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Committee, with power to select their own Chairman, and having the direction and control, under such orders and regulations as may hereafter from time to time be made by you, or by any three or more of you, over the receipts and expenditure of the said several sums of money which from time to time during the continuance of this Our Royal Commission may be collected, as aforesaid; and, subject to such your orders and regulations, the said Executive and Finance Committee, or any two or more of them, shall and may order and direct the payment and disbursement of any sum or sums so to be received by Our said Paymaster-General to the account of the said "Patriotic Fund."
And it is Our further will and pleasure that you, or any three or more of you, do Royal Commis from time to time, according to your discretion, fill up any such vacancies as may
sioners to fill up occur in such Executive and Finance Committee, as occasion shall require, and that vacancies in Exe- the said Executive and Finance Committee, or any three or more of them, do from
cutive and Finance Committee. time to time appoint their own clerk, who shall also duly record their proceedings, and which said proceedings shall be duly preserved and kept, and the said Executive and Finance Committee, or any three of them, inclusive of their Chairman for the time being if he shall be then present, shall from time to time, and at all times, report to you as and when you may desire, all matters and things that they shall or may have done in the premises, and shall render accounts of all disbursements and payments which may be made, or ordered to be made, by them in manner aforesaid under the
Commissioners orders and regulations so to be received from you, or any three or more of you, as to audit accounts aforesaid. And further that you do, as soon as conveniently may be after the receipt of Executive and of such accounts, proceed to audit, by one or more of your number, all such accounts, Finance Commit- disbursements, and payments, so that there be no expenditure of any sum or sums of tee. money by anticipation or in advance of any balance already in hand of Our said or anticipate bal- Paymaster-General to the account of the said "Patriotic Fund.”
Not to overdraw
ances.
And Our further will and pleasure is, that you, or any three or more of you, when Commissioners and so often as need or occasion shall require, so long as this Our Commission shall to report to Queen continue in force, do report to Us in writing, under your hands and seals respectively, from time to time. all and every of the several proceedings of yourselves had by virtue of these presents, together with such other matters, if any, as may be deserving of Our Royal consider- ation touching or concerning the premises.
Commissioners
standing no ad-
And lastly, We do by these presents ordain, that this Our Commission shall con- tinue in full force and virtue, and that you Our said Commissioners, or any three or to meet notwith- more of you, shall and may from time to time, and at any place or places, proceed journment. in the execution thereof, and of every other matter and thing therein contained although the same be not continued from time to time by adjournment.
Given at Our Court at Balmoral, this seventh day of October, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, and in the eighteenth year of Our reign.
By Her Majesty's command.
(Signed
NEWCASTLE.
PATRIOTIC FUND.
NOTICE.
THE Offices of the Royal Commissioners of the "Patriotic Fund" are, for the present, at No. 16a, Great George street, corner of Parliament-street, Westminister,
The hours of attendance will be from 11 A.M. till 4 P.M., daily.
TheCOMMISSIONERS IN AID of the "Patriotic Fund" are earnestly requested, without further notice, to take immediate steps for giving publicity, within their several jurisdictions, to the Royal Commission, in order that Local Committees be formed wherever practicable with the least possible delay.
"Local Committees" will, according to their discretion, obtain contributions to the Patriotic Fund," either by public meetings, establishing Subscriptions Lists, or otherwise.
The acknowledgment of individual donations, where obtained through the "Commissioners in Aid," or by "Local Committees," must in all cases, to avoid error and expense, be left exclusively to the Local Committees."
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Local Committees are requested to make up their first Subscription Lists and Accounts in or before the first week in December next, and to remit the amounts in or before the following week by drafts payable to the "Patriotic Fund," crossed "Bank of England," to the Secretaries of the Commission, or direct to the Bank of England.
Total amounts only, as transmitted by Local Committees will be acknowledged at fixed periods in two London daily newspapers.
Donations, Subscriptions, and Contributions, to the "Patriotic Fund," other than those paid to Local Committees, will be received by the Secretaries at the offices of the Royal Commission as above, at the Bank of England, and by all London Bankers. Acknowledgments of the receipt will appear, from time to time, in the London Papers above mentioned; but it is hoped, that no separate receipts or acknowledgments will be required from the Honorary Secretaries, whose duties will be otherwise sufficiently laborious.