Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments whereunto any Advowson or Right of Nomination or Presentation to any Benefice or Ecclesiastical Preferment is appendant or appurtenant, or ' of any Advowson in gross, or hath or have any Right or Title 'to nominate or present to any Benefice or Ecclesiastical Preferment, every such Advowson, and every such Right of • Nomination and Presentation, shall be sold, at such Time and in such Manner as the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England may direct, so that the best Price may be obtained for the same; and the Council of such Body Corporate is ' authorized and required, with the Consent of the said Commissioners, to convey and assure, under the Common Seal of 'such Body Corporate, such Advowson, or such Right of Nomi'nation or Presentation, to the Purchaser or Purchasers there' of: And whereas in some Instances the Manors, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments whereof some Municipal Corpora⚫tions are seised were granted to them with an Obligation to ⚫ nominate, provide, and sustain in certain Churches or Chapels able and fit Priests, Curates, Preachers, or Ministers for the • Performance and Administration of Ecclesiastical Duties and Rites therein, and for the Cure of the Souls of the Parishioners ' and Inhabitants of the Parishes or Places thereunto belonging; and although such Corporations have from Time to Time duly nominated and provided such Priests, Curates, Preachers, or Ministers, and paid Stipends for their Sustenance, and have either provided Houses for their Residence or made Allowances in lieu thereof, yet such Stipends and • Allowances have not been fixed or assured by any competent Authority; and for Want of any regular Endowment or Aug'mentation of such Curacies they have not become Perpetual • Cures, or Benefices Presentative, and the Curates have not become Bodies Politic and Corporate, within the Meaning of 6 6 6 an Act passed in the First Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the First, intituled An Act for making more 16. 1. c. 10. effectual Her late Majesty's gracious Intentions for augmenting • the Maintenance of poor Clergy, and of an Act passed in the Thirty-sixth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George 6 S. 54. • the Third, intituled An Act for the further Support and Main- 36 G. 3. c. 83. tenance of Curates within the Church of England, and for making s. 3. • certain Regulations respecting the Appointment of such Curates, and the Admission of Persons to Cures augmented by Queen Anne's Bounty, with respect to the Avoidance of other Benefices; by reason whereof Doubts have arisen whether the Right of • nominating Ministers to such Churches and Chapels can be • sold under the Provisions of the said first herein-before recited Act; and it is expedient that such Doubts should be removed :' Be it therefore declared and enacted by the Queen'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 Right of Nomievery Right of Nomination of every such Priest, Curate, nation vested Preacher, in Municipal Corporations may be sold. Notwithstanding any Sale, the Property to be liable to same Obliga thereto. 1 & 2 VICT. Preacher, or Minister, which at the Time of the passing of the first herein-before recited Act was vested in any Municipal Corporation, or in any Member of such Corporation in virtue of his Office as such, shall and may be sold, at such Time and in such Manner as the said Commissioners may direct, and shall by such Conveyance or Assurance as is in the said first-recited Act mentioned become vested in the Purchaser thereof, his Heirs and Assigns; and that from and after such Sale and Assurance every such Curacy, Preachership, or Ministry shall become a Benefice Presentative within the Meaning of the said recited Act of the Thirty-sixth Year of the Reign of King George the Third; and every such Curate, Preacher, or Minister, and his Successors for ever, shall become and be a Body Politic and Corporate within the Meaning of the said recited Act of the First Year of the Reign of King George the First, and shall have perpetual Succession, and shall be capable of taking and holding in perpetuity all such Lands, Tithes, Tenements, Hereditaments, Monies, Goods, and Chattels as shall be granted unto or purchased for them respectively by the Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne, or by other Persons contributing with the said Governors as Benefactors; and every such Purchaser, his Heirs and Assigns, may present to such Benefice, from Time to Time when and as the same shall become vacant, in the same Manner, to all Intents and Purposes, as Patrons may now present to Benefices Presentative. II. And be it enacted, That notwithstanding any such Sale and Conveyance as aforesaid every such Corporation, and the Property belonging thereto, shall continue liable to the same Obligations (if any) of providing for and maintaining or contions as previous tributing to the Maintenance of any such Priest, Curate, Preacher, or Minister, to which such Corporation and Property would have been liable if no such Sale and Conveyance had taken place; and such Liability (if any) may be enforced by the same Means, at the Instance of Her Majesty, Her Heirs or Successors, or otherwise, as if the first herein-before recited Act had not been passed, and the Right of nominating such Priest, Curate, Preacher, or Minister had remained vested in such Corporation. Municipal Cor augment and endow Priestships, &c. as heretofore. III. Provided always, and be it hereby further enacted, That nothing in this Act or in the said first-recited Act contained shall preclude any Municipal Corporation seised of any Manors, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, subject to an Obligation to nominate and provide any such Priest, Curate, Preacher, or Minister, from augmenting and endowing such Priestship, Curacy, Preachership, or Ministry, either by the assigning of a competent Portion of such Manors, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments to such Priest, Curate, Preacher, or Minister, and his Successors, or by charging thereon an annual Stipend, either in Money or in Kind, for his and their Use and Benefit, in as full and ample Manner as such Corporation might have done before the passing of the said first-recited Act: Provided always, always, that no such Augmentation or Endowment shall be valid without the Consent of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury or any Three of them. Act to apply to previous, present, and future Sales. IV. And be it enacted, That this Act shall be deemed and taken to apply as well to Sales already made, and to Sales now in progress, as also to Sales which shall hereafter be made. V. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of amended this Parliament. CAP. XXXII. An Act to enable Her Majesty's Courts at Westminster to hold Sittings in Banc in Time of Vacation. [4th July 1838.] Act may be Session. Common Pleas, tion. BE E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and Courts of with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Queen's Bench, Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and Exchequer and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the may hold Sitpassing of this Act it shall be lawful for the Courts of Queen's tings in VacaBench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer, at their Discretion, to hold Sittings in Banc in Time of Vacation, at such Times as are now by Law appointed for holding Sittings at Nisi Prius in London and Middlesex, for the Purpose of disposing of Business then pending and undecided in such Courts respectively. II. And be it further enacted, That such Sittings in Vacation may be holden by virtue of a Rule or Order of the said Courts respectively to be made in or out of Term, whereof a Week's Notice shall be published in the London Gazette, and published as affixed in some conspicuous Place on the Outside of such Courts herein directed. respectively making such Order, and also in the Chambers of the Judges or Barons of the same Courts respectively, and in the Office of the Masters of the same Court, in the following Form: Such Sittings to be holden by Rule or Order of said Courts, • Court of [Queen's Bench, Court of Common Pleas, or Form of Order. Court of Exchequer (as the Case may be).] THIS Court will on the Day of hold Sittings, and will proceed in disposing of the Business now pending in the Special Paper on the the said Month and the ⚫ the Day of following Days, and on Day of the same Month will proceed in dis posing of the Business now pending in the Paper of new Trials.' Or any other Business, as such Courts in their Discretion shall see fit. have same Effect as if in Term III. And be it further enacted, That all Judgments to be Judgments to pronounced and all Rules and Orders to be made by virtue of this Act shall have the same Effect, to all Intents and Pur- Time. poses, as if they had been pronounced or made in Term Time. Duties imposed Collection of the Duties. Bounties on certain Descrip. tions of refined Sugar. CAP. XXXIII. An Act for granting to Her Majesty, until the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and thirtynine, certain Duties on Sugar imported into the United Kingdom, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight. [4th July 1838.] 6 • Most Gracious Sovereign, WE, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and • Ireland in Parliament assembled, towards raising the necessary Supplies to defray Your Majesty's public Expences, have freely and voluntarily resolved to give and grant unto Your Majesty the Duties herein-after mentioned; and therefore do most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted;' and be it enacted by the Queen'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 Duties imposed on Sugar and Molasses by an Act passed in the Sixth and Seventh Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act for granting to His Majesty, until the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, certain Duties on Sugar imported into the United Kingdom, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, shall be further continued until the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine. II. And be it enacted, That the Duties hereby continued. shall be collected, paid, and accounted for in such and the like Manner as if the said Duties had been continued to the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine by the said recited Act. III. And be it enacted, That the Bounties payable on the Exportation of the Descriptions of refined Sugar herein-after mentioned under and by virtue of an Act passed in the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act to grant certain Bounties and Allowances of Customs, shall, from and after the Tenth Day of October One thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, cease and determine, and that the following Bounties shall be allowed and paid in lieu thereof; (that is to say,) For every Hundred Weight of refined Sugar in Loaf, complete and whole, or Lumps duly refined, having been perfectly clarified and thoroughly dried in the Stove, and being of a uniform Whiteness, throughout, or such Sugar pounded, crashed, or broken, and also for every Hundred Weight of Sugar Candy, If Which said Bounties shall be allowed and paid in such and the like Manner as if the same had been allowed in and by the said last-recited Act. IV. Provided always, and be it enacted, That if at any Time satisfactory Proof shall have been laid before Her Majesty in Council that the Importation of Foreign Sugar into any British Possession within the Limits of the East India Company's Charter is prohibited, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by and with the Advice of Her Privy Council, or by Her Majesty's Order in Council to be published from Time to Time in the London Gazette, to allow the Importation of Sugar the Growth of any such British Possession at the lower Rate of Duty in the said first-recited Act specified, in like Manner and under the same Restrictions and Conditions as Sugar the Growth of the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal may be imported subject to a lower Rate of Duty under the Provisions of the said firstrecited Act. Her Majesty may allow the Importation of Sugar the Growth of certain British the lower Rate of Duty. Possessions at Separate Ac- in Great V. And be it enacted, That a distinct and separate Account shall be kept in the Office of the Comptroller General of the Receipt and Issue of Her Majesty's Exchequer at Westminster of all the Money that shall be paid to the Account of Her Majesty's Exchequer at the Bank of England from so much of the said Duties hereby granted on Sugar as shall arise and be payable in Great Britain; and it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of the Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to issue and apply the same from Time to Time to such Services as shall then have been voted by the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in this present Session of Parliament; and so much of the said Duties on Duties arising Sugar as shall arise and be payable in Ireland shall be paid into in Ireland to be the Receipt of the Exchequer in Ireland, and shall be carried to chequer there. the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. paid into the Ex The Treasury may direct Ex-, chequer Bills to VI. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of the Treasury, at any Time or Times when they shall think fit so to do, to cause or direct any Number of be made out Exchequer Bills to be made out at the Receipt of the Exchequer not exceeding at Westminster for any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding 3,000,000?. in the whole, including any Sum or Sums of Money issued towards the Aids or Supplies in pursuance of this Act, the Sum of Three Millions, in the same or like Manner, Form, and Order, and according to the same or like Rules and Directions, as are directed and prescribed in and by an Act passed in the Forty-eighth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the |