D.-LONDON COPYRIGHT AGENCY

The Advocates Library subscribed with three of the other
Libraries benefiting under the Copyright Acts to defray
the cost of a Central Agency in London which facilitates
the exercise of their rights. The arrangement is being
continued provisionally

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E. APPROPRIATIONS IN AID

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164

1,890

(a) The money provision for each item represents the total remuneration, including bonus where payable.

*The arrangements for cleaning and heating the building in which the Library and the Faculty of Advocates are housed, are made by the Faculty of Advocates, an agreed contribution towards the cost being made by the National Library.

I. SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE of the Amount required in the Year ending 31 March 1926 to defray the Expenses connected with OVERSEA SETTLEMENT, including certain Grants in Aid, and Expenses arising out of the Empire Settlement Act, 1922, and the FREE PASSAGE SCHEME FOR EX-SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN.

Ten Pounds.

II. SUBHEAD under which this Vote will be accounted for by the OVERSEA SETTLEMENT DEPARTMENT.

A.-GRANTS TO VOLUNTARY SOCIETIES (GRANTS
IN AID):-
:-

Further Grants in Aid of Voluntary Societies (including the
Salvation Army, the Church of England Council of Over-
sea Settlement and the Empire Community Settlement
Committee) engaged in the dissemination of information
regarding migration and in affording assistance to settlers

£

3,500

* The expenditure out of these Grants in Aid will not be audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General, and the unexpended balances, if any, of the issues made out of the Grants will not be liable to surrender by the payees at the close of the financial year.

56045

B 2

CLASS VI.

2.

ROYAL IRISH CONSTABULARY PENSIONS, &c.

I. SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE of the Amount required in the Year ending 31 March 1926 to defray the Expenses of PENSIONS, COMPENSATION ALLOWANCES and GRATUITIES awarded to retired and disbanded members and staff of the ROYAL IRISH CONSTABULARY, and to widows and children of such members, including Annuities to the National Debt Commissioners in respect of Commutation of Compensation Allowances, and certain extra-Statutory Payments.

Ten Pounds.

II. SUBHEADS under which this Vote will be accounted for by the PAYMASTER GENERAL'S OFFICE.

The total Original Net Estimate, 1925–26, for Royal Irish Constabulary

Pensions, was
Add-Sum now required

TOTAL

£

687,005

10

£687,015

A. PENSIONS AND GRATUITIES TO MEMBERS OF
THE FORCE ENLISTED IN IRELAND-

Further provision is required in consequence of the relief to
the Vote arising from deaths, commutation of pensions
and deductions from pensions made on the re-employment
of pensioners being less than anticipated, and to defray
certain payments made overseas which, under a recent
decision as to the method of charge, will be debited to the
Vote in the current year instead of in 1926-27 ..

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F.-COMPENSATION ALLOWANCES TO MEMBERS OF
THE FORCE ENLISTED IN IRELAND-
See note under Subhead A above

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G.-COMPENSATION ALLOWANCES TO MEMBERS OF
THE FORCE ENLISTED IN GREAT BRITAIN-
See note under Subhead A above

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J.-APPROPRIATIONS IN AID

The receipts from the Irish Free State on account of that
Government's share of Pensions, &c., charges will be more
than was anticipated, owing to a revision of the arrange-
ments for recovering the amounts due from that Govern-
ment

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32,490

I. SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE of the Amount required in the Year ending 31 March 1926 for the payment of OLD AGE PENSIONS, for certain Administrative Expenses in connection therewith, and for Pensions under the Blind Persons Act, 1920.

One Hundred and Ninety-eight Thousand Pounds.

II. SUBHEADS under which this Vote will be accounted for by the CUSTOMS and EXCISE DEPARTMENT.

It is now anticipated that the expenditure on Subhead A in the current financial year will exceed the amount provided in the original Estimate by £200,000.