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Salary to be paid to the Preacher, Reader, and Clerk at the Rolls Chapel.

Master of the
Rolls to have

the same Power
of appointing
Officers as he
now exercises.

. 1 VICT. Executors or Administrators of the Person so dying or resigning such Office shall be entitled to such proportionable Part of the said Salary as shall have accrued during the Time that such Person shall have executed the said Office.

XIII. And be it further enacted, That from and after the said Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and thirtyseven there shall be issued and paid and payable out of and charged and chargeable upon the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (after paying or reserving sufficient to pay all such Sum and Sums of Money as have been directed by any former Act or Acts to be paid out of the same, but with Preference to all other Payments which shall or may hereafter be charged upon or payable out of the same Fund,) in lieu of the yearly Payments now made out of the Rents and Profits of the said Rolls Estates to the Preacher and Reader of the said Rolls Chapel, and to the Clerk attending the Performance of Divine Service there, and for keeping the said Chapel clean, and on the same Days or Times and in the same Manner as the said annual Salary of Seven thousand Pounds is herein-before directed to be issued and paid to the Master of the Rolls, the annual Sum of Two hundred and twenty-five Pounds to the Preacher for the Time being of the Rolls Chapel, to be paid and applied by him (in such Proportions and in such Manner as the Master of the Rolls for the Time being shall think proper and direct) to the Preacher and Reader at the said Chapel, and to the Clerk attending the Performance of Divine Worship therein, and in payment of the Expences attending the Performance of Divine Worship at the said Chapel, and of keeping the said Chapel clean.

XIV. Provided always, and be it enacted, That the Master of the Rolls for the Time being shall be entitled to appoint all such Officers (except the Receiver of the Rents of the Rolls Estate) as he would have been entitled to appoint if this Act had not been made; and that the present and all future Officers appointed by the Master of the Rolls (except such Receiver as aforesaid) shall have all such and the same Powers, Authorities, Jurisdictions, and Privileges, and shall be entitled to the same Salaries, Fees, Profits, and Emoluments, as they would have been entitled to have, receive, and enjoy if this Act had not been made.

The SCHEDULE to which this Act refers.

The ROLLS ESTATE consists of the following Particulars:

The Mansion House, in which is the Court.

The Chapel and Office thereto belonging.

The Secretary's Office.

Coach-house and Stables.

Porter's Lodge.

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in Rental.

Robing Room. Garden (a Portion of which the Master of the Rolls has demised to the Society of Judges and Serjeants by virtue of the Statute Sixth and Seventh William the Fourth, Chapter Forty-nine, for the Purpose of building Judges Chambers thereon).

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The Leases of the Houses which are distinguished by the Mark (*) have expired.

The following Offices, (videlicet,) the Subpoena Office, the Examiner's Office, the Crown Office in Chancery, and the Petty Bag Office, and some Rooms in which Records are deposited, are also situate upon the Rolls Estate; but under the Statute Fiftieth George the Third, Chapter One hundred and sixty-four, they are vested in the Master of the Rolls, in Trust and for the Purposes of the Act only.

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CAP. XLVII.

An Act to repeal the Prohibition of the Payment of the Salaries and Allowances of the East India Company's Officers during their Absence from their respective Stations in India. [12th July 1837.] HEREAS under and by virtue of an Act passed in the Thirty-third Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for continuing in 33 G. 3. c. 52. the East India Company for a further Term the Possession of the British Territories in India, together with their exclusive Trade, under certain Limitations; for establishing further Regulations for the Government of the said Territories, and the better Administration of Justice within the same; for appropriating to certain Uses the Revenues and Profits of the said Company; and for making Provisions for the good Order and Government of the Towns of Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay, and of another Act passed in the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act for 3&4W.4. c.85. effecting an Arrangement with the East India Company, and for the better Government of His Majesty's Indian Territories, till the Thirtieth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, it is enacted, that "if any Governor or other Officer whatever in the Service of the said Company shall leave the Presidency to which he shall belong, other than in the known actual Service of the said Company, the Salary and Allowances appertaining to his Office shall not be paid or payable during his Absence to any Agent or other Person for his Use, and in ⚫ the event of his not returning, or of his coming to Europe, his Salary and Allowances shall be deemed to have ceased on the Day of his leaving the said Territories or the Presidency to which he may have belonged": And whereas it is further provided in the said last-mentioned Act, that it shall be lawful for the said Company to make such Payment as is now by Law permitted to be made to the Representatives of their Officers or Servants, who, having left their Stations intending to return thereto, shall die during their Absence, and it is 'expedient that such Provision of the Law should be altered in manner herein-after 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, That so much and such Part or Parts of the said Two Acts passed respectively in the Thirty-third Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third and in the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of His said late Majesty King William the Fourth, and of any other Act or Provision of the Law, as enacts that if any Governor or other Officer whatever in the Service of the said Company shall leave East India the Presidency to which he shall belong, other than in the Company [No. 22. Price 2d.] known during their

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So much of the
Provisions of

the recited Acta
as prohibits the

Payment of
Salaries to

Officers in the
Service of the

not extend to Cases of Sickness;

1 VICT. known actual Service of the said Company, the Salary and Allowances appertaining to his Office shall not be paid or payable during his Absence to any Agent or other Person for his Use, shall not extend to the Case of any Officer or Servant of the Company under the Rank of Governor or Member of Council who shall quit the Presidency to which he shall belong in consequence of Sickness, under such Rules as may from Time to Time be established by the Governor General in India in Council, or by the Governor in Council of such Presidency, as the Case may be, and who shall proceed to any Place within the Limits of the East India Company's Charter, or to the Cape of Good Hope, or to the Mauritius, or to the Island of St. Helena, nor to Cases of nor to the Case of any Officer or Servant of the said Company, under such Rank as aforesaid, who, with the Permission of the Government of the Presidency to which he shall belong, shall quit such Presidency in order to proceed to another Presidency for the Purpose of embarking thence for Europe, until the Departure of such Officer or Servant from such last-mentioned Presidency with a view to return to Europe, so as that the Port of such Departure for Europe shall not be more distant from the Place which he shall have quitted in his own Presidency than any Port of Embarkation within such Presidency.

Officers quitting one Presidency for another, in order to embark for Europe.

No Rule valid till approved by Court of

Directors, sub

ject to the

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II. Provided always, and be it enacted, That no such Rule so to be established as aforesaid shall have any Force or Validity until the same shall have been approved by the Court of Directors of the said Company, subject to the Control of the Commissioners for the Affairs of India, in like Manner as is provided Affairs of India. by the said Act of the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth.

Control of Commissioners for

Power for the Court of Directors, subject to aforesaid Control, to direct

the refunding of any Part of the Allowance paid under any of said Rules.

III. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Court of Directors, subject to such Control as aforesaid, to direct the refunding, by any Officer or Servant of the said Company, or by the Representatives of any such Officer or SerVant, of the Whole or any Part of the Salary or Allowance which he or they may have received under or by virtue of any such Rule so to be established as aforesaid, if it shall appear to the said Court, subject to such Control as aforesaid, that the Permission to such Officer or Servant to quit the Presidency to which he shall belong hath been improperly granted or obtained; and such Sum as the said Court, subject to such Control as aforesaid, shall direct such Officer or Servant, or the Represen tatives of such Officer or Servant, to refund, shall be a Debt due to the said Company, and shall be recoverable by them in any Court in like Manner as any Debt may now or hereafter shall be recovered by them.

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