Extracts of Minutes of Procedure of Freeholder Meetings, when £ s. d. required, per Sheet Each Person taking the Oaths to Government, when the Oaths are not administered at a County Meeting Certificate thereof, when required Qualifying a Peer to vote at an Election Extract of the Fiars, each Year Receiving each Precept from the Court of Session, making up Receiving Countermand of Trial, and instructing Officer Each Duplicate and Copy Fees for Public Business payable in Exchequer : For the Principal Precept of Intimation of Election of a Member When consisting of more than One Sheet, each additional each 13 1 1 9 0 10 6 Warrant to summon Jury and Witnesses for striking the Fiars To the Sheriff Clerk for instructing the Persons employed in To the District Clerk, or other Person having local 1 11 6 050 N.B.-The Sheet of Writings to be computed at Three hundred Words, when not otherwise specified; but if the Writing does not contain Three hundred Words, to be charged as One Sheet; and if after finding the Sheet or Sheets which any such Writing shall comprise, calculated at the Rate aforesaid, any Number of Words less than Three hundred Words shall remain, such fewer Words shall be charged as a Sheet. Although the Fees for recording Hornings, Inhibitions, Deeds, and other Writings in the Registers of Hornings and Inhibitions and of Deeds and probative Writs, are to be paid for at certain Rates for every Sheet, yet it is understood that the [No. 58. Price 2d.] Clerks 3 N Duties on Coinage of Tin abolished. Clerks are to frame those Records so as to contain in each Sheet the Number of Words prescribed by the Regulations of the Lord Clerk Register. The Fees in the above Table to be paid, though the Duty be performed by the Clerk Depute or by an Assistant Clerk, and to be exclusive of Postages and Outlays. The Fees in criminal and any other Business to be subject to the Regulation of the Lord High Treasurer or Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, or any Three of them, from and after the passing of this Act. CAP. CXX. An Act for the Abolition of the Duties payable on the WHEREAS by the Laws, Usages, and Customs of the Counties of Cornwall and Devon, all Tin dug, raised, and taken therein respectively is required to be coined, and 'certain Duties are payable for the Coinage thereof: And whereas by Charter made and passed in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of His Majesty King Edward the Third, and duly confirmed by Parliament, the said Coinage Duties, together with certain other Possessions, were thereby granted to the then Duke of Cornwall, and to the first-begotten Son of him and his Heirs (Kings of England), being Dukes of Cornwall ' and Heirs Apparent to the Kingdom of England, and the same were thereby annexed and united to the Duchy of Cornwall for ever, to remain so that from the said Duchy they should at no Time be in anywise severed, so that when the Duke of Cornwall for the Time being should depart this Life, and a Son to whom the said Duchy was thereby ap'pointed should not appear, the said Duchy should revert to and be retained in the Hands of the King of England for the Time being, until such Son, being Heir Apparent, should appear: And whereas such Duties on the Coinage of Tin in the said Counties of Cornwall and Devon are now payable to • Her Majesty in right of Her Duchy of Cornwall: And whereas it is expedient and for the Benefit of Trade that it should not be necessary that any Tin so dug, raised, or taken should hereafter be coined, and that all Duties so as aforesaid pay⚫able on the Coinage thereof should cease, and that Compensation in lieu thereof should be given to Her Majesty or other the Personage for the Time being entitled to the Revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall? 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 from and after the Tenth Day of October next ensuing the passing of this Act it shall not be necessary to coin any Tin dug, raised, or taken in the said Counties of Cornwall and Devon, or in either of them, and that the Duties which would but for this Act be payable on the Coinage of Tin after that Time shall cease and determine. II. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for Treasury to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury and they are ascertain Averhereby required to ascertain the Amount of the clear annual age Amount of Duty. Payments during the last Ten Years in respect of such Coinage Duties in the said Counties of Devon and Cornwall, after deducting therefrom all Costs, Charges, and Expences to Officers and others during such Period incurred in and incident to the ascertaining, managing, and collecting of such Coinage Duties. III. And be it enacted, That in lieu of such Coinage Duties an Annuity or yearly Sum equal to the Amount which shall be so ascertained to have been the Average of such Payments shall be issued out of and charged and chargeable upon the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (after paying or reserving sufficient to pay all such Sum and Sums of Money as have been directed by any former Act or Acts of Parliament to be paid out of the same, but with Preference to all other Payments which shall or may hereafter be charged upon or payable out of the said Fund), and be payable, free and clear from all Deductions and Taxes whatsoever, quarterly on the Fifth Day of January, the Fifth Day of April, the Fifth Day of July, and the Tenth Day of October in every Year, by equal Portions, and be accordingly paid to Her Majesty and other the Personage for the Time being entitled to the Revenues of the said Duchy of Cornwall. Annual Sum to be paid to Her Majesty in lieu of Coinage Duties. to be a sufficient Discharge. Her Majesty's Interest in the Annuity to be the same as in the Coinage IV. And be it enacted, That the Acquittances or Acquittance, Receipt of ReReceipts or Receipt, of the Receiver General for the Time being ceiver General of the said Duchy of Cornwall, shall be a good and sufficient Discharge for the Payment of the said Annuity. V. And be it enacted, and it is hereby declared to be the true Intent and Meaning hereof, That Her Majesty and other the Personage for the Time being entitled to the Revenues of the said Duchy of Cornwall shall have such and the like, and no larger or other, Estate or Title, or Power of Disposition or Alienation, or Interest, of and in the said Annuity, as Her Majesty or other the Personage for the Time being entitled to the Revenues of the said Duchy of Cornwall would have had in the said Coinage Duties, and that the said Annuity shall from Time to Time belong to Her Majesty, and such other Personage as would have been entitled to the said Coinage Duties in case this Act had not been passed. Duties. relation to Coinage Duties. VI. And whereas it is only just and reasonable that Provision Compensation 'should be made for granting Compensation upon equitable to Officers in Principles to such Officers and others as have heretofore been employed in the ascertaining, managing, and collecting such • Coinage Duties, and in relation thereto, and whose Emoluments will be affected hereby;' be it enacted, That the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall ascertain, by such Ways and Means as to them shall seem proper, the net annual Receipts of 3N2 each Certain Returns Parliament. each and every of such Officers and others whose Emoluments shall be affected by the Operation of this Act, and shall grant such Compensation to all such Parties, either by One Payment in gross, or by an annual Amount payable quarterly, as, having regard to the Tenure of their several Offices and Employments, and to the Duration of their Service, shall appear to the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to be just and proper: Provided always, that all such Compensations shall be payable and paid out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. VII. And be it enacted, That a Return of the Amount of to be laid before the Compensation ascertained to be due and payable on account of the Repeal of the said Coinage Duties on Tin, together with a Statement of all such Compensations as shall be granted to the Officers and others whose Emoluments shall be affected by the Operation of this Act, and also a Return of the gross annual Payments during each of the said Ten Years in respect of such Coinage Duties, and also a Return of all the Costs, Charges, and Expences to Officers and others during such Period, incurred in and incident to the ascertaining, managing, and collecting of such Coinage Duties, shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within Thirty Days after the Commencement of the next Session of Parliament. New Duties of and Tin Ore. VIII. And be it enacted, That instead of the Duties of Customs on Tin Customs now payable on Tin and on Tin Ore the following Duties shall be raised, levied, collected, and paid unto Her Majesty, in like Manner as if such Duties had been imposed by an Act passed in the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act for granting Duties of Customs; (that is to say,) Tin, the Hundred Weight £ S. d. 0 15 0 INDEX 10 THE PUBLIC GENERAL STATUTES, 1 & 2 VICTORIA. Shewing whether they relate to the Whole or to any Part of the United Kingdom; viz. E. signifies that the Act relates to England (and Wales; if the Subject extends so far). Cases - of Slavery, for carrying into further Execution the of Slavery, amending 3 & 4 Gul. IV. c. 73. for Affirmation, permitting, to be made in certain Cases instead of } 103. I. he} Alienation of Corporate Property, to restrain, in certain Towns 99. I. 11. 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