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ccii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Borough of Birmingham, the Rural Sanitary District of the Chesterfield Union, the Districts of Dawlish and Keswick, the Rural Sanitary District of the Leek Union, the Borough of Maidstone, the Districts of Mistley, Moss Side, and Southend, the Rural Sanitary District of the Tadcaster Union, and the Districts of Wallasey and Weston-super-Mare.

cciii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the District of Bilbrough, the Improvement Act Districts of Bournemouth and Cirencester, the Districts of Clay Lane, Eccleshill, Felling, Nelson, and Normanton, the Improvement Act District of Runcorn, and the Districts of Stow-on-the-Wold, Sunderland, and Tormoham.

cciv. An Act to provide for the collection and distribution of certain Assets of a former Savings Bank at Tralee.

ccxxxv. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Boroughs of Birmingham, Liverpool, Nottingham, and Swansea.

ccxxxvi. An Act for improvement of the Harbour of Ardglass, in the county of Down.

ccxxxvii. An Act for the improvement of the Navigation of the Lough and River Erne.

ccxxxviii. An Act to authorise the acquisition of a site in Bow Street for the erection of a new Police Court and Police Station and Offices.

ccxxxix. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made by the Education Department under "The Elementary Education Act, 1870," to enable the School Board for London to put in force "The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," and the Acts amending the same.

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THE

PUBLIC GENERAL STATUTES,

39 VICTORIA.

CHAPTER 1.

An Act to raise the sum of Four million and eighty thousand pounds by Exchequer Bonds. [9th March 1876.] Most Gracious Sovereign,

WE, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons

of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled, towards making good the supply which we have cheerfully granted to Your Majesty, have resolved to grant unto Your Majesty the sum herein-after mentioned; and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the Queen'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, as follows:

1. Towards raising the supply granted to Her Majesty for the Treasury may service of the year ending on the thirty-first day of March, one raise 4,080,000l. by Exchequer thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, or towards repaying to bonds. the Consolidated Fund sums issued in respect of such supply, it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, at any time or times not later than one month after the said thirty-first day of March, to raise any sum or sums, not exceeding in the whole four million and eighty thousand pounds, by the issue of Exchequer bonds, bearing interest at a rate not exceeding three and a half per centum per annum.

2. The principal of and interest on all bonds issued in pursuance of Interest on this Act shall be charged upon and issued out of the Consolidated Fund bonds and reof the United Kingdom, or out of the growing produce thereof.

So long as any bonds issued in pursuance of this Act remain current, there shall be charged on and issued out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, or out of the growing produce thereof, at such times and in such manner as the Treasury may from time to time direct, an annual sum not exceeding two hundred thousand pounds; and such sum shall be applied, first in paying the interest on the bonds issued in pursuance of this Act which remain current, and secondly, in purchasing or paying off and discharging the bonds issued in pursuance of this Act; and all bonds so purchased shall be cancelled and made void in manner provided by the Exchequer Bills and Bonds Act, 1866, with respect to Exchequer bonds paid off and discharged.

In the year in which the last bonds issued in pursuance of this Act are paid off and discharged, so much only of the said annual [THE LAW REPORTS.]

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payment of principal.

Duration of bonds and application of

to bonds.

sum need be charged on and issued out of the Consolidated Fund as is required to pay off and discharge such bonds and to pay the interest thereon.

3. Each bond issued in pursuance of this Act shall provide for the paying off and discharging of such bond at par, at the expiration 29 Vict. c. 25. of the period (not exceeding thirty-six years from the date of the bond) specified in the bond, or at any earlier date to be fixed by the Treasury in the manner and under the conditions specified in the bond, and shall also provide for the bond ceasing to be current and ceasing to bear interest after the time for paying off the same. The bonds shall so far as practicable be paid off and discharged in accordance with their numerical order.

Payment of

Each bond shall be issued with coupons for the interest from time to time becoming due on such bond during the currency thereof.

Subject as aforesaid, bonds issued in pursuance of this Act shall be issued in manner provided by the Exchequer Bills and Bonds Act, 1866, and section fifteen of that Act (which relates to the forgery of Exchequer bills and coupons) shall apply to all Exchequer bonds issued in pursuance of this Act, in like manner as if it were herein enacted with the substitution of Exchequer bond for Exchequer bill.

4. All money raised by Exchequer bonds issued in pursuance of money raised, this Act shall be paid into the receipt of Her Majesty's Exchequer, and carried to the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom.

to Consolidated Fund.

Short title of

and this Act.

5. The Act of the session of the twenty-ninth and thirtieth years 29 Vict. c. 25. of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter twenty-five, intituled "An Act to consolidate and amend the several laws regulating "the preparation, issue, and payment of Exchequer bills and "bonds," is in this Act referred to as the Exchequer Bills and Bonds Act, 1866, and that Act and this Act may be cited together as the Exchequer Bills and Bonds Acts, 1866 and 1876.

This Act may be cited as the Exchequer Bonds Act, 1876.

CHAPTER 2.

An Act to apply the sum of Four million and eighty thousand pounds out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the year ending on the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.

Most Gracious Sovereign,

[9th March 1876.]

E, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled, towards making good the supply which we have cheerfully granted to Your Majesty in this session of Parliament, have resolved to grant unto Your Majesty the sum hereinafter mentioned; and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the Queen'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, as follows:

of the Consoli

1. The Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury for the time Issue of being may issue out of the Consolidated Fund of the United 4,080,000%. out Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and apply towards making dated Fund for good the supply granted to Her Majesty for the service of the year the service of ending on the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight hun- the year ending dred and seventy-six, the sum of four million and eighty thousand 1st March pounds.

1876.

CHAPTER 3.

An Act to extend the Time for the Epping Forest Commissioners to make their Final Report.

[17th March 1876.]

WHEREAS by the Epping Forest Act, 1871, it was enacted 34 & 35 Vict.

that the Commissioners thereby appointed should within two c. 93. years from their appointment make a final report to Her Majesty on the matter referred to them, and that such report should be laid before both Houses of Parliament within fourteen days after the making thereof, if Parliament should then be sitting, and if not, then within fourteen days after the next meeting of Parliament:

And whereas additional powers were conferred upon the said Commissioners by the Epping Forest Amendment Act, 1872, which 35 & 36 Vict. was incorporated with the said Act of 1871:

c. 95.

And whereas by the Epping Forest Act, 1873, and by the Epping 36 Vict. c. 5. Forest Act, 1875, respectively, the time for making the said report 38 Vict. c. 6. was extended, and will, unless further enlarged, expire on the 19th day of March 1876:

And whereas it is expedient further to extend the time for making the said final report and the time when such report shall be presented to both Houses of Parliament:

May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the Queen'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, as follows:

report and for

1. In case the said Commissioners shall be unable to make their Time for final report to Her Majesty within the period limited by the Epping making final Forest Act, 1875, it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners to exercise of make the said report at any time within one year from the passing Commissioners of this Act, and all the powers conferred on the said Commissioners power exand on the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings respectively by the said recited Acts shall be and the same are hereby extended until the Commissioners shall make the said final report to Her Majesty within the period herein-before mentioned.

tended.

2. The said final report shall be laid before both Houses of Par- Final report liament within fourteen days after the making thereof, if Parliament to be laid be then sitting, and if not, then within fourteen days after the next ment. meeting of Parliament.

before Parlia

3. This Act may be cited for all purposes as "The Epping Forest Short title. Act, 1876."

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