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Board of Trade Act 1817
(57 Geo 3 c.66, 7th July 1817)

An Act to amend an Act of the Twenty second Year of His present Majesty, for suppressing or regulating certain Offices therein mentioned, so far as relates to the Board of Trade; and for enabling the Vice President of the Board of Trade to send and receive Letters and Packets free from the Duty of Postage.
[7th July 1817.]

'WHEREAS an Act passed in the Twenty second Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act for enabling His Majesty to discharge the Debt contracted upon His Civil List Revenues, and for preventing the same from being in Arrear for the future, by regulating the Mode of Payments out of the said Revenues, and by suppressing or regulating certain Offices therein mentioned which are now paid out of the Revenues of the Civil List; And Whereas it is expedient to make Provision for enabling His Majesty to grant a competent salary to the Person holding the Office of Vice President of the Committee of Council appointed for the Consideration of Matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations, in consideration of the Duties and Responsibility attached to the said Office;' Be it therefore 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 it shall be lawful for His Majesty, by any Order or Warrant under His Royal Sign Manual, countersigned by the Lord High Treasurer, or by the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or any Three or more of them for the time being, to order and direct that the Vice President of the Committee of Council, appointed for the consideration of Matters relating o Trade and Foreign Plantations, for the time being, shall have a salary not exceeding Two thousand Pounds, to be paid and payable out of the Fee Fund of the Council Office; and such Office shall not, by reason of such salary being annexed thereto, be deemed a new Office: Provided always, that no such Order or Warrant, or Receipt of Salary under the same by the Person holding such Office at the time of passing this Act, shall make void the Election of any such Person, nor shall any new Writ issue for a new Election in consequence of any such Order or Warrant, or Receipt of Salary under the same; any thing in any Act or Acts to the contrary notwithstanding.

II. 'And Whereas by an Act passed in the Forty sixth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act to authorize certain Public Officers to send and receive Letters and Packets by the Post free from the Duty of Postage, certain Public Officers therein named were authorized to send and receive Letters by the Post free from the Duty of Postage in the United Kingdom, in the manner and under the Restrictions therein mentioned: And Whereas it is expedient that the Vice President of the Committee of Council appointed for the consideration of matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations should in like manner send and receive Letters and Packets by the Post free from Postage;' Be it therefore enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act it shall be lawful for the Vice President of the Committee of Council, appointed for the Consideration of Matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations, for the time being, to send and receive Letters and Packets by the Post free from the duty of Postage within the United Kingdom, in the same manner and under such Restrictions as the several Public Officers specified in the said recited Act are authorized by the Laws now in force to send and receive Letters and Packets free from Postage.