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 the said Act shall be Recited Act and the same is hereby continued, and shall be and remain in further conforce from the passing of this Act for Five Years and until the tinued for Five End of the then next Session of Parliament. CAP. LIII. An Act to amend an Act of the last Session of Parliament for providing more effectual Means to make Treasurers of Counties and Counties of Cities in Ireland account for Public Monies, and to secure the [27th July 1838.] same. WHEREAS an Act was passed in the last Session of Par Years. by Draft. liament, intituled An Act to provide more effectual Means 7 W. 4. & ' to make Treasurers of Counties and Counties of Cities in Ireland 1 Viet. c. 54. account for Public Monies, and to secure the same: And whereas it is expedient to amend the said Act:' 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 every Payment to be made by any Payments by Treasurer of any County or County of a City or Town in Treasurers of Ireland, after the Commencement of this Act, shall be made by Counties to be a Draft upon the Bank with which he has or shall have his public Account, pursuant to the Provisions of the said Act, whether the same shall exceed Ten Pounds or not, and that every such Draft shall be drawn and countersigned in like Manner as a Draft by such Treasurer for a Sum exceeding Ten Pounds ought now to be under Provisions of the said Act; and all Drafts to be drawn by any such Treasurer, under the Authority of the herein-before recited Act of the last Session of Parliament or of this present Act, shall be exempt from any Stamp Duty whatever. II. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in Council to alter or rescind Rule or any Regulation by him made or to be made pursuant to the Provisions of the said Act or of this present Act, and from Time to Time to make any new Rule or Regulation that may be deemed necessary or expedient for any of the Purposes for which he is authorized to make Rules or Regulations by the said Act. III. And be it enacted, That any of the Powers by the said • Laws Lord Lieutenant may alter or rescind Rules. Powers given to Lord Lieuexercised by tenant may be Lords Justices. Grand Jury of County of Tyone empowered 4,500%, to pay to present Money due to former Contractors. Act may be altered. 'Laws relating to the Presentment of Public Money by Grand Juries in Ireland, has not been found sufficient to satisfy the 'just Demands of the Contractors on the late Treasurer thereof: And whereas the Grand Jury of the said County of Tyrone has not the Power to levy by Instalments the Sums still remaining due to such Contractors, and it is advisable that they should have Power to provide for the Levy thereof by Instalments with Interest thereon;' be it therefore enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Grand Jury of the County of Tyrone to present such Sums as may be necessary for the Payment of such Contractors, not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Four thousand five hundred Pounds, to be levied off the said County by Twelve equal half-yearly Instalments, which Sum the said Treasurer is hereby empowered and required to advance out of the Money lodged to his Credit in the Bank selected by the said County (for which Advance the Chief Remembrancer of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland is hereby authorized to allow him Credit in the same Manner as for other Payments duly made by him); and it shall be lawful for the said Grand Jury and they are hereby required to present to the said Treasurer Interest on the Amount from Time to Time to him unpaid, at the Rate of Four Pounds per Centum per Annum, such Interest to be computed from the Time or Times when such Sums of Money shall be paid by the Treasurer of the said County until the same shall be discharged. V. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of Parliament. CAP. LIV. An Act for making further Investments from the WHEREAS by virtue of several Acts of Parliament divers Sums of Money have been taken out of the common ⚫ and general Cash belonging to the Suitors of the High Court of Chancery, which lay dead and unemployed in the Bank of • England, and have been placed out, in the Name of the Ac'countant General of the said Court on Government or Parliamentary Securities; and such Government or Parliamentary Securities have been carried to an Account, intituled "Account of Monies placed out for the Benefit and better Security of the Suitors of the High Court of Chancery"; and it may be expedient that further Sums be taken out of the 'said common and general Cash, and may be in like Manner placed out in the like Securities:' 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 Au thority the Monies be thority of the same, That out of the said Cash belonging to the Power to invest Suitors of the said Court of Chancery which may be standing further Part of to the Credit of the Accountant General of the said Court, and longing to the may be lying dead and unemployed in the Bank of England, Suitors in any Sum or Sums of Money may, by virtue of any Order or Chancery. Orders of the Lord High Chancellor to be made for that Purpose, from Time to Time be placed out, in one entire Sum or in Parcels, in the Name of the said Accountant General, on such Government or Parliamentary Securities as in and by such Order or Orders shall be directed; and such Sums shall be carried to the said Account, intituled "Account of Monies placed out for the Benefit and better Security of the Suitors of the High Court of Chancery." II. And be it enacted, That the Interest and annual Produce Power to invest which may arise from the Monies hereby authorized to be the Interest placed out as aforesaid, and also the Interest produced from the thereof. Securities purchased with such Interest and annual Produce, or so much thereof as shall not be otherwise applied under the Provisions of any Act or Acts of Parliament, shall from Time to Time be placed out in the Purchase of Government or Parliamentary Securities, in the Name of the said Accountant General, and be placed to the Credit of the Account now standing in his Name, intituled "Account of Securities purchased with surplus Interest arising from Securities carried to an Account of Monies placed out for the Benefit and better Security of the Suitors of the High Court of Chancery." 6 6 further Sums, III. And whereas, by virtue of an Act passed in the First Power to invest • Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, Part of the intituled An Act for the better securing Monies and Effects paid Suitors Monies into the Court of Exchequer at Westminster on account of the in the Court of Suitors of the said Court, and for the Appointment of an Ac- Exchequer. 'countant General and Two Masters of the said Court, and for other 1 G. 4. c. 35. Purposes, an Accountant General has been appointed of the 6 • Court of Exchequer, with Power to do all Matters and Things relating to the delivering, securing, and investing of the Monies and Effects of the Suitors of the said Court; and, ⚫ under and by virtue of the Authority for that Purpose given by the same Act, Part of the Money belonging to the Suitors ' of the said Court, lying dead and unemployed, has been 6 placed out, in the Name of the said Accountant General of the 'Court of Exchequer, in the Purchase of Bank Annuities, and such Annuities now stand at the Bank of England in the Name ' of the said last-mentioned Accountant General to an Account, ❝ intituled "An Account of Monies placed out for the Benefit ⚫ and better Security of the Suitors of the Court of Exchequer :" And whereas there is now a large Sum of Money belonging to the said Suitors, over and above the Money so invested, lying dead and unemployed, and it may be convenient to make 'further Investments out of the said Money from Time to Time as Circumstances will permit;' be it therefore enacted, That out of the Money belonging to the Suitors of the said Court of Exchequer which may from Time to Time be standing to the Power to invest the Interest thereof. Funds may be Power to change Securities. 1 & 2 VICT. Credit of the Accountant General of the said Court, and may be lying dead and unemployed at the Bank of England, any Sum or Sums of Money may, by virtue of any Order or Orders of the Court of Exchequer, or of the Lord Chief Baron of the said Court, or of any Baron to be nominated and appointed by Her Majesty to hear and determine Causes depending in the said Court as a Court of Equity under and by virtue of the Powers in that Behalf contained in divers Acts of Parliament, be from Time to Time placed out, in one entire Sum or in Parcels, in the Name of the said last-mentioned Accountant General, in such Government or Parliamentary Securities as by such Order or Orders shall be directed; and such Securities shall be carried to a new Account to be raised in the Books of the Bank of England in the Name of the said last-mentioned Accountant General, to be intituled "The Account of further Money placed out for the Benefit and better Security of the Suitors of the Court of Exchequer." IV. And be it enacted, That the Interest and annual Produce which may arise from the Money hereby lastly authorized to be placed out as aforesaid, and also the Interest produced from the Securities purchased with such Interest and annual Produce, and all Accumulations thereof, shall, by virtue of any such Order or Orders as last aforesaid, from Time to Time be placed out in the Purchase of like Government or Parliamentary Securities, in the Name of the said last-mentioned Accountant General, and be placed to the Credit of the said last-mentioned Account. V. And be it enacted, That if at any Time hereafter the Whole or any Part of the Monies to be placed out, in pursuance of the aforesaid Provisions, to either of the Accounts hereinbefore mentioned, shall be wanted to answer any of the Demands of the Suitors of either of the said Courts of Chancery or Exchequer, then and in such Case the said Lord Chancellor, as to Funds in the Name of the Accountant General of the Court of Chancery, and the said Court of Exchequer, or the Lord Chief Baron, or other Baron to be nominated and appointed as aforesaid, as to Funds in the Name of the Accountant General of the said Court of Exchequer, shall direct the Whole or any Part of the Monies to be placed out as aforesaid to be called in, and the Securities in which the same and the surplus Interest and Dividends herein-before mentioned shall be placed to be sold and disposed of, in order that the Suitors of the said respective Courts may at all Times be paid their respective Demands out of the common and general Cash belonging to such Suitors. VI. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Lord Chancellor, as to the Funds of the said Court of Chancery, and for the Court of Exchequer, or the Lord Chief Baron or other Baron to be nominated and appointed as aforesaid, as to the Funds of the said Court of Exchequer, by any Order or Orders, to authorize the Change of the Security or Securities, or of any Part of the Securities, to be purchased pursuant to this Act. VII. And 6 into the Bank VII. And whereas by an Act passed in the Session of Par- Fees of Officers liament holden in the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign may be paid ' of King William the Fourth, intituled An Act for the Regulation of England. of the Proceedings and Practice of certain Offices of the High 3 & 4 W. 4. Court of Chancery in England, an Account has been raised in c. 94. the Books of the Bank of England, in the Name of the said Accountant General, intituled "The Suitors Fee Fund Ac'count;"' be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Lord High Chancellor, by any Order or Orders, from Time to Time to direct that any Fees or Monies arising from Fees heretofore received or which may be hereafter received by or on account of any Officer appointed or to be appointed by the Lord High Chancellor, holding his Office at the Pleasure of the said Lord High Chancellor, or during the Vacancy of any such Office, shall be paid into the Bank of England in the Name of the said Accountant General, to be placed to the Credit of the said Account, intituled "The Suitors Fee Fund Account," and be applied as Part of such Fund. VIII. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or Act may be repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of Parliament. CAP. LV. An Act to regulate and secure the Debt due by the WE altered this Session, THEREAS the Affairs of the City of Edinburgh have for some Years past been in a State of great Embarrassment, and various Difficulties have thence arisen in relation to a Settlement with the Creditors of the said City; to the bene'ficial Management of the Harbour and Docks of Leith, the requisite Improvement thereof, and the Regulation of the Rates and Duties leviable thereat; to the Commutation and securing to the Ministers of the City of Edinburgh of the Duty of a Merk per Ton and Pack payable to them upon Goods brought into Leith and Edinburgh; to making Provision for the Expence of the College and Schools of the said City, and to the Separation of the City of Edinburgh from the Town of Leith; and it is most desirable that a Remedy should be pro'vided against the great Injury and Inconvenience arising from these Causes: And whereas an Act was passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, 'intituled An Act to enable the principal Officers and Commis- 6 G. 4. c 103. 'sioners of His Majesty's Navy to acquire certain Portions of the "Docks and Shore Ground at Leith for a Naval Yard, and to enable the Commissioners of the Treasury to advance a certain Sum of Money on the Security of the Docks and of the Harbour of Leith: And whereas a Debt of Two hundred and sixty-five thousand Pounds was under the Powers of the said recited • Act |