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Provisions of this Act; and the said Commisioners and the said Comptroller General and Assistant Comptroller, or other proper Officer acting under the said Commissioners, and also the said Governor and Company and their Cashier or Cashiers, shall be and they are hereby severally indemnified and saved harmless from all or any Suit or Action, at Law or in Equity, for any Act or Acts done or performed by them respectively in carrying into execution the Provisions of this Act or of the said recited Act.

Duties.

XI. And be it further enacted, That the said Contract for raising Exemptions the said Sum of Fifteen Millions, and all Receipts for Stock and from Stamp Transfers of Stock, and all Certificates given or made under the Provisions of this Act, or issued by the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, or by the Comptroller General or Assistant Comptroller, or by any other Officer of the said Commissioners, shall be exempted from Stamp Duty.

XII. And be it further enacted, That if any Person or Persons shall forge or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be forged or counterfeited, or shall willingly act or assist in the forging or counterfeiting, any Receipt or Receipts for the Whole of or any Part or Parts of the Contributions towards the said Sum of Fifteen Millions, either with or without the Name or Names of any Person or Persons being inserted therein as the Contributor or Contributors thereto, Payer or Payers thereof, or of any Part or Parts thereof, or any Certificate or other Instrument to be issued by the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, or shall alter any Number, Figure, or Word therein, or utter or publish as true any such false, forged, counterfeited, or altered Receipt or Receipts, Certificate or Certificates, Instrument or Instruments, with Intent to defraud the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, or the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, or any Body Politic or Corporate, or any Person or Persons whatsoever, every such Person or Persons so forging or counterfeiting, or causing or procuring to be forged or counterfeited, or willingly acting or assisting in the forging or counterfeiting, or altering, uttering, or publishing as aforesaid, being thereof convicted in due Form of Law, shall be adjudged guilty of Felony, and shall suffer Death as a Felon, without Benefit of Clergy.

Persons counterfeiting Retributions, &c. ceipts for Conguilty of Felony.

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XIII. And be it further enacted, That no Fee, Reward, or Gratuity whatsoever shall be demanded or taken of any of His taken for receiving ContriMajesty's Subjects for receiving or paying the said Subscription or butions, or payContribution Monies or any of them, or for any Receipt concerning ing or transthe same, or for paying the said Annuities or any of them, or for any ferring Annui Transfer of any Sum, great or small, to be made in pursuance of ties on Penalty this Act, upon pain that any Officer or Person offending by taking or demanding any such Fee, Reward, or Gratuity shall for every such Offence forfeit the Sum of Twenty Pounds to the Party aggrieved, with full Costs of Suit, to be recovered by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, wherein no Essoign, Protection, Privilege, or Wager of Law, Injunction or Order of Restraint, or any more than One Imparlance, shall be granted or allowed.

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XIV. And whereas certain Claims for Compensation under the For investing • Provisions of the said recited Act may be subject to Litigation the Compensabefore the Commissioners of Arbitration appointed thereunder, litigated Claims. [No. 17. Price 2d.]

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and also in the Courts of the several Colonies, and the final Settle⚫ment of such Claims may therefore be postponed to a distant Period: And whereas it is expedient to authorize the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt to transfer the said Compensation Funds so under Litigation as herein-after mentioned;' be it enacted, That in all such Cases it shall be lawful for the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury to direct the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt to pay over from Time to Time, if the Lords of the Treasury shall deem it expedient so to do, into the Bank of England in the Name of the Accountant General of the Court of Chancery or the Accountant General of the Court of Exchequer, in Trust for the Purposes herein-after mentioned, (any thing in any general Rules framed by the said Commissioners of Arbitration under any of the Clauses of the said recited Act to the contrary notwithstanding,) all such Sums of Money as shall from Time to Time be certified by the said Commissioners of Arbitration, according to the Provisions of the said Act, to be the Subject of any Suit in any of the said Courts of any of the said Colonies respectively, or of any Claim before the said Commissioners against which any counter Claim shall have been filed without any special Order for that Purpose, or other Authority than this Act, and whether such Courts of Chancery or Exchequer respectively shall be sitting or not, and such Sums shall be carried to new Accounts in the Books of the said Bank of England under the Title of "The litigated West India Compensation Account of the Court of Chancery," or " The litigated West India Compensation Account of the Court of Exchequer," as the Case may be; and such Monies, when so paid in, shall be placed to the Account of the Number of the Claim as stated and specified in the said Certificate of the said Commissioners; and such Monies, and the half-yearly Dividends arising from the Investments thereof, and also the Dividends on all future Investments as they arise and become due, shall be invested from Time to Time by the said Accountants General in their Names respectively, under the Authority of this Act, in Three per Cent. Consolidated Bank Annuities, to the said respective Accounts; and the said Bank Annuities purchased with the said Compensation Monies so invested as aforesaid, and the said Accumulations, shall be paid and transferred to the Person or Persons to whom the same shall be directed to be paid or transferred by any Adjudication or Award of the said Commissioners of Arbitration duly certified according to the Provisions of the said recited Act, or by the Decree, Order, or Judgment of the Court in the Colony made in the said Suit there depending, or any Court of Appeal; and a Copy of such Decree, Order, or Judgment of the Court in the Colony, or Court of Appeal, signed by the proper Officer of such Court, shall be sufficient Evidence of such Decree, Order, or Judgment to the Accountants General of the said Courts of Chancery or Exchequer: Provided always, that all Orders and Decrees made by any of the Courts in the said Colonies respectively, or the Courts of Appeal, or any Adjudication or Award of the said Commissioners of Arbitration duly certified, according to the Provisions of the said Act, shall be valid and effectual for the Purpose of authorizing the Demand upon and Payment by the Accountants General respectively of the said Courts of Chancery and Exchequer of the

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Sums included in such Orders, Decrees, Adjudications, or Awards respectively.

to Accountants General of

XV. And be it further enacted, That the said Accountant General Indemnification of the Court of Chancery and the said Accountant General of the Court of Exchequer shall be and they are hereby severally and Chancery and respectively indemnified and saved harmless from all or any Suit or Exchequer. Action, at Law or in Equity, for any Act to be done or performed by them in carrying into execution the Provisions of this Act or in acting under the same, and shall not be held or taken to be responsible for or liable to make good any Payment of Money or Transfer of Bank Annuities erroneously made by them respectively, unless the same shall have been occasioned by the wilful Default or Negligence of the said Accountant General respectively.

General may appoint a Deputy, whose Acts shall be

XVI. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful Accountants for the said Accountant General of the Court of Chancery and the said Accountant General of the Court of Exchequer respectively to nominate and appoint a fit and proper Person to do and perform all or any of the Acts and Duties imposed upon the said Accountants General by this Act, and that the Acts of the said Deputies shall be as valid and effectual as if the same had been done by the said Accountants General themselves.

valid.

Persons sued

may plead the

General Issue.

XVII. And be it further enacted, That if any Person or Persons shall be sued, molested, or prosecuted for any thing done by virtue or in pursuance of this Act, such Person or Persons shall and may plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the special Matter in Evidence in his, her, or their Defence or Defences; and if afterwards a Verdict shall pass for the Defendant or Defendants, or the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs shall discontinue his, her, or their Action or Prosecution, or be nonsuited, or Judgment shall be given against him, her, or them, upon Demurrer or otherwise, then such Defendant or Defendants shall have Treble Costs awarded to him, her, Treble Costs. or them against any such Plaintiff or Plaintiffs.

CAP. XLVI.

An Act to amend, until the End of the next Session of
Parliament, an Act of the Second Year of His present
Majesty, for making Provision for the Dispatch of the
Business now done by the Court of Exchequer in
Scotland.
[31st August 1835.]

WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Second Year of the

Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act for making 2W.4. c.54. Provision for the Dispatch of the Business now done by the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, it is amongst other Things enacted, ⚫ that if at any Time after the passing of the said Act the Number of the Barons of the said Court shall be reduced, or after the • Retirement or Decease of the last remaining Baron, then and in • such Case it shall and may be lawful during the Indisposition or Absence of the Baron and Barons of such Court to which the same shall be reduced, or of the Judge of the Court of Session to be appointed to try the Suits and Causes in the said Court, to and for the Judge of the Court of Session, officiating_as Lord Ordinary upon the Bills for the Time being, to grant Warrant

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In case of
Indisposition
of remaining
Baron of Court
of Exchequer,
Judge of Court
of Session to try

Suits in the
Exchequer
Court.

Duration of
Act.

3 & 4W.4. c. 84.

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for the issuing of all Commissions to find Debts, and Fiats for the issuing of all Writs and Extents, and other Process issuable out of the said Court of Exchequer, and also to revise such Signatures for the granting of Crown Charters as may be of an urgent Nature and require Dispatch, in like Manner and to as full Force and Effect as the Lord Chief Baron or other Barons of the said Court are by Law authorized to do: And whereas the Lord Chief Baron and One of the Barons of the said Court of Exchequer have retired since the passing of the said Act, and the Powers and Duties of the said Court of Exchequer are now discharged by the sole remaining Baron of the said Court: And whereas, in consequence of the continued Indisposition of the said sole remaining Baron, it has become expedient to provide more effectually for the proper Dispatch of the Business of the said Court of Exchequer: 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 at any Time after the passing of this Act it shall and may be lawful, during the Indisposition or unavoidable Absence of the said sole remaining Baron of the Court of Exchequer, or of the Judge of the Court of Session, to be appointed to try the Suits and Causes in the said Court, and perform the other Duties thereof in the said recited Act mentioned, to and for the Judge of the Court of Session officiating as Lord Ordinary upon the Bills for the Time being to try all Suits and Causes in the said Court of Exchequer, either in Term or out of Term, as he shall appoint, to grant Warrant for the issuing of all Commissions to find Debts, and Fiats for the issuing of all Writs of Extent and other Process issuable out of the said Court of Exchequer, and to revise, compound, and pass Signatures for the granting of Crown Charters, and generally to perform all the Powers and Duties of the said Court of Exchequer, as fully and effectually as the Lord Chief Baron, Barons, and sole remaining Baron of the said Court were and are by Law authorized to do; any thing in the said recited Act to the contrary notwithstanding.

II. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall continue in force until the End of the next Session of Parliament.

CAP. XLVII.

An Act to repeal so much of an Act passed in the Third
and Fourth Years of His present Majesty as relates to
the Amount of the Salary granted to the Clerk of the
Crown in Chancery; and to make other Provisions in
relation to the said Office.
[31st August 1835.]

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Years of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An 'Act to provide for the Performance of the Duties of certain Offices connected with the Court of Chancery which have been abolished, the Salary of the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery was fixed at Eight hundred Pounds per Annum, in full Satisfaction for the Duties of the said Office, and of all Expences incident to the • Performance

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• Performance thereof: And whereas the Expences of the said ⚫ Office vary, and in some Y ears may be so great as to leave a very ⚫ inadequate Sum for the Salary of the Clerk of the Crown; and it is expedient to make Provision for securing to that Officer a proper Remuneration for the responsible Duties performed by him, and for the Payment of the reasonable and necessary Expences of his Office: 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 so much of the said recited Act by which the yearly Salary of Eight hundred Pounds is granted to the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, in full Satisfaction for the Duties of the said Office, and of all Expences incident to the Performance thereof, shall be and the same is hereby repealed; and instead and in lieu thereof there shall be paid to the said Clerk of the Crown for the Time being the yearly Salary of Five hundred Pounds, free and clear from all Deductions on account of the Expences incident to the Performance of the Duties of the said Office; and the said Salary of Five hundred Pounds shall be issued and payable out of and be charged and chargeable upon the same Fund as the before-mentioned yearly Salary of Eight hundred Pounds was directed to be issued out of and made chargeable upon by the said recited Act.

II. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Lord High Treasurer, or any Three or more of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, for the Time being, and he and they is and are hereby required, by Warrant under his or their Hands, to allow to the said Clerk of the Crown, for his Clerks, and for the other incidental and necessary Expences of his Office, such Sum per Annum as he or they shall deem reasonable and proper; and the Sum so allowed as aforesaid shall be paid and payable out of and be charged and chargeable upon the Fees and Emoluments taken and received in the Office of the said Clerk of the Crown; and the Residue only of the said Fees and Emoluments, after Payment of the said Expences, shall be paid and payable into the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer, and be carried to and made Part of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, any thing in the said recited Act to the contrary notwithstanding.

III. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Lord High Treasurer, or any Three or more of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, from Time to Time to reduce or increase the Amount to be allowed to the said Clerk of the Crown for such Expences of his Office as Occasion may be or require.

Repealing so much of recited Salary of 8007. to the Clerk of the Crown, and

Act as grants a

granting a clear

Salary of 500l.

in lieu thereof.

The Treasury
may allow the
Expences of the
Office of the

Clerk of the
Crown, and

direct the same
to be paid out

of the Fees.

Treasury may vary the Allowance for Ex

pences.

commence and

IV. And be it further enacted, That the said yearly Salary of Salary and Sum Five hundred Pounds hereby granted to the Clerk of the Crown allowed for in Chancery, together with such annual Sum as shall be allowed Expences to by the said Lord High Treasurer or Commissioners of His Ma- be payable from jesty's Treasury for the Clerks and other incidental Expences of the 15th Nothe said Office as aforesaid, shall commence on and be payable and be paid from the Fifteenth Day of November One thousand eight hundred quarterly. and thirty-four, when the present Clerk of the Crown was appointed, and shall from Time to Time be paid and payable, charged

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