request, the Accountant-General of Our Navy, or examining officer, shall forthwith grant a certificate, signed by such officer, of the truth of any lists SO transmitted to the agents nominated or appointed by the captors or seizors; and also, upon application, the said Accountant-General, or examining officer, shall give, or cause to be given, to the said agents all such lists from the muster books of any such ships and vessels, and annexed lists, as the said agents shall find requisite for their direction in making distribution to the parties entitled to share in the produce of such captures and seizures, and the rewards conferred for the same, and shall be otherwise aiding and assisting to the said agents in all such matters as shall be necessary:

And We further direct, that in case any difficulty shall arise in respect to any of the regulations hereby proposed, and not herein provided for, or not sufficiently provied for, the same shall be referred to Our Lord High Admiral, or Our Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral for the time being, and their directions thereupon shall be considered as final, and have the same force and effect as if specially provided for in Our Royal Proclamation:

Provided always, that the distribution hereinbefore made, or directed to be made, shall not be construed to affect any captures or seizures made before the day of the date of this Our Royal Proclamation, nor any captures or seizures which shall be made after that day, and which shall be condemned or adjudged in any of Our Courts of Vice Admiralty, before notice of this Our Royal Proclamation shall have been received by the Court of Vice Admiralty in which such condemnation or adjudication shall pass; and We hereby further direct, that the proceeds of all such captures and seizures, made before the date of this Our Royal Proclamation, or which shall be made after that day,

and

and shall be condemed or adjudged in any of Our Courts of Vice-Admiralty, antecedent to the notice of this Our Royal Proclamation having been received in such Courts, together with all rewards aforesaid, shall continue to be distributed in the proportions and manner directed in and by Our said Royal Proclamation dated nineteenth March one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.

Given at Our Court at St. James's, this third day of February, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and in the sixth year of Our reign.

GOD save the KING.

By the KING.

A PROCLAMATION.

WILLIAM, R.

WHEREAS by an Act, passed in the fifty-sixth year of the reign of Our late Royal Father, His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled "An Act to provide for a new silver coinage, and to regulate the gold and silver coinage of the Realm," the Master and Worker of Our Mint, in London, was empowered to coin silver bullion into silver coins of the standard of eleven ounces and two pennyweights of fine silver, and eighteen pennyweights of alloy to the pound troy, and in weight after the rate of sixty-six shillings to the pound troy; and whereas We have thought fit to order that certain pieces of silver money should be coined to be called groats, or fourpences, and to be of the value, each, of one-third part of a shilling; and whereas, pursuant to Our said Order, and in virtue

of

of the power given by the said Act, a coinage of the said groats or fourpences, at the rate and of the standard aforesaid, has been made, and every such groat or fourpence has for the obverse impression, Our Effigy, with the inscription, "Gulielmus IIII. D. G. Britanniar. Rex F. D." and for the reverse, a figure of Britannia, holding the Trident with one hand, and having the other hand placed upon a shield, bearing the Union Cross, with the words "Four Pence" round the figure, and the date of the year in the exergue, and with a milled graining round the edge; and whereas, pieces of silver money of the above description have been coined at Our Mint, and will be coined there, in pursuance of Orders issued, and to be issued, by Us; We have, therefore, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, thought fit to issue this Our Royal Proclamation; and we do hereby ordain, declare, and command that the said pieces of money so coined, and to be coined, shall be current and lawful money of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and shall pass and be received as current and lawful money of the United Kingdom, by the names aforesaid, and at the value hereinbefore assigned to them.

Given at Our Court at Saint James's, this third day February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and in the sixth year of Our reign. GOD save the KING.

At

At the Court at St. James's, the 3d day of February 1836,

PRESENT,

The KING's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

SHERIFFS appointed by His Majesty in Council, for the Year 1836.

Bedfordshire,

Berkshire,

Francis Green, of Bedford, Esq.
William Bennett, of Faringdon-
House, Esq.

Buckinghamshire, Thomas Tyrwhitt Drake, of

Shardloes, Esq.

Norfolk,

George Rooke, of Llandogo,

Esq.

Anthony Hamond, of Westacre,
Esq.

Northamptonshire, William Harris, of Wootton-
House, Esq.

Northumberland, Thomas Riddell, of Felton-Park,

Esq.

Staffordshire,

Thomas Hawe Parker, of Park-
Hall, Esq.

County of South-Sir Charles Hulse, of Breamore,

ampton,

Suffolk,

Bart.

Edward Bliss, of Brandon,

Esq.

Sur