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368 five to be temporarily defrayed out of surpluses ejected by the saving of expenditure on other votes for naval and military services for the said year; vis. It is enacted that the application of the said sums is hereby sanctioned

6. A person shall not receive any part of a grant which may be made in pursuance of this Act for half -pay or army, navy, or civil non-effective services, until he has subscribed such declaration as may from time to time be prescribed by a warrant of the Treasury before one of the persons prescribed by such warrant.

Provided that, whenever any such payment is made at more frequent intervals than once in a quarter, the Treasury may dispense with the production of more than one declaration in respect of each quarter.

Any person who makes a declaration for the purpose of this section, knowing the same to be untrue in any material particular, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

7. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Appropriation Act, 1896.