Recited Act of 16 G.3. repeal ed; Corporation of Com

missioners and Governors dissolved ; and the Estates, &c.

vested in the Commissioners hereinafter named.

for the Benefit of the Hospital.

A.D. 1829. 'Interests: And Whereas it hath been deemed expedient that the said Corporation shall be dissolved and extinguished, and that all the Estates, Rights, and Interests heretofore vested in the said Corporation shall be for ever hereafter vested in the 'Commissioners hereinafter named, and their Successors, with 'certain Rights, Powers, and Authorities in relation thereto; and it hath also been deemed expedient that the Receipt, Payment, ⚫ and Management of Naval Prize Money and Pension shall be altogether separated and removed from the said Hospital, and 'from the Commissioners for administering the Affairs of the said 'Institution, and shall be transferred to and placed under the Management of the Treasurer of His Majesty's Navy:' 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 from and after the passing of this Act the said Act of the Sixteenth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty shall be and the same is hereby declared to be repealed; and that the Corporation of the Commissioners and Governors of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich in the County of Kent shall be and the same is hereby declared to be for ever dissolved and extinguished; and that immediately thereupon the Estates of the said Corporation shall vest and are hereby vested in the Commissioners hereinafter named, and their Successors (to be appointed as hereinafter mentioned), as the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital, with the Powers, Authorities, and Duties, and for the Purposes hereinafter declared.

Estates, &c. to II. Provided always, and be it enacted, That all and every the be held by the Estates and Property whatsoever which shall be by this Act vested Commissioners in the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital, and all Estates and Property whatsoever which may be hereafter vested in the said Commissioners as Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital, shall be for ever held by the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital for the Time being, and their Successors, to and for the Use and Benefit of the said Royal Hospital, in as full and ample a Manner as the Corporation of the Commissioners and Governors of Greenwich Hospital held the same; and all Rights, Powers, and Authorities heretofore possessed or exercised, or which might have been legally exercised by the said Corporation of the Commissioners and Governors of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich in the County of Kent, with respect to any of the Revenues or Rights of the said Hospital, and all Rights and Remedies for enforcing the same, shall (except as the same are hereby expressly limited or taken away) be possessed, exercised, and used by the said Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital for the Time being, and their Successors, in the Name of "The Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital," for the Benefit of the said Institution.

General Controul over the

Hospital, and over all Appointments therein, vested

in the Admiralty.

III. And be it enacted, That the Whole of the Affairs of the said Royal Hospital, and the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital hereby appointed, and their Successors, to be appointed as hereinafter directed, and all other the Officers and Persons appointed to the said Hospital, and to any Situations connected therewith, and to the Schools of the said Hospital, shall be under the Authority, Controul, and Direction of the Lord High Admiral, or Commissioners

missioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral for the Time being; and the Appointment of all Officers of the said Hospital, Civil and Military, (except of the Governor, LieutenantGovernor, and Commissioners of the said Hospital, who shall be appointed by His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors,) and the Appointment of the Chaplains thereof, and of the Rectors, Vicars, and Perpetual Curates of the Livings and Chapelries belonging or which may belong to the said Hospital, and the establishing of Rules, Orders, and Regulations for the Guidance of the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital, and their Successors, in the Management of the Estates and Property of the said Hospital, and the Admission of Officers, Pensioners, and Nurses into the said Hospital, and the Salaries to be paid to all such Officers and Persons respectively, shall be exercised by and vested in the Lord High Admiral, or Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral for the Time being, who shall have full Power to remove from the said Hospital, and from any Situation connected therewith, any Officer or other Person as aforesaid (except the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, and such Commissioners, Rectors, Vicars, and Curates as aforesaid,) who shall be guilty of any Misbehaviour in their said respective Situations or Offices.

IV. And be it enacted, That the Treasurer of His Majesty's Commissioners Navy now and for the Time being, and the First Commissioner appointed. of His Majesty's Woods and Forests now and for the Time being, shall always be Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital by virtue of their respective Offices (but shall receive no Salaries as such Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital); and that the said Treasurer of the Navy and First Commissioner of Woods and Forests, together with Vice Admiral Sir William Johnstone Hope, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, late One of the Commissioners and Governors and Treasurer of the said Royal Hospital, the Right Honourable George Lord Auckland, late One of the Commissioners and Governors and Auditor of the said Royal Hospital, and Edward Hawke Locker Esquire, late Secretary of the said Royal Hospital, shall be and they are hereby constituted and appointed the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital during His Majesty's Pleasure, and that they and their Successors, to be appointed as hereinafter is mentioned, shall be and be called "The Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital;" and the said Commissioners and their Successors shall be subject to such Rules and Regulations, and shall receive such Salaries out of the Funds of Greenwich Hospital (except as to the Treasurer of the Navy and First Commissioner of Woods and Forests, who shall not as Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital receive any Salary,) as shall be from Time to Time established and granted by the Lord High Admiral or Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral for the Time being.

V. And be it enacted, That when and so often as His Majesty, His Majesty His Heirs or Successors, shall at any Time hereafter be graciously may appoint pleased, by His or their Letters Patent, to appoint and nominate new Commisany Persons to be Commissioners for Greenwich Hospital, as the sioners. Successors of the Commissioners by this Act appointed by Name, or as the Successors of any Commissioners to be hereafter appointed by His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, the Persons

named

6 Ann. c.7.

Offices of Trea

ditor to cease.

named in such Letters Patent, together with the Treasurer of the Navy for the Time being, and First Commissioner of Woods and Forests for the Time being, shall to all Intents and Purposes be the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital, and shall be immediatelyinvested with all the Rights, Powers, and Authorities by this or any other Act given or to be given to the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital; and all the Estates, Baronies, Lordships, Manors, Advowsons, Messuages, Granges, Farms, Lands, Tithes, Mines, Meadows, Pastures, Feedings, Woods, Underwoods, Tenements, and Hereditaments, and Lighthouse Dues and Duties whatsoever and wheresoever, with their several Rights, Royalties, Members, and Appurtenances, together with all beneficial and other Leases, Funds, Fines, Mulcts, and other Monies accruing to the said Hospital, Legacies, Gifts, Annuities, Mortgages, Bonds, Rights, and Interests, shall immediately vest in the Persons so named and appointed as Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital, and their Successors, in as full and ample a Manner as the same are in this Act given to or vested in the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital named in this Act: Provided always, that no Person named and appointed in this Act as a Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital, being a Member of the House of Commons at the Time of the passing of this Act, and holding Office in the said Hospital, shall vacate his Seat by reason of such his Appointment, or of his holding the Place or Office of Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital: Provided also, that the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital for the Time being shall not be deemed and taken to have or hold any new Offices or Places of Profit within the Meaning of an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Anne, intituled An Act for the Security of Her Majesty's Person and Government, and of the Succession to the Crown of Great Britain in the Protestant Line.

VI. And be it enacted, That the Offices of Treasurer and Audisurer and Au- tor of the said Royal Hospital shall, after the passing of this Act, cease and be altogether discontinued, save and except as to the Accounts of the said Treasurer up to the Time of passing this Act, which the said Treasurer is hereby required to deliver and verify, and the Auditor of the said Royal Hospital to examine, audit, and certify, in the same Manner as hath been heretofore accustomed.

Officers to be selected from the Royal Navy.

Administration of Naval Prize

and Pension separated from the Hospital, and transferred

to the Treasurer of the Navy.

VII. And be it further enacted, That all Officers who shall be hereafter appointed to any Employment in the said Hospital, except the future Commissioners of the said Hospital, and the Clerk of the Works, shall be selected, as far as may be, from Persons who shall have served in His Majesty's Navy.

VIII. And be it enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act the Administration of Naval Prize Money and Pension shall be altogether separated and removed from the said Royal Hospital, and from the said Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital and their Successors; and the Per-centage heretofore payable out of all Prize Money, Grants, or Bounty, Bills, Droits, and out of other Monies of a like Nature, and the forfeited and unclaimed Shares of Prize Money, and the Grants made by Parliament for the Payment of Naval Out-Pensioners, shall be received by and payable to the Treasurer of His Majesty's Navy for the Time being, and the Payment thereof to the Parties entitled to the same shall be made

under

under the Authority and Directions of the said Treasurer of the Navy; and all Powers, Authorities, Rights, and Duties relating to Naval Prize and Out-Pension shall be and the same are hereby separated and removed from the said Royal Hospital and the Commissioners and Officers of the said Royal Hospital, and transferred to and for ever hereafter vested in the said Treasurer of His Majesty's Navy for the Time being; and the Treasurer of His Majesty's Navy shall and may enforce the rendering of Accounts by Prize Agents and other Persons, and Payment of Per-centage and Balances and Shares of Prize Money, in as full and ample a Manner as the Corporation of Greenwich Hospital and all or any of the Officers thereof might, up to the Time of passing this Act, have exercised the same; and all Agents and other Persons concerned in the Receipt or Payment of Prize or Pension Money, or in the rendering any Accounts relating to the same, shall be accountable to the Treasurer of the Navy, and shall be subject to all the Pains and Penalties for Neglect or Refusal to perform any of the said Duties as they were respectively subject to for like Neglects or Refusals previously to the passing of this Act.

IX. And Whereas there are now standing in the Books of the 'Governor and Company of the Bank of England the following Sums belonging to the said Corporation of Greenwich Hospital; that is to say, One million twenty-two thousand nine hundred ' and eighty-eight Pounds Ten Shillings Three per Centum Consolidated Bank Annuities, standing in the name of " The Corpora'tion being the Commissioners and Governors of the Royal Hospital 'at Greenwich ;" One million two hundred and seventeen thousand Pounds Three per Centum Reduced Bank Annuities, standing in the Name of "The Corporation being the Commissioners ' and Governors of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, "Kent;" One thousand and ninety-three Pounds Fifteen Shilings ' and Four-pence New Four per Centum Bank Annuities, standing in the Name of " The Corporation being the Commissioners ⚫ and Governors of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich ;" ' and Ninety-eight thousand six hundred and eleven Pounds Twelve Shillings and Nine-pence Three per Centum Reduced Bank Annuities, standing in the Name of "The Commissioners and Governors ' of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich :" And Whereas it is necessary, for the better Execution of the said Acts, that 'the said several Sums shall be transferred into the Name of "The 'Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital," for the Purposes of the 'said Institution, and to be subject to the Management and Controul of the said Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital, and their Successors, in Manner hereinafter mentioned; but by reason of "the Dissolution of the said Corporation there will be no Means ' of making such Transfer, or of receiving the Arrears of Dividends due or to grow due upon the said several Sums, without the Au

thority of Parliament;' Be it enacted, That the Governor and Stock now Company of the Bank of England shall and they are hereby standing in the required, immediately upon Notice given to them of the passing Name of the of this Act (by a Print of the said Act being left with the Secre- Corporation to tary of the said Governor and Company), to transfer, or cause to the Comthe Accountant General, Secretary, or Deputy Secretary of the missioners. said Governor and Company to transfer, the said several Sums

now

be transferred

How Stock

standing in the Name of Commissioners may

be sold out, and Dividends received.

Transfers.

now standing in the Books of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England as aforesaid into the Name of "The Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital."

X. And be it enacted, That as soon as the said several Sums shall have been so transferred into the Name of "The Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital," the said Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital and their Successors, or any Two or more of the said Commissioners for the Time being, of whom the Treasurer of the Navy for the Time being, or First Commissioner of Woods and Forests for the Time being, shall always be One, shall and may from Time to Time, by Power of Attorney under their Hands and Seals, sell or cause to be sold so much of such Stock, or of any other Stock hereafter to be standing in the Books of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England in the Name of the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital, as the said Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital and their Successors shall from Time to Time deem necessary for the Purposes of the said Institution; and also that the said Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital, and their Successors, or any Two or more of the said Commissioners for the Time being, of whom the Treasurer of the Navy for the Time being, or First Commissioner of Woods and Forests for the Time being, shall always be One, shall and may from Time to Time, by Power of Attorney executed in like Manner, receive or cause to be received, for the Use and Purposes of the said Institution, all such Dividends as are now due and in Arrear, or shall hereafter grow due upon the said Stock or Funds.

Governor and XI. And be it enacted, That the said Governor and Company Company of the of the Bank of England, and their Successors, shall be and they Bank indemni- are hereby held harmless and indemnified from and against all fied for making Claims and Demands of or by any Person or Persons, Body or Bodies Politic or Corporate, for or by reason or in consequence of the Transfer of the said several Sums herein-before authorized and directed to be transferred, or in any Manner respecting the same, or in consequence of any Sale or Transfer by or on Behalf of the said Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital, of any Stock which may at any Time be standing in the Name of the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital, or for or by reason or in consequence of the Payment by the said Governor and Company of the Bank of England of the Dividends herein-before authorized to be received by the said Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital and their Successors; and the said Governor and Company of the Bank of England shall not be required to see to the Application of the said Stock or Produce of Stock or Dividends, nor be in any Manner responsible for the Misapplication or Nonapplication thereof.

Powers of Attorney valid

XII. And be it enacted, That all or any Power or Powers of Attorney for transferring Stock or receiving Dividends, executed until others exas aforesaid, shall continue to be good, valid, and effectual (notecuted by Comwithstanding the issuing of any new Commission appointing Commissioners under new Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital), until a new Power of Attorney shall be executed for the like Purpose by the Commissioners under such new Commission, or any Two or more of them, in Manner herein-before directed.

mission.

XIII. And