VIII. And Whereas many Persons who have been examined as to their Fitness and Qualification to act as Apothecaries in pursuance of the said Act of the Fifty fifth Year [of His late Majesty King George the Third, by the Court of Examiners appointed under and by virtue thereof, have been rejected upon 'the First and also upon the Second Examination of such Per'sons: And Whereas there is not any Power expressly given by 'the said Act to the said Court of Examiners to admit Persons who have been rejected upon their Second Examination: And Whereas several Persons who have been upon their First and Second Examinations deemed unfit to receive a Certificate of Qualification to act as Apothecaries, have upon a subsequent 'Examination received Certificates of their Qualification to act as Apothecaries, and it would be expedient to provide a Remedy in that behalf;' Be it therefore enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act it shall and may be lawful to and for the Court of Examiners who shall be appointed from time to time in pursuance of the said Act of the Fifty fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, or the major Part of them, to examine any Person or Persons who have been rejected by the said Court of Examiners, on the Second Examination of such Person or Persons, from time to time as often as such Person or Persons shall apply to be examined, so as such future Examinations be from time to time respectively at an Interval of not less than Six Months from the previous Examination; and that all Persons who have heretofore received, from the said Court of Examiners, Certificates of their Qualification to act as Apothecaries, upon their Third or subsequent Examination, shall be deemed to have been legally examined; and that the Certificates which have been granted to such Persons shall be deemed and taken to be as valid as if the same had been granted by the said Court of Examiners on the First or Second Examination of such Persons.

Power to grant
Certificates to

Persons upon the Third or

subsequent Examinations.

IX. And Whereas by the said recited Act the Penalty of 55 G.3. c.194. Five Pounds is imposed on Persons who shall commit certain §§ 3. 5. 20. Offences in the said Act specified: And Whereas there are not

in the said recited Act specified any Means whereby the said

Penalty of Five Pounds thereby imposed can be recovered;' Be

it therefore enacted, That all Penalties of the Amount of Five Mode of re

Pounds, which are imposed by the said recited Act, shall be covering Penalrecoverable in the Name of the Master, Wardens and Society ties of 57. of the Art and Mystery of Apothecaries of the City of London in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record, in England or Wales, in the same Manner, and subject to the same Rules and Regulations in all Respects, as are in and by the said recited Act declared and provided with regard to the Recovery of the Penalty of Twenty Pounds thereby imposed on certain other Offences in the said recited Act mentioned.

Limitation of

X. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That no Action or Suit shall be brought or prosecuted against any Person Actions for or Persons, Body or Bodies Politic, Corporate or Collegiate, for executing Act. any Thing done in pursuance of this Act, or the said recited Act of the Fifty fifth Year of His late Majesty King George the Third, after Six Calendar Months next after the Fact committed; or in

case

case there shall be a Continuation of Damages, then after Six Calendar Months next after the doing or committing such Damage shall have ceased, and not afterwards, nor until the Expiration of Twenty one Days after Notice shall have been given to or left for the Person or Persons, Body or Bodies Politic, Corporate or Collegiate, against whom such Action is intended to be brought, under the Hand of the Party intending to bring such Action, previously to the commencing such Action; and every such Action or Suit shall be laid and brought in the County where the Matter in dispute shall arise, and not elsewhere; and the Defendant and Defendants in every such Action or Suit shall or may, at General Issue. his, her or their Election, plead specially, or the General Issue, and give this Act and the said recited Act of the Fifty fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, and the Special Matter, in Evidence at any Trial to be had thereupon, and that the same was done in pursuance and by the Authority of this Act and the said recited Act; and if it shall appear to have been so done, or if any such Action or Suit shall have been brought before the Expiration of Twenty one Days after Notice shall have been given or left as aforesaid, or after sufficient Satisfaction shall have been made or tendered, or shall be brought in any other County or Place than as aforesaid, then and in every such Case the Jury shall find for the Defendant or Defendants; and upon such Verdict, or if the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs shall become nonsuit, or shall suffer a Discontinuance or Non Pros of his, her or their Action or Suit after the Defendant or Defendants shall have appeared, upon Demurrer or otherwise Judgment shall be given against the or if a Verdict shall pass against the Plaintiff or Plaintifs, or if Plaintiff or Plaintiffs, then the Defendant or Defendants shail have Double Costs, and shall have such Remedy for recovering the same as any Defendant hath for recovering Costs of Suit in any other Cases by Law.`

Double Costs.

Commence

XI. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take Effect from ment and Con- and after the passing thereof, and shall continue until the First tinuance of Act. Day of August next in the Year One thousand eight hundred and

Public Act.

twenty six.

XII. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall be deemed and taken to be a Public Act, and shall be judicially taken notice of as such, by all Judges, Justices and others, without being specially pleaded.

CAP.

CAP. CXXXIV.

n Act for applying the Surplus of the Grants of the Year
One thousand eight hundred and twenty four, to the Service
of the Year One thousand eight hundred and twenty five;
and for further appropriating the Supplies granted in this
Session of Parliament.
[6th July 1825.]

I. 439,166 9 10

Being the Surplus Grants for the Year 1824; to be issued towards the Supply for the Year 1825.

II. Monies coming into the Exchequer under c. 1. ante; granted to make good the Supply for Great Britain and Ireland, for 1825.

20,000,000 00

By Exchequer Bills under To be applied as

c. 2. ante.

Monies coming into the Exchequer under c. 9. ante.

10,500,000 00

10,500,000 00

439,166 9 102

III. 5,983,126 17 10

923,650 0 0

Out of the Consolidated Fund
under c. 14. ante.

By Exchequer Bills under

c. 70. ante.

As by § 1. ante.

hereinafter mentioned.

to 12.

See § 3.

For Naval Services for the Year 1825, (that is to say,)

For Wages of

29,000 Men, in

Month.

290

603,200 0 0

320,450 00

For Wear and Tear
of Ships,

per Man

Sea Service,

54,886 5 1

5 0

For Salaries of Officers and Contingent Expences

of Admiralty Office.

Navy Pay Office.

Navy Office.

Victualling Office.
His Majesty's Yards

For Wages to Artificers and Labourers in ditto.
For Building and Repair of His Majesty's Ships,
Ordinary Repairs of Ships in Harbour, and for
Repair of Docks, &c.

For Pilotage, Salvage, Bounty for Slaves, Main-
tenance of distressed Seamen in Foreign Parts,
Exchequer Fees and other Contingencies.
For Salaries of Officers and Contingent Expences
of Foreign Yards.

For

ditto

ditto Victualling Yards. For Medical Establishments.

For the Royal Naval College, and School for Naval Architecture.

4 A

185,291 13 O net

1,153,411 0 1

246,263 18 4 net

93,270 17 1

24,581 O 8 net 116,470 13 10

13,270 14 6

For Wages to Officers and Men of Vessels in Or
dinary.

For Victuals for ditto, and also to Officers and
Men borne on the Hulks and small Vessels.
For the Hire of Packets.

For Half Pay to Naval Officers.

For Superannuations, Pensions and Allowances
to Naval Officers, their Widows and Relatives.
For Bounty to Chaplains.

For Widows and Officers on the Compassionate
List.

For Deficiency of Funds for Relief of Widows
of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the
Navy.

For ditto for Out Pensioners of Greenwich Hos-
pital.
For Superannuations to Commissioners, &c. and
Allowances in lieu of Half Pay to Naval Off-
cers formerly employed in Naval Departments.
For Repairs and Improvements in the Dock Yards.
For Provisions for Troops, &c. on Foreign Sta-
tions and for Convict Service, and the Value of
Rations for Troops to be embarked on board
Ships of War and Transports.

For Transport Service.

For Land Forces for the Year 1825; and other

Services hereinafter more

ed, (that is say,) For Army Services.

particularly express

For Land Forces in Great Britain, and on Stations abroad (except the East Indies).

For ditto in Ireland.

For completing the Sum required for Land Forces in Great Britain (except the East Indies).

For ditto ditto

in Ireland.

For General and Staff Officers, and Officers of Hospitals serving with Forces in Great Britain, and on Foreign Stations (excepting India).

For

ditto in Ireland.

For Allowances to principal Officers of the several Public Departments in Great Britain and Ireland, their Deputies, Clerks, and ContinFor Medicines and Surgical Materials for Land Forces in Great Britain, and of certain Hos

pital Contingencies.

5,188 17 O net For

128,000 0 0

ditto in Ireland.

For Volunteer Corps in Great Britain.

19,305 12 0 net For

27,338 5 5

151,522 16 3

ditto in Ireland.

For Four Troops of Dragoons and Nineteen Companies of Foot, stationed in Great Britain, for recruiting the Corps employed in the Terri torial Possessions of the East India Company. For Pay of General Officers in the Forces not

being Colonels of Regiments.

V.

£29,832 6 10

For Pay of Garrisons at Home and Abroad.

5,491 0 3 net For ditto

131,000 0 0

752,000 0 0
42,048 2 6
109,710 0 0

33,896 9 0

in Ireland.

For ditto full Pay for reduced, retired
and unattached Officers of Land Forces.
For Half Pay to reduced Officers of ditto.
For Allowances to reduced Officers of ditto.
For Half Pay and reduced Allowances to Officers
of Disbanded Foreign Corps, Pensions to
wounded Foreign Officers and Allowances to
Widows and Children of deceased Foreign Of-
ficers.

12,075 13 10 net For

1,240,913 2 11

135,369 16 8

186,608 13 9

44,305 16 10

ditto

For In Pensioners of Chelsea Hospital.
Kilmainham Hospital.
For Out Pensioners of Chelsea Hospital.
For Pensions to Widows of Officers of Land
Forces and Marines.

For Allowances on the Compassionate List, and
of Pensions to Officers for Wounds.
For Allowances, Compensations and Emoluments
in the nature of Superannuation or retired Al-
lowances to Persons formerly belonging to the
several Public Departments in Great Britain,
in respect of their having held any Public Of
fices or Employments of a Civil Nature.

5,690 8 O net For ditto in Ireland.
33,000 0 0

9,657 18 5

For Fees expected to be paid at the Exchequer
by the Paymaster General of Forces on Issues
for Army Services.

For a Royal Veteran Battalion for Service in
Great Britain.

For Two ditto for Ireland.

For extraordinary Expences of the Army.
For the Commissariat Department.

17,984 4 10 net
620,000 0 0
369,014 8 3
303,459 1 6 For disembodied Militia of Great Britain.
94,207 13 6 net For ditto in Ireland.
48,948 0 0

For Salaries to Master General and principal
Officers, and Salaries and increased Salaries
for length of Service to Clerks, &c. belonging
to the Office of Ordnance, and employed at
the Tower and Pall Mall.

7,219 0 0 For Salaries and increased Salaries for length of Service to the several Military Establishments of the Office of Ordnance at the Royal Laboratory, the Inspector of Artillery's Department, the Royal Carriage Department, and the Royal Military Repository at Woolwich.

35,490 0 0 For ditto to the several Civil Establishments of the Office of Ordnance at the Home and Foreign Stations.

4,165 0 0

For Expence of Fifty six Master Gunners at the Garrisons, &c. in Great Britain, and of One Fee Gunner at Saint James's Park and Whitehall, with Allowance of Coals and Candles to them, and to 50 Noncommissioned Officers 4 A 2

and