Civil List and Secret Service Money Act 1782
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1782 c. 82 |
| Year | 1782 |
(22 Geo. 3) C A P. LXXXII.
'WHEREAS his Majesty, from his paternal Regard to the Welfare of his faithful People, from his Desire to discharge the Debt on his Civil List, without any new Burthen to the Publick, for preventing the Growth of a like Debt for the future, as well as for introducing a better Order and Oeconomy in the Civil List Establishments, and for the better Security of the Liberty and Independency of Parliament, has been pleased to order, that the Office commonly called or known by the Name ofThird Secretary of State, or Secretary of State for the Colonies ; the Office or Establishment commonly known by the Name add Description of The Board of Trade and Plantations ; the Offices of Lords of Police in Scotland ; the principal officers of the Board of Works; the principal Officers of the Great Wardrobe; the principal Officers of the Jewel Office; the Treasurer of the Chamber; the Cofferer of the Household; the Offices of the six Clerks of the Board of Green Cloth; the Office of Paymaster of the Pensions; the Office of Master of the Harriers and Fox Hounds; and also the Office of Master of the Stag Hounds, should be suppressed:' Wherefore, for carrying his Majesty's said gracious order into Execution, may it please your Majesty that it may enacted; and be it enacted by the King'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 Authorityof the same, That, from and after the passing of this Act, the Office commonly called or known by the Name ofThird Secretary of State, or Secretary of State for the Colonies ; the Office or Establishment commonly called The Board of Trade and Plantations ; the Offices of the Lords and Gentlemen of Police in Scotland ; the principal Officers of the Board of Works; the principal Officers of the great Wardrobe; the principal Officers of the Jewel Office; the Treasurer of the Chamber; the Cofferer of the Household; the Offices of the six Clerks of the Board of Green Cloth; the Office of Paymaster of the Pensions; the Offices of the Master of the Harriers, the Master of the Fox Hounds, and the Master of the Stag Hounds; and all and every of the offices aforesaid, together with certain of the Offices dependent on or connected with the same, of which a List shall be entered in the Exchequer, by Certificate from the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, on or before the tenth Day of October , one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two (which List the said Lords Commissioners are hereby directed to cause to be entered as aforesaid), shall be, and are hereby utterly suppressed, abolished, and taken away.
II Any similar Office hereafter established, shall be deemed a new Office.
II. And it is hereby further enacted and declared by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Office of the same Name, Nature, Description, or Purpose, of those hereby abolished, shall be established hereafter, the same is and shall be deemed and taken as a new Office, to all Constructions, Intents, and Purposes whatsoever.
III Commissioners of the Treasury to pay all Money due on the Civil List on or before July 20, 1782.
'III. And, for the necessary Payment of Persons hitherto paid in any of the Offices by this Act suppressed, and the Execution of the Duty done or performed by the same;' be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury shall be, and they are hereby authorised and required to issue and pay, or cause to be issued and paid, all such Sum or Sums of Money as are or shall be due and owing to any Person or Persons, on account of his Majesty's Civil Government, on or before the twentieth Day ofJuly , one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, in the same Manner, and by the Persons who have last held the Offices by or under which the same have been usually issued and paid, or by such Persons as the Commissioners of the Treasury shall appoint and direct to pay the same.
IV Directions for carrying into Execution an oeconomical Plan, pursuant to his Majesty's gracious Intentions.
'IV. And whereas a new and oeconomical Plan is intended to be adopted and take place, pursuant to his Majesty's gracious Intentions, be it therefore enacted, That the Commissioners of the Treasury shall be, and they are hereby authorized and required to direct such Person or Persons as they shall think most fit and capable, to prepare, make up, and lay before them, for their Approbation, Methods accommodated to the several Reforms and Alterations in this Act made, and to appoint or continue in Office such Officers as they shall judge most fit and proper for carrying such Plans into Execution, under the Direction of the Lord Steward, Lord Chamberlain, Master of the Horse, and any other principal Officer, to whom the said Officers shall severally be subordinate; and the said Lord Steward, Lord Chamberlain, Master of the Horse, and such other principal Officer, shall regularly, within the Space of fifteen Days after each and every Quarter Day, make out, or cause to be made out, an Estimate of all the several Articles of Expence of his Majesty's Civil Government, within their distinct Departments; which shall, after being inspected, and approved by the said Lord Steward, Lord Chamberlain, Master of the Horse, and such other principal Officer, be presented to the said Commissioners of the Treasury; and which Estimate of Expence shall not be exceeded (except as is herein-after excepted and specially provided for) above five thousand Pounds, in any of those Departments in any one Year, without sufficient Reasons, to be produced to the said Commissioners of the Treasury, for increasing the same; and upon the Expiration of the Quarter, the said Commissioners of the Treasury shall direct to much of the Monies of the Civil List Revenues to be issued at the Receipt of the Exchequer to the said Lord Steward, Lord Chamberlain, Master of the Horse, or such other principal Officer, or to any Person or Persons appointed for that Purpose by the said Lord Steward, Lord Chamberlain, Master of the Horse, or such other principal Officer, with the Consent and Approbation of the Commissioners of the Treasury, as shall be sufficient to satisfy and pay the Whole of the Expence incurred in such Quarter, which shall be by him distributed to and among the several Persons who shall be intitled to receive the same.
V The Court of Virge, with all its lawful Jurisdiction and Powers preserved.
V. And be it enacted and declared, That the Abolition of the Office of the Clerks of the Green Cloth shall not extend, or be construed to extend, to take away, or in any respect to derogate from the Jurisdiction which may now be lawfully exercised by the Court commonly calledThe Court of Virge , or The Green Cloth , but that the same may be held and exercised; and it is hereby enacted, That the same shall be held and exercised, with all the accustomed lawful Jurisdiction, Powers, and Privileges belonging to the same, without any of the Clerks of the Green Cloth, whole Office is by this Act taken away; any Statute, Law, or Usage, to the contrary notwithstanding.
VI His Majesty's Buildings to be under the Direction of a Surveyor or Comptroller, to be appointed by his Majesty.
VI. And be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all his Majesty's Buildings which have been hitherto under the Management of the Board of Works, shall be under the Direction of some one Person, who shall be constituted and appointed by his Majesty, during his Royal Pleasure, Surveyor or Comptroller of his Majesty's Works (the said Surveyor or Comptroller beingbon side by Profession an Architect or Builder), with such Officers and Clerks under him as his Majesty shall from Time to Time direct and appoint.
VII The Royal Gardens to be under the Direction of a Surveyor or Comptroller, to be appointed by his Majesty.
VII. And be it enacted, That all the Royal Gardens shall be under the Direction of a Person who shall be appointed by his Majesty, during his Majesty's Pleasure, Surveyor or Comptroller of the King's Gardens, with such Gardeners and others under him, as his Majesty shall authorize and appoint (the said Surveyor of Gardens, in like Manner, being by Profession a Gardener, or Improver of Grounds): And the said Surveyors or Comptrollers of his Majesty's Works or Gardens, or either of them, during the holding of the said Offices, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be incapable of being elected into, or of sitting and voting in Parliament.
VIII Directions relative to the Execution of new Buildings or Repairs.
VIII. And be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the following Rule and Method shall hereafter be observed, with regard to all Works which might heretofore have been done by the Board of Works, for his Majesty's Service; (that is to say), That if his Majesty shall order any new...
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