sum or Sums of Money so to be paid into the Exchequer shall be applied towards any Aids or Supplies granted to His Majesty in the present Session of Parliament. CA P. LXVII. An Act to repeal so much of the Excise Licences' Act of the 6 Bank and Cents. WHEREAS by an Act made in this present Session of Par- c.27. ante, § 2. liament; intituled An Act to amend and continue, until the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty six, so much of an Act made in the Fifty fifth Year of his late Majesty as relates to additional Duties of Excise in Great Britain on Excise Licences, it is declared, that as Doubts had arisen whether any of the Persons therein mentioned, being a Person required by Law to make Entry at an Office of Excise of the Place in which he, she or they carries or carry on his, her or their Trade or Business, and to whom any such Licence as aforesaid is granted for that Purpose, is or are thereby authorized and empowered to 'make or manufacture, deal in, retail or sell any of the Commodities hereinbefore mentioned at more than One Place; and it is ex'pedient to remove such Doubts; Be it therefore declared and ⚫enacted, that no One Licence which shall be granted by virtue of any Act or Acts of Parliament relating to His Majesty's Revenue of Excise shall authorize or empower any Person or Persons required by Law to make such Entry as aforesaid, to make or manufacture, deal in, retail or sell any Commodity mentioned in such Licence at more than one Place, or in any House, Building or Premises, other than the House, Building or Premises, or the 'contiguous or adjoining Houses, Buildings or Premises situated ⚫ at such Place, and held together for the same Purpose or Manufacture, and whereof he, she or they shall have made such lawful Entry, and wherein he, she or they shall make or manu'facture, deal in, retail or sell such Commodity at the Time of the 'granting such Licence: Provided always, that when the Amount or Rate of any such Licence shall depend upon the Quantity of Goods made or manufactured by the Person or Persons to whom the same is to be granted, such Quantity shall be computed from only the respective Goods made or manufactured by such Person, or Persons at the Place or Premises in respect of which such Licence is granted, and shall not include Goods made or manufactured by such Person or Persons, at any other Place or Premises: And Whereas it is expedient that so much of the recited 6 • Act So much of recited Act as enacts that no One Licence should autho rize the carrying on Trade in more than One Place, repealed. 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 so much of the said recited Act shall be and the same is hereby declared to be repealed and null and void to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever. 53 G.3. c.35. § 1. CAP. LXVIII. An Act to provide for the Charge of the Addition to the WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Fifty third Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to alter and amend several Acts passed in His present Majesty's Reign relating to the Redemption of the National Debt, and for making further Provisions in respect thereof, it was enacted and declared, that for the Purposes of the said Act, an Amount of Public Debt, equal to the whole Capital of the Public Debt in perpetual redeemable Annuities existing on the Fifth Day of January One thousand seven hundred and eighty six, should be deemed to be satisfied and discharged, and so much of the Capital Stock so purchased and transferred as therein mentioned, and standing in the Names of the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt in the Books of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, as Parliament by any Act or Acts of the said Session should or might direct, should be cancelled in like manner as if the same had been transferred to the said Commissioners for the Redemption of Land Tax, pursuant to the Provisions of the several Acts thereunto relating, in order to make Provision for the Charge of any Addition to be made to the Public Funded Debt of Great Britain by Way of Loan, or in any other manner, for the Service of the 'Year One thousand eight hundred and thirteen; and that when and so soon as such a further Amount of the Capital Funded Debt of Great Britain should have been purchased by the said Commissioners, or transferred to them for the Redemption of Land Tax, or the Purchase of Life Annuities, as, together with the Amount so already purchased or transferred as aforesaid, should have produced an Interest or yearly Dividend equal in Amount to the whole Annual Charge in perpetual redeemable Annuities of the Public Debt of Great Britain existing on the Fifth Day of January One thousand seven hundred and eighty six, the said Commissioners should thereupon certify and declare 'the same to the Lord High Treasurer, or Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being, who should cause the said Certificate and Declaration to be published in the London Gazette, and to be laid before Parliament if Parliament should be then sitting), 'but if Parliament should not be then sitting, then within Fourteen Days after the next Meeting of Parliament, and so from time to time, whenever such a further Amount of the Capital Funded • Debt 6 Debt of Great Britain should have been purchased or transferred as aforesaid as should be equal to the whole Capital, and should have produced an Interest or Yearly Dividend equal in Amount to the whole annual Charge in perpetual Redeemable Annuities of each Loan contracted since the said Fifth Day of January One thousand seven hundred and eighty six, the said • Commissioners should from time to time thereupon, in like manner, certify and declare the same to the Lord High Treasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being, who should in like manner cause every such Certificate and Declaration to be published in the London Gazette, and to be laid before Parliament; and whenever any such Certificate and Declaration should have been so made, published and laid before Parliament as aforesaid, the Amount of Public Debts to which such Certifi'cate and Declaration should relate, should, from time to time, be deemed and taken to be wholly satisfied and discharged, and an equal Amount of Capital Stock standing in the Names of the said Commissioners in the Books of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, or of the South Sea Company, should be considered to be redeemed by Parliament, and should from time to time be cancelled as above mentioned, at such times and in such Proportions as should be directed by any Act or Acts of Parliament to be passed for that Purpose, in order to 'make Provision for the Charge of any Addition to be made to the Public Funded Debt of Great Britain, by way of Loan, or in any other manner; and it was thereby further enacted, that § 5. whenever the Amount of the Sum to be raised by way of Loan, or in any other manner, which might create an Addition to the Public Funded Debt of Great Britain, in that of any future Year, should exceed the Sum which on the First Day of February ⚫ should have been or should be estimated to be applicable in the same Year to the Reduction of the National Debt, then and in 6 every such case an annual Sum amounting to the One hundredth Part of the Capital Stock created by so much only of the Monies raised by way of Loan, or in any other manner as aforesaid in the Year, as should be equal to the Sum so estimated to be applicable to the Reduction of the National Debt within the same Year, should be issued at the Receipt of the Exchequer to the account of the said Commissioners in the manner directed by the said therein recited Act of the Thirty second Year of His present Majesty; and with respect to the Excess of the Monies which might be so raised in any Year by way of Loan, or in any other manner as aforesaid, above the estimated Sum applicable to the Reduction of the National Debt within the same Year, such an ⚫ annual Sum as should be equal to one Half of the Interest of such Excess should be set apart out of the Monies composing the Consolidated Fund, and should in like manner be issued at the Receipt of the Exchequer to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, to be by them placed to the Account of the said Commissioners: And Whereas the Sum which on the First • Day of February One thousand eight hundred and twenty two was estimated to be applicable in the present Year to the Reduction of the National Debt, amounted to Sixteen millions four hundred and eighty one thousand four hundred and ninety two Pounds: |