2737 Commission signed ly the Lord Lieutenant of the Interest on Exchequer Bills. County of Somerset. - THE Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's . West Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry. Treasury having determined that the Exchequer Bills, issued under the authority of the following Francis Meade Eastment, Gent., to be Cornet, Acts of Parliament; viz.:— vice Reynolds, resigned. Dated 8th October, 15 Viet., cap 10, and 16 Viet., cap. 25 ; 1853. and which are now outstanding (except those on which the interest has ceased) shall on and after Whitehall, October 10, 1853. this day (llth October, 1853,) bear an interest of The Queen, taking into Her royal consideration two pence per diem : the holders of all such Ex- that upon the decease of Edward, Baron Skel- chequer Bills are to take notice; that whenever the mersdale, in the month of April last, the title and same shall be paid off, or shall, according to the • dignity of. Baron Skelmersdale devolved upon conditions of the said bills respectively, be received Edward now Baron Skelmersdale, a minor, as on account of any of the public revenues, aids, ,oply.;sj}n.and. heir of Richard Bbbtle-Wilbraham, taxes, on supplies, the aforesaid rate of interest of Esquire, who died in the year 1844, and who was two pence per centum per diem, will be allowed whilst living the eldest son and heir apparent of thereon, from and including the said llth day of the said Edward, Baron Skelmersdale, and that October, 1853. according to the ordinary rules of honour the Paymaster-General's Office, j sisters of the said Edward, Baron 'Skelmers'dale, llth of October, 1853. >• cannot enjoy that place and precedence which -would have been due to them in case their late Bristol and South Wales Junction Railway.- father, the said Richard • Bootle-Wilbraham, had OTICE is hereby given, that the Lords of .Survived his said .father, Edward," "Baron Skel- N the Committee of Her Majesty's Privy mersdale, and" had thereby succeeded to the title Council for Trade and. Foreign Plantations, by a find?-dignity of Baron Skelmersdale, Her Majesty warrant, bearing date the sixth day of October, has been graciously pleased tp ordain und declare 1853, and made in pursuance of the Abandonment that Adela Mary Bootle - Wilbraham, Jessy Caroline of Railways Act, 1850, have ordered and declared 'Bootle-Wilbraham, Edith Bootle-Wilbraham, and that the railways and branch railways by the Rose Bootle-Wilbraham, sisters of the said Edward Bristol and South Wales Junction Railway Act, now Baron Skelmersdale, shall henceforth have, 1846, authorised to be made, and in the'said war- hold, and enjoy the-same title, place, pre-eminence, rant, and hereinafter mentioned (that is' to say) : and precedence, as if their late father, the said A railway to commence by a junction with the Richard Bootle-Wilbraham, had survived his said Great Western Railway,, ia the parish of Saint •father, Edward, Baron Skelmersdale, and had Philip and Jacob, in the city and county .of the thereby succeeded to the title an.d dignity of city of Bristol, and to terminate in the parish 'of "Baron Skelmersdale : Henbury, in the county of Gloucester; and also And Her Majesty has been further pleased to a railway to. be .wholly, situate in the parish1 of command that the said royal order and declaration Portskewet, in the county of Monmoutb, and to be registered in Her College of Arms. terminate by a junction with the South Wales Railway; and also a branch railway to commence by a junction with the said first-mentioned rail- THE Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's way, in the parish of Almondsbury, in the said Treasury having certified to the Commissioners county of Gloucester, and to terminate at or near for the Reduction ;of the National Debt, in the Aust or Old Passage Ferry, in the said parish' pursuance of the Act, 10 Geo. 4, c. 27, 1 of Henbury ; .and all .works, buildings, and under- . sec. 1, .that -the actual surplus revenue of the takings, by the same Act, and by the Bristol and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, South Wales Junction Railway and Aust Ferry beyond the actual expenditure thereof for the year Act, 1847, authorized to be constructed or carried ended the 5th day of July, 1853, amounted to the on in connection with such railways and branch sum of three million five hundred and sixty-eight railway, or belonging thereto (being the whole thousand six hundred and twenty-four pounds railway and undertaking of the Bristol and South, sixteen shillings and eight pence; Wales Junction Railway Company), shall front: The Commissioners for the Reduction of the and after the day of the date of the .said Warrant National Debt "hereby give notice, that the sum be abandoned by the said Bristol and South Wales of eight hundred and'*" ninety-two thousahd one Junction Railway Company, subject to the provi- hundred and fifty-six pounds four.shillings and two sions in the Abandonment of Railways Act, 1850, pence'j being one-fourth part of the said surplus of contained, so far as the same are ^applicable, or in, three million five hundred and sixty-eight thousand anywise relate to the premises.' six hundred and twenty-four pounds sixteen And notice is hereby further' given, ihat all per- shillings and eight pence, will be applied under sons having any claims or demands upon" the said the provisions of-the said Act, between the IHh Bristol and South Wales Junction-Railway Com- day'of October, i'853, and the 5th day of January, pany for compensation 'or otherwise, by reason'of 1854, to the"following purposes ; viz.: the abandonment "of the hereinbeforermentioned To be applied towards the re- railways, branch railway, works, and undertakings, duction of the National Debt 892,156 4 ' 2 are hereby required t6 transmit the statement of Add Interest receivable on ac- such claims and demands to the Secretary of the count of Donations and Be- Bristol and South Wales Junction Railway Com- quests, to be applied to the pany, at the office of the said Company, at No. 12, purchase of Stock 2,512 3 1 Corn-street, Bristol, within four calendar months from the date of the said warrant. - .•• + .-.. • £894,668 7 3 Dated the seventh day of October, one thousand •eight hundred and fifty-three. ^ : . ;} .; National Debt'Office, October 8, 1853. George Shapland, Secretary to the Bristol , A. Y. Spearman, Comptroller-General. and South Wales Junction Railway Com- pany. A 2.