70 
to.time paid, under the order of the chan- 
cellor and council of the said duchy, into 
the hands of the keeper of his majesty’s 
privy purse, whose receipt shall be asuf- 
ficient discharge for the same, and shall 
by him be invested in some of the public 
funds or government securities, ta manner 
aforesaid. } 
27. The keeper of the privy purse to 
take an oath before the barons of the ex- 
chequer. 4 
28. Provides for the care of his majes- 
ty’s veal and personal estate and proper- 
ty, under act 39 and 40 Geo. III. c. 88. 
The new clauses introduced ia the com- 
mittee were two, viz. 
‘“* And be it further enacted, that the 
said regent shall, at the time of his taking 
such oaths as aforesaid, and before the 
members of the privy council administer- 
ing the same, make, subscribe, and audi- 
bly repeat the declaration mentioned in 
an Act made in the 30th year of king 
Charles the Second, intituled, ** An Act 
for the more effectual preserving the 
king’s person and government, by dis- 
abling papists from sitting in either house 
of parliament ;” and shall produce acer- 
tificate of his having received the Sacra- 
ment of the Lord’s Supper in any of the 
royal chapels, signed by the person admi- 
nistering the same. 
The’ other clause gives power to the 
prince to dispose in the usual regular way 
of the droits of the crown and droits of the 
Admiralty. 
The following is the manner in which 
the principal blanks have been filled up : 
‘© Restrictions on the regent to continue 
nntil after the Ist day of February 1812, 
if parliament shall be then assembled, and 
shall have been sitting for six weeks im- 
mediately previous to the said Ist day of 
February 1812; or if parliament shall be 
then assembled, but shall not have been 
so sitting for six weeks, then until the ex- 
piration of six weeks after parliament 
shall have been so assembled and been 
sitting ; or if parliament shall not then 
de ass¢mbled, then until the expiration of 
six weeks after parliament shall have 
heen assembled and sitting, next after the 
said Ist day of February. 
“« Her majesty to nominate and appoint, 
gn case of any vacancies arising by resig- 
siation or death, all the officers and per- 
zons belonging to his majesty’s household, 
in the respective departments thereof, 
avhose appointment, nomination, or re- 
moval, have heretofore been made by his 
majesty ; except the lord chamberlain of 
his majesty’s heuschold, and the genile- 
men and grooms of his majesty’s bed- 
chamber, his majesty’s equerries, the cap- 
tain of the yeomen of his majesty’s guard, 
and the captain of the honourable band of 
gentlemen pensioners; and the nomina- 
fion and appointment by her majesty, in 
State of Public Affairs in January. 
[Feb. 1, — 
manner and form aforesaid, shall be ~ 
valid and effectual to all intents and 
purposes as if the same had been made 
or done by his majesty in the accus- 
tomed manner; and the several per- 
sons so appointed shall be entitled to the 
like precedence, privileges, salaries, 
waxes, profits, and all other emoluments, 
as the several persons now holding and 
enjoying the same offices are respectively 
entitled to: provided always, that the 
power and authority given by this Act to 
her majesty, to nominate and appoint 
such persons of his majesty’s household as 
are not hereinbefore excepted, shall con- ~ 
tinue in force until the lst day of Febru- 
ary, or the expiration of six weeks as 
aforesaid, and no longer: provided also, 
‘that her sail majesty shall not have-any 
power or authority to remove any officer 
in any department of his majesty’s house- 
hold, by this Act made subject to the no- 
mination or appointment of her majesty, 
who shall have been nominated,and ap- 
pointed by his majesty: provided also, 
that until the expiration of such period as 
aforesaid, no appointment shall be made 
to the office of lord chamberlain of his 
majesty’s household, now vacant, but that 
all the duties of the said office shall be 
performed by the viee-chamberlain;, and 
that during such period as aforesaid, no 
person holding the office of gentleman of 
his majesty’s bedchamber, or being.one of 
his majesty’s equerries, or groom, shall® © 
be subject to be removed: and no vacan- 
cy which shall arise by death or resigna- 
tion of any of the grooms or gentlemen of 
his majeSty’s bedehawber, shall be sup- 
plied or filled up, or any appointment or 
nomination made to supply any such va~ 
cancy.”’ . 
Her majesty’s council to consist of 
Charles, lord archbishop of Canterbury 5 
Edward, lord archbishop of York; 
James, duke of Montrose; George, earl 
of Winchelsea and Nottingham; Heneage, 
earl of Aylesford ; John, lord Eldon; Ed- 
ward, lord ENienborough; and the right 
hon, Sir William Grant; and, in the event 
of the death of all or any of these, or of 
all or any of them declining to act, her 
inajesty to have power to appoint a suc~ 
cessor or successors from the list of privy 
counsellors, 
In the House of Lords, on Tuesday, 
Jan. 15, the lord chancellor stated, that 
as for certain causes his majesty could not 
be present, for the purpose of opening the 
session of parliament, acommission under 
the great seal had been-issued for that 
purpose. He therefore had, in the first 
instance, to move, that the house do ad- 
journ during pleasure, to afford their 
Jordships an opportunity to robe. Ac- 
cordingly the proceeding took place. 
On the resuming of the house, the arch- 
bishop of Canterbury, the lord chancel- 
lor, 
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