No Proceeding, &c. declared a Misdemeanor to affect Remedies of Persons aggrieved. Answers to and with Intent to deceive, make or assist or join in or be privy to the making of any material false Statement or Representation, or suppress, conceal, or assist or join in or be privy to the suppressing, withholding, or concealing from any Judge or the Officer, or any Person assisting the Officer, any material Document, Fact, or Matter of Information, every Person so acting shall be deemed to be guilty of a Misdemeanor, and on Conviction shall be liable to be imprisoned for a Term not exceeding Three Years, and either with or without Hard Labour, or to be fined such Sum as the Court by which he is convicted shall award. The Act or Thing done or obtained by means of such Fraud or Falsehood shall be null and void to all Intents and Purposes, except as against a Purchaser for valuable Consideration without Notice. 58. No Proceeding or Conviction for any Act hereby declared to be a Misdemeanor shall affect any Remedy which any Person aggrieved by such Act may be entitled to, either at Law or in Equity, against the Person who has committed such Act. 59. Nothing in this Act contained shall entitle any Person to refuse to make a complete Discovery by Answer or otherwise to any Bill or Petition in Equity, or to answer any not admissible Question or Interrogatory in any Civil Proceeding in any Court of Law or Equity, or in the Court of Bankruptcy; but no Answer to any such Bill, Question, or Interrogatory shall be admissible in Evidence against such Person in any Criminal Proceeding. Questions, &c. in Evidence. Provisions as to Applications made by married Women. Provision for under Disability. Record to be ment of certain Court. to be made for 60. Where any married Woman is desirous of making any Application, giving any Consent, or doing any Act, or becoming Party to any Proceeding under this Act, her Husband's Concurrence shall be required, and she shall be examined apart from her Husband touching her Knowledge of the Nature and Effect of the Application or other Act, and it shall be ascertained that she is acting freely and voluntarily, and such Examination may be taken by the Judge. A married Woman entitled to her separate Use, and not restrained from Anticipation, shall, for the Purposes of this Act, be deemed a Feme Sole. 61. Where any Person who (if not under Disability) might have made any Application, given any Consent, done any Act, or been Party to any Proceeding under this Act, is a Minor, Idiot, or Lunatic, the Guardian or Committee of the Estate respectively of such Person may, with the Assent of a Judge, make such Applications, give such Consents, do such Acts, and be Party to such Proceedings as such Person respectively if free from Disability might have made, given, done, or been Party to, and shall otherwise, with such Assent as aforesaid, represent such Person for the Purposes of this Act. Where there is no Guardian or Committee of the Estate of any such Person as aforesaid, being infant, idiot, or lunatic, or where any Person, the Committee of whose Estates if he were idiot or lunatic would be authorized to act for and represent such Person under this Act, is of unsound Mind or incapable of managing his Affairs, but has not been found idiot or lunatic under an Inquisition, it shall be lawful for a Judge to appoint a Guardian of such Person for the Purpose of any Proceedings under this Act, and from Time to Time to change such Guardian; and where a Judge sees fit he may appoint a Person to act as the next Friend of a married Woman for the Purpose of any Proceeding under this Act, and from Time to Time remove or change such next Friend. 62. The Record shall be under the Management of the following principal Officers under Manage of the Landed Estates Court; viz., the Examiners and the Registrar, or of such One of them as the Judges shall from Time to Time direct, and in case of his Absence the Judges shall appoint One other of the said Officers to supply his Place; and the Judges shall Arrangements adjust the Duties now performed by the said Officers in such Manner as may appear constant Atten- expedient for the Purposes aforesaid, and shall so arrange the same that some One of the said Officers shall be in attendance daily (except as aforesaid) throughout the Year; and there shall be paid to such Officers or any of them, or to any other Officer or Clerk of the Court whose Duties shall be increased by the Operation of this Act, such Sum by way of increased annual Salary as the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall approve, on the Recommendation of the said Judges. If the Lord Chancellor of Ireland shall now or at any Time hereafter consider it necessary or expedient, having regard to dance, &c. Power to appoint additional Clerks the the Business of the Court, that additional Clerks should be appointed, it shall be lawful to assist in the for the Judges, with the Consent of the said Commissioners, to appoint such additional Office if necesClerks to assist in carrying out this Act, and there shall be paid to such Clerks such Salaries sary. as the Judges, with the Assent of the said Commissioners, shall appoint; and such Clerks shall be removeable by the joint Order of the said Judges, with the Sanction of the Lord Chancellor, and shall be subject to the same Regulations, and shall hold their Offices during Pleasure, and in other respects on the same Conditions, and shall be paid out of the same Funds, and in the same Manner, as the other Clerks of the Court; and all other Expenses of carrying out this Act shall be paid out of such Monies as shall be provided by Parliament. 63. All Applications to the Judge under this Act shall be made in Chamber, and such Practice before Judge may direct any Matter before him to be argued in Court. Any Order or Decision the Judge, and Right of or Direction of the Judge, excepting a Decision or Direction given under the Fortieth Appeal. Section of this Act, shall be subject to the like Appeal to the Court of Chancery Appeal in Ireland, and thence to the House of Lords, as is provided by the said recited Act of the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Years of the Reign of Her Majesty. Address of re 64. A Place of Address in Ireland shall be entered in a Book to be kept for that Purpose in the Court for every Person whose Name is entered on the Record as Owner of corded Owners, &c. to be given Land or of a Charge, or as a Cautioner, or as entitled to receive any Notice; or any such for the PurPerson may, at his Option, give from Time to Time the Name and Address of any Solicitor pose of serving of the Court to act on his Behalf. Notices shall be deemed sufficiently served if sent Notices. through the Notice Office of the Court, or by registered Post Letter to such Address as aforesaid. 65. The Judges of the Court may frame a Scale of Costs to be paid to Solicitors or A Scale of certificated Conveyancers in respect of any Service rendered by them in relation to any Costs may be recorded Estate or Charge, or any Matter connected therewith. Such Scale shall be framed for professional framed with regard to the Skill and Trouble involved and the Amount of Property affected, Services in and not with regard to the Length of the Documents prepared. Such Scale shall be sub- regard to remitted to the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and shall be approved of by him before it shall corded Land. be binding, and with the like Approval it may be varied. Such Scale shall be acted on by all Persons having by Law or by Consent of Parties Authority to tax or moderate Costs. 66. The Forms contained in the Schedule hereto may be used, but they may be modified Forms in Scheor altered to suit the Circumstances of every Case, and Deeds made in such altered Forms dule to be used, shall be equally valid and effectual. but may be varied. to be sent in 67. On the Second of November of each Year after this Act shall come into operation Return of the Judges shall furnish to the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors Business done of Ireland a Return to be laid before Parliament showing the Number of Estates recorded annually by under the Act during the Year, distinguishing those which are brought in and recorded the Judges. under the Fifty-first Section of this Act, and distinguishing Estates and Interests under Settlements separately recorded as aforesaid; and the Return shall also show the Amount of Fees received during the Year pursuant to this Act. 68. The Judges of the Court shall, with the Consent of the Commissioners of Her Judges to Majesty's Treasury, frame a Schedule of Fees to be received by the recording Officer in frame a Scherespect of the following Matters, viz.: 1. Transfers, Transmissions, and other Dealings with recorded Estates and Charges, having regard to the Value of the Estates and the Amounts of the Charges: 2. Recording of Estates under the Fifty-first Section of this Act, having regard to the Value of such Estates; 3. Entry and Cancellation of Official Notes or Entries; Lodgment of Caveats, and of Deeds and other Documents; Issue of Certificates, and other Acts to be done by the recording Officer: The Judges may, with the Consent of the said Commissioners, from Time to Time lower or raise such Fees, or any of them; all Fees shall be paid over so as to form Part of the 3 G 2 Consolidated dule of Fees. Rules with regard to the Collection of Fees. Stamp Acts in force to apply to Stamps pro vided under this Act. Consolidated Fund of Great Britain and Ireland; the recording Officer may also charge any 69. The following Rules shall be observed with respect to the Collection of Fees: 2. When any Fee is payable in respect of a Document, a Stamp denoting the Amount of 3. Whenever an adhesive Stamp shall be used to denote Payment of any Fee, such Stamp shall be effectually cancelled in such Manner as the recording Officer shall direct, so as to be incapable of being used again: 4. The Commissioners of Inland Revenue shall provide everything that is necessary for the Collection of the Monies hereby directed to be paid by Stamps. 70. The several Acts for the Time being in force relating to Stamps under the Care or Management of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue shall apply to the Stamps to be provided in pursuance of this Act, and to any Document on which such Stamps may be affixed or impressed, and to collecting and securing the Sums of Money denoted by Stamps, and to preventing, detecting, and punishing all Frauds, Forgeries, and other Offences relating thereto, as fully as if such Provisions had been herein repeated and specially enacted with reference to the last-mentioned Stamps and Sums of Money respectively. SCHEDULE. No. 1.-FORM OF TRANSFER OF RECORDEd Land. I A.B., the recorded Owner of the under-mentioned Land, pursuant to the "Record of Title Act, Ireland, 1865," in consideration of £ of Sterling paid to me by C.D. &c., do grant to the said C.D. all [insert Description of Land taken from or referring to the Record, and refer to Map (if any)], to hold to him and his Heirs for ever [or otherwise, according to the Nature of the Interest transferred]. Dated this Day I A.B., the recorded Owner of the under-mentioned Land, pursuant to the "Record of Title Act, Ireland, 1865," in consideration of £ Sterling, lent to me by G.H. of repayable on the Day I, the within-named G.H., the recorded Owner of a Charge under the "Record of Title Act, Ireland, 1865," in consideration of L Sterling paid to me by J.K. of do transfer to the said J.K. the [within mentioned] Charge, on which now remains due [together with Interest from the last Gale Day of Interest]. L Witness, &c., as above. } Signature, (Seal.) Signature and Address. I hereby accept the above Transfer. No. 4.-FORM OF POWER OF ATTORNEY TO TRANSFER. I A.B., the recorded Owner of Land [or a Charge] pursuant to the "Record of Title Act, Ireland, 1865," do hereby appoint L.M. of &c., Solicitor, my Attorney, &c., absolutely] all my Heredita for the Purpose of [transferring to S. T. of Signature, (Seal.) An Act to provide for the better Government of Greenwich Hospital, and the more beneficial Application of the Revenues thereof. [5th July 1865.] BE E 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, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as The Greenwich Hospital Act, 1865. Preliminary. Short Title. 2. This Act shall commence from and immediately after the Thirtieth Day of September CommenceOne thousand eight hundred and sixty-five. ment of Act. Interpretation of Terms. Enactments described in Schedule repealed. Power to order new Pensions, &c. Power to grant present In mates. 3. In this Act- The Term "Lands" includes any Estate, Term, Easement, Right, or Interest in, to, over, 4. From and after the Commencement of this Act the Enactments described in the Schedule to this Act shall be repealed, but this Repeal shall not affect the past Operation of any such Enactment, or anything done, or Right, Title, Obligation, or Liability accrued, under any such Enactment before the Commencement of this Act, or any Offence against any such Enactment committed before the Commencement of this Act, or any Punishment, Forfeiture, Remedy, or Proceeding in respect thereof. Pensions, Gratuities, and Allowances. 5. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty in Council from Time to Time, by Order in Council, to appoint such Pensions as seem fit to Officers, Non-commissioned Officers, and Men of the Royal Navy and Marines, and Seamen of the Merchant Service for the Time being entitled to the Benefits of Greenwich Hospital, to be enjoyed by them so long only as they are not on the Establishment or Inmates of Greenwich Hospital, but in addition to any Half Pay, Pension, or other Allowance coming to them otherwise than under any such Order in Council,—and to prescribe the Conditions on which such Pensions are to be held, and to appoint such Gratuities as seem fit to Widows of Non-commissioned Officers and Men of the Royal Navy and Marines killed or drowned in the Service of the Crown. 6. The Admiralty may from Time to Time appoint to any Non-commissioned Officers Allowances to and Men of the Royal Navy and Marines who were on the Sixth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five Inmates of Greenwich Hospital, and who being Inmates thereof after the Commencement of this Act are willing to cease to be Inmates thereof, such Allowances as seem fit, not exceeding the Rates of Money Allowance of which, on the Sixth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, they were in receipt as Inmates of the Hospital, to be enjoyed by them respectively in addition to any Pensions appointed to them under any such Order in Council. Name of Pen sions, &c. Assignments, &c. void. Pensions, &c. to be voted. Abolition of Commissioners, &c. Power to remove other Officers, &c. Annuities to be provided for Commis sioners, &c. 7. Pensions and Gratuities under any such Order in Council and such Allowances shall be distinguished as Greenwich Hospital Pensions, Gratuities, and Allowances (as the Case may be); and the Pensions now known as Greenwich Out Pensions shall be called Naval Pensions. 8. Any Assignment, Sale, or Contract of or relating to any Greenwich Hospital Pension, Gratuity, or Allowance, other than such as may be made or entered into under the Authority of and in conformity with any Order in Council under this Act, shall be void. 9. Greenwich Hospital Pensions, Gratuities, and Allowances shall be in the first instance defrayed out of Money to be provided by Parliament for that Purpose. Alteration of Establishment. 10. On the Commencement of this Act the several Offices of the Commissioners and of the Governor and of the Lieutenant Governor of Greenwich Hospital shall be abolished. 11. On the Commencement of this Act, or at any Time and from Time to Time thereafter, if and when for the better Execution of the Purposes of this Act it seems expedient, the Admiralty may remove from Office all or any Officers, Military or Civil, on the Establishment of Greenwich Hospital, and may remove from Employment all or any Clerks or Persons employed in connexion with the Hospital. 12. Out of the Funded Property of Greenwich Hospital there shall be purchased from the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt and provided (subject and according to the Provisions of the Acts relating to the Purchase of Annuities from the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt) for each of the Persons holding Office at the Commencement of this Act as the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital (other than the ex officio Commissioners), and for the Governor and the Lieutenant Governor of the |