The Queen Anne's Bounty (Superannuation) Act 1870
WHEREAS it is expedient that due regulations should be made with regard to the granting of superannuation allowances to the officers and clerks employed by the Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne: Be it therefore 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