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Civil List Act 1785

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 1 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Anno Regni GEORGII III. vicesimo quinto. An Act to authorise the Lord Steward of the Household, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, the Master of the Robes, and the Lords of the Treasury, respectively, to pay Bounties granted by his Majesty to Persons in low and indigent Circumstances.

(25 Geo. 3) C A P. LXI.

'WHEREAS several Servants of his late and present Majesty have been discharged from the Employments they held severally, in the Departments of the Lord Steward, Lord Chamberlain, Master of the Horse, and Master of the Robes, and the Offices of other Persons in the said Departments have been suppressed; to which Servants and other Persons, who have been so discharged, or whose Offices have been so suppressed, his Majesty was graciously pleased to command, that certain Allowances should be paid quarterly, under the Name of aBounty: And whereas his Majesty has been graciously pleased to add to the Lists of the Persons above mentioned, in the respective Departments aforesaid, sundry Persons who have been Officers or Servants, and have been disabled or superannuated in his Service, and, in some Cases, the Widows or Children of Servants dying in his Service: And whereas his Majesty has yearly, and every Year, been graciously pleased to grant the Sum of one thousand two hundred Pounds, to be distributed in small Sums among such Female Objects in Distress, as the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury should, from Time to Time, direct: And whereas, by an Act passed in the twenty-second Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled, ; sundry Offices have been suppressed and abolished, but the Holders or Occupiers of many of the said Offices have, under the Authority of the said Act, been allowed Compensations, which, under the Direction of the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, have been paid quarterly by the proper Officers appointed for that Purpose within the respective Departments of the Lord Steward of the Household, Lord Chamberlain, Master of the Horse, and Master of the Robes: And whereas it is, among other Things, by the said recited Act enacted, That no Pension whatsoever, on the Civil Establishment, shall thenafter be paid but at the Exchequer, and in the same Manner as those Pensions which were then paid and entered at the Exchequer under the Head, Title, and Description ofPensions ; and, for the better Prevention of all Practices, by which such Grants as of Bounty might be made a Colour under which Pensions...

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