57. To consolidate and amend the Acts relating to the Payınent of Regimental Debts, and the Distribution of the Effects of Officers and Soldiers in case of Death, and to make like provision for the cases o: Desertion and Insanity, and other cases.

58. For confirming a scheme of the Charity Commissioners for the Management of the Charity of Sir Robert Hitcham, Knight, King's Serjeant, for the benefit of Framlingham, Debenham, and Levington,

in the county of Suffolk, and of Coggesball in the county of Essex.

59. For confirming a scheme of the Charity Commissioners for the Management of the Charities in the borough of Ruthin in the county of Denbigh, comprising the Hospital of Christ and its subsidiary endow. ments, the Grammar School, Edward Lloyd's Foundation, and Bishop Goodman's Charity.

60. To confirm a certain Provisional Order under the General Police and Improvement (Scotland) Act, 1862, relating to the burgh of Leith.

63. To confirm certain Provisional Orders under The Land Drainage Act, 1861.

64. To confirm certain Provisional Orders under the Local Government Act (1858), relating to the districts of Plymouth, Holywell, Llanelly, West Ham, Worthing, Aberavon, and Wallasey.

66. To amend the law relating to Prisons in Ireland.
69. To establish Officers of the Royal Naval Reserve.
71. For the Preservation and Improvement of Harwich Harbour.
72. For the further Improvement of the Harbour of Howth.

74. To enable her Majesty to declare Gold Coins to be issued from her Majesty's Branch Mint at Sydney, New South Wales, a legal Tender for Payments; and for other purposes relating thereto.

76. To determine the time at which Letters Patent shall take effect in the Colonies.

77. To amend the law relating to the Jurisdiction of Justices residing or being out of the county for which they are Justices.

80. For providing a further sum towards defraying the expenses of constructing Fortifications for the Protection of the Royal Arsenals and Dockyards and the Ports of Dover and Portland, and of erecting a Central Arsenal.

81. To amend, so far as regards advances for the purposes of The Harbours and Passing Tolls, &c. Act, 1861, certain of the Acts authorising the Advance of Money out of the Consolidated Fund for carrying on Public Works and Fisheries and Employment of the Poor.

82. To empower the Bishops of Welsh Dioceses to facilitate the making provision for English services in certain parishes in Wales.

83. To define the Boundaries of the Colony of British Columbia, and to continue an Act to provide for the Government of the said Colony.

84. To confirm certain Acts of Colonial Legislatures. 85. To give Relief to persons who may refuse or be unwilling, from alleged conscientious motives, to be sworn in Criminal Proceedings in Scotland.

86. To uthorise the taking of Harbour Dues at Port Erin in the Isle of Man, in order to provide a Fund for the Improvement of the Harbour; and for other purposes.

87. To consolidate and amend the laws relating to Savings Banks.

88. To enable landed proprietors to construct works for the drainage and improvement of lands in Ireland.

89. For the further amendment of the law relating to the removal of poor persons, natives of Ireland, from England.

91. To extend for a further period the provisions of the Union Relief Aid Acts.

92. For consolidating in one Act certain provisions frequently inserted in Acts relating to Railways.

93. For consolidating in one Act certain provisions frequently in. serted in Acts relating to Waterworks.

94. To amend the law relating to the repair of Turnpike Roads in England, and to continue certain Turnpike Acts in Great Britain.

95. For continuing various expiring Acts.

96. To amend the Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act (1851), and the Petty Sessions Clerks (Ireland) Act (1858).

98. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made under an Act of the 15 Victoriæ, to facilitate arrangements for the Relief of Turnpike Trusts.

99. An Act to apply a sum out of the Consolidated Fund and the Surplus of Ways and Means to the service of the year 1863, and to appropriate the supplies granted in this session of Parliament.

101. To appoint additional Commissioners for executing the Acts for granting a Land Tax and other rates and taxes.

104. For confirming certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the General Pier and Harbour Act, 1861, relating to Blackpool, Deal and Walmer, Exmouth, Rosehearty, Ilfracombe, Instow, Bangor, Chatham, Bray, Dartmouth, and Nairn.

106. To further amend the law relating to the Conveyance of Land for charitable uses.

107. To indemnify such persons in the United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments, and to extend the time limited for those purposes respectively.

110. To amend the Lunacy Acts in relation to the building of Asylums for Pauper Lunatics.

ill. To amend The Naval Medical Supplemental Fund Society Winding-up Act, 1861.

115. To explain the Act for the Amendment of the Law relative to gratuitous Trustees in Scotland.

116. To provide for the appointment of Navy Prize Agents, and respecting their duties and remuneration.

118. For consolidating in one Act certain provisions frequently inserted in Acts relating to the Constitution and Management of Companies incorporated for carrying on undertakings of a public nature.

121. To establish the validity of Acts performed in her Majesty's possessions abroad by certain Clergymen ordained in foreign parts, and to extend the powers of Colonial Legislatures with respect to such Clergymen.

122. To enable her Majesty in Council to make alterations in the Circuits of the Judges.

123. To amend the law relating to District Parochial Churches in Ireland.

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1. FINANCE

Page VI. EMIGRATION AND COLOXIAL STATISTICS. 1. Income and Expenditure, Dec., 1862 211

Page 2. The Revenue to Sept. 30, 1863

212 49. Emigration. 3. Customs Duties on principal Articles 213 50. New South Wales

230 4. Revenue, Ireland 213 51. Queensland.

230 5. Revenue, Duchy of Cornwall Ditto Duchy of Lancaster • 213 53. South Australia

231 7. Income Tax • 213 54. Western Australia

231 8. Revenue, India 214 55. Tasmania

231 9. House Duty 214 56. New Zealand

231 16. Taxes imposed, repealed, and re

57. Canada

231 duced

58. New Brunswick 11. National Debt.

59. Nova Scotia

231 12. Local Taxation

60. British Columbia 215

232 61. Jamaica.

232 II. CURRENCY. 62. Babamas

232 13. Statement of Bank of England . 215

63. Trinidad

232 14. Note Circulation 215 64. British Guiana

233 15. Coinage. · 216 65. British Honduras

233 16. Bullion

216
66. Barbadoes

233
67. Grenada.
III. TRADE.
68. Tobago

. 233 17. Imports Consumption . 216 69. St. Vincent. 18. Exports of Principal Articles of Fo. 70. St. Lucia reign and Colonial Merchandize . 219 71. Antigua

234 19. Exports of Principal Articles of Bri- 72. Montserrat.

tish and Irish Produce, &c. 219 73. St. Christopher 20. British Shipping 221 74. Mauritius and Seychelles

234 21. Returns of Shipping employed in the Trade of the United Kingdom 222

VII. MISCELLANEOUS. 22. Ireland, Exports to Great Britain 223

1. Education and connected Matters. 23. Exports to France.

223

75. Education, England 24. Vessels built

235 223 76. Grants to Schools .

235 25. Coasting Trade

223

77. Education, Science, and Art, Grants 26. Colonial Trade.

223

for 27. British Fisheries 223

235

78. British Museum 28. Wrecks.

235 224 29. Wine

224

2. Social Condition. 30. Foreign Spirits. 31. British Spirits .

79. Savings Banks.

236 .224 8. Post-office Savings Bank. 32. Cotton

236 22481. Military Savings Banks 33. Wool

237 224

82. Seamen's Savings Banks 34. Malt.

237 225 83. Mercantile Marine Fund 35. Hops

225

84. Loan Societies. 36. Sugar

225

85. Joint Stock Companies 37. Coals

237 225 86. Co-operative Societies

237 IV. CRIME, POLICE, AND LAW. 38. Criminal Offences, Scotland .

3. Public Health.

225 39. Criminal Offences, Ireland

87. Lunacy 225

237 40. Police, Scotland

88. Vaccination 225

238 89. Accidents on Railways

238 V. POOR LAWS, POPULATION, &c. 41. Poor Relief, Scotland .

4. Intercommunication,

226 42. Poor Relief, Ireland

Post Office
90.
226

238 43. Pauper Lunatics, Scotland

226
91. Money Orders

239 44. Births, Deaths, and Marriages, Eng

92. Railway Traffic, Receipts and Es: land

226
penditure

239 45. Summary of amounts expended in

5. Agriculture. England, &c.

227 46. Births, Deaths, and Marriages in

93. Agriculture, Ireland

240 the City of London

6. Other Subjects. 47. Ditto, Scotland.

229 94. Public Works and Buildings. 48. Registrar-General's Quarterly Report229 95. Cost of the Census

241

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** Fractional Sums are omitted in some instances. 1

I.-FINANCE, I. AN ACCOUNT of the Gross PUBLIC INCOME of the United Kingdom

of Great Britain and Ireland, in the Year ended Dec. 31, 1862, and
of the actual ISSUES or PAYMENTS within the same period.

INCOME OR REVENUE,
ORDINARY REVENUE.

£. 8. d. Customs

24,036,000 0 0 Excise

17,534,000 0 0 Stamps

8,913,945 5 0 Taxes (Land and Assessed)

3,148,000 0 0 Property Tax

11,104,000.00 Post Office

3,600,000 0 0 Crown Lands (Net).

298,521 0 8 OTHER RECEIPTS. Produce of Sale of Old Stores, and other extra Receipts 673,243 4 2 Money received from the Revenues of India

493,000 0 0 Amount received from the Bank of England

130,703 0 0 Imprest and other Moneys

799,016 6 8 China War Indemnity .

266,000 0 0 Total Revenue

70,996,428 16 6 Excess of Expenditure (including Fortifications) over Income

515,123 16 11 £71,511,552 13 5

£.

EXPENDITURE.
FUNDED DEBT.

8. d. Interest and Management of the Permanent Debt 23,828,014 6 6 Terminable Annuities

1,893,157 18 11 Interest of Exchequer Bonds, 1858, &c.

123,750 0 0 Interest of Exchequer Bills

462,769 2 6 Ditto Deficiency Bills

11 646 0 10 Ditto Ways and Means Bills

1,108 6 8 CHARGES ON CONSOLIDATED FUND, Civil List.

405,147 10 0 Annuities and Pensions

280,025 19 5 Salaries and Allowancès

155,852 15 7 Diplomatic Salaries and Pensions

171,631 18 9 Courts of Justice

692,040 4 2 Miscellaneous Charges

184,820 121 SUPPLY SERVICES. Army

15,894,789 10 9 Navy.

11,880,588 0 Miscellaneous Civil Services

7,949,062 1 2 e Salaries, &c., of Revenue Departments

4,529,640 14 7 Packet Service .

797,507 11 China, Naval and Military Operations

1,050,000 0 0 Marriage Portion of H.R.H. The Princess Alice

30,000 0 0 Total Ordinary Expenditure 70,341,552 13 5 Expenses of Fortifications .

1,170,000 0 0 Total Expenditure .

£71,511,552 13 5