1811. 
‘ ber of his majesty’s most honourable 
. 
privy council, to bea member of the said 
council, to advise and assist her majesty 
as aforesaid, in the room and place of 
each and every of the said counsellors so 
departing this life, or declining to act as 
aforesaid; which nomination and ap- 
“pointment shall be forthwith certified by 
an instrument in writing, signed and seal- 
ed by her majesty, to the Jords of his ma- 
jesty’s most honourable privy council, 
and shall be entered in the books of the 
said privy council. 
15, And be it further enacted, that each 
and every member of her majesty’s coun- 
cil shall, within the space of 
after his appointment by virtue of this 
Act, or by virtue of her majesty’s nomi- 
nation and appointment, in manner afore- 
said, take the following oath, before the 
lord high chancellor or keeper of the 
great seal, or commissioners for keeping 
the great seal of Great Britain, or the 
Jord president of his majesty’s privy 
council, or the chief justice of the court 
of King’s Bench for the time being, re- 
spectly, or either of them, who are here- 
by 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 ad- 
ministering such oath, shall give to the 
member 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 :— 
** T, A. B. do solemnly promise and 
swear, that I will truly and faithfully 
_counsel and advise the Queen’s most excel- 
lent majesty, according to the best of my 
judgment, in all matters and things relat- 
ing to the trusts committed to her majesty, 
touching the care of his majesty’s royal 
“person.” 
16. The council to meet, and to declare 
the state of his majesty’s health; and trans- 
mitacopy to the president of the privy 
‘council, who shall publish a copy in the 
London Gazette. 
17. Hermajesty’s council may examine 
the physicians, and others in attendance, 
upon oath. 
18. Her majesty and council are to no- 
tify his majesty’s restoration to health, by 
instrument sent to the privy council: 
privy council then to be assembled, and 
the instrument entered. 
19. After such instrument, his majesty 
mnay, by sign manual, require the privy 
- council to assemble. 
20. If his majesty signify his pleasure 
“to require proclamation to issue, notifi- 
‘cation is to be sent to the lord mayor; 
“and powers of Act to cease, 
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21. In case of the death of the regent or 
her majesty, or of the resumption of the 
royal authority by his majesty, parlia- 
ment, if then adjourned or prorogued, 
shall meet and sit, or if parliament is dis- 
solyed, the members of last parliament 
shall meet and sit. 
22. The members of the two houses so 
meeting, to be deemed the two houses of 
parliament, but not to continue to sit lou~ 
ger than rAonths. 
23. Unless provision be made by. par- 
liament, in case of the death of the Queen, 
the care of his majesty’s person shall be 
vested in her majesty’s council; officers 
and persons of his majesty’s household, 
appointed by his majesty, not to be remo- 
ved by the regent, until provision relating 
thereto be made by parliament. 
24, The election of members void by 
the appointment to office by the regent or 
her majesty. 
25. Letters patent and of privy seal, 
and other lawful authorities for issues 
from the civil list, to her majesty and 
branches of the royal family, to continue 
in full force during the regency, and war- 
rants to be issued accordingly. 
26. And be it further enacted, that the 
lord high treasurer, er lords commission- 
ers of his majesty’s treasury, shall direct, 
and they are hereby required annually to 
direct, on or before the 
the sum of sixty thousand pounds 
to be issued ont ofthe monies of the civil 
list revenues, to the keeper of his majes- 
ty’s privy purse for the time being; and 
that the said keeper of his majesty’s privy 
purse shall, aud he is hereby authorized 
and directed, during the continuance of 
the regency by this Act established, to is- 
sue and apply the sum of in the 
year, in such half-yearly or quarterly 
payments, to such persons, and in such 
manner, as he has issued and applied the 
same by the authority and direction of 
his majesty ; and that he shall pay, and 
he is hereby authorized aud directed to 
pay the sum of at the expi- 
ration of each and every quarter, to such 
person as her most excellent majesty the 
Queen shall, by any instrument signed 
and sealed by her majesty, authorize and 
direct to receive the same, to be by. her 
majesty’s direction applied in such gifts, 
charities, and allowances, as to her ma- 
jesty may judge the same would have 
been applied to by his majesty; and 
that the remainder of the aforesaid sum 
should be invested by the said keeper. of 
his 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 nett surplins 
of the revenues of the duchy and county 
palatine of Lancaster, shall be from time 
to 
