CAP. LIV.

An Act to guarantee the Liquidation of a Loan or Loans for the Service of the Colony of Jamaica.

[31st July 1854.] WHEREAS by an Act of the Governor, Council, and Assembly of the Island of Jamaica, passed in the Seventeenth Year of Her Majesty, intituled An Act for the better "Government of this Island, and for raising a Revenue in support thereof, it was enacted, that so long as the Sum of Thirty 'Thousand Pounds, therein-after directed to be annually raised and paid for the Term of Thirty Years, and to be appropriated to the Liquidation of the Public Debt and Interest or any Part thereof, and a Sum of Twenty-five thousand Pounds, 'should be payable under the Provisions of that Act, there 'should be raised, levied, and paid to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, for the Use and Benefit of the Government of 'the said Island, upon all Live and Dead Stock, Goods, Wares, and Merchandise imported into the said Island, except as therein mentioned, the several Duties enumerated in the Schedule to the said Act annexed marked (C.), and that there should be payable out of the Revenue Fund to be raised under the said Act, and by an Act of the Legislature of the said Island of the Eighth Victoria, Chapter Sixteen, to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, for the Use of the "Government of that Island, yearly and every Year during 'the Term of Thirty Years next after the Proclamation of the Act now in recital, the Sum of Thirty Thousand Pounds, for the Purpose of paying the annual Interest of, at a Rate not exceeding Four per Cent., and for providing a Sinking Fund for the Liquidation of, such Portion of the Public Debt of the said Island of Jamaica as should be guaranteed by the 'British Government, as therein-after provided; and it was thereby provided, that no Portion of the said annual Sum of Thirty thousand Pounds should be paid unless an Act 'should have passed the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain, pledging the Guarantee of the United Kingdom for the Liquidation of the said Public Debt to the Extent of Five hundred thousand Pounds, with Interest not exceeding the Rate aforesaid, and that the Act now in recital should not come into operation until an Act should have passed the said Imperial Parliament pledging the Guarantee of the United Kingdom as aforesaid: And whereas by another Act of the 'Governor, Council, and Assembly of the said Island of Jamaica, passed in the Seventeenth Year of Her Majesty, intituled An Act for raising a Loan of Five hundred thousand Pounds, to be applied to the Redemption of the Public Debt of 'this Island, it was enacted, that such Persons as should be appointed in that Behalf by Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, should be Agents in England under that Act for

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the Purpose of raising and managing the Monies therein-after proposed to be raised, and that the Agents for the Time being under that Act should have full Power and Authority to ⚫ borrow and raise, in Great Britain, by Bond, Debenture, or otherwise, such Sums, not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Five hundred thousand Pounds Sterling, as the Lord High Treasurer, or the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, or any Three of them, might determine; and all Bonds and Debentures to be granted by such Agents under ⚫ that Act should be in such Form as such Agents, or any Two ' of them, should deem fit and proper, and should be transferable and negotiable, and should be made redeemable on the First Day of June One thousand eight hundred and eighty-five; and every such Bond should be drawn for a Sum 'not less than Three hundred Pounds Sterling, and should bear Interest at the yearly Rate of Four Pounds in the Hundred, which Interest should by such Bond or Debenture be made payable half-yearly at some Place in London to be named for that Purpose in such Bond or Debenture; and that all such Sums of Monies as should be borrowed and raised under that Act, and all Interest for the same, at the yearly Rate of Four Pounds in the Hundred, to be computed from the 'several Times of borrowing or raising the same, should be secured by and out of and should be a Charge on the Revenue to be raised for that Purpose under the Provisions of the Act firstly herein recited, and should be a further Charge on the general Revenues of the Island, and should be redeemed by a Sinking Fund, and the Interest thereon be paid and secured to be paid in manner by such Act in this respect provided; and it was by the Act now in recital further enacted, that all Monies to be raised under that Act should be applied to the Redemption of so much of the Public Debt of the said Island as is particularly specified in the Schedule F. to the firstly herein recited Act annexed: And whereas it is expedient to guarantee, as herein-after mentioned, the Liquidation of the Sums to be borrowed under the said Acts of the Governor, Council, and Assembly of the Island of 'Jamaica, with the Interest thereon not exceeding the Rate in the said Acts mentioned:' 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:

Sums borrowed under recited

Jamaica Acts not exceeding 500,000, and

I. The Liquidation of all such Sums, not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Five hundred thousand Pounds, as shall be borrowed and raised in Great Britain under the said Acts of the Governor, Council, and Assembly of the Island of Jamaica, with the Approbation of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Interest, Treasury, together with the Interest thereon, not exceeding the yearly Rate of Four Pounds in the Hundred, shall be guaranteed under this Act; and for giving Effect to such Guarantee it shall

guaranteed.

Advances out

Fund of United

be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to direct and cause to be issued and paid out of the growing Produce of the Consolidated Fund of the said United Kingdom such Sums as shall be required to make good any Deficiency which shall happen in the regular Payment on the part of the Island of Jamaica of the Interest accruing due upon such Sums as shall be borrowed as aforesaid, or in the Liquidation of the Principal Sums, when the same shall become payable.

II. All the Sums which shall be so issued and paid out of the of Consolidated Consolidated Fund of the said United Kingdom in respect Kingdom to be of the Interest of the Sums borrowed as aforesaid, or the Liquidation of the Principal Sums, with Interest upon the Sums so issued after the yearly Rate of Five Pounds in the One hundred Pounds, to be computed from the several Times of issuing the same, shall be charged upon the Revenues of the Island of Jamaica.

charged on Revenues of Jamaica.

No Act of

ing the Secu

rity on the

Revenues of Jamaica to be valid until con

firmed by Her Majesty in Council.

III. No Act passed by the Legislature of Jamaica repealing Jamaica vary or reducing the Duties enumerated in Schedule C. to the firstly herein-before recited Act of the Legislature of Jamaica, or for varying the Appropriation under the said Act of the said Duties, or of the Revenues raised by the Act of the Eighth Year of Victoria, Chapter Sixteen, in the said Act mentioned, or for otherwise altering or affecting the Provision for the Payment of the said Sum of Thirty thousand Pounds, shall be valid unless such Act contain a Clause suspending the Operation of the same until Her Majesty's Pleasure shall have been taken thereon, and the same shall have been confirmed by Her Majesty with the Advice of Her Privy Council, and a Proclamation of such Confirmation having been given shall have been made by the Governor or Person administering the Government of the said Island.

Certificate of

Amount paid out of Consoli

dated Fund to be sent to Jamaica.

Accounts to be laid before Parliament.

IV. The Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall from Time to Time certify to One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State the Amount so paid from Time to Time on account of the Interest or Principal of the Sums borrowed as aforesaid; and such Certificate shall be communicated to the Governor or Person administering the Government of the Island of Jamaica, and shall be by him communicated to the Council and Assembly of the said Island; and such Certificate shall be conclusive Evidence of the Amount so paid out of the Consolidated Fund of the said United Kingdom, and of the Time when the same was paid on account of the Interest or Principal of the Sums so borrowed.

V. The Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall cause to be prepared, and shall lay before both Houses of Parliament, within Fourteen Days next after the Beginning of every Session, an Account of all Sums from Time to Time issued out of the Consolidated Fund of the said United Kingdom by virtue of this Act towards making good any such Deficiency as aforesaid, and also an Account of all Sums repaid by or recovered from the Island of Jamaica, by reason of such Advance, with the Interest paid or recovered thereon.

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CAP. LV.

An Act for the Registration of Bills of Sale in Ireland.
[31st July 1854.]
WHEREAS Frauds are frequently committed upon

the same or a

like Manner as

Warrants of

Attorney.

Creditors by secret Bills of Sale of Personal Chattels, whereby Persons are enabled to keep up the Appearance of being in good Circumstances and possessed of Property, and 'the Grantees or Holders of such Bills of Sale have the Power of taking possession of the Property of such Persons, to the Exclusion of the rest of their Creditors' For Remedy whereof 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: I. Every Bill of Sale of Personal Chattels made after the Bills of Sale to passing of this Act, either absolutely or conditionally, or subject be void, unless or not subject to any Trusts, and whereby the Grantee or Copy thereof Holder shall have Power, either with or without Notice, and be filed within either immediately after the making of such Bill of Sale or at 21 Days, in any future Time, to seize or take possession of any Property and Effects comprised in or made subject to such Bill of Sale, and every Schedule or Inventory which shall be thereto annexed or therein referred to, or a true Copy thereof and of every Attestation of the Execution thereof, shall, together with an Affidavit of the Time of such Bill of Sale being made or given, and a Description of the Residence and Occupation of the Person making or giving the same, or, in case the same shall be made or given by any Person under or in the Execution of any Process, then a Description of the Residence and Occupation of the Person against whom such Process shall have issued, and of every attesting Witness to such Bill of Sale, be filed with the Master of the Court of Queen's Bench in Ireland within Twenty-one Days after the making or giving of such Bill of Sale (in like Manner as a Warrant of Attorney to confess 3 & 4 Vict. Judgment in any Personal Action is now by Law required to c. 105, s. 12. be filed), otherwise such Bill of Sale shall, as against all Assignees of the Estate and Effects of the Person whose Goods or any of them are comprised in such Bill of Sale, under the Laws relating to Bankruptcy or Insolvency, or under any Assignment for the Benefit of the Creditors of such Person, and as against all Sheriff's Officers and other Persons seizing any Property or Effects comprised in such Bill of Sale in the Execution of any Process of any Court of Law or Equity authorizing the Seizure of the Goods of the Person by whom or of whose Goods such Bill of Sale shall have been made, and against every Person on whose Behalf such Process shall have been issued, be null and void to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever, so far as regards the Property in or Right to the Possession of any Personal Chattels comprised in such Bill of

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Sale

Defeazance or
Condition of
every Bill of
Sale to be

written on the
same Paper or
Parchment.

Officer of Court

to keep a Book

containing Particulars of each

Bill of Sale.

Sale which at or after the Time of such Bankruptcy, or of filing the Insolvent's Petition in such Insolvency, or of the Execution by the Debtor of such Assignment for the Benefit of his Creditors, or of executing such Process, (as the Case may be,) and after the Expiration of the said Period of Twenty-one Days, shall be in the Possession or apparent Possession of the Person making such Bill of Sale, or of any Person against whom the Process shall have issued under or in the Execution of which such Bill of Sale shall have been made or given, as the Case may be.

II. If such Bill of Sale shall be made or given subject to any Defeazance or Condition or Declaration of Trust not contained in the Body thereof, such Defeazance or Condition or Declaration of Trust shall for the Purposes of this Act be taken as Part of such Bill of Sale, and shall be written on the same Paper or Parchment on which such Bill of Sale shall be written, before the Time when the same or a Copy thereof respectively shall be filed, otherwise such Bill of Sale shall be null and void to all Intents and Purposes as against the same Persons, and as regards the same Property and Effects, as if such Bill of Sale or a Copy thereof had not been filed according to the Provisions of this Act.

III. The said Master of the said Court of Queen's Bench shall cause every Bill of Sale and every such Schedule and Inventory as aforesaid, and every such Copy filed in his said Office under the Provisions of this Act, to be numbered, and shall keep a Book or Books in his said Office in which he shall canse to be fairly entered an alphabetical List of every such Bill of Sale, containing therein the Name, Addition, and Description of the Person making or giving the same, or in case the same shall be made or given by any Person under or in the Execution of Process as aforesaid, then the Name, Addition, and Description of the Person against whom such Process shall have issued and also of the Person to whom or in whose Favour the same shall have been given, together with the Number and the Dates of the Execution and filing of the same, and the Sum for which the same has been given, and the Time or Times (if any) when the same is thereby made payable, according to the Form contained in the Schedule to this Act; which said Book or Books, and every Bill of Sale, or Copy thereof, filed in the said Office, may be searched and viewed by all Persons at all reasonable Times, paying to the said Master for every Search against One Person the Sum of Sixpence, and no more; and in addition to the last-mentioned Book the said Master of the said Court of Queen's Bench shall keep another Book or Index, in which he shall cause to be fairly inserted, as and when such Bills of Sale are filed in manner aforesaid, the Name, Addition, and Description of the Person making or giving the same, or of the Person against whom such Process shall have issued, as the Case may be, and also of the Persons to whom or in whose Favour the same shall have been given, but

containing