Civil List Act 1837

VIII Mode of appropriating the Monies issued.

And whereas by the said recited Act of the Twenty-second Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third it was enacted that the Commissioners of the Treasury should draw out a Plan for the Establishments and Payments of the Civil List Revenues in Classes according to the Order mentioned in the said Act, and that all Sums of Money which should become due and payable out of the said Civil List Revenues for any of the Purposes mentioned in the said Act should be paid in the Order and according to the Plan therein mentioned; and it is expedient to alter the said Classes so as to confine the same to the Expences of Her Majesty's Household, and the Honour and Dignity of the Crown, and to specify the Amount to be appropriated to each Class; and for this Purpose an Estimate has been laid before Parliament of the future Amount of Charges on the several Classes so altered, which Amount for each Class respectively is specified in the Schedule to this Act; be it therefore enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Lord High Treasurer, or the Commissioners of the Treasury for the Time being, or any Three or more of them, and they are hereby required at the Commencement of every Quarter, or within Thirty Days from the Commencement of each Quarter, by Warrant under their Hands, to direct what Sums shall respectively be set apart and appropriated in the Receipt of Her Majesty's Exchequer, out of the quarterly Revenues of the Civil List, for the Purpose of defraying the several Charges upon, the respective Classes thereof; but so as that the Sum to be appropriated to any One Class do not exceed One Fourth Part of the estimated annual Amount of that Class as specified in the Schedule to this Act, together with any Saving which may have accrued upon the said Class in the preceding Quarter ; and the several and respective Sums in the said Warrant directed to be set apart and appropriated shall be so set apart by the Comptroller General of Her Majesty's Exchequer, and be appropriated to the respective Classes accordingly; and each and every Sum so set apart and appropriated shall in the first place be applied in Payment of all the unsatisfied Charges of every Description of the Class in respect of which such Appropriation shall have been made in preference to any other Charges whatever upon Her Majesty's Civil List Revenues; and no Part thereof shall, on any Account whatever, be applied until after the Termination of each Year ending on the Thirty-first Day of December, for any other Purpose, or in aid of any other of the Classes of the Civil List, or of any other of the Charges thereon, any thing contained in the said recited Act of the Twenty-second Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, or any other Act, to the contrary notwithstanding.