Fortifications (Provision for Expenses). transferable at the Bank of England and charged on the Consolidated Fund by the Authority of Parliament for the same Term for the Time being unexpired, and payable on the same halfyearly Days, as the Annuities which they may contract to create, and in every such Case the Annuities to be created under this Act shall be added to and form Part of the Joint Stock of the previously existing Annuities accordingly. 18. It shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Allowance to Treasury to direct the Payment out of the Consolidated Fund Bank of Engto the Governor and Company of the Bank of England of the land for the Sum of Six hundred Pounds for the said Contributions as an Expense of Management. Allowance for the Service, Pains, and Labour of the said Cashier or Cashiers employed in receiving, paying, and accounting for the same, and also for the Service, Pains, and Labour of the said Accountant General for performing the Trust reposed in him by this Act, which Allowance in respect of the Service, Pains, and Labour of the said Cashier or Cashiers and Accountant General of the said Governor and Company shall be for the Use of the said Governor and Company, and at their Disposal only. Direction of 19. The Fortifications, Works, and Central Arsenal, the Ex- Fortifications, penses of constructing and providing which are to be defrayed &c. to be exeunder this Act, shall be constructed and provided respectively cuted under the under the Direction of Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of Secretary of State for the War Department, and the Land to be purchased State for War. and acquired for the Purposes of such Fortifications, Works, and Central Arsenal shall be vested in the said Secretary of State on behalf of Her Majesty. 20. The Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall in Accounts to be the Month of April in the Year One thousand eight hundred and laid before Parsixty-five, and in every subsequent Year in which any Part of the liament. said Sum of Six hundred and fifty thousand Pounds shall be issued from the Consolidated Fund or raised by Annuities under this Act, cause to be prepared an Account of the Monies raised under this Act up to the First Day of that Month, and of the Amount of Annuities created in respect of the Money so raised, and of the Monies which shall have been issued out of the Consolidated Fund in respect of the Sum of Six hundred and fifty thousand Pounds charged on that Fund under this Act up to the First Day of April, specially showing the Works or Purposes for or in respect of which the Monies may have been applied, and showing the Amount, if any, which may remain to be raised of the said Sum of Six hundred and fifty thousand Pounds authorized to be raised under this Act, and the Amount, if any, remaining to be issued or applied of the said Sum of Six hundred and fifty thousand Pounds charged on the said Consolidated Fund; and every such Account shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament forthwith after the Preparation thereof, or if Parliament be not sitting then within Fourteen Days after the next Meeting of Parliament. 21. If any Person shall forge or counterfeit, or cause or procure Persons to be forged or counterfeited, or shall willingly act or assist in counterfeiting the Receipts for &c. guilty of Felony. Fortifications (Provision for Expenses). Contributions, the forging or counterfeiting, any Receipt or Receipts for the whole or any Part or Parts of the said Contributions towards any Sum raised under this Act, either with or without the Name or Names of any Person or Persons being inserted therein as the Contributor or Contributors thereto, or Payer or Payers thereof or of any Part or Parts thereof, or shall alter any Number, Figure, or Word therein, or utter or publish as true any such false, forged, counterfeited, or altered Receipt or Receipts, with Intent to defraud the Governor and Company of the Bank of England or any Body Politic or Corporate, or any Person or Persons whatsoever, every such Person so forging or counterfeiting or altering, or causing or procuring to he forged or counterfeited or altered, or willingly acting or assisting in the forging or counterfeiting, or altering, uttering, or publishing as aforesaid, shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall, at the Discretion of the Court, be liable to be kept in Penal Servitude for any Term not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned, with or without Hard Labour, or with or without Solitary Confinement for any Term not exceeding Two Years. Bank to con 22. The said Governor and Company of the Bank of England, tinue a Corpo- and their Successors, notwithstanding the Redemption of all or any of their own Funds, in pursuance of the Acts for establishing the same or any of them, shall continue a Corporation for the Purposes of this Act until the Annuities created under this Act shall cease. ration till the Annuities hereby granted cease. Limited Penalties. САР. Cranbourne Street. СХ. Justices prohibited from mitigating Penalties under general Powers of Local Act. Short Title. 15 & 16 Vict. c. 78. 16 & 17 Vict. c. 44. 20 & 21 Vict. c. 67. An Act for the Amendment of the Law relating to the 1. Where any Public Act of Parliament provides that in 66 2. This Act may be cited for all Purposes as The Limited Penalties Act, 1864." CA P. CXI. An Act to transfer certain Houses in and near Cranbourne WHEREAS under and by virtue of Three several Acts of Parliament, (namely,) an Act of the Fifteenth and Six'teenth Years of Queen Victoria, Chapter Seventy-eight, an Act of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Years of Queen Victoria, Chapter Forty-four, and an Act of the Twentieth and Twenty'first Years of Queen Victoria, Chapter Sixty-seven, the Com'missioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings have 'executed and completed divers Improvements in Pimlico and in the Neighbourhood of Buckingham Palace, in the same Acts or some of them specified or referred to, including divers new Streets, Thoroughfares, and open Spaces which have been given up to the Public: And whereas the Property appropriated to the said Improvements consisted, first, partly of Land and Houses belonging to Her Majesty as Part of the Hereditary 'Land Revenues of the Crown, of the estimated Value of Eight ' thousand Pounds; secondly, partly of Land and Houses purchased at different Times for an aggregate Sum of Seventy 'thousand 6 6 Cranbourne Street. ' thousand two hundred and sixty Pounds, out of Monies arising 'from the Sale of other Parts of the Hereditary Land Revenues ' of the Crown; and, thirdly, of Land and Houses purchased 'with Monies granted by Parliament for that Purpose: And whereas the total Value of the Crown Property appropriated to the said Improvements amounts to the Sum of Seventy-eight 'thousand two hundred and sixty Pounds: And whereas Parts of the Property appropriated as aforesaid were sold to defray the Costs of the said Improvements, and in the Year One 'thousand eight hundred and fifty-four a further Part thereof < was sold for the Sum of Four thousand three hundred Pounds, for the Site of the Duchy of Cornwall Office, and the Remainder of the Property appropriated as aforesaid remains ❝vested in Her Majesty as Part of the Hereditary Land Revenues of the Crown, subject only to the Leases and Tenancies of the Lessees or Tenants thereof, and, as regards the Streets, Thoroughfares, and open Spaces aforesaid, to the Rights of the Public over the same, and the Direction and Management 'thereof has since the Completion of the said Improvements been transferred to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, who have since received the Rents ' and Profits of such Parts thereof as are productive of Income: And whereas so much of the said Property remaining vested in Her Majesty as Part of the Hereditary Land Revenues of the 'Crown as aforesaid as has been added to Buckingham Palace and the Grounds thereof in the course of the said Improvements has been valued by Daniel Norton of Old Broad Street in the City of London, Surveyor, at the Sum of Twenty-two thousand 'six hundred Pounds: And whereas the aforesaid Sum of Four thousand three hundred Pounds, the Purchase Money for the 'said Duchy of Cornwall Office, was paid to the Commissioners ' of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, and a further Sum of Eight hundred and thirty-five Pounds Sixteen Shillings and Fourpence, arising from the Sale of Materials of Buildings pulled down in the course of the said Improvements, was paid to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings, and carried by such last-mentioned Commissioners to the Credit of the Hereditary Land Revenues of the Crown: And whereas, after deducting the aforesaid Sums of Four thousand three hundred Pounds, Twenty-two thousand six hundred Pounds, and Eight hundred and Thirty-five Pounds Sixteen Shillings and Fourpence, from the aforesaid Sum of Seventy-eight thousand two hundred and sixty Pounds, a Sum of Fifty thousand five hundred and twenty-four Pounds Three Shillings and Eightpence ' remains: And whereas the Estate and Interest of Her Majesty in right of the Crown in the Property now remaining vested in Her Majesty as aforesaid, exclusive of the Part added to Buckingham Palace and the Grounds thereof as aforesaid, and of the Streets, Thoroughfares, and open Spaces aforesaid, has been valued by James Pennethorne of Whitehall Yard, Surveyor, at the Sum of Thirty-six thousand five hundred and Cc 2 forty, 6 6 6 |