544 C. 43, 44* Anno vicefimo quarto Georgii III.	Seff. 2.
* ^Great Britain, for the Offences aforefaid, to he difirikuted as the Law dir efts, according to the Form of * the Statute in that Cafe made and provided.
* Given under my Hand and Seal, the	Day of
Jufticemay mi- XXII. Provided neverthelefs, That it {hall and may be lawful to and for the faid Juftice, where he tigate Penalties, fhall fee Caufe, to mitigate and leflen any fuch Penalties as he (hall think fit, reafonable Cofts and Charges of the Officers and Informers,* as well in making the Difcovery as in profecuting the fame, being always allowed, over and above fuch Mitigation, and fo as fuch Mitigation do not reduce the Penalties . to lefs than a Moiety of the Penalties incurred, over and above the faid Cofts and Charges; any Thing contained herein to the contrary notwhhftanding.
Duties to bet paid XXIII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That the feveral Duties herein-before General of the £ranted (hall be paid from Time to Time into the Hands of the Receiver General for the Time being of Stamp-duties, the Duties on Stamped Vellum, Parchment, and Paper, who (ball keep a feparate and diftinft Account and by him paid of the feveral Rates and Duties, and pay the fame (the neceflary Charges of raifing, paying, and ac-intothe Exche- counting for the fame, being deduced) into the Receipt of the Exchequer, at fuch Time and in fuch ^^	Manner, as the Duties charged on Stamped Vellum, Parchment and Paper, are dirc&ed to be paid ; and
Auditor to pro- that in the Office of the Auditor of the fame Receipt (ball be provided and kept a Book or Books, in enterinB°the Du- which all the Monies arifing from the faid feveral Rates and Duties, and paid into the faid Receipt as tiesfeparatefrom aforefaid, (hall be entered, feparate and apart from all other Monies paid or payable to his Majefty, his all others. Heirs or Succeffors, upon any Account whatfoever; and the faid Money fo paid into the faid Receipt of Application Exchequer as aforefaid, (hall be a Fund for the Payment of the feveraj Annuities, and all fuch other thereof. Chargesand Expences as are directed to be paid and payable, purfuant to an Adi of this prefent Seffion of Parliament, intituled, An Afi for raifing a certain Sum of Money by way of Annuities', and for eftablijb-ing a Lottery.
XXIV. And be it further enafted by the Authority aforefaid, That if any Perfon or Perfons (hall at any Time or Times be fued, molefted, or profecuted, for any Thing by him or them done or executed in purfuance of this Ail, or of any Claufe, Matter, or Thing herein contained, fuch Perfon or Perfons (hall General Iflue. and may plead the General Blue, and give the Special Matter in Evidence for his or their Defence; and if upon the Trial a Verdift (hall pafs for the Defendant or Defendants, or the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs Treble CoPs. become nonfuited, then fuch Defendant or Defendants (hall have Treble Cofts awarded to him or them againft fuch Plaintiff or Plaintiffs.
CAP. XLIV.
An Aft for granting to his Majefty a certain Sum of Money out of the Sinking Fund; and for applying certain Monies therein mentioned for the Service of the Year one thoufand feven hundred and eighty-four; for appropriating the Monies arifing by the Duties on Malt, Mum, Cyder, and Perry, and alfo by a Land Tax, granted to his Majefty by two Afts made in the laft Seffion of Parliament; and for further appropriating the Supplies granted in this Seffion of Parliament.
* Mofi Gracious Sovereign,
* \X7 E’ y°ur ^aie^>s m0^ dudful an<J loyal Subjects, the Commons of Great Britain, in Parliament * VV affembled, towards raifing the neceffary Supplies which we have chearfuily granted to your Ma-* jefty in this Seffion of Parliament, have refolved to give and grant to your Majefty the Sum herein-after
4 mentioned;’ and do therefore moft humbly befeech your Majefty that it may be enafted, (Ac.
44 800,000 Z. granted out of the Sinking Fund, for the Service of the current Year. Treafury impowered
4,4 to raife the Sum of 8co,coo I. or any Part thereof, by Loans or Exchequer Bills, on the Credit of the
44 Sinking Fund. All Perfons who (hall lend any Money upon the Credit of this Aft to have a Tally ** of Loan, with Orders for Repayment of the Money, with Intereft. Orders to be regiftered in Courfe*
44 No undue Preference to be given in Payment. No Fee to be taken, on Forfeiture of Treble Damages
44 with full Cofts. Auditor, &c. neglefting his Duty, liable for Damages, ^Ac. to be recovered at Weft-
44 minfler. No undue Preference in the regiftering, where Orders are brought the fame Day ; nor if fub-u fequent Orders are paid before others not brought in Courfe, fo as Money be referved for the preceding
44 Orders. Orders may be affigned. If it (hall be judged more advifeable, the Treafury may raife the *‘ faid Sum by Exchequer Bills inftead of Loans ; and the Bills in fuch Cafe to be made in the Manner “ prefcribed by the Malt Aft of laft Seffion. All Advantages and Penalties in the faid Aft of laft Seffion, “ relating to Loans or Exchequer Bills thereby authorifed to be made forth, extended to this Aft. The
64 laid Exchequer Bills, Intertft, and Charges, are to be paid out of the Sinking Fund. Bank authorifed
44 to lend to his Majefty the Sum of 800,000/. notwithftanding an Aft of 5 and 6 GuL & Mari#. The <c Sum of 105,818/. > s, ii%d. remaining in the Exchequer, (hall be applied towards making good the
44 Supply. 441,702/. 13J. <;|^. out of Savings of Army Services, (hall be applied towards defraying
44 extraordinary Expences of Land Forces, &c. from February 1, 178 b to Dece?nber 24, 17^3. All Monies
44 arifing by the Malt Aft, Land Tax, Lottery Aft, Loans (1,500,000/ ), further Loans (1,000,000/.)
44 105,818/. 5 r. n£^. remaining in the Exchequer; and 800,000/. by this Aft granted out of the Sur-
44 pluftes of the Sinking Fund ; (hall be applied (with the Refidue of the Monies arifing from the Sale of
44 French Prizes, &c.) to the Ufes following: 3,15 3,8 69/. 6 </. towards Naval Services; 181,1414 6$. 4 4
A. D. 1784. Anno vicefimo quarto Georgii III. C. 44, 45.	545
G for the Charges of the Office of Ordnance, not provided for in 1783; 429,0081*2 s. 7 d. for the “ Charges of the Office of Ordnance, for 1784; 3Ji6?37oA 18$. yd. towards maintaining the Land “ Forces, ^c. of which 6 3 6,190/. 9$. id. for defraying the Charge of 17,48 3 effective Men, including 0 2,03c Invalids, and alfo Officers, Agency, ^c.; 284,213/. 2 j. gd. for Forces in Plantations, ^c. for 0 17 84; 8,252 L n s. 9 d. for Advance Pay to Dragoons andFoot in the Eaft Indies; 6,080/. 6s. 6d for <c General and General Staff Officers in Great Britain*, 9,371b 17s. gd. for two Hanoverian BatMons <c of Foot; 67,551/. 14 x. 1 d. to the Paymafter General, Secretary at War, f^c. and their Clerks, ^c. ;
46 173,601/. 15 j, ^d. for the Penfioners of Chelfea HofpitaL, &c-i 75,116/. 18 j. 6d. for reduced Offi-<c ccrs of Land Forces, &c.} 1^0,300/. for ditto; 563/. 12 r 10 J. for Officers and Private Gentlemen <c of Horfe Guards reduced, &c.; $j,6;3/. ioj. 6d. for Commiffioned Officers of Britifi American <4 Forces ; 3,544/- 14^ 3 d. for Officers late in the Service of the States General; 17,000/. 4 r. for Widows “ of Commiffioned Officers; 686/. for Widows of Commiffioned Officers in Britijh American forces 1 *‘ 4,246/. 11 r. for two Regiments of Foot knt from Ireland to Gibraltar i 10,524/. 17x. 4^. for Addi-<5 ticnals to three Regiments of Foot; 9,821/. 15 j. 6d for fever al Corps to the Times of their being u difbanded; 23,419/. ex. 10^. for five Battalions of Hanoverian Infantry, for 183 Days; 6,291/. 7$. <c for General and Staff Officers in North Americat for 17 84; 12 0,3 69/. 11 x. yd. for Subfidies to the 0 Landgrave of Heffe Caffil, &c. for 17 84; 60,03; / 8 x. ^d. for 6,46 3 HeJJians from May 2 8, to Dec^ <c 24, 17 84; 2,366/. 13 x. to make good a Deficiency in the Duke of Brunfwick’s Subfidy, for 1783; 0 7 7j^5 3/. 8r 75^/. for feveral Corps in 17 84; 15,626/, 4X. w d. for three Regiments of Foot, for 18 3 .
*‘ Days; 1,919,289/. 6x. nf^ for Extraordinaries, ^fc. from February r, 1783, to December 2$y fol-*‘ lowing; f:o,coo/. to difeharge the Civil Lift Debt; 1,000,000/ for paying off the Exchequer Bills u made out by virtue of an Aft 2 3 Geo. Ill ; 1,5 00,00 0/. for paying off Bills made out by virtue of •* another Aft of the fame Year; 36,841/. u. bd. iffued in purfuance of Addreffes of the Houfe of “ Commons; 25,000/. towards carrying on the Buildings at 50w^r/^ ^*9^; 5>5 59^ $* for fupporting “ the Civil Eftablifhment of Nova Scotia •> 3,150/. for the Ifland of St.John^ 3,950 A for Eaft Florida *9 “ 3,ico A for Nezu Brunfwtck \n America*, \rt$oI. for Cape Breton \ 7,8;oA to peifeft the Purchafe of <c the Soil of the Bahama IJlands, &c.; 500 A for the Chief Juftice of Somers IJlands*, 13,00c/. for main-G taining Forts on the Coaft of Africa*, 9,000/. for the Commiffioners of Publick Accounts; 7,000/. to *c make good the like Sum paid to the Secretaries of the faid Commiffioners, and to the Commiffioners 0 appointed to enquire into the Loffes of the American Loyalifts; 4,ocoA for affifting the Levant Com-u pany; 3,000/. for the Briti/h Mufeum *, 4,8 3 0/. 7 5, 6^; on account of new Roads, ^Ac in the High-u lands of Scotland*, i,8 iA 135. 8^A to make Compenfation to the fLev. Thomas Weekes Dalby, for.de-0 taining the Ship Hope, &c. 75,750/. 13J 6 d. for Relief of American Civil Officers, &c ; 12,816/. “ 15 x. g%d, to make good the like Sum iffued to difeharge Bills drawn on the Treafury by the Governor u of Nova Scotia ; 3 .587/ 9 s V d to be paid to fojeph White Efq; for defraying Expences of fupporting <c in laft Seffion the Bill for inflifting Painsand Penalties on Sir Thomas Rumbold, Bart.; 920 A ox. 9^ to <c be paid to George White Efq; for defraying Expences attending Committees of the Houfe of Commons c< in 17 81 and 17 8 2, to enquire into the Caufes of the War in the Carnatic, &c.; 1,779/. i;x. to be <( paid to Mr. Evatt, for Expences attending the Seleft Committees tn the four laft Seffions appointed <c to take into Confideration the Adminiftration of Judice in Bengal &c. ; u6A i6x. 6d. to be paid to u Mr. White\\sm for Expences attending Seleft Comntfttees during the laft and prefent Seffion, to whom c< the Reports of the Direftors of the Eajl India Company were referred ; 220/. to be paid to Mr. Benfon <c for his Expences and Trouble attending the Committee appointed to enquire into the Means of pre-0 venting Smuggling; 12,212/. ux. 6 d. iffued to Duncan Campbell, for maintaining Convicts, &?.; G 23?5s6A zx. yd to make good the Deficiency of a Fund for paying Annuities granted by an Aft “ 31 Gee. IL; 168,019/. 2x. 9!^/. to make good the Deficiency of a Fund for paying Annuities granted c< by an Aft <8 Geo. III.; 73,339b iqx. % d. to make good the Deficiency of a Fund for paying Ann ur-<c ties granted by an Aft 19 Geo. III. ; 207,909 A sox. 3d. to make good the Deficiency of a Fund far 0 paying Annuities granted by an Aft 20 Geo. Ill ; 4 3 5,8 8 8 A 19X. 2 d. to make good the Deficiency of 0 a Fund for paying Annuities granted by an Aft 22 Geo. III.; 24,943 A ex, old. to make good the De* 46 ficiency of a Fund for paying Annuities granted by an Aft 23 Geo. III.; 36,814/. 15X. $%d. to make <c good the Deficiency of the Grants for the Year 1783. The faid Aids to be applied only to the Ufes 41 before mentioned. Rules to be obferved in the Application of the Half-pay. By an Aft 23 Geo. HI, 0 a Sum not exceeding 77,985 A 5x. iod, and a Su n not exceeding 47,5 00 A were appropriated to be *c paid to reduced Officers. Overplus Monies, above fatisfying faid Officers, to be difpofed of to Offi-44 cers who were maimed, i^c. in the late Wars, or to Officers Widows and Children, as his Majefty 44 fliall direft ”
C A P. XLV.
An Aft to extend the Powers of an Aft made in the twenty-third Year of his prefent Majefty, for giving his Majefty certain Powers for the better carrying on Trade and Commerce between the Subjefts of his Majefty’s Dominions and the Inhabitants of the United States of America, to the Trade and Commerce of this Kingdom with the Britijh Colonies and Plantations in America, with refpect to certain Articles therein mentioned.	,
* IT7HEREAS by an Aft, made in the twenty-third Year of the Reign of his prefent Majefty, 4 Vy intituled, An Aft for preventing certain Inftrumentsfrom being required from Ehips belonging to the * United States of America; and to give to his Majefty, for a limited Time, certain Powers for the* better * carrying
Preamble.
Recital of 13 Geo, 3, Cap. 39»