intituled "Account of Monies placed out to provide for the Officers placed out "of the High Court of Chancery," the Sum of Two hundred and one to provide for Chancery thousand and twenty-eight Pounds Two Shillings and Threepence Officers to be Bank Three Pounds per Cent. Annuities, and transferred to Suitors 5 Cash which has arisen from Dividends thereon: And whereas under Fee Fund. the Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Third and Fourth Years of King William the Fourth, Chapter Ninety-four, Section Thirty-six, the Dividends arising from the Fund standing to the Credit of the said last-mentioned Account are directed or autho10 rized to be invested in the Purchase of Parliamentary or Government Securities in the Name of the said Accountant General, to be by him placed to the Credit of the said last-mentioned Account: And whereas it is unnecessary to continue the Accumulation of the Dividends on the Funds so as aforesaid standing to the Credit of the said 15 last-mentioned Account, and it is expedient that such Dividends should from Time to Time be applied in aid of the Fund called the Suitors Fee Fund: Be it therefore enacted, That the Dividends and annual Produce which have arisen and which shall arise from the Monies placed out on the Account intituled "Account of Monies placed out to provide 20" for the Officers of the High Court of Chancery" shall be carried over by the said Accountant General, and be placed to the said Account intituled "the Suitors Fee Fund Account," and shall thereupon become part of the Fund standing to such Account, and be dealt with accordingly. 25 hereafter on V. And whereas it is expedient to reduce the Stamp Duties pay- Reduced Stamp able on Letters or Powers of Attorney to be used in the Office of the Duties to be said Accountant General upon the Receipt of Cheques, Notes, or payable Drafts for small Sums of Money: Be it therefore enacted, That from Powers of and after the passing of this Act the Stamp Duties which if this Act Attorney, &c. 30 had not been passed would have been payable on Letters or Powers of Attorney to be used in the Office of the said Accountant General for the Receipt of Cheques, Notes, or Drafts for gross Sums of Money not exceeding the Sum of Twenty Pounds, or periodical Payments not exceeding the annual Sum of Five Pounds, shall cease to be 35 payable, and shall be and the same are hereby repealed, and in lieu and instead thereof there shall be granted, raised, levied, and collected in respect of every such Letter or Power of Attorney, or for or in respect of the Vellum, Parchment, or Paper upon which the same shall be written, the Sum of Five Shillings. 40 Stamp under the levied, and collected shall be denominated and deemed to be Stamp Management Duties, and shall be under the Management of the Commissioners of Commisof Inland Revenue for the Time being, and all the Powers, Provisions, sioners of Clauses, Revenue. 791. Inland Accountant General may be empowered to act on Powers of Attorney in Receipt of future Monies. Compensa ances may be Clauses, Regulations, Directions, Exemptions, Fines, Forfeitures, VII. It shall be lawful for the Lord Chancellor, whenever it shall 15 seem expedient to him so to do, to empower and direct the Accountant General of the said Court to receive and act upon Letters or Powers of Attorney granted by any Person to whom any Sum or Sums of Money shall by any Order in any Cause or Matter be directed to be paid, authorizing the Attorney of such Person to receive, not only a 20 Cheque, Note, or Draft for the Sum or Sums of Money so ordered to be paid, but all Cheques, Notes, or Drafts for any further or other Sum or Sums of Money which by any Order or Orders to be thereafter made in the same Cause or Matter, or any Cause or Matter connected therewith, shall be ordered to be paid to such Person or Persons by or 25 out of any Fund then or thereafter to be standing to the Credit of such Cause or Matter; and the Lord Chancellor shall by Order make such Provision as he may deem necessary for satisfying the Accountant General of the Identity of the Person named in Two or more Orders. VIII. And whereas under various Acts of Parliament now in 30 tion Allow force, or under Orders made in pursuance of such Acts, Compensation applied to Allowances have been granted and are payable to various Officers making good of the said Court, which have been made to cease upon such Officers Monies improperly withheld or abstracted by Parties entitled to such Allow ances. obtaining other Offices or Employments, during the Continuance of such Officers in the same: And whereas it has happened that Officers 35 of the said Court entitled to Compensation Allowances have obtained other Offices or Employments in the said Court or the Offices thereof, and by reason of Malversation in such Offices or Employments have been dismissed therefrom or have resigned the same, and it is expedient that any Monies improperly withheld by any such Officer 40 should be made good to the Fund to which the same ought to have been applied: It shall be lawful for the Lord Chancellor, by any Order or Orders to be by him from Time to Time made for that Purpose, Purpose, to direct that the whole or any Part of the Compensation Allowance payable to any Person who shall have held any Office or Employment in the said Court by virtue of any Act or Acts of Parliament heretofore passed or hereafter to be passed, or any Order 5 or Orders in pursuance thereof, shall be applied in Payment to the Fund from which such Monies as aforesaid shall have been abstracted, for the Purpose of making good the same, with such Interest thereon from the Time the same may have been received as the Lord Chancellor may think proper, and with the Costs of making and 10 acting upon the said Orders; and any Order or Orders so to be made shall over-reach any Assignment or Assignments which after the Tenth Day of February One thousand eight hundred and fiftythree shall have been made of any such Compensation Allowance, whether made voluntarily or for a good and valuable Consideration. 15 IX. Any Order or Orders for the Time being made under this Act Orders may be annulled may from Time to Time be annulled, altered, or varied by the like or altered. Authority by which any such Order or Orders shall have been made, and new Orders from Time to Time be made for any of the Purposes of this Act by the Authority by which Orders are hereby authorized 20 to be made. of Act. X. In the Construction of this Act,, unless such Meaning be Construction repugnant to or inconsistent with the Context, the Expression Lord Chancellor shall mean and include the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and the Lord Keeper or Lords Commissioners of the 25 Great Seal of the United Kingdom for the Time being. A BILL INTITULED 5 An Act relating to the Appointment of Persons to administer Oaths in Chancery, and to Affidavits made for Purposes connected with Registration. [Note. The Clause printed in Italic is proposed to be inserted B E 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: 66 I. The Persons now styled "Masters Extraordinary in Chancery" Country shall cease to be so styled, and they and all Persons hereafter appointed administer Agents to to execute like Duties by the Lord Chancellor shall be designated Oaths in Country Agents to administer Oaths in Chancery," and as such Chancery. shall possess and exercise all such Powers and discharge all such 10 Duties as now appertain to the Office of Master Extraordinary in Chancery by virtue of any Statute or Order of the Court of Chancery or of the Lord Chancellor, or Usage in that Behalf, or otherwise. administer II. It shall be lawful for the Lord Chancellor from Time to Time London to appoint any Persons practising as Solicitors within Ten Miles from Agents to 15 Lincoln's Inn Hall to administer Oaths in Chancery, and to possess Oaths in all such other Powers and discharge all such other Duties as aforesaid; Chancery. and 143. |