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Consuls to have credit for money disbursed for shipwrecked and distressed persons.
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18. All consuls general and consuls shall be allowed and have credit in any accounts by them rendered, through one of his Majesty’s principal secretaries of state to the Treasury for all such sums of money as shall by any such consul general or consul be disbursed and expended towards the succour and relief mariners shipwrecked and taken in war, or other distressed persons being subjects of his Majesty, and resorting to the port or place at which any such consul general or consul may be appointed to reside: Provided always, that such sums of money be so disbursed and expended in pursuance of and in conformity to any special or general rules and regulations to be for that purpose made and prescribed by his Majesty, by any order or orders to be by him for that purpose issued, by and with the advice of his privy council; and that an account of the particulars of all such expenditure shall by the first convenient opportunity be transmitted by such consul general or consul for his Majesty’s information, through one of his principal secretaries of state.
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