Form of
Certificate.

FORM of Certificate to be endorsed upon the original Memorial.
I DO hereby certify, That the Deed, of which the within Writ-
ing is a Memorial, was delivered to me in my Office, in
a subscribing Witness thereto,

by

* upon this Day

day

the

Day of

• One thousand eight hundred and
; and that the
Execution of the said Deed and Memorial was then proved by
the said
as required by the Statute in that case
made and provided; and I do hereby further certify, that the
< said
at the same Time, and therewith, delivered
to me a Copy of the within Memorial, which he then verified upon
Oath, as by said Statute is required; and that I have endorsed
⚫ a Certificate upon said Copy, corresponding in Purport herewith.

C. D. One of the Extraordinary Com-
'missioners of the Court of Chancery
in Ireland for taking Affidavits in
'Great Britain.'

FORM of Certificate to be endorsed upon the Copy of the Memorial.

Form of Certi-DO hereby certify, That the Deed, of the Memorial of which Deed the within Writing is a Copy, was delivered to me in

ficate to be endorsed on the Copy.

Memorial and

tificates transmitted to Re

gistrar of Deeds in Ireland, who

shall enter

same.

· ness thereto, upon

a subscribing Wit

Day of

One thousand eight hundred and

; and that the Execution of said Deed and Memorial was

'then proved by the said

as required by the Sta

tute in that case made and provided; and I do hereby further
certify, that the said
at the same Time, and there-

with, delivered to me the within Copy of the said Memorial, which he then verified upon Oath, as by said Statute is required; ' and I have certified the same upon the said Memorial.

C. D. One of the Extraordinary Com'missioners of the Court of Chancery 'in Ireland for taking Affidavits in • Great Britain.'

III. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That Copy with Cer- the said Extraordinary Commissioner shall thereupon deliver the said Memorial and Copy, with said respective Certificates, to the Person or Persons concerned, to be by such Person or Persons transmitted to the Registrar of Deeds in Ireland; and that the Registrar of Deeds in Ireland shall, upon receiving the same, register the said Memorial, and enter the same in the alphabetical Calendars kept by him, in the manner in which all other Memorials are registered and entered by him, without the Deed or Instrument in such Memorial mentioned being produced unto the said Registrar or Deputy Registrar, or the Stamps thereon examined by him; any thing whatsoever in an Act passed in the Fifty sixth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to repeal the several Stamp Duties in Ireland, and also several Acts for the Collection and Management of the said Duties, and to grant new Stamp Duties in lieu thereof, and to make more effectual Regulations for collecting and managing the said Duties, in any wise to the contrary thereof notwithstanding; and the said

Copy and Cer

tificate to be returned to Extraordinary Commissioner in G. B.

56 G.3. c.56.

Registrar

Commissioner

thereon.

Registrar or Deputy Registrar shall certify the Registry thereof in
Writing upon the Copy of said Memorial in the Form or to the
Effect hereinafter mentioned; and thereupon deliver the said Copy
and such Certificate thereon, signed by him, to the Party or Parties
concerned, to be by him, her or them returned to the Extraordinary
Commissioner in Great Britain before whom the said Memorial had
been proved; and said Extraordinary Commissioner shall, upon Duty of such
Recelpt thereof, endorse upon the Deed or Instrument, the Me- Extraordinary
morial of which Deed or Instrument has been so registered, a
Certificate under his Hand of the Registry thereof, in the Form
or to the Effect hereinafter mentioned, and shall, upon Payment of
his Fees, return said Deed, Instrument or Writing to the Person
or Persons concerned, together with the certified Copy of said
Memorial, first endorsing upon said Copy a Memorandum or Note
of his having endorsed upon said Deed a Certificate correspond-
ing with the Irish Register's said Certificate of the Registry there-
of; for which several Duties the Extraordinary Commissioners
aforesaid are hereby respectively authorized to demand and re-
ceive the Fees following; that is to say,

For administering the Oath to the Wit-£ s. d.
ness of the Execution of the Deed
and Memorial

For administering the Oath to the Wit

ness upon his verifying the Copy of
the Memorial

For the Certificate upon the Memorial
For the Certificate upon the verified
Copy thereof

026

23

66

0

036

For the Certificate upon the Deed of the
Registry thereof in Ireland -

Fees to Extraordinary Commissioner.

0 15 6

IV. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Certificate to be given by the Registrar of Deeds in Ireland, upon the Copy of the Memorial so to be registered, shall be in the Form or to the Effect following:

A MEMORIAL of the within mentioned Deed was entered in Form of Certithe Register's Office in the City of Dublin, in that Part of ficate to be the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called Ire- gistrar on Copy day the

• land, upon

of our Lord

or near the Hour of

Page

Day of

o'Clock in the

and Number

given by Re

in the Year of Memorial.

at

noon, in Book

; and the Execution ⚫ of said Deed and Memorial was duly proved in that Part of the • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, • before One of the Extraordinary Commissioners of the Court of Chancery of Ireland for taking Affida'vits in Great Britain, as appears by said Memorial and the Cer⚫tificate of said

3 GEO. IV.

Tt

thereon.

Register.'

V. And

Form of Certificate to be given by Extraordinary Commissioner.

On Production
of Deed, how
Registrar in
Ireland to act.

Deeds registered accordingly, deemed effectual.

Forging Memorials and Certificates.

V. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Certificate to be given by the Extraordinary Commissioner as before mentioned, upon the Deed, Instrument or Writing, the Execution whereof shall have been so proved before said Extraordinary Commissioner in Manner aforesaid, whereof a Memorial also so proved before said Extraordinary Commissioner shall have been so registered in Ireland, shall be in the Form or to the Effect following:

day the

MEMORIAL of the within Deed was entered in the Regis-
ter's Office in the City of Dublin, upon
Day of
in the Year of our Lord
at or near the Hour of

Page

o'Clock in the

and Number

noon, in Book ; the Execution of said Deed and Memorial having been first duly proved before me, pursuant to the Statute in that Case made and provided, and such Registry appearing by the Certi'ficate of the Register in Ireland upon the Copy of said Memorial, and by my Attestation thereof upon said Register's Certificate. Dated this Day of One thousand eight hundred and

C. D. One of the Extraordinary Commissioners • of the Court of Chancery in Ireland for taking Affidavits in Great Britain.'

And the said Certificate, so signed by such Extraordinary Com-
missioner, shall be taken and allowed as Evidence of the Registry
of the Memorial therein mentioned in all Courts of Record what-
soever in Great Britain and Ireland respectively: Provided always,
that the Registrar or Deputy Registrar of Deeds in Ireland shall,
upon the Production of any Deed, Instrument or Writing, a Me-
morial whereof shall have been proved upon Oath before One of
the Extraordinary Commissioners aforesaid, register such Memo-
rial, and shall endorse a Certificate of the Registry thereof upon
the said produced Deed or Instrument in the usual Manner; any
thing
hereinbefore contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
VI. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid,
That every Deed, Conveyance or other Instrument in Writing,
a Memorial whereof shall be duly registered according to the
Regulations in this Act prescribed, shall be deemed and taken as
good and effectual in Law and Equity, according to the Priority
of Time of registering such Memorial, of, for and concerning the
Honors, Manors, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, in such
Deed, Conveyance or other Instrument in Writing mentioned or
contained, according to the Right, Title and Interest of the Per-
son or Persons so conveying such Honors, Manors, Lands, Tene-
ments and Hereditaments, against all and every other Deed, Con-
veyance or Disposition of the Honors, Manors, Lands, Tenements
or Hereditaments, or any Part thereof, comprised or contained in
any such Memorial as aforesaid.

VII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That
if
any Person or Persons shall at any Time forge or counterfeit
any such Memorial or Certificate as are herein before mentioned,
and be thereof lawfully convicted, such Person or Persons shall
incur and be liable to such Pains and Penalties as in and by an

Act of Parliament made in Ireland in the Twenty eighth Year of the Penalties of Reign of Queen Elizabeth, intituled An Act against forging Evi- 28 Eliz. (I.) dence, are imposed upon such like Offenders as therein mentioned;

and if any Person or Persons shall at any Time wilfully swear Swearing falsely before any such Extraordinary Commissioner in any of the falsely. Cases aforesaid, and be thereof lawfully convicted, such Person or

Persons shall incur and be liable to the same Pains and Penalties Punishment. as if such Oath had been made in any of the Courts of Record in Great Britain or Ireland.

VIII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, Public Act. That this present Act shall be taken and allowed, in all Courts within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, as a Public Act; and all Judges, Justices and other Persons therein concerned, are hereby required as such to take Notice thereof, without specially pleading the same.

CA P. CXVII.

An Act to reduce the Stamp Duties on Reconveyances of
Mortgages, and in certain other Cases; and to amend an
Act of the last Session of Parliament, for removing Doubts
as to the Amount of certain Stamp Duties in Great Britain
and Ireland respectively.
[5th August 1822.]

WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Fifty fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for repealing the Stamp Duties on Deeds, Law Proceedings and other written or printed Instruments and the Duties on Fire Insurances, and on Legacies and Successions to Personal Estates upon Intestacies, now payable in Great Britain, and for granting other Duties in lieu thereof; and by an Act passed in the Fifty sixth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to repeal the several Stamp Duties in Ireland; and also several Acts for the Collection and Management of the said Duties, and to grant new Stamp Duties in lieu thereof, and to make more effectual Regulations for collecting and managing the said Duties; and by the Schedules to the said Acts, respectively annexed, certain ad valorem Duties and other Duties were imposed on any Transfer, Assignment, Disposition, Assignation or Reconveyance of any Mortgage or Wadset, or other such Security as in the said Acts, and the Schedules thereto annexed, are mentioned, specified and contained; and by the said Act of the Fifty sixth Year aforesaid, and the said Schedule thereto annexed, a Duty of Three Pence was also imposed on every Promissory Note, whether in the Form of a Bank Note, Bank Post Bill or otherwise, issued by the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland, or by any registered Banker or Bankers in Ireland, where the Sum therein expressed should not amount to Five Pounds: And Whereas it is expedient that the said several Duties should be repealed, and that other Duties should be granted in lieu thereof, in manner hereinafter mentioned: 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

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and

Duties under

55 G.3. c.184.

Sched. Part 1.
on Transfer of

Mortgages in
Great Britain.

Duties under

56 G.3. c.56.

Sched. Part 1. on Transfer of

Mortgages and Bankers' Notes in Ireland.

Duties hereinbefore mentioned, re

pealed, except as to Recovery of Arrears, &c.

New Duties:

On Transfers

in Great Britain and Ire

land.

and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the Expiration of Ten Days after the passing of this Act, the said several Duties hereinbefore mentioned shall be and the same are hereby repealed; save as to the raising, receiving, allowing or paying any Arrears of the said Duties under the said Acts or either of them respectively; and save as to any Proceedings commenced or to be commenced in any Court, Civil or Criminal, or otherwise, against any Person or Persons for or by reason of any Fine, Penalty or Forfeiture, or Punishment, for or in respect of any Crime or Offence committed or to be committed before the Expiration of Ten Days next after the passing of this Act, in any wise relating to the Collection or Management of the said Duties so repealed.

II. And be it further enacted, That from and after the Expiration of Ten Days next after the passing of this Act, in lieu and instead of the Duties by this Act repealed, there shall be granted, raised, levied, collected and paid in Ireland, unto His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, the several Sums of Money and Duties following; that is to say, upon any Transfer, Assignment, Disposition, of Mortgages Assignation or Reconveyance of any Mortgage, or of any other Security in the said Acts, and the Schedules thereto annexed, in that respect severally mentioned, or of the Benefit thereof, or of the Money or Stock thereby secured, provided no further Sum of Money or Stock be added to the Principal Money or Stock already secured, there shall be paid in Great Britain a Stamp Duty of One Pound Fifteen Shillings, and in Ireland a Stamp Duty of One Pound British Currency, for the First Skin or Piece of Vellum or Parchment, or Sheet or Piece of Paper, upon which such Transfer, Assignment, Disposition, Assignation or Reconveyance shall be ingrossed, written or printed; and where any such Transfer or Assignment, Disposition or Assignation, in Great Britain, hereby charged with the Duty of One Pound Fifteen Shillings, together with any Schedule, Receipt, or other Matter put or indorsed thereon, or annexed thereto, shall contain Two thousand one hundred and sixty Words or upwards, then for every entire Quantity of One thousand and eighty Words contained therein, over and above the First One thousand and eighty Words, there shall be paid a further progressive Duty of One Pound Five Shillings; and for every Skin or Piece of Vellum or Parchment, or Sheet or Piece of Paper beyond the First, upon which any such Transfer, Assignment or Reconveyance shall be ingrossed, written or printed in Ireland, there shall be paid the Sum of Ten Shillings British Currency; and if any further Sum of Money or Stock shall be added to the Principal Money or Stock already secured, the ad valorem Duty on Mortgages, payable under the said recited Acts respectively, shall be charged only in respect of such further Money or Stock; and that upon every Promissory Note, whether in the Form of a Bank Note, Bank Post Bill or otherwise, which Bankers' Notes shall be issued by the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland, or by any Banker or Bankers in Ireland, who shall have registered his or their Name or Names, or Firm, in manner directed by Law, where the Sum therein expressed shall not amount to Five Pounds, there shall be paid the Sum of One Penny Halfpenny Irish Currency, and no more.

On Bank of Ireland and

under 51. in

Ireland.

III. And