Mode of tranfmitting the faid Accounts to Auditor's Office, and of their declaring and giving Quietus upon fuch Accounts; without waiting for Vouchers from Deputy Paymafterson foreign Stations. Accounts of Deputy Paymafters for Services on Foreign Stations fhall be made up within 18 Months; tranfmitted to Auditor's Office, al declared, and a Quietus acereon. A.D. 1808. paffionate Lift refpectively, and all Monies placed from Time to Time to the Account of fuch Services refpectively, within the Period of the General Account, and which fhall have been fo inferted in the General Account as before directed on the Credit Side thereof, fhall be placed on the Debit Side of fuch feparate Accounts respectively; and all particular Payments made out of any Sums of Money fo placed on the Debit Side of fuch separate Accounts refpectively, for which proper Vouchers fhall be produced, on account of Half-Pay, Chelsea Hofpital, or Penfions on the Compaffionate Lift, fhall be placed on the Credit Side thereof; and all fuch Receipts and Payments fhall be stated in such separate Accounts under each refpective Head, in the Order, in point of Time, in which the fame respectively took place. V. And be it further enacted, That the General Annual Account of the Paymaster General for the Time being, fo made up as aforefaid, together with fuch feparate Annual Accounts of Half-Pay, Establishment of Chelsea Hospital, and Penfions on the Compaffionate Lift, for each Year ending on the Twenty-fourth Day of December, with proper Vouchers, fhall, within Three Months after the Twentyfourth Day of December in each Year, be tranfmitted to the Commiffioners for auditing the publick Accounts, who shall and they are hereby directed and required, with the leaft poffible Delay after the Receipt thereof, to examine or caufe to be examined the fame ; and fhall difcharge the faid Paymafter General of all Sums paid in purfuance of any Act of Parliament or Warrant as aforefaid; and the faid Commiffioners fhall, after fuch Examination, and without waiting for Vouchers of Payments made by the Paymasters General through their Deputies on Foreign Stations, prefent or caufe to be prefented to the proper Officer for Declaration, the faid General and feparate Annual Accounts as aforefaid, fpecifying the Amount discharged by proper Vouchers, and the Amount with which the Paymaster General ftill remains charged for the Year, on account of Payments made by their Deputies on Foreign Stations as aforefaid, and also specifying the Sums of Money with which the Paymafter General is to remain charged for the fucceeding Year on account of Balances (if any) remaining on fuch General and feparate Annual Accounts as aforefaid; and when fuch Account fo difcharged by proper Vouchers as aforefaid fhall be declared, a Quietus or Acquittance in the ufual Form fhall be made out to the Paymafter General, his Heirs, Executors, and Administrators for fuch Account fo declared as aforefaid. VI. And be it further enacted, That from and after the paffing of this Act, the Paymafter General fhall make up, in like Manner, another Annual Account, ending the Twenty-fourth Day of December in each Year, to be intituled, "The Annual Account of the Pay"maiter General of His Majefty's Forces, for Monies paid within the Period of the faid Account by his Deputies on Foreign "Stations;" which Account fhall be tranfmitted to the Commiflioners for auditing the publick Accounts as far as the fame can be made up, within Eighteen Months after the Period of the faid Account; and the faid Commiffioners for auditing the publick Accounts fhall and they are hereby directed and required, with the leaft poffible Delay, to examine or caufe to be examined the fame, and fhall discharge the faid Paymafter General of all Sums of Money paid by any Deputy on any Foreign Station under the Warrant of the Officer com manding manding in Chief on fuch Foreign Station, and as foon as the fame shall have been examined, the faid Commiffioners fhall in like Manner prefent fuch Account for Declaration, fpecifying the Sums of Money with which the Paymaster General is to remain charged for the fucceeding Year, on account of Balances, if any, remaining on fuch Account; and when fuch Account, difcharged by proper Vouchers as aforefaid, shall be declared, a Quietus or Acquittance in the usual Form fhall be made out to the Paymaster General, his Heirs, Executors, and Adminiftrators, for fuch Account fo declared as aforefaid, and the Paymaster General fhall remain charged in his Account of the following Year, with fuch Balances, if any, on fuch Annual Accounts refpectively, as fhall have been so specified as aforefaid: Provided always that the Paymaster General shall at the fame Time that he tranfmits to the Commiflioners for auditing the publick Accounts fuch Annual Accounts fo made up as aforefaid, tranfmit to them any Accounts for the fame Year made up in fuch other Manner as the Lords Commiffioners of the Treasury shall direct, for the greater Convenience of Examination and Audit. VII. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That nothing in this Act fhall be construed to vary or alter the Mode of examining the Account of any Deputy Paymafter in the West Indies or on the Continent of South America, as directed by an Act of the Forty-fixth Year of His prefent Majefty, intituled, An Act to provide for the more effectual Examination of Accounts of the Expenditure of the publick Money in the West Indies, and for the better Discovery of Frauds and Abufes therein. VIII. And be it further enacted, That in the Event of the Death, Refignation or Removal of the Paymaster General, in the courfe of the Year, the Account fhall be fo made up as to include and diftinguish the actual Payments of each Paymafter General within the Year, and to fpecify and diftinguish the refpective Balances, if any remaining, on the Death or Removal of any Paymafter General on his feveral Accounts aforefaid, and transferred over to the fucceeding Paymafter General, so as to enable the Commiffioners for auditing the publick Accounts to diftinguish each Account, and examine and declare the Accounts of any Paymafter General, fo dying or going out of Office, as a feparate and diftinct Account; and the Transfer of fuch Balances to any fucceeding Paymafter General fhall be a fufficient Difcharge to the Heirs, Executors, or Adminiftrators of any Paymaster General fo dying, or to any Paymaster General going out of Office, for the Amount of fuch Balances; and a Quietus and full Acquittance fhall be given to the Heirs, Executors, or Adminiftrators of any Paymafter General fo dying, or to the Paymafter General, or His Heirs, Executors, or Adminiftrators fo going out of Office, for his General Account and feveral and diftinct Accounts as aforefaid, when and as foon as the same shall have been examined and declared; and the fucceeding Paymaster General fhall become charged with the Balances fo transferred as aforefaid. IX. And be it further enacted, That from and after the paffing of this Act the Paymaster General, in the first Memorial in every Month prefented by him to the Lords Commiffioners of the Treafury for Supplies of Money, fhall infert in fuch Memorials the Balance of publick Money on his Account in the Hands of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, together with an Account of all K 3 Exchequer Exchequer Bills delivered to the Paymafter General which fhall not have been difpofed of, and the Produce thereof carried to his Account at the Bank, together with an Account of all outstanding Drafts with which fuch Balance is chargeable, without ftating any Claims or other Demands upon the faid Balance; any Thing in the faid recited Act of the Forty-fifth Year of the Reign of His prefent Majeity to the contrary notwithstanding. "Act may be altered this Seffion. § 10." CA P. L. An Act to fufpend the granting of Offices in Reversion, or for W HEREAS it is expedient for the Public Service, with a view to Inquiries now depending in the Houfe of Commons, that the granting of Offices in Reverfion, or for joint Lives with Benefit of Survivorship, fhould be fufpended for a limited Time;' May it therefore pleafe Your Majefty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That for one Year after the paffing of this Act, and from thence until Six Weeks after the Commencement of the then next Seffion of Parliament, no Office, Place, Employment or Salary, within His Majefty's Dominions, nor any Emoluments arifing therefrom, fhall be granted in Reverlion, or for joint Lives with Benefit of Survivorship, or for any Two or more Lives in Succeffion, by His Majelly, His Heirs and Succeffors, or by any Board or De partment of Government, or by any Chief Judge or Officer of any Court of Law or Equity, or Ecclefiaftical or Admiralty Court; except as is herein-after excepted. II. And be it further enacted, That every Grant or Appointment which may hereafter be made contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act fhall be, and the fame is hereby declared to be to all Intents and Purpofes void. III. And be it further enacted, that all Salary and Emolument received under any fuch Grant or Appointment fhall be forfeited, and may be recovered by Information in the Court of Exchequer, at the Suit of His Majefty's Attorney General, to the Ufe of His Majefty, His Heirs and Succeffors. IV. Provided always, That nothing herein contained shall extend or be conftrued to extend to prohibit or make void any Grant or Appointment made or to be made by any Chief Judge or Officer of any Court of Law or Equity, or Ecclefiaftical or Admiralty Court, or by any Archbishop or Bifhop of any See, holding fuch Áppointment or Office on the Day of the paffing of this Act, or by any Officer or Officers appointed or to be appointed by any fuch Chief Judge, or by any Perfon or Perfons having Power to appoint to Offices in the faid Courts, in relation to any Office or Appointment in any of the faid Courts which before the puffing of this Act might by by Law be granted in Reverfion, or for joint Lives with Benefit of Survivorship; nor to prohibit the Appointment of Affiftants and Scotch Clergy. Succeffors to the Parochial Clergy of Scotland. CA P. LI. An Act for making Allowances in certain Cafes to Subaltern [In all Refpeds the fame as 47 Geo. 3. ft. 2. c. 32. mutatis mutandis.] CAP. LII. An Act to revive and continue, until the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thoufand eight hundred and nine, and amend fo much of an Act, made in the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Years of His prefent Majefty, as grants certain Allowances to Adjutants and Serjeant Majors of the Militia of England, difembodied under an Act of the fame Seffion of Parliament. [27th May 1808.] [See 42 G. 3. c. 64. to which this A&t is fimilar, mutatis mutandis.] CA P. LIII. Interest An Act for raising the Sum of Three Millions by Exchequer CA P. LIV. An Act for raising the Sum of One Million five hundred Said Bills САР, 43 G. 3. c. 161. 45 G. 3. c. 13. 46 G. 3. c. 78. Duties in the Schedules (A) to (Khall be levied Duties. CA P. LV. An Act for repealing the Duties of Affeffed Taxes, and granting new Duties in lieu thereof, and certain additional Duties to be confolidated therewith; and alfo for repealing the Stamp Duties on Game Certificates, and granting new Duties in lieu thereof, to be placed under the Management of the Commiflioners for the Affairs of Taxes. [1st June 1808.] Moft Gracious Sovereign, WE, Your Majesty's moft dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and • Ireland in Parliament affembled, thinking it expedient that the Duties granted by Two Acts of the Forty-third and Forty-fifth Years of the Reign of Your Majefty, fhould be confolidated with the additional Duties granted on the Amount of the faid Dutics, by an Act of the Forty-fixth Year of the Reign of Your Majefly, have, towards raifing the neceflary Supplies to defray Your Majefty's Publick Expences, and making a permanent addition to the Publick Revenue of Great Britain, freely and voluntarily refolved 'to grant certain additional Duties, to be alfo confolidated with the faid former Duties, in the Manner and to the Amount contained in the respective Schedules hereunto annexed; and we do moft humbly beteech Your Majesty that it may be enacted;' and be it enacted by the King's moft Excellent Majefly, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That from and after the Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and eight, in that Part of Great Britain called England, inftead of former the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and from and after the Term of Whitfunday One thousand eight hundred and eight, in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, in lieu and inftead of the Duties granted by or contained in the faid feveral recited Acts, and herein-after repealed, and for the Purpose of making fuch permanent Increafe as aforefaid, there fhall be affeffed, raised, levied, and paid unto and for the Ufe of His Majefty, His Heirs and Succeffors, upon Houfes, Windows, and Lights, as fet forth in the Schedule to this Act annexed, marked (A.); and upon Inhabited Houfes as fet forth in the Schedule to this Act annexed, marked (B.); and upon all Male Servants and other Male Perfons retained or employed by any Perfon or Perfons in any of the several Capacities mentioned in the Schedule to this Act annexed, marked (C.); and upon all Carriages of any of the Defcriptions mentioned in any of the Schedules to this Act annexed, marked (D.); and upon all Horses, Mares, and Geldings, kept by any Perfon or Perfons for any of the Purpofes mentioned in the Schedule to this Act annexed, marked (E.); and upon all other Horfes, Mares, or Geldings, not before charged, and upon Mules, defcribed in the Schedule to this Act annexed, marked (F.); and upon all Dogs of any of the Defcriptions mentioned in the Schedule to this Act annexed, marked (G.); and upon all Horfe Dealers refiding within the refpective Limits deferibed in the Schedule to this Act annexed, marked (H.); and upon all Perfons in refpect of wearing or ufing Hair Powder, or аву |