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10 G. 4. c. 50.
2 & 3 W. 4. c. 1.
Annual Reports of Commissioners of Woods to be made up to 31st March instead of 5th January in every Year.
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VIII. ‘And whereas by an Act passed in the Tenth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to the Management and Improvement of His Majesty’s Woods, Parks, and Chases, of the Land Revenue of the Crown within the Survey of the Exchequer in England, and of the Land Revenue, of the Crown in Ireland, and for extending certain Provisions relating to the same to the Isles of Man and Alderney, it was amongst other things enacted, that the. Commissioners for the Time being of His Majesty’s Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues should and they were thereby required, within Thirty Days after the Commencement of the Session of Parliament which should be in the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty, and also within Thirty Days after the Commencement of the first Session, of Parliament in every following Year, (without any special or other Requisition to be made to them for that Purpose,) to certify, and report in Writing under their Hands and Seals to the King’s most Excellent Majesty and both Houses of Parliament what Leases, Sales, Purchases, and Grants should have been made during the Year preceding the Fifth Day of January One thousand eight hundred and thirty, and during each subsequent Year comprised in each Report, and also the other, Matters and Things therein mentioned relating to the Possessions and Land Revenues of the Crown which had been granted or done by them as therein is mentioned, and also a Statement of the Income and Expenditure of the Monies which should have arisen from the Possessions and Land Revenues of the Crown to which that Act related, and of any other Monies placed under the Management of the said Commissioners during the Period comprised in each Report: And whereas by an Act passed in the Second Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act for uniting the Office of Surveyor General of His Majesty’s Works and Public Buildings with the Office of the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, and for other Purposes, His Majesty was authorized to appoint, in the Place of the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, and of the Surveyor General of His Majesty’s Works and Buildings, Three Persons for performing the Duties and exercising the Powers then performed and exerciseable by the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, and the Duties and Powers then performed and exerciseable by the Surveyor General of His Majesty’s Works and Buildings, to be called “The Commissioners of His Majesty’s Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings:” And whereas by reason that the Accounts of other Departments of the Public Service are made up to the Thirty-first Day of March in each Year it is expedient that the aforesaid Accounts and Statements of the Commissioners of Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings should also be made up to the Thirty-first Day of March in every Year, and that the Lord High Treasure or Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury should be empowered to make from Time to Time such Regulations as they may think convenient with respect to the Manner in which the Accounts and Payments of or to or on account of the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings shall be kept and made.’ Be it therefore enacted, That the annual Report by the said recited Act of the Tenth Year of His late Majesty King George the Fourth directed to be made within Thirty Days after the Commencement of every Session of Parliament shall hereafter be made, according to the Terms and Provisions of the said Act, within Three Calendar Months after the Thirty-first Day of March in every Year, instead of within Thirty Days after the Commencement of every Session of Parliament, and that the next annual Report shall be made of all Matters and Things as from the Fifth Day of January last up to the Thirty first Day of March next, and in all respects, except as regards the Time of making such Report, as by the said recited Act is directed and provided; and that in each of such annual Reports as aforesaid a Statement of all Debts or Debts incurred by the said Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings, and the Amount of Interest due on such Debt or Debts, shall be laid before Parliament.
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