Consolidated Fund (Appropriation). CIVIL SERVICES.-Class 7. § XXVI. £10,945 0 0 For General Board of Health 3,498 0 0 For Ecclesiastical Com O missioners, England 12,390 0 0 For Charity Commission 1,053 0 0 for England and Wales For certain Professors at Cambridge 22,572 0 0 For Compensations, &c. payable under the Pa- reign Office Census Το 31st March 1856. For the Year ending 9,000 0 0 For Completion of Irish 31st March 1856. 52,500 0 0 To31st March1856. For the Year ending 31st March 1856. Το 31st March 1856. For the Year ending 31st March 1856. To 31st March 1856. For the Year ending 31st March 1856. XXVIII. Supplies to be applied only for the Purposes aforesaid. XXIX. Expenditure for Navy, Army, and Ordnance Services respectively to be confined to the separate Services for which granted. Treasury may, on Application, alter the proportionate Amounts for such separate Services, provided the total Grant to each Department be not exceeded. XXX. Rules to be observed in the Application of the Sum appropriated to Half Pay. Not to prevent the receiving of Half Pay under any Act relating to the General or Local Militia, &c. Paymaster General, by Permission of the Treasury, may issue Half Pay to Officers appointed to Civil Offices since July 1828. An Account of the Number of Officers so receiving Half Pay to be laid before Parliament annually. XXXI. Treasury may authorize Military Officers in Civil Employments to receive Half Pay in certain Cases. XXXII. Persons concerned in issuing, paying, and receiving Money for Payment of Half Pay, without the requisite Oaths, indemnified. 17 & 18 Vict. c. 121. XXXIII. Half Pay allowed to Officers of the Manx Fencibles. XXXIV. Half Pay Allowances to Chaplains of Regiments not holding Ecclesiastical Benefices derived from the Crown. XXXV. Surplus of Sum by 17 & 18 Vict. c. 121. appropriated to Half Pay Officers to be disposed of as Her Majesty shall direct. XXXVI. Widows, &c. claiming Pensions to make required Declaration. XXXVII. Declarations to be made as specified in 5 & 6 W. 4. c. 62. CA P. CXXX. An Act for raising the Sum of Seven Millions by Exchequer [14th August 1855.] CAP. School Grants, Security for Application. CA P. CXXXI. Sale, &c. of has been made An Act to render more secure the Conditions upon which Money is advanced out of the Parliamentary Grant for the Purposes of Education. [14th August 1855.] WHEREAS it is expedient that greater Security should be afforded for the due Application of Money advanced in certain Cases to the Trustees or Managers of Schools by the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury out of the Parliamentary Grant for the Promotion of Education in Great Britain:' 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: Where any Grant hath been made or shall hereafter be made out of any Sums of Money heretofore granted or hereafter to be granted by Parliament for the Purposes of Education in Great Britain, under the Advice of any Committee of the Council on Education for the Time being, not to be valid to the Trustees, Managers, or other Persons applying on behalf of withoutConsent any School, with the Consent of the Trustees or Persons holding of Secretary of the legal Estate thereof, for or towards the Purchase of the Site State, &c. or the Erection, Enlargement, or Repair of the School, or the Residence of the Master or Mistress, or the furnishing such School or Residence, no Sale, Exchange, or Mortgage of the Premises in respect of which such Grant hath been or may hereafter be made in exercise of any Power contained in the Conveyance or other Deed relating thereto, or under any other legal Authority, shall be valid unless either the Consent of the Secretary of State for the Home Department for the Time being, in Writing under his Hand be given to the same, or the Amount of the Grant which shall have been made as aforesaid shall be repaid to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury for the Time being; and whenever any Grant as aforesaid shall be hereafter made, a Memorandum, to be signed by One of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury for the Time being, shall be endorsed upon some One of the Title Deeds relating to the School, certifying to the Fact of the Grant having been made upon such Application, and for some such Purpose as aforesaid, and referring to this Act; and in any Case in which any Grant as aforesaid shall have been already made, so soon as such Memorandum shall have been endorsed and signed on any such Deed, all Bonds, Covenants, or other personal Obligations heretofore given or entered into to prevent the Exercise of any such Power of Sale, Exchange, or Mortgage, without such Consent as aforesaid, shall, so far as they relate to such Exercise, but no further, be annulled. II. Nothing herein contained shall affect any Purchaser for a Purchasers not valuable Consideration without Notice, nor be deemed to apply to to be affected any School in respect of any such Grant heretofore made without without Notice. any such Bond, Covenant, or other personal Obligations or Conditions as to Sale, Exchange, or Mortgage having been entered into by the Trustees or Persons holding the legal Estate in such Schools and the Committee of Council on Education. СА Р. Short Title. Power to form Registration of Certificate of 8&9 Vict. c.16. incorporated with this Act. Dwellings for Labouring Classes. CA P. CXXXII. An Act for facilitating the Erection of Dwelling Houses for for the Erection of healthful and commodious Dwellings I. This Act may for all Purposes be cited as "The Labourers Constitution of Company. II. Any Number of Persons not less than Six may, by subscribing Articles of Association or a Schedule thereto, form themselves into a Company for the Purposes herein-after mentioned: The Articles shall be in the Form set forth in the Schedule hereto, or as near thereto as Circumstances permit: There shall be set opposite to the Name of each Subscriber the Sum subscribed for by him in the Capital of the Company, and his Subscription shall be deemed to imply a Covenant on the Part of himself, his Heirs, Executors, and Administrators, to pay to the Company the Amount so subscribed for. III. The Articles shall be registered by the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies, who shall charge in respect of such Registration such Fees as may from Time to Time be directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council appointed for the Consideration of Matters relating to Trade and Plantations, hereinafter called the Board of Trade; and upon such Registration being made, the Subscribers, together with such other Persons as may from Time to Time become Members of the Company, shall be a Body Corporate by the Name prescribed in the Articles of Association, having a perpetual Succession and a Common Seal; but no such Registration shall be made until it is proved to the Satisfaction of the said Registrar that Three Fourths of the proposed Capital has been subscribed for, and that Ten per Centum upon such Capital has been paid up. IV. The said Registrar shall grant a Certificate stating the Date of the Incorporation of the Company, and such Certificate shall in all Cases be primâ facie Evidence of the Fact of such Incorpo ration. V. The Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, shall be incorporated into and form Part of this Act, with the Exception of the Provisions relating to the Recovery of Damages, and to the Provision to be made for affording Access to the Special Act; and in the Construction of the said Companies Clauses Act the Articles of Association shall be deemed to be the Special Act, and the Date of the Incorporation of the Company, as certified in manner aforesaid, shall be deemed to be "the Time of the passing of the Special Act;" and whenever the Term "prescribed" is used in 1 |