in proportion for any greater or less Quantity PANES OF CROWN GLASS. For every Hundred Weight of Panes of Crown Glass for which the Duties shall have been paid, and which shall be exported to Foreign Parts, such Panes being in regular rectangular Figures of not less Dimensions than Six Inches in Length by Four Inches in Breadth, nor containing any Part of the Bullion or thick Centre of the Table from which such Panes shall have been cut, and so in proportion for any greater or less Quantity than a Hundred Weight PANES OF GERMAN SHEET GLASS. For every Hundred Weight of Panes of German Sheet Glass for which the Duty shall have been charged, and which shall be exported to Foreign Parts, such Panes being in regular rectangular Figures of not less Dimensions than Six Inches in Length by Four Inches in Breadth, and in proportion for any greater or less Quantity than a Hundred Weight For every Hundred Weight of common Bottles, and of all other Vessels and Utensils of common Bottle Metal, for which the Duty shall have been paid, and which shall be exported, and in proportion for any greater or less Quantity CAP. XLV. £ S. d. 3 13 6 4 18 0 400 070 An Act to exend the Jurisdiction of the Judges of the HEREAS by an Act passed in the First Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act for the more effectual Administration of Justice 11 G. 4. & ⚫ in England and Wales, it is enacted, that every Judge of the 1 W. 4. c. 70. Superior Courts of Common Law, to whatever Court he may 6 belong, shall be authorized to transact such Business, at Chambers or elsewhere, depending in any of the said Courts, s. 4. the Courts at as relates to Matters over which the said Courts have common Jurisdiction, and as may according to the Course and Practice of the Court be transacted by a single Judge: And whereas it is expedient that the Authority of the Judges of 'the said Courts should be extended to any Business which 'may be transacted by a single Judge in any of the said Courts as herein-after mentioned:' Be it therefore 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 Every Judge of the same, That every Judge of the Courts of Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, or Exchequer shall have equal Jurisdiction, Power, and Authority to transact out of Court such Business as may, according to the Course and Practice of the Court, be so transacted by a single Judge, relating to any Suit or Proceeding, in either of the said Courts of Queen's Bench or Common Pleas, or on the Common Law or Revenue Side of the said Court of Exchequer, or relating to the granting Writs diction therein. of Certiorari or Habeas corpus, or the admitting Prisoners on Criminal Charges to Bail, or the issuing of Extents or other Process for the Recovery of Debts due to Her Majesty, or relating to any other Matter or Thing usually transacted out of Court, although the said Courts have no common Jurisdiction therein, in like Manner as if the Judge transacting such Business had been a Judge of the Court to which the same by Law belongs. Westminster may transact such Business as may now be transacted by a single Judge, although the Courts have no common Juris Any Judge may exercise such Powers for the Relief of Sheriffs, &c. as may by virtue of 1 & 2 W. 4. c. 58. s. 6. be several Courts. 6 II. And whereas by another Act passed in the Second Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act to enable the Courts of Law to give • Relief against adverse Claims made upon Persons having no Interest in the Subject of such Claims, Provision is made for the Relief of Sheriffs and other Officers concerned in the Execuexercised by the tion of Process issued out of any of His Majesty's Courts of 'Law at Westminster, or the Court of Common Pleas of the County Palatine of Lancaster, or the Court of Pleas of the County Palatine of Durham, against Goods and Chattels, by reason of Claims made to such Goods and Chattels, but such Relief can only be given by Rule of Court: And whereas it is expedient that a single Judge should possess the Power • of giving Relief in that respect;' be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for any Judge of the said Courts of Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, or Exchequer, with respect to any such Process issued out of any of those Courts, or for any Judge of the said Court of Common Pleas of the County Palatine of Lancaster, or Court of Pleas of the County Palatine of Durham, (being also a Judge of One of the said Three Superior Courts,) with respect to Process issued out of the said Courts of Lancaster and Durham respectively, to exercise such Powers and Authorities for the Relief and Protection of the Sheriff or other Officer as may by virtue of the said last-mentioned Act be exercised by the said several Courts respectively, and to make such Order therein as shall appear to be just; and the Costs 9 Costs of such Proceeding shall be in the Discretion of such son admitted an may practise in upon signing the Roll of any other Court, such Court. III. And whereas by another Act passed in the First Year After 1st Nov. of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for 1838 any Peramending the several Acts for the Regulation of Attornies and Soli- Attorney in one 'citors, it is enacted, that any Person who shall have been duly of the Courts at ⚫ admitted an Attorney in One of Her Majesty's Courts of Law Westminster at Westminster shall be at liberty to practise in any other of Her Majesty's Courts of Law at Westminster, although he may not have been duly admitted an Attorney thereof; and 'that no Person having been duly admitted an Attorney or Solicitor in any of Her Majesty's Courts of Law or Equity at Westminster shall be prevented from recovering or receiving 'the Amount of any Costs which would otherwise have been due to him by reason of his not being admitted an Attorney or Solicitor of the Court in which such Costs shall have been 'incurred; provided always, that any Attorney or Solicitor practising in any Court of Law or Equity shall be subject to the Jurisdiction of such Court as fully and completely to all Intents and Purposes whatever as if he had been duly admitted 'an Attorney or Solicitor of such Court: And whereas it is expedient, in order to secure the Jurisdiction of the said respective Courts over the Attornies practising therein, to have a Record in each Court of the Admission of Attornies;' be it further enacted, That after the First Day of November next any Person entitled to be admitted an Attorney of any of the said Courts at Westminster shall, after being sworn in and admitted as an Attorney of any One of the said Courts, be entitled to practise in any other of the said Courts upon signing the Roll of such Court, and not otherwise, in like Manner as if he had been sworn in and admitted an Attorney of such Court; provided that no additional Fee besides those payable under the said last-mentioned Act shall be demanded or paid, and that the Fees payable for such Admission shall be apportioned in such Manner as the Judges of the said Courts, or any Eight of them, shall, by any Rule or Order made in Term or Vacation, direct and appoint. IV. And whereas Inconvenience and Delay are sometimes experienced, during the Absence of the Judges from Town in Vacation, in putting in and justifying Special Bail;' be it further enacted, That the Chief Justice and other the Justices of the Court of Queen's Bench for the Time being, or any Two of them, whereof the Chief Justice for the Time being to be One, for the said Court of Queen's Bench, and the Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas and other the Justices there for the Time being, or any Two of them, whereof the Chief Justice of the same Court to be One, for the said Court of Common Pleas, and also the Chief Baron and Barons of the Coif of the Court of the Exchequer for the Time being, or any Two of them, whereof the Chief Baron for the Time being to be One, for the said Court of Exchequer, may, by One or more Commission or Commissions under the several Seals of the said respective Judges of Courts at Westissue Commis minster may sions for taking Special Bail. Cognisors of Bail may justify before such 1 & 2 VICT. respective Courts, from Time to Time, as Need shall require, empower such Persons, not being Attornies or Solicitors, as they shall think fit and necessary, to take and receive during such Time, in Vacation only, as shall be specified in the Commission or Commissions, all and every such Recognizance or Recognizances of Bail or Bails as any Person or Persons shall be willing or desirous to acknowledge or make before any of the Persons so empowered in any Action or Suit depending or hereafter to be depending in the said respective Courts, or any of them, in such Manner and Form, and by such Recognizance or Bail Piece, as the Justices and Barons of the said respective Courts have used to take the same; which said Recognizance or Recognizances of Bail or Bail Piece so taken as aforesaid shall be afterwards filed in the proper Office or Offices where the same are now filed; which Recognizance of Bail or Bail Piece so taken and filed shall be of the like Effect as if the same were taken before any of the said Justices and Barons; and for the taking every such Recognizance or Recognizances of Bail or Bail Piece the Person or Persons so empowered shall receive only the like Fee as is now payable upon taking and filing the Recognizance or Bail Piece, and no more. V. And be it further enacted, That the Cognisor or Cognisors of such Bail or Bails may justify him or themselves before any Commissioners. of the said Commissioners during such Time only, being in Vacation, as shall be specified in their respective Commissions; and the said Commissioners are hereby empowered to examine the Sureties on Oath, and allow or reject them as shall seem fit. 10 G. 4. c. 22 6 & 7 W. 4. c. 68. CAP. XLVI. An Act to continue until the Thirty-first Day of Decem- WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Tenth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, • intituled An Act to provide until the First Day of December "One thousand eight hundred and thirty-four for the Government of His Majesty's Settlements in Western Australia on the Western "Coast of New Holland: And whereas by an Act passed in the Sixth and Seventh Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth the said Act was continued until the Thirty-first Day of December One thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and until the End of the then next Session of Parliament; and it is expedient that the said Act should be further continued:' Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the said Act, so passed as aforesaid in the Tenth Recited Act Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty King George the 10 G. 4. c. 22. Fourth, shall be and the same is hereby further continued and the 31st Dec. shall remain in force until the Thirty-first Day of December One 1841. thousand eight hundred and forty-one, and thenceforward until the End of the then next Session of Parliament. 6 6 CAP. XLVII. An Act for the better and more effectually carrying into effect the Treaties and Conventions made with Foreign Powers for suppressing the Slave Trade. continued until [27th July 1838.] WHEREAS by additional Articles to various Treaties entered into between His late Majesty and Her present Majesty and certain Foreign Powers and States, for the 'Prevention of the Traffic in Slaves, it has been stipulated, that all Vessels which shall be seized and condemned, under any of the Provisions of the said Treaties or Conventions, and which under the said Treaties were directed to be sold by public Sale, shall, by virtue of such additional Articles, be entirely demolished and broken up, and the Materials thereof publicly sold in separate Parts, as well as the Cargo, for the Profit of the Governments engaged in such Treaties or Conventions: And whereas Treaties or Conventions have been ⚫ entered into by His late Majesty and by Her present Majesty with various Powers and States, under the Authority of which the Ships or Vessels of the Subjects of those States, and also the Ships and Vessels of Subjects of the Crown of the • United Kingdom, may be seized and condemned, when equipped in the Manner described in the said Treaties and Conventions, although they shall have no Slaves on board: And whereas by various Acts of Parliament certain Bounties are payable to the Captors of Ships having Slaves on board for every Slave captured under Treaties made with Foreign Powers authorizing such Capture: And whereas it is expedient that Her Majesty should be empowered to grant certain Bounties to the Commanders, Officers, and Crews of Her Majesty's Ships seizing such Ships or Vessels: Be it therefore 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 where any Ship or Queen's Moiety Vessel employed or engaged in illicit Traffic in Slaves, in of Proceeds to violation of any of the said Treaties or Conventions, shall be paid to the have been or may be seized by any Ship or Vessel belonging to Her Majesty, duly authorized to make such Seizure, and making the same, and shall have been or shall be afterwards condemned by any of the Commissioners appointed in virtue 6 of Captors. |