Exchequer Extra Receipts Act 1868
An Act to regulate the Disposal of extra Receipts of Public Departments.
WHEREAS under the Provisions of certain Acts of Parliament, Orders in Council, or alleged ancient Usage, certain Fees or other casual Receipts have been or may be received by Persons holding Public Offices under the Crown, and are applied in aid or diminution of Charges borne upon the annual Votes of Parliament or upon the Consolidated Fund ; and it is expedient that in many Cases such Fees or casual Receipts should cease to be so applied, and that the Purposes to which they are applicable should be otherwise provided for :
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows :