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1094 52 GEORGII III. Cap. CXXII.

An Act to remove Doubts as to an Act passed in the Fiftieth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, relating to raising Men for the Service of the East India Company.[13th July 1812.]

HEREAS an Act passed in the Fiftieth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, "An Act to amend Two Acts relating-to the raising Men for the Service of the East India Company and the quartering and Billeting such Men, and to Trials by Regimental Courts Martial:" And whereas Doubts have arisen as to whether the Provisions of the said Act extend to Ireland; and it is expedient that such Doubts should be removed; May it therefore please Your Majesty, that it may be enacted; and be it declared and 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 Act and all the Provisions thereof shall, from the passing thereof, extend and be deemed and construed to extend to that Part of the United Kingdom called Ireland, and all other the Dominions and Territories of His Majesty; any Thing in any Act Or Acts to the contrary notwithstanding.

52 GEORGII III. Cap CXXXII. An Act for explaining, amending, and extending the several Laws relative to the payment of forfeited and unclaimed, Shares of Army Prize Money, to the Royal Hospital at Chelsea; and for directing the Mode of making up the Accounts of Pensions paid to the Widows of Officers of the Army.[18th July 1812.]

HEREAS by an Act passed in the Forty-fifth Year of the Reign of his Present Majesty; intituled, "An Act for the Encouragement of Seamen, and for the better and more effectually meaning His Majesty's Navy during the present War." it is among other Things enacted, that all Unclaimed Shares of Soldiers serving in any conjunct Expedition with His Majesty's Naval Forces as "described in the said Act, should be paid to the Treasurer of Chelsea Hospital, for the Use of the said Hospital, within Six Months after Distribution commenced, subject, nevertheless to he refunded to any Individual entitled,to.the same, and establishing his Claim thereto within Six Years front such Payment to the said Treasurer; and that it should be lawful for the said Treasurer to compel the Agents for the Army to exhibit and verify their Accounts, and pay over such Balances in like Manner as the Treasurer of Greenwich Hospital is by the said Act empowered to compel the producing arid verifying of Accounts and Payment of unclaimed Shares from the Naval Prize Agents; and the High Court of Admiralty is authorized to exercise the same Powers and Authorities for discovering and compelling the payment of all Shares of Soldiers so remaining unpaid in the War, then existing, or any former War, in like Manner as the said Court is enabled to do by the now reciting or any other Act respecting the unclaimed Shares Of Mariners serving in His Majesty's Ships of War; And whereas an Act was passed in the Forty-ninth Year of His said Majesty's Reign, intituled, "An Act to explain and amend an Act made in the Forty-fifth Year of His present Majesty, for the Encouragement of Seamen, and for the better and more effectually manning His Majesty's Navy during the present War; and for the further Encouragement of Seamen, and for the better and more effectually providing for the Interest of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, and the Royal Hospital for Soldiers at Chelsea; and to extend the Provisions of the said Act to Cases arising in consequence of Hostilities commenced since the passing of the said Act And whereas an Act was passed in the Fifty-first Year of His said Majesty's Reign, intituled, "An Act for extending and amending the Regulations now in Force relative to the Payment to the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, of the forfeited and unclaimed Shares of Army Prize Money And whereas Doubts have arisen whether the said recited Provision of the said Act of the Forty-fifth,