Chief of His Majesty's Forces in Great Britain and Ireland: And Whereas it is expedient that such Doubts should be removed;' Be it therefore declared and 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 Sentence of whenever there shall not be any Person appointed Commander in Transportation Chief of His Majesty's Forces in Great Britain and Ireland, the may be notified Notification of such Sentence, and of His Majesty's Pleasure by the Secretary thereupon, by the Secretary at War or his Deputy, shall be deemed Deputy when and taken to be as good and effectual as if made in pursuance of there shall be the said recited Act by the Commander in Chief or the Adjutant no Commander General; and all Acts and Orders done and made in pursuance of such Notification shall have the same Force and Effect and be as valid and effectual as if such Notification had been made by the Commander in Chief or the Adjutant General, as fully and effectually to all Intents and Purposes as if all the Powers and Provisions of the said recited Act were re-enacted as to all such Orders made by the Secretary at War or his Deputy.

CA P. LXIV.

at War or his

in Chief.

On Application made to the Clerk of the Parliaments, as to the Costs and

An Act to establish a Taxation of Costs on Private Bills in the House of Lords. [2d July 1827.] HEREAS it is expedient to establish a Taxation of the Costs, Charges, and Expences charged by Parliamentary Agents, in respect of Bills subject to the Payment of Fees in Parliament, commonly called Private Bills, and incurred in complying with the Standing Orders of the House of Lords relative to such Bills, and in preparing, bringing in, and carrying the same through, or in opposing the same in the House of Lords;' 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 if any Petitioner or Petitioners for or against a Private Bill brought into the House of Lords, or passed by the Commons House of Parliament and carried up to the House of Lords, or the Agent or Agents of any such Petitioner or Petitioners, shall make Application to the Clerk of the Parliaments, when discharging the Duties of his Office in Person, or in his Absence to the Clerk Assistant, complaining of the Amount of the Costs, Charges, and Expences charged by any Parliamentary Agent; or if any Parliamentary Agent shall make Application to the Clerk of the Parliaments, or Clerk Assistant as shall appoint. aforesaid, complaining that he is aggrieved by the Nonpayment of the Costs, Charges, and Expences charged by him in respect of any such Private Bill or Petition as aforesaid; it shall be lawful for the Clerk of the Parliaments, or Clerk Assistant as aforesaid, upon receiving any such Application, and he is hereby authorized and required, to direct that such Costs, Charges, and Expences, so far as the same shall relate to the House of Lords, shall be taxed by such Person or Persons as he shall think proper to appoint; and it shall be lawful for any Person or Persons so ap

pointed

Expences of Private Bills, he shall direct

the same to be taxed by such Persons as he

Fees to be al

Taxation.

pointed for the taxing such Costs, Charges, and Expences, and he and they is and are hereby required to tax the same, and to report to the Clerk of the Parliaments, or Clerk Assistant as aforesaid, the Amount of such Costs, Charges, and Expences which such Person or Persons shall think fit to be allowed upon and after such Taxation; and the Clerk of the Parliaments, or Clerk Assistant as aforesaid, shall, upon Application, deliver to the Person or Persons concerned therein and requiring the same, a Certificate, signed by himself, expressing the Amount of the Costs, Charges, and Expences allowed in and by such Report; and it shall be lawful for the Person or Persons so appointed to lowed for such tax such Costs, Charges, and Expences, and he and they is and are hereby authorized respectively to demand and receive for such Taxation and Report such Fees as shall be from time to time fixed by any Resolution of the House of Lords, and for that Purpose to charge the Amount of such Fees at the Foot of such Report, either against the Party applying for such Taxation, or against any Party complained of, or in such Proportions against each of such Parties as such Person or Persons so taxing such Costs, Charges, and Expences may think fit; and such Certificate, so signed by the Clerk of the Parliaments, or Clerk Assistant as aforesaid, shall be conclusive Evidence of all Demands therein certified; and the Party claiming under the same shall (upon receiving the Amount so certified) give a Receipt at the Foot of such Certificate, and such Receipt shall be sufficient Discharge for such Costs, Charges, and Expences.

In Actions

against Persons liable to pay the Costs, the Certificate shall

have the Effect of a Warrant to confess Judg

ment.

Taxators to

have Power to

administer Oaths, and to

require Vouch

II. And be it further enacted, That if any Petitioner, Agent, or other Person liable to the Payment of such Costs, Charges, and Expences, shall refuse to pay the Amount so certified by the Clerk of the Parliaments, or Clerk Assistant as aforesaid, in any Action which shall be commenced for the Recovery of such Costs, Charges, and Expences, such Certificate so signed by him as aforesaid shall have the Force and Effect of a Warrant to confess Judgment, and the Court in which such Action shall be commenced shall, upon Motion and Production of such Certificate, order Judgment to be entered up for the Sum specified in such Certificate, in like Manner as if the Defendant or Defendants in any such Action had signed a Warrant to confess Judgment in such Action to that Amount.

III. And be it further enacted, That the Person or Persons so appointed as aforesaid for taxing such Costs, Charges, and Expences shall be empowered, and he and they is and are hereby empowered, to administer an Oath to the Parties appearing before him or them in support of or in opposition to such Taxation, touching the Matters relating thereto; and to require the Production of proper Vouchers for all Monies charged as having been Parliamentary paid by any Parliamentary Agent in the Prosecution of or Opposition to such Private Bill as aforesaid.

ers for all Monies

charged by

Agents.

Clerk of the Parliaments to prepare a List of Charges to be allowed to Parliamentary

Agents.

IV. And be it further enacted, That the Clerk of the Parliaments, or Clerk Assistant as aforesaid, shall, before the First Day of the next Session of Parliament, prepare a List of all Charges which shall appear to him to be justly due and payable to Parliamentary Agents, for their Skill, Time, and Labour bestowed by them in the Prosecution of or Opposition to such Pri

vate Bills in the House of Lords as aforesaid; and such List of Charges shall, if approved by the House of Lords, be binding and conclusive upon all Parties concerned therein.

CAP. LXV.

An Act to explain and remove Doubts touching the Admiralty. [2d July 1827.] HEREAS Doubts may arise whether the Powers and Privileges given to, and the Duties imposed upon, the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral by various Acts of Parliament, do extend and apply to the Lord 'High Admiral: And Whereas it is expedient that such Doubts should be removed: May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be declared and enacted, and be it declared and 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 all Powers, Privileges, Authorities, Powers and Jurisdictions, and Exemptions given to, and all Duties and Privileges Obligations imposed upon, the Commissioners for executing the given by any Office of Lord High Admiral for the Time being, or any Two or more of them, or given to or imposed upon any other Person or of the AdmiBody Corporate in relation to the said Commissioners or any of ralty to extend them, by any Act of Parliament now in force, do extend and to the Lord apply, and shall be deemed, taken, and adjudged to extend and High Admiral. apply, to the Lord High Admiral for the Time being, and to such Person or Body Corporate in relation to the Lord High Admiral for the Time being, in like Manner and to all Intents and Purposes as if the Lord High Admiral had been expressly named in such Acts of Parliament.

Act to the
Commissioners

II. And be it further declared and enacted, That all Powers, Powers given Privileges, Authorities, Jurisdictions, and Exemptions given to, to the First and Duties imposed upon, the First Commissioner of the Admi- Commissioner ralty by any Act of Parliament now in force, shall extend and to extend to the Lord High apply, and be deemed and taken to extend and apply, in like Admiral. Manner, to the Lord High Admiral for the Time being. III. And be it further declared and enacted, That in all Cases in which the Signatures of any Two or more of the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral would be sufficient, if the said Office were executed by Commissioners, to give effect to any Commission, Warrant, Order, or other Document Commis whatsoever, the Signature of any Two or more of the Council of the sioners. Lord High Admiral, affixed by his Authority for that Purpose, shall be taken and adjudged to have the like Force and Efficacy.

The Signatures of Two of the Council to have

the same Effect as of Two

IV. And be it further enacted, That the Members of the Appointment Council of the Lord High Admiral shall, from and after the pass- of Members of ing of this Act, be appointed by His Majesty, and be removable the Council. at His Majesty's Pleasure: Provided always, that no Person hold- Proviso as to ing the Office of a Member of the present Council, being a Mem- present Member of the House of Commons at the Time of the passing of this Act, shall vacate his Seat by reason of being re-appointed to the same under the Provisions of this Act, or of his being made removable from the said Office at the Pleasure of His Majesty.

bers.

Members of the Council not deemed to hold a new Office.

V. And be it further enacted, That the Members of the Council of the Lord High Admiral for the Time being shall not be deemed and taken to have or hold any new Offices or Places of Profit within the Meaning of an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Anne, intituled An Act for the Security of Her Majesty's Person and Government, and of the Succession to the Crown of Great Britain in the Protestant Line.

CAP. LXVI.

An Act to extend an Act of the Fifty sixth Year of His late Majesty, for enabling His Majesty to grant small Portions of Land as Sites for Public Buildings, or to be used as Cemeteries. [2d July 1827.] HEREAS by an Act passed in the Fifty sixth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, inti56G. 8. c. 128. tuled An Act to amend Two Acts made in the Fifty third Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for opening a more convenient Communication from Mary-le-bone Park to Charing Cross, and for paving the Streets to be made in Mary-le-bone Park, and to enable His Majesty to grant small Portions of Land as Sites for Public Buildings, or to be used as Cemeteries, within the Bills of Mortality, after reciting that many Bodies Corporate and other Public Bodies, and many Persons formed into Societies for the 'Promotion and Advancement of the Arts, or of Literature and Knowledge, or for charitable or other useful Purposes, were frequently desirous of erecting Buildings for the transacting and carrying on the several useful Purposes in which they were engaged, and were unable to obtain convenient Spots of Ground or Sites for such Buildings, or for Easements and Accommoda⚫tions thereto; and that it would be very beneficial to the Public if His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, was and were enabled 'to grant and vest in any such Bodies Corporate, or other Public Bodies, Societies, or Persons, and their Successors, Heirs, Executors, or Administrators respectively, sufficient Spots and Parcels of Land for the erecting such Buildings thereon, or for Curtilages, Accesses, or other Conveniences, Easements, or 'Accommodations to any Buildings erected or to be erected for the Purposes aforesaid, and also for Cemeteries or Burial Grounds; it was by the now-reciting Act enacted, that the King's most Excellent Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, 'should have full Power and Authority to give and grant to and vest in any Body or Bodies Politic or Corporate, or other Public Bodies, Societies, or Persons, all or any Part of the Estate, Interest, or Property of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, in any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments within the Survey of the Court of Exchequer in England, situate within the Bills of Mortality, in order to be appropriated as a Site or Sites for erecting thereon any Building or Buildings for any of the Pur6 poses aforesaid, or to be used as a Curtilage or Curtilages, or for an Access or Accesses to any Building or Buildings erected or to 'be erected for any of the Purposes thereinbefore mentioned, or 'to be used for any Convenience, Easement, or Accommodation thereto or connected therewith, or for Cemeteries or Burial

6

• Grounds;

Crown Lands may be granted for Sites for

Public Buildings, Cemete

ries, &c.

'Grounds; and such Body or Bodies Corporate, or other Public 'Bodies, Societies, or Persons, and their Heirs, Successors, Ex'ecutors, or Administrators, should have full Capacity and Ability 'to receive, take, hold, and enjoy the same, as therein mentioned and declared: And Whereas it is expedient that the Provisions ' of the said recited Act should be enlarged and extended: 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 the King's most Excellent Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, shall have full Power and Authority to give and grant to and vest in any Body or Bodies Politic or Corporate, or other Public Bodies, Societies, or Persons, all or any Part of the Estate, Interest, or Property of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, in any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments within the Survey of the Court of Exchequer in England or Wales, in order to be appropriated or which have already been appropriated as a Site or Sites for erecting thereon any Building or Buildings for any of the Purposes in the said recited Act mentioned, or to be used as or for a Curtilage or Curtilages, or for an Access or Accesses to any Building or Buildings erected or to be erected for any of such Purposes, or to be used for any Convenience, Easement, or Accommodation thereto or connected therewith, or for Cemeteries or Burial Grounds: and such Body or Bodies Corporate, or other Public Bodies, Societies, or Persons, and their Heirs, Successors, Executors, or Administrators, shall have full Capacity and Ability to receive, take, hold, and enjoy the same; and whenever it shall be the Pleasure of His Majesty, His Manner of Heirs or Successors, to make a Grant for any such Purpose as making such aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful for the Lord High Treasurer, Grants. or the Commissioners of the Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the Time being, or any Three of them, to issue a Warrant under his or their Hand or Hands to any such Body or Bodies Corporate, or other Public Bodies, Societies, or Persons as aforesaid, which Warrant shall be exempt from any Stamp Duty whatever, and shall be enrolled in the Office of the Auditor of the Land Revenue for the Division or County within which the Premises therein specified shall be situate, and also in the Office of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues; and such Auditor, and such Commissioners, having enrolled the said Warrant, shall certify such Enrolment at the Foot or on the Back thereof, under his or their Hand or Hands, and return the said Warrant to the Grantee or Grantees of such Lands and Premises; and from and immediately after such Enrolment thereof, the respective Grantees named in such Warrant, and their Heirs, Successors, Executors, or Administrators, shall by force of this Act be adjudged, deemed, and taken to be in the actual Seisin and Possession of the Premises in the said Warrant specified, and shall hold and enjoy the same, either absolutely and in perpetuity, or for such limited Estate, Term, or Interest, and under and subject to such Reservations of Rent or other Acknowledgments or Restrictions in relation to the Buildings to be erected thereon, and the Form, Elevation, or Design thereof, the Line on which the same shall range, or the Uses or