A compendious digest of the statute law, comprising the substance and effect of all the public acts of Parliament in force, from Magna Charta in the ... present Majesty King George III. inclusive - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1787 Excerpt: ...ann. in the whole (hall be granted in one year; lilts whereof are to be delivered to parliament in twenty days after the beginning of each session, till the pension lilt is reduced to 90,000/. and then it is not to exceed 5000/. more: nor shall any pensions be then granted to one person of. more than 1200/. per ann. unless to the royal family, or on a parliamentary address. Ibid. This is not to extend to persons who have served the crown in foreign courts, if they have no other place. Ibid. All pensions on the civil lilt (hall be paid at the exchequer; bat the treasurer may, with the king's consent, take away from the private list the names and pensions of persons therein entered; and he may return into the exchequer any pension, without the name of the pensioner, on swearing that it is not for a m mber of the house of commons,or to corrupt elections, which pension (hall be paid to his order; but when any secret pension shall continue in the list more than five years, oath of the party's life iiiall be made. ibid. The payment of home secret service money is restricted to 10,000/. fur ann. and foreign secret service money is to be sent to the minister or commander abroad, who shall account for such money within a year after their arrival in Great Britain, and swear to the disposition thereof, the secretaries of state milking payment of any such secret service money, shall be sworn as to the disposal thereof. No fiated sum shall be allowed for" secret service money to the secretaries of state, but the fame (hall be annexed to their salaries, bums issued for any special service (hall be entered in a book. Grants of royal bounty more than once in eight years shall be deemed pensions. The payments of the civil list revenues shall be divided into regular cla...
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