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Where voluntary contributions are made towards erecting, &c. churches, or hospitals, or providing burial grounds, in any place where consuls are resident, such consuls may advance a sum equal to the amount of such contributions.
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11. In case any of his Majesty’s subjects shall by voluntary subscriptions among themselves raise and contribute such a sum of money as shall be requisite for defraying one half part of the expense of erecting, purchasing, or hiring any church or chapel or building, to be appropriated for the celebration of divine service according to the rites and ceremonies of the united Church of England and Ireland, or of the Church of Scotland, or for defraying one half part of the expense of erecting, purchasing, or hiring any building to be used as a hospital for the reception of his Majesty’s subjects, or for defraying one half of the expense of purchasing or hiring any ground to be used as a place of interment for his Majesty’s subjects, at any foreign port or place wherein any consul general or consul appointed by his Majesty shall be resident, then and in any such case it shall and may be lawful for such consul general or consul, in obedience to any order to be for that purpose issued by his Majesty through one of his principal secretaries of state, to advance and pay, for and towards the purposes aforesaid or any of them, any sum or sums of money, not exceeding in the whole in any one year the amount of the money raised in that year by any such voluntary contribution as aforesaid; and every such consul general or consul as aforesaid shall in like manner once in every year transmit to one his Majesty’s principal secretaries of state an account, made up to the thirty-first day of December in the year next preceding, of all the sums of money actually raised at any such port or place as aforesaid, for the several purposes aforesaid, or any of them, by any such voluntary subscription as aforesaid, and of all sums of money by him actually paid and expended for such purposes or any of them, in obedience to any such orders as aforesaid, and which accounts shall by such principal secretary of state be transmitted to the Treasury, who shall give to such consuls general or consuls credit for all sums of money, not exceeding the amount aforesaid, by him disbursed and expended in pursuance of any such order as aforesaid, for the purposes before mentioned, or any of them.
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