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Rh 51 GEORGII III. CAP. LXXV. Act for making further Provision for the Payment Salaries and other Charges in the Office of the Commissioners for the Affairs of India; and for enabling the East India Company to restore to the Service of the said Company, Military Officers removed therefrom by Sentences of Courts Martial; and to authorize the said Company, in Cases of unforeseen Emergency, to take up Ships by private Contract. [15th June, 1811.]

HEREAS by an Act passed in the Thirty-third "^ear of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled, "An Act for continuing in the East India Company, for a further Term, the Possession of the British Territories in India, together with their, exclusive Trade, under certain Limitations; for establishing further Regulations for the Government of the said Territories, and the better Administration of Justice within the same; for appropriating to certain Uses the Revenues and Profits of the said Company; and for making Provision for the good Order and Government of the Towns of Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay, it was among other Things enacted, That it should be lawful for His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, by any Letters Patent, or by any Commission or Commissions; to be issued under the Great Seal of Great Britain, from Time to Time to nominate, constitute, and appoint, during his or their Pleasure, such Members of the Privy Council (of whom the Two Principal Secretaries of State and the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the Time being should always be Three), and such other Two Persons as His Majesty, His Heirs, or Successors, should Think fit, to be and who should accordingly be and be styled Commissioners for the Affairs of India; and it was in and by the said Act also enacted, that the said Board of Commissioners should and might nominate and appoint such Secretaries and Officers as should be necessary to attend upon the said Board, who should be subject to Dismission at the Pleasure of the said Board; and that as well the said Commissioners, or such and so many of them as His Majesty should think fit, as likewise their Secretaries and other Officers, should be paid, such fixed Saiaries'as His Majesty should by any,  Warrant or Warrants under his Sign Manual, countersigned by the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the Time being, direct; all which Salaries, together with all other contingent Charges arid Expences to be incurred by the said Board, should be paid arid defrayed Quarterly by the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies, and be deemed and taken as Part of their Commercial Charges, the quarterly Amount thereof being first settled, and allowed by the said Board, and certified by the President of acting President of the said Board for the Time being, to the Court of Directors of the said Company; provided that the whole of the Salaries to be paid to the Members of the said Board should not exceed the Sum of Five Thousand Pounds in any One Year; and that the whole of the Salaries, Charges, and Expences of the said Board, exclusive of the Salaries of the Members of the said Board, should not exceed the Sum of Eleven Thousand Pounds in any One Year; And whereas it is reasonable that a more ample Allowance should be made for the said Salaries, Charges, and Expences; 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 so much of the said Act as limits the whole of the Salaries to be paid to the Members of the said Board to the Sum of Five Thousand Pounds in  any one Year, and the whole of the, Salaries, Charges, and Expences of the said Board, exclusive of the Salaries of the Members thereof, to the Sum of Eleven Thousand Pounds in any One Year, shall be, and the same is hereby-repealed.

II. Provided always, and be it further enacted. That from and after the Twenty-fifth Day of December One thousand, eight hundred and fen, the whole of the Salaries to be paid to the Members of the said Board, aha to the Secretaries and Officers of the same, together with all other contingent Charges and Expences of the said Board, to be defrayed by the said United Company as aforesaid, shall not exceed the sum of Twenty-two Thousand Pounds in any One Year.

III. And be it further enacted. That so much of an Act passed in the Fiftieth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled, "An Act to direct that Accounts of Increase and Diminution of public Salaries, Pensions, and Allowances, shall be annually laid before Parliament, and to regulate and controul the granting and paying of such Salaries, Pensions, and Allowances," as directs that between the First Day of February and the Twenty-fifth Day of March in every Year, if Parlia­ment shall be sitting during any Part of such Period; or if Parliament shall hot be sitting during the