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handed over for the purpose of being | this Our Royal Commission may be collected,
applied under this Our Royal Commission,
Our Royal will and pleasure further is, and
We do hereby direct and command Our
right trusty and well-beloved Councillor,
Edward John, Baron Stanley of Alderley,
Our Paymaster-General, or our Paymaster-
General for the time being, to receive and
safely keep all and every sum and sums of
money which by virtue of this Our Royal
Commission may at any time or times, and
from time to time hereafter during the con-
tinuance of this Our Royal Commission, be
received and paid, but subject nevertheless to
the orders and directions of you Our said
Commissioners, or of any three or more of
you, and also to such drafts of the Executive
and Finance Committee as are hereinafter
mentioned, and which may be in accordance
with the rules and regulations of you Our said
Commissioners.

Paymaster-General to open account at Bank of
England as Patriotic Fund.

And to this end We do command Our said
Paymaster-General to open and keep a sepa-
rate account at the Bank of England, and that
he do pay to the credit of such account, which
shall be called and known by the name of the
"Patriotic Fund," all and every sum and
sums of money which he may at any time
hereafter receive, under or by virtue of this
Our Royal Commission, and that our said
Paymaster-General do cause payments to be
made therefrom by virtue of such drafts or
orders as may be addressed to him by or on
behalf of you Our said Commissioners, and,
subject to your direction and authority, by
your said Secretaries or either of them, or by
the said Executive and Finance Committee,
or by any two or more of such Committee,
for the time being.

Appointment of Executive and Finance Committee.

And in order to facilitate the imprest to Our
said Paymaster-General of any and all sub-
scriptions, donations, and collections of
moneys now or hereafter to be made, or
which from time to time during the continu-
ance of this Our Royal Commission may be
received, for any of the several purposes
aforesaid, and also for the purpose of carrying
into effect what you Our said Commissioners
or any three or more of you, shall hereafter
direct to be done in respect to the said sub-
scriptions, donations, and collections so ex-
pected to be made as aforesaid, We hereby
authorise you Our said Commissioners, or any
three or more of you, to nominate and ap-
point any three or more persons whomsoever,
as to you shall seem meet, to be an Executive
Committee in the premises; and Our plea-
sure is that such Executive Committee shall
also be a Finance 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 expendi-
ture of the said several sums of money which
from time to time during the continuance of
as aforesaid; and, subject to such your orders
and regulations, the said Executive and Fi-
nance 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."

Royal Commissioners to fill up vacancies in Execu-
tive and Finance Committee. Commissioners to
audit accounts of Executive and Finance Com-
mittee.—Not to overdraw or anticipate balances.

And it is our further will and pleasure that
you, or any three or more of you, do from
from time to time, according to your discre-
tion, fill up any such vacancies as may occur
in such Executive and Finance Committee, as
occasion shall require, and that the said Exe-
cutve and Finance Committee, or any three
or more of them, do from time to time ap-
point their own clerk, who shall also duly
record their proceedings, and which said pro-
ceedings shall be duly preserved and kept,
and the said Executive and Finance Commit-
tee, 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
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 have been made, or
ordered to be made, by them in manner afore-
said under the orders and regulations so to be
received from you, or any three or more of
you, as aforesaid. And further that you do,
as soon as conveniently may be after the re-
ceipt of such accounts, proceed to audit, by
one or more of your number, all such ac-
counts, disbursements, and payments, so that
there be no expenditure of any sum or sums
of money by anticipation or in advance of
any balance already in hand of Our said Pay-
master-General to the account of the said
"Patriotic Fund."

Commissioners to report to Queen from time to
time.

And Our further will and pleasure is, that
you, or any three or more of you, when and
so often as need or occasion shall require, so
long as this Our Commission shall continue
in force, do report to Us in writing, under
your hands and seals respectively, 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 deserv-
ing of our Royal consideration touching or
concerning the premises.

Commissioners to meet notwithstanding no ad-
journment.

And lastly, We do by these presents or-
dain that this Our Commission shall continue
in full force and virtue, and that you Our said
Commisioners, or any three or more of
you, shall and may from time to time,
and at any place or places, pro-
ceed in the execution thereof, and of every