[House of Correction] at in the said County of together with this Order, and, also to command you the said Keeper of the said last-mentioned Gaol [House of Correction] to receive the said [Prisoner's Name] into your Custody in the same Gaol [House of Correction], and there safely to keep him until the said Sentence shall have been executed according to Law, or until he shall be otherwise delivered by due Course of Law. Given under the Hands and Seals of us, the undersigned Justices and Judges of the said Central Criminal Court. SCHEDULE (B.) A. B. (L.S.) To the Sheriff of the County of Central Criminal) WHEREAS at a Session of the Central Criminal Court holden on the Day of Court (to wit). in the Year of our Lord 18, [Prisoner's Name] was convicted of [here state shortly the Offence], and was thereupon sentenced by the said Central Criminal Court to be [here state the Sentence, including the County or Place where it is directed to be executed]: And whereas the said [Prisoner's Name] has been ordered to be removed into your said County in order that the said Sentence may there be executed upon him: These are therefore in Her Majesty's Name to command you the said Sheriff to execute the said Sentence upon the said [Prisoner's Name] within your said County, according to Law. Given under the Hands and Seals of the undersigned Justices and Judges of the said Central Criminal Court. CAP. XVII. A. B. (L.S.) An Act to authorize for a further Period the Advance of Money out of the Consolidated Fund for carrying ou Public Works and Fisheries and for the Employment of the Poor. This Act contains the following clauses :— 1. Power to charge 360,000l. per annum upon the Consolidated Fund by issues not exceeding 90,000l. per quarter. 2. Commissioners for Reduction of the National Debt to be trustees of Public Works Loan Fund, and to cause a separate account to be continued at the Bank of England for the purpose. 3. Bank to continue the account already opened with the Commissioners for executing this Act. 4. Money paid into the Bank to the account of Commissioners for executing this Act to be carried to and made part of the Consolidated Fund. 5. Commissioners for executing recited Acts to be Commissioners, together with others, for executing this Act. (29th April 1856.) CAP. XVIII.-IRELAND. An Act to authorize for a further Period the Application of Money for the Purposes of Loans for carrying on Public Works in Ireland. This Act contains the following clauses : 1. Appointment of Commissioners. 2. Treasury may, out of the 360,0000l. per annum (29th April 1856. granted by the 19 & 20 Vict. c. 17, apply a sum not exceeding 15,000l. per quarter for public works in Ireland. 3. The separate account already opened to be continued at the Bank of England. 4. When Treasury shall have sanctioned loans Commissioners of Public Works to certify amount of issue to Commissioners for Reduction of the National Debt.-Upon certificate being produced payment to be made.-Approval of Treasury of such issue to appear on certificate. 5. Order to be entered by the proper officer, countersigned by the actuary, and addressed to the cashiers of the Bank of England, who shall pay the same. 6. Commissioners for Reduction of the Na CAP. XIX. An Act for raising the Sum of Twenty-one million one hundred and eighty-two thousand seven hundred Pounds by Exchequer Bills for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred. and fifty-six. (29th April 1856.) CAP. XX. An Act to continue certain Compositions payable to Bankers who have ceased to issue Bank Notes. By this Act, After reciting that under the 7 & 8 Vict. c. 32. ss. 23, 24, certain compositions are made payable by the Governor and Company of the Bank of England to bankers who have discontinued the issue of their own bank notes; and by section 25. of the said Act it is provided that all such compositions shall, if not previously determined by the act of such banker as therein before provided, cease and determine on the 1st of August 1856, or on any earlier day on which Parliament may prohibit the issue of bank notes: And that it is expedient to provide for the further continuance of such compositions: It is Enacted as follows: 1. Section 25. of the said Act shall be repealed. (5th June 1856.) 2. All the compositions payable under the said Act as amended by this Act to bankers who have discontinued, or who shall agree with the said Governor and Company to discontinue, the issue of their own bank notes, shall, if not previously determined by the act of such bankers as by the said Act provided, and unless Parliament shall otherwise provide, continue in force and be payable until Parliament shall prohibit the issue of bank notes as defined by section 28. of the said recited Act, or until the exclusive privileges of the said Governor and Company mentioned in section 27. of the said Act shall be determined in pursuance of such section, or otherwise be determined or altered by authority of Parliament. CAP. XXI. An Act for raising the further Sum of Five Millions by way of Annuities. This Act contains the following clauses :— 1. Contributors entitled to 1071. 10s. 7d., 31. per cent. consols for every 100l. contributed, &c. (5th June 1856.) 2. Contributors who have made deposits to pay the remainder of subscriptions by instalments. 3. Power to guardians to contribute for infants. 4. Dividends on stock when to be payable. 5. Time at which contributors after payment of deposit, &c. may assign and transfer stock. 6. Contributors may make payments in anticipation of instalments. 7. Annuities payable and transferable at the Bank. 8. Money to be issued out of the Consolidated Fund for payment of annuities and charges in respect of 5,000,000%. 9. And shall be charged upon the said fund. 10. The Bank to appoint a cashier and an Accountant General, and the Treasury to order money to be issued to the cashier for payment of annui ties. 11. Cashier to give receipts for subscriptions and warrants for stock, which may be assigned and transferred by delivery thereof.-Cashier to give security for paying the money he receives into the Exchequer. 12. Treasury may apply the money paid into the Exchequer. 13. A book to be kept in the Accountant Gene CAP. XXII. An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Duties on Fire Insurances. (5th June 1856.) ABSTRACT OF THE ENACTMENTS. 1. Duties to be chargeable on all insurances of property within the United Kingdom wheresoever made. 2. Persons insured chargeable with duties where insurances made by unlicensed foreign companies. 3. All persons who shall as agents receive proposals, &c. for insurances by companies out of the United Kingdom deemed to be persons keeping an office for insuring property from loss by fire.-Such persons required to take out licence and give security for payment of the duties.-Penalty for neglect. 4. Persons keeping offices for insurances on behalf of foreign companies to be chargeable with the duties on such insurances. 5. Not to limit charge of duty under former Acts, nor to charge insurances exempted, 6. Re-insurances from loss by fire not to be chargeable with the per-centage duty, but with the policy stamp only. By this Act, After reciting that under and by virtue of certain Acts passed in that behalf, persons insuring or keeping an office for insuring property from loss by fire are required to take out licences for that purpose from the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, and to give security by bond for duly rendering accounts of such insurances and paying the duty chargeable in respect thereof, and a certain stamp duty is by law chargeable upon any policy or other instrument whereby any insurance is made of or upon property from loss or damage by fire, and a further duty at and after the rate of 3s. per cent. per annum is also chargeable in respect of every such insurance: And that a practice has been established of insuring from loss by fire property situate within the United Kingdom by foreign companies or by policies or insurances made abroad, and it is expedient that all such insurances should be subject to the same duties as the like insurances made by companies within the United Kingdom are now by law chargeable with: It is Enacted as follows: 1. The said respective duties by the said Acts granted as aforesaid shall extend to and be payable and paid for and in respect of every insurance of property situate within the United Kingdom from loss or damage by fire, whether the same shall be made by any company, society, or person or persons within or out of the United Kingdom, and whether the policy or other instrument, note, or memorandum of or relating to any such insurance shall be made, signed or issued in the United Kingdom or elsewhere, and whether there shall be any such policy, instrument, note, or memorandum or not. 2. Where any such insurance as aforesaid shall be made by any company, society, or person or persons out of the United Kingdom, the person insured shall be chargeable with the duties payable in respect of such insurance, and shall pay the same to some agent of such company, society, or person or persons who shall be duly licensed as hereinafter men tioned, or, if there be no such agent, then to the Receiver General of Inland Revenue, or some other officer appointed by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue to receive the same, setting forth the particulars of such insurance in such form as the said Commissioners shall require, and in default of such payment the said duties shall be a debt due from him to Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, and be recoverable in the manner provided by the eighth section of the Act, 14 Vict. c. 97, or by any other mode by which any such debt may be recovered. 3. Every person in the United Kingdom who shall as agent receive or accept any proposal or instructions for the insurance of property from loss or damage by fire by any company, society, or person or persons out of the United Kingdom, or who shall keep or have or conduct or manage any office or place for accepting or receiving or issuing any such proposals or instructions, or who shall be held out by any public advertisement or notice, with his consent, as a person to or by or from whom any such proposals or instructions may be given or received or obtained, or through or by means of whom any such insurance as aforesaid may be effected, and every person who shall in any manner effect or negotiate or be concerned in effecting or negotiating any such insurance as aforesaid for or on behalf of any such company, society, or person or persons as aforesaid, or who shall issue or deliver out any policy or other instrument or any note or memorandum of or relating to any such insurance as aforesaid, made or proposed or intended, shall be held and deemed to be a person keeping an office for insuring property from loss by fire within the meaning of the several Acts before mentioned, and shall be and is hereby re quired to take out a proper licence in that behalf, and to give security in the manner directed by the said Acts respectively, and in such form as the Commissioners of Inland Revenue shall think proper, for accounting for and paying the duties with which he shall be chargeable as hereinafter mentioned; and if any such person hereby required to take out such licence and to give such security as aforesaid shall neglect or omit so to do, he shall forfeit the sum of 100l., and the like penalty for every day that such neglect or omission shall continue. 4. Every person who by reason of any such act or means as in the preceding clause mentioned shall be deemed to be a person keeping such office as aforesaid within the meaning of this Act and the several Acts aforesaid shall account for and shall be chargeable with the duties in respect of all such insurances as aforesaid made or undertaken or agreed to by any company, society, or person or persons out of the United Kingdom for whom or on whose behalf or in respect of whose business of insurance he shall do any such act as aforesaid, or become a person keeping such office as aforesaid. 5. Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall extend to limit or restrict the charging of the said duties under any former Act now in force, or to charge with duty any insurance expressly exempted by any such former Act. And whereas a practice prevails amongst certain insurance companies, on their granting policies of insurance from loss by fire for large sums, to procure from other companies, in consideration of portions of the premiums for such insurances, indemnity by way of guarantee in case of any such loss happening, against the payment of certain parts of the sums insured, and it is expedient to exempt such indemnity or guarantee from the yearly per-centage duties which would otherwise be chargeable in respect thereof as an insurance from loss by fire :— It is Enacted, 6. That where an insurance from loss by fire shall be made by any company who shall duly account for and pay the full and proper duties chargeable in respect thereof, the yearly per-centage duty shall not be payable in respect of any re-insurance effected by such company with any other company by way of indemnity or guarantee against the payment on the original insurance of any portion of the money insured thereby, and no other duty than the stamp duty of 18. chargeable upon a policy of insurance from loss by fire shall be payable upon such re-insurance. CAP. XXIII. An Act for granting certain additional Powers and Authorities to the Canada Company. An Act for enabling the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland to acquire certain Lands for the Site of a Prison for the Reception of Juvenile Convicts. 1. Construction of terms. 2. Short title. This Act contains the following clauses : 3. Provisions of 10 Vict. c. 26, except section 4, and of 8 & 9 Vict. c. 18, extended to this Act. 4. Power to purchase land, and erect a prison thereon. 5. Powers for compulsory purchase of lands limited. 6. Commissioners to deliver maps, schedules, and estimates at the office of the Directors of Convict Prisons, Dublin Castle, and deposit copies with clerk of the peace and clerk of union. 7. Power to appoint an arbitrator, on application of Commissioners, for executing this Act. 8. Arbitrator may call for documents and administer oaths. 9. Arbitrator to make and subscribe declaration. 10. Maps, &c. deposited with Directors of Convict Prisons to be delivered to arbitrator.-Notice of appointment of arbitrator, &c. to be published. 11. Arbitrator to adjudicate upon compensation to be paid for lands. 12. Clerk of the peace and clerk of union required to take charge of documents deposited as provided by the 7 Will. 4. & 1 Vict. c. 83. 13. Expenses of the arbitrator to be borne by the Commissioners. 14. As to costs of parties. (23rd June 1856.) 15. Certificates of amount of compensation to be delivered by Commissioners. 16. Amount mentioned in certificates to be paid to parties, on demand, &c. 17. When amount mentioned in certificates is paid to parties Commissioners may take possession. 18. Receipts duly stamped to operate as a con veyance. 19. Payment of monies where parties making claims deemed not entitled, or are under disability, or title not satisfactorily deduced. 20. Where no claim made, or parties refuse to accept sum certified, money to be paid into the Bank. 21. Commissioners may require further evidence of title, at their own costs. 22. Delivery of certificate may be enforced by application to the Court of Chancery. 23. After deposit of draft award, Commissioners may, upon deposit of such amount as arbitrator may think fit, enter upon lands.-Commissioners to pay interest from time of entry. 24. Mode of deposit. 25. Deposit to remain as a security, and to be applied under the direction of the Court of Chancery. 26. Commissioners may deposit money by way of security while the office of the Accountant General is closed. |