New 31. per Cents to be redeemable 7 VICT. Pounds Ten Shillings per Centum Annuities or Government Debentures respectively, and so in proportion for any greater or less Amount, receive and be entitled to the Sum of One hundred Pounds in a new Stock, to be called "Three Pounds Five Shillings per Centum Annuities," which said Annuities shall continue to be paid at the Rate of Three Pounds Five Shillings per Centum per Annum until the Tenth Day of October One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, and from and after that Date the said Annuities shall carry Interest at the Rate of Three Pounds per Centum per Annum; which said last-mentioned Annuities shall be subject and liable to Redemption at any Time after the Tenth Day of October One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, and not before that Period, and the Dividends to be Dividends thereof shall be payable half-yearly at the Bank of paid half-yearly. England and at the Bank of Ireland on the Fifth Day of April and the Tenth Day of October in each and every Year; the first half-yearly Dividend on the said "Three Pounds Five Shillings per Centum Annuities" shall be payable at the Bank of England and at the Bank of Ireland on the Fifth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and forty-five; and that the said Three Pounds Five Shillings per Centum Annuities and the New Three Pounds per Centum Annuities shall be free from all Taxes, Charges, and Impositions, in the like Manner as the aforesaid Three Pounds Ten Shillings per Centum Annuities. after 10th Oct. 1874. Interest to be Persons not dissenting from receiving New 31. 58. and New 31. per Cent. Annuities by 25th March assenting. II. And be it enacted, That the Interest and Dividends payable in respect of the said Three Pounds Five Shillings per Centum Annuities and New Three Pounds per Centum Annuities shall be charged and chargeable upon and shall be issued and paid out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the same Manner as the Interest and Dividends of the said Three Pounds Ten Shillings per Centum Annuities and Government Debentures respectively now stand charged on the said Fund. III. And be it enacted, That all and every Person and Persons, Bodies Politic or Corporate, who shall not, on or before the Twenty-third Day of March One thousand eight hundred and forty-four, signify his, her, or their Dissent from accepting and receiving a Share in the said Three Pounds Five Shillings shall be deemed per Centum Annuities and New Three Pounds per Centum Annuities, in lieu of his, her, or their respective Shares in the said respective Three Pounds Ten Shillings per Centum Annuities and Government Debentures, or for any Part of such respective Shares in such last-mentioned Annuities and Government Debentures, in the Manner herein-after directed, shall be deemed and taken to have consented to accept and receive the same: Provided always, that if any Proprietor or Proprietors of the said respective Three Pounds Ten Shillings per Centum Annuities and Government Debentures shall not be within the Limits of the United Kingdom at any Time between Monday the Eleventh Day of March One thousand eight hundred and forty-four and Saturday the Twenty-third Day of March One thousand eight hundred and forty-four, both Days inclusive, Further Time allowed to the Kingdom for dissenting. but shall be in any other Part of Europe, it shall be lawful for such Proprietor or Proprietors to signify such Dissent at any Time before the Second Day of June One thousand eight hundred and forty-four; and if any such Proprietor or Proprietors shall not, at any Time between the Eleventh Day of March One thousand eight hundred and forty-four and the Second Day of June One thousand eight hundred and fortyfour, have been within any Part of Europe, it shall be lawful for him, her, or them to signify such Dissent at any Time before the First Day of February One thousand eight hundred and forty-five; such Proprietor or Proprietors proving, to the Satisfaction of the Governor or Deputy Governor of the Bank of England or Bank of Ireland respectively, according to the Bank in which the said Annuities of Three Pounds Ten Shillings per Centum and Government Debentures may be placed, his, her, or their Absence from the United Kingdom or out of Europe, as the Case shall happen, and that his, her, or their Share or Shares of such Three Pounds Ten Shillings per Centum Annuities or Government Debentures stood in his, her, or their Name or Names respectively, or in the Name or Names of any One or more Trustee or Trustees on his, her, or their Behalf, on the Twenty-third Day of March One thousand eight hundred and forty-four, in the Books of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England or Bank of Ireland respectively: Provided also, that such Proprietor or Proprietors so absent from the United Kingdom or out of Europe shall signify his, her, or their Dissent within Ten Days after his, her, or their Return to the United Kingdom. same to the' Governor and Bank of Eng- respectively. IV. And be it enacted, That all Persons and Bodies Politic or Persons disCorporate possessed of any Part of the respective Three Pounds senting shall Ten Shillings per Centum Annuities or Government Debentures, signify the and who shall desire to signify such Dissent as aforesaid, shall, on or before the Twenty-third Day of March One thousand eight hundred and forty-four, by themselves or some Agent or Agents for that Purpose duly authorized, signify such Dissent to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England or to the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland respectively, in Writing under his, her, or their Hand or Hands, or the Hand or Hands of his, her, or their Agent or Agents authorized as aforesaid, together with the Amount of his, her, or their respective Shares in the said Three Pounds Ten Shillings per Centum Annuities or Government Debentures, and which said Dissents shall be entered in a Book or Books to be opened and kept by the Governor and Company of the said Banks respectively for that Purpose, and shall be numbered in the Order in which such Dissent shall be received by such Governor and Company; and in case of any Transfer of such Shares or any Part or Parts thereof, after such Dissent, the Part or Parts so transferred shall be entered in the Books of such Governor and Company under the same Numbers as were fixed to such Shares when the Dissent was so signified; and every such dissentient Proprietor [No. 3. Price 2d.] C. or Paying off Dissents of the or Proprietors, or his, her, or their Assigns, or the Executors or V. Provided always, and be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Accountants General of the Courts of Chancery in Chancery, and England and Ireland respectively, and also for the Accountant Accountant General of Accountant in Bankruptcy in England, may be signified within a certain Time; and no Order made in relation thereto shall be subject to Stamp Duties. General of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland, and for the Ac- countant 1 General and countant respectively shall be deemed and taken to have consented to accept and receive Shares in the said Three Pounds Five Shillings per Centum Annuities and New Three Pounds per Centum Annuities in lieu of all such Three Pounds Ten Shillings per Centum Annuities or Government Debentures standing in their Names respectively as to which no such Dissent shall have been signified by them respectively as aforesaid; and the Indemnity for said Accountants General and Accountant respectively shall be Accountants and are hereby fully indemnified against all Actions, Suits, or Accountant. Proceedings for or in respect of any Act, Matter, or Thing done by them respectively in pursuance of or under any of the Provisions of this Act, and also for and in respect of their respectively not signifying in any Case such their Dissent as aforesaid; and in case any Action, Suit, or other Proceeding be commenced or instituted against the said Accountants General and Accountant, or either of them, for or in respect of any such Act, Matter, or Thing, or not signifying any Dissent as aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful for the Court in which such Action, Suit, or Proceeding shall be commenced or shall be pending, upon summary Application, to stay, and such Court is hereby required to stay, such Action, Suit, or Proceeding, and to make such Order relative to the Costs thereof as such Court shall think expedient, may dissent. VI. And be it enacted, That all Executors, Administrators, Executors, Guardians, Trustees, and all Committees of the Estates of Idiots, Trustees, &c. and Lunatics, who as such shall have the Control over any Shares of the said respective Three Pounds Ten Shillings per Centum Annuities or Government Debentures standing either in their own Names or in the Name or Names of any Testator or Intestate, or of any Infant or Infants or Idiot or Lunatic, may, if residing within the United Kingdom, signify such Dissent as aforesaid to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England or to the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland respectively at any Time before the Twentieth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and forty-four; and if either of any Two or more of any such Executors, Administrators, Guardians, Trustees, or Committees shall reside out of the United Kingdom the Period within which such Dissent may be signified shall be regulated by the Residence of the most distant of such Executors, Administrators, Guardians, Trustees, or Committees, in each Case; and all Executors, Administrators, Guardians, Trustees, Indemnity for and Committees not signifying such Dissent within the Periods such Executors, specified in this Act, according to such Residence, shall be deemed and taken to have assented to accept and receive a Share in the said Three Pounds Five Shillings per Centum Annuities and New Three Pounds per Centum Annuities, and they are hereby severally and respectively indemnified for not signifying such Dissent under this Act. 31. 10s. per VII. And be it enacted, That every Person who shall be Payments of entitled to receive the Dividends upon any such Three Pounds Dividends on Ten Shillings per Centum Annuities or Government Debentures Cents and transferable at the Bank of England or Ireland the Dividends Government and Interest on which are payable on the Fifth Day of April Debentures. C 2 and and the Tenth Day of October shall receive the Dividends due thereupon for the Half Year up to the Tenth Day of October One thousand eight hundred and forty-four, and no longer; and every Person who shall be entitled to receive the Dividends upon any such Three Pounds Ten Shillings per Centum Annuities or Government Debentures the Dividends and Interest on which are payable on the Fifth Day of January and the Fifth Day of July shall receive the Dividend due thereupon for the Half Year up to the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and forty-four, and shall also receive One Quarter's Dividend thereon up to the Tenth Day of October One thousand Time of paying eight hundred and forty-four, and no longer; and the said reoff or Conver- spective Three Pounds Ten Shillings per Centum Annuities or Government Debentures shall be paid off or converted into Three Pounds Five Shillings per Centum Annuities and New Three Pounds per Centum Annuities in manner aforesaid from and after the Tenth Day of October One thousand eight hundred and forty-four; and every Transfer of any of the said Annuities at the Rate of Three Pounds Ten Shillings per Centum per Annum which may have taken place to or from the Books of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England from or to the Books of the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland at any Time from and after the Sixth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and forty-four shall be and the same is hereby declared to be null and void. sion. Transfers of 31. 108. per Cents between the Banks of England and Ireland after 6th March 1844 void. Books to be opened at the Bank of Eng land or Ireland for receiving the Entry of the 31. 5s. and New 31. per Cent. Annuities. VIII. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Governor and Company of the Bank of England or Ireland respectively, at any Time on or before the Twentieth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and forty-four, to open Books for writing up and receiving the Entry into the said Three Pounds Five Shillings per Centum Annuities and New Three Pounds per Centum Annuities of any of the Three Pounds Ten Shillings per Centum Annuities or Government Debentures before described, belonging to any Proprietor or Proprietors who may not have expressed his, her, or their Dissent from receiving such Three Pounds Five Shillings per Centum Annuities and New Three Pounds per Centum Annuities, and who may be desirous of converting his, her, or their Three Pounds Ten Shillings per Centum Annuities or Government Debentures into the said Annuities at the Rate of Three Pounds Five Shillings per Centum per Annum and New Three Pounds per Centum Annuities; but the Dividend or Dividends of the said Three Pounds Ten Shillings per Centum Annuities or Government Debentures which would become due on the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and forty-four or on the Tenth 10th October. Day of October One thousand eight hundred and forty-four, at the Banks of England and Ireland respectively, shall be paid and payable to the Person or Persons in whose Name such Three Pounds Ten Shillings per Centum Annuities or Government Debentures stood immediately before they were so converted into Three Pounds Five Shillings per Centum Annuities and New Three Pounds per Centum Annuities; and the first Payment of Dividends of 31. 10s. per Cents due on 5th July or half |