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1076 S3 GEORGIl III. Cap, X.

An Act to amend an Act of the Fiftieth Year of His present Majesty, for granting a Sum of Money to be raised by Exchequer Bills, to be advanced and applied in the Manner and upon the Terms therein mentioned for the Relief of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies. 18th February 1812.]

HEREAS an Act passed in the Fiftieth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled,"An Act for granting to His Majesty, a Sum of Money to be raised by Exchequer Bills, and to be advanced and applied in the Manner and upon the Terms therein mentioned, for the Relief of the United Company of Merchants of England to the East Indies And whereas considerable Sums of Money have been advanced and disbursed for the Use of His Majesty's Navy in the East Indies, and. for other Public Services, for which Credit cannot be given for the said Company in Payment of the Sum's advanced under the Provisions of the said Act, by reason that such Payments are required to be made, on or before the First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and twelve, into the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer; be if 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 it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, or any Three or more of them, to carry to the Credit of the said Company, in Repayment of the Sums advanced under the Provisions of the said Act, any Sum or Sums of Money which shall have been advanced or disbursed by the said Company in the East Indies for His Majesty's Navy, or any Public Services; and it shall also be lawful for the said Company to pay any Sum or Sums of Money on account of or in Repayment of Sums of Money advanced under the said Act, into the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer, at any Time after the First Day of January in the Year One thousand eight hundred and twelve, any Thig in the said Act to the contrary notwithstanding; and all Sums so advanced or disbursed in the East Indies as aforesaid, which shall be allowed by the said Commissioners of the Treasury to be carried to the Credit of the said Company, and all Sums paid into the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer after the said First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and twelve, in Repayment of Sums advanced under the said Act, shall be received at the Exchequer, and go in Discharge of any Balance which shall remain unpaid of Sums so advanced as aforesaid, and it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of the Treasury to issue and apply the same to such Services as shall then have been voted by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in this present Session of Parliament, and all such Payments shall go in Discharge of the Amount so repaid of any Bonds given by the said Company for Repayment of Advances under the said Act, any Thing in the said recited Act to the contrary notwithstanding.

52 GEORGII III. Cap. XV. An Act for further continuing, until the Twenty fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and thirteen, certain Bounties and Drawbacks on the Exportation of Sugar from Great Britain; and for suspending the Countervailing Duties and Bounties on Sugar, when the Duties imposed by an Act of the Forty-ninth Year of His present Majesty shall be suspended; and for continuing so much of an Act of the Forty-seventh Year of His present Majesty as allows a Bounty on Raw Sugar exported, until the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and thirteen. 5th March 1813.]

HEREAS an Act passed in the Forty-third Year of His present Majesty, intituled, "An Act for discontinuing certain Drawbacks and Bounties on the Exportation of Sugar from Great Britain, and for allowing other Drawbacks and Bounties in lieu thereof, until the