THE PUBLIC GENERAL STATUTES, 4 WILLIAM IV. CAP. I. An Act to explain and amend an Act of the last Session WHEREAS by an Act passed in the last Session of Parlia ment, intituled An Act to regulate the Labour of Children 3 & 4 W. 4. and young Persons in the Mills and Factories of the United c. 10s. Kingdom, it was enacted among other things that certain Pro'visions of the said Act should come into operation at the End ' of Eighteen Months, and certain other Provisions also at the end of Thirty Months, after the passing of the said Act; and it is expedient that the Periods mentioned in the said Provisions respectively should be construed to be Calendar Months, not Lunar Months' 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 the said Periods of Eighteen Months and Thirty Months mentioned in the said Act shall be construed and taken to mean Periods of Eighteen Calendar Months and Thirty Calendar Months respectively. II. And whereas it is provided by the said Act, that in Mills In Silk Mills, 'for the Manufacture of Silk, Children under the Age of Thirteen Children under 'Years shall be allowed to work Ten Hours in any one Day; and 'Doubts have arisen whether, according to the true Construction The Word Months in res cited Act to be construed as Months. Calendar 13 Years of Age work 10 Hours every Working allowed to Day. ' of the said Act, Children in such Mills can be allowed to work Ten Hours every working Day in the Week;' be it therefore further enacted, That in Mills for the Manufacture of Silk, Children under the Age of Thirteen Years shall be allowed to work Ten Hours every working Day in the Week; and that this Enactment shall be substituted in the Place of the Provision herein-before referred to, and be taken in all respects as Part of the said Act. III. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended, altered, Act may be or repealed by any Act to be passed during the present Session of altered this Parliament. Session. CAP. II. There shall be applied, for the Service of the Year 1834, in the Exche quer; any Sums paid into the Exchequer in respect of Exchequer Bills issued for Public Works; An Act to apply certain Sums to the Service of the Year Most Gracious Sovereign, WE, [26th March 1834.] E, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled, towards making good the Supply which we have cheerfully granted to Your Majesty in this Session of Parliament, have resolved to grant unto Your Majesty the Sums herein-after mentioned ;' and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it 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 there shall and may be issued and applied, for or towards making good the Supply granted to His Majesty for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, 3,000,0004 now the Sum of Three Millions, a Part of the Sum now remaining in the Exchequer, or remaining to be received on the Tenth Day of February One thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, to complete the Aids granted by Parliament for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three; and also any Sum or Sums of Money which may have been or which may be paid into the Exchequer before the Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and thirty-five in respect of Exchequer Bills issued pur.... suant to Two Acts passed in the Fifty-seventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, and in the First and Second Years of the Reign of His present Majesty, for authorizing the Issue of Exchequer Bills for carrying on Public Works and Fisheries in the United Kingdom; and also the Sum of Sixty thousand Pounds to be paid into the Exchequer by the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies, towards the Expence of Retiring Pay, Pensions, and Allowances to His Majesty's Forces, serving in India, in pursuance of an Act passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth; and also the Balance now in the Exchequer, or which may be paid into the same by the Governor and Company of the Bank of England on or before the Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, pursuant to an Act passed in the Fiftysixth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to authorize the advancing, for the Public Service, a Proportion of the Balance that shall remain from Time to Time in the Bank of England for the Payment of Dividends on account of the Public Debt, for Lottery Prizes or Benefits not claimed, and Principals of Stocks and Annuities remaining unclaimed; provided that if at any Time the said Balance shall be reduced to a less Sum than One hundred thousand Pounds, then so much of the Monies advanced by the said Governor and Company shall be repaid to them as shall be equal to the Sum by which the said Balance shall be less than the Sum of One hundred thousand Pounds; and the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom 60,000l. to be paid by the East India Company; and any Ba'ance paid in by the Bank of Eng land pursuant to 56 G. 3. c. 97. of of Great Britain and Ireland now or for the Time being, or any Three or more of them, or the Lord High Treasurer of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the Time being, are or is hereby authorized and empowered to issue and apply the same accordingly. 6 CAP. III. An Act for raising the Sum of Fourteen Millions by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-four. • Most Gracious Sovereign, [26th March 1834.] WE, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and • Ireland, in Parliament assembled, towards raising the necessary Supplies which we have cheerfully granted to Your Majesty in this Session of Parliament, have resolved to give and grant unto Your Majesty the Sum herein-after mentioned;' and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it 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 it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of The Treasury His Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain may raise and Ireland at any Time or Times to cause or direct any Number of Exchequer Bills to be made out at the Receipt of the Exchequer at Westminster for any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Fourteen Millions, in the same or like Manner, Form, and Order, and according to the same or like Rules and Directions, as are prescribed in an Act passed in the Forty-eighth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for regulating the Issue and paying off of Exchequer Bills. 14,000,000l. by Exchequer Bills, in like Manner as is prescribed by 48 G. 3. c. 1. to this Act. Act extended II. And be it further enacted, That all and every the Clauses, The Clauses, Provisoes, Powers, Privileges, Advantages, Penalties, Forfeitures, &c. in recited and Disabilities contained in the said Act shall be applied and extended to the Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance of this Act, as fully and effectually, to all Intents and Purposes, as if the said several Clauses or Provisoes had been particularly repeated and re-enacted in the Body of this Act. III. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Treasury to said Commissioners of the Treasury to issue and apply from Time apply the Money raised. to Time all such Sums of Money as shall be raised by Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance of this Act to such Services as shall then have been voted by the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in this present Session of Parliament. Bills to be payable out of Supplies of th next Session. IV. And be it further enacted, That the Principal Sum or Sums of Money to be contained in such Exchequer Bills shall be and are hereby charged and chargeable upon and shall be paid and discharged by and out of the first Supplies to be granted in the next Session of Parliament. V. And be it further enacted, That the Exchequer Bills to be Interest on made out in pursuance of this Act shall bear Date on the Days on A 3 which Excheques Bills to be' current at the Exchequer after April 5, 1835. Bank of Eng land may advance 14,000,000l. on the Credit of this Act, notwithstanding 5 & 6 W. & M. f. 20. 4 W. IV. which the same shall be respectively issued, and shall and may bear an Interest not exceeding the Rate of Three-pence Halfpenny per Centum per Diem upon or in respect of the whole of the Monies respectively contained therein, payable out of any Aids or Supplies in the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer at Westminster. VI. And be it further enacted, That all and every the Exchequer Bills to be made forth by virtue of this Act, or so many of them as shall from Time to Time remain undischarged and uncancelled, shall and may, from and after the Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, be received and taken and shall pass and be current to all and every the Receivers and Collectors in Great Britain of the Customs, Excise, or any Revenue, Supply, Aid, or Tax whatsoever, already granted, due, or payable, or which shall or may hereafter be granted, due, or payable, to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, and also at the Receipt of the said Exchequer, from the said Receivers or Collectors, or from any other Person or Persons, Bodies Politic or Corporate whatsoever, making any Payment there to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, for or upon any Account, Cause, or Occasion whatsoever, according to the Purport and true Meaning of this Act, and that such of the same Bills as shall be received at the said Exchequer shall and may be locked up and secured as Cash, according to the Course of the said Exchequer settled and established by Law for locking up and securing Monies received in Specie there. VII. And be it declared and further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Governor and Company of the Bank of England to advance or lend to His Majesty, upon the Credit of the Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance of this Act, any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Fourteen Millions, any thing in an Act passed in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary, intituled An Act for granting to Their Majesties several Rates and Duties upon Tonnage of Ships and Vessels, and upon Beer, Ale, and other Liquors; and for securing certain Recompences and Advantages in the said Act mentioned to such Persons as shall voluntarily advance the Sum of One million five hundred thousand Pounds towards carrying on the War against France, or in any subsequent Act, to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. CAP. IV. An Act for the Regulation of His Majesty's Royal Marine Forces while on Shore. [26th March 1834.] W THEREAS it is judged necessary for the Safety of the United Kingdom, and the Defence of the Possessions of this Realm, that a Body of Royal Marine Forces should be employed in His Majesty's Fleet and Naval Service, under the • Direction of the Lord High Admiral of the said United Kingdom, or the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral aforesaid: And whereas the said Forces may frequently be quartered or be on Shore, or sent to do Duty or be on board Transport Ships, or Merchant Ships or Vessels, or Ships or Vessels of His Majesty, or other Ships or Vessels, or they may be under other Circumstances in which they will not be sub 'ject 6 6 'ject to the Laws relating to the Government of His Majesty's Forces by Sea: And whereas no Man can be forejudged of Life or Limb, or subjected in Time of Peace to any Kind of Punishment within this Realm, by Martial Law, or in any other Manner than by the Judgment of his Peers, and according to the known and established Laws of this Realm; yet nevertheless, it being requisite for the retaining of such Forces in their Duty that an • exact Discipline be observed, and that Marines who shall mutiny or stir up Sedition, or shall desert His Majesty's Service, or be guilty of any other Crime in breach of good Order and Discipline, be brought to a more exemplary and speedy Punishment than the usual Forms of the Law will allow :' 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 Twenty-fifth Day of Crimes punishApril One thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, if any Person able by Death. who is or shall be commissioned or in Pay as an Officer of Royal Marines, or who is or shall be listed or in Pay as a Non-commissioned Officer, Drummer, or Private Man in His Majesty's Royal Marine Forces, shall at any Time during the Continuance of this Act, while on Shore in any Place within the said Kingdom, or in any other of His Majesty's Dominions, or in Foreign Parts out of such Dominions, or on board any Transport Ship, or Merchant Ship or Vessel, or any Ship or Vessel of His Majesty, or on board any Convict Hulk or Ship, or any other Ship or Vessel, or in any other Place, or while being in any Circumstances in which he shall not be subject to the Laws relating to the Government of His Majesty's Forces by Sea, begin, excite, cause, or join in any Mutiny or Sedition in His Majesty's Marine or other Forces, or shall not use his utmost Endeavours to suppress any such Mutiny or Sedition, or coming to the Knowledge of any Mutiny or intended Mutiny shall not without Delay give Information thereof to his Commanding Officer; or shall misbehave himself before the Enemy; or shall shamefully abandon or deliver up any Garrison, Fortress, Post, or Guard committed to his Charge or which he shall be commanded to defend; or shall compel the Governor or Commanding Officer of any Garrison, Fortress, or Post to deliver up to the Enemy or to abandon the same; or shall speak Words or use any other Means to induce such Governor or Commanding Officer or any other to inisbehave before the Enemy, or shamefully to abandon or deliver up any Garrison, Fortress, Post, or Guard committed to their respective Charge, or which he or they shall be commanded to defend; or shall leave his Post before relieved, or shall be found sleeping on his Post; or shall hold Correspondence with or give Advice or Intelligence to any Rebel, Pirate, or Enemy of His Majesty, either by Letters, Messages, Signs, Tokens, or any other Ways or Means whatever; or shall treat or enter into any Terms with any such Rebel, Pirate, or Enemy, without the Licence of the Lord High Admiral of the said United Kingdom, or the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral aforesaid, for the Time being; or shall strike or use or offer any Violence against his Superior Officer, being in the Execution of his Office, or shall disobey any lawful Command of his Superior Officer; or shall A 4 |