Bankruptcy, the like Sum of One Shilling, to be paid by the Party making such Search; which said first mentioned Fee of Ten Shillings shall be received and accounted for by the Registrar to be appointed under or by virtue of this Act, and shall be in full Satisfaction of all Fees and Charges for or in respect of the Use of the Room or Offices in which such Meetings under Commissions shall be held. XVII. And in order more effectually to insure the Receipt and Application of all Monies paid for the Use of the said Rooms to the Uses of the said Fund, be it further enacted, That no Meeting Meetings of of Commissioners or of Creditors called together by public Adver- Commissioners tisement, under any Commission of Bankruptcy, shall be held within to be held in new Building the City of London, except in the said newly erected Building, un- only. less otherwise specially directed in Writing by the major Part of Exception. the Commissioners named in such Commission. XVIII. And be it further enacted, That all and every Sum and Sums of Money which shall be received in respect of the Use of the said Rooms directed to be paid by this Act, shall, in the first Place, be applied under the Direction of the Commissioners of this Act for the time being, or the major Part of them, in defraying and discharging the Expences incurred in carrying the Objects of this Act into Effect, and all Costs and Charges incidental thereto; and in particular, in discharging the Salaries of the said Registrar and Housekeeper, and Allowance for Servants, the Expences of Coals and Candles for their Use, and for the Use of the said Commissioners, or of the Creditors attending such Meetings in Bankruptcy in the said Buildings, and for other necessary Expences; and also the Expences of lighting and watching the said Buildings and Premises, and all Taxes, Rates and Assessments payable in respect thereof, and of keeping the same in proper Condition and Repair, and of Insurance, and all other annual or occasional necessary Expences attending the Establishment; and after fully answering and discharging all such Charges and Expences as aforesaid, all and every the Sum and Sums of Money so to be received shall be paid into the Bank, in the Name of the said Accountant General, to the Account before directed, in order that such Monies may form a Fund, and be paid or applied under the Direction or by the Order of the Lord High Chancellor, the Lord Keeper or the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal for the Time being, as and when the same shall amount to a competent Sum, into His Majesty's Treasury, for and towards reimbursing the Public the said Two several Sums of Twenty thousand Pounds and Two thousand three hundred Pounds, or so much thereof as shall be issued from His Majesty's Treasury to the Commissioners named in this Act, for the Purchase of the said Piece of Ground, and the Erection and Establishment of the said Buildings and Offices, and all Expences incurred in the Completion of such Contract and Purchase as aforesaid, and in obtaining and passing this Act, and all other Costs, Charges and Expences which shall have been incurred or defrayed by the said Commissioners. XIX. And be it further enacted, That if at any time or times hereafter, the Monies so collected for the Use of such Rooms, and for forming such Fund as aforesaid, shall not be found fully sufficient to answer the Purpose of reimbursing the Sums so advanced for How Money received for Use of the said Rooms to be applied. The said Fees for reimbursing Expences may be increased by Great Seal. When Expences under the Act shall have been re to be reduced by Great Seal. for the Purposes of this Act, then and in such case it shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord High Chancellor, Lord Keeper or Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal for the time being, to order and direct such further and additional Sum or Sums to be paid out of the Bankrupt's Estate and Effects for the Use of such Rooms, as shall appear to be necessary to make good such Deficiency in the said Fund, not exceeding the Sum of Twenty Shillings for each and every such Meeting. XX. And be it further enacted, That when and so soon as, by the Means aforesaid, all such Sum and Sums of Money, Costs and Expences as aforesaid, shall have been fully repaid into His paid, the Fees Majesty's Treasury, it shall and may be lawful for the Lord High Chancellor, Lord Keeper or Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal for the time being, and he and they is and are hereby required to make such Reduction in the Amount of the several Fees and Payments hereby authorized to be charged and taken from the said Bankrupts' Estates, as he or they in his and their Discretion shall think proper, so as to leave the General or Average Annual Amount of such Fees amply sufficient to answer and defray the Salaries, Allowances and other annual and occasional Expences of the said Establishment, hereinbefore directed to be paid and discharged thereout, and also such other Costs, Charges and annual or occasional Expences of all Proceedings under this Act, as the said Lord High Chancellor, Lord Keeper or Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal for the time being, shall think proper and direct to be defrayed or incurred for the Improvement or better carrying on of the Establishment for the Purposes intended by this Act. Riotous Persons may be taken into Custody by XXI. And be it further enacted, That the Commissioners acting under any Commission of Bankruptcy shall have full Power and Authority, and they are hereby empowered and authorized, to Commissioners. order and direct the Messenger or Messengers acting under their Messenger indemnified. Public Act. Authority in any such Commission, to take into Custody any Person or Persons who shall commit or be guilty of any Riot or Disturbance, or who shall interrupt the said Commissioners in the Exercise of their Duty, and to have such Person or Persons taken before any Alderman or Magistrate acting in the Commission of the Peace, to be dealt with according to Law; and the Warrant of such Commissioners shall be a full Authority and Indemnity to such Messenger or Messengers in so doing. XXII. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall be deemed and taken to be a Public Act, and shall be judicially taken Notice of as such, by all Judges, Justices and others, without being specially pleaded. CA P. CXVI. An Act to empower the Commissioners of the Treasury to ' WHEREAS : ' did give, bestow and distribute, certain Sums of Money as Gratuities or Rewards to and among sundry Tide Surveyors and • Tide Waiters and othre Officers of the Customs in the said Port ' of London, for their Services in the more speedy discharging 'such Goods, Wares and Merchandize: And Whereas the said Officers, by accepting the said Sums of Money so offered, did ' render themselves liable to the Pains, Penalties and Forfeitures imposed by an Act passed in the Forty sixth Year of the Reign 46 G. 3. c. 82. of His late Majesty, intituled An Act for abolishing Fees received by certain Officers and other Persons employed in the Service of the Customs in the Port of London, and for regulating the Attendance of Officers and others so employed And Whereas it appears 'that several of the said Officers served faithfully in their Offices and Employments for many Years prior to the Enforcement of • the said Penalties, and that on the Enquiry made into the said <Transactions the said Officers freely and voluntarily disclosed the Truth of the Facts, on an Expectation held out to them of • Pardon for such their Offences:' Be it therefore enacted by The King'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, That it shall and may be lawful for the Lord High Treasurer or the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the time being, or any Three or more of them, to allow for the Support of the said Officers and their Families, by any Warrant under their Hands, such annual Sum or Sums of Money, payable out of the Revenue of Customs, as shall appear to the said Lord High Treasurer, or Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, reasonable and proper under the particular Circumstances of each case, not exceeding One Half the Amount of the Salaries respectively enjoyed by such Officers as aforesaid previous to incurring the said Penalties. Annual Allowance to of the Customs who have incurred the Penalties of recited certain Officers Act. II. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall continue in Continuance force until the End of the next Session of Parliament. t CA P. CXVII. An Act to continue an Act of the Fiftieth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, for the better Management of the Foundling Hospital in Dublin. W [10th July 1821.] of Act. HEREAS an Act was passed in the Fiftieth Year of the 50G. 3. c. excii. tituled An Act for the better Management of the Foundling • Hospital in Dublin; and for amending and further continuing H h continued. Expences of this Act how paid. Public Act. 54 G. 3. c. 37. 54 G. 3. c. 187. thousand eight hundred and twenty one, and from thence until 'the End of the then next Session of Parliament: And Whereas 'the said recited Act of the said Fiftieth Year will expire at the • End of this present Session of Parliament, and it is expedient that the same should be continued:' May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by The King'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, That, from and after the passing of this Act, the said recited Act, passed in the Fiftieth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the third, and the several Acts continued by the said recited Act, as the same are amended by the said recited Act, shall be and continue in force until the Fifth Day of January One thousand eight hundred and twenty three, and from thence until the End of the then next Session of Parliament. II. And be it further enacted, That the Costs, Charges and Expences of preparing, obtaining and passing this present Act, shall and may be paid out of the Funds arising by virtue of the said recited Act of the Fiftieth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, and of the Acts thereby continued and amended. III. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall be deemed and taken to be a Public Act, and shall be judicially taken Notice of as such by all Judges, Justices and others whomsoever, without being specially pleaded. An Act for the more effectual Administration of the Office of a Justice of the Peace in and near the Metropolis; and for the more effectual Prevention of Depredations on the River Thames and its Vicinity, for One Year. [10th July 1821.] WE HEREAS Two Acts were made in the Fifty fourth Year of His late Majesty's Reign, the One intituled An Act for repealing an Act made in the Fifty first Year of His present Majesty, for the more effectual Administration of the Office of a Justice of the Peace in such Parts of the Counties of Middlesex and Surrey as lie in and near the Metropolis; and for making ' other Provisions in lieu thereof; to continue in force until the • First Day of June One thousand eight hundred and twenty, and 'from thence until the Expiration of Six Weeks from the Commencement of the then next Session of Parliament; and the 'other, intituled An Act to revive and continue until the First Day of June One thousand eight hundred and twenty, and to amend several Acts for the more effectual Prevention of Depredations on as continued by the River Thames and its Vicinity; both which Acts were by an 'Act of the last Session of Parliament continued in force until the • End of the present Session of Parliament: And Whereas it is expedient that the Provisions of the said Acts should be con'solidated and amended; and that One of the Police Offices, ' established by the said first recited Act, should be removed to a more convenient Site:' May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by The King's Most Excelle 1 G. 4. c. 66. further con tinued. 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, That the said Two Acts of the Fifty fourth Year aforesaid shall be and the same are hereby continued in force until and upon the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty one, and be then repealed; and that the Provisions of this Act shall thenceforth commence and continue in force for the Term of One Year. The Public established con- stead of the established in Mary le bone. II. And be it enacted, That the Police Office now established in the Parish of Saint John of Wapping, commonly called "The Thames Police Office," and the several Police Offices now established in the Parishes of Saint Margaret Westminster, Saint James Westminster, Saint Andrew Holborn, Saint Leonard Shoreditch, and Saint Mary Whitechapel, in the County of Middlesex, and in the Parish of Saint Saviour, in the County of Surrey, shall be continued; and that instead of the Police Office now established in the Parish of Saint Paul Shadwell, a new Police Office shall be established in the Parish of Saint Mary le bone, in the said County of Middlesex; and that the several Persons heretofore appointed Justices to act. or who before the Commencement of this Act shall be appointed to execute the Duties of a Justice of the Peace at the Police Offices now established under the said recited Acts, shall continue to execute the same at the said Seven first mentioned Offices, and at the said Police Office so to be established as last aforesaid, together with such other Justices of the Peace for the said Counties respectively as may think proper to attend thereat; and that it shall be lawful for His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, upon every Vacancy by Death or otherwise, to appoint another fit Person, being a Justice of the Peace of the said Counties of Middlesex and Surrey respectively, to execute the Duties of a Justice of the Peace at the said several Police Offices, in lieu of the Person making such Vacancy. His Majesty Justices to fill up Vacancies. III. And be it further enacted, That One or more of the said Time of At- Noon until Three in the Afternoon: Provided always, that no Proviso for by such Principal Secretary of State, IV. And be it further enacted, That the present Receiver for Receiver conthe Seven Police Offices established under the said first recited tinued, and in Act, shall become the Receiver for the said Eight Police Offices; case of Death and that it shall be lawful for His Majesty, His Heirs and SucHis Majesty may appoint cessors, upon any Vacancy in the said Office of Receiver, by another. Death or otherwise, to appoint any other proper Person, not being one of the Justices appointed to act at either of the said Police Offices, to be the Receiver of the said Eight Police Offices; and Hh 2 that : ! |