Monarch

GEORGE III

Year

1800

Title

40 Geo. III, c. 49,

Description

An Act to amend and continue two several Acts passed in the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Years of the Reign of his present Majesty for appointing Commissioners to enquire into the Losses of such of his Majesty's loyal Subjects as have suffered in their Property during the late Rebellion and the other Purposes in the said Acts mentioned and for authorising the Payment of Sums therein mentioned to Persons who have suffered in their Persons and to the Widows and Orphans of others who lost their Lives in said Rebellion and to Persons who exerted themselves in discovering the late Rebellion and been exposed to Danger or sustained Injury in Consequence thereof.

Classification

Rebellion - 38 Geo. III, c. 68; 39 Geo. III, c. 65 to continue, Commissioners to assess claims, lists various rebellion-related crimes, e.g. agrarian crimes; percentage rates of compensation reduced with increasing amount e.g. £100 = 95 per cent, £3,000-5,000 = 65 per cent, annuities in special cases where government support led to property/personal loss, annuities to dependants of those killed etc., paid out of consolidated fund, cease with death of annuitant [se]