of the said Act made and passed in the ninth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, or who may hereafter be appointed to any office in a savings bank, or in a society established under this Act, and being intrusted with the keeping of the accounts, or having in his hands or possession, by virtue of his said office or employment, any monies or effects belonging to such savings bank or society, or any deeds or securities relating to the same, shall die, or become a bankrupt or insolvent, or have any execution or attachment or other process issued against his lands, goods, chattels, or effects, or make any assignment thereof for the benefit of his creditors, his executors, administrators, or assignees, or other persons having legal right, or the sheriff or other officer executing such process, shall, within forty days after demand made by two of the trustees of the said savings bank or society as aforesaid, deliver and pay over all monies and other things belonging to such savings bank or society to such person as the said trustees shall appoint, and shall pay out of the estates, assets, or effects of such person all sums of money remaining due which such person received by virtue of his said office or employment, before any other of his debts are paid or satisfied, or before the money directed to be levied by such process as aforesaid is paid over to the party issuing such process; and all such assets, lands, goods, chattels, estates, and effects shall be bound to the payment and discharge thereof accordingly.

[S. 29 rep. 56 & 57 Vict. c. 69.]

CHAPTER XV.

THE DRAMATIC COPYRIGHT ACT, 1833 (Short Titles Act, 1896).

AN ACT to amend the Laws relating to Dramatic Literary Property. [10th June 1833.]

[Preamble recites 54 Geo. 3, c. 156, s. 4.]

1. THE AUTHOR OF ANY DRAMATIC PIECE OR HIS ASSIGNEE SHALL HAVE AS HIS PROPERTY THE SOLE LIBERTY OF REPRESENTING IT WHEN NOT PUBLISHED; AND AFTER PUBLICATION FOR 28 YEARS OR DURING AUTHOR'S LIFE-PROVISO AS TO CASES WHERE, PREVIOUSLY TO the passing oF THIS ACT, CONSENT HAS BEEN GIVEN TO SUch RepresentATION. The author of any tragedy, comedy, play, opera, farce, or any other dramatic piece or entertainment, composed and not printed and published by the author thereof or his assignee, or which hereafter shall be composed and not printed or published by the author thereof or his assignee, or the assignee of such author, shall have as his own property the sole liberty of representing, or causing to be represented, at any place or places of dramatic entertainment whatsoever, in any part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the Isles of Man, Jersey, and Guernsey, or in any part of the British dominions, any such production as aforesaid, not printed and published by the author thereof or his assignee, and shall be deemed and taken to be the proprietor thereof; and the author of any such production, printed and published within ten years before the passing of this Act by the author thereof or his assignee, or which shall hereafter be so printed and published, or the assignee of such author, shall, from the time of passing this Act, or from the time of such publication respectively, until the end of twenty-eight years from the day of such first publication of the same, and also, if the author or authors, or the survivor of the authors, shall be living at the end of that period, during the residue of his natural life, have as his own property the sole liberty of representing, or causing to be represented, the same at any such place of dramatic entertainment as aforesaid, and shall be deemed and taken to be the proprietor thereof: Provided nevertheless, that nothing in this Act contained shall prejudice, alter, or affect the right or authority of any person to represent or cause to be represented, at any place or places of dramatic entertainment whatsoever, any such production as aforesaid, in all cases in which the author thereof or his assignee shall, previously to the passing of this Act, have given his consent to or authorized such representation; but that such sole liberty of the author or his assignee shall be subject to such right or authority.

2. PENALTY ON PERSONS REPRESENTING PIECES CONTRARY TO THIS ACT.-If any person shall, during the continuance of such sole liberty as aforesaid, contrary to the intent of

this Act or right of the author or his assignee, represent or cause to be represented, without the consent in writing of the author or other proprietor first had and obtained, at any place of dramatic entertainment within the limits aforesaid, any such production as aforesaid, or any part thereof, every such offender shall be liable for each and every such representation to the payment of an amount not less than forty shillings, or to the full amount of the benefit or advantage arising from such representation, or the injury or loss sustained by the plaintiff therefrom, whichever shall be the greater damages, to the author or other proprietor of such production so represented contrary to the true intent and meaning of this Act, to be recovered, together with double costs of suit, by such author or other proprietors, in any court having jurisdiction in such cases in that part of the said United Kingdom or of the British dominions in which the offence shall be committed; and in every such proceeding where the sole liberty of such author or his assignee as aforesaid shall be subject to such right or authority as aforesaid, it shall be sufficient for the plaintiff to state that he has such sole liberty, without stating the same to be subject to such right or authority, or otherwise mentioning 1 As to minimum penalty and costs, see 51 & 52 Vict. c. 17, ss. 1, 2.

the same.

3. LIMITATION OF ACTIONS.-Provided nevertheless, that all actions or proceedings for any offence or injury that shall be committed against this Act shall be brought, sued, and commenced within twelve calendar months next after such offence committed, or else the same shall be void and of no effect.

4. EXPLANATION OF WORDS.-Whenever authors, persons, offenders, or others are spoken of in this Act in the singular number or in the masculine gender, the same shall extend to any number of persons and to either sex.

CHAPTER XXIV.

THE GOVERNMENT ANNUITIES ACT, 1833 (Short Titles Act, 1896).

AN ACT to amend an Act of the Tenth Year of His late Majesty, for regulating the Reduction of the National Debt. [9th July 1833.]

[Preamble recites 10 Geo. 4, c. 27, ss. 3, 8, which direct the payment of part of the surplus revenue to the National Debt Commissioners, and the application of such monies in the reduction of the National Debt.]

1. THE COMMISSIONERS FOR THE REDUCTION OF THE NATIONAL DEBT MAY APPLY THE MONIES OF THE SINKING FUND TO THE PURCHASE OF THE REVERSION OF PERPETUAL REDEEMABLE ANNUITIES.-It shall and may be lawful for the said commissioners for the reduction of the national debt (and the said commissioners are hereby authorized and empowered), out of any of the said monies which shall be issued to them towards the reduction of the national debt by virtue of the said recited Act or of any other Act or Acts now in force or which may hereafter be passed relating to the fund commonly called "The Sinking Fund," to apply such monies or any part thereof, if they shall think fit, at such time and times and under such regulations as the said commissioners shall think proper to adopt for that purpose, to the purchase of the reversion of any of the present existing perpetual redeemable annuities, or the reversion of any perpetual redeemable annuities which may at any time exist after the passing of this Act, and constituting the public funded debt of the United Kingdom, and to grant to any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, in exchange for such perpetual annuities payable at the Bank of England as shall or may be transferred to them under the provisions of this Act, an annuity or annuities, to continue for such limited term of years certain, and upon such terms and conditions, as shall and may be agreed upon between the said commissioners and the parties contracting with the said commissioners.

2. ANNUITIES FOR TERMS OF YEARS GRANTED BY VIRTUE OF THIS ACT SHALL BE CHARGED UPON THE CONSOLIDATED FUND, AND BE SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF 10 GEO. 4, c. 24, AND 2 & 3 WILL. 4, c. 59.-All annuities for term of years granted by the said commissioners by virtue of this Act shall be charged and the same are hereby made

chargeable upon the consolidated fund of the said United Kingdom, and the said annuities shall be deemed and taken to be annuities for terms of years granted by the said commissioners within the meaning and intent of the Act passed in the tenth year of the reign of King George the Fourth, intituled "An Act to enable the commissioners "for the reduction of the national debt to grant life annuities, and annuities for terms "of years," and all the clauses, conditions, provisions, directions, regulations, and periods of payment contained in the said last-recited Act relating to immediate annuities granted or to be granted by the said commissioners for certain terms of years, and in a certain Act made and passed in the second and third years of the reign of King William the Fourth, intituled "An Act to transfer the management of certain annuities on lives from "the receipt of his Majesty's Exchequer to the management of the commissioners for "the reduction of the national debt, and to amend an Act for enabling the said com"missioners to grant life annuities and annuities for terms of years," shall be deemed and taken to apply to the annuities for terms of years which shall at any time be granted by the said commissioners under and by virtue of this Act, as fully and effectually, to all intents and purposes (except as altered and varied by virtue of this Act), as if the said clauses, conditions, provisions, directions, regulations, and periods of payment were severally repeated and re-enacted in this Act.

3. ALL PERPETUAL ANNUITIES HEREAFTER TRANSFERRED TO COMMISSIONERS FOR THE REDUCTION OF THE NATIONAL DEBT SHALL BE CANCELLED.-All the perpetual annuities which shall at any time after the passing of this Act be transferred to the said commissioners under the provisions of this Act shall be forthwith cancelled in the book of the Bank of England; and the said perpetual annuities shall cease to be charged upon or to be issued out of the said consolidated fund from and after the day upon which any such perpetual annuities shall be transferred to and placed in the names of the said commissioners in the books of the said bank.

4. ANNUITIES FOR TERMS OF YEARS MAY BE TRANSFERRED TO AND FROM THE BANK OF ENGLAND AND IRELAND AS PERMITTED BY 5 GEO. 4, c. 53. The annuities for terms of years granted by the said commissioners under the provisions of this Act, or already granted or to be granted under the said last-recited Act or of any future Act or Acts by which any annuities for terms of years certain shall be created, shall and may be transferred to and from the books of the Bank of England to the books of the Bank of Ireland, and vice versâ, for the purpose of having corresponding sums in the like annuities for terms of years written into the books of the said respective banks, in like manner and under the same regulations as any other annuities for terms of years or capital stock are permitted to be so transferred under and by virtue of [1an Act passed in the fifth year of the reign of King George the Fourth, intituled "An Act to permit "the mutual transfer of capital in certain public stocks or funds transferable at the "Banks of England and Ireland respectively."]

1 By s. 50 of 33 & 34 Vict. c. 71, Part VI. of that Act is substituted in this section for 5 Geo. 4, c. 53.

CHAPTER XXIX.

THE ARMY (ARTILLERY, &c.) PENSIONS ACT, 1833 (Short Titles Act, 1896). AN ACT to make further Provisions with respect to the payment of Pensions granted for Service in the Royal Artillery, Engineers, and other Military Corps under the Controul of the Master General and Board of Ordnance, and with respect to Deductions hereafter to be made from Pensions granted by the Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital. [24th July 1833.]

[Preamble.]

1. PENSIONS TO ARTILLERYMEN, &C. HERETOFORE GRANTED BY BOARD OF ORDNANCE SHALL BE GRANTED BY COMMISSIONERS OF CHELSEA HOSPITAL.-The whole of the said pensions, allowances, and relief payable to soldiers and others discharged from the royal artillery, engineers, and other military corps which have been heretofore granted and paid by the said master general and board of ordnance, shall be granted and paid

by and be under the power, management, controul, direction, and authority of the said commissioners of Chelsea hospital.

2. REGULATIONS AS TO ARMY PENSIONS SHALL APPLY TO PENSIONS UNDER THIS ACT. -All the clauses, rules, regulations, powers, pains, forfeitures, matters, and things contained in any Act or Acts of Parliament now in force relating to pensions granted or to be granted to disabled, invalid, or discharged soldiers, shall be applicable and applied and put in force for the purposes of this Act, with respect to all subsisting pensions already granted by the board of ordnance on account of the services herein-before mentioned, and to all pensions, relief, and allowances hereafter to be granted and payable to soldiers and others on account of such services.

[S. 3 rep. 37 & 38 Vict. c. 35 (S.L.R.).]

4. NO FEE TO BE TAKEN FROM CHELSEA OUT-PENSIONERS FOR ADMINISTERING OATH ON RECEIPT OF PENSION, &C.No fee or payment whatever shall be demanded or taken from any out-pensioner of Chelsea hospital, or charged against him, for administering or attesting any oath necessary or required to be taken for the receipt of any pension or allowance of money payable at or from Chelsea hospital, or for the making or executing or attesting any assignment of out-pension, or orders of justices relating to any out-pension, or to any payment on account thereof.

S. 4 in part rep. 37 & 38 Vict. c. 35 (S.L.R.).

CHAPTER XXXI.

THE SUNDAY OBSERVANCE ACT, 1833 (Short Titles Act 1896)

AN ACT to enable the Election of Officers of Corporations and other Public Companies now required to be held on the Lord's Day to be held on the Saturday next preceding, or on the Monday next ensuing.

[Preamble.]

[24th July 1833.]

1. ELECTIONS OF OFFICERS OF CORPORATIONS AND OTHER PUBLIC COMPANIES AND OTHER MEETINGS NOW REQUIRED TO BE HELD ON A SUNDAY SHALL BE HELD ON THE SATURDAY PRECEDING OR THE MONDAY FOLLOWING-IF ELECTION DOES NOT TAKE PLACE ON THE SATURDAY THE PERSON HOLDING THE OFFICE SHALL CONTINUE SO TO DO UNTIL THE MONDAY. Every meeting or adjourned meeting of any vestry or corporation, whether ecclesiastical or civil, or of any public company, for the nomination, election, appointment, swearing in, or admission of any officer or officers, or for the transaction of any other secular affair of such vestry, corporation, or company, and every other meeting of a public and secular nature, which, according to any Act of Parliament, or according to any charter, grant, constitution, deed, testament, law, prescription, or usage whatsoever, is or shall be required to be held on any Lord's day, or on any day which shall happen to be on a Lord's day, shall be held on the Saturday next preceding or on the Monday next ensuing, at the like hour, with like form and effect, as if the same had been held on such Lord's day; and every matter transacted at any such meeting or adjourned meeting held upon any Lord's day shall be absolutely void and of none effect, to all intents and purposes whatsoever: Provided always, that when no such nomination, election, appointment, swearing in, or admission shall have taken place on such Saturday, every person whose term of office would, according to any such Act, charter, grant, constitution, deed, testament, law, prescription, or usage, have expired on any such Lord's day, shall continue in office, and exercise and enjoy all the powers and privileges annexed or relating to such office, until and on such Monday next ensuing, in the same manner as if such Monday had been the customary day of nomination, election, appointment, swearing in, or admission.

[S. 2 rep. 52 & 53 Vict. c. 51 (S.L.R.).]

CHAPTER XLI.

THE JUDICIAL COMMITTEE ACT, 1833 (Short Titles Act, 1896).

AN ACT for the better Administration of Justice in His Majesty's Privy Council. [14th August 1833.]

[Preamble.]

1. CERTAIN MEMBERS OF PRIVY COUNCIL TO FORM A Committee to be STYLED "THE JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL."-The president for the time being of his Majesty's privy council, ... and such of the members of his Majesty's privy council as shall from time to time hold any of the offices following, that is to say, the office of lord keeper or first lord commissioner of the great seal of Great Britain and also all persons, members of his Majesty's privy council, who shall have been president thereof . . or shall have held any of the other offices herein-before mentioned, shall form a committee of his Majesty's said privy council, and shall be styled "The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council": Provided nevertheless, that it shall be lawful for his Majesty from time to time, as and when he shall think fit, by his sign manual, to appoint any two other persons, being privy councillors, to be members of the said committee.

1 S. 1 extended so as to include such members of the Privy Council as hold or have held certain high judicial offices, 50 & 51 Vict. c. 70, s. 3, and in part rep. 37 & 38 Vict. c. 35 (S.L.R.) and 51 & 52 Vict. c. 67 (S.L.R.).

[S. 2 rep. 53 & 54 Vict. c. 27, s. 18, but see terms of repeal.]

3. APPEALS TO KING IN COUNCIL FROM SENTENCE OF ANY JUDGE, &C. SHALL BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE, TO REPORT THEREON.-All appeals or complaints in the nature of appeals whatever, which either by virtue of this Act, or of any law, statute, or custom, may be brought before his Majesty or his Majesty in council from or in respect of the determination, sentence, rule, or order of any court, judge, or judicial officer, and all such appeals as are now pending and unheard, shall from and after the passing of this Act be referred by his Majesty to the said judicial committee of his privy council, and such appeals, causes, and matters shall be heard by the said judicial committee, and a report or recommendation thereon shall be made to his Majesty in council for his decision thereon as heretofore, in the same manner and form as has been heretofore the custom with respect to matters referred by his Majesty to the whole of his privy council or a committee thereof (the nature of such report or recommendation being always stated in open court).

4. HIS MAJESTY MAY REFER ANY OTHER MATTERS TO THE COMMITTEE. It shall be lawful for his Majesty to refer to the said judicial committee for hearing or consideration any such other matters whatsoever as his Majesty shall think fit; and such committee shall thereupon hear or consider the same, and shall advise his Majesty thereon in manner aforesaid.

5. NO REPORT TO BE MADE UNLESS WITH CONCURRENCE OF MAJORITY PRESENT—OTHER MEMBERS OF COUNCIL MAY BE SUMMONED TO ATTEND.— . . No report or recommendation shall be made to his Majesty unless a majority of the members of such judicial committee present at the hearing shall concur in such report or recommendation : Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall prevent his Majesty, if he shall think fit, from summoning any other of the members of his said privy council to attend the meetings of the said committee.

S. 5 in part rep. 14 & 15 Vict. c. 83, s. 16.

6. IF HIS MAJESTY DIRECTS THE ATTENDANCE OF ANY MEMBER WHO IS A JUDGE, THE OTHER JUDGES OF THE COURT TO WHICH HE BELONGS SHALL ARRANGE WITH REGARD TO THE BUSINESS OF THE COURT.—In case his Majesty shall be pleased, by directions under his sign manual, to require the attendance at the said committee for the purposes of this Act of any member or members of the said privy council who shall be a judge or judges of the Court of King's Bench, or of the Court of Common Pleas, or of the Court of Exchequer, such arrangements for dispensing with the attendance of such judge or judges upon his or their ordinary duties during the time of such attendance at the privy council as aforesaid shall be made by the judges of the court or courts to which such