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Naval Compensations, etc. Act 1813

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Anno Regni GEORGII III. Britanniarum Regis,Quinquagesimo Tertio. An Act to explain an Act made in the Fiftieth Year of His present Majesty, for directing Accounts of Increase and Diminution of Public Salaries, Pensions and Allowances, to be annually laid before Parliament; and to regulate and controul the granting and paying of such Salaries, Pensions and Allowances.

(53 Geo. 3) C A P. LXXXVI.

[2d July 1813]

'WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Fiftieth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituledAn Act to direct that Accounts of Increase and Diminution of Public Salaries, Pensions and Allowances, shall be annually laid before Parliament; and to regulate and controul the granting and paying of such Salaries, Pensions and Allowances : And whereas it had been usual heretofore for His Majesty, by his Order in Council, to grant, under certain Circumstances, Compensations and Pensions to Persons in the Naval Departments, which Compensations and Pensions were placed on the Ordinary Estimate of the Navy, and therein brought under the annual Controul and Revision of Parliament: And whereas Doubts have arisen, whether the said Act does not interfere with and prevent the Exercise of the said Power of His Majesty in Council, except in certain Cases and under certain Conditions, in the said Act particularly specified:' To obviate these Doubts, 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 Authority of the same, That nothing in the said Actcontained shall extend or be construed to extend to prevent His Majesty in Council from granting such Compensation...

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