Appropriation Act 1812

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Anno Regni GEORGII III. Britanniarum Regis,Quinquagesimo Secundo. An Act for granting to His Majesty certain Sums of Money out of the Consolidated Fund ofGreat Britain , and for applying certain Monies therein mentioned for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and twelve; and for further appropriating the Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament.

(52 Geo. 3) C A P. CLIV.

[28th July 1812]

S-I

I.

∥ I. 3,600,000 0 0

Out of Surplus of British Consolidated Fund.

Granted to make good the Supply for Service of Great Britain for 1812.

S-II

II.

II. 8,000,000 0 0

Part of Sum remaining in the Exchequer to complete 20,000,000 granted out of Produce of War Taxes for 1811

S-III

III.

III. 20,400,000 0 0

From the following Duties, viz .

Additional Excise under

43 G . 3. c . 70.

Excise on Tobacco, &c.

46 G. 3. c. 39.

Duties on Property

c. 65.

Excise on Brandy

47 G. 3. Sess. 1. c 27.

Customs

49 G. 3. c. 98.

Additional Duty on Wood

51 G. 3. c. 43.

Linen

c. 44.

Copper

c. 31.

New Duties on Importation of Hides in the Hair

c. 67.

Additional Duties of Customs on Fir Timber

c. 93.

on Mahogany

52 G. 3. c. 36.

on Wood and Pot and Pearl Ashes

c. 117.

S-IV

IV.

IV. 2,209,626 0 0

Exchequer Bills charged upon Supplies for 1811, subscribed to be funded pursuant to the Resolutions of the House of Commons of 17th February and 9th March 1812

S-V

V.

V. 441,218 0 0

From Sale of Old Naval and Victualling Stores

For Naval Services hereinafter expressed. See ∥ VIII.

S-VI

VI.

VI. The following Sums, viz .

Appropriated to Uses after expressed. See ∥ VIII., &c.

Produce of Malt and Pension Act, not exceeding

3,000,000 0 0

52. G. 3. c. 1.

10,500,000 0 0

Exchequer Bills

c. 4.

1,500,000 0 0

Ditto

c. 5.

6,789,625 0 0

Annuities

c. 24.

22,500,000 0 0

Ditto (after remitting 4,350,000 l. to Ireland ; and 2,500,000 l. for East India Company)

c. 85.

5,000,000 0 0

Exchequer Bills

c. 86.

Lotteries

(deducting One third for Ireland )

c. 125.

8,000,000 0 0

Part of Monies remaining to be received 18th Jan. 1812, to complete 20,000,000 l. granted out of Produce of War Taxes 1811.

20,400,000 0 0

(granted above, ∥ III.)

441,218 0 0

(granted above, ∥ V.)

3,600,000 0 0

(granted above, ∥ I.)

S-VII

VII.

VII. The following Sums, viz .

1,500,000 0 0

4,350,000 0 0

Share of Lotteries

500,000 0 0

1,216,666 13 4

Annuities and Treasury Bills

Annuities

Treasury Bills

Ditto

coming into the Irish Exchequer under the Acts.

52 G. 3. c. 70.

c. 85.

c. 125.

c. 90.

c. 113.

Appropriated to the Uses after expressed. See ∥ XXV.. &c.

S-VIII

VIII.

VIII. Appropriation, viz.

20,442,149 2 3

For Naval Services; that is to say,

s. d.

3,345,875 0 0

4,453,312 10 0

3,675,750 0 0

659,750 0 0

For 145,000 Men,

For Victuals,

For Wear and Tear of Ships,

For Ordnance for Sea Service,

At per Man per Month,

1 15 6

2 7 3

1 19 0

0 7 0

For 13 Months.

1,038,514 3 2

For Salaries and Expences of Admiralty, &c.

408,611 8 10

For Half Pay, &c. to Officers of Navy and Marines, &c.

61,975 0 3

For Superannuations, &c. in Admiralty and Transport Service

1,696,621 0 0

For Building and Repairs of Ships of War and Extras

1,056,390 0 0

For Provisions for Troops and Garrisons on Foreign Stations, and Rations for Troops embarked on board Transports

For the Year 1812.

2,678,092 12 0

For Hire of Transports

280,316 4 0

For Sick and Wounded Seamen at Home and Abroad

878,742 0 0

For Prisoners of War in Health at Home and Abroad

90,000 0 0

Ditto Sick

38,199 4 0

For Salaries, Stationary and Contingencies of Transport Office

80,000 0 0

For purchasing Quarries for Plymouth Break Water.

S-IX

IX.

IX. 2,000,000 0 0

For Portugal , ‘to enable His Majesty to continue to maintain in his Pay a Body of Portuguese Troops, and to give such further Aid and Assistance to the Government of Portugal as the Nature of the Contest in which His Majesty is engaged may appear to him to require.’

S-X

X.

X. 400,000 0 0

For Engagements with His Sicilian Majesty

From 25th Dec. 1811, to 24th Dec. 1812.

S-XI

XI.

XI. 25,174,756 15 0

For Land Forces and other Services; that is to say,

7,667,408 11 6

For Land Forces at Home and Abroad (except in the East Indies , Foreign Corps in British Pay and Embodied Militia)

3,099,965 0 3

For Embodied Militia of Great Britain and Ireland , and of the Royal Corps of Miners of Devon and Cornwall

720,078 0 0

For Local Militia Force in Great Britain

27,783 19 2

For Five Troops of Dragoons and Fifteen Companies of Foot for recruiting Corps serving in India

581,863 14 5

For General and Staff Officers and Officers of Hospitals at Home and Abroad, and Charge of Garrisons

31,944 0 3

For Full Pay for Supernumerary Officers of Forces

292,052 17 10

For principal Officers of several Public Departments in Great Britain and, Ireland , their Deputies, Clerks and Contingent Expences, and Amount of Exchequer Fees to be paid by the Paymaster General

219,511 0 10

For Half Pay to reduced Officers of Land Forces including British American Forces and Scotch Brigade, late in the Service of the States General

13,195 19 6

For Military Allowances to reduced Officers of Land Forces, including British American Forces

541,471 18 9

For In and Out Pensioners of Chelsea and Kilmainham Hospitals, and Expences of the Hospitals

59,369 12 6

For Pensions to Widows of Officers of Land Forces and Expences attending the same in Great Britain and Ireland

531,169 13 11

For Volunteer Corps in Great Britain and Ireland

1,146,652 12 10

For Foreign Corps in Service of Great Britain and Ireland

21,306 13 10

For Allowances to retired Chaplains and Allowances to Clergymen officiating with Forces at Home and Abroad, and Expences of Office of Chaplain General, &c.

128,468 14 10

For Medicines and Surgical Materials for Land Forces and Hospital Contingencies

25,289 6 8

For Allowances on the Compassionate List to Children of deceased Officers of Land Forces, and to Widows of Officers of said Forces not intitled to Pension, including Allowance as of His Majesty's Royal Bounty to several Officers, and to Relatives of certain deceased Officers

451,080 7 0

For Barrack Department in Ireland

267,214 3 0

For Commissariat Department in Ireland

16,547 3 11

For Allowances, Compensations and Emoluments in the Nature of Superannuation or retired Allowances

to Persons belonging to several Public Departments in Great Britain and Ireland in respect of their having held Public Offices of a Civil Nature

434,441 0 0

For Barrack Department in Great Britain

For the Year 1812.

1,396,446 17 9

For Commissary in Chief's Department

2,301,495 6 3

For Extraordinary Expences of Army not provided for

From 25th Dec. 1810, to 24th Dec. 1811.

5,200,000 0 0

For Extraordinary Expences of Army of Great Britain and Ireland

For the Year 1812.

S-XII

XII.

XII. 3,873,025 3 6

For Office of Ordnance for Land Service for Great Britain

For the Year 1812.

120,556 0 1

Ditto in 1810.

52,654 19 5

Ditto in 1811. '

72,989 8 0

For Office of Ordnance for Great Britain on Account of Allowances to Superannuated, &c. Officers, to Officers seconded, to Officers for good Services, to superannuated and disabled Men, and Pensions to Widows, &c. of deceased Officers, late belonging to Ordnance Military Corps

For the Year 1812.

5,757 3 10

Ditto not provided for in the Year 1811.

19,827 15 0

For Allowances, &c. in the Nature of superannuated or retired Allowances to Persons late belonging to Office of Ordnance in Great Britain in respect of their having held any Public Offices or Employments of a Civil Nature, and also for Widows Pensions

For the Year 1812.

370 12 0

Ditto not provided for in the Year 1811.

459,885 18 2

For Office of Ordnance for Ireland

For the Year 1812.

12,260 13 10

Ditto on Account of Pay of retired Officers of late Irish Artillery and Pensions to Widows of deceased Officers of the same

2,819 18 1

For Allowances, &c. in the Nature of superannuated or retired Allowances to Persons late belonging to Office of Ordnance in Ireland in respect of their having held any Public Offices or Employments of a Civil Nature, and also for Widows Pensions

S-XIII

XIII.

XIII. 10,500,000 0 0

For discharging outstanding Exchequer Bills under

51 G 3. c. 3.

S-XIV

XIV.

XIV. 1,500,000 0 0

Ditto

c. 4.

S-XV

XV.

XV. 8,000,000 0 0

Ditto for the Service of the Year 1811.

c. 85.

S-XVI

XVI.

XVI. 5,303,700 0 0

Ditto

c. 53.

S-XVII

XVII.

XVII. 1,382,000 0 0

Ditto

c. 54.

S-XVIII

XVIII.

XVIII. 2,647,900 0 0

Ditto

c. 112.

S-XIX

XIX.

XIX. 1,000,000 0 0

Irish Currency for discharging Treasury Bills under

c. 5.

S-XX

XX.

XX. 216,666 13 4

Ditto

c. 88.

S-XXI

XXI.

XXI. 22,316 19 0

To make good like Sum issued pursuant to Addresses of the House of Commons, not made good by Parliament.

S-XXII

XXII.

XXII. 2,536 17 0

Ditto.

S-XXIII

XXIII.

XXIII. Civil Establishments, viz .

3,400 0 0

Bahama Islands

From 1st Jan. to 31st Dec. 1812.

1,030 0 0

Bermudas or Somer's Islands

600 0 0

Dominica

8,450 0 0

Upper Canada

10,965 0 0

Nova Scotia

5,600 0 0

New Brunswick

2,060 0 0

Cape Breton

3,100 0 0

Prince Edward Island

3,971 0 0

Newfoundland

14,020 0 0

Sierra Leone

11,701 5 0

New South Wales

25,000 0 0

For Forts on Coast of Africa during 1811, 1812.

S-XXIV

XXIV.

XXIV. 20,000 0 0

For American Loyalists

12,000 0 0

For Touloneze and Corsican Emigrants

8,000 0 0

For Saint Domingo Sufferers

3,800 0 0

For Dutch Emigrants

123,152 3 0

For Clergy and Laity of France

3,411 16 0

For Emigrants in Jersey and Guern...

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