Vacancies. Person being a Barrister or Pleader, in actual Practice, of not less than Five Years standing, or an admitted Attorney of the said Court, in actual Practice, of not less than Five Years standing on the Rolls of the said Court, or any one of the Persons who shall hold any Office or Employment under the Provisions of this Act in the Crown Office, or any Person who shall have held either of the Offices hereby abolished: Pro- Restriction as vided always, that the Lord Chief Justice of the said Court to filling up shall not be at liberty to fill up such Vacancy unless it shall be certified in Writing to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, under the Hand of the said Lord Chief Justice, that it is absolutely necessary, for the efficient and satisfactory Conduct of the Business on the Crown Side of the said Court, that the said Three Officers should be retained; and such Certificate shall forthwith be laid before both Houses of Parliament, if Parliament shall be then sitting; if not, within Seven Days after the assembling thereof; and no such Appointment of the Queen's Coroner and Attorney, or of such Master or Assistant Master, shall take place by such Lord Chief Justice until Ten Days after such Certificate shall have been so laid before both Houses of Parliament as aforesaid, any thing in this Act to the contrary thereof notwithstanding. out pecuniary during good the Clerks and IV. And be it enacted, That all such Appointments of Of Officers to be ficers, Clerks, or Messengers to be made by virtue of this Act appointed withshall be so made without any pecuniary or other Consideration Consideration whatever, directly or indirectly, to be paid or received for the same; and the Officers to be hereafter appointed by virtue of Behaviour, and this Act shall hold their Offices during their good Behaviour; Messengers duand the Persons to be appointed by virtue of this Act as such ring Pleasure. Clerks and Messengers shall hold their Situations during Pleasure, and such Officers, Clerks, and Messengers shall execute their Duties in Person, and shall give their Attendance in Court or elsewhere, and shall conduct the Business of their several Employments at such Places and Hours, whether in Term or Vacation, and in every respect in such Manner, as the Court of Queen's Bench shall from Time to Time order and direct. sence of Officers. V. Provided always, and be it enacted, That if either of In Cases of the said Officers shall, from Sickness or other unavoidable Sickness or AbCause, have Occasion to be absent from the Business of his Office for a longer Period than Two Months at any one Time, then and in every such Case it shall be lawful for the Lord Chief Justice of the said Court for the Time being to give Leave of Absence by his Order in Writing to such Officer, and, if necessary, to appoint a Deputy in his Place, during such Time as shall be expressed in such Order, and the Name of such Deputy, and also the Cause and Time of such Absence, shall be stated in such Order; and such Deputy may, if Occasion shall require it, be changed by the said Lord Chief Justice; and every Deputy so appointed shall be paid by the Principal for whom he shall act, out of his Salary, such Remuneration for his Services as the said Lord Chief Justice [No. 17. Price 2d.] R shall Persons appointed not to prac tise elsewhere. Salaries of 6 VICT. shall direct in such Order, not being in any Case less than at the Rate of One Third of the Amount of the Salary of such Officer, during the Period that such Deputy shall act. VI. And be it enacted, That no Person holding any such Office of the Queen's Coroner and Attorney, Master or Assistant Master, or being a Clerk on the Crown Side of the said Court, shall, either directly or indirectly, act as a Barrister, Attorney, or Solicitor, or as Agent of any Attorney or Solicitor, in any Court of Law or Equity in the United Kingdom, either separately or in Partnership with any other Person, during such Time as he shall hold such Office or act as such Clerk. VII. And be it enacted, That the Queen's Coroner and Attorney, and the Master in the Crown Office, shall receive by way of Salary, for performing the Duties of their respective Offices, the Sum of One thousand two hundred Pounds per Annum each, and the said Assistant Master shall receive by way of Salary, for the Performance of his Duties, the Sum of to commence on Six hundred Pounds per Annum, the said Salaries to commence 1st Jan. 1844. Salaries to certain Officers in lieu of Compensation Allowances. Salaries of Clerks and Messengers to be fixed by the Lord Chief Justice and the Commissioners of the Treasury. and be computed from the First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and forty-four, and to be paid and be payable quarterly; namely, on the Thirty-first Day of March, the Thirtieth Day of June, the Thirtieth Day of September, and the Thirty-first Day of December in every Year, together with a proportional Part of such annual Sum for the Term which at the Decease of the Person entitled thereto shall have elapsed since the last Payments thereof. VIII. Provided always, and be it enacted, That the said Charles Francis Robinson shall receive the Sum of Two thousand Pounds per Annum by way of Salary so long as he shall hold the said Office of Queen's Coroner and Attorney, and the said William Samuel Jones the Sum of One thousand six hundred and two Pounds by way of Salary, so long as he shall hold the said Office of Master, and the said George Barne Barlow the Sum of Seven hundred Pounds, by way of Salary, so long as he shall hold the said Office of Assistant Master, in lieu of the Compensation Allowances to which they are now by Law respectively entitled: Provided always, that from and after the passing of this Act the said Office of Queen's Coroner and Attorney shall be wholly discharged from the Land Tax heretofore assessed upon the said Office. IX. And be it enacted, That the Clerks and Messengers who shall be appointed as herein-before directed shall receive, by way of Salary, for the Performance of their several Duties, such annual Sum and payable at such Times as the Lord Chief Justice of the said Court and the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland shall from Time to Time fix and determine: Provided always, that if any of the Persons appointed as Clerks or Messengers under the Provisions of this Act shall be entitled to and in the Receipt of Compensation Allowance awarded to them under the herein-before recited Act or of any other Act, which shall exceed the Amount of Salary fixed and determined as aforesaid, such Persons shall be entitled to and shall receive the full Amount of such Compensation Allowance, by way of Salary, as long as they shall respectively hold their Situations under this Act; and in Cases where such Compensation Allowance shall be less than the Amount of Salary so fixed and determined the same shall merge and be considered as Part of and included in the said Salary. Salaries of Offi cers, &c. to be Fees received in paid out of the the Office, and Surplus to be solidated Fund, paid into Con X. And be it enacted, That the Salaries of the said Officers and of the Clerks and Messengers, together with the necessary and unavoidable Expences of the Crown Office, shall be paid and payable out of and be charged and chargeable upon the Fees received in the said Office; and the Surplus of such Fees, after the Payment of the said Salaries and Expences, shall be paid into the Receipt of the Exchequer, to the Credit of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, at such Times and in such Manner as the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury for the Time being shall think proper to direct; and in the event of the Fees so If Fees not received being at any Time insufficient to defray the said sufficient, DeSalaries and other necessary Expences, it shall be lawful for the charged on Consaid Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, or any Three solidated Fund, or more of them, and they are hereby authorized and required, to direct the Amount of such Deficiency to be charged upon and be paid out of the said Consolidated Fund. on pain of XI. And be it enacted, That if any Officer, Clerk, or Mes- Officers not to senger appointed or to be appointed under or by virtue of this take Gratuities, Act shall, for any thing done or pretended to be done relating Dismissal. to their Offices or Employments, or under colour of doing any thing relating to their Offices or Employments, or for forbearing to do any Act properly appertaining thereto, demand or accept, or allow any Person whatsoever to take for him or on his Account, or for or on account of or in Trust for him, or any other Person named by him, any Gratuity, Perquisite, or Reward, or any Thing of Value, other than the lawful Fees and Emoluments of the said respective Offices, or other than the Salary or Remuneration allowed or to be allowed to every such Officer, Clerk, or Messenger, it shall be lawful for the said Lord Chief Justice, and he is hereby empowered and required, upon his being satisfied that the Person charged is guilty of so offending, to remove him from his Office or Employment; and the Person so removed shall be and is hereby rendered incapable for ever thereafter of holding any Office, Situation, or Employment in any of the Courts of Law or Equity in the United Kingdom, or of otherwise serving Her Majesty, Her Heirs or Successors, in any Manner whatsoever. to keep Accounts XII. And be it enacted, That the said Queen's Coroner and Queen's CoroAttorney, and Master, shall cause all Fees received by them, ner and Attorand all Disbursements made thereout for Salaries and other ney, and Master, necessary Expences, to be duly and regularly entered in One of Fees and or more Books to be kept for that Purpose in their Offices, Disbursements, distinguishing the Fees received under their several Heads, and and to render same quarterly sury. to Commission also the Particulars and Amount of every Disbursement; and ers of the Trea- shall quarterly, within One Month after the Thirty-first Day of March, the Thirtieth Day of June, the Thirtieth Day of September, and the Thirty-first Day of December in every Year, render a true and faithful Account in Writing to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury for the Time being of all such Fees and Disbursements, in such Form of Account, and with such Particulars of Receipt, or otherwise, and accompanied by such Vouchers, as the said Commissioners shall from Time to Time require and direct; and if upon the Examination of any such Account it shall appear to the said Commissioners that any Fees have not been duly accounted for, or that any unreasonable or improper Charge or Deduction has been made in such Account, it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners finally to settle and adjust the same in such Way as they may think reasonable and proper; and the said Officers by whom such Account shall have been rendered shall and they are hereby required to alter and amend the said Account accordingly: Provided always, that the said Officers shall submit their Books of Account to the Inspection of the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, or any Person or Persons whom they may employ for that Purpose, whenever they shall be required so to do. Allowances on Retirement from Office. XIII. And be it enacted, That the said Officers, and every Person appointed or to be appointed under the Provisions of this Act as Clerk or Messenger, and who was entitled to and has received Compensation in respect of the Office formerly held by him under the said recited Act passed in the First Year of the Reign of King William the Fourth, who shall hereafter resign his Office or Situation, giving Two Months Notice in Writing of such Resignation to the Lord Chief Justice of the said Court, shall be entitled to receive during his Life such annual Sum as the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall think proper to fix and appoint, not exceeding in any Case the net annual Value of the Office or Situation formerly held by him, and not being less in any Case than Three Fourths thereof; provided that such annual Sum shall exceed the Superannuation Allowance, to be ascertained as herein-after mentioned; and the said Officers, and every Person appointed or to be appointed to any Situation as aforesaid under this Act, where such annual Sum shall amount to a less Sum than the Superannuation Allowance, to be ascertained as herein-after mentioned, or who was not entitled to and has not received Compensation in respect of any former Office held by him under the Provisions of the said Act, and who shall hereafter resign his Office or Situation with the Sanction and under the Authority of the Lord Chief Justice of the said Court, in consequence of his being incapable, from Infirmity of Mind or Body, to discharge the Duties thereof, shall be entitled to receive such Superannuation Allowance as the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall direct; and in ascertaining and awarding the Amount of such Superannuation Allowance the said Commissioners shall take into consideration the whole Period during which any such Person shall have been permanently employed in any Office or Situation in the said Court, or in any other public Office or Situation, prior to the passing of this Act, and shall proceed according to the Principles laid down by an Act passed in the Fourth and Fifth Years of the Reign of His said late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act to alter, amend, and consolidate the Laws for regu- 4&5 W. 4. c. 24. lating the Pensions, Compensations, and Allowances to be made to Persons in respect of their having held Civil Offices in His Majesty's Service; and all Officers, Clerks, and Messengers who shall be newly appointed in the said Office after the passing of this Act shall be subject to the Deductions from their Salaries imposed by the said Superannuation Act, and all such Sums and Allowances which shall be so awarded and granted by way of Superannuation under the Authority aforesaid shall be paid and payable and be charged and chargeable in the same Way as is herein-before provided in respect of the Salaries of the said Officers, Clerks, and Messengers respectively as aforesaid, and the necessary Expences of the said Office. What Persons shall be allowed to practise in XIV. And be it enacted, That the Solicitors for the several public Boards, and all Persons admitted or admissible to prac tise as Attornies in the Queen's Bench, shall be allowed in like the Court. Manner to practise on the Crown Side of the said Court, any Law or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding, upon Payment nevertheless of such Fees in respect of the Business transacted by such Attornies on the Crown Side of the said Court as shall by the said Lord Chief Justice and Judges of the said Court be fixed and appointed under the Provisions herein-after expressed and declared in that Behalf. Justice, &c. to respect of Pro XV. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for Lord Chief the Lord Chief Justice and the Judges of the said Court, or any establish a TaThree or more of them, and they are hereby required, on or ble of Fees; but before the First Day of January One thousand eight hun- no Fees to be dred and forty-four, to establish and ordain at their Discre- demanded in tion a Table of Fees to be thereafter taken by the said ceedings directQueen's Coroner and Attorney, and Master, and to vary and ly at the Suit of afterwards modify the same from Time to Time as they shall Her Majesty. think fit; and the Fees so established and ordained shall be deemed and taken to be the lawful Fees of the Crown Office: Provided always, that no Fees whatever shall be demanded or received by the said Coroner and Attorney, Master or Assistant Master, or by any Person employed by them in the said Office, for or in respect of any Act, Duty, or Service required to be done, performed, or rendered by them, or any of them, in the course of any Proceedings carried on in the said Office directly at Her Majesty's Suit and Charge; and the said Coroner and Attorney, Master and Assistant Master, and the several Persons employed by them in the said Office, are hereby authorized and required to perform and render such Acts, Duties, and Services as may be required in the Course of such |