'probation in Writing of the Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain, or of the Commissioners for executing the said Office of Lord High Treasurer, or any Three of them, to purchase all such other Ground, Buildings, Houses and Premises whatever, < as the Commissioners for executing the said Act might think 'necessary to be purchased and employed for the Purposes of the 'said Act; and it was thereby enacted, that if any Money should be agreed or awarded to be paid for any Ground, Buildings, 'Houses or Premises purchased by virtue of that Act, for the Purposes thereof, which should belong to any Corporation, Feme Covert, Infant, Lunatic or Person or Persons under any Disability or Incapacity, such Money, in case the same should amount to the Sum of Two hundred Pounds, should, with all 'convenient Speed, be paid into the Bank of England, in the Name and with the Privity of the Accountant General of the High Court of Chancery, to be placed to his Account ex parte the Commissioners for executing that Act, to the Intent that 'such Money should be applied, under the Direction and with the Approbation of the said Court, to be signified by an Order 'made upon a Petition to be preferred in a summary Way by the 'Person or Persons who would have been entitled to the Rents and Profits of the said Ground, Buildings, Houses or Premises, in the Purchase of the Land Tax, or towards the Discharge of any Debt or Debts, or such other Incumbrance, or Part thereof, as the said Court should authorize to be paid, affecting the same Ground, Buildings, Houses or Premises, or affecting other 'Ground, Buildings, Houses or Premises standing settled there'with to the same or the like Uses, Intents or Purposes; or where 'such Money should not be so applied, then that the same should 'be laid out and invested, under the like Direction and Approba• tion of the said Court, in the Purchase of other Ground, Buildings, Houses or Premises, which should be conveyed and settled to, for and upon such and the like Uses, Trusts, Intents and Purposes, and in the same Manner as the Ground, Buildings, 'Houses or Premises which should be so purchased as aforesaid • stood settled or limited, or such of them as at the time of making such Conveyance and Settlement should be existing, undetermined and capable of taking effect; and that in the mean ‹ time, and until such Purchase should be made, the said Money should, by Order of the Court of Chancery, upon Application thereto, be invested by the said Accountant General, in his • Name, in the Purchase of Three Pounds per Centum Consolidated, or Three Pounds per Centum Reduced Bank Annuities; and that in the mean time, and until the said Bank Annuities ⚫ should be ordered by the said Court to be sold for the Purposes • aforesaid, the Dividends and Annual Produce of the said Consolidated or Reduced Bank Annuities should from time to time be paid, by Order of the said Court, to the Person or Persons who would for the time being have been entitled to the Rents and Profits of the Ground, Buildings, Houses and Premises thereby directed to be purchased, in case such Purchase and • Settlement were made: And Whereas the Commissioners for chase by Com- executing the said Act, in pursuance and for the Purposes thereof, with the Consent of the Lords Commissioners of His

Rent of Pur

missioners.

Majesty's

Majesty's Treasury, purchased, in the Year One thousand eight ← hundred and sixteen, the Fee Simple of certain Ground, Buildings and Premises in Prince's Street, Westminster, being the • Protestant Dissenters' Meeting House, and the Vestry Room and Ground belonging thereto, and the Purchase Money was afterwards paid by the said Commissioners into the Bank of England, in the Manner directed by the said Act as aforesaid; and in pursuance of an Order of the High Court of Chancery, ⚫ the same has since been laid out in the Purchase of Bank Three per Centum Consolidated Annuities, in the Name and with the Privity of the Accountant General of the said Court, in Trust ' in the same Matter; and by the said Order, the Dividends to accrue due on the said Bank Annuities were to be from time to time laid out in the Purchase of the like Bank Three per Centum Annuities, in the Name and with the Frivity of the Accountant 'General, in Trust in the same Matter: And Whereas no Part of the said Bank Three per Centum Annuities, or of the Dividends which have accrued thereon, has been applied in the Manner authorized by the said Act, nor can a suitable or convenient ⚫ Building be found capable of being purchased and settled in the Manner directed by the said Act; and the Persons who used to assemble in the said Meeting House, for the public Worship and Service of God, have, ever since the Purchase of the said Premises by the said Commissioners, been deprived of a Place for public Religious Worship, and there is no Probability of their being able to obtain one otherwise than by purchasing a Piece of Ground, and erecting thereon a suitable Building; but the • Provisions in the said Act of the Forty sixth Year of His late Majesty will not authorize the Money or Funds arising from the Sale of the said late Meeting House and Premises to be so applied; and it is therefore expedient that the said Act should in ' that Behalf be altered and amended:' 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 be lawful for the High Court of Chancery from The Court of time to time, upon a Petition to be preferred to that Court in a Chancery emsummary Way, by or on Behalf of the major Part of the Per- powered to lay sons in whom the Fee Simple of the Ground, Meeting House and Premises purchased by the said Commissioners as aforesaid was vested at the time of the Purchase thereof by the said Commissioners, to order and direct the Accountant General of the said High Court of Chancery to sell and dispose of the Whole or any Part or Parts from time to time, as to the said Court shall seem right or proper, of the Bank Three per Centum Annuities, in which the Purchase Money paid by the said Commissioners for the said Ground, Meeting House and Premises was laid out or invested as aforesaid, and of any Annuities purchased or to be purchased out of the Dividends on the said Three per Centum Annuities, and thereupon to pay and apply a sufficient Part of the clear Monies produced by such Sale or Disposition, or by the settled to the Dividends of the said Three per Centum Annuities, for the Pur- like Uses, chase of a Piece or Parcel of Ground, which in the Judgment

of the Petitioners shall form a suitable and proper Site for the Erection

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out Part of the Funds arising from the Sale of the old Meeting House in

Prince's Street, Westminster, purchased by

the Commis

sioners under recited Act, in the Purchase of

a Site for the... Erection of a. new one, to be

Erection of a Meeting House and Vestry Room, with all necessary Offices and Outbuildings, to be settled, conveyed and assured to, for and upon such and the like Uses, Trusts, Intents and Purposes, and in the same Manner, as the Ground, Meeting House and Premises purchased by the said Commissioners as aforesaid stood settled and limited at the time of the Purchase thereof by the said Commissioners; which Piece or Parcel of Ground, when so purchased as aforesaid, shall be thereupon immediately conveyed, settled and assured to, for and upon the said Uses, Trusts, Intents and Purposes accordingly, or such of them as at the time of making such Conveyance and Settlement shall be existing undetermined and capable of taking effect.

II. And be it further enacted, That so soon as a Piece or Parcel of Ground, suitable as a Site for the Erection of a Meeting House and Vestry Room, with the Appurtenances as aforesaid, shall be conveyed, settled and assured to the Uses, upon the Trusts, and for the Intents and Purposes aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the said High Court of Chancery, upon a Petition to be preferred to the said Court in a summary Way, by or on Behalf of the major Part of the Persons who were Trustees of the said Meeting House and Premises at the time of the Purchase thereof by the said Commissioners as aforesaid, and notwithstanding any thing herein, or in the said Act of the Forty sixth Year of His late Majesty contained to the contrary, to order and direct the said Accountant General of the said Court to sell and dispose of so much of the said Bank Three per Centum Annuities, and of any Annuities purchased or to be purchased out of the Dividends payable thereon, as shall not have been sold and applied in the Purchase of such Piece or Parcel of Ground, and thereupon to pay the clear Monies to be produced by such Sale or Disposition, and all Dividends and Interest then accrued due on the said Annuities, which shall not have been applied to the Purposes aforesaid, to such Two or more of the said Persons who were the Trustees of the said Ground, Meeting House and Premises purchased by the said Commissioners as aforesaid, at the time of such Purchase, as shall for that Purpose be nominated by the major Part of such Persons, and approved of by the said Commissioners, or any Three of them (such Nomination and Approval to be testified by some Writing under the Hands of the nominating and approving Parties), to the Intent that the same Monies may forthwith be applied, by or under the Direction of the Persons who were the Trustees of the said Ground, Meeting House and Premises at the time of the Purchase thereof by the said Commissioners as aforesaid, or under the Direction of the major Part of them, in the erecting, building and finishing a proper and suitable Meeting House and Vestry Room on the Ground so purchased, and in providing the necessary Fixtures and Fittings for the same, without obtaining or being required to obtain the Direction or Approbation of the said High Court of Chancery for the doing thereof; and that in case any Part of the said Monies, after answering the Expences of purchasing the said Ground, and erecting, building and finishing the said Meeting House and Vestry Room, and purchasing and providing the necessary Fixtures and Fittings for the same, and paying all incidental Costs and Expences, shall remain unapplied to the

Purposes

Purposes aforesaid, or otherwise, pursuant to this Act, the same may be held by the said Two or more Trustees, so to be nominated and approved of as last aforesaid, in Trust, and in the Manner in which Money agreed or awarded to be paid for any Ground, Buildings or Premises, purchased for the Purposes of the said Act of the Forty sixth Year of His late Majesty, and belonging to any Corporation, or to any Person or Persons under Disability or Incapacity, where the same shall be less than the Sum of Two hundred Pounds, and shall exceed the Sum of Twenty Pounds, is to be held by the Trustees to whom such Money is authorized to be paid by virtue of that Act, and may be applied in any Manner authorized by that Act, or by this Act, so far as the case may be applicable, without obtaining, or being required to obtain, the Direction or Approbation of the said Court of Chancery.

III. And be it further enacted, That in the mean time, and until the said Bank Three per Centum Annuities, now standing in the Name of the said Accountant General in Trust as aforesaid, and the Dividends due and to grow due thereon, shall be laid out, invested, applied or paid, in the Manner hereby authorized and directed, the Interest, Dividends and Annual Produce thereof shall from time to time be applied and disposed of in the same Manner as if this Act had not been made.

IV. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said High Court of Chancery from time to time to make such Order or Orders as to the said Court shall seem fit, for settling and ascertaining the Costs, Charges and Expences incident to and attending or in anywise relating to the Sale to the said Commissioners of the before mentioned Ground, Meeting House and Premises, and the Purchase of any Ground or the Erection of any Buildings hereby authorized to be purchased or built; and the Costs of the several Applications to be made to the said Court, respecting the Matters aforesaid, and the Costs of taking the said Monies out of the Bank, and investing such Monies in the Purchase of Ground, or the Erection of Buildings as aforesaid, and also the Costs and Expences attending the Execution of all other the Trusts of this Act, and for Payment of all such Costs, Charges and Expences, by Sale of the aforesaid Consolidated Annuities now standing in the Name of the said Accountant General as aforesaid, or by and out of the Dividends and Interest thereof.

CA P. XLVI.

An Act to regulate the Attendance of Jurors at the Assizes, in
certain cases.
[8th June 1821.]

W HEREAS the Jurors returned by Sheriffs and other Offi

cers, for the Trial of Causes at the Assizes of the several • Counties in England and Wales, and the Counties Palatine of Chester, Durham and Lancaster, are by Law compelled to re• main and continue in Attendance from the Beginning of the Assizes, in the Counties aforesaid, to the End thereof: And • Whereas, from the great Length of Time that the Assizes frequently last in many of the Counties of England and Wales, and the Counties Palatine of Chester, Durham and Lancaster, the • Attendance of Jurors from the Beginning to the End of the H 3. • Assizes

Judge of Assize, &c. may

direct Two Sets

•Assizes is in many cases extremely burthensome and expensive 'to the said Jurors:' For Remedy whereof be it enacted by The King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Con-: sent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by Authority of the same, That from henceforth, in any County in which the Judge or Justices of Assize in England, or the Judge or Justices of the Grand Sessions of Jurors to be in summoned, one any County of Wales, or the Justices of the Courts of Sessions to attend at the held for the Counties Palatine of Chester, Durham or Lancaster, Beginning of shall think fit so to direct, the Sheriff or other Officer to whom the each Assizes, Return of the Venire facias Juratores or other Process for the and the other to Trial of Causes at Nisi Prius doth belong, shall summon and impannel not more than One hundred and forty four Jurors or such lesser Number as the Judge or Justices of Assize in England or the Judge or Justices of Assize of the Grand Sessions in Wales or the Justices of the Courts or Sessions in the Counties Palatine and Civil Side. of Chester, Durham or Lancaster, shall think fit to direct, to serve

attend the Resi

due thereof, to

serve indiscriminately on the Criminal

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Regulation as to Summons

and Attendance

of Jurors.

Jurors entitled to Certificates and Exemptions as heretofore.

Juries for Trial of Causes at

indiscriminately on the Criminal and Civil Side; and shall divide such Jurors equally into two Sets, the first of which Set shall attend and serve for so many Days at the Beginning of each Assizes, as the Judge or Justices of Assize in England, or the Judge or Justices of the Grand Sessions in Wales, or the Justices of the Courts of Sessions in the Counties Palatine of Chester, Durham or Lancaster, shall before or at the Commencement of such Assizes respectively think fit to direct; and the other of which Sets shall attend and serve for the Residue of such Assizes.

II. And be it further enacted, That such Sheriff or other Officer: shall, in the Summons to the Persons in each of such Sets, require the Attendance of such Persons at the said Assizes generally, according to the Mode now in Use, but upon the Back of each Summons he shall indorse whether the Person named therein is in the First or Second Set, and shall specify at what Time the Attendance of such Person will be required.

III. And be it further enacted, That every such Attendance and Service of such Jurors shall entitle such Jurors to the like Certificates and Exemptions as they have been heretofore entitled to, for their Attendance and Service during the whole Assizes.

IV. And be it further enacted, That the Slreriff or other Officer to whom the Return of the Venire facias Juratores or other ProNisi Prius to be cess for the Trial of Causes at Nisi Prius doth belong, shall upon drawn from the his Return of every such Writ or Process annex thereto a Panel, Set in Attend- containing the Christian and Surnames, Additions and Places of Abode, of the Persons in each of such Sets; and during the Attendance and Service of the First of such Sets, the Jury on the Civil Side shall be drawn from the Names of the Persons in that Set, and during the Attendance and Service of the Second of such Sets, from the Names of the Persons in such Second Set.

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