the execution of the trusts committed to her Majesty by this Act, shall, în case such trusts shall then be in force, meet on some day in the first week in April, 1811, and some day in the first week of every third month thereafter; and shall, whilst the said trusts shall continue in force, at every such meeting, declare the state of his Ma

Meetings respectively, and shall forthwith transmit a Copy of such Declaration to the President of his Majesty's most honourable Privy Council, or in his absence to one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, who shall thereupon cause the same to be inserted in the Books of the Privy Council.

XVI. And be it further enacted, That each and every member of her Majesty's Council shall, within the space of five days after his appointment by virtue of this Act, or by virtue of her Majesty's nomina-jesty's Health at the time of each of such tion and appointment in manner aforesaid, take an Oath before the Lord High Chancellor or Keeper of the Great Seal, or Commissioners for keeping the Great Seal of Great Britain, or the Lord President of his Majesty Privy Council, or the Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, for the time being respectively, or either of them, who are hereby severally and respectively required and empowered to administer the same, when required so to do by any person so appointed a member of her Majesty's Council as aforesaid; and the person administering such Oath, shall give to the member of her Majesty's Council taking the same, a Certificate of the same having been so taken, signed with his hand; which Certificate shall be forthwith transmitted to his Majesty's Privy Council, and entered in the Books of the said Privy Council; and such Oath shall be in the form following; (that is to say),

IA. B. do solemnly promise and swear, That I will truly and faithfully counsel and advise the Queen's most excellent Majesty, according to the best of my 'judgment, in all matters and things relating to the trusts committed to her Majesty, touching the care of his Majesty's Royal Person, and the resumption of the 'personal exercise of the Royal Authority by his Majesty.'

XVII. And be it further enacted, That her Majesty's Council, or any three or more of them, shall have power and authority at all times, when they shall judge it necessary, to meet, and call before them, and to examine upon oath, the Physicians and all other persons attendant on his Majesty, during the continuance of his Illness, touching the state of his Majesty's Health; and all matters relating thereto; (which Oath any member of the said Council is hereby authorized and empowered to administer ;) and to ascertain the state of his Majesty's Health, by all such other ways and means as shall appear to them to be necessary for that purpose.

XVIII. And be it further enacted, That three or more of the members of the Council appointed to assist her Majesty in

XIX. And whereas it is necessary that effectual provision should be made that his Majesty may resume the personal exercise of his Royal Authority, as soon as his Majesty is restored to such a state of health as to be capable of resuming the same; Be it therefore enacted, That when it shall appear to her Majesty the Queen, and to any four or more of the Council appointed by this Act to assist her Majesty in the execution of the trust committed to her Majesty by this Act, assembled at any meeting held in pursuance of her Majesty's Royal Will and Pleasure signified for that purpose, or assembled under the direction of this Act, or in pursuance of his Majesty's Royal Will and Pleasure signified to her Majesty and her Council for that purpose, which Council of her Majesty is hereby required to assemble in the presence of her Majesty, upon his Majesty's Royal Will and Pleasure being signified for that purpose, that his Majesty is restored to such a state of Health as to be capable of resuming the personal Exercise of the Royal Authority it shall and may be lawful for her said Majesty, by the advice of any four or more of her said Council, to notify the same by an Instrument under her Majesty's hand, and signed also by the said four or more of her Majesty's said Council, and addressed to the Lord President of his Majesty's most hon. Privy Council for the time being, or in his ab sence to one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State; and the said Lord President or Secretary of State shall and is hereby required, on the receipt thereof, to communicate the same to the said Regent, and to summon forthwith a Privy Council, and the members of his Majesty's most hon. Privy Council are here

by required to assemble in consequence | thereof, the Lords of his Majesty's most of such Summons; and the said Lord Pre- hon. Privy Council shall forthwith cause a sident, or in his absence the said Secretary Proclamation to be issued, in his Majesty's of State, is required, in the presence of name, under the Great Seal of the United any six or more Privy Counsellors so as- Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, desembled, to cause the said Instrument to claring the same: And if her Majesty the be entered on the Books of the said Privy Queen shall depart this life during the Council. time that the care of his Majesty's Royal Person shall be committed to her Majesty according to the provisions of this Act, the Regent shall forthwith order and direct a Proclamation, under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to be issued and published, declaring the same: And in case the Parliament in being at the time of the issuing of any Proclamation declaring the death of the Regent or of her Majesty, or at the time of the issuing of any Proclamation for the Resumption of the personal exercise of the Royal Authority by his Majesty, shall then be separated, by any adjournment or prorogation, such Parliament shall forthwith meet and sit.

XX. And be it further enacted, That if at any time after the said Instrument under the hand of her Majesty, and of four or more of her said Council, shall have been received and entered as aforesaid, his Majesty shall think proper, by an Instrument under his Sign Manual, to require the Lord President of his Majesty's most hon. Privy Council for the time being, or in his absence, one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, to summon a Council in his Majesty's presence, consisting of any number of persons not less than nine, whom his Majesty shall name, and who shall be or shall have been members of his Majesty's most hon. Council, not being members of her Majesty's Council, the said Lord President or Secretary of State shall and he is hereby required to summon such persons accordingly; and as well the said Lord President or Secretary of State, as the other persons so summoned, shall and they are hereby required to attend at the time and place appointed by his Majesty; and such persons so assembled shall be and be deemed a Privy Council for the purpose herein-after mentioned.

XXI. And be it further enacted, That if his Majesty by the advice of six or more of such Privy Council so assembled, shall signify his Royal Pleasure to resume the personal exercise of his Royal Authority, and to issue a Proclamation declaring the same, such Proclamation shall be issued accordingly, countersigned by the said six or more of the said Privy Council, and all the Powers and Authorities given by this Act shall from thenceforth cease and determine, and the personal exercise of the Royal Authority by his Majesty, shall be and be deemed to be resumed by his Majesty, and shall be exercised by his Majesty, to all intents and purposes, as if this Act had never been made.

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XXIII. Provided always, and be it fur ther enacted, That in case any such Proclamation as aforesaid shall issue in any or either of such cases as aforesaid, at any time subsequent to the dissolution or expiration of a Parliament, and before the day appointed by any Writs of Summons then issued for assembling a new Parliament, then and in such case the last preceding Parliament shall immediately convene and sit at Westminster, and be a Parliament to continue during the space of six months and no longer, to all intents and purposes, as if the same Parliament had not been dissolved or expired, but subject to be sooner prorogued or dissolved: Provided also, that if any such Proclamation as aforesaid shall issue in any or either of such cases as aforesaid upon or at any time after the day ap pointed by any Writs of Summons then issued for calling and assembling a new Parliament, and before such new Parliament shall have met and sat as a Parliament, such new Parliament shall immediately after such Proclamation convene and sit at Westminster, and be and be deemed to be a Parliament in being to all intents and purposes under the provisions of this Act.

XXIV. And be it also enacted, That in case of the death of her Majesty the Queen, the Care of his Majesty's Royal Person, and all and every the Powers and Authori ties in and by this Act vested in her Majesty touching the care of his Majesty's Royal 4 D

Majesty's Privy Purse in some of the public funds, or Government Securities, in the name of the Keeper of his Majesty's Privy Purse for the time being, in trust for his Majesty; and that the next surplus of the Revenues of the Duchy and County Palatine of Lancaster shall be from time to time paid under the

his Majesty's Privy Purse, by virtue of 'an Act intituled, An Act [here insert the Title of this Act], between the first day of January

and the first day of January

has been applied directly or indirectly for the benefit, use, or behoof of any Member of the House of Commons,

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directly or indirectly, to the purpose of Privy Purse, supporting or procuring an interest in sufficient dis-any Place returning Members to ParliaSo help me God.' XXIX. And whereas an Act passed in the 39th and 40th years of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act concerning the disposition of certain

jesty, his heirs and successors, and also the real and personal Property of her Majesty, and of the Queen Consort for the time being:' and whereas it is necessary that provision should be made for the care of the real and personal Estate and Property of his Majesty, during his indisposition, and for the preservation thereof for the use and future disposal of his Majesty; be it therefore enacted, That all persons having the care or ma

Order of the Chancellor and Councilor, so far as I am concerned, applicable, of the said Dachy, into the hands of the Keeper of his Majesty's whose receipt shall be a charge for the same, and shall by him be invested in some of the public Funds or Government Securities, in manner aforesaid; and that the Governor and Company of the Bank of England shall place the said several sums on an Ac-real and personal Property of his Macount to be raised in the Books of the said Governor and Company intituled, "The Account of the Keeper of his Majesty's Privy Purse;" and that upon the death or resignation of the present and every other Keeper of his Majesty's Privy Purse hereafter to be appointed, all and every the said stock or stocks and sum or sums of money arising from the dividends which shall accrue thereon, shall immediately vest in the successor of the present or any future Keeper of his Management of his Majesty's real or personal jesty's Privy Purse respectively, and the Keeper of his Majesty's Privy Purse for the time being is hereby required to lay out and invest the dividends so accruing as aforesaid from time to time, in the purchase of other Stocks and Securities on the like account, and that the Keeper of his Majesty's Privy Purse for the time being, shall from time to time execute Declarations of Trust of all such Funds and Securities, declaring that the same are held in trust for his Majesty, by instruments to be executed under his hand and seal, to be deposited with her Majesty.

XXVIII. Provided always, and be it enacted, That the said Keeper of his Majesty's Privy Purse, and such person so to be appointed as last aforesaid by her Majesty, shall on or before the first day of January 1812, and on or before the first day of January in every succeeding year during the continuance of this Act, respectively take an Oath before the Barons of the Court of Exchequer, or one of them, in the form following:

IA. B. do swear, That according to the best of my knowledge, belief, or information, no part of the money which has been issued to me for the service of

Estate or Property, or any part thereof, now vested in any trustees for the use of his Majesty, shall be and are hereby made and declared to be subject to the controul, order, direction, appointment, and removal of the several and respective trustees of the real and personal Estate and Property of which they are respectively in the care and management; and shall from time to time, and whenever required so to do account to the respective trustees of the several and respective parts of the real and personal Estate and Property of which they so have the care and management, for all the rents, issues, profits, dividends, interest and sums of money arising or accruing the reform respectively; and shall apply, pay over, lay out, invest, or otherwise dispose of the same, for the use of his Majesty, in such manner as shall be from time to time ordered and directed by such trustees respectively and as to such trustees shall appear most adviseable and beneficial for the care and improvements of such real and personal Estate and Property, and the preservation thereof, for his Majesty's use and future disposal: and all the real and personal Estate and Property of his Majesty, in relation to which no disposition shall have

his illness; and all such real and personal Estate and Property, and rents, issues, profits, produce, dividends, interest, and sums of money aforesaid, arising and accruing therefrom, whereof no disposition shall have been made by his Majesty before his illness, shall, if no disposition thereof shall hereafter be made by his Majesty, go and be disposed of according to law: Provided always, that nothing in this act contained shall be construed to invalidate or in any manner to affect any disposition which shall have been made, or which shall hereafter be made, by his Majesty, by deed, will, or otherwise, of any such property or proceeds thereof as aforesaid, either before or after his Ma

would be a good and valid disposition of such Property, if this act had not passed.

been made by his Majesty before his illness and which shall not now be vested in any trustee or trustees for his Majesty's use, shall immediately from and after the passing of this act vest in the Queen's most excellent Majesty, his Royal Highness, the Regent, and the Keeper of his Majesty's Privy Purse for the time being, as trustees thereof, for the use of his Majesty, and for the protection and care thereof during his Majesty's Illness, and preservation thereof for his Majesty's use and future disposal; and her said Majesty, and his said Royal Highness the Regent, and the Keeper of his Majesty's Privy Purse, may appoint a Secretary and such other persons as may appear to them to be necessary for the management of and keep-jesty's illness, which would have been or ing the Accounts of the said trust, with such salaries to be paid out of the proceeds of the trust property, as may appear to the said trustees to be proper; and all persons in the care and management of any real or personal Estate or Property, so vested in such trustees as last aforesaid, under this Act, shall in like manner as aforesaid be subject to the order, controul, direction, appointment, or removal of such trustees as last aforesaid, and shall account to such trustees in like manner as is herein before directed, in relation to such real and personal Estate and Property as was vested in trustees before the passing of this Act; and shall in like manner aforesaid apply, pay over, lay out, invest, or otherwise dispose of the rents, issues, profits, dividends, interests, and sums of money arising or accruing therefrom respectively, according to the order and direction of such trustees as aforesaid: Provided always, that all dividends arising from any Public Funds or Securities shall be from time to time invested and laid out in the purchase of other like Funds or Public Securities, unless any other order or direction shall be given by the trustees thereof respectively and all trustees in whom any real or personal Estate or Property was vested, before the passing of this Act, or in whom the same is vested by the provisions of this act, shall hold all such Estates and Property for the use and benefit of his Majesty, and preserve the produce thereof, and of all rents, issues, profits, dividends, interest and sums of money, arising and accruing therefrom, for his Majesty's use and benefit, and for the future disposal of his Majesty, in case no disposition shall have been made thereof by his Majesty before

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XXX. And whereas his Majesty hath been accustomed from time to time, by the advice and on the recommendation of the Commissioners of the Treasury, to make grants out of the Droits of the Crown and of the Admiralty to persons concerned or interested in the capture of any vessels and cargoes, or other property, condemned to or becoming vested in his Majesty, as Droits of the crown or of the Admiralty, or to persons praying for relief as of his Majesty's Bounty in any cases of damage or injury sustained by them on account of or in any manner connected with any capture or prize, or occasioned by any engagement with ships of the enemy; be it therefore enacted, That the said Regent shall have full power and authority, by the advice and on the recommendation of the Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being, or any three or more of them, out of the Droits of the Crown or the Droits of the Admiralty, or any part or parts thereof, from time to time to make any such Grants to persons concerned or interested in the capture of any vessels or cargoes, or other property, which have been or may hereafter be condemned to or become vested in his Majesty as Droits of his Crown or of the Admiralty, or to any person or persons praying for relief in any cases of damage or injury sustained by or on account of any matter or thing arising out of or in any manner connected with capture or prize, or occasioned by any engagement with ships or vessels of the enemy, in such manner as his Majesty hath heretofore by the advice of the said Commissioners been accustomed to make any Grants of the same.