Civil List Act 1837

1837 CHAPTER 2

An Act for the Support of Her Majesty's Household, and of the Honour and Dignity of the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

[23d December 1837]

Most Gracious Sovereign,

WHEREAS an [1 G. 3. c. 1.] Act was passed in the Parliament of Great Britain in the First Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for the Support of His Majesty's Household, and of the Honour and Dignity of the Crown of Great Britain; and another [22 G. 3. c. 82.] Act was passed in the Twenty-second Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act for enabling His Majesty to discharge the Debt contracted upon the 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 another [25 G. 3. c. 61.] Act was passed in the Twenty-fifth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act to authorize the Lord Steward of the Household, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, the Master of the Robes, and the Lords of the Treasury respectively, to pay Bounties granted by His Majesty to Persons in low and indigent Circumstances; and another [27 G. 3. c. 13.] Act was passed in the Twenty-seventh Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty for the Purpose (among other things) of repealing the several Duties of Customs and Excise, and granting other Duties in lieu thereof, and for applying the said Duties, together with other Duties composing the Public Revenue; and another [33 G. 3. (I.).] Act was passed in the Parliament of Ireland, in the Thirty-third Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act for the Support of the Honour and Dignity of His Majesty's Crown in Ireland, and for granting to His Majesty a Civil List Establishment, under certain Provisions and Regulations; and another [56 G. 3. c. 46.] Act was passed in the Fifty-sixth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act for the better Regulation of the Civil List; and another [59 G. 3. c. 22.] Act was passed in the Fifty-ninth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act for the further Regulation of His Majesty's Household, and the Care of His Royal Person during the Continuance of His Indisposition ; and another [1 G. 4. c. 1.] Act was passed in the First Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for the Support of His Majesty's Household, and of the Honour and Dignity of the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ; and another [1 & 2 G. 4. c. 31.] Act was passed in the First and Second Years of the Reign of His said late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for removing Doubts as to the Continuance of the Hereditary Revenues in Scotland; and another [11 G. 4. & 1 W. 4. c. 51.] Act was passed in the First Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act to repeal certain of the Duties on Cider in the United Kingdom, and on Beer and Ale in Great Britain, and to make other Provisions in relation thereto; and another [1 W. 4. c. 25.] Act was passed in the First Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act for the Support of His Majesty's Household, and of the Honour and Dignity of the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland : And whereas by the said last-recited Act of the First Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty King William the Fourth it was enacted, that all the Hereditary Rates, Duties, Payments, and Revenues in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and other Hereditary Rates, Duties, and Payments as in the said Act mentioned, should be carried to and made Part of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and from and after the Decease of His said Majesty King William the Fourth the same should be payable and paid to His Majesty's Heirs and Successors: And whereas the said several Hereditary Rates, Duties, Payments, and Revenues now belong and are due and payable to Your most Excellent Majesty: And whereas Your Majesty has been graciously pleased to signify to Your faithful Commons in Parliament assembled, that Your Majesty placed unreservedly at their Disposal those Hereditary Revenues which were transferred to the Public by Your Majesty's immediate Predecessors, and that, desirous the Expenditure in this as in every other Department of the Government should be kept within due Limits, Your Majesty felt confident that Your faithful Commons would gladly make adequate Provision for the Support of the Honour and Dignity of the Crown : Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, with Hearts full of the warmest Duty and Gratitude, are desirous that a certain and competent Revenue for defraying the Expences of Your Majesty's Household, and supporting the Honour and Dignity of the Crown of the United Kingdom, during Your Majesty's Life (which God long preserve), may be settled upon Your Majesty, as a Testimony of our unfeigned Affection to Your sacred Person, by whose happy Succession to the Throne Your Majesty's Subjects have the strongest Assurance that the Religion, Laws, and Liberties of this Realm will be continued, and that Your Majesty's said Subjects and their Posterity may, through the Divine Goodness, enjoy every Blessing under Your Majesty's auspicious Reign, have therefore freely resolved to grant unto You, our most Gracious Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria, a certain Revenue payable out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and that the Produce of the said Hereditary Revenues now payable to Your Majesty should be carried to and form Part of the said Consolidated Fund :

And we do most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted ; and be it enacted by the Queen'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,