26 G.3. c.41. and so much of 29 G.3. c.53. as relates to the Greenland Seas, &c. continued. 46 G.3. c.9. continued His Majesty, by Order in Council, may alter the Time liament within Six Weeks after the Commencement of every Session of Parliament. CA P. CIV. An Act to continue, until the Thirty first Day of December HEREAS it is expedient to continue the Bounty now payable for Ships employed in the Fishery now carried on in the Greenland Seas and Davis's Streights, for a further Time than is already provided;' Be it therefore enacted by the King'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, That an Act made in the Twenty sixth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for the further Support and Encouragement of the Fisheries carried on in the Greenland Seas and Davis's Streights, which was to be in force for Five Years, from the Twenty fifth Day of December One thousand seven hundred and eighty six; and also so much of an Act made in the Twenty ninth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act for further encouraging and regulating the Newfoundland, Greenland and Southern Whale Fisheries, as relates to the Fisheries carried on in the Greenland Seas and Davis's Streights, which were by several subsequent Acts further continued with Amendments until the Thirty first Day of December One thousand eight hundred and twenty three, shall be continued until the Thirty first Day of December One thousand eight hundred and twenty four. II. And be it further enacted, That an Act made in the Forty sixth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act for allowing, until the Signature of preliminary Articles of Peace, Vessels employed in the Greenland Whale Fishery, to complete their full Number of Men at certain Ports, which by an Act made in the Fifty fifth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, and an Act made in the First Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, was revived and continued until the Twenty fifth Day of June One thousand eight hundred and twenty, and by a subsequent Act continued until the Thirty first Day of December One thousand eight hundred and twenty three, shall be further continued until the Thirty first Day of December One thousand eight hundred and twenty four. III. And Whereas by the said Acts hereby continued, a certain Time in the Year is fixed, after which Ships or Vessels about to engage in the said Fisheries shall not sail; and other Limitations and Restrictions are established in regard to the fitting out of the said Ships or Vessels, and the Seamen and Apprentices to be employed therein, in order to entitle Persons to receive the Bounties thereby granted: And Whereas it may be expedient to alter 'the the Time of sailing of the said Ships or Vessels, and to suspend or vary the said Limitations and Restrictions, or some of them ;' Be it therefore enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act, it shall and may be lawful for His Majesty, by any Order or Orders in Council, to be issued for that Purpose, to alter the Time for the sailing of the said Ships or Vessels, or to suspend or vary any or either of the Limitations and Restrictions contained in the said Acts, in such manner as may appear expedient, and as may be expressed and set forth in such Order or Orders in Council: Provided always, That a Copy of the said Order or Orders in Council so authorized to be issued as aforesaid, shall be laid before Parliament within One Month next after the Date thereof, if Parliament be then sitting, and if not, then within Six Weeks after the Commencement of the Session of Parliament next ensuing. CAP. CV. An Act for granting Rates of Postage for the Conveyance of [5th August 1822.] WHEREAS it may be found expedient to establish a Packet Additional ance of Letters Boat for the Conveyance of Letters and Packets between the Port of Liverpool in the County of Lancaster and the Port of Douglas in the Isle of Man: And Whereas it is expedient that the Postmaster General be authorized to demand, have, receive and take certain Rates of Postage for such Conveyance of the said Letters and Packets:' Be it therefore enacted by the King'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, That from and after the passing of this Act it shall and may be lawful to Rates of Postand for His Majesty's Postmaster General and his Deputy and De- age for Conveyputies by him thereunto authorized, to and for the Use of His Ma- and Packets jesty, His Heirs and Successors, to demand, have, receive and from Liverpool take for the Port and Conveyance of all and every the Letters and to Isle of Man. Packets that shall be carried and conveyed by Packet Boats to or from the Port of Liverpool and the Port of Douglas in the Isle of Man, over and above all other Rates payable for such Letters and Packets, according to the Rates and Sums hereafter mentioned; Rates. that is to say, for every Single Letter Six Pence, for every Double Letter One Shilling, for every Treble Letter One Shilling and Six Pence, and for every Ounce in Weight Two Shiliings, and so in proportion for every Letter and Packet exceeding the Weight of an Ounce. II. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful Postage how to and for the said Postmaster General to cause the Rates of Post- payable. age hereby chargeable and payable to be paid either prior to such Letters and Packets being forwarded, or on Delivery, as to him in his Discretion may seem meet. III. And be it further enacted, That the Monies to arise by the Duties carried Rates and Duties aforesaid, except the Monies which shall be ne- to Consolidated cessary to defray such Expences as shall be incurred in the Col- Fund. lection and Management of the same, shall be paid into the Receipt of 1&2 G.4, c. 106. So much of re cited Act as re lates to Sugar, continued. 50 G.3. c. 40. of the Exchequer, and carried to and made Part of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and applied to such and the same Uses as the present Rates and Duties of Postage are now or shall be directed to be paid and applied. 6 CA P. CVI. An Act to continue for One Year so much of an Act of the last Session of Parliament, as increases the Duties payable on Sugar imported from the East Indies. [5th August 1822.] WHEREAS an Act was passed in the last Session of Parlia ment, intituled An Act to continue, until the First Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty four, several Acts of His late Majesty, respecting the Duties of Customs payable on Merchandize imported into Great Britain and Ireland, from any Place within the Limits of the East India Company's Charter; and to increase the Duties payable on the Importation of Sugar 'from the East Indies, until the Twenty fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and twenty three in Great Britain, and until the First Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty four in Ireland: And Whereas it is expedient that so much of the said Act as relates to the Importation of Sugar from the East Indies, and the Duties payable thereon, should be continued; Be it therefore enacted by the King'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, That so much of the several Provisions of the said Act as relates to the Importation of Sugar from the East Indies, and the Duties payable thereon, shall be and are hereby respectively continued from the Expirations thereof for One Year. CA P. CVII. An Act to allow, until the First Day of August One thousand Lords The Whole Duty on Importation allow ed in respect of Brimstone used Acid. Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this Act, in lieu and instead of the said Nine tenth Parts of the Duties of Customs allowed in respect of Brimstone used and consumed in making and preparing Oil of Vitriol, the Whole of the Duties paid on the Importation into Great in preparing Oil Britain of Brimstone shall be allowed in respect of such Brimstone of Vitriol, or used and consumed in making and preparing Oil of Vitriol, or Sulphuric Sulphuric Acid, and the Amount of such Drawback shall be paid and allowed to the Manufacturer of such Sulphuric Acid in Great Britain, under the like Regulations, Penalties and Forfeitures, as are provided by the aforesaid recited Act in respect of Oil of Vitriol: Provided always, that it shall and may be lawful for the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the time being, or any Three or more of them, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, by any Writing under their Hands, to make and issue such Orders, Directions and Regulations, as they from time to time shall deem necessary or expedient, for taking, keeping or causing to be kept or taken, an Account or Accounts of any such Brimstone so to be used in the Manufacture of Oil of Vitriol as aforesaid, or for more effectually preventing the Allowance of any Drawback whatever for or upon a greater or larger Quantity of Brimstone than shall be bond fide used and consumed in the Manufacture aforesaid; any thing in this Act, or in any other Act or Acts of Parliament to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding. Treasury to make Regula tions for Ac ount of Brimstone so used. II. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall continue in Continuance force until the First Day of August One thousand eight hundred of Act. and twenty three. CA P. CVIII. An Act for vesting all Estates and Property occupied for the WHEREAS an Act passed in the Forty fifth Year of the 45G.3. c.69. Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for vesting in the Barrack Master General for the time being, Estates held or occupied for the Barrack Service, and authorizing him to sell the same, with the Consent of the 'Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury: And Whereas ⚫ another Act passed in the Forty eighth Year of the Reign of His 48 G.3. c.122. late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for vesting all Estates and Property occupied for the Barrack Service in the Commissioners for the Affairs of Barracks, and for granting ⚫ certain Powers to the said Commissioners: And Whereas another Act passed in the said Forty eighth Year aforesaid, intituled An 48 G.3. c.90. Act to enable the Commissioners for auditing Public Accounts, and the Commissioners for the Affairs of Barracks respectively, ' to send and receive Letters and Packets on the Business of their Offices, free of Postage: And Whereas another Act passed in the 57 G.3. c.9. 1&2 G.4. c.69. which by stat. 57 G.3. c.9. were vested in Comptroller of Barrack Department, and also such as the Fifty seventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for vesting all Estates and Property occupied for the Barrack Service in the Comptroller of the Barrack Department, and for granting certain Powers to the 'said Comptroller: And Whereas another Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled An Act for vesting all Estates and Property occupied for the Ordnance Service in the principal Of 'ficers of the Ordnance, and for granting certain Powers to the said principal Officers: And Whereas the Affairs of the Barrack Department are now transferred to the Department of His Majesty's Ordnance, and it is therefore necessary that all Messuages, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments which were by the said Act of the Fifty seventh Year aforesaid, or have since become vested in the said Comptroller of the Barrack Department, and all other 'Messuages, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, in any manner used and occupied for the Service of the Barrack Department, should be vested in the principal Officers of His Majesty's All Messuages, Ordnance for the time being: Be it therefore enacted by the Lands, &c. King'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, That immediately from and after the passing of this Act, all Messuages, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, in that Part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called Great Brihave since been tain, which were by the said recited Act of the said Fifty seventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third vested in the Comptroller of the Barrack Department for the time being, and also all Messuages, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments which have since been purchased or taken, or are in any manner now held by any Person or Persons whatever, in Trust for or for the Use of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, for the Service of the Barrack Department, either in Fee, or for any Life or Lives, or any Term or Terms of Years, or any other or less Interest, and all Erections and Buildings which now are or which shall or may be hereafter erected and built thereon, together with the Rights, Members, Easements and Appurtenances to the same respectively belonging, (other than and except such Messuages, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments as may be of Copyhold Tenure), shall be and become and remain and continue vested in the principal Officers of His Majesty's Ordnance for the time being, and their Successors in the said Office, according to the respective Nature and Quality of the said Messuages, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, and the several Estates and Interests of and in the same Hereditaments respectively, in Trust for His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, for the Service of the said Ordnance Department, or for such other public Service or Services as His said Maesty, His Heirs or Successors, shall from time to time by any Order in Council be pleased to direct. purchased or held in Trust for Barrack Department (except Copyholds) vested in principal Officers of Ordnance in Trust for pub lic Services as the King in Council shall direct. 4G..1. (I.) 21 G.2. (I.) II. And Whereas an Act was passed in the Parliament of Ireland, in the Fourth Year of the Reign of King George the First, among other Things for vesting in His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, the several Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments whereon the Barracks in Ireland were built or building, or contracted for, and whereon Light Houses were or should be built: And Where as |