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The residue of the Money applicable to the Relief of the Owners of Tithes under 3 & 4 W. 4. c. 100. shall be applied, together with the Sums arising to Credit of the Account herein-after mentioned, in Payment of the Arrears of Compositions for 1834, 1835, 1836, and 1837. 6 & 7 W. 4. c. 108.
Treasury may raise 260,000l. by Exchequer Bills in like Manner as is prescribed by 48 G. 3. c. 1.
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XXXIV. ‘And whereas it was by the herein-before recited Act of the Third and Fourth Years of His late Majesty’s Reign enacted, that Exchequer Bills to an Amount not exceeding One million Pounds in the whole should be issued and applied to the Relief of the Owners of Tithes or Compositions for Tithes in Ireland, in Manner by the said Act directed: And whereas in pursuance thereof Exchequer Bills to the Amount of Six hundred and forty thousand Pounds were so issued and applied: And whereas an Act was passed in the Sixth and Seventh Years of His late Majesty’s Reign, intituled An Act to amend an Act passed in the First and Second years of His present Majesty, for the Extension and Promotion of Public Works in Ireland, whereby, after reciting that, over and above the Sum required for the Purposes of the said first-recited Act, Exchequer Bills to the Amount of One hundred thousand Pounds, or thereabouts, had been made out and delivered to the Teller of the Exchequer in Ireland, it was enacted, that such of the said Exchequer Bills as were then in the Possession of the said Teller, not exceeding the said Sum of One hundred thousand Pounds, should be applied to the Purposes of the said Act for the Extension and Promotion of Public Works: And whereas it is expedient to apply the Residue of the said Sum of One million Pounds now remaining unappropriated, being Two hundred and sixty thousand Pounds, together with the Sums which may have arisen or shall arise in Her Majesty’s Exchequer on account of the Instalments payable to the Crown under the Provisions of the said Act of the Third and Fourth Years of His late Majesty’s Reign, or this Act, to the Indemnification, in certain Cases, of Persons who may not have received Payment of Compositions for Tithes accrued due for the Four Years last past, that is, for any of the Years One thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, One thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, One thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven;’ be it therefore enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, at any Time or Times to cause or direct any Number of Exchequer Bills to be made out at the Receipt of the Exchequer at Westminster for any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Two hundred and sixty thousand Pounds, to be applied to the Purposes of this Act, such Exchequer Bills to be made out in the same Manner, or like Manner, Form and Order, and according to the same or like Rules and Directions as are prescribed in an Act passed in the Forty-eighth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for regulating the Issue and paying off of Exchequer Bills.
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