50 Geo. 3. An Act to amend several Section Three. c. 25.

Acts relating to the Local

Militia of Great Britain.

53 Geo. 3. An Act to amend several Section Four. c. 81.

c. 44.

Acts relating to the Mi-
litia, and to enlisting of
the Militia into His Ma-
jesty's Regular Forces.

56 Geo. 3. An Act to reduce the Num-
c. 39.
ber of Days of Muster or
Exercise of Yeomanry
and Volunteer Cavalry.
57 Geo. 3. An Act to allow Corps of
Yeomanry or Volunteer
Cavalry, when assembled
for the Suppression of
Riots or Tumults, to be
quartered and billeted,
and Officers on Half Pay
to hold certain Commis-
sions in such Corps, and
to exempt Members in
such Corps from serving
the Office of Constable.

So far as the Act re

lates to Volunteers in Great Britain.

So far as the Act re

lates to Volunteers in Great Britain.

Volunteers.

Session and
Chapter.

Title or Short Title.

Prisons (Ireland).

Extent of Repeal.

So far as the Act relates to Volunteers in Great Britain, including the Provisions thereof relative to the Remuneration of the Clerks of Meetings therein mentioned, so far as that Remuneration has reference to the Execution of the Provisions of any Act

relating to Volunteers in Great Britain.

So far as the Act relates to Volunteers in Great Britain.

The Rifle Volunteer The whole.
Grounds Act, 1860.

An Act to exempt the Vo- The whole.
lunteer Forces of Great

Britain from the Payment

of Tolls.

25 & 26 Vict. An Act for amending "The The whole.
C. 41.

Rifle Volunteer Grounds

19 & 20 Vict. c. 68.

An Act to amend the Law relating to Prisons in Ireland.

[21st July 1863.] WHEREAS by the Nineteenth Section of an Act passed in

the Nineteenth and Twentieth Years of the Reign of Her Majesty, Chapter Sixty-eight, intituled An Act to further ' amend the Laws relating to Prisons in Ireland, it is amongst other things enacted, that the Appointment by any Board of Superintendence, under the Provisions of the said Act, of any Officer of any such Prison other than the Chaplains or Medical Officer shall be probationary only, and shall not be or become • absolute until the same shall be confirmed at a Meeting of the Board of Superintendence duly summoned and held for that

• Purpose,

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Greenwich Hospital (Provision for Widows).

Purpose, not sooner than Three Months after the Meeting at 'which such probationary Appointment shall have been made, ' and that no such Confirmation of the Appointment of any 'Officer of any such Prison, save as aforesaid, shall be made at 'such last-mentioned Meeting unless Two Thirds of the Members ' of such Board and the Majority of the Members present shall concur in such Ratification or Confirmation: And whereas it ' has been found inconvenient to require the Presence of Two 'Thirds of the Members of such Boards of Superintendence at 'Meetings summoned and held to confirm such probationary Appointments made by a former Board:' Be it enacted by the Queen'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, as follows:

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1. This Act shall commence and take effect from and after the CommenceFirst Day of October next after the passing of this Act.

2. This Act and the said recited Act shall be incorporated and construed together as One Act. 3. So much of the said recited Act (Section Nineteen) as provides that Two Thirds of the Members of any Board of Superintendence shall be present at any Meeting of such Board duly summoned and held to confirm probationary Appointments made by a former Board shall be repealed, and the Presence of Six Members only shall be sufficient for that Purpose, the Majority of whom shall be required to concur in the Ratification or Confirmation of such probationary Appointments.

W

CA P. LXVII.

An Act to enable Provision to be made out of the Funds of
Greenwich Hospital for the Widows of Seamen and Ma-
rines slain, killed, or drowned in the Sea Service of the
Crown.
[21st July 1863.]
WHEREAS among the Objects intended to be provided for
by the Endowment of Greenwich Hospital was the Sus-
tentation of the Widows of Seamen happening to be slain, killed,
or drowned in the Sea Service of the Crown, as far as the
'Resources of the Hospital would extend, and according to the
Rules, Orders, and Constitutions to be provided in that Behalf :
And whereas it is expedient that a Portion of the Revenues of
the Hospital should now be applied, as herein-after provided,
' for the Relief of such Widows and of the Widows of Marines :'
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen'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, as follows:

ment of Act.

This and re

cited Act to be as One.

Part of Sect. 19 of recited Act repealed.

1. The Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital shall, under the Appropriation Control and Direction of the Lord High Admiral of the United out of Revenues Kingdom, or of the Commissioners for executing the Office of of Hospital for Lord High Admiral, annually appropriate out of the Income of Widows. Greenwich Hospital such Sum, not exceeding in any Year Five

thousand

Provision for.

Widows Fund to be created by Accumulation of unexpended Balances.

Admiralty to
make Rules,
to be approved
by Order in
Council.

Short Title.

Greenwich Hospital (Provision for Widows).

thousand Pounds, as may from Time to Time appear sufficient for the Purposes of this Act, and as the Finances of the Hospital may from Time to Time allow, which Sum shall be applied in making Provision, in manner herein-after directed, for Widows of Petty Officers and Seamen and of Non-commissioned Officers and Privates of the Royal Marines who, after the passing of this Act, may be killed or drowned in the Service of the Crown.

2. If in any Year it happens that the Sum of Five thousand Pounds or other less Sum appropriated is not wholly expended in making such Provision as aforesaid, the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital shall, under the Control and Direction aforesaid, dispose of the unexpended Balance as follows; namely, by forming and maintaining, by way of Accumulation, a Fund, to be called The Greenwich Hospital Seamen's Widows Fund, by investing such unexpended Balance in or upon some of the Government Stocks, Funds, or Securities of the United Kingdom, and by from Time to Time investing in like Manner the Proceeds of such Stocks, Funds, or Securities, and the Income from Time to Time resulting therefrom, and from like successive Investments, and by applying from Time to Time in any subsequent Year the Accumulations of previous Years, or the Income resulting therefrom, or any Part of such Accumulations or Income, in making such Provision for such Widows as aforesaid, in like Manner as if the Accumulations or Income so applied in any Year were Part of the Sum of Five thousand Pounds or other Sum originally appropriated in that Year.

3. The Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom, or the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral, shall from Time to Time make such Rules as may seem fit for determining the Nature and Amount of the Provision to be made for such Widows as aforesaid, according to the Circumstances of different Cases, and for governing the Selection of the Persons to receive the Benefit of this Act, and for regulating the Formation and Maintenance of the said Widows Fund, and generally for regulating the Application to the Purposes of this Act of the yearly Sum to be appropriated as aforesaid, and of the said Widows Fund; but any such Rules shall not have effect until they are approved by Her Majesty in Council.

Every Order in Council under this Act shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within One Month after the making thereof, if Parliament is then sitting, and if not, then within One Month after the beginning of the next Sitting of Parliament. 4. This Act may be cited as The Greenwich Hospital (Provision for Widows) Act, 1863.

CA P. LXVIII.

An Act to extend the Powers of the Act relating to the
Main Drainage of the Metropolis. [21st July 1863.]

W WHEREAS by an Act of the Session of the Twenty-first 21 & 22 Vict. and Twenty-second Years of the Reign of Her present c. 104. (Metro- Majesty, Chapter One hundred and four, intituled An Act to

alter

Metropolitan Main Drainage Extension.

'alter and amend the Metropolis Local Management Act, 1855, politan Main and to extend the Powers of the Metropolitan Board of Works Drainage Act).

for the Purification of the Thames and the Main Drainage of the Metropolis (which Act is herein-after referred to as the "Main Drainage Act, 1858 "), the Metropolitan Board of Works are required to complete with all convenient Speed the necessary 'Works for the Main Drainage of the Metropolis: And whereas 'the said Board are empowered to borrow for the Purposes of the 'said Act in manner therein mentioned any Sum of Money not 'exceeding in the whole Three Millions, and the Commissioners * of Her Majesty's Treasury are authorized to guarantee in manner in the said Act mentioned the Payment of the Principal and 'Interest on the Monies so borrowed: And whereas the said Board have proceeded to a very considerable Extent in the Execution of the Works required by the said Main Drainage 'Act, but by reason of the Increase in the Price of Materials and Labour since the Date of the said Act, and of the Necessity 'having arisen for additional Works, a further Sum of One 'million two hundred thousand Pounds will be required for the 'Completion of the whole of such Works: Be it enacted by the Queen'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, as follows; (that is to say,)

1. This Act may be cited for all Purposes as "The Metro- Short Title. politan Main Drainage Extension Act, 1863."

2. The Metropolitan Board of Works may borrow, with the Power to Consent and in manner provided by the Main Drainage Act, Board to 1858, any Sum of Money not exceeding in the whole One million borrow 1,200,000l. two hundred thousand Pounds, in addition to the Sums by that Act authorized to be borrowed.

3. The Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury may guarantee Power to the Payment of the Principal and Interest of any Money borrowed Treasury to under this Act, in manner and subject to the Conditions in and guarantee subject to which they are authorized to guarantee the Payment Payment. of the Principal and Interest of any Monies borrowed under the Main Drainage Act, 1858.

1858.

4. This Act shall be construed as One with the Main Drainage Construction Act, 1858, and all the Provisions of that Act with respect to the of this Act and borrowing of Money and the Securities for the same, and with the Main respect to the Guarantee to be given by the Commissioners of the Drainage Act, Treasury, and the Indemnity of the Commissioners against Loss on this Guarantee, and with respect to the levying Rates, and generally with respect to any Matter incidental to or consequential on the borrowing of Money therein mentioned, shall apply to the Monies authorized to be borrowed under this Act in the same Manner as if the Monies were borrowed under the said Main Drainage Act, 1858.

5. All Monies borrowed under this Act shall be applied to the Application of same Purposes as Monies borrowed under the said Main Drainage Monies. Act, 1858.