APPENDIX, No. 61, (100). An Account of the Amount of Stamp Duty on re-issuable Notes in England and Wales, from the Year 1816 to 1831, both inclusive. THOMAS LIGHTFOOT, Accountant-General. APPENDIX, No. 62, (99). An Account of the Amount of Stamp Duty paid in each Year by Country Bankers upon each description of Stamp issued. 5d. 10d. 1s. 3d. 1s. 9d. 28. 3s. 58. 8s. 6d. £. s. d. £. s. d. 1816 38,701 5 10 975 13 1817 68,380 4 7 2,855 16 £. s. d. £. s. d. APPENDIX, No. 63, (100.) A List of the Banks which now compound for their Notes :— Abergavenny Old Bank. | Halifax Bank. Atherstone Bank. Bath Old Bank. Bath City Bank. Bedfordshire, Leighton Buzzard Bank. Birmingham Bank. Bladud Bank, Bath. pany. Commercial Bank, Stockton. Halifax Joint Stock Huddersfield Bank. Company. Banking Kendal Bank. Leith Banking Company. Bank. Norfolk and Norwich North Devon Bank. Petersfield and Hamp shire Bank. Plymouth and Devon- pany. also Romford Bank. Ross Old Bank, Hert- pany. pany. Sunderland Bank, also Durham Bank, also Darlington Bank. Taunton and Somerset Bank. Tewkesbury and Evesham Bank. Tunbridge and Tunbridge Wells Old Bank; also Old Bank, Tunbridge; also Tunbridge, Tunbridge Wells, and Sevenoaks Bank. Uttoxeter Old Bank; also Uttoxeter Bank. Walsall Old Bank. Weymouth Old Bank. Whitehaven Joint Stock Banking Company. and TEESDALE COCKELL. APPENDIX, No. 64, (98, 101). A Return of the Number of Commissions of Bankrupts issued against Country Banks in each year since 1780, and of the Number of Licenses granted to Country Banks in each year since 1808. APPENDIX, No. 65, (3). Case and Opinion of Sir James Scarlett, on Act 7 Geo. IV. c. 46, s. 9, 13, being an Act to authorize the establishment of Joint Stock Banking Companies at the distance of 65 Miles from London. You are requested to peruse the Act of 7th Geo. IV. cap. 46, (a copy of which is left herewith,) and to state your opinion, whether any persons becoming members of a Corporation or Co-partnership for carrying on the business of Bankers under the provisions of that Act, or their separate and private estates, can be made liable to the payment of the bills, debts, &c. of such Corporation, by any proceeding at law, otherwise than by the one to be instituted against any one or more of the public officers of such Corporation, as mentioned in section 9: and.if they or their separate and private estates cannot otherwise be made liable, whether the execution first mentioned in section 13 of the Act is not confined to such persons, being, at the time of issuing it, members of the Corporation, as had continued members from the time the contract or engagement in which the judgment was obtained was entered into. And in all cases where a person, having been a member at the time of the contract or engagement, had retired from the Corporation, or had become a member after the contract or engagement had been entered into, but prior to its completion, or had subsequently become a member prior to the judgment, whether execution can be sued out against the persons or their separate or private property of such last-mentioned parties, without leave first granted on motion in open Court, by the Court in which judgment shall have been obtained, upon notice to such parties, and whether personal notice on such parties will be considered necessary, and, if so, what course is to be pursued in case any such parties absent themselves, so that they cannot personally be served. 1st.-I am of opinion, that no member of a Corporation or Copartnership formed under the Act in question, can be made liable to any judgment, either in his person or in his effects, except by the form of proceeding against some public officer of the Company, pointed out in section 9. 2d. I think the execution, according to clause 13, may be issued against any person who is a member of the Company at the time of issuing it; and in case such judgment |