51° GEO. III. C.74. 227 CA P. LXXIV. An Act for authorizing the Sale of Prize Goods lodged in WHEREAS it is expedient that Prize Goods landed and fe c. 134. to be cured in Warehouses within Great Britain fhould be cleared from thence within a limited time;' 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 the Goods fecured in Owners or Proprietors of all Goods, Wares and Merchandize, which Warehouses from and after the paffing of this A&t may be fecured in Warehoufes under 43 G. 3. under the Regulations of an A&t paffed in the Forty third Year of the Reign of His prefent Majefty, intituled, An Ad for the Relief Three Years of the Captors of Prizes with respect to the bringing and landing cer- from the Entry, tain Prize Goods in Great Britain during Hoftilities, fhall, within Three &c. or fold, Years, to be computed from the Day on which fuch Goods, Wares and Merchandize fhall be refpectively entered with the proper Officers of the Cuftoms and of the Excife where that Revenue is concerned, clear and take from and out of fuch Warehouses, either for Exportation according to the Directions of the faid recited Act of the Forty third Year of the Reign of His prefent Majelty, or for Confumption in Great Britain, all fuch Goods, Wares and Merchandize; and in cafe fuch Owner or Proprietor fhall fail or neglect fo to do, it shall and may be lawful for the Commiffiouers of His Majefty's Cuftoms in England and Scotland refpectively to caufe all fuch Goods, Wares and Merchandize to be publickly fold, and after fuch Sale, the Produce thereof is firft to be applied to or towards the Charges of Warehouse Room and other Charges that fhall arife thereon, next the Duties of Cuftoms and Excife, and the Overplus, if any, to be paid to the Owner or Proprietor, or fuch other Perfon or Perfons as may be authorized to receive the fame: Provided always, that no Proviso Goods, Wares or Merchandize, prohibited to be imported into this Kingdom and warehoufed under the Authority of the faid recited Act of the Forty third Year of the Reign of His prefent Majeity, fhall be permitted to be cleared from the Warehouses for Home Confumption. within Two II. And whereas it is expedient that Goods, Wares and Mer- Prize Goods now chandize brought in as Prize, now remaining in Warehouses, shall in Warehouses be cleared from thence within a limited time;' Be it therefore to be cleared enacted, That all Goods, Wares and Merchandize brought in as Years. Prize, and which are now remaining in Warehouses within Great Britain fhall, and the fame are hereby required to be cleared from thence within Two Years, to be computed from the paffing of this Act, or on Failure thereof fuch Goods, Wares and Merchandize fhall and may be difpofed of in the fame manner as Prize Goods warehoufed after the paffing of this Act, which are not cleared from the Warehouses within Three Years from the time of Entry, are hereby directed to be difpofed of. III. And whereas Goods, Wares and Merchandize may, under particular Circumftances, be allowed to be warehoused without Payment of Duty, although not included in the Tables annexed to the Act of the Forty third Year of the Reign of His prefent • Majesty, Q 2 43 G. 3. c. 132. Goods landed and warehoufed under an Order in Council or Warrant of Treafury when to be cleared. Goods in Ware houfes under 1pecial Autho Majefty, intituled, An A& for permitting certain Goods im ported into Great Britain to be fecured in Warehoufes without Payment of Duty, and it is expedient that fimilar Provision should be made for clearing fuch Goods, Wares and Merchandize from the Warehouses within 6 a limited time;' Be it therefore enacted, That no Goods, Wares and Merchandize, which from and after the paffing of this Act may be allowed to be landed and warehoufed by the Authority of any Order in Council, or by Warrant of the Lords Commiffioners of His Majefty's Treasury for the time being, or any Three or more of them, fhall remain warehoufed beyond the Period of Fifteen Months, to be computed from the Day on which fuch Goods fhall be entered with the proper Officers of the Cuftoms and Excife where that Revenue is concerned, unless any other Period fhall be limited by fuch Order in Council or Warrant refpectively, and in cafe any Goods, Wares or Merchandize, warehoused under fuch Authority as aforefaid, shall not be cleared and taken out of fuch Warehouses in order to be exported within the faid Period of Fifteen Months, except as aforefaid, the fame fhall and may be difpofed of in the fame manner as is herein directed with refpect to Goods, Wares and Merchandize brought in as Prize, and which are not cleared within Three Years from the Day on which the fame fhall have been fecured in Warehouses. IV. And whereas it is expedient that Goods, Wares and Merchandize now remaining in Warehoufes under and in purfuance of any special Authority, not limiting the Period of fuch Warehousing, fhould be cleared from thence within a limited time;' Be it therefore enacted, That all fuch Goods, Wares and Merchandize, now remaining in Warchoufes, fhall, and the fame are hereby required to be cleared from thence within Fifteen Months from the paffing of houfing, when to this Act, or on Failure thercof the fame fhall and may be difpofed of in the fame manner as Goods, Wares and Merchandize warehoufed by any fpecial Authority after the paffing of this Act, which are not cleared from the Warehoufes within Fifteen Months from the time of the Entry, are hereby directed to be difpofed of. rity, not limiting Period of Ware be cleared. Provifo. 33 G. 3. c. 52. V. Provided always, That nothing in this Act contained shall prevent any Goods, Wares and Merchandize from remaining in Warehoufes beyond the Period by this Act limited, without being fold as aforefaid; provided fuch Period fhall be prolonged by the Authority of any Order in Council, or any Warrant of the Lords Commiffioners of His Majefty's Treafury for the time being, or any Three or more of them. C A P. LXXV. An Act for making further Provision for the Payment of Salaries and other Charges in the Office of the Commissioners for the Affairs of India; and for enabling the Eaft India Company to restore to the Service of the faid Company, Military Officers removed therefrom by Sentences of Courts Martial; and to authorize the faid Company, in Cafes of unforeseen Emergency, to take up Ships by private Contract. [15th June 1811.] THEREAS by an A&t paffed in the Thirty third Year of the Reign of His prefent Majefty, intituled, An Ad for continuing in the East India Company, for a further Term, the Poj Sellion § 2. $5. feffion of the British Territories in India, together with their exclufive • Trade, under certain Limitations; for establishing further Regulations for the Government of the faid Territories, and the better Adminiflration of Juflice within the fame; for appropriating to certain Ufes the Revenues and Profits of the faid Company; and for making Prov fion for the good Order and Government of the Towns of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay, it was, among other things, enacted, That it fhould be lawful for His Majefty, his Heirs or Succeffors, by any Letters Patent, or by any Commiffion or Commiffions to be iffued under the Great Seal of Great Britain, from time to time to nominate, conftitute and appoint, during his or their Pleasure, fuch Members of the Privy Council (of whom the Two Principal Secre taries of State and the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the time being fhould always be Three), and fuch other Two Perfons as His Majefty, his Heirs or Succeffors, fhould think fit, to be and who fhould accordingly be and be ftiled Commiffioners for the Affairs of India; and it was in and by the faid Act alfo enacted, that the faid Board of Commiflioners fhould and might nominate and appoint ⚫ fuch Secretaries and Officers as fhould be neceffary to attend upon the faid Board, who should be fubject to Difiniffion at the Pleafure of the faid Board; and that as well the faid Commiffioners, or fuch and fo many of them as His Majefty fhould think fit, as likewife their Secretaries and other Officers, fhould be paid fuch fixed Salaries as His Majefty fhould by any Warrant or Warrants under his Sign Manual, counterfigned by the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the time being, direct; all which Salaries, together with all other contingent Charges and Expences to be incurred by the faid Board, fhould be paid and defrayed Quarterly by the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies, and be deemed and taken as Part of their Commercial Charges, the quarterly Amount thereof being first fettled and allowed by the faid Board, and certified by the Prefident or Acting Prefident of the faid Board for the time being, to the Court of Directors of the faid Company; provided that the whole of the Salaries to be paid to the Members of the faid Board fhould not exceed the Sum of Five thoufand Pounds in any One Year; and that the whole of the Sa laries, Charges and Expences of the faid Board, exclufive of the Salaries of the Members of the faid Board, fhould not exceed the Sum of Eleven thoufand Pounds in any One Year: And whereas it is reafonable that a more ample Allowance fhould be made for the faid Salaries, Charges and Expences;' Be it therefore enacted by the King's Moit 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 fo much of the faid Act as limits the whole of the Salaries to repealed. be paid to the Members of the faid Board to the Sum of Five thoufand Pounds in any One Year, and the whole of the Salaries, Charges and Expences of the faid Board, exclufive of the Salaries of the Members thereof to the Sum of Eleven thoufand Pounds in any One Year, fhall be and the fame is hereby repealed. II. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That, from and after the Twenty fifth Day of December One thoufand eight hundred and ten, the whole of the Salaries to be paid to the Members of the faid Board, and to the Secretaries and Officers of the fame, together Q3 with Salaries and Expences to be paid in future not to exceed 22,cool. 50 G. 3. c. 117. § I. extended to Commiffioners for Affairs of India. 33 G. 3. c. 52. $69. with all other contingent Charges and Expences of the faid Board, to be defrayed by the faid United Company as aforefaid, shall not exceed the Sum of Twenty two thousand Pounds in any one Year. III. And be it further enacted, That fo much of an Act paffed in the Fiftieth Year of His prefent Majefty's Reign, intituled, An Aa to direct that Accounts of Increase and Diminution of Publick Salaries, Penfions and Allowances, fhall be annually laid before Parliament; and to regulate and controul the granting and paying of fuch Salaries, Penfions and Allowances, as directs that between the First Day of February and the Twenty fifth Day of March in every Year, if Parliament fhall be fitting during any Part of fuch Period; or if Parliament fhall not be fitting during any Part of fuch Period, then within Forty Days after the Commencement of the Seffion of Parliament in fuch Year, there fhall be laid before both Houses of Parliament, an Account of every Increase and Diminution which fhall have taken place within the preceding Year, ending on the First Day of January, in the Number of Perfons employed in all public Offices or Departments, or in the Salaries, Emoluments, Allowances and Expences which may have taken place, or been paid, granted, received or incurred for and in refpect of all Officers and Perfons belonging to or employed in or by, or in the Service of all public Offices or Departments, fpecifying the Amount and Nature thereof, and diftinguifhing in fuch Account every Increafe and Diminution in the Amount of all Allowances or Compensations granted or allowed, as retired Allowances or Superannuations, to any Perfon or Persons having held any Office, Place or Employment in any fuch publick Office or Department, or having been employed in any manner in any publick Services under any fuch Office or Department; and fpecifying in every fuch Account the Time and length of Service of every fuch Perfor, and the Amount of the Salary or Allowances received by fuch Perfon immediately preceding fuch Superannuation, and the Nature of his Services; and alfo fpecifying in every fuch Account the Grounds upon which every fuch Increase or Diminution in the Establishment of any fuch publick Office or Department, or of any fuch Salary, Emolument, Allowance or Compenfation, or Superannuation as aforefaid, fhall have been made, granted or allowed, fhall extend and be conftrued to extend to the Office of the Commiffioners for the Affairs of India. • IV. And whereas it was in and by the faid Act of the Thirty 'third Year of His prefent Majefty's Reign also enacted, that after Sentence or Judgment of any Court, having competent Jurifdiction, whether in Great Britain or in India, against any Governor • General, Governor, Prefident, Counsellor or Commander in Chief, or against any of the faid United Company's Servants, Civil or Military, for any Debts or Penalty due or belonging to the faid United Company, or for any Extortion or other Mifdemeanor, it should not be lawful for the faid United Company, in any cafe whatever, to release or compound fuch Sentence or Judgment, or to restore any Servant or Servants of the faid Company who fhould have been • removed or difmiffed from his or their Office or Employment, for or on account of Misbehaviour, by the Sentence of any of the faid Courts: And whereas Doubts have arifen whether Military Officers < may be restored to the Service of the said United Company, who may have been removed therefrom by Sentences of Courts Martial :' Be Be it therefore enacted and declared, That it was and is lawful for the E. I. C. may a Court Martial. miflioners. V. Provided always, and be it enacted, That, from and after the with Confent of paffing of this Act, no fuch Reftoration fhall be in any ways valid Board of Comor effectual without the Approbation and Confent of the Board of Commiffioners for the Affairs of India, for that Purpose had and obtained. 39 G. 3. c. 89. § 6. VI. And whereas by an Act, paffed in the Thirty ninth Year of the Reign of His prefent Majefty, intituled, An Ad for regu lating the manner in which the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies, fball hire and take up Ships for their Regular Service, it is enacted, amongst other things, that it 'fhould be lawful for the Court of Directors of the faid Company, or their Servants abroad, in cafes of unforeseen Exigency to hire Ships for any particular Service, and that, in cafes of Ships fo hired, publick Notice fhould be given by Advertisement of the Ships or Tonnage wanted, and the Service required, Fourteen Days at leaft previous to the time appointed for taking up the fame: And whereas in many cafes of unforefeen Exigency, it is impracticable or highly inconvenient to comply with the Requifition of the faid Act; Be it therefore enacted, That it fhall and may be lawful to Company in and for the Court of Directors of the faid United Company, or their cafes of unforeServants Abroad, in all cafes of unforefeen and preffing Exigency, feen Exigency to hire and take up by private Contract, with or without advertifing, any Ship or Ships whatsoever, for any particular Purpofe, fo as no fuch Ship fhall be hired or taken up for more than one Voyage; and that the Reafons for taking up any fuch Ship in lefs time than Fourteen Days as aforefaid after the Publication of an Advertisement, be ftated in the Minutes of the faid Court of Directors, and reported to the Court of Proprietors that shall be next holden after fuch hiring and taking up. ૐ An Act for letting to farm the Duties on Horfes hired by the may take up Ships by private Contract. WHEREAS by an A&t paffed in the Twenty feventh Year of 27 G.3. c.26. His prefent Majefty's Reign, intituled, An Ad to enable the • Lord High Treasurer or Commiffioners of the Treasury for the time being, to let to farm the Duties granted by an Act made in the Twenty fifth Year of His prefent Majefty's Reign, on Horfes let to hire for travelling Poft, and by time, to fuch Perfons as fhould be willing to contract for the fame; the Lord High Treafurer or Commiffioners of the Treasury were empowered to let to farm the feveral Duties on Horfes let to hire, therein particularly fet forth, and mentioned to have been granted by the faid Act of the Twenty fifth Year of His Majefty's Reign, for any Term not exceeding Three Years, Q • under |