of their registered Securities, and also any Monies standing to the Account of the Company's Mortgage Debentures under the Provision of Section 17, until the Principal and Interest due on all the Debentures issued by the Company, together with all Costs, including the reasonable and proper Charges of such Receiver, shall have been fully paid; and upon such Appointment being made, and Notice thereof to the several Persons liable upon such registered Securities, all such Monies from Time to Time payable upon or in respect of such registered Securities shall be paid to and received or recovered by such Receiver; and the Receiver shall apply the same, as from Time to Time received or recovered by him, first to the Payment of all such Costs, and afterwards to the Discharge and Payment of all Interest, or Principal and Interest, as the Case may be, due upon such Mortgage Debentures; and after such Costs, and such Interest, or Principal and Interest, shall have been fully paid, the Power of such Receiver shall cease.

47. The Court may order, as to any of the above-mentioned Powers and Duties, that the Court may Receiver shall not exercise the same without the Sanction or further Direction of the stay Order for Court; and the Court may, at any Time after an Order for the Appointment of a Receiver Receiver upon has been made, make an Order staying the same, either altogether or for a limited Time, on such Terms and subject to such Conditions as it may deem fit.

Terms.

48. In case any Company shall cease to be entitled to issue Mortgage Debentures under When Comthis Act, such Company shall nevertheless have the Powers and be subject to the Provisions pany not to of this Act with respect to all Mortgage Debentures then issued and outstanding; but no issue MortMortgage Debentures shall be issued or renewed by such Company upon any Ground or Pretence whatever, after it shall have ceased to be so entitled.

gage Deben

tures.

49. In case any Company which shall not at the Time being be entitled to avail itself of Penalties in the Provisions of this Act shall issue Mortgage Debentures under, or purporting to be such Event. under, the Provisions of this Act, or in case any Company entitled to avail itself of the Provisions of this Act shall at any Time issue Mortgage Debentures for an aggregate Principal Sum exceeding the Limit to which at the Time being they are entitled to issue, any Person who shall knowingly or wilfully be concerned in such Issue shall in every such Case forfeit the Sum of Five hundred Pounds.

50. Every Penalty herein-before provided may be sued for and recovered by any Person How Penalties whosoever who will sue for the same by Action in any of the Superior Courts of Law in may be reEngland or Ireland or Scotland, according as the Offence has been committed in either of covered. those Parts of the United Kingdom, together with full Costs of Suit.

51. No Person, being the Registrar, Assistant Registrar, or other Officer or Servant of Registrar, &c. the Office of Land Registry, shall be liable to any Action, Suit, or other Proceeding, or any not personally Claim or Demand, by reason of anything done bonâ fide by him in the Execution of this liable for Act. executing Act.

52. This Act shall not exempt the Company from the Provisions of any Act relating to Not exempt Joint Stock Companies, and applicable to the Company.

from Joint Stock Com

53. In the Construction of this Act all Words meaning or applying to Individuals only panies Acts. shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to Corporations also.

Interpretation of Terms.

The

The SCHEDULE referred to in the foregoing Act.

FORM (A.)

FORM OF RETURN TO BE MADE BY THE COMPANY ON APPLICATION TO REGISTRAR TO

FORM OF SURVEYOR'S OR VALUER'S DECLARATION.

[Here insert a Copy of the Return to be made by the Company on Application to register Securities, distinguishing each Security by a separate Letter or Number.]

I

of

do solemnly and sincerely declare, that the

is, to

Information above contained with respect to the Security numbered or lettered the best of my Information and Belief, correct, and that the Value of the Property above described (and, if the Borrower's Interest is of a limited Nature, the Value of the Borrower's Estate and Interest or the Property above described,) exceeds the Amount of £

the Advance made by the Company in respect thereof (if there are prior Charges, and of the prior Charges thereon), to the Extent of One Third at least of such Value.

[A separate Declaration may be made in respect of each Security, and where the Mortgage or Charge is secured exclusively upon any of the Securities comprised in Sec. 5 (b and c), omit from the Word "declare" to the End, and insert "to the best of my Information and Belief the Security above described, and numbered is now of the Value of £

."]

FORM

charge all the registered Securities of the Company with the Payment to the said A.B., his Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, of the Sum of £

which Sum of £

, and Interest thereon at the Rate of is to be paid and payable to the said A.B., his Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, at the [Place], on the Day of with Interest on the same at the Rate of per Cent. per Annum, payable half-yearly, at said Place, on every Day

28 & 29 VICT.

3 C

FORM OF TRANSFER OF MORTGAGE DEBENTURE.

[state true Consideration] his Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, the

I A.B. of

in consideration of £

hereby transfer to C.D. of

within Mortgage Debenture.

CAP. LXXIX.

(Signed) A.B.

So much of
Sect. 26, of

4 & 5 W. 4.
c. 76. as re-

quires Parishes

in Unions to defray Ex

penses of their

own Poor repealed; and Expenses thenceforth in

curred to be

charged to the

Common Fund.
Guardians in
Unions may

obtain Orders

respect of

elsewhere.

An Act to provide for the better Distribution of the Charge for the Relief of the Poor in Unions.

WH

[29th June 1865.] HEREAS it is expedient to make Provision for the better Distribution of the Charge for the Relief of the Poor in Unions than is by Law now established:' 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, as follows:

1. From and after the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, so much of the Twenty-sixth Section of the Fourth and Fifth William the Fourth, Chapter Seventy-six, as requires that each of the Parishes in a Union formed under the Authority of that Act shall be separately chargeable with and liable to defray the Expense of its own Poor, whether relieved in or out of the Workhouse of such Union, shall be repealed; and all the Cost of the Relief to the Poor, and the Expenses of the Burial of the dead Body of any poor Person under the Direction of the Guardians, or any of their Officers duly authorized, in such Union thenceforth incurred, and all Charges thenceforth incurred by the Guardians of such Union in respect of Vaccination and Registration Fees and Expenses, shall be charged upon the Common Fund thereof.

2. When any Pauper relieved in any such Union shall be settled in any Parish situated in another Union or subject to a Board of Guardians, and shall not be exempt from Removal by reason of any Provision of the Law, the Guardians of the Union to which such Pauper shall be chargeable may obtain an Order of Removal addressed to the Guardians Paupers settled of the Union or Parish, or the Overseers of the Parish, as the Case may require, in which such Pauper shall be settled, and the Guardians of such last-mentioned Union or Parish shall receive such Pauper in like Manner and subject to the like Incidents and Consequences as in the Case of Orders of Removals heretofore obtained by Overseers, with such Modifications as may be necessary to meet the Circumstances of the Chargeability to the Union instead of the Parish.

Guardians may defend and

3. The Guardians obtaining such Order may defend the same, and the Guardians upon whom it shall be made may appeal against the same, in like Manner and with the like against Orders Incidents and Consequences as in the Case of Orders obtained or appealed against by

may appeal

of Removal.

Overseers.

Provided

Provided that every Appeal now pending may be continued and determined as though this Act had not been passed.

Notices and

4. Every Notice, Statement, Demand, or other Document required to be given by Signature and any such Guardians in respect of any Order of Removal shall be deemed to be sufficiently Service of authenticated if signed by their Clerk in their Name, and shall be deemed to be duly other Docuserved upon the Guardians to whom it shall be addressed if it be delivered to their Clerk ments. personally, or be left at his Office, or be sent through the Post addressed to him at such Office.

for Books and

5. For better enabling the Guardians to obtain such Orders of Removal, or to appeal Guardians emagainst the same, they may order the Overseers of the Poor, or any Officer or other Person powered to call having the Custody of any Books, Papers, Documents, or Writings of or belonging to any Papers from Parish in their Union, to produce the same, upon reasonable Notice to the Board of the Overseers. Guardians, or to their Clerk or other Person appointed by them, and shall allow Copies or Extracts to be taken therefrom for the Use of such Guardians, without Fee or Reward.

6. Where the Guardians of any Union or Parish_shall be satisfied that any Pauper is Guardians may settled within and removable to their Union or Parish, and shall consent under their remove without Orders where Common Seal to receive such Pauper without an Order of Removal, the Guardians seeking there is Conto remove such Pauper may do so without any such Order.

sent.

Order of Re

7. Any Pauper removed under an Order of Removal obtained by the Guardians of Penalty on any such Union returning to and becoming chargeable to such last-mentioned Union again Paupers rewithin the Period of Twelve Months from such Removal, without the Consent of the Guardians thereof, shall be deemed to be an idle and disorderly Person within the Meaning moval. of the Statute Fifth George the Fourth, Chapter Eighty-three, and be liable to be convicted and punished as such.

8. From and after the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, the Period of One Year shall be substituted for that of Three Years specified in the First Section of the Statute Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth of Victoria, Chapter Fifty-five.

9. The Costs and Expenses lawfully incurred in and about the Prosecution of any Person for which the Guardians of the Union may be liable, or which they undertake to pay, under the Fifty-ninth Section of the Seventh and Eighth Victoria, Chapter One hundred and one, shall in all Cases be charged to the Common Fund.

10. For the Purposes of the Burial of any poor Person dying in the Workhouse of any Union, such Workhouse shall be considered as situated in the Parish in the Union where such poor Person resided last, previously to his Removal to the Workhouse.

11. The Poor Law Board shall, as soon as convenient, make all such Orders as may be requisite to render the Provisions of this Act applicable to the Proceedings and Accounts of the Guardians of Unions and of Overseers of Parishes comprised therein.

12. The Guardians shall distribute the Charges upon the Common Fund during and at the Close of every Half Year in the Proportions according to which the Orders for the Contributions to the Common Fund were made upon the several Parishes comprised in such Unions at the Commencement of such Half Year, notwithstanding the Change which may be made in the Valuation List of any Parish during such Period.

One Year to be
Three Years
in Sect. 1. of

substituted for

24 & 25 Vict. c. 55.

Costs of Prosecutions to be charged to the Common Fund.

Provision for
Deaths in the

Workhouse.

Poor Law
Board to make
all requisite
Orders.

Computation of
the Charges on

the Common Fund.

13. Except as herein provided, no Alteration shall be made in respect of the Settlement Saving of of poor Persons in Parishes.

Settlements in other respects.

Acts enabled

14. If in any Union or Incorporation for the Relief of the Poor, where the Cost thereof Unions, &c. is not borne by a Common Fund, or where the Common Fund is not calculated upon an under Local equal Basis throughout the Union or Incorporation, the Body having under the Constitution to avail themof such Union or Incorporation the Management of such Relief shall be desirous of adopting selves of this the Provisions of this Act, such Body may, on a Resolution to that Effect of a Majority at Act. Two successive Meetings, by Writing under the Hand of the presiding Chairman of the 3 C 2 Second