Repayment without Interest. In Criminal Trials the Pro secutor and Pannel may challenge Five of the Jurors without assigning any Reason. Empowering summoning for Jurors, Number exceeding 45 as may be deemed necessary. Not to extend to Trials for Treason. County, City or Town for the time being, such Treasurer shall pay over the same respectively to the Collector of Excise, until the Sums so heretofore advanced, or hereafter to be advanced respectively, shall be repaid, but without Interest. 6 CAP. LXXXV. An Act to allow peremptory Challenge of Jurors in Criminal HEREAS it is expedient that a peremptory Challenge of Jurors chosen to serve on Criminal Trials in Scotland 'should be allowed, and that Provision should be made for sum'moning in certain cases an additional Number of Jurors on such Trials 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, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this Act, in all Criminal Trials by Jury in Scotland, it shall be lawful for the Prosecutor, and for each Pannel respectively, when the whole Jury of Fifteen shall have been chosen, and before they shall have been sworn, to challenge Five of the Jurors, without being obliged to assign any Reason therefor; and this Challenge shall of itself disqualify the Person challenged from serving as a Juror on the Trial in respect of which he was so chosen and challenged: Provided always, that after each Challenge made by any of the said Parties respectively, it shall be incumbent upon the Judge to choose another Juror, so as again to complete the Number of Fifteen, before the Party challenging shall be obliged to make any second or subsequent challenge; and the Juror or Jurors to be chosen to supply the Place or Places of the Juror or Jurors challenged shall be equally liable to be challenged as the Jurors originally chosen. II. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Lord Justice Clerk and the Lords Commissioners of Justiciary, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, by Act of Adjournal, to direct to be summoned as Jurors, to serve on any Criminal Trial or Trials before the High Court or any Circuit Court of Justiciary in Scotland, any such Number of Persons exceeding Forty five as may be deemed necessary towards the proceeding with any such Trial or Trials; any Law or Practice to the contrary notwithstanding. III. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall be held to apply to any Trial for the Crime of High Treason or Misprision of Treason. CAP. CAP. LXXXVI. An Act to amend Two Acts of the Fifty seventh Year of His late Majesty, and the First Year of His present Majesty, for authorizing the Issue of Exchequer Bills, and the Advance of Money for carrying on Public Works and Fisheries, and Employment of the Poor; and to authorize a further Issue of Exchequer Bills for the Purposes of the said Acts. [26th July 1822.] 57 G.s. c.34. § 1. 4 4 WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Fifty seventh Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to authorize the Issue of Exchequer Bills, and the Advance of Money out of the Consolidated Fund, to a limited Amount, for the carrying on Public Works and Fisheries in the United Kingdom, and Employment of the Poor in Great Britain, in manner therein mentioned, (and which Act was amended by another Act passed in the same Session of Parliament), it was enacted, ⚫ that it should be lawful for the King's most Excellent Majesty <to authorize and empower the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury to cause or direct any Number of Exchequer Bills to be made out at His Majesty's Exchequer in Great Britain, not exceeding in the Whole the Sum of One million five hundred thousand Pounds, to be issued to certain Commissioners in the said first recited Act named, for the Execution of the said Act in Great Britain, and to be by the said Commissioners lent and ⚫ advanced for the Purposes in the said several Acts respectively • mentioned, upon the Terms and Conditions in the said Acts specified and set forth: And Whereas the said Two Acts were < amended, and the Powers of the said Commissioners extended by another Act made and passed in the First Year of the Reign of His present Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act to amend and continue Two Acts passed in the Fifty seventh Year of His late Majesty King George the Third, for authorizing the Issue of Exchequer Bills, and the Advance of Money for carrying on of Public Works and Fisheries, and Employment of the Poor, and to extend the Powers of the Commissioners for executing the said Acts in Great Britain; and by another Act made and passed in the First and Second Years of His said present Majesty, intituled An Act to empower the Commissioners in Great Britain for the Execution of several Acts for authorizing the Issue of Exchequer Bills for carrying on of Public Works and Fisheries, and Employment of the Poor, to extend the Time for the Payment of certain Advances under the said Acts: And Whereas sundry Advances have been made by the said Commissioners to divers Persons or Parties, Bodies Politic or Corporate or Companies, for the Purposes and under the Regulations in the said Acts contained; and Applications have been made to the said Commissioners for other Advances, which Applications remain depending, and exceed the unappropriated Part of the said Sum ⚫ of One million five hundred thousand Pounds remaining to be ⚫ issued as aforesaid: And Whereas great Advantage may arise under present Circumstances, in affording Employment for the 3 GEO. IV. labouring 4 < Ii 57 G.3. c.124. 1 G.4. c.60. 1 & 2 G.4. c.111. His Majesty may authorize Commissioners of Treasury to issue Exchequer Bills not exceeding 2,000,0001. 48 G.3. c.1. Powers of 48 G.3. c.1. Act. labouring Classes of the Community, by a further Advance of Exchequer Bills, to an Amount in the Whole not exceeding the Sum of Two Millions, to be lent by the Commissioners named in and appointed by this Act, under and subject to the like Terms and Conditions as are specified and prescribed by the said recited Acts, or any of them, with respect to the Advance of Exchequer Bills authorized by the said recited Acts, or any of them, except so far as such Terms and Conditions may be altered or extended by this Act, and upon due Security being given in all such cases for the Repayment of the Sum so advanced, within a Time to be limited: 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, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That it shall be lawful for the King's most Excellent Majesty, by Warrant or Warrants under His Royal Sign Manual, to authorize and empower the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, now or for the time being, or any Three or more of them, or the Lord High Treasurer of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the time being, to cause or direct any Number of Exchequer Bills to be made out at His Majesty's Exchequer in Great Britain, not exceeding in the Whole the Sum of Two Millions, in the same or like Manner, Form and Order, and according to the same or like Rules and Directions (except where other Directions for making out the same are contained and particularly expressed in this Act), as in and by an Act made in the Forty eighth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for regulating the issuing and paying off of Exchequer Bills, are enacted and prescribed. II. And be it further enacted, That all and every the Clauses, Provisoes, Powers, Privileges, Advantages, Penalties, Forfeitures extended to this and Disabilities contained in the said recited Act of the Forty eighth Year of His said late Majesty's Reign, shall be applied and extended to the Exchequer Bills to be made in pursuance of this Act, as fully and effectually, to all Intents and Purposes, as if the saids everal Clauses or Provisoes had been particularly repeated and re-enacted in the Body of this Act. Bills to bear an Interest of 2d. per Cent. per Diem. Bills not to be received in Payment of Taxes before III. And be it further enacted, That the said Exchequer Bills to be made in pursuance of this Act shall and may bear an Interest not exceeding the Rate of Two Pence Centum per per Diem upon or in respect of the Whole of the Money contained therein, and shall be made payable at the Period hereinafter mentioned. IV. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That all and every the Exchequer Bills to be made out by virtue of this Act, or so many of them as shall from time to time remain undisDay appointed charged and uncancelled after the respective Days on which they shall become due and payable, shall and may after that Time pass and be current to all and every the Receivers and Collectors in Great Britain, of the Customs, Excise, or any Revenue, Supply, Aid or Tax whatsoever, due or payable to His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, and also at the Receipt of Exchequer in Great Britain, from the said Receivers or Collectors; but no such Receiver or Collector shall exchange at any Time before the said for their Pay ment. Day of Payment thereof, for any Money of such Revenues, Aid, Taxes or Supplies in his Hands, any Exchequer Bill which shall have been issued as aforesaid by virtue of this Act; nor shall any Action be maintained against any such Receiver or Collector for neglecting or refusing to exchange any such Exchequer Bill for ready Money before the said Day of Payment thereof; any thing in this Act to the contrary contained in any wise notwithstanding: and that such of the same Bills as shall be received at the said Receipt of Exchequer shall and may be locked up and secured as Cash, according to the Course of the said Exchequer settled and established by Law for locking up and securing Monies received in Specie there. from Date, V. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing Exchequer of this Act, all Exchequer Bills which, at any time after the pass- Bills payable ing of this Act, shall be made out and issued in pursuance of One Year either of the said first recited Acts or this Act, and which at any with Interest. time after the passing of this Act shall be advanced for any of the Purposes mentioned in the said recited Acts, or any of them, or in this Act, shall be made payable within One Year from the Date thereof respectively; and that the Principal Sum mentioned in every such Bill, together with Interest thereon at the Rate aforesaid, to be computed from the Day of the Date of such Bills respectively until the time of Payment thereof, shall be chargeable on some Part of the Aids or Supplies for the Year next succeeding the Day of the Date of the said Bills respectively. Acts to be VI. And be it further enacted, That the several Persons who in Commissioners and by the said first recited Act are constituted Commissioners appointed for the Execution of the said Act in Great Britain, or so many under recited of them as shall be living at the time of the passing of this Act, Commissioners together with William Heygate Esquire, William Wolryche Whit- under this more Esquire, John Innes Esquire, Robert Grant Esquire, Samuel Act, together Marsh Phillipps Esquire, Francis Ludlow Holt Esquire, George with others. Dorrien Esquire, Andrew Colvile Esquire, Jeremiah Olive Esquire, George Hathorn Esquire, Joseph Reid Esquire, John Loch Esquire and James Gibson Esquire, shall be and they are hereby constituted Commissioners for the Execution of the said recited Acts and this Act; and that all and every the Clauses, Provisoes, Powers, Privileges, Advantages and Penalties contained in the said recited Acts, shall be applied and extended to all Loans advanced, and Acts done by the said Commissioners or otherwise, in pursuance and in the Execution of this Act, as fully and effectually to all Intents and Purposes as if the said several Clauses and Provisoes, Powers, Privileges, Advantages and Penalties, had been particularly repeated and re-enacted in the Body of this Act, except only so far as the same are altered or amended or enlarged by this present Act. VII. And be it further enacted, That any Two of the said Com- Commissioners missioners named in and constituted by this Act, before they shall to take the enter upon the Execution of this Act, shall take an Oath before following Oath. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, or the Master of the Rolls for the time being in Great Britain, which Oath the said Chancellor and Master of the Rolls are and is hereby respectively authorized and required to administer, the Tenor whereof shall be as followeth; that is to say, Ii 2 'I A. B. Three Commis. Commissioners may advance Money under this Act, subject to the Terms and Conditions of former Acts, the same may be altered by this Act. A. B. do swear, That according to the best of my Judgment I will faithfully and impartially execute the several Powers and Trusts vested in me by an Act, intituled An Act [here set forth 'the Title of this Act], according to the Tenor and Purport of the said Act.' And every other of such Commissioners respectively shall likewise take the same Oath before such Two Commissioners, who are hereby authorized and required to administer the said Oath, after they shall themselves have taken the same as aforesaid. VIII. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act, all Acts, Matters and Things which the said Commissioners for the Execution of the said recited Acts and this Act are by the said recited Acts or this Act authorized to do or execute, shall and may be done and executed by any Three or more of such Commissioners, except only in such cases where it is otherwise specially provided by the said recited Acts or this Act. IX. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners, at any time after the passing of this Act, to lend and advance, and to apportion or distribute to and amongst any Body or Bodies Politic or Corporate, or any Company or Companies of Proprietors, or Person or Persons engaged in or desirous of carrying on or interested in any Works of a public Nature carried on, or which may hereafter be carried on except so far as under the Authority of Parliament in any Part of Great Britain, or for the Encouragement of the Fisheries, or the Support of any Collieries or Mines, or any Trustees or Trustee of Roads or Railways, or any other Person or Persons whomsoever, for any the Purposes in the said recited Acts mentioned, or for any the Purposes mentioned in this Act (whether any such Corporations, Companies, Trustees or Persons respectively shall or shall not have received any Loan or Advance under the said recited Acts, or either of them, at any time before the passing of this Act, all or any Part of the Sum or Sums of Exchequer Bills to be issued at any time after the passing of this Act, under the Authority of the said recited Acts, or any of them, or this Act, upon, under and subject to the like Terms and Conditions as are specified and prescribed by the said recited Acts, or any of them, with respect to the Advance of Exchequer Bills authorized by the said recited Acts, or any of them, except so far as such Terms and Conditions may be altered or extended by this Act; and that any Loans or Advances which shall be made by the said Commissioners in Exchequer Bills to be issued under the authority of the said recited Acts, or any of them, or this Act, at any time after the passing of this Act, and for the Repayment of which no adequate Fund shall be secured or assigned as after mentioned, to the Satisfaction of the said Commissioners, of an Amount sufficient to discharge the said Loan and Interest by Instalments within the Period of Twenty Years from the Date of the Advance, as hereinafter mentioned, shall be repaid without Deduction or Abatement in the manner following; that is to say, the Principal of such Loan within the Period of Eight Years from the Date of the Advance, with Interest at the Rate of Four Pounds per Centum per Annum, to be computed from the Date of the Advance, Loans advanced without the Security of a fixed or expected Fund, to be repaid within Period of Eight Years afterwards. |