Special Report from the Select Committee on the Public Works Loans Acts Amendment Bill and Public Works Loans Acts Consolidation Bill, Consolidated Into the Public Works Loans Bill: Together with the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, Appendix and Index. Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed, 26 July 1875

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Page 606 - Kingdom shall be paid into the receipt of Her Majesty's exchequer in such manner as the treasury may direct, and shall be carried to and form part of the consolidated fund of the United Kingdom; and all penalties recovered in any British possession shall be paid over into the public treasury of such possession, and form part of the public revenue thereof.
Page 614 - ... deemed to have been served and received respectively at the time when the letter containing the same would be delivered in the ordinary course of post, and in proving such service or sending it shall be sufficient to prove that it was properly addressed and put into the post...
Page 613 - That all and every sum and sums of money which shall be paid into the Bank of England to the account of the Commissioners for...
Page 614 - If a statute is not referred to the Universities Committee, then, within one month after the expiration of the time for petitioning against it, the statute shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament, if Parliament is then sitting, and if not, then within fourteen days after the next meeting of Parliament.
Page 41 - Commissioners of the Treasury, be necessary, in order to enable the loan to be made without loss to the Exchequer : Provided : — "(1).
Page 609 - ... this Act shall be made payable to the use of Her Majesty, and may be recovered as a specialty debt due to the Crown, in like manner as if the security had been made in the form provided by the Act of the thirty-third year of the reign of Henry the Eighth, chapter thirty-nine ; but no person shall be liable for any larger sum than that which he is expressed to be bound to pay. Every sum payable in respect of a loan granted by the Loan Commissioners (either before or after the passing of this Act)...
Page 43 - Section 40 there is a definition of the term "permanent works," and the definition is this : " The words ' permanent works ' in the Local Government Act, 1858, shall include any works the cost of which, in the opinion of the Local Government Board, ought to be spread over a term of years.
Page 614 - Certificates, notices, requisitions, orders, precepts, and all documents required by this Act to be served or sent may, unless otherwise expressly provided, be served and sent by post, and till the contrary is proved, shall be deemed to have been served and received respectively at the time when the letter containing the same would be delivered in the ordinary course of post ; and in proving such service or sending it shall be sufficient to prove that the letter containing the certificate...
Page 612 - ... respective chairs or professorships thereof, subject in all cases to the approval of the Governors. 8. The legislature shall have power from time to time to modify and control the powers conferred by this act. 9. The acts heretofore passed in relation to Dalhousie College are hereby repealed, except the act passed in the fourth year of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, entitled, "An Act authorizing the lending a sum of money to the Governors of Dalhousie College, and for securing the repayment...
Page 42 - ... three and a half per cent per annum, or such higher rate as may in the judgment of the Treasury be necessary to enable the loan to be made without loss to the Exchequer.

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