DIEU SOITA
ANNO OCTAVO & NONO
VICTORIÆ REGINE.
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CA P. XLIX.
An Act to settle an Annuity on Sir Henry Pottinger Baronet, in consideration of his eminent Services.
Most Gracious Sovereign,
[21st July 1845.]
WHEREAS Your Majesty, by Your most gracious Message, hath been pleased to signify that Your Majesty was desirous of conferring a signal Mark of your Favour and Approbation on the Right Honourable Sir Henry Pottinger Baronet, G.C.B., for the eminent Services rendered by him, and particularly for the Zeal, Ability, and Judgment displayed by him as Your Majesty's Plenipotentiary in the Negotiation of Treaties of Peace and of Commerce with the Emperor of China, and that for that Purpose an Annuity of One thousand five hundred Pounds shall be granted to the said Sir Henry Pottinger during the Term of his natural Life: Therefore we, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled, duly considering Your Majesty's gracious Intention, 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, That an Annuity of One thousand five hundred Pounds shall be paid to the Right Honourable Sir Henry Pottinger Baronet, G.C.B., for the Term of his natural Life, and the said Annuity shall
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