Officers of the XXVI. And whereas the Royal Regiment of Manx Fen- Half Pay alcibles engaged to serve in the said Corps upon a Stipulation lowed to the contained in the Letter of Service under which they were Manx Fencibles. raised, that they should be allowed to receive any Half Pay to which they might be entitled notwithstanding their holding Subaltern Commissions in the said Corps; but no Provision. has been made by Parliament for Payment of such Half Pay, and it is therefore expedient that Provision should be now made for the Arrears of Half Pay to such Officers as aforesaid:' Be it therefore enacted, That Officers who were entitled to Half Pay, and who accepted or held Subaltern Commissions in the Royal Regiment of Manx Fencibles, shall, notwithstanding their having held the Full Pay of such Commissions, be entitled to receive the Arrears of such Half Pay for any Year or Time in which they shall not have been allowed to receive the same, upon making and subscribing a Declaration before any Person hereby authorized to administer a Declaration to Persons for the Purpose of receiving Half Pay, that they had not, in any Year or Time for which such Arrear is claimed, any Office or Employment of Profit, Civil or Military, under Her Majesty, besides their Allowance of Half Pay, save and except their Pay as such Subaltern Officers of the Royal Regiment of Manx Fencibles; and the making and subscribing the said Declaration shall, without making and subscribing any other Declaration, be sufficient to entitle such Officer to receive his Half Pay. 6 6 siastical Bene XXVII. ' And whereas Chaplains of Regiments who have Half Pay been placed upon Half Pay have not been allowed to receive Allowances to Chaplains of such Half Pay in some Years, in consequence of being in Regiments not possession at the Time of certain Ecclesiastical Benefices or being in possesPreferments, though the same were not in the Patronage of sion of Eccle. the Crown: And whereas it has been judged fair and reason- tices derived able that they should be allowed to receive such Half Pay, from the Crown. though in possession of Ecclesiastical Preferment, provided the same was private Patronage, and not derived from the Crown; and that they should also be entitled to receive the Arrears of Half Pay for such former Years as aforesaid: Be it therefore enacted, That all Chaplains who, after having been placed on Half Pay, shall have been refused or been unable to receive such Half Pay in any Year, in consequence of holding any Ecclesiastical Benefice not derived from or in the Gift of the Crown, shall be entitled to receive the Arrears of such Half Pay for such Year, upon making and subscribing a Declaration, before the proper Officer for administering Declarations to Persons for entitling them to receive Half Pay, that they held no Ecclesiastical Benefice or Preferment in any Year derived from the Crown, nor any Place or Employment of Profit under Her Majesty; and the making and subscribing the said Declaration shall, without making and subscribing any other Declaration, be sufficient to entitle such Chaplain to receive his Half Pay. By 7 & 8 Vict. c.104.aSum was appropriated to be paid to Half Pay Officers, the Surplus of which is hereby authorized to be disposed of as Her Majesty shall direct. Widows and Persons claim ing Pensions shall make the required Decla ration. Declarations to be made as specified in XXVIII. And whereas by the said recited Act passed in the Seventh and Eighth Years of Her present Majesty the several Supplies which have been granted to Her Majesty as therein mentioned were appropriated to the several Uses and Purposes therein expressed, amongst which any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding Four hundred and fifty thousand Pounds in the whole was appropriated to be paid on account of Half Pay for the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-four, subject nevertheless to such Rules to be observed in the Application of the said Half Pay as in and by the aforesaid Act were prescribed in that Behalf:' Now it is hereby provided, enacted, and declared, That so much of the said Sum of Four hundred and fifty thousand Pounds as is or shall be more than sufficient to satisfy the said Reduced Officers according to the Rules to be observed in the Application thereof, or any Part of such Overplus, shall and may be disposed of to such Officers who are maimed or have lost their Limbs in the late War, or such others as by reason of their long Service, or otherwise, Her Majesty shall judge to be proper Objects of Charity, or to the Widows or Children of such Officers according to such Warrant or Warrants under Her Majesty's Royal Sign Manual, as shall be signed in that Behalf; any thing in this Act or the said Act to the contrary notwithstanding. XXIX. And as to the Sum of One hundred forty-one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight Pounds by this Act appro priated for defraying the Charge of Pensions to be paid to the Widows of Officers of Her Majesty's Land Forces as aforesaid, and as to the Sum of One hundred and five thousand Pounds by this Act appropriated for defraying the Charge of Allowances on the Compassionate List, of Allowances as of Her Majesty's Royal Bounty, and of Pensions to Officers for Wounds as aforesaid, it is hereby enacted and declared, That no Widow of an Officer of the Land Forces, and no Person claiming an Allowance on the Compassionate List, or of Allowances as of Her Majesty's Royal Bounty, shall have or receive any Part of the same without making and subscribing a Declaration to such Purport and Effect as shall be required in that Behalf by Her Majesty's Warrant directing the Issue of such Pensions and Allowances so to be received. XXX. And be it enacted, That every such Declaration shall and be made and subscribed before any One or more of Her may 5&6 W.4.c.62. Majesty's Justices of the Peace, or before the resident Minister of the Established Church in any Parish in England, Scotland, or Ireland, or before any of the Persons appointed to examine Vouchers in the Office of the Paymaster General, in the Manner, and under the Pains, Penalties, and Forfeitures, specified in an Act passed in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty for the Abolition of unnecessary Oaths, INDEX TO THE PUBLIC GENERAL 8 & 9 VICTORIA. Shewing whether they relate to the Whole or to any Part of the United E. signifies that the Act relates to England (and Wales; if the Subject extends so far). Wales only. Scotland. - Ireland. England and Ireland. Great Britain. · Great Britain and Ireland. The Whole of the United Kingdom. ABOLITION of the Separate Seal Office of the Courts of Queen's Bench and Common Pleas, for of the African Slave Trade, to amend ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE. See CHANCERY (COURT OF). PRIVY COUNCIL. ALDERNEY. See SPIRITS. AMERICA. See NORTH AMERICA. AMERICA. Cap. Relating to 34. E. 122. U.K. UNITED STATES OF - {130 1. U.K. UK. APPLICATION of Sums (Transfers of Aids) APPRAISERS, to increase the Stamp Duty on Licences to APPREHENSION of certain Offenders, for facilitating Exe- cution of the Treaties with France and the United 120. U.K. APPROPRIATION of Supplies ARCHBISHOPS and Bishops enabled to charge their Sees 130. U.K. 51. I. ARMY; annual Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, - ARRESTMENT of Wages, to amend the Law of - ASSESSED TAXES, to continue for Five Years and to amend - AUCTION; to repeal the Duties of Excise on Sales by B. BAIL in Error, to stay Execution of Judgment for Mis- BANK NOTES, to regulate the Issue of, and to regulate to regulate the Issue of to amend 7 & 8 Vict. c. 32., for regulating the - BANKRUPTCY, to substitute a Declaration for an Oath in - 2 & 3 Vict. c. 37., for exempting certain, from the BONDED CORN. See WHEAT. BOROUGH RATES, for the better collecting, in certain Places BOUNTIES and Allowances of Customs, to grant BRIDGES, for amending the Laws concerning, and the - 110. E. 43. E. & I. 92. U.K. 122. U.K.. BRITISH NORTH AMERICA. See NORTH AMERICA (BRITISH). C. Cap. Relating to CALICO PRINT WORKS. See PRINT WORKS. CANAL COMPANIES and the Commissioners of navigable - enabled to become Carriers of Goods upon their CHANCERY, (COURT OF), to amend 4 & 5 Vict. c. 52. and 28. U.K. 42. U.K. 5 Vict. c.5. for facilitating the Administration 105. E. for appointing a Taxing Master in 115. I. U.K. 70. E. CHILDREN, to regulate the Labour of, in Print Works COLLECTIONS (Scientific and Literary), for the better Protection of COLLEGES, to enable Her Majesty to endow new, for the - COLONIAL PASSENGERS. See PASSENgers. 44. E. & I. - - COMMON PLEAS, for abolishing the separate Seal Office in COMMONS and Lands held in common, to facilitate the of the Year 1845 to apply a Sum out of, and certain other Sums CONSTABLES or other Officers, Appointment of, for keeping the Peace near Public Works CONVEYANCE of Real Property, to facilitate COUNTIES of Cities, to amend and explain certain Pro-] COUNTY RATES, to alter and amend the Laws enabling to amend the Laws relating to the assessing of - 121. I. 32. E, 111. E. |